LOVE: THE ESSENCE OF GOD – Part 1

TUESDAY, 25TH JULY, 2023.

Author: PASTOR DR. SAMUEL AYORINDE

TOPIC:  LOVE: THE ESSENCE OF GOD – Part 1

MEMORIZE: “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.” John 4:16.

SCRIPTURE READING: 1 John 4:8-10.

“He who does not love does not know God, for God is love. 9 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. 10 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.”

EXPOSITION:

God is eternal, unchangeable love (1 John 4:8b, 16). His divine love is infinitely superior to human love. God does not depend on emotion to express His love. God needs no response, no reciprocation, no reassurance, no demonstrations of faithfulness to sustain His love. In fact, God’s love exists with or without a created object, because God loves His own perfect essence. The love of God is expressed in three categories.

1. Divine self-love, directed toward the perfect righteousness among the members of the Trinity, is totally justifies because of the character of God.

2. Divine personal love is directed toward all believers because they possess the perfect righteousness of God.

3. Divine impersonal love is directed toward all unbelievers as sinners (John 3:16; Romans 5:8). God’s impersonal love is based on the integrity of God rather than the merit or attractiveness of mankind. {Impersonal love depends on the integrity of the one who loves; personal love depends on the attractiveness of the object of love. Divine impersonal love is the consistent function of the integrity of God toward imperfect people.}

“God is love” applies to every member of the Trinity. The Father loves the Son and also expresses His love to us through the Son. “Father, I desire that they also (believers), whom Thou hast given Me (the Son), be with Me where I am, in order that they may behold My glory, which Thou hast given Me; for Thou didst love Me (divine self-love) before the foundation of the world.” John 17:24.

“By this the love of God (the Father) was manifested in us, that God has sent His only (uniquely born) Son into the world so that we might live through Him.” 1 John 4:9.

Both the Father and Son loved us as much that Christ died for us. “But God demonstrate His own (impersonal) love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.” (Romans 5:8).

The love of God is also demonstrated to us through the Holy Spirit. “Because the (personal) love of God (the Father) has been poured our within our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us” Rom. 5:8b.

PRAYER POINT:  Lord, thank you for your unequal love for us.  HALLELUYAH. 

ii. Lord, help us to live you and our neighbors in Jesus name.

DAILY BIBLE READING IN A YEAR –  Isaiah  18 – 21.

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