It's homecoming season again! The time of year where everyone is asking the same question around all our HS campuses. Some can't wait to be asked the question so they can shout to the world their proud answer, others fear the mention of it.
It's the question: "So, who are you going to homecoming with?"
Just like valentines day and the prom, homecoming is a time of year were the word "love" get thrown around a lot. IS what we see at homecoming dances and on the faces of friends really love? This past weekend we talked about the fact that GOD_IS LOVE.
We started wrapping our brains and our hearts around this thing called love. Jesus said His followers should be known for it. God is it. So, what will you do with it? God's love changes everything! As we approach FALL RIOT in 9 days here are 4 truth's about God's love and the kind of love we can have as a response to His Love:
GOD_IS unconditional love
10This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.
1 John 4:10
Question: Do you love others unconditionally in the same way Christ loved you?
GOD_IS costly love (sacrificial)
The most basic definition of God’s love is sacrifice
God’s love = defined by sacrifice/cost
God shows his love by sacrifice
9This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.
1 John 4:9
Question: What has living out your love for Christ cost you?
GOD _IS pursuing love
1 John 4:19
God pursued you for a purpose…That you would pursue others
Peter’s Story: Jesus called him to minister to others as a way to show his love for God
Peter was hurt because Jesus asked him the third time, "Do you love me?" He said, "Lord, you know all things; you know that I love you." Jesus said, "Feed my sheep. John 21:11
Christ called Peter to respond to His pursuing love by pursuing others!
10This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.
1 John 4:10
Question: Do you love others unconditionally in the same way Christ loved you?
GOD_IS costly love (sacrificial)
The most basic definition of God’s love is sacrifice
God’s love = defined by sacrifice/cost
God shows his love by sacrifice
9This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.
1 John 4:9
Question: What has living out your love for Christ cost you?
GOD _IS pursuing love
1 John 4:19
God pursued you for a purpose…That you would pursue others
Peter’s Story: Jesus called him to minister to others as a way to show his love for God
Peter was hurt because Jesus asked him the third time, "Do you love me?" He said, "Lord, you know all things; you know that I love you." Jesus said, "Feed my sheep. John 21:11
Christ called Peter to respond to His pursuing love by pursuing others!
”We love because he first loved us.”
1 John 4:19
Question: Who are you pursuing for Christ? Who are your “sheep”?
GOD_IS annoying/persistent love
God’s love is everlasting!
"I have loved you, my people, with an everlasting love. With unfailing love I have drawn you to myself.” (Jeremiah 31:3)
So, what’s or response???? Persistently love others
1 John 4:19
Question: Who are you pursuing for Christ? Who are your “sheep”?
GOD_IS annoying/persistent love
God’s love is everlasting!
"I have loved you, my people, with an everlasting love. With unfailing love I have drawn you to myself.” (Jeremiah 31:3)
So, what’s or response???? Persistently love others
John says it this way…
11Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.
13”We know that we live in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. 14And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. 15If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in him and he in God. 16And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him.” 1 John 4:11-16
11Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.
13”We know that we live in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. 14And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. 15If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in him and he in God. 16And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him.” 1 John 4:11-16
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