Love Fearlessly

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John 3:16 is probably one of the most known scriptures. In fact, it might be the most known since in the past it was on signs even at sporting events.

John 3:16 (NIV)

16For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

Why is this scripture one of the first we learn when receiving Jesus as our Savior? Because it reveals God’s love for us. And Jesus going to the cross shows us just how fearlessly God loves us! Today we are continuing our series, Audacious Faith! One of the attributes of someone who has audacious faith is this, the Love Fearlessly! Lets begin by looking at,

Matthew 22:35–40 NKJV

35 Then one of them, a lawyer, asked Him a question, testing Him, and saying, 36 “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?” 37 Jesus said to him, “ ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and great commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.”

To Love Fearlessly, We Follow the Greatest Commandment!

When asked by a lawyer, and you know that lawyers, when trying to “catch” you, usually ask a question they when answered, can be used against you. This question was asked by a lawyer who was also a Pharisee. Jesus had just silenced the Sadducees and so now they wanted a crack at Him. But Jesus answered that the greatest commandment is to love God and Man. In other words, love fearlessly. In Mark’s account of this same time, the lawyer revealed that he did understand to love God and neighbor as greater than burnt offerings and sacrifices. Jesus told him you’re not far from the Kingdom. The lawyer knew what it was to love fearlessly!

1 John 4:15–20 NKJV

15 Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. 16 And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him. 17 Love has been perfected among us in this: that we may have boldness in the day of judgment; because as He is, so are we in this world. 18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love. 19 We love Him because He first loved us. 20 If someone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?

God’s Perfect Love Casts Out Fear!

The fact that we know God and that we know that God is love, that’s His M.O., automatically takes fear away. That perfect love that God has for us, casts fear away. If God takes away fear because of His love for us, then we are living a life that loves fearlessly!

Romans 5:8 NLT

8 But God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners.

Isaiah 53:1–12 NLT

1 Who has believed our message? To whom has the Lord revealed his powerful arm? 2 My servant grew up in the Lord’s presence like a tender green shoot, like a root in dry ground. There was nothing beautiful or majestic about his appearance, nothing to attract us to him. 3 He was despised and rejected— a man of sorrows, acquainted with deepest grief. We turned our backs on him and looked the other way. He was despised, and we did not care. 4 Yet it was our weaknesses he carried; it was our sorrows that weighed him down. And we thought his troubles were a punishment from God, a punishment for his own sins! 5 But he was pierced for our rebellion, crushed for our sins. He was beaten so we could be whole. He was whipped so we could be healed. 6 All of us, like sheep, have strayed away. We have left God’s paths to follow our own. Yet the Lord laid on him the sins of us all. 7 He was oppressed and treated harshly, yet he never said a word. He was led like a lamb to the slaughter. And as a sheep is silent before the shearers, he did not open his mouth. 8 Unjustly condemned, he was led away. No one cared that he died without descendants, that his life was cut short in midstream. But he was struck down for the rebellion of my people. 9 He had done no wrong and had never deceived anyone. But he was buried like a criminal; he was put in a rich man’s grave. 10 But it was the Lord’s good plan to crush him and cause him grief. Yet when his life is made an offering for sin, he will have many descendants. He will enjoy a long life, and the Lord’s good plan will prosper in his hands. 11 When he sees all that is accomplished by his anguish, he will be satisfied. And because of his experience, my righteous servant will make it possible for many to be counted righteous, for he will bear all their sins. 12 I will give him the honors of a victorious soldier, because he exposed himself to death. He was counted among the rebels. He bore the sins of many and interceded for rebels.

What Jesus Did For Us Shows Fearless Love!

There is not much you can say about what Jesus did for us. It is really the example of loving fearlessly. He could’ve destroyed us but instead He died for us. That’s a love that transcends any other love. That is definitely fearless.

Romans 8:31–39 NKJV

31 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? 33 Who shall bring a charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. 34 Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us. 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 As it is written: “For Your sake we are killed all day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.” 37 Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. 38 For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, 39 nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Nothing Can Separate Us From God’s Love!

This is a fact! Nothing, not even the sting of death, can separate us from God’s love! Knowing that, we are to Love Fearlessly. We love God and our neighbors, even if they treat us maliciously. After all, how many of us think the wrong way and God loves us . I said think because you can be all lovey and nice on the outside when in reality it’s a show. No faith or love involved. But Audacious Faith people Love Fearlessly even when they are hurt because after all, that’s what Jesus did. Let’s purpose to love fearlessly!