DRIVEN
BY LOVE
BREAD
6 You
see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the
ungodly.
7 Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die. 8 But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Romans 5:6-8 (NIV)
7 Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die. 8 But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Romans 5:6-8 (NIV)
21 God
made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the
righteousness of God. 2 Corinthians 5:21 (NIV)
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. 17 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 (NIV)
35 Who
shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or
persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? 36 As it is written: “For your sake we
face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.” 37 No, in all these things we are more
than conquerors through him who loved us. 38 For
I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither
the present nor the future, nor any powers, 39 neither
height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate
us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 8:35-39 (NIV)
1 How great is the love the Father has lavished on us,
that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason
the world does not know us is that it did not know him. 1 John
3:1 (NIV)
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. 10 This is love: not that we loved God,
but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. 1
John 4:9-10 (NIV)
14 For
Christ's love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and
therefore all died. 15 And he
died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for
him who died for them and was raised again.
2 Corinthians 5:14-15 (NIV)
16 This
is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we
ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.
1 John 3:16 (NIV)
18 There
is no fear in love. But perfect love
drives out fear. 1
John 4:18 (NIV)
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 him. 1 John 4:16 (NIV)
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 him. 1 John 4:16 (NIV)
21 Keep yourselves in God's love as you wait for the
mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you to eternal life. Jude
1:21 (NIV)
BUTTER
“God’s love is always supernatural, always a miracle,
always the last thing we deserve.” Robert
Horn
“We cannot run to Jesus without discovering that it is
Jesus who is always running first and fastest to us — to you and me. Jesus is the answer for all our guilt and
shame too…Take a few moments to marinate in the love our Father has lavished on
you in Jesus. This isn’t a selfish act.
It’s an act of wonder, love, and praise…God loves you just as much as he loves
Jesus. God cannot love you more, and he will never love you less. God doesn’t
love you to the degree you are like Christ, but to the degree you are in
Christ, which is one hundred percent. God has hidden your life safely and
completely in Jesus. Your Father has begun a good work in you that he will most
definitely complete. All of this doesn’t make you special, but it certainly
makes you his.” Scotty
Smith
“We are fully known and
fully loved. We are exposed and not
rejected. We are seen and embraced. No need to run for cover. In Jesus,
there is nothing left to fear, nothing left to prove, and nothing left to hide.”
Scott
Sauls
“God speaks to those who give up the loud for the love
of His heartbeat.” Ann Voskamp
“Give
me a hundred men who love God with all their hearts and fear nothing but sin,
and I will move the world.” John Wesley
“On the basis of our Savior’s
atoning sacrifice and in the strength of the Holy Spirit’s power, we charge you
who love Jesus to fight bravely in this holy war, for truth and righteousness,
for the kingdom and the crown. Onward! The battle is not yours but God’s, and
you will yet hear Him say, ‘Well done, brave warrior, well done!’” C. H. Spurgeon revised by Alistair Begg
“It’s true. God does love you. He does have a wonderful plan for your
life. So just know this: God’s will for you is better than your plan for
yourself.” Greg Laurie
“It
is impossible for any human speech to express the full meaning of this
delightful phrase, ‘God is for me.’
He was for us before the worlds were made. He was for us or He would not have
given His well-beloved Son; He was for us when He smote the Only-begotten and
laid the full weight of His wrath upon Him—He was for us, though He was against Him.
He was ‘for us’ when we were ruined in the Fall—He loved us notwithstanding
all. He was for us when we were rebels against Him and with a high hand were
bidding Him defiance. He was for us or He would not have brought us humbly to
seek His face. He has been for us in many struggles; we have been summoned to
encounter hosts of dangers; we have been assailed by temptations from without
and within—how could we have remained unharmed to this hour if He had not been
for us? He is for us with all the
infinity of His being, with all the omnipotence of His love, with all the
infallibility of His wisdom. Arrayed in all His divine attributes, He is for
us—eternally and immutably for us; for us when the heavens shall be rolled up
like a worn-out robe; for us throughout eternity. And because He is for us, the
voice of prayer will always ensure His help. ‘Then my enemies will turn back in the day when I call.’ This is
no uncertain hope, but a well-grounded assurance—'this I know.’” C. H. Spurgeon revised by Alistair Begg
“O
my dear, heavenly Father, I desire to love thee and my neighbor with a pure
heart fervently, and beg thou wouldst let me know and enjoy thy love in Christ,
as the only means of producing this love in me.
For how can my heart be cold, when resting at the cross of Christ, and
feeling the virtue of His blood? Or how
can it be hard, when lying in thy bosom, richly tasting of thy grace, and
sweetly experiencing thine everlasting love to me, a vile, miserable
sinner? Oh! May a sense of thy love melt my hard heart
into love, and change it thoroughly.” K.
H. Von Bogatzky
“Believe that you are His Beloved – it’s only when you trust He loves you that you really begin to live.” Ann Voskamp
“The Lord sometimes suffers His people to
be driven into a corner that they may experimentally know how necessary He is
to them…Whatever our morning’s need may be, let it like a strong current bear
us to the ocean of divine love. Jesus
can soon remove our sorrow, He delights to comfort us. Let us hasten to Him while He waits to meet
us.” Charles H. Spurgeon
“Our hope
isn’t based on an emotion or a feeling. It lives in a person who beat death
itself and Who loves us deeply enough to literally go through hell to rescue us.
So
what were you discouraged about again? Because hope is anchored in
resurrection, it is resilient.” Carey
Nieuwhof
“Let
us put our complete trust in our Leader, since we know that in prosperity or
adversity, sickness or health, popularity or contempt, His purpose will be
worked out, and that purpose will be pure, unmingled good to every heir of
mercy. We will find it sweet to go up the bleak side of the hill with Christ;
and when rain and snow blow into our faces, His dear love will make us far more
blessed than those who sit at home and warm their hands at the world's fire.
When Jesus draws us, we will run after Him. No matter where He leads us, we
follow the Shepherd.” Charles
H. Spurgeon
HEART
SAVOR
·
God demonstrated
His love for us. Biblical love is an
action.
·
God’s love for us
is totally undeserved, unwarranted but also wooing and unfailingly constant.
·
The love of God compels
me to love others.
