RTW 2022

Dear friends, let us continue to love one another, for love comes from God.1 John 4:7a

About this kind of love

• It comes from God. (1 John 4:7)
  We can’t love anyone, the easy to love or the hard to love, without God.
• It requires sacrifice. (1 John 4:10)
  We can’t truly understand the sacrifice God made for us, but we can give up ourselves for His service.
• It grows more perfect, the more we live in- hang out with God. (1 John 4:17)
  We can’t grow in love apart from Him.

The love of God is greater far
Than tongue or pen can ever tell;
It goes beyond the highest star,
And reaches to the lowest hell;
The guilty pair, bowed down with care,
God gave His Son to win;
His erring child He reconciled,
And pardoned from his sin.

1. Refrain:
   Oh, love of God, how rich and pure!
   How measureless and strong!
   It shall forevermore endure—
   The saints’ and angels’ song.

When hoary time shall pass away,
And earthly thrones and kingdoms fall,
When men who here refuse to pray,
On rocks and hills and mountains call,
God’s love so sure, shall still endure,
All measureless and strong;
Redeeming grace to Adam’s race—
The saints’ and angels’ song.

Could we with ink the ocean fill,
And were the skies of parchment made,
Were every stalk on earth a quill,
And every man a scribe by trade;
To write the love of God above
Would drain the ocean dry;
Nor could the scroll contain the whole,
Though stretched from sky to sky.

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Don’t be like that guy. Have you ever heard that phrase?

Diotrephes is mentioned once in the Bible he was a self-seeking troublemaker in an unnamed local church in the first century.

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Know God so I can know His love, and demonstrate His love to others.