What is Love?
MoMo634 - MOtivational MOmentsFebruary 15, 2025x
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What is Love?

Listen now | With apologies to Haddaway, his iconic hit pales in comparison to the greatest love letter ever written. Tune in!

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00:00:00 --> 00:00:02 With apologies to Haddaway,

00:00:02 --> 00:00:08 his iconic hit pales in comparison to the greatest love letter ever written.

00:00:09 --> 00:00:09 Tune in.

00:00:12 --> 00:00:12 Hello,

00:00:14 --> 00:00:15 and welcome to Momo 634,

00:00:15 --> 00:00:21 the daily podcast chock full of faith-filled inspiration and motivation.

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00:00:25 --> 00:00:29 MOMO 634 Motivational moments just for today.

00:00:44 --> 00:00:47 With this episode airing on Valentine's Day,

00:00:47 --> 00:00:52 I could think of no better example of love than God's love.

00:00:53 --> 00:00:56 I'm going to share some verses about His love for us,

00:00:57 --> 00:00:59 but first I want to set the stage.

00:01:00 --> 00:01:05 The very people Christ left the glory of heaven to save were the very ones who

00:01:05 --> 00:01:06 put Him to death.

00:01:08 --> 00:01:12 Every one of us is imperfect due to sin in a fallen world,

00:01:13 --> 00:01:20 yet we are the very ones God manifests his love for in this sacrificial act.

00:01:21 --> 00:01:24 Though we say God sent his son,

00:01:24 --> 00:01:28 Genesis uses we in discussing the Godhead.

00:01:29 --> 00:01:31 Let us make man in our image.

00:01:33 --> 00:01:37 Therefore, God the Son, who died for us, is God.

00:01:39 --> 00:01:43 In all of the creation stories around the world,

00:01:44 --> 00:01:48 where else does the Creator die for the created?

00:01:50 --> 00:01:50 Romans 5,

00:01:51 --> 00:01:51 6-8 says,

00:01:54 --> 00:01:55 For while we were still weak,

00:01:56 --> 00:01:57 at the right time,

00:01:58 --> 00:02:00 Christ died for the ungodly.

00:02:01 --> 00:02:04 For one will scarcely die for a righteous person,

00:02:05 --> 00:02:08 though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die.

00:02:09 --> 00:02:14 But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners,

00:02:15 --> 00:02:17 Christ died for us.

00:02:19 --> 00:02:21 And Ephesians 2 through 5 says,

00:02:22 --> 00:02:24 Because of his great love for us,

00:02:25 --> 00:02:26 God,

00:02:26 --> 00:02:28 who is rich in mercy,

00:02:28 --> 00:02:30 made us alive with Christ,

00:02:31 --> 00:02:34 even when we were dead in our trespasses.

00:02:35 --> 00:02:38 It is by grace you have been saved.

00:02:39 --> 00:02:44 With that as our backdrop, let us explore this amazing love.

00:02:46 --> 00:02:48 John 3.16 For God so loved the world,

00:02:51 --> 00:02:53 that he gave his one and only Son,

00:02:54 --> 00:02:57 that everyone who believes in him shall not perish,

00:02:57 --> 00:02:59 but have eternal life.

00:03:01 --> 00:03:04 1 John 3.16 By this we know what love is.

00:03:07 --> 00:03:10 Jesus laid down his life for us,

00:03:11 --> 00:03:14 and we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.

00:03:16 --> 00:03:16 1 John 4,

00:03:16 --> 00:03:17 7-10 Beloved,

00:03:17 --> 00:03:18 let us love one another,

00:03:18 --> 00:03:22 because love comes from God.

00:03:27 --> 00:03:30 Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.

00:03:31 --> 00:03:37 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.

00:03:39 --> 00:03:42 This is how God's love was revealed among us.

00:03:43 --> 00:03:49 God sent his one and only Son into the world so that we might live through him.

00:03:50 --> 00:03:52 And love consists in this,

00:03:53 --> 00:03:54 not that we loved God,

00:03:55 --> 00:04:02 but that he loved us and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

00:04:04 --> 00:04:05 John 15, 12 through 13.

00:04:07 --> 00:04:13 This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.

00:04:14 --> 00:04:17 Greater love has no one than this,

00:04:17 --> 00:04:20 that he lay down his life for his friends.

00:04:22 --> 00:04:28 1 John 4, 19 says, We love because he first loved us.

00:04:30 --> 00:04:31 As if this weren't enough,

00:04:32 --> 00:04:37 some of the most beautiful words about love are found in Romans 8,

00:04:37 --> 00:04:37 35-39.

00:04:42 --> 00:04:44 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?

00:04:45 --> 00:04:52 Shall trouble or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?

00:04:53 --> 00:04:58 As it is written, For your sake we face death all day long.

00:04:59 --> 00:05:01 We are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.

00:05:03 --> 00:05:03 No,

00:05:03 --> 00:05:08 in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

00:05:09 --> 00:05:13 For I am convinced that neither death nor life,

00:05:13 --> 00:05:15 neither angels nor principalities,

00:05:16 --> 00:05:18 neither the present nor the future,

00:05:18 --> 00:05:19 nor any powers,

00:05:20 --> 00:05:21 neither height nor depth,

00:05:22 --> 00:05:29 nor anything else in all creation will be able to separate us from the love of

00:05:29 --> 00:05:29 God

00:05:29 --> 00:05:32 that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

00:05:33 --> 00:05:35 Our meme for today says,

00:05:36 --> 00:05:40 There may have been great love letters written throughout the ages,

00:05:40 --> 00:05:44 but God's accompanied an incomparable gift.

00:05:46 --> 00:05:49 What is your favorite Bible verse about God's love?

00:05:49 --> 00:05:51 Chime in below.

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