“There is no deeper subject than the Love of God.”
“You cannot overemphasize or exhaust the subject of God’s Love.”
“The reality is that God’s Love is always underestimated.”
Realities of the Love of God 1. His Love is an unfolding constant. Ephesians 3:16–20 (NIV) 16 I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, 18 may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the Love of Christ, 19 and to know(NLT Experience) this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. 20 Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us.
“We are apprehended by His love as we comprehend it. “
John 17:23 (NLT) …May they experience such perfect unity that the world will know that you sent me and that you love them as much as you love me.
2. His love reveals our value.
Value is revealed by what someone is willing to pay..
John 13:1 (NLT) Jesus knew that the time had come for him to leave this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he now showed them the full extent of his love.
3. His love is meant to be experienced. John 13:23 (AMP) One of His disciples, whom Jesus loved [whom He esteemed and delighted in], was reclining [next to Him] on Jesus’ bosom.
1 John 1:1 (NIV) That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked at and our hands have touched—this we proclaim concerning the Word of life.
1 John 4:9–10 (NIV) 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.
1 John 4:16-19 (NIV) 16 And So we know and rely on the Love God has for us. God is Love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. 17 This is how love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment: In this world we are like Jesus. 18 There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love. 19 We love because he first loved us.
You need God to love God.
4. His love is steadfast.
“His love is unhindered by our weakness.”
“The one who knows me best Is the One who loves me most.” -Jonathan David & Melissa Helser
Romans 8:35–39 (NIV) 35 Who shall separate us from the Love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? 36 As it is written: “For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.” 37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, 39 neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the Love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
“Nothing will change the Love of God; it changes us.”
5. Gazing at the beauty of God is how we grow in love for God.
Psalm 16:8–11 (NIV) 8 I have set the Lord always before me. Because he is at my right hand, I will not be shaken. 9 Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices; my body also will rest secure, 10 because you will not abandon me to the grave, nor will you let your Holy One see decay. 11 You have made known to me the path of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence, with eternal pleasures at your right hand.
