Love
Advent • Week 3
Adam Barnett preaches from 1 John 4 and talks about what Christmas says about God's love.
MESSAGE NOTES
Love
Advent • December 11, 2022
Teacher: Adam Barnett
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1 John 4:7-12, 19 NIV
Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. 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. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us. We love because he first loved us.
Christmas is God’s initiation of love with humanity, and as a result, within humanity.
1) God initiated love with humanity.
2) God’s love is completed as we love one another.
Jonathan Wilson
“As we enter the kingdom of God, we enter into a salvation that is also the way of love. Love is a terribly spoiled term today, almost beyond rescue as a description of the good news of the kingdom come in Jesus Christ. However, the New Testament is full of the language of love, particularly as Christ exemplifies God’s love and enables that same love in us. Therefore, we must work to recover an understanding and practice of love.”
1 John 4:11 NIV
Dear friends,since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
1 John 4:12 NIV
… if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.