1 John 3 NLT 

1
See how very much our Father loves us, for he calls
us his children, and that is what we are! But the
people who belong to this world don’t recognize that
we are God’s children because they don’t know
him.2 Dear friends, we are already God’s children, but
he has not yet shown us what we will be like when
Christ appears. But we do know that we will be like
him, for we will see him as he really is. 3 And all who
have this eager expectation will keep themselves
pure, just as he is pure.
•The strongest thematic message in
the Bible, which contains the Word of
God, is God's love.
•Everything revolves around God's
love.
• God, who created the universe by
His Word, is the source of love,
which is love in its truest, purest
and perfect form. 
 BEHOLD THE LOVE OF GOD
BESTOWED ON US

1.
The MEASURE of God’s love
to us.
Ephesians 3 NLT
18 
And may you have the power to understand,
as all God’s people should, how wide, how long,
how high, and how deep his love is. 19 May you
experience the love of Christ, though it is too
great to understand fully. Then you will be made
complete with all the fullness of life and power
that comes from God.
•The greatness of this love is
shown in that by it, we are called
children of God.
• God commends, demonstrates,
displays and manifests His love
for His people in the continual
mercies he bestows upon them.
Psalm 68 NKJV
19 
Blessed be the Lord,
Who daily loads us with benefits,
The God of our salvation! Selah
 BEHOLD THE LOVE OF GOD
BESTOWED ON US

2.
The MANNER of God’s giving
of love.
1 John 4 NLT
8 
But anyone who does not love does
not know God, for God is love.
1 John 4 NLT
9 
God showed how much he loved us by
sending his one and only Son into the
world so that we might have eternal life
through him. 10 This is real love—not that
we loved God, but that he loved us and
sent his Son as a sacrifice to take away
our sins.
•The love of God comes to us
exclusively and only in and
through the Lord Jesus Christ.
God loves you. You’re rebellious, you cheat, you
commit immorality, you’re selfish, you sin, but
god loves you with an intensity beyond anything
that I could describe to you. He loves you, and
He loves you so much that He gave His only
Son, Jesus Christ to die on that cross; and the
thing that kept Christ on that cross was love, not
the nail.
—Billy Graham
 Love is a costly thing.
• God in His love for us (and for a
lost world) "spared not His own
Son" to tell the world of His love.
The love of God is to be LIVED as
well as LEARNED.
• God’s love truly perceived always
draws out from us a response of love.
• The love of God for us begets
love in us for him and for others.