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The Love of God
Barry - This is the second Sunday in Advent, Advent is a time for us to prepare our hearts for coming of the Christ child.
Last week we had lit the first candle of Advent, the purple candle of Hope.
This week we will light another candle.
The purple candle of Love, this candle and todays message is a reminder to us that Jesus came to earth to show and tell us about God’s Love.
Barry - Light Candle of Hope and Love
Barry - Light Candle of Hope and Love
Amanda - Reading
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Barry - When we look upon the second candle we are reminded of God’s Loving Actions
Opening Prayer
What does love mean to you?
What does love mean to you?
does it mean a new puppy?
or a new kitten?
does it mean meeting someone for the first time and you get that butterfly feeling in your stomach?
is love that epic pizza from Thompson that you only get once or twice a year?
is it a home cooked meal with family?
is it a little boy who runs toward you after a hard day at work?
but what happens when that puppy you have grows up to be a horrible dog that has a nasty habit of biting people?
or you come home from work or school and that beloved kitten has run away from home and you never see it again.
that pizza you ate gives you food poisoning…
was it really love? was it truly love?
Your husband or wife tells you ever day that they love you and will never leave you… but one day you wake up and they left you alone, you look at the urn on the mantel and say “honey, you said forever...” is that love?
how can love be so cruel?
how is it that love is here for a moment and is gone like the wind… like the scent of a spring day in the dead of winter.
Transition - let me tell you the truth about love, Love is not cruel, or a sick joke.
Love is real and Love has a face, love has strong arms, and a soft touch, God is love and He has a plan.
Today’s Passage 1 John 4:7-18
If you have your Bibles with you today, please turn to 1 John 4:7-18
7 Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God.
Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.
9 This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.
10 This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.
11 Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
12 No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.
13 This is how we know that we live in him and he in us: He has given us of his Spirit.
14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Saviour of the world.
15 If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in them and they in God.
16 And so we know and rely on the love God has for us.
God is love.
Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.
17 This is how love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment: In this world we are like Jesus.
18 There is no fear in love.
But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment.
The one who fears is not made perfect in love.
Transition - Did you know that God had a plan for us?
What does love mean to you?
does it mean a new puppy?
or a new kitten?
does it mean meeting someone for the first time and you get that butterfly feeling in your stomach?
is love that epic pizza from Thompson that you only get once or twice a year?
is it a home cooked meal with family?
is it a little boy who runs toward you after a hard day at work?
but what happens when that puppy you have grows up to be a horrible dog that has a nasty habit of biting people?
or you come home from work or school and that beloved kitten has run away from home and you never see it again.
that pizza you ate gives you food poisoning…
was it really love? was it truly love?
Your husband or wife tells you ever day that they love you and will never leave you… but one day you wake up and they left you alone, you look at the urn on the mantel and say “honey, you said forever...” is that love?
how can love be so cruel?
how is it that love is here for a moment and is gone like the wind… like the scent of a spring day in the dead of winter.
Transition - let me tell you the truth about love, Love is not cruel, or a sick joke.
Love is real and Love has a face, love has strong arms, and a soft touch, God is love and He has a plan.
God’s Loving Actions
God has had a plan since before the foundations of this world, long before you or I ever even existed.
God saw this day and blessed it.
God’s Love is merciful, His love is full of grace, patients, kindness, and faithfulness.
And today we are going to explore God’s Loving Actions, through sending his Son and Spirit.
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Transition - God’s Loving Actions start with His Son Jesus Christ.
God Sent His Son
one of the most recognized verses of the Bible is - “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.”
This simple and over used verse has been the focal point for many stock car race signs and has tossed around lightly but the statement packs such a huge punch.
God Loves Us!
He loves us so much that He gave his only Son to die so that He can give us a way to life with Him.
9 This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.
10 This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.
11 Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
12 No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.
An interesting note here that some people tend to forget, love is this: “Not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.”
the point of this section is that we did not love God.
But because He loves us He sent Jesus to die for us so that we can can live through Him.
who in their right mind would love someone who did not love them back to the point they would allow their only child to be put to death just to have a chance to be with them.
Either that is insanity, desperation, but when it comes to God its true love.
it was because of God’s Loving Actions that He Sent His Son Jesus
IF you were to take a look at it says “Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die.
8 But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”
IF you were to take a look at it says “Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die.
8 But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”
IF you were to take a look at it says “Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die.
8 But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”
U.S.S Pueblo
Think about that one for a moment, very rarely will someone die for one of us who are righteous but for someone who does good works and is considered a “good person” someone might die for them.
But God shows us His own love for us by sending Jesus to die for us not while we were saved but He sent Jesus while we were sinners and destined for hell.
Illustration - This reminds me of a story from Vietnam “After the U.S.S.
Pueblo was captured by the North Koreans, the eighty-two surviving crew members were thrown into a brutal captivity.
In one particular instance thirteen of the men were required to sit in a rigid manner around a table for hours.
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