The Greater Love of God - Reflections and Lessons on Love, Sacrifice, and Forgiveness

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Explore the profound themes of love, sacrifice, and forgiveness through biblical verses and insightful commentary. Witness how God's love is displayed through the sacrifice of His Son and learn lessons on loving others, even our enemies. Delve into the complex nature of God's love and gain a deeper understanding of its significance in our lives.

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The Greater Love Of God John 3:14-21

Resources God So Loved The World - Part 2 John Piper DesiringGod.org The Difficult Doctrine of the Love of God - DA Carson

Gods Love Is Displayed On The Cross Lifted - is used of the cross Lifted - is also a term for exaltation

And the LORD said to Moses, "Make a fiery serpent and set it on a pole, and everyone who is bitten, when he sees it, shall live." - Numbers 21:8

Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. - 1 John 4:8-9

2nd Head of Doctrine: Article 3 - The death of the Son of God is the only and most perfect sacrifice and satisfaction for sin, and is of infinite worth and value, abundantly sufficient to expiate the sins of the whole world.

God Loves His Enemies What does the word world mean? World has more to do with badness than it does with bigness - D.A Carson V19-20 God loves the world but the world hates God

John 14:17 John 17:23-26 John 15:18-19

"But I say to you who hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you. - Luke 6:27-28

We never pray against our government or call down curses on them. Instead, we have learned that God is in control both of our own lives and the government we live under. God has used China's government for His own purposes, molding and shaping His children as He sees fit. Instead of focusing our prayers against any political system, we pray that regardless of what happens to us, we will be pleasing to God. -Brother Yun

Gods Love Has No Barriers V15, 16, 18 Whosoever Believes x3 God s purpose is not to condemn V19 People loved the darkness V20 The world hates the light

Article 6 - And whereas many who are called by the gospel do not repent nor believe in Christ, but perish in unbelief, this is not owing to any defect or insufficiency in the sacrifice offered by Christ upon the cross, but is wholly to be imputed to themselves

Written on the outside of the gate of heaven are the words, Whosoever will may come. And on the other side of that gate, which you can read from the inside, is written: Chosen before the foundation of the world. -DL Moody

Gods Regenerating Love Produces Belief True Comes To The Light Demonstrates - Gives Evidence 3:8 The evidence of the Holy Spirit

John 10:11 John 10:14 John 10:25-28

But there is another (greater) love of God. It goes beyond offering eternal life and actually creates it in your heart. If you only know the love of John 3:16, there is more love for you to know and enjoy and admire and be amazed at and be thankful for and be strengthened by. -John Piper

Article 7 - But as many as truly believe, and are delivered and saved from sin and destruction through the death of Christ, are indebted for this benefit solely to the grace of God, given them in Christ from everlasting, and not to any merit of their own.

But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ-by grace you have been saved- - Ephesians 2:4-5

Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. - John 13:1

Article 5 - Moreover, the promise of the gospel is, that whosoever believeth in Christ crucified, shall not perish, but have everlasting life. This promise, together with the command to repent and believe, ought to be declared and published to all nations, and to all persons promiscuously and without distinction, to whom God out of His good pleasure sends the gospel