Introduction:
1. We are all looking for love.
2. Love is however, more than a feeling.
I. God demonstrates his love for us by gift giving.
A. A time of gift giving in every day life.
B. God is the great gift giver (Acts 17:25; Ps. 85:12). God is good (Ps. 33:5> 1 Cor. 3:21). Even to his enemies God gives gifts (Ps. 145:9; Acts 14:17; Mt. 5:45).
C. Everything we have is a demonstration of God’s love for us.
II. God demonstrates his love for us through the life of his son.
A. Jesus revealed God (Jn. 14:9). It is from Jesus that we get a richer, fuller, and better understanding of God and who he is.
B. Jesus demonstrates true love.
1. Feed the hungry (Jn. 6).
2. Healed the hurting (Mt. 4:24).
3. Directing lost people (Mt. 9:35-36).
4. Correcting wrong people (Mt. 23:37).
5. Accepting rejected people (Lk. 19:10).
6. Dying for lost people (Mt. 20:28).
C. “I was sinking deep in sin…love lifted me.”
III. God demonstrated his love for us through the death of his son.
A. God can be trusted (Num. 23:9).
B. Look at God (Rom. 3:26>8:32; 1 Jn. 4:9, 10). Calvary was because of God’s love (1 Jn. 3:16).
C. God sent his sinless son into the sinful world to be its savior so that we might live throughout eternity.
Conclusion:
God loves you whether you like it or not, want it or not.
Entered on 1/11/2009
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