The Love of God

Scripture Reading: (1) Romans 8:28-39 (2) Ephesians 1:3-12

Sermon Outline:

Key Verse: 1 John 4:18-‬19 ESV‬‬‬

There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love. We love because he first loved us.

The Nature of God’s Love for You

How long has He loved You?  
The nature of His love.  

• A loyal, faithful, longsuffering, covenant love

• A Compassionate Love

• A Passionate Love

• An Unbreakable Love

• A Pure and Holy Love

How Does God Show His Love to Us?

His love manifested:

• In Creation

• In providence

• In Jesus

  • His life

  • His death and resurrection

  • What He accomplishes for You

  • Delivers You from wrath you deserve

  • Delivers You from darkness to light

  • He Effectively Chooses You

  • He gives You all of the benefit of Salvation for Free

  • He reconciles You to God through His death

His Love Manifested

In our ongoing Life with Him – we see His love everyday

• Delivers You from the power of sin

• In love He intercedes for You

• In love, He Protects and Keeps You

• In Love He provides for You

• In Love He Disciplines You

• In Love He gives You the gift of the Holy Spirit 

• In Love He gives You Assurance 

• In Love He gives You Meaning and Purpose

• In Love He reveals His Purposes to You

Abortion and Child Sacrifice, Sanctity of Human Life Sunday 2021

Scripture Readings: (1) Deuteronomy 12:29-31 (2) Jeremiah 19:3-8

Sermon Outline:

1. the Bible speaks often of child sacrifice

2. It is an extremely wicked sin against God

3. it was learned from the wickedness of the pagan nations

4. It is connected to sexual sin

5. It is connected to Idolatry

6. Gospels true and false

Loving God - Mark 12:28-34

Scripture Reading: (1) Deuteronomy 6:1-25 (2) Mark 12:28-34

Sermon Outline: Loving God

How to deicern your love for God

• You keep His commandments

• He is supremely important to you

• You live with a dominating anticipation of being with Him

• You are becoming more like Him because you imitate Him

• You love the things that He loves

How are you to love God?

• Lessons from Context

• What is love?

• Your love is to be with totality of your being

  • All your heart

  • All your soul

  • All your mind

  • All your strength

Making Much of Christ in a Distracted Age, Philippians 3:7-16

Scripture Reading: Philippians 3:7-16

7 But whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ. 8 Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ 9 and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith— 10 that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, 11 that by any means possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead. 12 Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. 13 Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, 14 I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. 15 Let those of us who are mature think this way, and if in anything you think otherwise, God will reveal that also to you. 16 Only let us hold true to what we have attained.

Behold Your God, Isaiah 40

Scripture Reading: (1) Matthew 6:19-34 (2) Isaiah 40

Sermon Outline:

1. The enduring Word of God

2. The God who is Shepherd of his people

3. The God who dwarfs all of creation

4.The God who humbles humanity

5. The God who is incomparable

6. The God who comes in Glory

7. His strength in our weakness