This is Love for God!
Sunday, August 25, 2024
Reverend Larry Deering
1 Corinthians 11:28
Everyone ought to examine themselves before they eat of the bread and drink from the cup.
1 John 2:3-5
We know that we have come to know him if we keep his commands.
Whoever says, "I know him," but does not do what he commands is a liar, and the truth is not in that person.
But if anyone obeys his word, love for God Or [word, God's love] is truly made complete in them. This is how we know we are in him:
John 1:14
The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.
1 Corinthians 8:3
But whoever loves God is known by God. An early manuscript and another ancient witness [think they have knowledge do not yet know as they ought to know. [3] But whoever loves truly knows.]
John 1:1
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Galatians 6:7-8
Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows.
Whoever sows to please their flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; whoever sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.
2 Corinthians 9:6
Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously.
1 John 4:11-12
Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.
1 John 4:20
Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen.
1 John 2:11
But anyone who hates a brother or sister is in the darkness and walks around in the darkness. They do not know where they are going, because the darkness has blinded them.
John 17:20-21
"My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message,
that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me.
1 John 4:15-16
If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in them and they in God.
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 them.
John 15:5
"I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.
