Why Serve God?

Loving
the Forgotten
 “For God so loved”

The phrase that described that God is

loved. (1 John 4:8).  1 John 4:7-10 “Beloved,
let us love one another, for love is of God;
and everyone 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 manifested toward us, that God
has sent his only begotten Son into the world
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
propitiation for our sins”
“God so loved the World”

God further expresses His love to the

world.  The object of his love – the world. 
This means that God loves everything that
is in the world and that includes humans.  It
doesn’t matter who you are, or where
you’ve been, what you have done, He loves
you and the most important thing is His
love is everlasting.  Jeremiah 31:3 says
“The Lord has appeared of old to me,
saying: Yes, I have loved you with an
everlasting love; Therefore with
lovingkindness, I have drawn you.
God’s love prompts him to sacrifice
himself

what is that sacrifice?  It is the death

on the cross.  It is bearing the pain and
sin.  He died, was buried and rise again.  1
Cor. 15:3-4)  “But God demonstrates His
own love toward us, in that while we were
yet sinners, Christ died for us.”  It is so
hard to believe that someone could die
instead of us, but the bible tells us that it
happens.  It is done in the cross, he was
victoriously rose up from the dead.  That
is something, and it could only happen
because of His love for us.
Accepting God’s love and sacrifice means
only salvation

The recipient of this love receives eternal

life.  Accepting God’s gift of love means
everlasting life.  Everyone who believes in
him should not perish but have everlasting
life. (John 3:16)  It doesn’t matter what race
or tribes, or your social status, or your
attitude when you accept God you will have
eternal life.
 Joshua when he understands that love of Christ,
boldly say, “As for me and my house, we will
serve the Lord.”
Joshua 24:15
Why serve the Lord?