Rooted In Love

ROOTED IN LOVE

1. ROOTED AND ESTABLISHED IN LOVE

2. THE WIDTH AND LENGHT AND DEPTH AND HEIGHT OF THE LOVE OF CHRIST

3. LOVE THAT SURPASSES KNOWLEDGE

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ROOTED IN LOVE

1. ROOTED AND ESTABLISHED IN LOVE

EPHESIANS 3 : 14 - 19

For this reason I kneel before the Father,

from whom his whole family in heaven and on earth derives its name.

I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being,

so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love,

may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ,

and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.

ROMANS 8 : 35 - 39

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?

As it is written: "For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered."

No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers,

neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

MATTHEW 10 : 37

“Anyone who loves their father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; anyone who loves their son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

Mark 3 : 31 - 35

Then Jesus’ mother and brothers arrived. Standing outside, they sent someone in to call him.

A crowd was sitting around him, and they told him, “Your mother and brothers are outside looking for you.”

“Who are my mother and my brothers?” he asked.

Then he looked at those seated in a circle around him and said, “Here are my mother and my brothers!

Whoever does God’s will is my brother and sister and mother.”

2 Corinthians 5 : 14 - 15

For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died.

And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.

Galatians 2 : 20

I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

MATTHEW 24 : 12 - 13

Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold,

but he who stands firm to the end will be saved.

REVELATION 2 : 1 - 4

"To the angel of the church in Ephesus write: These are the words of him who holds the seven stars in his right hand and walks among the seven golden lampstands:

I know your deeds, your hard work and your perseverance. I know that you cannot tolerate wicked men, that you have tested those who claim to be apostles but are not, and have found them false.

You have persevered and have endured hardships for my name, and have not grown weary.

Yet I hold this against you: You have forsaken your first love.

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2. THE WIDTH AND LENGHT AND DEPTH AND HEIGHT OF THE LOVE OF CHRIST

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.

John 6 : 37

All those the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never drive away

Romans 2 : 11

For God does not show favoritism.

JEREMIAH 31 : 3

The LORD appeared to us in the past,saying: “I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with unfailing kindness.

JOHN 13 : 1

It was just before the Passover Festival. Jesus knew that the hour had come for him to leave this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.

ISAIAH 1 : 18

“Come now, let us settle the matter,” says the LORD. “Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool.

1 JOHN 1 : 7 - 9