COVENANTAL LOVE | Sabbath School Lesson 2 | 1Q 2025

Sabbath School Lesson Review | 1st Quarter, 2025
Lesson 2: "COVENANTAL LOVE"
Review with Pastor Lex Mercado
God's love is profoundly relational. A loving and intimate relationship with God cannot exist without human reciprocity in response to His loving benevolence.
Lesson Themes: This week's lesson focuses on three key ideas:
1. The love of God is unconditional. God loves everyone and wishes to establish a mutually binding relationship. The manifestation of His love is not dependent on human action or restricted to a certain type of people. He sees value in each person and considers him or her an object of His benevolent blessings.
2. The love of God intends to initiate a conditional relationship. God's loving benevolence is universal and unconditional, but He desires to have a specific and intimate relationship with human beings, which implies conditionality. That is, He expects a response to the love that they receive from Him, a spontaneous corresponding love in the form of obedience and loyalty.
3. The love of God was intended to be reflected in human relationships.God universally seeks a relationship of reciprocal love; the continuation of an intimate relationship implies an appropriate human response. The human side of the covenant-maintaining love involves keeping God's commandments and loving one another, which are human activities, empowered by God's love.
Life Application: God desires to have a loving relationship with human beings, but this relationship requires a genuine response and obedience on our part.