God's Love is Absolute (Like a Child #1 of 3)
Channel: The Gathering Christian Church
Date: 27/06/2013

Speaker: Don Vanzant
Title: God's Love is Absolute
Series: Like a Child, #1 of 3
Full Sermon or Excerpt (w/ Link): Full Sermon 
Subject: How can God love the unlovable?  What does Absolute love even mean?  Sometimes it helps to look at it from the perspective of a child.
Date: June 23, 2013
Sermon Notes:
"Dear God:  
I bet it is very hard for you to love all of everybody in the whole world.  There are only four people in our family and I can never do it.  Nan"
· Everything in the Bible is a story of love -- of God's endless, faithful love of every person in this world. 
· God loved the world filled with people who live by that world system, apart from God, estranged from God, rebellious against God, haters of God, and enemies of God. 
· God loves the unlovables.  God does not show partiality.   God loves us all the same — completely and unconditionally.
· We learn about love from God, rather than learning about God from the love we know. 
· God's love is extravagant.  God's love does not make sense to us.    God's love has no end and is without measure.
· Jonah is one story that is an example of God's love.   Jonah ran from God because he knew God loved the people of Nineveh.
· God's love is tough.   Tough love means that God loves us enough that He does what is right for us, even if it cause him pain.
· Jesus is the love of God in human form.   Everything Jesus did was motivated by love.
· God does not love you because you have been so good, or because you know someone important or promised to do something great.   God the Father loves you because he wants to be your Father.

Passages:
Luke 18:16  
Acts 10:34   
1 John 4:8   
Jonah 4   
Eph. 3:14-19   
Prov. 3:12   
Eph. 4:15   
1 John 4:10


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How He Loves (typography) 
by Chandler Christian
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