Look UP! 

The Light of Love 

December 8, 2024 

Dr. Brad Hoffmann, pastor 

 Psalm 19:1-4 ESV 

(1) The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork. (2) Day to day pours out speech, and night to night reveals knowledge. (3) There is no speech, nor are there words, whose voice is not heard. (4) Their voice goes out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them he has set a tent for the sun. 

 John 3:16 ESV 

(16) For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. 

 1 John 4:9-11 ESV 

(9) In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. (10) In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. (11) Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 

 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 ESV 

(4) Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant (5) or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; (6) it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. (7) Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 

 Matthew 22:37-39 ESV 

(37) And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. (38) This is the great and first commandment. (39) And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” 

 1 John 3:18 

(18) Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.