Part 5 | What Kind of Love is God’s Love
From John 3
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📖 1 John 4:8 ESV God is love.
What kind of love is God’s love?
1. God’s love is a Love.
📖 John 3:16 ESV “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.”
📖 John 3:14-15 ESV And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, SO must the Son of Man be lifted up, 15 that whoever believes in him may have eternal life.
📖 Numbers 21:5 ESV And the people spoke against God and against Moses, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and we loathe this worthless food.”
📖 Numbers 21:6 ESV Then the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people, so that many people of Israel died.
📖 Numbers 21:8-9 ESVAnd the LORD said to Moses, “Make a fiery serpent and set it on a pole, and everyone who is bitten, when he sees it, shall live.” 9 So Moses made a bronze serpent and set it on a pole. And if a serpent bit anyone, he would look at the bronze serpent and live.
What kind of love is God’s love?
2. God’s love is a love.
📖 John 3:15-18 ESV that whoever believes in Him may have eternal life. 16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. 18 Whoever believes in Him is not condemned…
📖 Deuteronomy 7:7-8 ESV It was not because you were more in number than any other people that the LORD set his love on you and chose you, for you were the fewest of all peoples, 8 but it is because the LORD loves you and is keeping the oath that he swore to your fathers, that the LORD has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
God does not me because of . God loves me because of who .
📖 1 Timothy 2:4 ESV (God) desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
📖 2 Peter 3:9 ESV The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.
What kind of love is God’s love?
3. God’s love is a love.
📖 John 3:17 ESV For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
📖 John 3:18 ESV Whoever believes in Him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.
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📖 John 8:9-11 ESV But when they heard it, they went away one by one, beginning with the older ones, and Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him. 10 Jesus stood up and said to her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?” 11 She said, “No one, Lord.” And Jesus said, “Neither do I condemn you; go, and from now on sin no more.”
What kind of love is God’s love?
4. God’s love is a Love.
📖 John 3:19-20 ESV And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. 20 For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed.
📖 John 3:21 ESV But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God.”
