1. “True Love!” 1 st John 4:7-12,19

2. 7 - Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. – 7 - Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. – 8 - Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. – 8 - Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. –

3. 9 - This is how God showed His love among us: He sent His one and only Son into the world that we might live through Him. – 9 - This is how God showed His love among us: He sent His one and only Son into the world that we might live through Him. – 10 - This is love: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. – 10 - This is love: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. –

4. 11 - Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. – 11 - Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. – 12 - No one has ever seen God: but if we love one another, God lives in us and His love is made complete in us. – 12 - No one has ever seen God: but if we love one another, God lives in us and His love is made complete in us. – 19 - We love because He first loved us. 19 - We love because He first loved us.

5. Romans 3:10-17 “There is no one righteous, not even one; there is no one who understands, no one who seeks God. All have turned away, they have together become worthless; there is no one who does good, not even one. Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit. The poison of vipers is on their lips. Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness. Their feet are swift to shed blood; ruin and misery mark their ways and the way of peace they do not know.“

6. 1st John 3:1 “How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are!”

7. “eros”

8. Romans 5:6-8 “While we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrates His own love for us in this: While we were still sinners Christ died for us.”

9. “agape”

10. 1.True Love Hopes

11. Philippians 2:15 “...that you may become blameless and pure, children of God without fault, in a crooked and depraved generation, in which you shine like stars in the universe...” Philippians 2:15 “...that you may become blameless and pure, children of God without fault, in a crooked and depraved generation, in which you shine like stars in the universe...”

12. Hebrews 12:6 “The Lord disciplines those He loves.”

13. Romans 12:10 “admonish one another in love.”

14. J. B. Phillips: “Love one another enough to keep each other on the right road.”

15. Deuteronomy 32:47 … “are not just idle words for you... they are your life. By obeying them you will live long.”

16. 2.True Love Delights

17. Zephaniah 3:17 “The Lord your God... will take great delight in you, He will quiet you with His love; He will rejoice over you with singing.” Zephaniah 3:17 “The Lord your God... will take great delight in you, He will quiet you with His love; He will rejoice over you with singing.”

18. Psalm 17:8 “the apple of His eye.“

19. Lewis Smeades: “It may be a very bad thing that I needed God to die for me, but it is a wonderful thing that God thinks I am worth dying for.“

20. Larry Crabb: “God delights in our status as forgiven children welcomed to the dining table, and He delights in what we will become as we eat more of the food He provides.“

21. 3. True Love Gives

22. 1st John 3:16-18 “This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down His life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.”

23. Ephesians 5:25 “Husbands, love your wives as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her.”

24. LIFE-CHANGE QUESTIONS: 1. What is “True Love”? 2. Why would anyone trust someone in this day and age? 3. How will you show “True Love” to someone beginning today?