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God's Love Is Our Greatest Gift

1 John 4:7-16

Pastor Bob Hiller
12/19/2010

1 John 4:9 This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.

1. Unfortunately, we've made the promise, "____________ is ______________" mean whatever we want it to mean.

2. When Scripture says "God is love" it means that God is in ______________ _______________ the world to Himself.

3. Only once we have begun to grasp God's love for us in Christ can we begin to understand what the ________________ means by _________________.

Scripture Readings
Isaiah 7:10-17
1 John 4:7-16
Matthew 1:18-25

Take It With You!

Here we will offer thoughts and meditations on the message to help us as we contemplate and discuss and wrestle with what we are hearing.

As long as we talk of God's love and think only of the candy of our wishes, we have never yet known that love. The victory of God's love is on Calvary; the triumph of His love, in Christ's open tomb; the glory of His love in all those who now live through Christ. To know God's love is to prize the sacrifice that love made; to share its power; to serve in its kingdom. The greatest thing in the world is not anything of the world at all; it is the heavenly love of God in Christ Jesus his Son.
R. C. H. Lenski, The Eisenach Epistle Selections [Columbus, OH: Lutheran Book Concern, 1914], 1:573

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