“We love because he first loved us” 1 John 4:19 This message was given on June 28, 2015 at New City Church in Calgary by Pastor John Ferguson. For more info please visit: www.newcitychurch.ca

2. Owen & Kara

5. ?
What is love?
What are relationships for?
How should we understand our sexuality?
What are people for?
Why do we exist?
Why is there something rather than nothing?
What does this tell us about God?

6. ?
What was God doing before
the creation of the universe?
Why did God create people?

7. The Glory of Love
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~ Selected Scriptures ~

8. Genesis 1:1
In the beginning God created the
heavens and the earth.

9. ?What was God doing
before creation

10. “Father, you have
loved me before
the creation of the
world.”
~ The Gospel of John, 17:24

11. God is love.“
”~ The Apostle John in 1 John 4:8

12. “And when Jesus was baptized, immediately
he went up from the water, and behold, the
heavens were opened, and he saw the Spirit
of God descending like a dove and coming
to rest on him; and behold, a voice from
heaven said, ‘This is my beloved Son, with
whom I am well pleased.”
~ The Gospel of Matthew 3:16-17

13. “God’s love has been
poured into our
hearts through the
Holy Spirit who has
been given to us.”
~ Romans 5:5

14. Father
Son
Holy
Spirit

15. ?Why did God
create people

16. “Father, I want those you have given me to
be with me where I am, and to see my glory,
the glory you have given me because you
loved me before the creation of the world….
~ Jesus of Nazareth in the Gospel of John, ch. 17

17. “Righteous Father, though the world does not
know you, I know you, and they know that you
have sent me. I have made you known to them,
and will continue to make you known in order
that the love that you have for me may be in
them and that I myself may be in them.”
~ Jesus of Nazareth in the Gospel of John, ch. 17

18. ~ Jesus in the Gospel of John ch. 17
“The glory that you have given me I have
given to them, that they may be one even
as we are one. I in them and you in me, that
they may become perfectly one, so that the
world may know that you have sent me and
loved them even as you loved me.”

19. Father
Son
Holy
Spirit
You The Believer is united to Christ
(“in Christ”) and is drawn into
the fellowship of the Trinity.

20. “…an eternal weight of
glory beyond all
comparison….”
~ The Apostle Paul in
2 Corinthians 4:17

22. “The Father so delights in his eternal
love for the Son that he desires to share
it with all who will believe. Ultimately, the
Father sent the Son because the Father
so loved the Son—and wanted to share
that love and fellowship. His love for the
world is the overflow of his almighty love
for his Son.”

23. We love because
he first loved us.
~ The Apostle John in 1 John 4:19

24. Reconnect the idea of
love, marriage, & sexuality
to God.
Application #1

25. Join us for the rest of
this series.
Application #2

26. The Covenant of Marriage
Love, Marriage, & Sexuality
The Fall (Part 1): Strangers to Ourselves
The Fall (Part 2): The Plague of Selfishness
Redeemed Sexuality
Sexual Holiness
The Gift of Singleness
The Dance of Marriage
The Question of Divorce
Raising Children for the Lord
The Marriage Supper of the Lamb

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