Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast The Real God - The Love of God, Part 2
People play all kinds of games when it comes to love. Our minds can get wrapped up in ego and selfishness that hinder love at its best. God demonstrates His love in ways that are so different from ours. Join Chip as he explores God's love and what could happen if we stop looking for love and start giving it away instead.
Introduction - Three facts about love
Fact #1: It’s a universal need - Everyone is looking for love!
Fact #2: There’s a universal solution - God loves all people everywhere and longs to meet the deepest needs of every heart for love!
Fact #3: There’s a tragic disconnection - Even so, most people remain starved for love… for three primary reasons:
- They don’t know God loves them.
- They know of God’s love, but have not received it.
- They have received God’s love, but don’t know how to experience it in daily life.
Love is giving another person what they need the most, when they deserve it the least, at great personal cost.
God reveals His love to us through:
- CREATION - He made you for Himself.
- PROVIDENCE - He shows His kindness to all.
- INCARNATION - He is proactively pursuing you.
- DISCIPLINES - He chastises us to protect us from self-destructive behavior.
- INDWELLING - He supernaturally pours His love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit.
- JESUS – The Second Person of the Trinity demonstrated the nature of God’s love for us.
How must we respond to God’s love?
- We must RECEIVE IT by faith in our hearts. -John 3:16, 1:12
- We must BELIEVE IT by faith in our minds. -1 John 4:13-16, Romans 8:38-39
- We must SHARE IT by faith through our choices and decisions. -1 John 3:18
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- Brennan Manning - Abba's Child
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