The Of 2 Thessalonians 2:16-17 By David Dann

The LOVE Of GOD

The LOVE Of GOD Ephesians 3:17-19 17 …that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, 18 may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height -- 19 to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

17 comfort your hearts and establish you in every good word and work. The LOVE Of GOD 2 Thessalonians 2:16-17 16 Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself, and our God and Father, who has loved us and given us everlasting consolation and good hope by grace, 17 comfort your hearts and establish you in every good word and work.

1. GOD LOVES YOU

1. GOD LOVES YOU Romans 5:6-8 6 For when we were still without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. 7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man someone would even dare to die. 8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

1. GOD LOVES YOU Ephesians 2:4-6 4 But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, 5 even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), 6 and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,

1. GOD LOVES YOU Ephesians 2:7-10 7 that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. 8 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, 9 not of works, lest anyone should boast. 10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.

1. GOD LOVES YOU Titus 3:3-5 3 For we ourselves were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful and hating one another. 4 But when the kindness and the love of God our Savior toward man appeared, 5 not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit…

1. GOD LOVES YOU 1 John 4:10, 19 10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins… 19 …We love Him because He first loved us.

1. GOD LOVES YOU Love (Agape) "it expresses the deep and constant 'love' and interest of a perfect Being towards entirely unworthy objects" (W.E. Vine, Expository Dictionary, 381-382).

1. GOD LOVES YOU John 3:16 16 "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life."

1. GOD LOVES YOU

2. THE FAITHFUL WILL NEVER BE SEPARATED FROM GOD'S LOVE

2. THE FAITHFUL WILL NEVER BE SEPARATED FROM GOD'S LOVE Romans 8:31-34 31 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? 33 Who shall bring a charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies. 34 Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.

2. THE FAITHFUL WILL NEVER BE SEPARATED FROM GOD'S LOVE Romans 8:35-37 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 As it is written: "For Your sake we are killed all day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter." 37 Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.

2. THE FAITHFUL WILL NEVER BE SEPARATED FROM GOD'S LOVE Romans 8:38-39 38 For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, 39 nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

2. THE FAITHFUL WILL NEVER BE SEPARATED FROM GOD'S LOVE

2. THE FAITHFUL WILL NEVER BE SEPARATED FROM GOD'S LOVE

2. THE FAITHFUL WILL NEVER BE SEPARATED FROM GOD'S LOVE Romans 8:38-39 38 For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, 39 nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

2. THE FAITHFUL WILL NEVER BE SEPARATED FROM GOD'S LOVE

3. WE NEED TO ABIDE IN GOD'S LOVE

3. WE NEED TO ABIDE IN GOD'S LOVE John 15:9-10 9 "As the Father loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My love. 10 "If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father's commandments and abide in His love."

3. WE NEED TO ABIDE IN GOD'S LOVE 1 John 2:3-5 3 Now by this we know that we know Him, if we keep His commandments. 4 He who says, "I know Him," and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. 5 But whoever keeps His word, truly the love of God is perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him.

3. WE NEED TO ABIDE IN GOD'S LOVE 1 John 5:3 3 For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome.

3. WE NEED TO ABIDE IN GOD'S LOVE Mark 16:15-16 15 And He said to them, "Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. 16 "He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned."

3. WE NEED TO ABIDE IN GOD'S LOVE Jude 21 21 …keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.

THE FAITHFUL WILL NEVER BE SEPARATED FROM GOD'S LOVE. The LOVE Of GOD GOD LOVES YOU. THE FAITHFUL WILL NEVER BE SEPARATED FROM GOD'S LOVE. WE NEED TO ABIDE IN GOD'S LOVE.

ARE YOU ABIDING IN GOD'S LOVE ???