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The Love of God

The Love of God. The Love of God. Used with Permission Of Laura Bergells Of Maniactive.com. The love of God. What is it? What is it not? We sometimes take it for granted that everyone understands the meaning of love But it is often very misunderstood.

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The Love of God

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  1. The Love of God

  2. The Love of God Used with Permission Of Laura Bergells Of Maniactive.com

  3. The love of God. • What is it? • What is it not? • We sometimes take it for granted that everyone understands the meaning of love • But it is often very misunderstood. • We speak of “Love at first site.”

  4. What is love? • We speak of loving someone’s house, car, or clothes. • Some confuse love and lust, • But now let’s narrow it down to loving God.

  5. A “Marshmallow” love. • Some people think of the love of God as somewhat of a “Marshmallow” love. • They have the idea that God will overlook practically everything and that they will be okay. • So what is the love of God? What kind of love is it?

  6. Tough love. • Some may think of it as a tough love. • Tough love has rules and regulations

  7. Tough love has rules and regulations • (Gen 2:16-17 NKJV) And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, "Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; {17} "but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die."

  8. God did what He said He would • (Gen 3:22-24 NKJV) Then the LORD God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of Us, to know good and evil. And now, lest he put out his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever"; {23} therefore the LORD God sent him out of the garden of Eden to till the ground from which he was taken.

  9. God did what He said He would • (Gen 3:22-24 NKJV) {24} So He drove out the man; and He placed cherubim at the east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.

  10. When sin came, there had to be a solution • (Gen 6:5-7 NKJV) Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. {6} And the LORD was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.

  11. When sin came, there had to be a solution • (Gen 6:5-7 NKJV) {7} So the LORD said, "I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth,both man and beast, creeping thing and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them."

  12. We can count on tough love. • (Heb 13:5-6 NKJV) Let your conduct be without covetousness; be content with such things as you have. For He Himself has said, "I will never leave you nor forsake you." {6} So we may boldly say: "The LORD is my helper; I will not fear. What can man do to me?"

  13. Paul could count on God • (2 Tim 1:11-12 NKJV) to which I was appointed a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles. {12} For this reason I also suffer these things; nevertheless I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that He is able to keep what I have committed to Him until that Day.

  14. Do not fear but be faithful • (Rev 2:10 NKJV ) "Do not fear any of those things which you are about to suffer. Indeed, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested, and you will have tribulation ten days. Be faithful until death, and I will give you the crown of life.

  15. For Our Husbands and Wives • (Mat 19:3-7 NKJV) The Pharisees also came to Him, testing Him, and saying to Him, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for just any reason?" {4} And He answered and said to them, "Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning 'made them male and female,' {5} "and said, 'For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh'?

  16. For Our Husbands and Wives • (Mat 19:3-7 NKJV {6} "So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate." {7} They said to Him, "Why then did Moses command to give a certificate of divorce, and to put her away?" {9} He said to them, "Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, permitted you to divorce your wives,but from the beginning it was not so.

  17. Joseph’s tough love for his brothers • (Gen 42:20-24 NKJV) "And bring your youngest brother to me; so your words will be verified, and you shall not die." And they did so. {21} Then they said to one another, "We are truly guilty concerning our brother, for we saw the anguish of his soul when he pleaded with us, and we would not hear; therefore this distress has come upon us." {22} And Reuben answered them, saying,

  18. Joseph’s tough love for his brothers • (Gen 42:20-24 NKJV) "Did I not speak to you, saying, 'Do not sin against the boy'; and you would not listen? Therefore behold, his blood is now required of us." {23} But they did not know that Joseph understood them, for he spoke to them through an interpreter.

  19. Joseph’s tough love for his brothers • (Gen 42:20-24 NKJV) {24} And he turned himself away from them and wept. Then he returned to them again, and talked with them. And he took Simeon from them and bound him before their eyes.

  20. Moving through Gen 42, 43 44 & 45 • (Gen 45:26-28 NKJV) And they told him, saying, "Joseph is still alive, and he is governor over all the land of Egypt." And Jacob's heart stood still, because he did not believe them. {27} But when they told him all the words which Joseph had said to them, and when he saw the carts which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob their father revived.

  21. Moving through Gen 42, 43 44 & 45 • (Gen 45:26-28 NKJV) {28} Then Israel said, "It is enough. Joseph my son is still alive. I will go and see him before I die."

  22. God expects us to love others. • (Jer 31:3 NKJV) The LORD has appeared of old to me, saying: "Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love; Therefore with lovingkindness I have drawn you.

  23. Jesus made it very clear • (John 13:34-35 NKJV) "A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another. {35} "By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another."

  24. I Corinthians 13 – Amplified. • I Cor 13:1 Even if I dole out all that I have [to the poor in providing] food, and if I surrender my body to be burned or [c] in order that I may glory, but have not love (God's love in me), I gain nothing.4Love endures long and is patient and kind; love never is envious nor boils over with jealousy, is not boastful or vainglorious, does not display itself haughtily.   

  25. I Corinthians 13 – Amplified. • I Cor 13:1   5It is not conceited (arrogant and inflated with pride); it is not rude (unmannerly) and does not act unbecomingly. Love (God's love in us) does not insist on its own rights or its own way, for it is not self-seeking; it is not touchy or fretful or resentful; it takes no account of the evil done to it [it pays no attention to a suffered wrong].  

  26. I Corinthians 13 – Amplified. • I Cor 13:1    6It does not rejoice at injustice and unrighteousness, but rejoices when right and truth prevail.    7Love bears up under anything and everything that comes, is ever ready to believe the best of every person, its hopes are fadeless under all circumstances, and it endures everything [without weakening].   8Love never fails [never fades out or becomes obsolete or comes to an end].

  27. I Corinthians 13 – Amplified. • I Cor 13:1    8 As for prophecy ([d]the gift of interpreting the divine will and purpose), it will be fulfilled and pass away; as for tongues, they will be destroyed and cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away [it will lose its value and be superseded by truth].     9For our knowledge is fragmentary (incomplete and imperfect), and our prophecy (our teaching) is fragmentary (incomplete and imperfect).   

  28. I Corinthians 13 – Amplified. • I Cor 13:1    10 But when the complete and perfect (total) comes, the incomplete and imperfect will vanish away (become antiquated, void, and superseded). 11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; now that I have become a man, I am done with childish ways and have put them aside.   

  29. I Corinthians 13 – Amplified. • I Cor 13:1 12For now we are looking in a mirror that gives only a dim (blurred) reflection [of reality as [e]in a riddle or enigma], but then [when perfection comes] we shall see in reality and face to face! Now I know in part (imperfectly),but then I shall know and understand [f]fully and clearly, even in the same manner as I have been [g]fully and clearly known and understood [[h]by God].    

  30. I Corinthians 13 – Amplified. • I Cor 13:    13And so faith, hope, love abide [faith--conviction and belief respecting man's relation to God and divine things; hope--joyful and confident expectation of eternal salvation; love--true affection for God and man, growing out of God's love for and in us], these three; but the greatest of these is love.

  31. One last thought: (1 John 4:8-9 NKJV) He who does not love does not know God, for God is love. {9} In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him.

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