The Love of God
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What is love?
What is love?
I want to break it into two categories. They are very broad but I think it will help us.
CONDITIONAL LOVE
1) We find ourselves loving things that offer us things that we want. These things are lovely, or worth loving to us. For instance....
I love whataburger… some of you know this. It is worth loving. The food is AMAZING!! The colors are awesome and I just love it. Because it give me what I want. My hearts desire is a Honey butter Chicken buiscuit guys… it just is....
Or maybe you love a movie or TV show or something like that. All of these things are in themselves worth loving because they give us something. So it almost make sense that we love them. We desire them, we want them, we actually move our lives around to have them. Like.. I don’t have WB up here so on our way to camp… you bet that is where we are stopping....
We tend to love this way don’t we? We say we “love” something or someone because the way they make us feel, or something that they give us or add to our lives. But the moment they don’t do this anymore.... we stop loving them.
We also tend to tie love in as an emotion only… which it is emotional and can envoke us to emotion but
UNCONDITIONAL LOVE
2) Loving things not based on the loveliness of the object of the love but rather on your good will. Your good will toward a person or the thing that you are loving. Your aim in that kind of love is to do good, to bring about something beautiful, not to respond to beauty. You don’t love this thing because it benefits you, you do it because you want to create beauty in your love. While we were still sinners, Christ died for the ungodlyA love that a parent has for a child even when they do something wrong. I broke a lot of things.... but my parents still loved me… didn’t kick me out, It didn’t benefit them to have me in those times. But they still loved me.
Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.
For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. For one will scarcely die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die— but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God. For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life. More than that, we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.
Romans 5:1-
ESV Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. For one will scarcely die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die— but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God. For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life. More than that, we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.
By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
1 John 3:16
This second love
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
English Standard Version Chapter 3
By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
This is the kind of love that God shows for you.
God’s Love is unconditional. God does not love when you are good, or perfect or smart, or pretty or fast or strong he loves you always. He loves you in your weakness.
And we know this deep down that this is what we want… We want people in our lives who will love us this way. Will love us even when we are not loveable. Will love us when we are sobbing on th eground.m
For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.