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Exploring HisExcellencies:

His Love

John IsaacsSeptember 13, 2009

Kingsway Community Church



Whois

God?



Whatis HeLike?



God iswho the Bible

(in its totality)

reveals Him to



The Bible Reveals God To Be

1. Good2. Powerful

3. Wise4. Eternal5. Holy6. Just

7. Merciful8. Faithful

9. Near10. Sovereign11.12.



Godis

Sovereign



God has the

power to

perform His

will



God is not

subject to

anyone.



God

governs

and

controls the



God is

sovereign, and

yet, I’m still

responsible forthe things I



Godis

Love



1 John 4:8But anyone who does not love does

not know God, for God is love.



God is Love

but

Love isnot God



The divine love is commonly

regarded as a species of amiable weakness, a sort of good-natured indulgence; it is reduced to a mere sickly sentiment, patterned after

human emotion.- A. W. Pink



Human Love God’s

LoveInfluenced Uninfluenced

Conditional UnconditionalChanging Unchanging

Temporary Eternal



1 John 4:19 We love Him because

He first loved us.



There is little real love for God even among professing

Christians. Because our heartsare so little occupied with His

wondrous love for His people.The better we are acquainted with His love – its character,

fullness, blessedness – the moreour hearts will be drawn out inlove to Him.

- A. W. Pink



Characteristic

s of

God’s Love



God’s Love is Infiniteand

Limitless



Psalm 103:11

For his unfailing love

toward those who fear him is as great as the

height of the heavensabove the earth.



Ephesians 3:18-19

And may you have thepower to understand, as all

God’s people should, howwide, how long, how high,

and how deep his love is.



Ephesians 3:18-19

May you experience the loveof Christ, though it is too

great to understand fully.Then you will be made

complete with all the fullnessof life and power that comes

from God



God’s Love is Immutableand

Changeless



Micah 7:20

You will showfaithfulness to Jacob and

unchanging love to

Abraham, as you havesworn to our fathers from

the days of old



James 1:17

Every good gift and everyperfect gift is from above,

coming down from theFather of lights with whom

there is no variation or shadow due to change.



God’s Love isEternal



Psalm 136:1

Give thanks to the

LORD, for He is good,for His steadfast love

endures forever.



Jeremiah 31:3

The LORD appeared to him

from far away. I have loved

you with an everlastinglove; therefore I have

continued my faithfulness toyou.



God’s Love isSacrificial



John 3:16

For God so loved theworld, that He gave His

only Son, that whoever

believes in Him shouldnot perish but have

eternal life



John 15:13

Greater love has no

one than this,

thatsomeone lay down

his life for his friends.



1 John 4:10

This is real love - not thatwe loved God, but that

He loved us and sent His

Son as a sacrifice totake away our sins.





God’s love is not a

vague, diffused goodwill towards

everyone in generaland nobody in particular.

- J I Packer



Ephesians 1:4

Even before He madethe world, God loved us

and chose us in Christ to

be holy and without faultin His eyes.



God’s Love isThe Source

for Our

Loving One



1 John 4:7-117 Dear friends, let us continueto love one another, for love

comes from God. Anyone wholoves is a child of God and

knows God.8

But anyone whodoes not love does not know

God, for God is love. 9 God



1 John 4:7-11 (cont.)

showed how much He loved usby sending His one and only

Son into the world so that wemight have eternal life through

Him.10

This is real love - notthat we loved God, but that He

loved us and sent His Son as a



1 John 4:7-11 (cont.)

sacrifice to take away our sins.11 Dear friends, since God loved

us that much, we surely oughtto love each other .



Romans 5:5

And this hope will not leadto disappointment. For we

know how dearly God lovesus, because He has given

us the Holy Spirit to fill our hearts with His love.



Keep yourself in God’sLove



Jude 21

Keep yourselves in thelove of God, waiting

anxiously for the mercy

of our Lord Jesus Christto eternal life.



John 15:9-10

I have loved you even as theFather has loved Me. Remain

in My love. When you obey Mycommandments, you remain in

My love, just as I obey MyFather’s commandments and

remain in His love.

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