Exploring His

Excellencies:
His Love
John Isaacs
September 13, 2009
Kingsway Community Church
Who
is
God?
What
is He
Like?
God is
who the Bible
(in its totality)
reveals Him to
The Bible Reveals God To Be
1. Good 7. Merciful
2. Powerful 8. Faithful
3. Wise 9. Near
4. Eternal 10. Sovereign
5. Holy 11.
6. Just 12.
 God
is
Sovereign
God has the
power to
perform His
will.
God is not
subject to
anyone.
 God
governs
and
controls the
 God is
sovereign, and
yet, I’m still
responsible for
the things I
 God
is
Love
1 John 4:8
But anyone who does not love does
not know God, for God is love.
God is Love
but
Love is
not God
The divine love is commonly
regarded as a species of
amiable weakness, a sort of
good-natured indulgence; it
is reduced to a mere sickly
sentiment, patterned after
human emotion.
- A. W. Pink
 Human Love God’s
Love
Influenced Uninfluenced
Conditional Unconditional
Changing Unchanging
Temporary Eternal
1 John 4:19
We love Him because
He first loved us.
There is little real love for God
even among professing
Christians. Because our hearts
are so little occupied with His
wondrous love for His people.
The better we are acquainted
with His love – its character,
fullness, blessedness – the more
our hearts will be drawn out in
love to Him.
- A. W. Pink
Characteristic
s of
God’s Love
God’s Love is
Infinite
and
Limitless
Psalm 103:11
For his unfailing love
toward those who fear
him is as great as the
height of the heavens
above the earth.
Ephesians 3:18-19
And may you have the
power to understand, as all
God’s people should, how
wide, how long, how high,
and how deep his love is.
Ephesians 3:18-19
May you experience the love
of Christ, though it is too
great to understand fully.
Then you will be made
complete with all the fullness
of life and power that comes
from God.
God’s Love is
Immutable
and
Changeless
Micah 7:20
You will show
faithfulness to Jacob and
unchanging love to
Abraham, as you have
sworn to our fathers from
the days of old.
James 1:17
Every good gift and every
perfect gift is from above,
coming down from the
Father of lights with whom
there is no variation or
shadow due to change.
God’s Love is
Eternal
Psalm 136:1
Give thanks to the
LORD, for He is good,
for His steadfast love
endures forever.
Jeremiah 31:3
The LORD appeared to him
from far away. I have loved
you with an everlasting
love; therefore I have
continued my faithfulness to
you.
God’s Love is
Sacrificial
John 3:16
For God so loved the
world, that He gave His
only Son, that whoever
believes in Him should
not perish but have
eternal life.
John 15:13
Greater love has no
one than this, that
someone lay down
his life for his friends.
1 John 4:10
This is real love - not that
we loved God, but that
He loved us and sent His
Son as a sacrifice to
take away our sins.
God’s Love is
Personal
and
Individual
God’s love is not a
vague, diffused
goodwill towards
everyone in general
and nobody in
particular.
- J. I. Packer
Ephesians 1:4
Even before He made
the world, God loved us
and chose us in Christ to
be holy and without fault
in His eyes.
God’s Love is
The Source
for Our
Loving One
1 John 4:7-11
7
Dear friends, let us continue
to love one another, for love
comes from God. Anyone who
loves is a child of God and
knows God. 8 But anyone who
does not love does not know
God, for God is love. God
9
1 John 4:7-11 (cont.)
showed how much He loved us
by sending His one and only
Son into the world so that we
might have eternal life through
Him. 10 This is real love - not
that we loved God, but that He
loved us and sent His Son as a
1 John 4:7-11 (cont.)
sacrifice to take away our sins.
11
Dear friends, since God loved
us that much, we surely ought
to love each other.
Romans 5:5
And this hope will not lead
to disappointment. For we
know how dearly God loves
us, because He has given
us the Holy Spirit to fill our
hearts with His love.
Keep yourself
in God’s
Love
Jude 21
Keep yourselves in the
love of God, waiting
anxiously for the mercy
of our Lord Jesus Christ
to eternal life.
John 15:9-10
I have loved you even as the
Father has loved Me. Remain
in My love. When you obey My
commandments, you remain in
My love, just as I obey My
Father’s commandments and
remain in His love.