The Five Love Languages Part 7 // Jesus: Love Embodied

By Mark Jordan | February 27, 2025

Transfiguration Sunday

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.

  • V.16: Power, dunamis – ability to transform
  • V.17: Rooted, to grow deeply and establish
  • V.18: vastness of God’s love
  • V.19: Jesus is the fullness of God

Jesus Embodies the Five Love Languages of God

  1. God’s Word:
    1. John 1:14 (NIV) | The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.
  • God’s Gift:
    • John 3:16 (NIV) | For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
  • In God’s Time:
    • Galatians 4:4-5 (ESV) | But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, 5 to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons.
  • God’s Servant:
    • Philippians 2:6-7a (GNT) | [Jesus] always had the nature of God, but he did not think that by force he should try to remain equal with God. Instead of this, of his own free will he gave up all he had, and took the nature of a servant.
  • God’s Touch:
    • Luke 6:19 (NIV) | …the people all tried to touch him, because power was coming from him and healing them all.

Translating Love John 13:34-35 (MSG) | Let me give you a new command: Love one another. In the same way I loved you, you love one another. This is how everyone will recognize that you are my disciples—when they see the love you have for each other.”

Reflection Questions:

  1. How does God want your life to be transformed? For what purpose?
  2. What is it Jesus came to show us about the heart of God?
  3. Think about your primary love languages. How can you reflect God’s love to others based on how God made you?
  4. Think about your least effective love language. What can you learn from Jesus, or someone else for that matter, about how to love like God loves?
  5. Who do you know needs to hear about the fullness of love in Jesus Christ?
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