❖God loves you!
M a t t h e w 7 : 1 1
If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him!
❖ Love God back with all your heart
• God loves you
M a r k 1 2 : 3 0
And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your
strength.' This is the first commandment.
If the most important commandment
is to love the Lord with all our hearts,
then the greatest sin would be to just
go through the motions!
People in love act much
differently than people with a
sense of obligation
Francis Chan
The first commandment is
not, “obey God”.
It is to “love God”.
J o h n 1 4 : 2 1
If you love me, you will keep my commandments.
You can keep God’s
commandments without
loving Him.
Do you love God, or do you
serve because you are
obligated to?
There is a big difference
between knowing God’s love
intellectually and knowing it
intimately.
Many people view their
connection with God as a
contract instead of a
relationship.
❖ Take time to consider what God has
done for you
• God loves you
• Love God back with all your
heart
P s a l m 4 0 : 5
Many, O Lord my God, are Your wonderful works Which You have done; And Your thoughts toward us Cannot be
recounted to You in order; If I would declare and speak of them, They are
more than can be numbered.
❖ Take time to consider what God has
done for you
• God loves you
• Love God back with all your
heart
❖ True love continues when things get
hard
• God loves you
• Love God back with all your
heart
• Take time to consider what
God has done for you
When you give your life to God, it
doesn’t mean that life will never be
hard. However, it does mean that God
sticks with you through the hard times.
He said He will never leave us of forsake
us.
1 C o r i n t h i a n s 1 3 : 1 2 N L T
Now we see things imperfectly, like puzzling reflections in a mirror, but then
we will see everything with perfect clarity. All that I know now is partial and
incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God now
knows me completely.
2 C o r i n t h i a n s 5 : 7
For we walk by faith, not by sight.
❖ Let’s love God with a crazy love
• God loves you
• Love God back with all your
heart
• Take time to consider what
God has done for you
• True love continues when
things get hard
M a r k 1 2 : 3 0
And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your
strength.' This is the first commandment.
The irony is that while God
doesn’t need us but still wants
us. We desperately need God
but don’t really want Him.
Francis Chan
Do you love this God who is
everything, or do you just love
everything He gives you?
Francis Chan
If the most important commandment
is to love the Lord with all our hearts,
then the greatest sin would be to just
go through the motions!
We all need Jesus!
To know Jesus and to make Him known while living, loving and
serving like Him
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