NIV God Is Love Beloved, let us love one another; for love is of God, and he who loves is born of God and knows God. He who does not love does not know God; for God is love. In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, 1 John 4:7-11
NIV God Is Love so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the expiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No man has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us. 1 John 4:7-11
Genuine Love Is a Supernatural Work of God
NIV God Is Love Beloved, let us love one another; for love is of God, and he who loves is born of God and knows God. 1 John 4:7
“It's not about finding ways to avoid God's judgment and feeling like a failure if you don't do everything perfectly. It's about fully experiencing God's love and letting it perfect you. It's not about being somebody you are not. It's about becoming who you really are.” Stormie Omartian
NIV God Is Love He who does not love does not know God; for God is love. 1 John 4:8
Love Is a Necessary Part of God's Nature
What was it about God that made love a necessary part of his nature from all eternity?
NIV God Is Love "Father, I desire that they also, whom thou hast given me, may be with me where I am, to behold my glory which thou hast given me in thy love for me before the foundation of the world." John 17:24
Love is Found in the Relationship of the Trinity
NIV God Is Love "No man has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us. By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his own Spirit." 1John 4:12-13
Love Causes Us to Be Drawn into the Relationship of the Trinity
Why Knowing God Creates Loving People
NIV God Is Love "[Father] I made known to them thy name (note the idea of knowing and the name, i.e., essence), and I will make it known, that the love with which thou hast loved me may be in them and I in them." John 17:26
How Loving the Son of God Creates Love for Others
NIV God Is Love "In this the love of God was made manifest among us that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the expiation for our sins." 1 John 4:9-10
Unite Ourselves to the Relationship of the Trinity LIVING IT OUT Unite Ourselves to the Relationship of the Trinity
Bask in the Nature of God’s Love for Us LIVING IT OUT Bask in the Nature of God’s Love for Us
Humble Ourselves Before One Another LIVING IT OUT Humble Ourselves Before One Another
Care for the Needs of One Another LIVING IT OUT Care for the Needs of One Another
LIVING IT OUT Pray for the Needs of One Another
Abandon Ourselves for the Glory of God LIVING IT OUT Abandon Ourselves for the Glory of God