Part 1
Matthew 8:1, “Large crowds followed Jesus as he came down the mountainside. Suddenly, a man with leprosy approached him and knelt before him.”
Verse 2, “Lord,” the man said, “If you are willing, you can heal me and make me clean.”
Verse 3, “Jesus reached out and touched him. “I am willing,” he said. “Be healed!” And instantly the leprosy disappeared.”
Matthew 8:17, “He took our sicknesses and removed our diseases.”
Matthew 8:27, “Who is this man? Even the winds and waves obey Him!”
Psalm 36:5-7, “Your unfailing love, O LORD, is as vast as the heavens; your faithfulness reaches beyond the clouds. How precious is your unfailing love, O God! All humanity finds shelter in the shadow of your wings.”
Psalm 117:2, “Great is his steadfast love toward us, and the faithfulness of the LORD endures forever. Praise the LORD!”
Isaiah 54:10, "Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed, yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken."
Jeremiah 31:3, “Long ago the LORD said to us: “I have loved you, my people, with an everlasting love. With unfailing love I have drawn you to myself.”
Zephaniah 3:17, “The LORD your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing.”
Zechariah 8:2, “This is what the LORD of Heaven’s Armies says: My love for Mount Zion is passionate and strong; I am consumed with passion for my people!”
John 17:23, “You love them Father, as much as you love me.”
Ephesians 3:16-19, “I pray that from his glorious, unlimited resources he will empower you with inner strength through his Spirit. Then Christ will make his home in your hearts as you trust in him. May your roots go down deep into the soil of God’s marvelous love and keep you strong. And may you have the power to understand, as all God’s people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep his love is. May you experience the love of Christ, though it is too great to understand fully. Then you will be made complete with all the fullness of life and power that comes from God.”
Romans 5:5-8, “We know how dearly God loves us, because he has given us the Holy Spirit to fill our hearts with his love. When we were utterly helpless, Christ came at just the right time and died for us sinners. Now, most people would not be willing to die for an upright person, though someone might perhaps be willing to die for a person who is especially good. But God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners.”
1 John 4:19, “We love, because He first loved us.”
Is He worthy of your love?
Going All In - Loving Him
Accepting His Proposal
Mark 12:29,30, “‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’”
Revelation 2:4,5, “Have this complaint against you. You don’t love me or each other as you did at first! Look how far you have fallen! Turn back to me and do the works you did at first.”
Ephesians 5:25-27, “Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless.”
Acts 22:16, “And now what are you waiting for? Get up, be baptized and wash your sins away, calling on his name.”
Titus 3:4-7, “But when the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit, whom he poured out on us generously through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that, having been justified by his grace, we might become heirs having the hope of eternal life.”
1 Peter 3:21, “This water symbolizes baptism that now saves you also—not the removal of dirt from the body but the pledge of a clear conscience toward God. It saves you by the resurrection of Jesus Christ.”
Jeremiah 31:3, “Long ago the LORD said to us: “I have loved you, my people, with an everlasting love. With unfailing love I have drawn you to myself.”
Zephaniah 3:17, “The LORD your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing.”
Zechariah 8:2, “This is what the LORD of Heaven’s Armies says: My love for Mount Zion is passionate and strong; I am consumed with passion for my people!”
Matthew 8:1-3, “Jesus reached out and touched him. “I am willing,” he said. “Be healed!” And instantly the leprosy disappeared.”