Summary

This conversation focuses on the reality of God’s love and how His love brings people into a true relationship with Him. The Family emphasizes that loving God is not just a mental concept or words spoken from the mouth, but an experience of receiving His love and allowing that love to be imparted into the heart. Through obedience, laying down one’s life, carrying the cross, and walking through difficult experiences, believers come to know the depth of God’s love in a way they could never produce on their own. The discussion also points to God’s love for the Jewish people as an example of His covenant purpose and His desire to create a people who love Him and receive His love in return.

Show Notes

Dale opens by explaining that God created the human race to love Him. God is described as a jealous God who desires an exclusive love relationship with His people.

Ken explains that God is looking for the reality of love, not just a love that people talk about. True love for God comes by first receiving His love.

Ron points out that there is a difference between knowing about God’s love mentally and experiencing it personally. To love God the way He desires, believers need impartations and experiences from Him.

Dale connects love with following Christ, taking up the cross, dying to self, and being resurrected by God. Laying down one’s life becomes evidence of love for Him.

Ken and Lois share how God’s love is revealed through hard places, suffering, caregiving, and transformation. These experiences reveal a love that could not be created by human effort.

Ken uses Abraham offering Isaac as an example of love and obedience. Ron notes that Abraham’s walk with God was not based on written scripture but on a relationship of love.

Dale closes by pointing to the Jewish people as one of God’s great creations. Their relationship with God shows His love, purpose, and blessing in the earth.

Key Quotes

Scriptural References

Loving God with All the Heart

These scriptures reflect the great commandment mentioned in the conversation: God created His people to love Him fully, and He offers His love back to them.

Receiving God’s Love

These passages show that true love begins with God loving us first. His love is poured into our hearts and enables us to love Him and others.

Taking Up the Cross

These scriptures connect love, discipleship, surrender, and laying down one’s life in following Christ.

God’s Love Revealed Through Trials

These verses speak to how God uses difficult experiences to teach, transform, and bring forth His life in His people.

Abraham’s Love and Obedience

These passages relate to Abraham offering Isaac and reveal a relationship of faith, obedience, and love toward God.

God’s Covenant Love for Israel

These scriptures support the discussion of God’s love, purpose, and covenant relationship with the Jewish people.

Takeaway

True love for God is not produced by human effort or spoken words alone. It is born from receiving His love, walking with Him through relationship, and allowing the cross, obedience, and life’s difficult experiences to reveal His love in us.