GOD IS  … LOVE
VARIOUS SCRIPTURES

AN ATTRIBUTE IS ANY TERM THAT ADEQUATELY COMPLETES THE SENTENCE, GOD IS …

DEFINING LOVE … IN JOHN 4:8, “… GOD IS LOVE”

THE DEPTHS OF GOD’S LOVE, JEREMIAH 31:1-3

   “I HAVE LOVED YOU WITH AN EVERLASTING LOVE”

   EPHESIANS 1:3-14 … 202 WORD SENTENCE

   VS.3, GOD BLESSES; VS.4, GOD CHOOSES; VS.5, GOD PREDESTINS AND ADOPTS; VS.6, ; GOD BESTOWS GRACE; VS.7, GOD REDEEMS AND FORGIVES; VS.8, GOD LAVISHES; VS.9, GOD MAKES KNOWN AND HE PURPOSES; VS.10, GOD UNITES TOGETHER IN CHRIST; VS.11, GOD WORKS; VS.13, GOD SEALS

   A GROUND RULE, THERE ARE SOMETHINGS WE WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND FULLY …

DEUT. 29:29 “THE SECRET THINGS BELONG TO THE LORD OUR GOD, BUT THE THINGS THAT ARE REVEALED BELONG TO US AND OUR CHILDREN FOREVER, THAT WE MAY DO ALL THE WORDS OF THE LAW.”

SPURGEON, “I HAVE NO QUESTIONS THAT GOD CHOSE ME, BECAUSE I AM QUITE SURE THAT IF GOD HAD NOT CHOSEN ME I SHOULD NEVER HAVE CHOSEN HIM; AND I AM SURE HE CHOSE ME BEFORE I WAS BORN, OR ELSE HE NEVER WOULD HAVE CHOSEN ME AFTERWARDS; AND HE MUST HAVE ELECTED ME FOR REASONS UNKNOWN TO ME, FOR I NEVER COULD FIND ANY REASON IN MYSELF WHY HE SHOULD HAVE LOOKED UPON ME WITH SPECIAL LOVE …”

THE DELIGHT OF LOVE, MICAH 7:18

   THE OPPOSITE OF LOVE IS NOT HATE, IT IS INDIFFERENCE

   “IF GOD DID NOT CARE ONE WAY OR ANOTHER HE MIGHT EASILY BE INDIFFERENT TO US AND EITHER DO NOTHING OR DESTROY US WITHOUT GIVING THE MATTER A SECOND THOUGHT. HOWEVER, IT’S GOD’S LOVE THAT HAS LED HIM TO REDEEM US, BUT HE HAS DONE SO BECAUSE THAT SAME LOVE HAS HIM TO HATE WHAT WE BECOME AS REBELLIOUS SINNERS. IN GOD THE TWO APPARENT OPPOSITES ARE RECONCILED INTO ONE.”
GERALD BRAY

 THE DEMONSTRATION OF LOVE, JOHN 3:16

     EMPHASIS:
         “WORLD”

         “GOD LOVES ALL MEN IN SOME WAYS AND SOME MEN IN ALL WAYS.” J.I. PACKER

APPLICATION:

   WHAT ARE THE IMPLICATIONS:
   THE LOVE OF GOD MAKES A HUGE IMPACT ON MY RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD.

   AS IMAGE BEARERS THE LOVE OF GOD IMPACTS OUR EMOTIONS.
“TRUE RELIGION, CONSIST PRIMARILY IN THE AFFECTIONS.”
JOHN EDWARDS

   WHAT IF OUR RESPONSE TO GOD’S LOVE WAS ONE OF ACCEPTING RATHER THEN UNDERSTANDING …