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! 1 Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.[1]
*Intro:* 9~/11, pearl harbor, Great depression
Black Thursday when the Great Depression began with the crash of the stock market.
Just one week before the 1929 crash, Professor Irving Fisher of Yale University had announced, “Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.”
And then sudden chaos.[2]
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(Amazement) Behold, What manner Ποταπός [ Are you as amazed at this truth as John was?
Why Not?]
a. Behold (Look at this, think about it)
Who should think this is amazing?
i.
Gentile believers
ii.
Written from Ephesus
iii.
Most likely to nearby group of Asian churches
iv.
Written about a.d.
85–90.
b.
What manner
i.
Other places the word is used (Matt 8:27)
1. Used 7 Times in the New Testament
2. Meaning
a. Ποταπός; literally, “of what country,” in the New Testament always implies amazement[3]
i.
from what far realm?
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What unearthly love,… how other-worldly[4]
b.
It implies marvellous /quality/ rather than marvellous /size/.[5]
c. always implies astonishment.
Admiration is usually conveyed as well.[6]
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Example of usage
Matthew 8:27 – What manner of man is this, that even the wind…
23 And when he was entered into a ship, his disciples followed him.
24 And, behold, there arose a great tempest in the sea, insomuch that the ship was covered with the waves: but he was asleep.
25 And his disciples came to/ him/, and awoke him, saying, Lord, save us: we perish.
26 And he saith unto them, Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith?
Then he arose, and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm.
27 But the men marvelled, saying, What manner of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey him!
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Transitional Statement: What did John find so shocking or amazing?
The love God has showed to us.
2. (Agape) Of Love
a. Terms for love (Charles B. Hodge, Jr.)[8]
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Eros – Physical, carnal, erotic, fleshly
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Storge – Natural affection ( Family, Kin)
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Phileo – Brotherly affection (Give and take love)
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Agape – Willful choice to love regardless (Word used here)
b. Transcendently of God’s love
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God sets His mind and will on seeking man’s highest good.
This is what is amazing about God’s love.”[9]
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God alone loves in the fullest and highest sense of the word; [10]
c. Description of God’s love (I Corinthians 13:4-8)
| *Attribute of love* | *Description* |
| *suffereth long* | Patient under affliction |
| *is kind* | Extending /good/ to others |
| *envieth not* | Content |
| *vaunteth not* | does not show off |
| *Not puffed up* | humble |
| *Not … unseemly* | courteous, manors |
| *thinketh no evil* | Love makes allowances for the falls of others, and is ready to put on them a charitable construction.
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| *rejoiceth in the truth* | Exults not at the perpetration of iniquity |
| *Beareth all things* | It /endures without divulging/ to the world personal distress |
| *believeth all things* | unsuspiciously believes all that is not palpably false |
| *hopeth* | what is good of another, even when others have ceased to hope.
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| *endureth* | persecutions in a patient and loving spirit.
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| *never faileth* | never is to be out of use; it always holds its place.
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d.
Displays of God’s love (R. A. Torrey)
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The giving of Christ.
Joh 3:16.
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The sending of Christ.
1Jo 4:9.
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Christ’s dying for us while sinners.
Ro 5:8; 1Jo 4:10.
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Election.
Mal 1:2,3; Ro 9:11-13.
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Adoption.
1Jo 3:1.
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Redemption.
Isa 43:3,4; 63:9.
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Freeness of salvation.
Tit 3:4-7.
viii.
Forgiving sin.
Isa 38:17.
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