Sino Ang First Love Mo

SINO ANG LOVE MO?

IKAW, OO, IKAW NGA.

SINO ANG FIRST LOVE MO?

Kung meron man tayong FIRST LOVE that never dies…

Dapat si LORD yun.

What is Love?What is First Love?

Here is the Definition ofFIRST LOVE based from the Bible

Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, with all your mind and with all your strength.

Dt 6:5; Dt 11:13-14, Jos 22:5, Mt 22:37; Mk 12:30; Lk 10:27

1 John 4:7-12

7 Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9 This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. 10 This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. 11 Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12 No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.

1 John 4:13-16

13 We know that we live in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. 14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. 15 If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in him and he in God. 16 And so we know and rely on the love God has for us.

1 John 4:16-18

God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him. 17 In this way, love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment, because in this world we are like him. 18 There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.

1 John 4:19-21

19 We love because he first loved us. 20 If anyone says, "I love God," yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen. 21 And he has given us this command: Whoever loves God must also love his brother.

Question: Why God?

1. Because God enabled us to love

Love comes from God v7We have been born of God v7We now know God v7God who in us is the God of Love v8,16 Without God in us we cannot love

vv12,16,20


Titus 3:3-8

3 At one time we too were foolish, disobedient, deceived and enslaved by all kinds of passions and pleasures. We lived in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another. 4 But when the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared, 5 he saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit, 6 whom he poured out on us generously through Jesus Christ our Savior, 7 so that, having been justified by his grace, we might become heirs having the hope of eternal life

1 John 3:14-15

14 We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love our brothers. Anyone who does not love remains in death. 15 Anyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life in him.


Without God in our lives, we are incapable of true love.


2. Because God loved us first

not that we loved God, but that he loved us v10

We love because he first loved us v19


Rom 5:8

8 But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.


Without God loving us first, we remain objects of wrath and in death

3. Because God loved us so much He is willing to die for us

sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins v10


1 John 3:16

16 This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.


John 15:13

13 Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.

3. Because God loved us so much He is willing to die for usRom 5:6-11

6 You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. 7 Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die. 8 But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

9 Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God's wrath through him! 10 For if, when we were God's enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life! 11 Not only is this so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.


Col 1:21-22

21 Once you were alienated from God and were enemies in your minds because of your evil behavior. 22 But now he has reconciled you by Christ's physical body through death to present you holy in his sight, without blemish and free from accusation-


Without that God’s great love for us, we, enemies of God, are still living in the dark world of sin.

4. Because God loved us so much He has secured our today and our future

we will have confidence on the day of judgment v17

no fear v18


Rom 8:12-17

12 Therefore, brothers, we have an obligation-but it is not to the sinful nature, to live according to it. 13 For if you live according to the sinful nature, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live, 14 because those who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. 15 For you did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship. And by him we cry, "Abba, Father." 16 The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God's children. 17 Now if we are children, then we are heirs-heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.


Without God’s love, we are still in sin, living in fear, ignorance and slavery, and ultimately we will die in sin and will be punished eternally in hell.

Why choose God as my first love?

1. Because God enabled you to love




Rev 2:1-4

To the angel of the church in Ephesus write:

These are the words of him who holds the seven stars in his right hand and walks among the seven golden lampstands: 2 I know your deeds, your hard work and your perseverance. I know that you cannot tolerate wicked men, that you have tested those who claim to be apostles but are not, and have found them false. 3 You have persevered and have endured hardships for my name, and have not grown weary.

4 Yet I hold this against you: You have forsaken your first love .

How then shall I love God first?

1. Receive Jesus as Lord and Savior

2. Love God as you ought to By loving one another

It has to be true and tangible

By obeying/keeping His commands

Put Him first over everything else at all times!!!

3. Keep that love for God burning! Preach to yourself the Gospel daily

Share the Gospel at every opportunity

4. Bata pa kayo, focus na lang muna kay Lord.

Eph 3:14-21

14 For this reason I kneel before the Father, 15 from whom his whole family in heaven and on earth derives its name. 16 I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, 18 may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, 19 and to know this love that surpasses knowledge-that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.

20 Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, 21 to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.

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