The attributes of God:
• Omnipotence:God is all powerful
• Omnipresence:God is everywhere
• Omniscience:God is all knowing
• Omnibenevolence:God is all loving
The character of God (Galatians 5:22)
• love,joy,peace,patience,kindness,goodness,faithfulness, gentleness, self-control
What is the Love of God?
John 3:16 - “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Romans 5:8 - but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Romans 5:10 - For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.
God is Love, but Love is NOT God
Worldly Love vs. Godly Love
What does the Bible say about Love?
Agape - unconditional love, action
Phileo - brotherly/friendship love
The Restoration of Peter
John 21:15-22
What does the Love of God produce in the Believer?
The Love of God in the Believer
Romans 5:5 - God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.
2 Corinthians 5:14 - the love of Christ controls us
Walk by the Spirit
Galatians 5:16 - But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.
Galatians 5:25 - If we live by the Spirit, let us also keep in step with the Spirit.
Love is from God
1 John 4:7–11 - Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
1 John 4:16–17 - So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. By this is love perfected with us
1 John 4:19 - We love because he first loved us.