In this lesson we examine the kind of love which every child of God must have. We examine how God loved us and loves us so we can know how to reciprocate it.

1. Growing in LOVE
By: Brian Birdow
Sermon text: 2 Peter 1

2. Objective of Lesson
• To define the word love as used in 2 Peter 1.
• To understand how God loved and loves us.
• To understand the commands of love.

3. Love defined
• Love (Gk. Agape) a deliberate desire for the highest
good of the one loved, which shows itself in sacrificial
action for that person’s good.
• Ref. Exodus 32:30-35 & Romans 8:37 - 9:5

4. God is love
• John 3:16; 1 John 3:16; Romans 5:5
• Thus the Spirit of the God or Holy Spirit who is love, is
freely given to us, in order to reproduce in us that same
quality. For men will never believe that God is love unless
they see it in the lives of his professed followers a.k.a
Christians.

5. God is love..Spirit of love
• 1 John 4:7-21 (note vs. 13)
• 1 Corinthians 6:19-20
• Romans 8:5-11
• Galatians 5:22-23

6. Love commanded &
conveyed
• Matthew 5:43-48
• Romans 5:6-11

7. God Commands love
• Mark 12:30-31
• Romans 13:8-12
• James 2:8-13
• John 14:15