It's the subject of a million songs, the plot of a thousand movies, the drama of every high school relationship. Everyone wants it, craves it, needs it. People look high and low for it. A crazy little thing called love.

We have been told that God loves us. Do you know what that means? In this episode we explore the scriptural basis of God's love for us.

John 3:16 - "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten son that whosoever believeth in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life. "

Romans 5:8 - "But God shows His love for us in this, that even while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. "

1 John 3:16 - "By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers."

The paramount expression of God's love is Jesus hanging on the cross. How does that show love? Because we were under the death penalty from our sin with no hope of escape. We were on death row, and rightly so. We knew God's law, for it was written on our hearts, and we broke it anyway. We spit in God's face and told Him we knew better. But Jesus, because He is rich in mercy, paid the death penalty on the cross for our sins, and now anyone who places their faith in Jesus does not have to die but can live through Jesus forever. He did that because He loves you. He doesn't want you to die, to go to Hell, to be separated from God forever. He loves you and did everything He could to show you His love.

John 15:13 - "Greater love has no man than this, than someone lay down his life for his friends."

Not only did God show His love on the cross, He went above and beyond to bless you with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms (Ephesians 1:3).

Once we understand all the ways God has loved us, it is impossible to question His love and intention for our lives, and that makes us free to show others His love so that all people "may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God." Ephesians 3:18-19

This podcast is meant to encourage you, comfort you in God's love, and spur you to speak the truth of God's love to all the people within your sphere.

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