Three Truths About God’s Love Series

• Illustration: The story of Nicodemus (John 3). Jesus told him "You must be born again." You must, Nicodemus, accept God’s extension of love.

• Application: Therefore church God extends His love to you and we can see that God’s love is perfect and needs nothing else added or taken away to it to make it glorious. We can freely receive it as a gift.

• "But God showed his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." Romans 5:8

• There is nothing that we need do to be loved by God. God loves you. Even while you are in the mist of monstrous sin, God loves you unconditionally.

POINT #3: God’s Love is Expressed (1 John 4:9-10)

• Explanation: John says, “By this is love, not that we have loved God, but that he loves us and gave us his son as propitiation for our sins.” (10) Jesus, being God in the flesh, lived not only a sinless life but also died on the cross and rose again to fulfill what was prophesied and cleanse the creation from sin once and for all. God’s offering of His Son is the ultimate expression of love for us.

o "He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not." Isaiah 53:3

• Illustration: Jesus 3:16 – 12 of the Greatest:

o God (the greatest lover)

o So loved (to the greatest degree)

o The world (the greatest number)

o That He gave (the greatest act)

o His only begotten son (the greatest gift)

o That whosoever (the greatest invitation)

o Believe (the greatest simplicity)

o In Him (the greatest Person)

o Should not perish (the greatest deliverance)

o But (the greatest difference)

o Have (the greatest certainty)

o Everlasting life (the greatest possession).”

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• Application: John 15:13 states "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends." No one loves you as much as Jesus loves you! The fact is that Jesus died on the cross in your place. He died as your substitute. Jesus is the perfect sinless Son of God. He died to pay the penalty for your sin because He loves you.

o “Here is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sin.” John 4:10

CONCLUSION: God's love is existent from everlasting to everlasting. It is a perfect love that is extended to all people in all time periods and cultures. God’s love is expressed in Christ, giving man the ability to be reconciled (stand in a right relationship with God) through Christ. Will you accept this gift today and extend God’s love to those in need?