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God is Love
“God is Love” What does this even mean.
The problematic question I get asked is, “Does God love everybody the same?”
Did he love Nero to the same degree that he loves Billy Graham?
Does he love those who reject Him the same as he does the redeemed children?
Does God hate the sin but love the sinner?
To often we oversimplify this question historically by saying with an unqualified yes!
There are 5 ways that Scripture speaks of God’s love
God’s intra-Trinitarian love between the Father and the Son.
2. God’s providential love over His creation ()
3. God’s redeeming love towards his fallen world.
world (kosmos)
4. God’s particular, selecting love.
Deuteronomy
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5. God’s love for his people conditioned on obedience.
Vital Warnings
Avoid absolutizing one biblical expression of God’s love over another.
Avoid compartmentalizing way’s that God’s love is shown.
Avoid evangelistic chiches over the scales of scripture.
“God loves everyone the same way or unconditionally” There are conditions of obedience in relation to God’s love.
1. God is the Origin of Love
Love does not define God (God defines love)
God is love does not mean that love is God.
We must guard against over sentimalizing the love of God to not much more than a romantic movie or romantic feeling.
God’s love is a holy love that begins and ends with God.
All that God does expresses all that God is.
Even His judgments are measured out in love and mercy.
4:8 “God can only be known through the demonstration of His love, most profoundly seen in sending His Son in the flesh as a sacrifice for humanity.
4:9 “God’s love demonstrated for humanity and creation by sending His only Son to die as a means of atonement for sin.
Much that modern society calls “love” does not bear any resemblance or relationship to the holy, spiritual love of God.
2. God is the True Expression of Love
True love is poured out through the spirit of God
Love is a valid test of true Christian faith
Since God is love, and we have claimed a personal relationship with God, we must reveal His love in how we live.
The person who loves God knows God.
Many unsaved people love their families and even sacrifice for them.
And no doubt many of these same people have some kind of intellectual understanding of God.
What do they lack?
The lack a personal experience of God.
This person has never truly experienced God what he knows is in his head not his heart.
WHAT GOD IS DETERMINES WHAT WE SHOULD BE!
As God is so should we be in the world
A person who claims he knows God and is in union with Him must be personally affected by this relationship.
A Christian ought to become what God is, and “God is love.”
To argue otherwise is to prove that one does not really know God!
3. God is the manifestation of love.
What God did: “he sent his son”
The manifestation of God’s love was at the cross.
The sending of Christ into the world, and His death on the cross, were not prompted by man’s love for God.
They were prompted by His love for man.
God’s love for sinners should always astound and humble us.
It must never be reduced to a merely academic matter.
Rightly did the psalmist wonder, “What is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him?”
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4. God is the architect of Love
When you read , you feel like saying, “So that’s what it’s all about!”
Here we discover what God had in mind when He devised His great plan of Salvation.
God’s desire is to live in us
God is not satisfied to simply tell us that he loves us, or even show us that He loves us.
GOD’S DWELLING PLACES IN THE BIBLE
God had fellowship with man at the very beginning, but sin broke that fellowship.
It was necessary fro God to shed the blood of animals to cover the sins of Adam and Eve so that they might come back into fellowship with him.
One of the key words in Genesis is walked.
God walked with men, and men walked with God.
Enoch, Noah, Abraham walked with God.
By the time of the Exodus, a change had taken place: God did not simply walk with men, He lived, or dwelt, with them through the sanctuary or tabernacle.
When Moses dedicated the tent of meeting God came down and moved into the tent.
The downfall of man caused the glory to depart from his dwelling place but Samuel and David restored the temple to it’s former glory and once again the glory of God came to dwell in the land.
Israel disobeyed God again and history repeated itself as they were taken into Captivity.
The gorgeous temple was destroyed.
The glory has now returned in the person God’s Son, Jesus Christ! “And the word became flesh, and tabernacled among us, and we beheld His glory.”
The glory of God now lives in the bodies of God’s children.
“or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you.” 1 Cor.
6:19
God reveals himself through His children.
Our love for one another reveals God’s love to a needy world.
God’s love will be experienced in us and then will be expressed through us.
ABIDE: to abide in Christ means to remain in spiritual oneness with God.
Abiding in God’s love produces spiritual benefits.
4:16
1)we grow in knowledge
2)we grow in faith
5. God is the freeing nature of love
Love Free’s us from Fear
How does love drive out fear?
When Stan becomes a Christian, he was antagonistic, bitter, and quick to take offense at others who he thought slighted him.
Burdened by a poor self-image, Joe blow could not believe that God accepted him with all of his faults.
Every time something went wrong, he was sure God was punishing him and he cringed.
Even when everything seemed to go smoothly, there was always an aching fear that kept him from feeling peace or satisfaction.
Then Stan became a member of a truly loving church whose members accepted him as he was.
They understood his behavior, overlooked his insults, and returned only love.
They invited this unpleasant young man into their homes.
Gradually Stan realized that these people loved him in spite of himself.
He could be real with them, and they still cared.
One day Stan truly experienced the reality of God’s love.
The message of Calvary he had accepted intellectually now released the knots of guilt and fear deep within.
When Stan found a community of people who were like God in this world, he was freed to grow into a loving person himself.
Love is our proper response to God.
Stan was freed to love only by being loved.
John pointed out that it is the same with all of us.
We did not love God; God loved us.
Being loved by God first frees us to love in return.
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