NIVGod Is Love

1 John 4:7-11

Beloved, let us love one another; for love is of God, and he who loves is born of God and knows God. He who does not love does not know God; for God is love. In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world,

NIVGod Is Love

1 John 4:7-11

so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the expiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No man has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.

Genuine Love Is a Supernatural

Work of God

NIVGod Is Love

1 John 4:7

Beloved, let us love one another; for love is of God, and he who loves is born of God and knows God.

“It's not about finding ways to avoid God's

judgment and feeling like a failure if you

don't do everything perfectly. It's about

fully experiencing God's love and

letting it perfect you. It's not about being

somebody you are not. It's about

becoming who you really are.”  

Stormie Omartian 

NIVGod Is Love

1 John 4:8

He who does not love does not know God; for God is love.

Love Is a Necessary Part of God's Nature

What was it about God that made love a necessary part of his nature from all eternity?

NIVGod Is Love

John 17:24

"Father, I desire that they also, whom thou hast given me, may be with me where I am, to behold my glory which thou hast given me in thy love for me before the foundation of the world."

Love is Found in the Relationship of the

Trinity

NIVGod Is Love

1John 4:12-13

"No man has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us. By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his own Spirit."

Love Causes Us to Be

Drawn into the

Relationship of the

Trinity

Why Knowing God Creates Loving People

NIVGod Is Love

John 17:26

"[Father] I made known to them thy name (note the idea of knowing and the name, i.e., essence), and I will make it known, that the love with which thou hast loved me may be in them and I in them."

How Loving the Son of God Creates Love for

Others

NIVGod Is Love

1 John 4:9-10

"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. In this is love, not that we loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the expiation for our sins."

LIVING IT OUT

 Unite Ourselves to the Relationship of the

Trinity

LIVING IT OUT

Bask in the Nature of God’s Love for Us

LIVING IT OUT

Humble Ourselves Before One Another

LIVING IT OUT

Care for the Needs of One Another

LIVING IT OUT

Pray for the Needs of One Another

LIVING IT OUT

Abandon Ourselves for the Glory of God