The Bethany Bullet Sermon Message - Week of April 15, 2018

Sermon: “LOVED: Being Loved”

Text: 1 John 3:1-7

“How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called the children of God!”  

- 1 John 3:1

You’ve heard it said, “That there is nothing you could possibly do to move God to love you even more; and there is nothing you have ever done that could cause Him to love you any less.”  In other words, God loves us fully, completely, purely and perfectly and has proven it in His Son.

There is a corollary reality to this famous saying. 

This truth is that there is no one in the world that God loves more than He loves you; nor is there anyone in the world whom God loves less than He loves you.  He loves each and every - equally fully.  “How great is the love the Father has lavished on us that we should be called the children of God!” 

Of course, generally speaking a sentence that begins with the word “how” will end with a question mark.  Notice that in this case the sentence ends with an exclamation point.  No question about it, God has proven and proclaimed that He loves us; that He loves you!  Thus when the questions of life daunt and haunt, we need only pull out this exclamation and hear loud and clear this truth: “How great is the love the Father has lavished on us that we should be called the children of God!”  That is what we are!

 -Pastor Kevin Kritzer