Discover the God of love

This message on God's love is the first in the series. Dive into it; it is wonderful. Discover the God of love; it is wonderful beyond our imagination.


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Summary in a few points

  • Love is not just an emotion, it is a choice that manifests itself in our behavior.
  • Understanding the nature of God and His love is essential to walking in love with Him.
  • Understanding God's attributes allows us to have a deeper relationship with Him.
  • Love is not just an emotion, it is a choice based on the biblical model.
  • The love between the Father and the Son has existed since before the creation of the world.
  • God's love is intrinsic to His nature and is manifested within the Trinity.
  • We must love one another inspired by the love of God.
  • God's love does not justify wrongdoing; it is holy and pure.
  • Many people have squandered God's blessings and neglected His grace.
  • We are called to love the Son and to receive and give God's love.
  • We don't deserve God's love, but He loves us anyway.
  • The testimony of God's love must be visible in our lives.
  • God is love and His love is unconditional, perfect and infinite.
  • God always offers a new opportunity to those who return to Him.
  • Marriage should be faithful and in accordance with biblical principles.
  • God's love is faithful, eternal, unconditional, and sovereign.
  • God has compassion for us and is moved by our situation.
  • God's love is persistent, faithful, and eternal.
  • Glorify God by honoring others.
  • His love is sovereign, independent of us.
  • His love is eternal and will never cease.
  • His love is faithful and abundant.
  • It is important to let God be God and restore people without jealousy or comparison.
  • The absence of the father can have a negative impact on the relationship with the Heavenly Father.
  • Men should love their wives.
  • Women should not destroy children's relationship with their father.

Topics discussed

  • The love of God
    God loves us with an unconditional, perfect, and infinite love. In the kingdom of love, love is received and given. God is intrinsically love. Manifested through the Trinity. Living His love fully. God's love is a choice that does not depend on our actions. He loves us even if we do not deserve it. His love is sovereign and eternal.
  • The nature of love
    Love is not simply an emotion; it is a choice that manifests itself in our behavior. Love is passionate, full of kindness, and does not seek its own gain. Love excels in telling the truth, bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.
  • The love between the Father and the Son
    The Father loves the Son with a total, perfect, and unconditional love. Jesus loves us as the Father loves him, with the same perfect and unconditional love. The love between the Father and the Son existed before the creation of the world.
  • Glorify God
    The Father glorifies the Son. The Son glorifies the Father. The Holy Spirit glorifies the Son.
  • The attributes of God
    God is sovereign, good, faithful, and loving. Each attribute of God is balanced against the others. Understanding God's attributes allows us to have a deeper relationship with Him.
  • The revelation of God's love
    When we become aware of God's love, our lives are transformed. We realize that we have value and that God loves us with an everlasting love.
  • Responding to God's love
    We must love others as God loves us, even those who do not deserve it. We must rise above wickedness and choose to love.
  • The Love of God and Hypocrisy in the Church
    Many people in the church are offended because they compare themselves to others. It is important to let God be God and restore people without jealousy. God's love is for everyone, whether those who have strayed or those who have remained in the church.
  • The love between Jesus and the Church
    The Son loves the Church with the same love that the Father loves the Son. We must love the Son as the Father loves Him, with total love. God's love must be in us so that we can love as God loves.
  • God's Love and the Norms of the Church
    God's love is holy and pure; it defines the boundaries of love. The Church must not justify wrongdoing, but follow the standards set by God. God's love does not harm others; it cannot be perverted.
  • The Love of God in the Kingdom of God
    God is love and He loved us unconditionally. God's love is manifested through Jesus Christ, His only Son. We are called to love one another as God loves us.
  • God's love and forgiveness
    God is love and forgives those who have strayed from him. God's love is faithful and eternal. It is important to allow God to restore and forgive those who have lost their footing.
  • The importance of the father's role
    The absence of a father can negatively impact the relationship with the Heavenly Father. Men must learn to love as God loves, and women must not destroy children's relationship with their father.
  • Love based on the biblical model
    Love is not just an emotion; it is a choice based on the biblical model. We must pray to know God's love and love Him as He has loved us.
  • The Squandering of Blessings
    Many people have squandered the blessings God has given them, neglecting His grace and kindness. This has led them to suffer and separate themselves from God's will.
  • The need to return to God
    God always offers a new opportunity to those who return to Him. He patiently waits and joyfully welcomes those who repent and turn to Him.
  • Witnessing God's love
    The world must see God's love through the Church. We must bear witness to his love for humanity.
  • Love in marriage
    Love in marriage must be faithful and consistent with biblical principles. Men must love their wives as Jesus loves the Church.
  • The Story of the Prodigal Son
    This story illustrates the persistence of God's love, His faithfulness, and His unconditional forgiveness toward those who have strayed from Him.

Quotes

  • The “love” dimension of God existed in the Trinity even before the creation of the world.
  • To love is natural to God.
  • The image we must have of God is not that of a God who loves His creation alone, but of a God who is intrinsically love and who loves Himself in His Trinitarian dimension.
  • Love gives. When the Father wanted to save the world, the Son gave himself. And everything the Son did, he did to glorify the Father. And the Father did everything so that the Son might be glorified. And when the Holy Spirit came, he glorified the Son.
  • Giving oneself for the other, glorifying the other, that is love. It is not taking.
  • Jesus loved us as the Father loved him, and the Father loved us as he loves Jesus. We are in a kingdom of unlimited love.
  • When you are able to honor, to glorify someone else, it is a great manifestation of love.
  • Before human beings existed, before we needed God's love, God was already love.
  • We were raised to love in a certain way, but that does not represent God's love.
  • It is God who wants His love for us to be lived and seen. God's interest is not only that we know that He is love, but that we fully experience His love. And that the world sees that He has loved us.
  • We have the ability to choose to love, God loves us by choice.
  • God's love is a choice he makes; it is sovereign and eternal.
  • We must love others as God loves us, even those who do not deserve it.
  • God does not love us because we have an intrinsic value that compels Him to love us. It is His love that gives us value.
  • Love in the kingdom of God is in accordance with biblical principles, not societal principles.
  • Someone must govern your perception of life, whether it is God or not the world.

Questions / Answers

What does 'God is love' mean?
This means that God is the source of love and that love is intrinsic to His person. We cannot define love unlike God.

How can we love one another?
Inspired by God's love, we must be passionate, full of kindness, not seeking our own interests, and excelling in the truth.

How does the Father love the Son?
The Father loves the Son with an unconditional, perfect and infinite love.

How can we witness God's love?
By fully living his love in a visible way in our lives.

How can we love as God loves?
We must choose to love even those who do not deserve it and rise above wickedness.

Why should we meditate on God's love?
Meditation on God's love allows us to grow in our relationship with Him and manifest His greatness in our lives.

How can we experience the revelation of God's love?
By becoming aware of His eternal love and refusing to live a life that does not testify to His goodness and love.

Why does God persist in his love?
God persists in His love because His nature is love; even when He decrees judgment, He always provides a way out and allows people to return to Him.

Why does the Church justify certain behaviors that are contrary to the Word of God?
God's love is holy and pure, the Church must not justify wrongdoing, but follow the standards defined by God.

How can God's love be fully experienced in our surroundings?
It is important to let God restore and forgive people without jealousy or comparison.

How do you reconcile your feelings for someone else while married?
One must pray and ask God to destroy these illegitimate emotions, because this person is already committed to a marriage before the Lord.

Bible Study Questions

1. Discuss the importance of the balance of God's attributes: God is love, God is just, God is holy. How does this influence our attitude?
2. Using supporting verses, explain intra-Trinitarian love.
3. What impact does this reality of intra-Trinitarian love have on you?
4. Only God can define love. Discuss.
5. Discuss, with verses to support the character
a. Undeserved
b. Sovereign
c. Eternal,
d. Faithful
e. Persistent
of God's love.

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