GOD’S LOVE

•IS THE REASON

•LOVE DEFINED
•What is LOVE…

•"Love is when a girl puts on perfume and a boy puts on shaving

cologne and they go out and smell each other." -Kari, age 5
•"Love is when you go out to eat and give somebody most of your
French fries without making them give you any of theirs." –Chrissy6
•Love is when you tell a guy you like his shirt, then he wears it every
day." -Noelle, age 7
•"Love is when mommy gives daddy the best piece of chicken." -Elaine,
age 5
•"Love is when your puppy licks your face even after you left him alone
all day." -Mary Ann, age 4
•"Love is when my mommy makes coffee for my daddy and she takes a
sip before giving it to him, to make sure the taste is OK." Danny - age 7
• God showed how much He loved us by
sending Jesus to die for us, even though we
were sinful.“

• "God could have said magic words to make

the nails fall off the cross, but He didn't.
That's love..
• LOVE – most-used
most-heard
most –loved
LOVE – misunderstood,
misinterpreted,
misapplied

LOVE – Hated
And because it is misunderstood,
misinterpreted, and misapplied –

There is WAR instead of PEACE

There is ANGER, DEPRESSION, and

SEPARATION, instead of LOVE
Kinds of LOVE:
- EROS / Romantic love
- Filial love / PHILEO
(brotherly/sisterly, friends, etc.)
- Paternal love
- APPLIED
- UNDERSTOOD against God’s kind
of love AGAPE
- INTERPRETED
It must be DISPENSED of in God’s
perspective of LOVE –
- unconditional
- selfless- Like the LOVE of God
to us.
- wholehearted
II. LOVE EMBODIED / EXPLAINED
GOD’s LOVE
AGAPE – God’s LOVE
1) Unconditional
2) Selfless
3) Immense / Immeasurable /
Great
4) Eternal / Unchanging
JOHN 3:16
For 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..
God is LOVE. His love is shown in John
3:16.
1) For God so loved the world.
-UNCONDITIONAL
2) He gave His one and only Son. -
SELFLESS
3) Whoever believes in Him
-IMMENSE / IMMEASURABLE
1 John 4:9-10
9 This is how God showed his love
among us: He sent his one and only
Son into the world that we might
live through him. 10 This is love:
not that we loved God, but that he
loved
III. LOVE ILLUSTRATED

Luke 15.
11
Jesus continued: “There was a
man who had two sons. 12 the
younger one said to his father “
father give me my share of the
state”,so he divided his property to
them
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“Not long after that, the younger son
got together all he had, set off for a
distant country and there squandered his
wealth in wild living. 14 After he had spent
everything, there was a severe famine in
that whole country, and he began to be in
need. 15 So he went and hired himself out
to a citizen of that country, who sent him
to his fields to feed pigs.16 he longed to fill
his stomach with the pods that the pigs
were eating,but no one gave him
anything.
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“When he came to his senses, he said,
‘How many of my father’s hired
servants have food to spare, and here I
am starving to death! 18 I will set out and
go back to my father and say to him:
Father, I have sinned against heaven
and against you.19 I am no longer
worthy to be called your son; make me
like one of your hired servants.’ 20 So he
got up and went to his father.
21 “The son said to him, ‘Father, I have
sinned against heaven and against you. I
am no longer worthy to be called your
son.’ 22 “But the father said to his
servants, ‘Quick! Bring the best robe and
put it on him. Put a ring on his finger and
sandals on his feet. 23 Bring the fattened
calf and kill it. Let’s have a feast and
celebrate. 24 For this son of mine was
dead and is alive again; he was lost and
is found.’ So they began to celebrate
GOD’S ETERNAL and UNCONDITIONAL
LOVE is shown:
- offended, disobeyed
- Disrespected, abandoned
1) His father saw him from a distance.
a) protection–watching us from heaven
b) Patience – waiting for our return
2) His father was filled with
compassion.
God’s love is shown by:
a) His mercy and compassion to the
sinners.
b) His care and concern on our
state/condition
3) He ran to his son, threw his arms
around him and kissed him.
God’s love is shown by:
a) His acceptance
b) His forgiveness

21
“The son said to him, ‘Father, I have
sinned against heaven and against you.
I am no longer worthy to be called your
son.’
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“But the father said to his servants,
‘Quick! Bring the best robe and put it on
him. Put a ring on his finger and
sandals on his feet. 23 Bring the fattened
calf and kill it. Let’s have a feast and
celebrate. 24 For this son of mine was
dead and is alive again; he was lost and
is found.’ So they began to celebrate.
- ROBE Family
- RING Love
- SANDALS Protection
- FATTENED CALF Joy/Celebration
TRUE LOVE FROM JESUS

John 13:34
“A new command I give you: Love
one another. As I have loved you, so
you must love one another.”
1 Corinthians 13-4:8
4
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not
envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It
does not dishonor others, it is not self-
seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps
no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not
delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7
It always protects, always trusts, always
hopes, always perseveres. 8 Love never
fails.
God Bless everyone