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Exploring HisExcellencies:
His Love
John IsaacsSeptember 13, 2009
Kingsway Community Church
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Whois
God?
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Whatis HeLike?
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God iswho the Bible
(in its totality)
reveals Him to
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The Bible Reveals God To Be
1. Good2. Powerful
3. Wise4. Eternal5. Holy6. Just
7. Merciful8. Faithful
9. Near10. Sovereign11.12.
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Godis
Sovereign
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God has the
power to
perform His
will
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God is not
subject to
anyone.
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God
governs
and
controls the
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God is
sovereign, and
yet, I’m still
responsible forthe things I
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Godis
Love
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1 John 4:8But anyone who does not love does
not know God, for God is love.
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God is Love
but
Love isnot God
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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
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Human Love God’s
LoveInfluenced Uninfluenced
Conditional UnconditionalChanging Unchanging
Temporary Eternal
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1 John 4:19 We love Him because
He first loved us.
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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
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Characteristic
s of
God’s Love
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God’s Love is Infiniteand
Limitless
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Psalm 103:11
For his unfailing love
toward those who fear him is as great as the
height of the heavensabove the earth.
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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.
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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
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God’s Love is Immutableand
Changeless
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Micah 7:20
You will showfaithfulness to Jacob and
unchanging love to
Abraham, as you havesworn to our fathers from
the days of old
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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.
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God’s Love isEternal
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Psalm 136:1
Give thanks to the
LORD, for He is good,for His steadfast love
endures forever.
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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.
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God’s Love isSacrificial
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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
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John 15:13
Greater love has no
one than this,
thatsomeone lay down
his life for his friends.
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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.
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God’s love is not a
vague, diffused goodwill towards
everyone in generaland nobody in particular.
- J I Packer
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Ephesians 1:4
Even before He madethe world, God loved us
and chose us in Christ to
be holy and without faultin His eyes.
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God’s Love isThe Source
for Our
Loving One
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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
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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
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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 .
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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.
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Keep yourself in God’sLove
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Jude 21
Keep yourselves in thelove of God, waiting
anxiously for the mercy
of our Lord Jesus Christto eternal life.
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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.