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Illustrate God’s love bucket
Small Bucket.
Large Bucket.
Sponge.
Plastic Cup with holes in the bottom (love tanks with a lead).
Signs: Our love.
God’s love.
Towels.
Cookie sheet to catch water.
Introduction
God is omnipresent.
God is infinite.
He is everywhere at all times.
He is everywhere present in all time (past, present, future).
In order to be truly infinite…
You cannot have a beginning.
To have a beginning …
is to be inside a sequence of events.
To be inside a sequence of events...
is to be inside time.
Here’s the logic:
Anything that begins to exist exists inside time.
God never began to exist.
God is outside time.
God does not begin.
God is outside of time.
God is outside of space.
All of God’s other attributes operate in symphony with one another and all are rooted in His infinite, personal character.
God is omnipotent.
God can do anything, and He freely chose to create free, moral creatures.
God does whatever God wants to do, in accordance with the symphony of His divine attributes.
No one else makes or compels God to do anything.
God freely decided to create morally-free creatures.
God freely decided to save those same morally-free creatures in accordance with His divine, eternal nature.
For those reasons,
Salvation is available to every person in the world.
But salvation is only applied to those who believe.
So salvation is founded in God’s free, sovereign will.
God is omnibenevolent.
Salvation is founded upon God’s intrinsic and infinite all-goodness.
We investigated four truths about God’s all-good nature.
God is infinite (God knows no bounds and God is measureless).
God is love.
God is infinite love (God is omnibenevolent).
Omnibenvolence.
God is all-loving.
God possesses infinite, or unlimited, goodness.
And we noted that strong Calvinists like R.C. Sproul deny God’s omnibenevolence.
They do not deny that God loves.
They believe He does.
What they deny is that love/goodness is a necessary aspect of God’s intrinsic nature.
Is God love and morally good in his nature or only in His dealings with His creatures?
4. God’s omnibenevolence operates in symphony with His decree to provide salvation to the world.
Because God is omnibenevolent…
God loves everyone, but He never forces people to love Him (align with Him).
>>Next week we will look at God’s provision of salvation in relationship to His omniscience (predestination, foreknowledge, etc.)
I would like to address three questions that arise concerning God’s plan for salvation.
And how you answer these questions depends upon whether or not you believe God is omnibenevolent in His plan for redemption.
Questions about redemption answered by God’s omnibenevolence:
1.
Does God only love those He knows will be saved?
Many Calvinists claim that God does not love all people enough for salvation.
They insist that Christ died only for the elect.
And, therefore, He only loves the elect.
“According as he hath chosen us (not “all”) in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:”
“For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;”
“As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.”
“Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;”
If this interpretation is true, then God is not omnibenevolent.
The fact that some verses only mention believers ...
in relation with God’s love ...
does not prove limited love.
Consider this:
First.
Paul also said that Jesus “gave himself for me.”
(Galatians 2:20)
I will not read the verse, please display.
Yet no proponent of limited atonement takes this to mean that Christ did not also die for other believers.
Second.
When the Bible uses terms like we, our, or us of the atonement, …
it speaks only of those to whom it has been applied, …
and not for all those for whom it was provided.
Third.
The fact that Jesus loves His bride and died for her (Ephesians 5:25)
does not mean that God the Father and Jesus the Son …
do not love the whole world …
and desire them to be part of His bride, the church.
John 3:16 obviously tells us otherwise.
So, just because some verses only mention believers ...
in relation with God’s love ...
this does not prove limited love.
God loves the world!
And because God loves the whole world, He commanded us to…
Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature!
“Love is the root of missions; sacrifice is the fruit of missions.”
~Roderick Davis
“Missions has its origin in the heart of God.
God is a fountain of sending love.
This is the deepest source of mission.
It is impossible to penetrate deeper still; there is mission because God loves people.”
~David J. Bosch
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