LOVE WINS is the
title of our newest sermon and worship series at The Community Fellowship. During the sermon this past Sunday, the one
rooted in the exploration of Old Testament love words, we shared lots of verses
that explain, highlight and speak to God’s love.
I’d like to share a few of these
verses with you in what I will call “great verses on love” and ask that we all
get to know these verses, what they teach and how we come closer to God because
of them.
I am reminded of is the fact that
when we know we are loved that we find freedom to enjoy life and to share with
others. God loves us. That’s a fact.
Read on and be enamored by His love
for us as I am…
1 Corinthians
13:4-8a NLT
Love is
patient, love is kind and is
not jealous; love does not brag and
is not arrogant, does not
act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into
account a wrong suffered, does not rejoice in
unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all
things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails…
That is from the “love chapter” of
the Bible. If we don’t have love, as the
verses around these say, we are just making worthless noise as we live useless
lives. Praise God our live count for
something when we see them in light of God’s love!
And do everything with love.
All is to be couched in, caught
with, called out for the love of God!
But you, O Lord, are a God of compassion and mercy, slow to get angry and filled with
unfailing love and faithfulness.
God is love and full of unending,
limitless love!
I am writing to all of you in Rome who are loved by God and are called to be his own holy people. May God our Father and the Lord Jesus
Christ give you grace and peace.
You are (this is a fact) loved by
God no matter what!
For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten
Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.
We know that verse. It is important, as always and always will
be!
1 John 3:16
NLT
We know love
by this, that He laid down His life for us; and we ought to lay down our lives
for the brethren.
That is an even stronger verse about
God’s love for us and our love for others!
The Lord your God will change your heart and the hearts of all your descendants, so that you will love him with all your heart and soul and so you may live!
Love changes everything. Really, everything!
Then I said, “O Lord, God of heaven, the great and awesome God who keeps his covenant of
unfailing love with those who love him and obey his commands,
You cannot cut it off or make it
stop.
And I am
convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither
death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our
worries about tomorrow—not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love.
Nothing means
what it says. Nothing can remove God’s
love from a reality in our lives.
No one has ever seen God. But if we love
each other, God lives in us, and his love
is brought to full expression in us.
Love is the proof.
Owe nothing to anyone—except for your
obligation to love one another.
If you love your neighbor, you
will fulfill the requirements of
God’s law.
That is the command for each of
us. We are to love God, and we owe love
to others because God loves us, loved us first.
I have loved you even as the Father
has loved me. Remain in my love.
Remain. That is a good word. Stay these.
Always.
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