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God Is Love
Beloved, let us love one another; for love is of God, and he who loves is born of God and knows God. He who does not love does not know God; for God is love. In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world,
1 John 4:7-11

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God Is Love
so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the expiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No man has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.
1 John 4:7-11

5. Genuine Love Is a Supernatural Work of God

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God Is Love
Beloved, let us love one another; for love is of God, and he who loves is born of God and knows God.
1 John 4:7

7. “It's not about finding ways to avoid God's judgment and feeling like a failure if you don't do everything perfectly. It's about fully experiencing God's love and letting it perfect you. It's not about being somebody you are not. It's about becoming who you really are.”  
Stormie Omartian 

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God Is Love
He who does not love does not know God; for God is love.
1 John 4:8

9. Love Is a Necessary Part of God's Nature

10. What was it about God that made love a necessary part of his nature from all eternity?

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God Is Love
"Father, I desire that they also, whom thou hast given me, may be with me where I am, to behold my glory which thou hast given me in thy love for me before the foundation of the world."
John 17:24

12. Love is Found in the Relationship of the Trinity

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God Is Love
"No man has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us. By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his own Spirit."
1John 4:12-13

14. Love Causes Us to Be Drawn into the Relationship of the Trinity

15. Why Knowing God Creates Loving People

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God Is Love
"[Father] I made known to them thy name (note the idea of knowing and the name, i.e., essence), and I will make it known, that the love with which thou hast loved me may be in them and I in them."
John 17:26

17. How Loving the Son of God Creates Love for Others

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God Is Love
"In this the love of God was made manifest among us that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the expiation for our sins."
1 John 4:9-10

19. Unite Ourselves to the Relationship of the Trinity
LIVING IT OUT
 Unite Ourselves to the Relationship of the Trinity

20. Bask in the Nature of God’s Love for Us
LIVING IT OUT
Bask in the Nature of God’s Love for Us

21. Humble Ourselves Before One Another
LIVING IT OUT
Humble Ourselves Before One Another

22. Care for the Needs of One Another
LIVING IT OUT
Care for the Needs of One Another

23. LIVING IT OUT
Pray for the Needs
of One Another

24. Abandon Ourselves for the Glory of God
LIVING IT OUT
Abandon Ourselves for the Glory of God