God So Loved
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“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.
We measure love by three indicators:
The Identity of the Lover
The Object of the Love
The Expression of the Love
1. The Identity of the Love
The greater the lover the greater the love.
When we talk about the love of God, you’re talking about a love the no one can possibly begin to conceive.
This is the God-Love we read about in 1 Cor 13 chapter
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Our love is not limitless to the point where we can love everyone
The greater the Lover the Greater the Love
Say to them, As I live, declares the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live; turn back, turn back from your evil ways, for why will you die, O house of Israel?
We all know someone that we consider pretty loving - cannot compare to God
2. The Object of the Love
The Lesser the Object, The Greater the Love
The object of God’s love is one of the realities that should take our breath away.
His love is not a temporary, passing thought
Consider for a moment the utter and complete unworthiness of those who are the recipients of this love.
NOT just covenant baptize believers, but individual who are not part of if
The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.
But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God,
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them. Therefore remember that at one time you Gentiles in the flesh, called “the uncircumcision” by what is called the circumcision, which is made in the flesh by hands— remember that you were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
A benevolent King may be gracious to his loyal subjects - but not his hated enemy.
Christ in pain and anguish said: “..Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.” At the same time “they” were gambling to see who’d get his clothes. Not out of admiration, but out of sport.
Think for a moment the level of love Christ showed by washing the feet of the very person who would eventually betray him (Judas) - while at the same time teaching vital lesson on humility (John 13)
A love has to be extraordinarily great to love sinners like us.
but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles,
The Lesser the Object, The Greater the Love
3. The Expression of the Love:
The greater the expression, the more marvelous the love.
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?
Prodigal Son in Luke, chapter 15
Lost sheep - 99 sheep loses 1, only 1%
vs. 6 - he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost!’
The Lost Coin - 10 coins loses 1, 10%
Vs. 9 When she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found the coin which I had lost!’ 10 In the same way, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents.”
The Lost Son - 2 sons, loses 1, 50%
vs. 31 for this brother of yours was dead and has begun to live, and was lost and has been found.’”
No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.