Loving God | Resource Guide

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• Since God has a great love for us (Jn 3:16; 1 Jn 3:1), we are to love Him (1 Jn 4:19).

• We are required to love God with all our heart and our neighbor as we love ourself (Mt 22:37-39).

• If we love God, we will love people (1 Jn 3:16-17; 4:11).

• We must respond appropriately to God’s love by obeying Him (Jude 20-21; Jn 14:15).

• God brings good out of all things for those who love Him (Rom 8:28).

• The goal of Christian instruction is for us to love God and others (1 Tim 1:5).

• When things get really evil, people won’t love God (2 Tim 3:4) or others (Mt 24:12).

• When love for God is not primary, we are in danger of not being His people (Rev 2:4-5).

• Everything we do is to be done with love (1 Cor 16:14).

• Individuals who don’t love the Lord are cursed (1 Cor 16:22).

• The only thing that really matters is faith that expresses itself through love (Gal 5:6).

• The result of being under the influence of God’s Spirit is to grow in our love (Gal 5:22).

• In the Songs of Songs, there are thirty-one times she refers to her husband as her ‘lover,’ ‘beloved,’ or ‘the one my soul loves.’ (The Song also portrays the kind of intense yearning for closeness that should exist between both God and His people as a whole and between God and each individual believer.)