LOVE … ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS

 

AUGUSTINE, “GOD LOVES EACH OF AS IF THERE WERE ONLY ONE OF US.”

 

I JOHN 3:1 “SEE, HOW GREAT A LOVE THE FATHER HAS BESTOWED UPON US, THAT WE SHOULD BE CALLED THE CHILDREN OF GOD; AND SUCH WE ARE …”

 

“BEHOLD (LOOK) WHAT PECULIAR, OUT OF THIS WORLD KIND OF LOVE THE FATHER HAS BESTOWED ON US.”

 

THE ORIGINAL CONSTRUCTION OF THIS VERSE MEANS, “OF WHAT COUNTRY?”

 

LET’S LOOK AT GOD’S LOVE AS IT RELATES TO THE MISSION OF CHRIST:

 

GOD’S LOVE IS SACRIFICIAL LOVE, JOHN 3:16

 

THE BREADTH,

 

EXPANSE, “SO LOVED”

 

EXTENT, “THE WORLD”

 

THE DEPTH,

 

“GAVE”

“BEGOTTEN”

 

THE WIDTH,

 

“WHOEVER BELIEVES”

 

GOD’S LOVE IS SUBLIME LOVE, I JOHN 4:9-10

 

HIS PURSUIT WAS NOT DEPENDENT ON US,

 

“NOT THAT WE LOVED GOD …” Vv.10

 

HIS PUBLIC DECLARATION,

 

DEFIES OUR DEATH SENTENCE, Vv.9

 

DETERMINED TO SOLVE OUR PROBLEM, Vv.10

“PROPITIATION”

 

GOD’S LOVE IS A SOFTHEARTED (MERCIFUL) LOVE, EPHESIANS 2:4-7

 

WORD: GOD DOES NOT LOVE BECAUSE HE IS MERCIFUL GOD IS MERCIFUL BECAUSE HE LOVES …

 

THE RICHNESS OF MERCY, Vv.4

MERCY IS UNDESERVED KINDNESS

 

THE REIGN OF MERCY, Vv.5-7

 

RESURRECTED LIFE …

 

REALIZED LIFE …

 

OUR RESPONSE TO GOD’S LOVE …

 

AUGUSTINE, “WHAT DOES LOVE LOOK LIKE? IT HAS HAND TO HELP. IT HAS FEET TO HASTEN TO THE POOR AND NEEDY. IT HAS EYES TO SEE MISERY AND WANT. IT HAS EARS TO HEAR THE SIGHS AND SORROWS OF MEN. THAT IS WHAT LOVE LOOKS LIKE.”