The Love of God

Our pastor has been preaching a series of sermons entitled "The Love of God". I have been so challenged and blessed by this series. The following are a few quotes he has shared with us during the series...

"His love is an incomprehensibly vast, bottomless, shoreless sea before which we kneel in joyful silence and from which the loftiest eloquence retreats confused and abashed. Yet, if we would know God and ofr others sake tell what we know, we much try to speak of His love. All Christians have tried, but none has ever done it very well. I can no more do justice that awesome and wonder-filled theme than a child can grasp a star. Still, by reaching toward the star the child may call attention to it and even indicate the direction one must look to see it. So as I stretch my heart toward the high, shining love of God, someone who has not before known about it may be encouraged to look up and have hope." - A.W. Tozier

"In scripture no other cause fo God's love other than His electing will is ever given." - James Boice

"God doesn't love you because you are valuable; you're valuable because God loves you. " -Adrian Rogers

"God does not love populations, He loves people. He loves not masses but men." -A.W. Tozier

"God doesn't just love all of us, He loves each of us." -Adrian Rogers

"We are not simply enabled by His love to hold on, and not to fall away and falter; neither is it the case that we just manage to obtain a victory. We are 'more than conquerors', a very strong expression! The Christian is not a man who manages somehow or another just to obtain an entrance into heaven. He is 'more than conqueror'. He not merely stands up to these trials, he demolishes them, and he is enabled to overcome them completely." -Martin Lloyd-Jones

Propitiation- "A sacrifice that bears God's wrath to the end and in so doing changes God's wrath toward us into favor." -Wayne Grudem

"The doctrine of propitiation is precisely this: that God loved the objects of His wrath so much that He gave His own Son to the end that He by his blood should make provision for the removal of his wrath. It was Christ's so to deal with the wrath that the loved would no longer be the objects of warth, and love would achieve its aim of making the children of wrath the children of God's good pleasure." - John Muray