“This World Needs His Love in Christ” By Pastor Robert

“This world needs real love, and that love is given in Christ Jesus.”

1. A world starving for real love

Our world is full of talk about “love,” but empty of Christ-like love.

• People are more connected and yet more lonely than ever.
• Many relationships are conditional: “I love you as long as you please me or agree with me.”
• Families are fractured, tempers are short, and many hearts are tired and suspicious because they have been hurt so many times.

“Church, we live in a time when the word ‘love’ is everywhere—songs, shows, advertisements—but the kind of love we often see is shallow and temporary. When it costs too much, it disappears. When someone fails or disappoints us, we cut them off. The truth is, the world is hungry for a love that does not quit, does not use people, and does not vanish when life gets hard. That kind of love cannot be manufactured by human effort; it must come from God.”1 John 4:7–8“Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.”

• The problem is not just that people lack love, but that they are separated from the God who is love.

2. Love revealed and proven in Christ Jesus

• John 15:9–13 – Jesus invites us to “abide” in His love and points to the greatest love: laying down His life for His friends.
• Romans 5:6–8 – Christ died for us “while we were still sinners,” showing God’s love.

1. Love has a face and a name
   • “As the Father has loved Me, so have I loved you. Abide in My love.”
   • The same deep, eternal love the Father has for the Son is the love Jesus extends to His people.
   • Jesus does not give us a smaller or weaker love; He shares the very love He receives from the Father.
2. Love moved first
   • Romans 5 teaches that Christ died for the ungodly “at the right time,” while we were still weak and in sin.
   • God did not wait for us to clean up our lives or become lovable.
   • The manger shows love entering our world; the cross shows love carrying our guilt; the empty tomb shows love breaking the power of death.
3. Love that is more than words
   • Many say “I love you,” but only Christ died for our sins and rose again.
   • His love is not just emotional; it is sacrificial, practical, and powerful to save.

“Everywhere you look, you see the damage of sin—broken trust, wounded hearts, cycles of anger and fear. God’s answer was not to send a philosophy or a program, but a Savior. The love this world needs came down in a Person: Jesus Christ. In Him, God drew near. In Him, God carried our sins. In Him, God opened the way back home. The love we lack, He supplies. The love we need, He has already given.”

3. Love received and shared: abiding and reflecting

1. Receiving His love
   • Jesus says, “Abide in My love.” That means: stay close, remain, dwell in His love.
   • Many Christians try to serve, give, and love others while secretly doubting that God truly loves them.
   • Advent is a call to slow down and let Christ’s love speak to the deepest parts of the heart—places of shame, rejection, failure.

2. Reflecting His love to others
   • John 15:12: “This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.”
   • The measure of our love for others is not their behavior, but His example.
   • The church is called to be a living demonstration of Christ’s love: patient, forgiving, generous, truthful.

“If this world is going to see the love of Christ, it must see it in His people. Not a perfect people, but a forgiven people. Not a people who never fail, but a people who keep returning to the cross and keep choosing to love because they have been loved by Christ.”