Questions About Love
- Steve Ferguson
- Jun 18, 2022
- 3 min read
Questions About Love
Can we block God's Love?
Is it possible to doubt the Love of God?
What is returning the love of God to Him?
Does God do anything for us apart from His Love for us?
How is Love perfected in us?
What is the Word/Love connection?
So how do we respond to the Love of God in this earth?
for the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me, and have believed that I came forth from God (who is Love)
And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.
Love works by faith and…
Faith works by love… Galatians 5:6 For in Jesus Christ…faith (which) worketh by love.
Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us. Bible hope comes from God, and therefore Love cannot disappoint us.
…not any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Not separated, but can we prevent His Love from effecting us?
But as it is written: “Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, Nor have entered into the heart of man The things which God has prepared (in advance) for those who love Him.
What things? Healing? The ministry of Jesus example - Acts 10:38
"How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God (Love) was with Him."
So how do we respond to the Love of God in this earth?
I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.
to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness (Love) of God.
Ephesians 5:2 And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling aroma.
2 Thessalonians 3:5 Now may the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God and into the patience of Christ.
1 John 2:5 But whoever keeps His word, truly the love of God is perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him. Perfected love casts out fear
1 John 4:7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.
Jude 1:21 keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
1 John 5:3 For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments
Can we block God's Love?
Mk 11: 25
And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses. 26 But if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father which is in heaven forgive your trespasses.
To forgive is necessary because of unforgiveness. It is a violation of the Love of God. Remember the Ministry grouping under Bitterness? Unforgiveness, Resentment, Retaliation, Anger, Hatred, Violence, Murder, and murder with the tongue.
Is it possible to doubt the Love of God?
And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.
If we abide in something not Love we are probably abiding in doubt.
What is returning the love of God to Him?
1 John 4:19 We love him, because he first loved us.
Does God do anything for us apart from His Love for us?
No. His Love is involved in everything He wants to do for us - for our good.
for the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me, and have believed that I came forth from God (who is Love)
These two questions have common answers…
How is Love perfected in us? What is the Word/Love connection?
But whoever keeps His Word, truly the love of God is perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him. 1 John 5:3 For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. (His Word)
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen.
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