A continuation of the Navigator's life of the disciple series - Knowing God.

1. Knowing God: God is Loving but
Just

2. What is Love ?
1 Corinthians 13:4-7
Love is patient and kind;
love does not envy or boast;
it is not arrogant or rude.
It does not insist on its own way;
it is not irritable or resentful;
it does not rejoice at
wrongdoing,
but rejoices with the truth.
Love 1. bears all things,
2. believes all things,
3.hopes all things,
4.endures all things.

3. Overview
• God‘s love
• Types of love
• Examples from Bible on God‘s love and
justice
• Rekindle your romance with GOd

4. What is Love? (Memory Verses)
1 Corinthians 13:4-7
Love is patient and kind;
love does not envy or boast;
it is not arrogant or rude.
It does not insist on its own way;
it is not irritable or resentful;
it does not rejoice at
wrongdoing,
but rejoices with the truth.
Love 1. bears all things,
2. believes all things,
3.hopes all things,
4.endures all things.

5. Types of Love
• Agape - It is the highest of the four types of love in the
Bible. Jesus Christ showed this kind of divine love to
his Father and to all humanity.
• Philia – Philia is the type of love in the Bible that most
Christians practice toward each other.
• Storge - Storge is a term for love in the Bible you may
not be familiar with. Even though this Greek word for
family love is not specifically found in Scripture.
• Eros - The Greek word for sensual love is eros which
is self gratifying

6. Agape
• Agape speaks of the most
powerful, noblest type of love: sacrificial
love.
• Agape love is more than a feeling—it is an
act of the will.
• This is the love that God has for his people
and that prompted the sacrifice of his only
son, Jesus, for our sins. Jesus was agape
love personified.

7. The Beauty of Agape
• Only God is capable of Agape love. Human love is
always several notches below. Only God can lift the
level of human love to a higher level
• Knowing that sinful man would kill His Son, but also
knowing that without Jesus we were doomed, God loved
us by sending his Son. John 3:16
 Those who love Jesus will do what Jesus taught. John
14:15,23
 If a person has material resources and the love of God
within him, his heart will take care of his brother who is in
need. 1 John 3:17
 Just as Christ through love acted on behalf of the
church, so too the husband is to be motivated by love to
act on behalf of his wife. Ephesians 5:25-29

8. God‘s Standards of Love
He is - Mighty defender, perfect, just in all his
ways, faithful and true. (Deu. 32:4)
- Lord is loving & merciful, slow to anger, full of
constant love and has compassion on all he
made. (Psalm 145:8,9)
- Righteous judge, holy and forgiving god. But
hates oppression & crime [Psalm 86:5, Isaiah
61:8]
- His steadfast Love which is never ceases, His
mercies never come to an end. (Lamentations
3:22)
- He love equally and judges everyone by the
same standard (Romans 2:11)

9. Philia
• Philia refers to brotherly love and is most
often exhibited in a close friendship.
• ―After David had finished talking with Saul,
Jonathan became one in spirit with David,
and he loved him as himself. . . . And
Jonathan made a covenant with David
because he loved him as himself‖ (1
Samuel 18:1-3).

10. Storge
• Storge is the natural love and affection of a
parent for their child.
Examples of family love :1. The love and mutual protection among
Noah and his
wife, their sons and
daughters-in-law in Genesis;
2. The love of Jacob for his sons; and
3. The strong love the sisters Martha and
Mary in the
gospels had for their brother Lazarus.

11. Eros
 As its name indicates, eros is passionate or sexual
love.
 While eros is important within a marriage relationship
and is created by God (see Song of Solomon), but not
allowed before and outside marriage.
 The Bible is clear that sexual immorality (out-ofcontrol eros) is a sin (1 Corinthians 6:18; 1
Thessalonians 4:3).

12. Role of Loving someone
If you love someone then:
1. You will be avoiding those things which he/she doesn‘t like
and do things which he/she will like.
2. Accept the person with his/her lacking (as NO one is perfect)
3. There will be sacrifices/adjustment in things
4. There is blind eye towards hurt or wrongdoings.
5. Your life revolves around him/her i.e. you think of him/her all
time, always wanting to spend time with him/her.
6. That person becomes more special and precious that you
cannot effort to lose him/her.
7. You suddenly become dependant on him/her in every thing.
8. You become protective towards him/her.
9. You get the sense of happiness & peace at heart & mind
when you are with him/her.

13. God’s LOVE / Agape
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His love is unconditional & holy
He loves more than anyone can love you
He forgives, He grants, He blesses us
His blessings have no limits
His love is so powerful that heart & mind
get peace & joy,
He always listens & never ignores
He never lets you down, never returns your
prayers back
God's love can never be summed up in
words or feelings.
It's the best gift anyone can ever get
Human Love
Conditional
They don't forgive
They ask in return
He/she doesn’t grants us anything.
Measure your feelings in
materialistic things
 Insults you, ignores you
 But the most scary thing is that
human love sometimes dies forever
 Depending from person to
person, human love rarely listens &
most of the time ignores.
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14. Similarly, Do you not know God also
Loves you ?
God Loves us –
1. He forgave us even though we are sinners.
2. He accepted us completely, don‘t think about perfection.
3. He gave sacrifices to bring us close to him.
4. Here is blind eye towards hurt and cleanses us from all
unrighteousness.
5. He revolves around us i.e. He think of us all time, always wanting
to spend time with us through prayer.
6. We are special and precious to him that he cannot afford to lose
us.
7. He protects us throughout our life.
8. He provides us sense of joy (eternal) and peace at heart & mind.
9. He provides his help in our daily routine and watches over us.
IN Short

15. What God does for us
- He does what is right & fair [Rom 2:11, Deu 32:4, ]
- He is a righteous judge and always condemns the
wicked (Psalm 7:11)
- He doesn‘t want anyone to be destroyed, but
wants all to turn away from their sins. (2 Eeter 3:9)
• He wants evil people should stop living evil lives.
They should stop thinking bad thoughts. They
should come to the LORD again, and he will
comfort them. They should come to our God
because he will freely forgive them. (Isaiah 55:7)

16. God‘s Love is Blessing.
God‘s love brings to us many gifts:
• Eternal life & joy
• Forgiveness
• No Judgments
• Has overcome our past
• Creates a new creature
• Gift of Holy Spirit & it‘s fruits.
• Spiritually alive & more close to him
• We become precious and are called child of God.
• No failure/No condemnation/No power of hell
• Bright future/abundant life
• He protect us and help us to overcome temptation
• No worries/No sin/No anxiety in Life as He is the planner of
our life

17. • God‘s justice
brings
condemnation
• His love brings
salvation
Let us see some live examples on
God’s love and Justice….

18. God‘s Justice
• Michal laughs at David dancing before
the Lord – become barren for life.

19. God Punishes but Protects
• God promises 7-fold
vengeance to anyone
who attacks Cain after
banishing him post
Abel‘s death.

20. God Protects but Punishes
• God protects Lot‘s family from Sodom and
Gomorroh but Lot‘s wife turned to pillar of
salt for disobeying and turning back

21. God Punishes but Protects
• Cities of refuge

22. God Punishes but Promises
• God destroys world except Noah and
family but promises never to do it again

23. God Punishes but Provides
• God sends
plague to kill
people of
Israel but
stops it for
those who
look on the
bronze
serpant setup
by Moses

24. God‘s Justice
• Uzzah and 70 others killed when Uzzah
touches ark and others look in irreverantly

25. Some other Instances…
• Moses not allowed to enter promised land, but called into
transfiguration
• Moses‘ sister Miriam – leprosy
• David‘s wife barren after laughing
• Rachel barren as she was more loved
• Rahab and Ruth in Messianic line
• David not allowed to build temple
• Israel, Judah, losing wars to enemies due to disobedience several
times.
• Warning that communion should not be taken irreverantly
……and many more

26. God‘s Love
God‘s:
• Patience in OT inspite of repeated
disobedience and perseverence with mankind
• Protection after punishment
• Provision thru Christ – adoption as children –
the gigantic provision
• Permanency in eternity

27. Hey what are you thinking?
Oh yeah,
You do love him
but the question should ask to yourself is –
How much do you love God? &
in what ways do you love Him?

28. Answers are in the scripture – Check them out
• (1 John 4:20) If anyone says, ―I love God,‖ and hates his
brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother
whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not
seen.
• (John 14:15) ―If you love me, you will keep my
commandments.
• (Romans 13:10) Love does no wrong to a neighbor;
therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
• Matthew 5:43-48 ―You have heard that it was said, ‗You
shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.‘ But I say to
you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute
you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in
heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the
good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. For if
you love those who love you, what reward do you

29. Answers from the Scripture
(Cont‘d..)
• ―For God so loved the world, that he gave his only
Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but
have eternal life. (John 3:16)
• Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the
one who loves another has fulfilled the law. For the
commandments, ―You shall not commit adultery, You
shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,‖
and any other commandment, are summed up in this
word: ―You shall love your neighbor as yourself.‖ Love
does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the
fulfilling of the law. (Romans 13:8-10)
• Lord, you have examined me and you know me. You
know everything I do; from far away you understand all
my thoughts. You see me, whether I am working or

30. How do you Love?
We just saw the Scriptures which tell us
―How to love God.‖
So friends,
God expects us to love him not only in
words but also in actions. Therefore put
all the words into practice & love him fully.

31. What are the results of it?
OR
True Love
grows
into something
deeper.
Other loves will
Fizzle out or
even get
Destroyed.

32. No one has power to separate us
from love of Christ (Memory Verse)
• Romans 8:35-39
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?
Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or
famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?
As it is written, ―For your sake we are being killed all
the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be
slaughtered.‖ No, in all these things we are more
than conquerors through him who loved us.
For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels
nor rulers, nor things present nor things to
come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor
anything else in all creation, will be able to
separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus
our Lord.

33. Rekindle your romance with God
Disciplined prayer and personal study of
God‘s word often takes you through three
phases. Persevere through the first two and
you will reach the third – pure enjoyment.
1. Castor oil Phase
2. Cereal phase
3. Peaches & Cream phase

35. Discussion
• In what ways do we take God for granted?
• What is the consequence?
• How do we avoid it on a day to day basis?
“The Fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom” Prov
9:10

36. WE
LOVE
YOU
JESUS