Love = Incarnation

Galatians 4:4-5 (NLT)

But when the right time came, God sent his Son, born of a woman, subject to the law. God sent him to buy freedom for us who were slaves to the law, so that he could adopt us as his very own children.

At Christmas God’s love is revealed to us

"What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.”

-- A.W. Tozer

1 John 4:9 (NIV)

In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world…

1 John 4:9 (NIV)

This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.

At Christmas God’s love is defined

1 John 4:10 (NIV)

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. 

At Christmas God’s love transforms our heart

John 3:16-17 (NLT)

For this is how God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. God sent his Son into the world not to judge the world, but to save the world through him.”

1 John 4:11 (NIV)

Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

John 13:34 (NIV)

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.

Ephesians 3:16-19 (NIV)

I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.