God’’s Love "Ain’t Nothing Like The Real Thing"
Everyone is looking for love, as the old song says, in all the wrong places,
its in the music we hear, the movies we watch, everyone just loves a good love story and the box office revenues prove it.
Anyone ever seen the movie, the titanic?, avatar?, together they took in over 1.4 billion in receipts and we could never forget, “Gone with the wind” could we?
We all need love, idn’t that what the beatles said, “all you need is love”?
What they should have sang about was, “all you need is God”’s Love!
for God is Love and Love is God and more of God is truly what the whole world needs!
And its never been more prevalent, than it is today with so much hatred and unrest in the world!
1st John 4:7-10 MSG.
7-10. My beloved friends, let us continue to love each other since love comes from God. Everyone who loves is born of God and experiences a relationship with God. The person who refuses to love doesn’t know the first thing about God, because God is love, —so you can’t know him if you don’t love. This is how God showed his love for us: God sent his only Son into the world so we might live through him. This is the kind of love we are talking about— not that we once upon a time loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to clear away our sins and the damage they’’ve done to our relationship with God
Unconditional Love, comes from God and the love God offers, is the only thing that can fill the void in our lives
The “I just know and feel like there’s something missing in my life” void that everyone has, but not everyone is willing to admit!
While you might find temporary fulfillment of love through people and material things,
there is no true fulfillment in life without the love of God.
Its not an on demand item, you can’t earn it, buy it, or win it,
He does not love you because of who you are anyway, I mean think about it,
if He loved us because of who we and what we truly are, would He even want to love us?
Have you ever been on the phone and wanted to say, or maybe did say the words,
Do you know who I am?, do you have any idea who you are talking to?
At that point, it always is about us and us only and nobody wants to listen to us,
Let alone love us when were like that!
Nobody, except for God, because His Love isn’t based on our actions or deeds!
Thank God, that He loves us, because of who He is and not because of who we are!
We can find sweet rest in that very fact, His Love for us, is based on Him alone and has nothing to do with us!
Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Just kidding, haha.
What I mean is, your conversion or Gods love for you?
God loved us, long before we ever loved Him, He loved us before we ever were anything at all
and nothing can ever change His mind about Loving us, He is the only constant, He never changes! Amen!
Rom 8:38-39 “MSG.
I’m absolutely convinced that nothing—nothing living or dead, angelic or demonic, today or tomorrow, high or low, thinkable or unthinkable—absolutely nothing can get between us and God’s love because of the way that Jesus our Master has embraced us.
Nothing can separate us from His Love, God is omnipresent, He has already been everywhere time will ever be,
That means His Love has already been there to,
His Love is waiting for us everywhere, every moment we will ever be,
to enjoy today, tomorrow and forever!
And the amazing thing is, that He already knows,
how were going to respond and how were going to act in every situation,
and still says, My Love for you, is still bigger than that!
God hates sin, but loves the sinner!
No angels or demons can do anything about it, to change the fact of God‘s Great Love!
Not even the whole worlds sin, past and forever more, is more than Gods love can withstand!
they all, are powerless to change His love for us,
Romans 5:6-8 MSG.
6-8. Christ arrives right on time to make this happen. He didn’t, and doesn’t, wait for us to get ready. He presented himself for this sacrificial death when we were far too weak and rebellious to do anything to get ourselves ready. And even if we hadn’t been so weak, we wouldn’t have known what to do anyway. We can understand someone dying for a person worth dying for, and we can understand how someone good and noble could inspire us to selfless sacrifice. But God put his love on the line for us by offering his Son in sacrificial death while we were of no use whatever to him.
We can be and should be confident in the life that God has given us today,
not because we love Him, but because He loves us!
Here’s something else to think about, if we didn’t do anything to earn God’s love,
that means we don’t need to live in fear of ever losing it either, like the accuser constantly would like us all to believe.
Jesus knows everything about us, the past, the present and the future - and He loves us still.
That fact alone, is more than enough reason for His Grace to be called Amazing!
That’s why there is complete rest in Gods love, you don’t have to act, or pretend to be something, or someone everyone will like,
When it comes to God, you can be yourself and He will still Love you, just the way you are!
You don’t have to change yourself before you come to know Him, because once you come to know Him, the more you will change
Automatically because you know Him!
It’s not about right living, it’s all about right believing!
The word says it, but human nature has a hard time accepting the unending easiness of it.
There are a lot of people in this world, in fact there are millions of people who have never experienced the Love of God,
but what they don‘t know is, even though their not enjoying it, doesn‘t change the fact that they still are loved by their creator
and that God is patiently waiting to pour His Love out on them, the moment they become aware of His Love!
Its like having access, to a bank account you never have to check the balance on,
And you will always have plenty, more than enough to do whatever you want to do, anytime you want to do it,
But yet, your living in poverty, cause you don’t even know it!
Its up to us, to let them know about the abundance of Gods Love that He has for them.
The world around us, will never know the Love of God, unless we share it with them!
It’s not enough that we know, God expects us to bare fruit!
Ephesians 3:14-19 MSG.
14-19. My response is to get down on my knees before the Father, this magnificent Father who parcels out all heaven and earth. I ask him to strengthen you by his Spirit— not a brute strength but a glorious inner strength— that Christ will live in you as you open the door and invite him in. And I ask him that with both feet planted firmly on love, you’ll be able to take in with all followers of Jesus the extravagant dimensions of Christ’s love. Reach out and experience the breadth! Test its length! Plumb the depths! Rise to the heights! Live full lives, full in the fullness of God.
It was Paul’s prayer and it should be ours as well, we need to pray that the blinders would be removed,
from all who are blinded from knowing the truth about Gods Love in their lives.
The world needs to know, the amazing truth about Gods Love,
*Even if you have nothing to offer Him,
*Even if you’ve never done anything to deserve it,
*Even if you feel like you’ve ruined every opportunity you will ever have to ever receive it and are not even worthy of it!
It doesn’t matter, God still takes great pleasure in you, you are His creation, His masterpiece.
The Love of God is like, having access to Niagara Falls for a glass of water,
That’s how much value God puts on one persons worth,
He is willing to give everything He has just for you,
He already did, John 3:16 NKJ
16. For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
We will probably never realize the true extent of His love for us, until we get to heaven one day.
One thing we can be so thankful for here on earth is, the fact that our name is covered by the word, whosoever! Praise God!
We do know, that when they asked Jesus what the greatest commandment was, it was all about love
Mark 12 :29-31 MSG.
29-31. Jesus said, “The first in importance is, ‘Listen, Israel: The Lord your God is one; so love the Lord God with all your passion and prayer and intelligence and energy.’ And here is the second: ‘Love others as well as you love yourself.’ There is no other commandment that ranks with these.”
How will we win our friends, family and neighbors to the Lord?
With the Love of the Lord being displayed in our lives, shining through into to their lives!
‘Love others as well as you love yourself.’
Love never gives up.
Love cares more for others than for self.
Love doesn’t want what it doesn’t have
Doesn’t force itself on others,
Isn’t always “me first,”
Puts up with anything,
Trusts God always,
Always looks for the best,
Never looks back,
But keeps going to the end.
1st John 4:17-19 NKJ
17. Love has been perfected among us in this: that we may have boldness in the day of judgment; because as He is, so are we in this world.
18. There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love.
19. We love Him because He first loved us.
God wants us to rest assured in this life that He has given us!
There is nothing that’s been left out, He thought of everything we would ever have need of and included it with His Love, He gave on Calvary.
Every promise He ever made to us, has been guaranteed by it!
The same Love that He has for His own son!
That’s why TBS. “because as He is, so are we in this world”
He not only Loved us enough to send His Son to us to redeem us,
but Loved us enough to give us access to everything Jesus has as well, when we established a relationship with Him!
All made possible by the finished work of Calvary.
Do you know Him today?
Are you living in His Extravagant Love Today?
Lets pray
