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The power of being loved and giving love…. In Love. You are that rose…. Romans 5:8 - 8 But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
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You are that rose… • Romans 5:8 - 8 But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. • 1 John 3:16 - 16 This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.
The Illustration of Marriage • Ephesians 5 • 22 Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. • 25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her • 32 This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church.
Loved & In Love • Love causes: • God to die • Man to surrender • We become like what we love. (Matthew 6:21).
Loved and In Love Matthew 25:40 - 40 “The King will reply, ‘I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.’
Loved & In Love to share Love • Then Jesus said to his host, “When you give a luncheon or dinner, do not invite your friends, your brothers or relatives, or your rich neighbors; if you do, they may invite you back and so you will be repaid. 13 But when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, 14 and you will be blessed.”
Loved & In Love to share love • Revelation 1:5-7 - To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood, 6 and has made us to be a kingdom and priests to serve his God and Father—to him be glory and power for ever and ever! Amen.