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Introduction: The power of Love: A husband and wife one day were fussing.

They were really going at it.

So the wife suggested they write down their complaints on a piece of paper and then show the other person exactly how they felt.

She thought it might cut down on the bickering.

The husband agreed and got the paper.

She got out the pencils and they both started writing.

They both wrote furiously for a while.

The husband would pause, look at his wife, and write some more.

the wife would pause, look up at her husband and write some more.

the husband paused again, looked at his wife with an even angrier look on his face, and then he would write some more.

The wife did the same and then put her pencil down.

Her husband was still writing.

He looked up at her in fury and continued writing.

He kept writing.

Then he wrote some more.

Then he wrote some more.

The wife was getting furious because she had filled up one side of her paper and he was still writing on the back of his paper.

He kept looking up at her and coming up with more to write.

every time he looked up something new would come and he'd write some more.

The wife was in pain and agony.

She was clenching her fists and tears of anger were welling up in her eyes.

Finally, her husband said that he was finished.

They exchanged sheets of paper and looked at each others sheet.

As soon as she gave him her sheet and looked at his, she felt terrible.

She wanted to take her sheet back.

For when she looked at her husband's sheet of paper in spite of his anger and in spite of his pain, he had written on every line, "i love you, I love you, I live you.

I'm ticked off, but I love you, I'm angry, but I love you.

I don't want to do this, but I love you".

When she saw that much love, it covered the multitude of sins that had brought up the argument in the first place.

That's the kind of love that God has for his children!

Text: Romans 5:6-11

Proposition: God's love is the greatest example of love you will ever find

Transitional Statement: There are 3 facts about God's love that we will look at.

The first fact is:

GOD HAD GIVEN US PROOF OF HIS LOVE (vs 6-8)

Expound- Everybody always wants proof.

One comedian once said that he called to pay his electric bill and before they would take the payment, the customer service rep told him they would first have to verify he was in fact who he claimed to be.

The man replied if someone calls and wants to pay my bills, please by all means let them!

How much proof do you need that God loves you?

John 3:16

“Christ loved the church, and gave himself for it” (Eph.

5:25).

“He loved me, and gave himself for me” (Gal.

2:20).

A few words that stick out in verse 6: without strength, in due time, and ungodly

this gives us a little insight to the character of God

His love is always on time, always there for those in need regardless of the person.

We are all weak; we can't save ourselves and we are all sinners

God’s love is perfect, it’s amazing, it’s powerful and it’s also...

Application

God's love is unconditional

If a mother’s love can be depicted as unconditional, what of the love of God as manifested at Calvary?

Those iron bolts of Rome in the pierced hand of the crucified Christ could well have become thunderbolts of wrath.

He could have hurled His anathemas across a guilty world, summoned from the ramparts of heaven twelve shining legions with drawn and flaming swords, and marched to Armageddon then and there.

Instead Jesus cried out, “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.”

Christ died for the ungodly- literally “a bad person”

This is the proof of God’s love; it is unconditional.

It is comforting to know that no matter who you are or what you have done, God loves you enough to forgive you!

It’s unconditional.

You can’t buy it, you can’t earn it, all you have to do is ask for it

God's love is incomparable

Scarcely...righteous- a man of simply unexceptionable character.

peradventure...good man- a man who, besides being exceptionable, is distinguished for goodness, a benefactor to society.

His absence would be noticed.

commendeth(“keeps on showing”)

While we were yet sinners!

Jesus said, “I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance” (Matt.

9:13).

“Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners” (1 Tim.

1:15).

It isn’t that we deserve God’s help and salvation, for we merit nothing but His undiluted wrath and unmitigated punishment.

Look at what sin has done to that fair and lovely world, the world upon which God uttered His benediction in the day of creation (Gen.

1:31).

Sin has outraged God and defiled both heaven and earth.

It has introduced rebellion and ruin where once He reigned supreme.

The world is haunted by demons, disease, and death, and dotted with graveyards, hospitals, prisons, and mental institutions.

It is ruined by vileness and squalor, misery and hatred, war and famine, blight and pestilence, death and decay—all products of sin.

And man is hand in glove with sin.

When God sent forth His Son to be their Saviour, men spat into the face of Jesus, plowed His back with a scourge, spiked Him naked and thorn-crowned to a tree, sneered and mocked Him in His anguish until the sun hid its blushing noonday face in shame and the earth quaked in terror and the bedrock granite rent wide in protest.

Yet despite it all, God has “made peace through the blood of his cross” (Col.

1:20), surely one of the most astounding statements in the Word of God.

We could understand if it were to read that God had made war over that precious, outpoured blood and that cursed cross; but we read instead that He made peace through that very blood.

God’s love is incomparable, it’s unconditional and the very fact that you are here today is proof that God does indeed love you!

GOD PROVIDED HIS LOVE FOR OUR BENEFIT (Vs 9-10)

Expound- One thing can make a person choose a place of employment over another one…benefits.

Two companies can offer the same salary, but one offers a company car, better insurance, more vacation time and you and I would choose that company to work for.

The word benefit means to gain an advantage or profit from something.

In this case God provided the sacrifice and we gain the benefit of His love.

Those benefits are..

Justified- declared righteous.

In Romans 3:10 Paul writes "there is none righteous, no, not one"

This is not to say God considers believers merely as if they had never sinned.

This would only indicate they were innocent.

Justification goes beyond this understanding.

Christ has paid the penalty for sin and guilt and has fulfilled the just requirements of the law.

God the Father applied Christ’s perfect work to the believer’s life in such a way that he or she is restored to a right standing with God.

In this way God declares a person righteous.

Reconciled- to restore to friendship or harmony

We are both justified and reconciled.

“Not once in the Bible is God said to be reconciled.

The enmity is alone on our part.

It was we who needed to be reconciled to God, not God to us; and it is his atoning sacrifice which His righteousness and mercy have provided that makes reconciliation possible to those who receive it.”

We are “saved from wrath,” says Paul

Application

Christ gave His life for us