#838 – Because He First Loved Us (1 John 4:19)
Pray the Word with David Platt
David Platt
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🗓️ 25 November 2019
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
Out of the overflow of love we have received from God in Christ, may we love the Lord, His church, and all of those around us and throughout the world.
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| 0:00.0 | Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical. net. |
| 0:05.7 | First John, chapter 4, verse 19. |
| 0:09.2 | We love because he first loved us. |
| 0:15.0 | Now that's a simple verse with significant, massive implications for the way we understand our lives, our relationships with |
| 0:27.3 | God, our relationships with others in the world, with the church, with those who are not yet in Christ, we love why. |
| 0:38.7 | Because he first loved us. Like everything starts with his love for us. |
| 0:48.0 | That is a massive truth for you and I to realize in our lives. |
| 0:55.4 | Everything starts with God's love for us. |
| 1:00.9 | Everything, like your understanding of who you are, |
| 1:04.2 | your understanding of why you are in the world, |
| 1:07.7 | of what your purpose is here, your understanding of your past, |
| 1:12.0 | your present, your future, everything hinges on his love for you, on God's love for us in Christ. |
| 1:21.5 | If we do not have God's love in Christ, that changes everything. If we do have |
| 1:28.8 | God's love for us in Christ, that changes everything. It changes our identity, it changes our future, |
| 1:34.0 | changes our eternity, our relationships |
| 1:36.5 | with all the people around us |
| 1:38.0 | and all hinges on realizing, believing, |
| 1:41.0 | God loved us first. |
| 1:44.7 | And as a result of his love for us, |
| 1:47.7 | who he has made us to be in Christ, |
| 1:50.5 | what he has called us to do in our lives. What do we do? We love him, with all our |
| 1:56.4 | hearts, soul, mind, and strength. We love him and then we love others. We want to |
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