God’s Love for Us
Part 1 – February 25, 2006
1 John 4:7-11 God is love. This love of God was manifested to us when the Father send His only Son
1 John 4:12-19 We have known and believe the love that God has for us. God is love.
Deut 4:37 Because God loved Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, he chose their descendents
Deut 7:6-13 God set His love upon Israel because they were the least of all peoples and to keep the oath He made to their fathers. If keep His commandment, He will love and bless you
Deut 10:15 God delighted only in Israel’s forefathers to love them and chose their descendents
Deut 10:18 God loves the stranger, (fatherless and widow)
Deut 14:2 Israel was a holy people to God who chose them to be a special treasure
Deut 23:5 God wouldn’t listen to Balaam and curse Israel because God loved Israel
Deut 32:9-11 God kept Jacob’s people as the apple of His eye
Deut 33:1-3 Moses blessed Israel reciting how God had come to Israel because He loved them
Rom 2:29 One is a spiritual Jew if they are circumcised of the heart
Rom 4:16 Graces is to all those who have the same faith as Abraham
Gal 3:26-29 We are the sons of God through faith in Jesus, then we’re of the seed of Abraham
2 Sam 12:24 God loved Solomon, the child of David and Bathsheba
Neh 13:26 God loved and blessed Solomon, but pagan women caused Solomon to sin
Job 7:17 God sets his heart on mankind. Why?
Psa 42:8 Although David was discouraged, he knew God’s loving kindness was upon him
Psa 47:4 God will select an inheritance for Jacob whom He loved
Psa 63:3 David sought God like water in the dessert because God’s loving kindness better than life
Psa 89:33 God promised never to take His loving kindness from David’s family even when sinners
Psa 103:4 God redeems our lives and crowns us with loving kindness and tender mercies
Psa 103:13 As a father pities his children, so the Lord pities those who fear Him
Psa 116:15 Precious in the eyes of God is the death of His saints
Psa 146:8 The Lord loves the righteous
Prov 15:9 The way of the wicked is an abomination to God, But He loves him who follows righteousness
Part 2 June 27, 2009
Psa 139:1-18 How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God! How great is the sum of them! If I should count them, they would be more in number than the sand; When I awake, I am still with You.
Prov 8:17, 31 Wisdom loves those who love wisdom. Wisdom was happy with what God created, humans
Isa 40:11 Jesus will feed His flock like a shepherd, He will gather the lambs and carry them in bosom
Rom 1:7 To all who are in Rome, beloved of God
Rom 5:5-8 God demonstrated His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died
2 Cor 9:7 God loves a cheerful giver
2 Cor 13:11,14 Live in peace and the God of love and peace will be with you
Gal 2:20 Our life is crucified, should live in faith of Jesus how loved us and died for us
Eph 1:3-6 Even before He made the world God loved us that we should be His sons thru Jesus
Eph 2:4-5 God is rich in mercy because of His great love with which He loves us
Eph 3:17-19 Christ dwells in our hearts through faith, that we may comprehend the love of God
Eph 5:2 Walk in love as Christ also loved us and gave Himself for us
Eph 5:25 Husband love your wives as Jesus loved the church and gave Himself for her
2 Thes 2:13-17 Jesus and the Father have loved us and given us good hope by graces
2 Thes 3:5 May God lead your hearts into a full understanding and expression of the love of God (LB)
Titus 3:4-5 The kindness and love of God appeared to us by His mercy in saving us
Heb 2:11 Jesus is not ashamed to call us brethren
Heb 12:6 Whom the Lord loves he chastens and scourges every son whom He receives
(Prov 3:12 For whom the Lord loves He corrects)
1 John 3:1-3 What manner of love the Father has bestowed on us that we are called the children of God
1 John 3:16 We know Jesus loves us because He laid down His life for us
1 John 4:8-11 God is love. This love of God was manifested to us when the Father sent His only Son
1 John 4:12-21 We have known and believe the love that God has for us. God is love.
Jude 1:21 Keep yourselves in the love of God by awaiting the mercy of Jesus that will bring us eternal life
Rev 1:5 Jesus loved us and washed us from our sins in His own blood
Rev 2 & 3
Rev 3:9 God will make others come and worship Philadelphians and to know that God loved them
Rev 3:19 As many as God loves He rebukes and chastens
Rev 14:1 The 144,000 have the name of the Father written on their foreheads
Rom 8:25-39 nothing shall be able to separate us from the love of God
Psa 40:5 God’s thoughts toward us cannot be counted
Part 3 -- Next
Isa 41:8-10 God says Israel is His chosen servant, whom he has taken from the ends of the earth
Isa 43:4 Israel is precious in God’s sight. He has loved Israel and will sacrifice others for Israel
God found Israel in the dessert and took care of her and watched her grow up to a time of love
Isa 49:14-16 God says He cannot forget Israel just like a mother can’t forget her baby
Isa 62:4-5 God delights in Israel as a bridegroom rejoices over his bride
Isa 63:7-9 The loving kindness of God to Israel: goodness, mercy, Savior, love pity, protection
Jer 12:7 God says He has forsaken Israel and given the dearly beloved of His soul to her enemies
Jer 29:11 Gods thoughts towards Israel are peace, to give her a future and a hope
Jer 31:3, 20 God has loved Israel with an everlasting love
Jer 32:41 God will rejoice over Israel to do them good and plant them in the land with all His heart
Eze 16:1-14 God found Israel struggling in her blood abandoned in the wilderness and took care of her
Hos 2:19-20 God will betroth Israel to Himself forever in righteousness, mercy, faithfulness and love
Hos 3:1 Love your wife even though an adulterous, this demonstrates that God still loves Israel
Hos 11:1-4 When Israel was a child, I love him. Out of Egypt I call My son
Zeph 3:17 God will save Israel, He will rejoice over her with gladness and quiet her with His love
Zech 2:8 He who touches Israel touches the apple of His eye
Mal 1:2 God says He has loved Israel, but Israel questions how that can be true
Mal 3:17-17 Those who fear God shall be His and His crown jewels whom He will spare as a son
Part 4 future??
Matt 8:17 Jesus fulfilled Isaiah by taking our infirmities and bearing our sicknesses
Matt 9:35-36 Jesus preached and healed. When He saw the multitudes He was moved with compassion
Matt 12:49-50 Whoever does the will of My Father is My mother and My brothers
Matt 14:14 Jesus saw the multitude and was moved with compassion for them and healed them
Matt 18:11-14 Jesus came to save the lost. He goes after the one in a hundred to bring them back
Matt 23:37 Jesus said He would gathered Jerusalem’s children to protect them, BUT YOU WERE NOT WILLING. Answer to question of “Why does God allow “bad” things to happen in this world.
Mark 6:34 Jesus saw the multitude as sheep without a shepherd, so He had compassion and taught them
Mark 10:21 Jesus loved the young man who asked Him what he needed to do to inherit eternal life
Luke 7:13 Jesus had compassion of the widow whose only son had died
Luke 15:11-27 Father’s love for the prodigal son
John 3:16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son …
John 10:11-16 Jesus gives His live for the sheep because He cares about the sheep. Other sheep …
John 11:3, 5 Lord, he (Lazarus) whom You love is sick. Jesus loved Martha, Mary and Lazarus
John 13:1, 23 Jesus loved His disciples unto the end. Jesus had a special love for John
John 13:34 A new commandment, love one another as Jesus had loved them
John 14:21-24 If love Jesus by keeping His commandments, he will be loved by the Father and Jesus
John 15:9-15 Keep Jesus’ commandments and will abide in the love of the Father
John 16:27 The Father loves those who love and believe in Jesus
John 17:9-13 Jesus prayed that His disciples would be one with Him and the Father
John 17:20-26 We are at one with God that the world may know that the Father has loved us
John 19:26-27 Jesus told John to take care of His mother
John 21:7 The disciple whom Jesus loved – John referring to himself