Fence and
Not music or color
Species and our bodies
Intertwined
Nature of Jesus and His
Fully God and Fully Human
Why?
Because of God’s
We didn’t really know what love was until he came
Love finds a
…not God, than he doesn’t come to us - just sent a messenger
Not human - than he wasn’t one of us
Love and Sacrifice
4:8-10
Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. —1 John 4:8-10
If that’s true - than the gospel knocks us over with how much God loves us
Response - we have to love one another
Rooted in Love
Beauty of this passage
Aligns with the Lord’s
1). Recalibrate
Piano out of tune
Many loves and
Terrible and mundane
Both work us
Vs. 16-19
And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. This is how love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment: In this world we are like Jesus. There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love. We love because he first loved us. —1 John 4:16-19
We know what love is, because he loved us
2). Reconnect
Children of God
Rooted in him, we love one another
Come to the table as a
Not an individual act
As I understand how much I’m loved, I abide in God
If I love the Father, I love his children
Early church
Come to the table