GOD SO LOVED

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GOD SO LOVED
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God So Loved

• John 316
• 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.
• The Golden Text of the Bible

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God So Loved

• God Is Love
• I John 47-8
• Beloved, let us love one another for love is of
  God and every one that loveth is born of God,
  and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not
  God for God is love.

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God So Loved

• We Ought To Love
• I John 316
• Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he
  laid down his life for us and we ought to lay
  down our lives for the brethren.

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• We Ought To Love
• I John 411,19-20
• Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to
  love one another.
• We love him, because he first loved us. If a man
  say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a
  liar for he that loveth not his brother whom he
  hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not
  seen?

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God So Loved

• Manifestation of Gods love
• In creation
• Genesis 126-27
• And God said, Let us make man in our image,
  after our likenessSo God created man in his own
  image, in the image of God created he him male
  and female created he them.

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• Manifestation of Gods love
• He gave hope after the first sin
• Genesis 315
• And I will put enmity between thee and the
  woman, and between thy seed and her seed it
  shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his
  heel.

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• Manifestation of Gods love
• God gave His Son
• I John 49
• In this was manifested the love of God toward
  us, because that God sent his only begotten Son
  into the world, that we might live through him.

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• Manifestation of Gods love
• God showed love to His enemies
• Matthew 544
• But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless
  them that curse you, do good to them that hate
  you, and pray for them which despitefully use
  you, and persecute you

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• Manifestation of Gods love
• In making us His children
• I John 31-2
• Behold, what manner of love the Father hath
  bestowed upon us, that we should be called the
  sons of God therefore the world knoweth us not,
  because it knew him not.

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• II. To preach John 316 offends some
• For God
• Atheist says there is no God.
• So loved
• Offends the Deist who believes God created all,
  but left it to itself.

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• II. To preach John 316 offends some
• The world
• The electionist thinks God loved not the world,
  but the elect.
• That He gave
• Denies premillenialism, which says God sent Jesus
  to set up a worldly kingdom, but made church
  instead.

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• II. To preach John 316 offends some
• His only begotten Son
• The Jew, Muslim and modernist
• That whosoever
• Denies Calvinistic doctrine of unconditional
  election.

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• II. To preach John 316 offends some
• Believeth in Him
• Denies doctrine of universalism
• Should not perish
• Denies materialism universalism
• But have eternal life
• Denies impersonal hope in life after death.

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• III. What kind of love does God have?
• Everlasting love
• Jeremiah 313
• The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying,
  Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love
  therefore with loving kindness have I drawn
  thee.

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• III. What kind of love does God have?
• Immeasurable love
• Ephesians 316-17
• That he would grant you, according to the riches
  of his glory, to be strengthened with might by
  his Spirit in the inner man That Christ may
  dwell in your hearts by faith that ye, being
  rooted and grounded in love,

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• III. What kind of love does God have?
• Incomprehensive love
• Ephesians 319
• And to know the love of Christ, which passes
  knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the
  fullness of God.

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• III. What kind of love does God have?
• Great love
• John 1512
• This is my commandment, That ye love one
  another, as I have loved you. Greater love hath
  no man than this, that a man lay down his life
  for his friends.

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• III. What kind of love does God have?
• His love is shed abroad
• Romans 55-6
• And hope maketh not ashamed because the love of
  God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy
  Spirit which is given unto us. For when we were
  yet without strength, in due time Christ died for
  the ungodly.

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• God so loved, He gave
• The least we can do is return that love
• I John 419
• We love him, because he first loved us.
• HOW CAN WE DO THIS?

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• By obeying the gospel remain faithful
• Hear Rom. 1017
• Believe Heb. 116
• Repent Luke 133
• Confess Acts 836-37
• Be Baptized Acts 238
• Remain Faithful Rev. 210

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