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Title: The Love of God


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The Love of God
There is no more difficult subject. It is as big
as God Himself!
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Meaning?
No finite man will ever fully grasp an
understanding of infinite love, let alone lay
hold of it as his possession!
Cf. Eph 3 v. 19 the love of Christ surpasses
knowledge The love of God is too rich, too deep,
too vast, too high, too glorious, too holy for
man to apprehend it
GLORY!
No matter how much we have come to know the love
of God THERE IS MORE TO KNOW!
God loves you more than you know!
3
Everyone of us has the potential to know God
better!
Key Word Potential ? HOW? How does potentiality
become reality? Cf. Eph. 316-18 POWER to
do? to comprehend
We pray for the power of God to explode in our
lives, bringing understanding to that which
cannot be understood
The agent of this power is the Holy Spirit I Cor.
29-14
4
Eye has not seen
Ear has not heard
Mind cannot imagine what God has prepared?
HEAVEN!?
but God! has revealed them by His Spirit not
heavenbut now!
We have received the Holy Spirit that we might
know the things freely given us by God.
No natural man (own resources) can understand
the things of God.
To come to this love letter of God, with the
goal of being able to grasp it with our minds, is
not only an exercise in futility, but a
demonstration of mans pride and arrogance.
If our minds can grasp the mind of God, then God
has a pretty small mind!
5
This was true, even with Jesus
Cf. John 14For three years, Jesus has been
__________?
teaching
V.25 these things have I taught you.
these things have I spoken to you
Even with Jesus, the master teacher teaching,
without the Holy Spirit, His teaching was just
Speaking and Hearing
Only with the Holy Sprit can it be Teaching and
Learning (cf. John 1426)
It will take the Holy Spirit, vibrantly living
inside them, to bring to their remembrance what
He said and make it real, moving it from their
head to their heart and out their feet and hands
in practical and victorious living.
6
PRAY
Shifting our dependence from
Our ability to perceive, His ability to
enlighten!
  • The Loss of Love (Genesis 3)
  • Life Without Love (Luke 15)
  • Finding Love, by Finding Father (selected)

Genesis-----beginnings
Why?
Unwise to dive into a study of love, without an
understanding of the need for love.
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Church presents Jesus to man, without presenting
man with his need for Jesus.
No doctor provides a prescription ? without first
a diagnosis
Any discussion of Love. must first begin with a
discussion of God.
God is love!
God has love! Love is something He also might not
have
God is! Enter into isness of God God is
independent of anyone or anything else! God is
LOVE!
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He loves!He loves independent of becauseHe
loves because He is!
He loves you not because of you, but because of
Himself. You cannot make Him love you! You cannot
make Him not love you! He loves!
Think!!!!
Why then did God create you?
The Church
  • To serve Him
  • To worship Him
  • To obey Him

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NO!
John 526 the Father, has life in Himself
What does that mean? If you are life, then you
dont need anyone or anything!
  • God does not need you to serve Him.
  • God does not need you to worship Him.
  • God does not need you to obey Him.

God does not need you or anything you do for Him!
Then. Why did God create you
THINK!
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Why did you have kids.
1. Did you have kids to serve you?
2. Did you have kids to worship you?
3. Did you have kids to obey you?
Why then, did you have kids?
To love and share your life with the. Where do
you think you got that idea? From God Who Himself
had kids to love, share His life with!
DUH!
11
Man was designed by Godto receive love from God
KEY so that we would fulfill/complete love!
The nature of love requires three things!
LOVER ? who loves ? Loved ? a Lover
This is what the forbidden tree was all about
GOD
The tree allowed man to have something to say
NO to, and thereby demonstrate love to God!
12
Marriage!We say NO to every other
man/womanLOVE!
God created us to love us, Designed us to
receive/release love.
That is why we were created in Gods image!
Spirit beings So that God could connect to us
Person to person Spirit to spirit In a unique
circle of Love
Lover ?Loved ?Lover
This is what man was birthed into Love
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Word Picture Like a fish in water. It lives
in the water, breathes the water All it know is
the water!
So man, was birthed in love, breathing love, all
he knew was love!
Until
Love was called into question!
The enemy Gen 35 God is holding out on you
Adam, believing the lie, rebels
Choosing to not love, disobeys, dies
The Fall! The Declaration of Independence!
The Great Gasp! Man has been gasping ever since
14
Striving for love Searching for
love Unable to find love Looking in all
the wrong places!
Rom. 125 Man looks to the creations, instead of
the Creator! Man exchanged mirrors
Mans formula for life ? God I am love I am
O.K., I am significant
Mans new formula for life My performance
what others think what I think ?
This is the lie humanity is now birthed into
Ah, look at all the lonely people Ah, look at
all the lonely people Where do they all come
from Where do they all belong!
15
If you dont get this straightened out, you will
be a menace to yourself and every other human
being you come in contact with
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