You Are Loved
Highlights:
1. With one look, Jesus said to Peter, “You are forgiven, loved and nothing can separate us from that love.
2. God doesn’t fall out of love with you. Our feelings drive our love, God’s love drives His feelings.
3. The cross is God’s way of saying, “Over my dead body.”
Discussion Questions:
1. Pastor Phil asked, “Have you had an event horizan with the Lord? Have you reached the point of no return?”
How has the strength of the love of God pulled you into the point of no return in your relationship with Him?
2. How are the hardships in your life affecting you? Are they hardening or softening your heart? What makes the difference in how hardships affect our hearts?
3. Nothing can seperate us from the love of God. Why then do we sometimes feel seperated from His love?
What is the difference between the Biblical truth and my personal feelings? How can we reconcile the two?
Key Scriptures and Quotes:
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? As it is written: “For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.” No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 8:35-39 NIV
Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God’s wrath through him! For if, while we were God’s enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life!
Romans 5:7-10 NIV
Peter replied, “Man, I don’t know what you’re talking about!” Just as he was speaking, the rooster crowed. The Lord turned and looked straight at Peter. Then Peter remembered the word the Lord had spoken to him: “Before the rooster crows today, you will disown me three times.” And he went outside and wept bitterly.
Luke 22: 60-62
And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
Ephesians 3:17-19 NIV