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Summary:
Everything that God does is based in His love, though we may not understand it at first
His discipline is because He loves us and wants a close relationship with each of us.
Show Notes:
• The Lord does not condemn anyone while going through discipline
• We know what it is to live without love, we are learning what love really is
• The Prodigal son learned honestly how his father loved him.
References:
Romans 8:1
Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
Proverbs 24:16
For though the righteous fall seven times, they rese again, but the wicked stumble when calamity strikes.
Psalms 145:14
The Lord upholds all who fall and lifts up all who are bowed down.
Luke 15:11-32
Story of the Prodigal son
1 John 4:8, 11
Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
Hebrews 12:7
What you endure disciplines you: God is treating you as sons. Is there a son whom his father does not discipline?
John 13:35 KJV
By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another
1 John 4:19
We love each other because He loved us first.
Quotes:
• He will give you another opportunity to have the victory
• You fail, the Lord is not condemning you
• The Prodigal son got to know his father much better than his brother did.
Take Away:
There is no love if one is not disciplined and one who loves has had discipline .