God Loves His Children

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God Loves His Children
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• The God of love continually demonstrates
  unfailing love for His children.

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God is Love.

• God is the ultimate source of love.

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1 John 47-8 (NASB)

• Beloved, let us love one another, for love is
  from God and everyone who loves is born of God
  and knows God. 8 The one who does not love does
  not know God, for God is love.

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• The greatness of Gods love was demonstrated in
  the giving of His Son.

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1 John 49-11 (NASB)

• 9 By this the love of God was manifested in us,
  that God has sent His only begotten Son into the
  world so that we might live through Him. 10 In
  this is love, not that we loved God, but that He
  loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation
  for our sins. 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we
  also ought to love one another.

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The God of Love is with His Children.

• God loves all people in the world (Mat. 544-45
  John 316).

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• Gods love is especially demonstrated towards His
  children, specifically the people who love His
  Son, believe in Him, and obey Him (Christians).

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Galatians 326-27 (KJV)

• 26 For ye are all the children of God by faith
  in Christ Jesus. 27 For as many of you as have
  been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
  cf. Eph. 21-3

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John 1421 (NASB)

• "He who has My commandments and keeps them, he
  it is who loves Me and he who loves Me shall be
  loved by My Father, and I will love him, and will
  disclose Myself to him."

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John 1423 (NASB)

• Jesus answered and said to him, "If anyone loves
  Me, he will keep My word and My Father will love
  him, and We will come to him, and make Our abode
  with him.

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John 1627 (NASB)

• for the Father Himself loves you, because you
  have loved Me, and have believed that I came
  forth from the Father.

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Proverbs 817 (NASB)

• "I love those who love me And those who
  diligently seek me will find me.

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Proverbs 159 (NASB)

• The way of the wicked is an abomination to the
  LORD,

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• There is a loving fellowship between God and His
  children that the world simply does not have!

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2 Corinthians 1311, 14 (NASB)

• 11 Finally, brethren, rejoice, be made complete,
  be comforted, be like-minded, live in peace and
  the God of love and peace shall be with you 14
  The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love
  of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be
  with you all.

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• Gods love for His children is unfailing and
  everlasting (1 John 48 cf. 1
  Cor. 138a).

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Jeremiah 313 (NLT)

• Long ago the LORD said to Israel "I have loved
  you, my people, with an everlasting love. With
  unfailing love I have drawn you to myself.

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The Love of God is Demonstrated by What He Has
Done for Christians.

• God makes us alive again by granting to all
  spiritual blessings in Christ.

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Ephesians 24-7 (NASB)

• 4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of His
  great love with which He loved us, 5 even when we
  were dead in our transgressions, made us alive
  together with Christ (by grace you have been
  saved), 6 and raised us up with
  Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly
  places, in Christ Jesus, 7 in order that in the
  ages to come He might show the surpassing riches
  of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ
  Jesus.

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Ephesians 13 (KJV)

• Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus
  Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual
  blessings in heavenly places in Christ. - cf.
  Eph 17 Rev. 15 1 John 410 1 Cor. 57 2
  Cor. 517 Rom. 64 Heb. 725 etc.

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• Gods love is seen by allowing Christians to also
  be called His children.

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Romans 814-17 (NASB)

• 14 For all who are being led by the Spirit of
  God, these are sons of God. 15 For you have not
  received a spirit of slavery leading to fear
  again, but you have received a spirit of adoption
  as sons by which we cry out, "Abba! Father!" 16
  The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit
  that we are children of God, 17 and if children,
  heirs also, heirs of God and fellow heirs with
  Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him in order
  that we may also be glorified with Him.

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1 John 31 (NASB)

• See how great a love the Father has bestowed
  upon us, that we should be called children of
  God and such we are. For this reason the world
  does not know us, because it did not know Him.

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• The love of God for His children is evident as He
  provides and cares for, watches over and protects
  His children.

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Matthew 633 (NASB)

• 33 "But seek first His kingdom and His
  righteousness and all these things shall be
  added to you.

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1 Peter 56-7 (NKJV)

• 6 Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty
  hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time, 7
  casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for
  you.

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1 Peter 225 (NASB)

• For you were continually straying like sheep,
  but now you have returned to the Shepherd and
  Guardian of your souls.

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Psalm 1211-3 (NASB)

• 1 I will lift up my eyes to the mountains From
  whence shall my help come? 2 My help comes from
  the LORD, Who made heaven and earth. 3 He will
  not allow your foot to slip He who keeps you
  will not slumber.

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2 Thessalonians 33-5 (NASB)

• 3 But the Lord is faithful, and He will
  strengthen and protect you from the evil one. 4
  And we have confidence in the Lord concerning
  you, that you are doing and will continue to do
  what we command. 5 And may the Lord direct your
  hearts into the love of God and into the
  steadfastness of Christ.

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• Only the children of God receive the Fathers
  love in the form of corrective discipline.

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Hebrews 125-6 (NASB)

• 5 and you have forgotten the exhortation which
  is addressed to you as sons, "My son, do not
  regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, Nor
  faint when you are reproved by Him 6 For those
  whom the Lord loves He disciplines, And He
  scourges every son whom He receives.

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Hebrews 127-8 (NASB)

• 7 It is for discipline that you endure God
  deals with you as with sons for what son is
  there whom his father does not discipline? 8 But
  if you are without discipline, of which all have
  become partakers, then you are illegitimate
  children and not sons.

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Hebrews 129-10 (NASB)

• 9 Furthermore, we had earthly fathers to
  discipline us, and we respected them shall we
  not much rather be subject to the Father of
  spirits, and live? 10 For they disciplined us for
  a short time as seemed best to them, but He
  disciplines us for our good, that we may share
  His holiness.

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Hebrews 1211 (NASB)

• All discipline for the moment seems not to be
  joyful, but sorrowful yet to those who have been
  trained by it, afterwards it yields the peaceful
  fruit of righteousness. cf. Rev 319 2 Tim
  316 1 Pet. 16-7 James 12-4

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• Gods love is seen in His providence by causing
  all things to work together for our good as we
  continue to love Him.

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Romans 828 (NASB)

• And we know that God causes all things to work
  together for good to those who love God, to those
  who are called according to His purpose.

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• His love comforts and strengthens the hearts of
  His children by giving them the good hope of
  eternal life.

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2 Thessalonians 216-17 (NASB)

• 16 Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself and God
  our Father, who has loved us and given us eternal
  comfort and good hope by grace, 17 comfort and
  strengthen your hearts in every good work and
  word.

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• There is Nothing in This Life That Can Ever Take
  Away the Love of God from His Children.

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Romans 831-32 (NASB)

• 31 What then shall we say to these things? If
  God is for us, who is against us? 32 He who did
  not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for
  us all, how will He not also with Him freely give
  us all things?

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Romans 833-34 (NASB)

• 33 Who will bring a charge against God's elect?
  God is the one who justifies 34 who is the one
  who condemns? Christ Jesus is He who died, yes,
  rather who was raised, who is at the right hand
  of God, who also intercedes for us.

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Romans 835-36 (NASB)

• 35 Who shall separate us from the love of
  Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or
  persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril,
  or sword? 36 Just as it is written,"For Thy sake
  we are being put to death all day long We were
  considered as sheep to be slaughtered."

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Romans 837 (NASB)

• 37 But in all these things we overwhelmingly
  conquer through Him who loved us.

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Romans 838-39 (NASB)

• 38 For I am convinced that neither death, nor
  life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things
  present, nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor
  height, nor depth, nor any other created thing,
  shall be able to separate us from the love of
  God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.