❤️ The Love of God — Four Benefits That Change Everything
“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.” — Romans 5:5 (NKJV)
🎨 Highlight key: 🟩 = grace / apart-from-works truth · 🟨 = the precious gift · bold = key terms
🌿 Faith, Hope, and Love — the Greatest Is Love
Romans stacks three pillars: faith, hope, and love — and love is greatest. Just knowing the love of God transforms you; grace and peace multiply through the knowledge of Jesus Christ (shalom = fullness). Sit, listen, hear again and again — faith comes by hearing, not once. 📖
“Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us…” — Ephesians 3:20 (NKJV)
God blesses beyond what you ask — even beyond what you think. Low faith says “maybe half.” Raise your hope: your dream reveals how big you think your Father is. 🙌
4️⃣ Benefits of Knowing the Love of God
- 🌟 Hope shall not disappoint — biblical hope (elpis) = 100% confident expectation of good. Faith without hope has no substance (Hebrews 11:1).
- 📈 Exceedingly, abundantly, above and beyond — according to His riches, not your ceiling.
- 🤗 Intimacy with God — like John leaning on Jesus’ bosom; Peter asked John to ask Jesus because John knew His heartbeat.
- 🌍 Not worldly — worldliness comes when the love of the Father is absent (1 John 2:15).
⚔️ Love of God vs Love for God
| Love of God | Love for God |
|---|---|
| How much He loves you | How much you love Him |
| John — rested, “disciple whom Jesus loved” | Peter — “I will die for You” (agape) |
| Transforms life ✅ | Peter denied three times ❌ |
At John 21, Jesus asked Peter agape — Peter answered phileo. Jesus lowered to Peter’s level: “Do you at least phileo Me?” Your love cannot equal His; receive His. Humility = allowing Him to love and bless you. 💛
“For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so also by one Man’s obedience many will be made righteous.” — Romans 5:19 (NKJV)
“Therefore by the deeds of the law no flesh will be justified…” — Romans 3:20 (NKJV) — no one keeps the law perfectly; you are saved by His love, not yours.
📖 Scripture from the Slides (Every Verse)
Every verse from the sermon slides, with highlights — orange default, green key themes, gold emphasis.
📖 Love of God — Slide Scriptures (NKJV)
Foundation
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.
Ephesians 3:20 (NKJV)
Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above and beyond we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,
Ephesians 3:16-19 (NKJV)
That He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man, that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height— to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
John 13:23 (NKJV)
Now there was leaning on Jesus’ bosom one of His disciples, whom Jesus loved.
Matthew 26:35 (NKJV)
Peter said to Him, “Even if I have to die with You, I will not deny You!” And so said all the disciples.
John 21:15 (NKJV)
So when they had eaten breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you love Me more than these?” He said to Him, “Yes, Lord; You know that I love You.” He said to him, “Feed My lambs.”
John 21:16 (NKJV)
He said to him again a second time, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you love Me?” He said to Him, “Yes, Lord; You know that I love You.” He said to him, “Tend My sheep.”
John 21:17 (NKJV)
He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you love Me?” Peter was grieved because He said to him the third time, “Do you love Me?” And he said to Him, “Lord, You know all things; You know that I love You.” Jesus said to him, “Feed My sheep.”
Benefits of Love of God
Hope Shall Not Disappoint
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.
Hebrews 11:1 (NKJV)
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
Exceeding Abundantly
Ephesians 3:16-19 (NKJV)
That He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man, that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height— to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
Ephesians 3:20 (NKJV)
Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above and beyond we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,
Intimacy with God
John 13:23 (NKJV)
Now there was leaning on Jesus’ bosom one of His disciples, whom Jesus loved.
John 13:24 (NKJV)
Simon Peter therefore motioned to him to ask who it was of whom He spoke.
Mark 12:30 (NKJV)
And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength. This is the first commandment.
John 13:34 (NKJV)
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another.
Love of the Father, Love for the Father
John 21:15 (NKJV)
So when they had eaten breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you love Me more than these?” He said to Him, “Yes, Lord; You know that I love You.” He said to him, “Feed My lambs.”
John 21:16 (NKJV)
He said to him again a second time, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you love (agape) Me?” He said to Him, “Yes, Lord; You know that I love You.” He said to him, “Tend My sheep.”
John 21:17 (NKJV)
He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you love (phileo) Me?” Peter was grieved because He said to him the third time, “Do you love Me?” And he said to Him, “Lord, You know all things; You know that I love You.” Jesus said to him, “Feed My sheep.”
Matthew 26:35 (NKJV)
Peter said to Him, “Even if I have to die with You, I will not deny You!” And so said all the disciples.
Not Worldly
1 John 2:15 (NKJV)
Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
1 John 2:16 (NKJV)
For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not of the Father but is of the world.
1 John 4:10 (NKJV)
This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.
Romans 3:10 (NKJV)
As it is written: “There is no one righteous, not even one;
Romans 3:20 (NKJV)
Therefore no one will be declared righteous in God’s sight by the works of the law;
Romans 5:19 (NKJV)
For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so also by one Man’s obedience many will be made righteous.
🎯 The Takeaway
Know the love of God poured into your heart — not strive in love for God. Four fruits: undying hope, abundant blessing, intimacy, and freedom from the world. Write on your heart: I am the one Jesus loves. 🙌
🎧 Based on a Sunday message on Romans 5:5 and the love of God. If it strengthened you, share it with someone who needs to rest in His love today. 💛