THE FATHER’S LOVE
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THE FATHER’S LOVE
THE FATHER’S LOVE
For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
Main Idea: The Father’s love is the source of our salvation.
Main Idea: The Father’s love is the source of our salvation.
Key Question: Do you realize how much the Father loves you?
Key Question: Do you realize how much the Father loves you?
1. The Father’s love begins with Himself.
1. The Father’s love begins with Himself.
For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
that is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation.
But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us,
even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),
and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the 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 in Christ Jesus.
2. The Father’s love is rooted in His nature.
2. The Father’s love is rooted in His nature.
For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.
In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him.
In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
And the Lord passed before him and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in goodness and truth,
keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children’s children to the third and the fourth generation.”
And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.
3. The Father’s love is for everyone.
3. The Father’s love is for everyone.
For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
Augustine said, “God loves each one of us as if there was only one of us to love.”
Augustine said, “God loves each one of us as if there was only one of us to love.”
The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!
And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the whole world.
The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.