" NO GREATER LOVE "

     " As the FATHER loved ME, I also have loved you; abide in MY love.  If you keep MY commandments, you will abide in MY love, just as I have kept MY FATHER's commandments and abide in HIS love.  These things I have spoken to you, that MY joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full.  This is MY commandment, that you love one another, as I have loved you.  GREATER LOVE has no man than this, than to lay down one's life for his friends. " John 15:9-13

     " By this we know love, because HE laid down HIS life for us, and we also ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. "  1st. John 3:16

     " He who has MY commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves ME. And he who loves ME will be loved by MY FATHER, and I will love him and manifest MYSELF to him. Judas (not Iscariot) said to HIM,  ' LORD, how is it that YOU will manifest YOURSELF to us, and not to the world ? ' JESUS answered and said to him,  ' If anyone loves ME, he will keep MY WORD;  and MY FATHER will love him and WE will come to him and make OUR home with him. He who does not love ME does not keep MY WORD's;  and the WORD which you hear is not MINE but the FATHER's WHO sent ME.' "  John 14:21-24

     " Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with GOD through our LORD JESUS CHRIST, through WHOM also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of GOD, and not only that, but we also glory in tribulations; knowing that tribulation produces perseverance;  and perseverance, character;  and character, hope.  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.  For when we were still without strength, in due time, CHRIST died for the ungodly.  For scarcely for a righteous man will one die;  yet perhaps for a good man someone would even dare to die. BUT GOD demonstrates (shows) HIS OWN love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, CHRIST died for us.  Much more then, having now been justified by HIS blood, we shall be saved from wrath through HIM.  For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to GOD through the death of HIS SON, much more having been reconciled, we shall be saved by HIS life (resurrection from the dead).  And not only that, but we also rejoice in GOD through our LORD JESUS CHRIST, through WHOM we have now received the reconciliation. " Romans 5:1-11

     " Beloved, let us love one another for love is of GOD; and everyone who loves is born of GOD and knows GOD. He who does not love does not know GOD, for GOD is love. In this the love of GOD was manifested (shown) toward us, that GOD has sent HIS only begotten SON into the world, that we might live through HIM.  In this is love, not that we loved GOD, but that HE loved us and sent HIS son to be the propitiation (payment) for our sins.  Beloved, if GOD so loved us we also ought to love one another.  No one has seen GOD at any time.  If we love one another, GOD abides in us, and HIS love has been perfected in us. By this we know that we abide in HIM, and HE in us, because HE has given us of HIS SPIRIT, and we have seen and testify that the FATHER has sent the SON as SAVIOR of the world. Whosoever confesses that JESUS is the SON of GOD, GOD abides in him, and he in GOD.  And we have known and believed the love that GOD has for us.  GOD is love, and he who abides in love abides in GOD, and GOD in him.  Love has been perfected among us in this:  that we may have boldness in the day of judgment because as HE is, so are we in this world. There is no fear in love;  but perfect love casts out fear because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love.  We love HIM because HE first loved us.  If someone says,  ' I love GOD, and hates his brother, he is a liar;  for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen how can he love GOD WHOM he has not seen ? '  And this commandment we have from HIM:  that he who loves GOD must love his brother also. "  1st.John 4:7-21

     " For GOD so loved the world that HE gave HIS only begotten SON, that whosoever believes in HIM should not perish but have everlasting life.  For GOD did not send HIS SON into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through HIM might be saved.  He who believes in HIM is not condemned,  but he who does NOT believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten SON of GOD. "   John 3:16-18

Above is just a tiny sampling of what the Bible says about GOD's love.  There is also the love chapter in 1st.Corinthians 13 that I could have added and many more too numerous to list.  The Bible is replete with how much GOD loves HIS creation and how much HE has done to show that love, especially in that HE sent HIS SON, the LORD JESUS CHRIST down to earth to pay the price for our sin.  GOD loves us and wants unbroken fellowship with us. Sin, the curse of sin has broken that fellowship;  but the LORD JESUS came to pay the price of our sin debt and to restore the fellowship that we once had with GOD the FATHER in the Garden of Eden.  Come, believe in the LORD JESUS for Salvation and immediately that longed for fellowship will be restored and direct access to the FATHER through HIS SON will be enjoyed for all eternity.

Your servant in CHRIST,

Julie