Saturday, March 23, 2019

Love’s Character

Divine in its nature – 1 John 4:8
Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.

1 John 4:16
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.

Divine in its giving – John 3:16
For God so loved  the world that he gave  his one and only Son,  that whoever believes  in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

Decisive in its assurance – John 15:9
“As the Father has loved me,  so have I loved you. Now remain in my love.

Lusts of the Flesh

Hurtful in their embrace – 1 Tim. 6:9
Those who want to get rich  fall into temptation and a trap  and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.

1 Peter 2:11
Dear friends,  I urge you, as foreigners and exiles,  to abstain from sinful desires,  which wage war against your soul.

Personal in their origin 2 Tim 4:3
For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine.  Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear.

Jude 16
These people are grumblers and faultfinders; they follow their own evil desires; they boast about themselves and flatter others for their own advantage.

Jude 18
They said to you, “In the last times  there will be scoffers who will follow their own ungodly desires.”

Captivating in their influence – James 1:14
but each person is tempted when they are dragged away by their own  evil desire and enticed.

[Message No: 6913]

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