God Reveals Love

“God Reveals Love”
Ephesians 3:14-20
December 23, 2018

Hope: living with the expectation and promise of something better.

Peace: the one all-encompassing word which describes the something better.

Joy: the action and attitude with which we live because of the promise and presence of something better.

Love: the foundation/reason for God’s action.

“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. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.”
-John 3:16-17

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

The reason/foundation for God’s action is found in the fact that God is a loving God.

Loving people care.

Loving people were loving people before we knew them and they will be loving people after we’re gone.

Loving people are not self-promoting.

God is a loving God.

God cares.

God was a loving God before we were around and God will be a loving God after we’re gone.

God is not self-promoting.

Ephesians 3:14-20

We often have to pay attention, ask questions, look around, and listen to catch how high, long, wide, and deep is the love of God.

“‘The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel’ –which means, ‘God with us.’”
-Matthew 1:23

“Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is Christ the Lord. This will be a sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger.”
-Luke 2:11-12

I can choose to live in, around, and enjoy the love of God or I can choose to turn my back and ignore the love of God? Either way, it does not change who God is.