(Topical sermon)
God is
Love
The high esteem which God has
for His human children and the high regard which they, in turn, should have for
Him and other people. Because of the hundreds of references to love in the
Bible, it is certainly the most remarkable book of love in the world. It
records the greatest love story ever written-God's unconditional love for us
that sent His Son to die on the cross (John 3:16; 1 John 4:10).
How we understand God’s Love
toward us:
- He created man.
One
basic reason why God created man is because of love. Love is expected others
include in the action of love. God Him self want an object of love; this is the
reason why He created man to be an object of His love. It does not mean lonely.
God is trinity; there is no loneliness in the heaven. There is Father, Son and
the Holy Spirit. But it does not mean enough to love each other in the trinity.
If like that it’s mean selfish love. In this point God created we just like
Him. So there is some to be interaction to. Some one has all ability to
response love that He gives.
Gen 1:26-31
26 Then God said, "Let us make man
in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and
the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the
creatures that move along the ground."
27 So God created man in his own image,
In the image of God he created him;
Male and female he created them.
28 God blessed them and said to them,
"Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule
over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living
creature that moves on the ground."
29 Then God said, "I give you every
seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit
with seed in it. They will be yours for food. 30 And to all the beasts of the
earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the
ground — everything that has the breath of life in it — I give every green
plant for food." And it was so.
31 God saw all that he had made, and it
was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning — the sixth day.
In
this point, we must understand that, no one is higher than other.
In
this point, we must understand that, no one is closer to God than other.
In
this point, we must say thanks God for what are we now.
What
ever condition we are in now,
What
ever status or position we are in now,
We
are precious before Him.
God’s
love is for us, and is enough to give us opportunity to have a better life.
- He punishes the sinners.
The
Bible clearly said that the world is in darkness because of sin, no one can
help, because everyone is sin.
Rom 3:10-18
10 As it is written:
"There is no one righteous, not
even one;
11 there is no one who understands,
No one who seeks God.
12 All have turned away,
They have together become worthless;
There is no one who does good,
Not even one."
13 "Their throats are open graves;
Their tongues practice deceit."
"The poison of vipers is on their
lips."
14 "Their mouths are full of cursing
and bitterness."
15 "Their feet are swift to shed
blood;
16 ruin and misery mark their ways,
17 and the way of peace they do not
know."
18 "There is no fear of God before
their eyes."
Since
the beginning, man was not obeying God’s command, because of that man was lost
from God’s present. Adam and his children, until us.
Gen 2:15-17
15 The LORD God took the man and put him
in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it. 16 And the LORD God
commanded the man, "You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; 17
but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when
you eat of it you will surely die."
God
was given clear instruction to not eat from the tree that God was warning of.
What
God’s mean with die is separate from Him. Live in distance of fearness between
God and man. Cut of from the source of life.
Gen 3:4-7
4 "You will not surely die,"
the serpent said to the woman. 5 "For God knows that when you eat of it
your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and
evil."
The
Lucifer confirm what was God has Command as a physically dead. He changes the
meaning of spiritual dead to physically dead. He makes God’s warning to be
something interest to be crossover.
6 When the woman saw that the fruit of
the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for
gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband,
who was with her, and he ate it.
Gen 3:8-11
8 Then the man and his wife heard the
sound of the LORD God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day,
and they hid from the LORD God among the trees of the garden. 9 but the LORD
God called to the man, "Where are you?"
10 He answered, "I heard you in the
garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid."
11 And he said, "Who told you that
you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat
from?"
Man was separate from God because of sin.
Man afraid to meet God, afraid to see God
face, afraid to talk with God.
Man became an enemy of God. Separate from
God its mean became enemy of God.
Rom
3:23
23 for all have sinned and fall short of
the glory of God,
Rom
6:23
23 for the wages of sin is death, but
the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
God’s love is integral part of His
justice, He was given a warning, and a warning was been cross, and the
penalty/wages of it is dead.
The
reason of the warning is because He won’t us to destroy because of sins. But we
choose our own way.
- He saves the sinners.
Gen 3:21
21 The LORD God made garments of skin
for Adam and his wife and clothed them.
Look,
when mans are naked, God the one who initiative to clothed them. How love Him
to us. It’s always Him doing first and not us.
John 3:12-21
12 I have spoken to you of earthly
things and you do not believe; how then will you believe if I speak of heavenly
things? 13 No one has ever gone into heaven except the one who came from
heaven-the Son of Man. 14 Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the
desert, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, 15 that everyone who believes in
him may have eternal life.
16 "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. 17 for God did not send his Son into the world to condemn
the world, but to save the world through him. 18 Whoever believes in him is not
condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has
not believed in the name of God's one and only Son. 19 This is the verdict: Light has come into
the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were
evil. 20 Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the
light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. 21 but whoever lives by the
truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has
done has been done through God."
From
the Old Testament until the New Testament is written how God love and always
try to help man.
God
send His Son to save us. So we may be back to God. We are His, and He is our
before but sins was separate us from each other.
Jesus
comes to bring us back the lost relationship between God and us.
Conclusion
(Topical sermon)
God is
Love
How we understand God’s Love
toward us:
- He created man.
One
basic reason why God created man is because of love. God Him self want an
object of love; this is the reason why He created man to be an object of His
love.
We
are precious before Him.
God’s
love is for us, and is enough to give us opportunity to have a better life.
- He punishes the sinners.
The
Bible clearly said that the world is in darkness because of sin, no one can
help, because everyone is sin.
God’s love is integral part of His
justice, He was given a warning, and a warning was been cross, and the
penalty/wages of it is dead.
The
reason of the warning is because He won’t us to destroy because of sins. But we
choose our own way.
- He saves the sinners.
John 3:16
16 "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.
God
send His Son to save us. So we may be back to God. We are His, and He is ours
before but sins was separate us from each other.
Jesus
comes to bring us back the lost relationship between God and us.
(All the Bible verses is taken from New International Version)
free to copy use for the ministry. Edit according to the guidance of Holy Spirit
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