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The
Love of God
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Do you know
that you cannot keep God from loving you? You can reject His love, but you
cannot keep Him from loving you. ...you can raise the umbrella of
indifference or the umbrella of sin or the umbrella of rebellion so that you
won't experience God's love, but you cannot keep Him from loving you. ~
J. Vernon McGee
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Could we with ink the ocean fill,
And were the skies of parchment made
Were every stalk on earth a quill,
And every man a scribe by trade,
To write the love of God above
Would drain the ocean dry.
Nor could the scroll contain the whole,
Though stretched from sky to sky.
From: "The Love of God" by Frederick M. Lehman |
| Nothing can separate us from His love: |
"Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our
Lord"
(Romans 8:37-39). |
| Loves us
forever: |
"I
have loved thee with an everlasting love" (Jeremiah 31:3).
"Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood," (Revelation 1:5).
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| Will never forsake us: |
"...he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee." (Hebrews 13: 5). |
| First loved us: |
"We
love Him, because He first loved us" (1 John 4:19). |
| Comforts
us: |
"I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to
you" (John 14:18).
"...Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort;
Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of
God" (2 Corinthians 1:3-4). |
| Demonstrated
His love by the cross:
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"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting
life" (John 3:16).
"Herein
is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son
to be the propitiation for our sins" (1 Jn. 4:10).
"But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for
us" (Romans 5:8). |
| Everlasting
consolation through grace: |
"Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through
grace" (2 Thessalonians 2:16). |
| Makes
us complete: |
"And
ye are complete in him" (Colossians 2:10). |
| Accepts
us: |
"...he
hath made us accepted in the beloved" (Ephesians 1:6). |
| Places
us in Christ: |
"And
hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places
in Christ Jesus: That in the ages to come he might show the exceeding
riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus"
(Eph. 2:6-7). |
| Cares
for us: |
"Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for
you" (1 Peter 5:7). |
| Is
gentle with us: |
"He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with
young" (Isaiah 40:11). |
| Has
compassion on us: |
"He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their
wounds" (Psalm 147:3). |
| Is
merciful and kind: |
"But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared, Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy
Ghost" (Titus 3:4-5). |
| A
great love: |
"But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, Even when we were dead in
sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)" (Ephesians
2:4, 5).
"...he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with
singing" (Zephaniah
3:17). |
| Keeps
us eternally secure: |
"And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my
hand" (John
10:28) |
"This
love holds nothing, nothing back, but, in a manner which no human mind
can fathom, makes you one with itself. O wondrous love! to love us even
as the Father loved Him, and to offer us this love as our everyday dwelling." ~ Andrew Murray
(1828-1917),
Abide in
Christ,
p. 143.
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