David Macdonald - March 8, 2020 - a podcast by NBC Podium

Amazing love!
Romans 5:6-11
True love – God’s amazing love
True love is what people search for in life
People want to be loved and to love
Google provides over 4.5 billion results for true love (Amazing Love only 3.6 Billion Hits! ?)
including:
Advertisements on how to find true love, songs about true love
Articles about how to ensure that you'll find true love
Explanations as to what true love is all about
We live in a fallen world
Filled with broken and imperfect people
Relationships can fail - when broken, imperfect people love other broken, imperfect people, their love is imperfect
God's love – a different category
1 John 3:1
Tied back to previous verses (4:25 – 5:5)
Love of God
1. Proof of God’s Love
His gift is sacrificial
Proof in the gift given – what’s love willing to give?
God gave His Son and His Son gave His life
His gift is unconditional
Without strength – still helpless
Without hope – without God in this world
Dead in trespasses and sins – Eph. 2:1
Walking in those sins – Eph. 2:2
Insensitive to spiritual things
His gift is incomparable
Romans 5:7-8
Human love often based on the attractiveness of the object loved
Our mistake - we attribute traits of human love to God
We think God must love based on how good we are
"If God loved us because we loved Him, He would love us only so long as we love Him, and on that condition; and then our salvation would depend on the constancy of our treacherous hearts" —Charles Hodge
God's love is not like human love:
2. Provision of God’s Love (vs 9-10)
3. Product of God’s Love (vs 11)

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