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GOD’S LOVE
Introduction:
We are going to unwrap this morning the topic of God’s love.
Hopefully and just maybe answer some questions we all have about the love of God like, Does God really love me?
Why does God love me?
Does God love everyone?
There is nothing so immeasurable or as important as God’s love and yet His love so misunderstood by man today.
1 John 4 just revealed to us a profound statement about God’s love...God is love!
Do you really understand what that means?
Have you ever considered the magnitude of that statement?
Let us consider God’s love…
I. God’s Love is Unconditional
1. God’s love is not in any way influenced by anything we say, do or have.
Let me ask you this, do you think this letter written from Marie to Jimmy is an indication of unconditional love...
Dearest Jimmy,
No words could ever express the great unhappiness I’ve felt since breaking off our engagement.
Please say you’ll take me back.
No one could ever take your place in my heart, so please forgive me.
I love you, I love you, I love you!
Yours Forever, Marie
P.S.
And congratulations on winning the state lottery!!!
What about this letter written by God to us...
2. Nothing about us makes God love us.
God does not love us because we are valuable.
We are valuable because God loves us.
No matter what your life has been like, He still loves you!
It has been said due to what God has revealed to us through His word as well as through the giving of His son for us,
“There is nothing you can do to cause God to love you anymore than He already does, and there is nothing you can do to cause God to love you any less.
GOD IS LOVE!
The most important lesson that you can learn in life is that God never stops loving you!
Peter denied being one of the disciples and cursed, but God still loved him and turned his life around.
John Mark turned back and quit in the middle of a missionary journey but Christ still loved Him and caused him to be an asset to the church and the Apostle Paul (2 Timothy 4:11).
David committed adultery and murder, but God still loved him.
GOD IS LOVE - GOD’S LOVE IS UNCONDITIONAL
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II.
God’s love is Unending
God’s love for us is from eternity, without beginning and without ending
Max Lucado illustrates the unending love of God in his book 3:16 by sharing the following story.
“Matheson was only a teenager when doctors told him he was going blind.
Not to be denied, he pursued his studies, graduating from the University of Glasgow in 1861 at the age of 19.
By the time he finished graduate seminary studies, he was sightless.
His fiancée returned his engagement ring with a note: “I cannot see my way clear to go through life bound by the chains of marriage to a blind man.”
Matheson never married.
He adapted to his sightless world but never recovered from his broken heart.
He became a powerful and poetic pastor, led a full and inspiring life.
Yet occasionally the pain of his unrequited affection flared up, as it did decades later at his sister’s wedding.
The ceremony brought back memories of the love he had lost.
In response, he turned to the unending love of God for comfort and penned these words to a familiar hymn entitled O Love That Wilt Not Let Me Go on June 6, 1882:
O love that wilt not let me go, I rest my weary soul in thee; I give thee back the life I owe, that in Thine ocean depths its flow may richer, fuller be.”
Those who know and have experienced the love of Jesus can boldly quote Romans 8:38-39
God’s Love is UNENDING...
And if love never fails, God never fails.
Country singer George Strait sings a song entitled, "Love without End, Amen."
It tells the story of a young boy coming home from school after having a fight and expecting punishment from his dad.
Fully expecting the wrath of his father, the son waited, expecting the worst.
However, the father said, "Let me tell you a secret about a father’s love ...Daddies don’t just love their children every now and then ...it’s a love without end.
Amen."
The young lad grew up and passed this secret on to his children.
One day he dreamed that he died and went to heaven.
He was concerned, as he waited to go in, because he realized there must be some mistake for if they knew half the things he’s done they would never let him in.
It was then that he heard his father’s words again, "Let me tell you a secret about a father’s love ...Daddies don’t just love their children every now and then ...it’s a love without end.
Amen."
Isn’t it comforting to know that we have a Father like this?
It is no secret, concerning our Father’s love: God doesn’t just love His children every now and then; indeed, it is a "love without end, Amen." - Bill Thrasher
GOD IS LOVE - GOD’S LOVE IS UNCONDITIONAL, ITS UNENDING...
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God’s Love in Unchangeable
God’s Love in Unchangeable.
C. H. Spurgeon was walking through the English countryside with a friend.
As they strolled along, the evangelist noticed a barn with a weather vane on its roof.
At the top of the vane were these words: GOD IS LOVE.
Spurgeon remarked to his companion that he thought this was a rather inappropriate place for such a message.
“Weather vanes are changeable,” he said, “but God’s love is constant.”
“I don’t agree with you about those words, Charles,” replied his friend.
“You misunderstood the meaning.
That sign is indicating a truth: Regardless of which way the wind blows, God is love.”
For God so LOVED…because God Is LOVE.
GOD IS LOVE - GOD’S LOVE IS UNCONDITIONAL, ITS UNENDING, ITS UNCHANGEABLE
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