John 4: 8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.

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2 John 4: 8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.

3 Ephesians 3: And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord s people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.

4 Could you imagine me holding my ninemonth-old son, Jude, in my arms and telling him that under no circumstances would I share my glory with him? What if I lovingly told him that if he disobeyed me again and again, I would pour gasoline on him and light him on fire? What kind of father would I be if I explained to him that he needed to give me 10% of everything he had or I would withdraw my hand of protection from his life and allow the fires of hell to swallow him?

5 What if I told one of my daughters that she was put here on this earth to be a servant and slave to me? Could you picture me telling my children that I ve written everything about me down in a book and unless they read it everyday of their lives they ll never know me?

6 What parent would purposely inject their child with a terrible disease as a punishment for disobedience? What father would turn his head away from his son or daughter the moment the child made a mistake?

7 storge: affection

8 storge: affection philos: friendship

9 storge: affection philos: friendship eros: romance/ sexual/ passion

10 storge: affection philos: friendship eros: romance/ sexual/ passion Agape: other-oriented, self-sacrificial, choice-based love agape love ascribes worth to another, at cost to oneself

11 I John 3: 16 This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us

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13 John 4: 8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.

14 Ephesians 3: And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord s people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.

15 Could you imagine me holding my ninemonth-old son, Jude, in my arms and telling him that under no circumstances would I share my glory with him? What if I lovingly told him that if he disobeyed me again and again, I would pour gasoline on him and light him on fire? What kind of father would I be if I explained to him that he needed to give me 10% of everything he had or I would withdraw my hand of protection from his life and allow the fires of hell to swallow him?

16 What if I told one of my daughters that she was put here on this earth to be a servant and slave to me? Could you picture me telling my children that I ve written everything about me down in a book and unless they read it everyday of their lives they ll never know me?

17 What parent would purposely inject their child with a terrible disease as a punishment for disobedience? What father would turn his head away from his son or daughter the moment the child made a mistake?

18 storge: affection

19 storge: affection philos: friendship

20 storge: affection philos: friendship eros: romance/ sexual/ passion

21 storge: affection philos: friendship eros: romance/ sexual/ passion Agape: other-oriented, self-sacrificial, choice-based love agape love ascribes worth to another, at cost to oneself

22 I John 3: 16 This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us

Letting Go John 10: & 1 John 3: Fourth Sunday of Easter, 29 th April 2012

Letting Go John 10: & 1 John 3: Fourth Sunday of Easter, 29 th April 2012 Letting Go John 10: 11-18 & 1 John 3: 16-24 Fourth Sunday of Easter, 29 th April 2012 Although they bear the same name, John, they were not written by the same person. The writer of the gospel was not