Christmas List_Week 3
Part of Christmas List
December 17, 2023

BIG IDEA: God’s love is the

gift

1 Corinthians 13:1-3
1 If I speak human or angelic tongues but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so that I can move mountains but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 And if I give away all my possessions, and if I give over my body in order to boast but do not have love, I gain nothing.

What is

?

1 Corinthians 13:4-8
4 Love is patient, love is kind. Love does not envy, is not boastful, is not arrogant, 5 is not rude, is not self-seeking, is not irritable, and does not keep a record of wrongs. 6 Love finds no joy in unrighteousness but rejoices in the truth. 7 It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8 Love never ends.

is love?

1 John 4:7-8
7 Dear friends, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 The one who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

God by nature is love, and therefore He defines love. It does not define Him. People constantly impose on God a human view of love, but He transcends any such human limitations. –John MacAurthur

Genesis 1:27
27 So God created man in his own image; He created him in the image of God; He created them male and female.

Why does this love

?

1 John 4:9-10
9 God’s love was revealed among us in this way: God sent his one and only Son into the world so that we might live through him. 10 Love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

Romans 5:8
8 But God proves his own love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Hebrews 9:22
22 According to the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.

1 John 2:2
2He himself is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours, but also for those of the whole world.

Romans 5:5
5 This hope will not disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

Revelation 13:8
8 All those who live on the earth will worship it, everyone whose name was not written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who was slaughtered.

Luke 2:9-11
9 Then an angel of the Lord stood before them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified. 10 But the angel said to them, “Don’t be afraid, for look, I proclaim to you good news of great joy that will be for all the people: 11 Today in the city of David a Savior was born for you, who is the Messiah, the Lord.

1 John 4:13-16
13 This is how we know that we remain in him and he in us: He has given us of his Spirit. 14 And we have seen and we testify that the Father has sent his Son as the world’s Savior. 15 Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God — God remains in him and he in God. 16 And we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and the one who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.

John 13:34-35
34 “I give you a new command: Love one another. Just as I have loved you, you are also to love one another. 35 By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”

This Week I will:
Pursue Jesus by:

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Point to Jesus by: _
Memorize: 1 John 4:7

Next Sunday: Philippians 4