Series: “Boost” Sermon: “Holy Spirit Reveals Divine Love”

Holy Spirit Reveals Divine Love

1 John 4:8 “He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.”

You understand His love like an ant comprehends Mt Everest … It’s so infinitely beyond us!

Romans 5:1, 3-5 (TPT) “Our faith in Jesus transfers God’s righteousness to us and he now declares us flawless in his eyes. This means we can now enjoy true and lasting peace …  But that’s not all!

Even in times of trouble we have a joyful confidence, knowing that our pressures will develop in us patient endurance. And patient endurance will refine our character, and proven character leads us back to hope.

And this hope is not a disappointing fantasy, because we can now experience the endless love of God cascading into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who lives in us!”

Romans 5:5 (NLT) “And this hope will not lead to disappointment. For we know how dearly God loves us, because he has given us the Holy Spirit to fill our hearts with his love.”

Romans 5:5 (NKJV) “Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.”

“Shed abroad” KJV

ek-kheh’-o:— to bestow or distribute largely gush (pour) out, run greedily (out), ran riotously.

Ephesians 3:16-17 (KJV) “That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man; That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,”

Ephesians 3:17-19 (TPT) “Then you will be empowered to discover what every holy one experiences—the great magnitude of the astonishing love of Christ in all its dimensions. How deeply intimate and far-reaching is his love!

How enduring and inclusive it is! Endless love beyond measurement that transcends our understanding—this extravagant love pours into you until you are filled to overflowing with the fullness of God!”

PICTURE — INFINITY — Can you grasp that?

The unsearchable, unknowable, scandalous LOVE of GOD!  Demands Supernatural Revelation

If it seems too good to be true, then you’re just beginning to have a clue!

God’s love—when you begin to see that you can’t possibly outrun it, you can’t out-jump it, you can’t out-fall it, you can’t outlast it, and you certainly can’t out-sin it—now you’re getting a clue. That’s why it’s scandalous love. When you begin to see that you can’t comprehend it, you can’t grasp it, you can’t limit it, you can’t qualify it, you can’t condition it, you can’t temper it, you can’t moderate it—it’s scandalous love—now you’re beginning to get a clue.

God’s love, you can’t restrict it, you can’t confine it, you can’t define it, you can’t refine it—it’s scandalous love. It’s beautiful. It’s beyond anything you can possibly imagine.

Ephesians 3:19 (AMP)  [That you may really come] to know [practically, through experience for yourselves] the love of Christ, which far surpasses mere knowledge [without experience];

…that you may be filled [through all your being] unto all the fullness of God [may have the richest measure of the divine Presence, and become a body wholly filled and flooded 

with God Himself!

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

Love :– Sacrificially ascribing infinite worth to another.

Mark 9:35 “He sat down, called the twelve disciples over to him, and said, ‘Whoever wants to be first must take last place and be the servant of everyone else.’”

Philippians 2:3 “Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself.”

PICTURE … Everyone is above me … I choose the lowest place.

1 Corinthians 12:31 “But earnestly desire the best gifts. And yet I show you a more excellent way.”

1 Corinthians 13  Apostle Paul. 

Probably one of the most popular chapters in the whole bible.

Chapters 12, 13, & 14 are really one unit. 12 talks about the context, 13 the motivation, and 14 the proper operation of the gifts of Spirit.

1. Primacy of Love vs 1-3  

First in order, rank, importance.  “…but have not love, it profits me nothing.”

2. Personality of Love vs 4-7 

The visible aspect.  “…bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.”

3. Permanence of Love vs 8-13 

Existing perpetually; everlasting, esp. without significant change.  “Love never fails.”

1 John 4:8  “He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.”

Love :– Sacrificially ascribing infinite worth to another.

Romans 5:5 (NLT)  “And this hope will not lead to disappointment. For we know how dearly God loves us, because he has given us the Holy Spirit to fill our hearts with his love.”