Part 10: The Limitless Love of God
Sermon Summary
In this message, Pastor Vincent reflects on his upcoming sabbatical and shifts the congregation’s attention to what Jesus calls the greatest commandment: to love God and to love others. Rooted in Matthew 22 and 1 Thessalonians 3, he teaches that the Christian life requires an ever-increasing capacity to love, especially in a world filled with cultural tension, personal hardship and the temptation for our love to grow cold. He reminds us that God’s limitless love is not only commanded but essential for navigating the challenges of daily life.
He calls believers to experience God’s limitless love, not merely agree with it intellectually. We receive this love through believing, receiving and practicing it. Pastor Vincent asks us to identify personal fears and then what we would do if God’s perfect love fully cast out that fear. He reminds us that limitless love is both received and given, and that when believers choose love over fear, God empowers them to bless others and reflect Christ in the world.
Key Scriptures
“Jesus replied: ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’
This is the first and greatest commandment.
And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’” - Matthew 22:37–39
“May the Lord make your love increase and overflow for each other and for everyone else, just as ours does for you.
May he strengthen your hearts so that you will be blameless and holy in the presence of our God and Father when our Lord Jesus comes with all his holy ones.” - 1 Thessalonians 3:12–13
“At that time many will turn away from the faith and will betray and hate each other,
and many false prophets will appear and deceive many people.
Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold,
but the one who stands firm to the end will be saved.
And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.” - Matthew 24:10–14
“Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance,
perseverance, character; and character, hope.
And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.” - Romans 5:3
“But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” - Romans 5:8
“The Lord appeared to us in the past, saying: ‘I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with unfailing kindness.’” - Jeremiah 31:3
Instructions for Groups
Choose a few of these questions from the various categories to go deeper in the sermon and put the truths of Scripture into practice. You don’t need to answer every question. Select the ones that will best help your group engage with God’s Word and apply it to your lives.
Discussion Questions
Scripture Study and Deeper Understanding
1. In Matthew 24:10–14, what specific signs does Jesus describe as leading to love growing cold?
2. According to Romans 5:3–5, what process does Paul describe from suffering to hope? What does this reveal about how God forms character in believers?
3. In Jeremiah 31:3, God describes His love as everlasting and His kindness as drawing. How does this Old Testament description connect with Jesus’ teachings in the New Testament?
Encouragement, Challenge and Personal Testimony
4. Pastor Vincent shared Artie Sudan’s journey caring for his wife through Alzheimer’s. What does this testimony teach us about the nature of God’s love and how He supplies grace “for every step”?
5. Jesus warns that the love of many will grow cold. Based on the sermon, what forces today threaten to cool our love? What does that reveal about areas where believers may need renewal?
6. The sermon emphasized that God’s love reaches us “while we were still sinners.” How does this truth bring hope to people who feel unworthy, exhausted or distant from God?
Putting It Into Practice
7. In the sermon exercise, Pastor Vincent asked, “What are you afraid of, and what would you do if God’s perfect love cast out that fear?” After listening to the Holy Spirit, where do you sense God inviting you to step forward?
8. What is one practical way you can show sacrificial, God-shaped love this week in your home, workplace, friendships or church community?
Prayer
9. Listening to the Holy Spirit: Let’s sit in silence for 60 seconds and invite the Spirit to speak. After the silence: What do you sense the Holy Spirit highlighting for you from this study?
10. What prayer requests arise as you reflect on the Scriptures and discussion? How can we pray for you as you seek to walk in God’s limitless love this week?