SEASON 4: SERIES: THE SACRIFICE OF LOVE: EPISODE 5: GOD LOVING US!

YOU ARE INVITED, THE DOOR IS ALWAYS OPEN: JESUS HAS
EXTENDED THE INVITATION, EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU HAVE BEEN
INVITED IN TO SPEND THIS LIFE AND YOUR LIFE AFTER THIS WITH HIM.
ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS OPEN UP YOUR MOUTH AND HEART SO HE CAN SAVE
YOU, MOLD YOU INTO A NEW CREATION. WILL YOU ACCEPT, WILL YOU SAY
YES TODAY?
INTRODUCTION: THE SACRIFICE OF LOVE: GOD LOVING US! 
  


Romans 5:8- “But God demonstrates his own love for us in
this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us”. 
  


This is one of the most powerful and life-changing scriptures you
could ever read, believe, and accept. I am afraid that there are
so many people who find this difficult to accept or refuse to
accept. The fact that we are such sinful creations and that there
is a loving and forgiving God who tells us every day that He
loves us. Some people are trying to compare God’s love to human
love, it never fails and it is everlasting.


Sisters and brothers, one of the things we have to realize are
that Satan is doing everything in his power to stop us from
believing that God could love us. He throws up our past and he
tells us that we are not worthy but remember the last part of the
verse, He loves us while we were yet sinners.   


Another reason we make not believe that God can love us in the
way we can never be loved by a human being is how people have
treated us. Stop comparing God to your parents, spouse, bosses,
pastors, Christians, family, and friends because they are just
like you an imperfect being, a human touched by the varnish of
sin. Today I want you to stop trying to substitute the love of
God and the God of love. You will never find anyone or anything
that will satisfy you the way you can. 


Another reason we have yet to allow God’s love to engulf us is
because of the pain, grief, heartache, or brokenness we have
experienced in our life. You may have been abused, betrayed,
abandoned, or have gone through something so difficult and
wondered how God could love you and allow you to go through this.
I know some of us feel like when bad things happen to us,
especially when we were children, God could not have loved us
because if He did, He would have done something about it. Just
think about this for a moment. 


Stop letting church folks keep you from God’s love, stop letting
things keep you from God’s love, stop letting sin keep you from
God’s love, and stop letting whatever it is keep you from His
love. This year is a year of NO MORE. You have to start seeking
God and the things of God for yourself. Your momma, grand momma,
or the pastor might tell you every week that God loves you but
until you experience for yourself, you can’t move forward. 


SCRIPTURES TO LIVE BY: 


1 John 4:8-10- “8 He who does not love does not know God,
for God is love. 9 In this the love of God was manifested
toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the
world, that we might live through Him. 10 In this is love,
not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to
be the propitiation for our sins”.


1John 4:18-19- “18 Such love has no fear because perfect
love expels all fear. If we are afraid, it is for fear of
punishment, and this shows that we have not fully experienced his
perfect love. 19 We love each other[a] because he loved us
first”.


NEXT WEEK, WE WILL CONTINUE WITH THE SERIES: THE SACRIFICE OF
LOVE: OUR LOVE FOR OTHERS MAKES A DIFFERENCE 


Next week read: John 15:13 and 1 Peter 4:8


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REMEMBER MY SISTERS AND BROTHERS, IT TAKES GRACE TO MAKE
IT!


Remember my sisters and brothers, it takes GRACE TO MAKE
IT!