Why You Should Love God

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Why You Should Love God

• We love Him because He first loved us.
• (1 John 419)

2
Why You Should Love God

• God sent Jesus to die for your sins (1 John 410
  Acts 223)

3
1 John 410

• 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.

4
Acts 223

• Him, being delivered by the determined purpose
  and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by
  lawless hands, have crucified, and put to death.

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Why You Should Love God

• God sent Jesus to die for your sins (1 John 410
  Acts 223)
• God created you (Psa. 13913-14)

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Psalm 13913-14

• For You formed my inward parts You covered me in
  my mother's womb. 14 I will praise You, for I am
  fearfully and wonderfully made Marvelous are
  Your works, And that my soul knows very well.

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Why You Should Love God

• God sent Jesus to die for your sins (1 John 410
  Acts 223)
• God created you (Psa. 13913-14)
• God sustains your life (Matt.
  630-33 611)

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Matthew 630-33

• Now if God so clothes the grass of the field,
  which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the
  oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of
  little faith? 31 "Therefore do not worry, saying,
  'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or
  'What shall we wear?' 32 "For after all these
  things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly
  Father knows that you need all these things. 33
  "But seek first the kingdom of God and
  His righteousness, and all these things
  shall be added to you.

9
Matthew 611

• Give us this day our daily bread.

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Why You Should Love God

• God sent Jesus to die for your sins (1 John 410
  Acts 223)
• God created you (Psa. 13913-14)
• God sustains your life (Matt.
  630-33 611)
• God gives you escape from temptations (1 Cor.
  1013)

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1 Corinthians 1013

• No temptation has overtaken you except such as is
  common to man but God is faithful, who will not
  allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able,
  but with the temptation will also make the way of
  escape, that you may be able to bear it.

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Why You Should Love God

• God sent Jesus to die for your sins (1 John 410
  Acts 223)
• God created you (Psa. 13913-14)
• God sustains your life (Matt.
  630-33 611)
• God gives you escape from temptations (1 Cor.
  1013)
• God has prepared eternal life for those who love
  Him (Rev. 210 John 141-3)

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Revelation 210

• Do not fear any of those things which you are
  about to suffer. Indeed, the devil is about to
  throw some of you into prison, that you may be
  tested, and you will have tribulation ten days.
  Be faithful until death, and I will give you the
  crown of life.

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John 141-3

• Let not your heart be troubled you believe in
  God, believe also in Me. 2 In My Father's house
  are many mansions if it were not so, I would
  have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. 3
  And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will
  come again and receive you to Myself that where
  I am, there you may be also.

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Conclusion

• Do not love the world or the things in the world.
  If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father
  is not in him. 16 For all that is in the
  world--the lust of the flesh, the lust of the
  eyes, and the pride of life--is not of the Father
  but is of the world. 17 And the world is passing
  away, and the lust of it but he who does the
  will of God abides forever.
• 1 John 215-17

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