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Bulletin

Hymn # 448 “Because He Lives”
SCRIPTURE READING – Galatians 2:19 & 20

BAPTISM

Giving of Selves and Our Offerings
OFFERTORY PRAYER
OFFERTORY MUSIC – Joe Davis

Praise and Worship
“At the Cross (Love Ran Red)”
“Good Grace”
“God So Loved”

Proclamation of the Word
Message by Pastor Joe
“Loved”


“How Great Is Your Love”



Sermon Notes
1 John 4:10 God loved us first even when we did not love Him
Ephesians 2:4 – 9 God loved us greatly and seated us with Him in the heavenly places
1 John 3:1 & 2 Because of God’s great love we are called and are children of God
2 Thessalonians 2:16 God loved us and has given us eternal comfort and good hope
John 3:16 God’s love does not distinguish our genetics
Romans 3:5 God’s love does not depend on changing first

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Scritpures

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Transcript of Service

A lot of people seem to look for love in all the wrong places and with all the wrong people. However, the Bible tells us that there's someone who loves us with very special and permanent love and that we don't have to look for him, he's looking for us. We're going to discuss love of him and how permanent it is. The title of today's message is love. And if you have noticed the theme in all the music, it's God loves you.

And so we're going to follow up on that theme to continue about God's love. When my children were teenagers and young adults, I used to tell them this. It's difficult to find a new car and I used to say it was impossible, but it's really hard. So it's my way of saying kind of what you hear other people talking about, looking for love in all the wrong places. And the problem is there's a lot of times that people are looking for love in all the wrong places when they look for love with all of them. When God himself is the one who loves you with an everlasting love. And God did more than just say he loves you, he showed you, he loved you.

So I'm going to go through some scriptures to solidify that idea. Think you're lonely and no one cares and whatever. You may be lonely and you may think no one cares, but God is with you and God cares. And now that does God care, he loves you even as you are. So in the first scripture, we see this in 1 John chapter 4. And this is love.

Not that we love God, but that he loved us and sent his son to be a perpetuation for our sins. So God doesn't wait for us to love him. He takes the initiative. As the scripture says, the reason we love God ultimately is because God first loved us. So God, you should fall madly in love with him before he loves you. God first loved you. And he sent his son to demonstrate that not just to say, here's my son, he walks among you and talks among you and teaches you.

He gave him your payment of sin, a public demonstration of that, that perpetuation of our sin. We are no longer responsible for our sins because Jesus paid it all. That's exactly how much he loved it. He didn't put it down payment on our sins.

He paid all. And so he's been that perpetuation for our sins. And so if you're going to need the next verse, going to need the next verse, I can't afford it myself, unfortunately.

And it tells us, but God, being rich and mercy. Again, we have this idea that God is stingy with his love and his mercy, is that he's only going to apply just enough mercy and just enough love to just barely cover. I said, God being, because of his great love with which he loved us. His great love, not stingerly love, not meek love, but great love. They love us. We need to again understand that God isn't just waiting for us. As a parent, God is our father, but as a parent, you know, that even when your kids mess up, you love them anyway. You want them to do well and you want them to behave correctly.

But even when they mess up, you still love them. You still care for them. You still do the things that parents, and as Jesus even said, if us being evil, know how to give good things to our children, how much more God who is perfect knows how to give us good things. And so God loves us with a great love. Even when we were dead on our transgressions, made us alive to get by grace you have been saved. And raised us up with him and seated us in with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus.

Not only does he love us, notice he calls us to be children and he seated us in heavenly places. Now there are people who are really difficult to love. And I don't want to necessarily be associated with him. You know, I might say hi, I might, oh, there it becomes, I'll take a different way. Notice God so loves us, he sits with us. He puts us in the place of the heavenly where he's who, and he goes, he's mine.

She's mine. That's how much he's never embarrassed by us. So that in the ages to come, he might show the surpassing riches of his grace and kindness towards us in Christ Jesus. Throughout eternity, showing us the reason that we were saved was because of who he is and what he did. But he's continued to show that love for us, not just while we're on earth, but in the time to come in eternity. God will demonstrate his love towards us even in heaven.

It's like, well, I'm going to see me. No, God is there. He is our parent. He is our father and he loves us. For by grace you have been saved through faith and that, not of yourselves, it is a gift of God. God doesn't say you have to pay for your gift. To say that that gift is too expensive, he gives it to us as a matter of fact, this not as a result of works so that no one may boast.

God gives us this because he loves us. Again, we tried to think about, well, I'm entitled to his things and I'm not entitled to his love because I've done bad things. That is in God's economy at all. God says, I love you. Period. You are loved. First John 3, 1 and 2 says this, see how great a love be so done us that we would be called children of God. And such we are.

His love has caused us to be born again to be his children. Again, there are times I don't want to be associated with people. God says, I love you so call you my child. He said, but I messed up.

That's okay. You're still my child. And it's not maybe some time that we would be called children of God and such we are present tense. I am a child of God not because I deserve it, not because I've done the right thing. He loved me and he called me and he died for me and he rose again and he has now called me his child. For this reason, the world does not know us because it does not know him. People don't understand why we, but we are.

They say, well, you're not great and I agree with you. And there are a lot of people who are quote unquote sinners, unbelievers who are more and more than we are. When the rally doesn't get you to heaven, Jesus does.

And his love for us makes. We love it. Now we are children of God. We are children of God and it has not appeared as yet what we will be. There's all kinds of speculation. What are we going to be like? And this is how is heaven and whatever and people are even writing books. And what it's going to be like in my thinking is the best book to read about heaven is the Bible.

I don't need what other people says. I'll tell me what it says. But notice this and we know that when he appears, we will be like him because we will see. Yes. All too often we have this incorrect view of Jesus. But Jesus will appear and we will see him. And not only see him as he is, we will be like him.

An expression I and a sample I used to say I go when God said, not that wall. And when we are like Jesus, we're at that wall. But it seems most of us want to kick and scream all the way there. Now I know I'll never get all the way there until it gets shows up. But wouldn't it be nice if I met him halfway?

Does the moral like him today than I was yesterday? And the moral that I was today? Not content for being like Joe but being content, being more like Jesus every day. So now we know that Jesus Christ himself and our God our Father was loved us and has given us eternal life. Comfort for his grace. His love is not just someday we'll be in heaven and he's died for our sins but he says, I'm giving you good comfort. But Jesus, I'm ashamed of what I've done. That's okay.

I've forgiven it. I give you comfort. But I don't like, I don't act like yours.

That's okay. I'm giving you hope. All of these things are good hope. Good comfort. And then the one the whole world knows because if you go to a football game and you watch it on TV or whatever, the most famous scripture, John 3, 16, for God's love. Now, I want you to notice the Father, the one that everybody talks about in the Old Testament hates everybody and wants everybody to die.

You can't wait for you to mess up. And I believe it's is one feature back in the 17th heart stuff. Hold on, you like a spider over flame just waiting for you to drop.

That's not the God of the Old Testament. The God of the Old Testament is the God of this New Testament. He loves you and made a way for you.

So God so loved the world that he gave his own to whoever believes in him shall not have parish but have eternal life. God's love for us is such as not just content with the years that we hear have on this earth, but that we will understand that love for eternity. Well, how long is eternity? After we are there about 18 billion years, we still have no less days to sing God's praise than when we first begun. Perhaps heaven is eternal present just there, which is tough for you who are always on your phone scrolling because you're never in the present. And then God's word says this, but I'll notice first, you said, for God so loved the world, it doesn't miss it.

God loves you. There are people in this world today that if you're a certain ethnic or religious group, they hate you just for being in that religious group or ethnicity. And that has been true throughout pretty much the history of man.

It's always, well, if you're that group, they hate you. We want your stuff. God doesn't just love the Jew. Jesus was born with Jewish parents. He lived in a Jewish society, but he died for not just the Jew.

The scripture says we're to take the testimony of Jesus to the Jew first and then to the Gentile or the Greek, but he loved everybody and he gave himself for everybody. So it doesn't matter what your ethnicity is. And notice I don't say race because there's only one race. We all came from Adam. We have different colors. We have different whatever. But we're all one.

I love to say happy family, but we're one family. Because we're all God's creatures. He made us in his image. And the awesome thing is he's going to restore us to that image to be like Jesus. So it doesn't matter what ethnicity you are. You're loved by God, even if man may hate you. And then Romans 3 and 5 says this, but if our rights are the righteous of God, what shall we say?

The God who inflicts wrath is not on righteousness. He, I am speaking in human terms. And he goes on to say, but God demonstrated his love towards us in the while we were yet sinners.

Christ died for us. God doesn't wait for you to change to make a new commitment or a new resolution to follow him. He says, I demonstrated my love towards you while you were yet a sinner. God loves you just the way you are. Now, fortunately, he doesn't leave us. But it doesn't wait for you to change to love you.

He does the changing by loving you. There is a parable that everybody missed. That parable that everybody missed names is the product of the son. Everybody calls it the product of the son. Some get it kind of right and they go, no, it's about not about the product of the son. It's about the older son who didn't leave home, but he had the problem.

But you see the point of that parable is the love of the father. The father never stopped loving the son, even though the son wanted him dead so he could take his inheritance now. And the son took off apart from the father and didn't care what the father thought. And then all of a sudden he goes, I'm now in poverty.

The slaves are better off than I am now. I'll go and ask my father that I might be his slave. We see the father being often a distance for the son, what we call the product of the son to return. And he doesn't wait for the son to get there. Most of them would say it's about time you know when we sit there and we're making walk every single step. So I'm going to make him for forgiveness and then I'll forgive him. The father doesn't. The father goes running to the product of the son and he stores him with everything.

You see there is nothing that you have done that God won't forgive. And God won't wait for you to arrive home. He'll come running for you. The saying wants to tell us you're never good enough and not loved enough. The survival tells us it casts out all fear.

When we understand exactly how much God loves us, how deeply God loves us. We can see Satan's lie as it is because God's love doesn't depend on who I am but on who he is. And the last scripture that I want to say is found in one of my favorite chapters in one of my favorite books. Romans chapter 8 about verse 31 and on he talks about that while the first verse talks about there's now no condemnation in Christ Jesus. So what God has done for us and to love the God has for there is a condemnation. They're just love. But then it goes on and talks about nothing can separate us from the love of God. Not a thing can separate us from the love of God.

In case you didn't understand, nothing can separate us from the love of God. And then Paul gives us a few examples. He talks about tribulation, sin, and soared, and persecution and all these things that he's list. Nothing can separate us and I might add that he didn't include not even you can separate you from the love of God. If you're his child, you're his child. My children are my children. They do good, they do bad, they love me, they hate me, they're whatever, they're still my children.

God has called you his child. God has told us that he loves us with an awesome amount of love. He tells us that we're forgiven. He tells us that he's demon. He hasn't just told us he loves us.

He showed us he loves us. Now husbands, it is very good for you to tell your wife you love her. Men did at least once a day.

It should be more than once a day, but I recommend it at least once a day. But your words would be hollow if you didn't show her you loved her. And I would recommend that you show her you love her every day.

People are like you and me. You can say, take your children. You can talk to you, you should about how much you love them and how much you are proud of them and whatever. And you say a day after day after day. And then you say, well, a little disappointed in your decision. Oh, you hate me. I didn't say a little disappointed. I didn't say it was completely disappointed, but just a little disappointed.

People tend to over emphasize the negative. So that's why God noticed the number of scriptures I have talked about the love of God. And I haven't used them all. Because God is going to say, I love you. I love you. I love you. And I'm showing you that I love you. And I'm showing you that I love you.

And that I love you so much that you're my child. And I love you so much that nothing can separate you from my love. What an awesome God. God could be anything God wants to be because he's God.

We like to tell him what to do, especially in our prayers. God, I think you should do this. And I think you should do that and the other thing or whatever. And I'm always reminded of when I made the foundations of the world. But God, our God, who is God, loves us, died for us, and rose again that we might be with him for a season but for eternity. How great a love the Father has for us and all God's people say.






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