1. The only reason that we are able to obey the commandment to love God is because He loved us first.
Matt. 27: Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. 38) This is the first and greatest command- ment. 39) And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’
1 John 4:19 - We love, because He first loved us.

2. UNCONDITIONAL CONDITIONAL LOVE FOR ALL FOR A FEW
GOD’S GOD’S
UNCONDITIONAL CONDITIONAL
LOVE FOR ALL FOR A FEW
PHASE ENTIRE HUMAN RACE BELIEVERS
SALVATION Unlimited Atonement Imputed +R
PHASE ALL BELIEVERS MATURE BELS.
TIME Logistical Grace Super Grace
PHASE ALL BELIEVERS MATURE BELS.
ETERNITY Resurrection Eternal Rewards
Bodies

3. 1 John 4:19 We love because he first loved us.
Personal love for God motivates impersonal / unconditional love for man.
1 John 5:2 - By this [our love for God] we know
that we love the children of God, when we love
God and obey his commandments.
1 John 4:19 We love because he first loved us.
1 John 2:5 - Whoever guards the Word, truly in him, the love for God has been perfected.

4. MOTIVATIONAL TOWARD GOD VIRTUES INVISIBLE
Worship Confidence Personal Love
Virtue-Morality Courage Unconditional Love
FUNCTIONAL
VIRTUES Visible TOWARD MAN