God does not love us because we are

or because we

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His love.

Jeremiah 17:9 “The heart is deceitful above all things, And desperately sick; Who can understand it?

In our natural state, we do not

God; we do not

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God; we do not

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God.

Romans 3:10–12 as it is written: “None is righteous, no, not one; no one understands; no one seeks for God. All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one.”

1 John 4:8 Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

1 John 4:16 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.

God doesn’t just love; He

love. His

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and

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are love.

It is

for Him not to love, that would be in direct

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of His nature.

Four types of Love.
Philo Love –

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Eros Love – 

  

    
       
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Storge Love – 

  

    
       
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Agape Love – 

  

    
       
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Agape love, the love of Complete

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He demonstrates this sacrificial love by

His Son to the cross to pay the penalty for our sin.

1 John 4:10 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.

By

us to Himself.

John 6:44 No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up at the last day.

By

us of our rebellion against Him, and by sending His Holy Spirit to dwell within us, thereby

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us to love as He loves.

Romans 5:8 but God shows His love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Bottom Line:

Why does God love us? Because it’s who He is: “God is love.” And that’s who He has

us to be.

1 John 3:16–18 By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. But if anyone has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God’s love abide in him? Little children, let us not love in word or talk but indeed and in truth.

Because of God’s love toward us, we are able to love one another.