Awesome God: Love - God is Love | The Narrow Junior High Ministry | Pastor Jacob Mock

Main message: God is love — his perfect, eternal, sacrificial love was shown in Christ and, having received that love through regeneration, we are called and enabled to love others in concrete, sacrificial actions (not merely feelings).

Key points:

• True love is defined by actions (patient, kind, not boastful or vindictive) more than feelings (1 Cor 13 example).
• Being "born of God" (regeneration) gives a new heart that enables us to receive and reflect God's love.
• God is love: every divine action flows from perfect, unwavering love; his love was made manifest by sending Jesus as the propitiation for our sins (2 Cor 5:21).
• God's love is eternal, unconditional, and sacrificial — therefore we ought to love one another likewise (John 15:13 parallel).
• Practical outworkings: care for the needy, speak kindly, live sacrificially, evangelize — examine your relationships and love others as you would want to be loved.

Scriptures mentioned: 1 John 4:7–12, 1 Corinthians 13:4–7, 2 Corinthians 5:21, Psalm 136, Romans 8:32, John 15:13