God Is: Lesson 1 - Love

Teach on many different things. All have a focus on US. That’s important, because we don’t just come to be entertained or informed, but to be changed!

This series I want us to focus on God.

I want our takeaway/part to be a change in attitude on how we interact with God.

In a series in God, so many different directions we could go.

Last year, I talked about traits/powers of God.

all-knowing, all-present, all-powerful, etc.

This year, I want to talk about characteristics of God.

What is God like?

God is love

There will be a few words we’ll look at that describe who God is, what he’s like. But we will be unpacking what is means that God is love.

Let’s jump right into one of the really important passages that mention this.

1 John 4:7–5:2 ESV

7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9 In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. 10 In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12 No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us. 13 By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. 14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. 15 Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. 16 So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. 17 By this is love perfected with us, so that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because as he is so also are we in this world. 18 There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love. 19 We love because he first loved us. 20 If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen. 21 And this commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother. 1 Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves whoever has been born of him. 2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments.

God is love.

love comes from God.

We love in response to God.

DNA

Fascinating topic.

99.9% of us have the same DNA. that 0.1% is what makes us biologically different.

God’s DNA is love.

We have love because God made us in his image.

LOVE comes from God.

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