ON LOVE...

1 JOHN 5:3

For this demonstrates our love for God: We keep his commandments, and his commandments are not difficult,

John 14:15 "If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.

1 John 2:3 By this we know that we have come to know Him, if we keep His commandments.

2 John 1:6 And this is love, that we walk according to His commandments. This is the commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning, that you should walk in it.


WHAT IS THE HEART OF ALL THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD? LOVE!

MARK 12:33 To love him with all your heart, with all your understanding, and with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself is more important than all the burnt offerings and sacrifices."

Deuteronomy 6:5 "You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.

Matthew 22:39 "The second is like it, 'YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.

ROMANS 13:10 Love never does anything that is harmful to its neighbor.
Therefore, love is the fulfillment of the law.

John 13:34 "A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you, that you also love one another.

Romans 13:8 Owe nothing to anyone except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

Galatians 5:14 For the whole Law is fulfilled in one word, in the statement, "YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF."

James 2:8 If, however, you are fulfilling the royal law according to the Scripture, "YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF," you are doing well.

GOD DESIRES COMPASSION RATHER THAN SACRIFICE...

Matthew 9:13 "But go and learn what this means: 'I DESIRE COMPASSION, AND NOT SACRIFICE,' for I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners."

Matthew 12:7 "But if you had known what this means, 'I DESIRE COMPASSION, AND NOT A SACRIFICE,' you would not have condemned the innocent.

GOD PREFERS OBEDIENCE RATHER THAN SACRIFICE...

1 Samuel 15:22 Samuel said, "Has the LORD as much delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices As in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, And to heed than the fat of rams.

GOD DELIGHTS IN LOYALTY RATHER THAN SACRIFICE...

Hosea 6:6 For I delight in loyalty rather than sacrifice, And in the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.

GOD LOVES THOSE WHO LOVE HIM

PROVERBS 8:17 "I love those who love me; And those who diligently seek me will find me.

GOD'S LOVE

1JOHN 4:10 This is love: not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

John 3:16 "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.

Romans 5:8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Romans 5:10 For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.

1 John 2:2 and He Himself is the propitiation for our sins; and not for ours only, but also for those of the whole world.

1 John 4:9 By this the love of God was manifested in us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world so that we might live through Him.

BLESSED BE GOD FOREVER....AMEN