God Is… (Proverbs 15:3) The eyes of the LORD are in every place, Keeping watch on the evil and the good. (NKJV)

God Is… (Proverbs 5:21) For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, And He ponders all his paths. (NKJV)

God Is…  (John 4:24) "God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth." (NKJV)  (1 John 1:5) This is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light and in Him is no darkness at all. (NKJV)  (1 John 4:8) He who does not love does not know God, for God is love. (NKJV)  (1 John 4:16) And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him. (NKJV)

God’s Love Before Creation  (John 17:24) 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. (RSV)  (Ephesians 1:4-6) just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He has made us accepted in the Beloved. (NKJV)

The Love of God in OT  (Deuteronomy 7:7-8) It was not because you were more in number than any other people that the LORD set his love upon you and chose you, for you were the fewest of all peoples; but it is because the LORD loves you, and is keeping the oath which he swore to your fathers, that the LORD has brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you from the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. (RSV)

The Love of God in OT  (Deuteronomy 4:37) And because he loved your fathers and chose their descendants after them, and brought you out of Egypt with his own presence, by his great power, (RSV)  (Deuteronomy 10:15) yet the LORD set his heart in love upon your fathers and chose their descendants after them, you above all peoples, as at this day. (RSV)

The Love of God in OT  (Hosea 11:1-4) When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son. The more I called them, the more they went from me; they kept sacrificing to the Baals, and burning incense to idols. Yet it was I who taught Ephraim to walk, I took them up in my arms; but they did not know that I healed them. I led them with cords of compassion, with the bands of love, and I became to them as one, who eases the yoke on their jaws, and I bent down to them and fed them. (RSV)

The Love of God in OT  (Hosea 14:1-4) Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God, for you have stumbled because of your iniquity. Take with you words and return to the LORD; say to him, "Take away all iniquity; accept that which is good and we will render the fruit of our lips. Assyria shall not save us, we will not ride upon horses; and we will say no more, 'Our God,' to the work of our hands. In thee the orphan finds mercy." I will heal their faithlessness; I will love them freely, for my anger has turned from them. (RSV)

The Love of God in OT  (Jeremiah 31:1-3) "At that time, says the LORD, I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people." Thus says the LORD: "The people who survived the sword found grace in the wilderness; when Israel sought for rest, the LORD appeared to him from afar. I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have continued my faithfulness to you. (RSV)

God’s Love Is:  Self-Initiated –(1 John 4:19) We love Him because He first loved us. (NKJV)  Undeserved –(Romans 5:7-8) For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man someone would even dare to die. But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. (NKJV)

God’s Love Is:  Sacrificial –(1 John 4:10) 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. (NKJV)  Universal –(John 3:16) "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. (NKJV)

God’s Love Is:  Personal –(Galatians 2:20) "I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me. (NKJV)  Stimulating –(1 John 3:1) Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know Him. (NKJV)

God’s Love Is:  Powerful –(2 Corinthians 5:14) For the love of Christ compels us, because we judge thus: that if One died for all, then all died; (NKJV)  Triumphant –(Romans 8:37-39) Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, 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. (NKJV)

The Proper Response To God’s Love  Love For God –(1 John 4:19) We love, because he first loved us. (RSV) –(John 14:15) "If you love Me, keep My commandments. (NKJV)  Love for the Brethren –(1 John 3:14) We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brethren. He who does not love abides in death. (RSV) –(1 John 4:8) He who does not love does not know God; for God is love. (RSV)

God Loves You! (John 3:14-17) "And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, "that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. "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. "For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. (NKJV)

Sources  Outline by Johnny Felker  Outline by Steve Higginbotham  Truth Commentary on 1 st John.  Outline by James E. Cooper