★ MY SERMON NOTES
@ NDIC/DMO Chapel
Central Business District,
Garki-Abuja
20th January, 2015
@ NDIC/DMO Chapel
Central Business District,
Garki-Abuja
20th January, 2015
* Speaker: Pastor Ambrose Nwogu
* Topic: God With Us
★ WHAT IS THE BASIS OF GOD'S LOVE?
→ The basis of God's love is His nature
* 1st John 4:8 → "He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love."
* God is Love - this is why He has the innate capacity to love even the most unlovable person
* God's love is so much different from the love that man professes
* God's love is consistent, pure and reliable. Man's love is unstable, conditional and sometimes out-rightly selfish
* 1st John 4:19 → "We love him, because he first loved us."
* God loved us even when there has nothing good in us
* God's love is not based on your performance or achievements
* Nothing you do (or fail to do) will ever change God's nature (of Love) towards you. He will always love You!
★ DIMENSIONS OF GOD'S LOVE
→ Ephesians 3:17-19
" . . . That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fullness of God."
- It is unconditional (It is not predicated on anything you did or said)
- It is Incomprehensible
- It is consistent
- It is eternal
- It is all-encompassing
- It is reliable
- It is inexhaustible
- It is resilient
- It is abundant
- etc.
(a) The breadth of God's Love:
- God's love is so wide, it is impossible get around it. It cannot be circumvented (avoided) regardless of what you do!
(b) The length of God's Love:
- God's love is from everlasting to everlasting. It is impossible to know its beginning or its end
(c) The depth of God's love:
- No matter how deep you have gone (in sin, sickness, challenges, waywardness, wickedness, immorality, occultism, etc) God's love will reach you and it can pull you out
(d) The height of God's love:
- No power, opinion, authority or influence is too high for the love of God to overcome
* NOTE: There is no situation you will ever find yourself that the love of God cannot reach you
* It is simply impossible for the finite mind of man to understand the love of God
* Romans 5:8 → "But God demonstrates his love for us by the fact that the Messiah died for us while we were still sinners."
* Without God's love, you would have perished
* The knowledge of God's love should change your attitude towards others and towards life in general
* NOTE: The hatred of men (no matter how intense) cannot deplete God's love!
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