Because He First Loved

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God’s Love

Beautiful Garden

Nature Speaks of God’s love

Birds

Psalm 145:15–16 ESV

The eyes of all look to you, and you give them their food in due season. You open your hand; you satisfy the desire of every living thing.

Even After Sin

flowers upon the thistles

roses on the thornbushes

All natures testifies

of God’s fatherly care

Character of God

Moses

Show Me Thy Glory

English Standard Version Chapter 34

d“The LORD, the LORD, a God merciful and egracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast flove and faithfulness, 7 gkeeping steadfast love for thousands,1 hforgiving iniquity and transgression and sin

English Standard Version Chapter 4

you are a agracious God and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and arelenting from disaster.

Micah 7:18 ESV

Who is a God like you, pardoning iniquity and passing over transgression for the remnant of his inheritance? He does not retain his anger forever, because he delights in steadfast love.

Distortion of God’s Character

severe judge

harsh creditor

Father mean

Jesus nice

This is why Jesus came

To show the character of God

John 1:18 HCSB

No one has ever seen God. The One and Only Son — the One who is at the Father’s side — He has revealed Him.

Show Me the Father

John 14:8–9 ESV

Philip said to him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us.” Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and you still do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?

Character of Jesus

on the earth

Healing

Loving

Gentle

Even Children

Steps to Christ Chapter 1—God’s Love for Man

He did not censure human weakness. He spoke the truth, but always in love. He denounced hypocrisy, unbelief, and iniquity; but tears were in His voice as He uttered His scathing rebukes.

Desire of Ages Chapter 1—“God with Us”

Christ was treated as we deserve, that we might be treated as He deserves. He was condemned for our sins, in which He had no share, that we might be justified by His righteousness, in which we had no share. He suffered the death which was ours, that we might receive the life which was His. “With His stripes we are healed.”

Isaiah 53:5 ESV

But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed.

Man of Sorrows

John 3:16 ESV

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Love is giving

giving self.

It was not convenient

SEE HIM

Gethsemane

The Cross

Matthew 27:46 HCSB

About three in the afternoon Jesus cried out with a loud voice, “Elí, Elí, lemá sabachtháni?” that is, “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?”

Didn’t die of

suffocation

loss of blodd

physical exhaustion

Spiritual Torture

Cut off from God

Broken Heart!

God gave His Son

knowing what

would happen.

That is love.

2 Corinthians 5:19 ESV

that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation.

For what?

Romans 3:26 ESV

It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.

Family

sonship

brotherhood

Hebrews 2:11 ESV

For he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified all have one source. That is why he is not ashamed to call them brothers,

Heirs

Romans 8:16–17 ESV

The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him.

1 John 3:1 NKJV

Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know Him.

Steps to Christ Chapter 1—God’s Love for Man

Through transgression the sons of man become subjects of Satan. Through faith in the atoning sacrifice of Christ the sons of Adam may become the sons of God.