21. The love of God is a awesome hidden truth. It is hid in Jesus Christ our Lord and Deliverer. It has an inexhaustible height to the love of God. The depth of the love of God is unfathomable and no one can reach it or know it in its complete sense, because the love of God is incalculable. The love of God is the beauteous light and awesome gift of eternal and awesome truth. We ought to reflect on the Cross where the love of God is. We sigh at the inestimable gift of the Cross. We must find our rest in Jesus Christ our Lord and Redeemer and Savior. There is no rest apart from Him or adding to Him with something else. Christ is the awesome Creator and Savior of the world: the very Lamb of God who came to take away the sin of the world.
22. The ocean is a great sight to see, but the Cross of Jesus in its love surpasses the ocean in its fullest sense. However, the ocean is often described as a place where God puts our sins because it is so vast. I understand this, however, since the Cross is eternal it is greater in depth then the ocean. Yet it is okay to say God has cast my sins in the depths of the sea! And surely He has! What a Savior! What a Redeemer! What a Deliverer! What a God! What a Friend! Jesus' Cross is also greater than the space of the sky and even space itself. The Cross is infinite or eternal and nothing in all creation can outdo it. The love of God comes from above, yea, even from heaven itself. It came in the incarnation of the God-child in the manager as a baby boy. It came in the childhood of Christ when He taught the leaders in the temple at the age of 12. It came in Jesus' perfect life and especially in His perfect death. Romans 5:5 says that God has richly poured out the very love of God into our precious hearts.
23. We can depend on the love of God because the love of God is eternal. Space is not eternal; however, many evolutionists say it is eternal, but we know that the Cross is greater than space. God's love has no beginning and the love of God has no end. The Bible says that God has loved us with an eternal and everlasting love. The lovingkindnesses of the good Lord is everlasting or eternal. There is indeed no end in God's love. We know what the Bible says about the eternal love and security of the Cross. No death, life, no principalities, nothing present, nothing to come, no powers, no height, no depth, no created thing can separate us from the love of God that is in Jesus Christ (Romans 8f). The greatest evidence or proof of the love of God is God's sovereignty in spiritual redemption. The Bible says He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world. He desires for us to be holy and blameless. He is willing to carry it out. God predestined us in His awesome love to holy adoption as contrite sons through Christ to Himself. This was because and for the kind intention of His awesome will.
24. God calls us to Himself because of His sovereign good pleasure. The Bible is clear on this that God in eternity past called us us to Himself according to the kind intention of His will. We did absolutely nothing to earn His love or receive His love, but we can never lose His love. God loved us before we came to Christ. He also loved us as believers in Him with an everlasting love. Salvation is the unbreakable chain that guarantees God's love for us in and through Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior. There was no way we could merit esteem because in us is nothing but badness or non-goodness. There is no righteousness in us. We fall short of the glory of God. We could never give the good Lord delight because there is no delight in us; that is, we lack inherit sanctification or inherit goodness to merit heaven. However, we must sing to the Father of lights who designed spiritual salvation and redemption for His people. Salvation occurred because it seemed good in the sight of God the Father through His Son by His Spirit.
25. This life is passing away, but we are eternally embraced in the open arms of love at the Cross of Jesus Christ because it is intended for His people. We must understand that the love of God is without influence. The love of God is giving and God supplies it. There is no way that He would not supply it because it is by virtue of His giving. The love of God is also infinite, eternal and immutable. That is, it is without change. If God loves a person, He will never stop loving that person. The love of God is eternal and it has no end. Jesus loves His people close to His heart. Jesus loves His people equally and as the apple of His eye. Beloved John and David are pictures or glimpses of how God loves us and each and every person in Christ. The love of God at the Cross makes us secure in Him. We are not secure in Christ because of who we are. We are secure in Christ because of who God is.
26. Suppose you have a good day and suppose you have a bad day. Which day did God love you more? If you pick the good day, you are striving on performance. You do not understand the love of God as free. You do not understand the unconditional love of God. You do not understand the unevoked love of God. I submit again, you do not understand the uninfluenced love of God. The Bible says that obedience is commanded because it is expected due to God's love for us (John 14:15). The disobedience of a Christian brings God's displeasure; however, it never brings a separation to us in relationship to God because He loves us without condition or personal merit, but the real issue is that the merit of Jesus comes to us by faith alone. God will potentially discipline us if we have sinned, but this suffering of the saints is not meritorious. However, we may forfeit blessings and negative consequences may come upon us. However, once someone is a child of God He can never love us less. He loves us just as the same as He did before. His love never fails. We may think sometimes that He will stop loving us, however, we are mistaken. It does not matter if we sin greatly because God loves us no matter what. We ought to demonstrate our charity due to the Cross. The Cross is the greatest act of charity the world has ever known. We ought to secure the love of God. It is about a holy acceptance of God's love for His people. Parents love their children in the same way, and our Heavenly Father loves us like that. Our actions do not matter because God loves us today, yesterday and tomorrow. There is no limit to God's love because there is no limit to the love of the Cross.
27. The Bible says that God loved us first. The love of God was not based on any conditions in our past. It will not be based on anything we do in the future. However, God sees all that we are. Martin Luther described the nature of man as a dunghill. We are dunghills of radical corruption and total depravity. We are in many ways, by God's viewpoint, unlovable because of our radical pollution. However, God has chosen to love us according to His good pleasure and sovereign right. He continues to love us and He will never stop loving us. He hugs us to Himself at the Cross where He paid the penalty for our sin. He took the radical and eternal punishment and wrath upon Himself and bore it upon the tree alone. No one else bore our sin upon themselves but Christ Jesus the Lord and Lamb of God. God accepts us not because of what we have done but because of what God has done in Christ on our behalf.
28. The love of God is giving. That is, He always supplies it to lost and guilty sinners. The love of God is infinite. That is, His love is eternal and will never end. The love of God is unconditional. That is, there is nothing we can do to remove His love from us. The love of God is based on God's immutable character. That is, His love will never change because it is based on His immutable character. We can depend on God for the love we have for our neighbor. We can depend on God for the love of God. We ought to understand that God is love is mightily bestowed. The love of God is only bestowed upon us through the Father's only Son. Jesus obeyed the will of the Father to heed the death at the Cross. His purchased a world in sin and ruined. He paid the ransom to the Father. He gave us His own blood at Calvary's Cross. The blood was shed for me and you by the spotless Lamb of God. The love of God moved Jesus to die on the Cross. It was to make us ready for a land of eternal bliss. Jesus satisfied divine justice at the Cross and walked as perfect righteousness before God. There was no other who could satisfy divine justice but Jesus Christ. Moses, David and the Virgin Mary never walked as God Incarnate. But Jesus did! He represents God to God and man to man, and He is the bridge to eternal life. The sorrow of the divine Cross was great. He took our sin upon Himself. He took our sorrow upon Himself. He took our pain upon Himself. What wondrous love is this! I submit there was no great teacher that loved the way Jesus loved! He wore the crown of thorn to represent sin to us. He took the fullness of our sin upon Himself. I submit no religious teacher has done this! Can anyone explain in full detail the love of Jesus? I submit to you that the love of Jesus is unexplainable in a comprehensive sense, but in a limited sense we can understand that God surely loves us because of His dear Son. He took our sin upon Himself and bore it in its grave and serious consequences. The Cross supplies all our spiritual needs. To have the gift of the Cross is to possess everything. There is no greater gift than the very Cross of Jesus Christ. The Cross is our divine shelter, and our holy refuge. We are all helpless and undone. We are all sinners in desperate need of a divine Redeemer to set us free and save to the uttermost. There is no greater conqueror save Jesus Christ who paid the debt and removed wrath from us as far as the east is from the west. Amen. (Information was used from Pastor Randy Smith's sermon "The Love of God" on the verse 1 John 4:8 on July 30, 2006).
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