God So Loved Us

The gospel gives us a biography of Jesus and it emphasizes a few different aspects of his person, his life and of his works. When you read the book of Matthew you will discover that Matthew directs his gospel primarily to the Jews. Also, Matthew presents Jesus as the king and the messiah. When we search through Mark, Mark presents his gospel with the Roman impact in mind, he suggests that Jesus is the suffering servant of Jehovah and the accomplisher of mighty acts. Then once you look at Luke, Luke primarily emphasis with the Greek influences and he suggests that Christ is the perfect man. But I love John, because when John writes, John didn’t have any primary race, groups, or nationalities in mind, when John wrote he included the whole world. John present Christ as the Son of God whom gave himself for the sins of mankind. And that’s why this verse in St. John 3:16 is so important in its writing when it says that God so loved the world.

Matthew was concerned with the promise of a coming messiah. Mark talks about the life of a powerful savior. Luke says that we have the grace of a personal savior. But John sums it up by talking about the possessions of a personal savior. Matthew says that Christ came to save, Luke says that he came to minister, but John says that he came to give his life.

So, in this framework, this back work or in this setting of John, John says for God so loved the world. John 3:16 is the golden text of the bible. It could also be called the memory verse of both saint and sinners, because if people don’t know any other bible verse, they know John 3:16.

The theme of John 3:16 is God’s love and when we really look at love, we really must look at love on a few levels. You can see love as Infatuation-Romantic Love- Companion Love- Conditional Love- UnConditional Love- Puppy Love- Maternal Love-Paternal Love-Soulmate Love- Spiritual/Divine Love- Love of your country or patriotism-Self-Love Tough Love- but then you have three loves that I think that are vitally important to the case that I’m trying to build.

First, we see Eros which refers to sexual, erotic love or desire.

Phileo means "'to have ardent affection and feeling'—This is the natural, human type of love and affection that we have for a friend and is often defined as "brotherly love."

But then there is the highest form of love which is Agape which is a special word representing the divine love of God toward His Son, human beings in general and believers.

It is also used to depict the outwardly focused that God expects every believer to have for one another. This special type of Christian love as used in John15:13 that says, Greater love hath no man than this, that a man will lay down his life for his friends.

And what I have discover is that the modern theologians have tried to captivate, and understand this type of love down through the centuries and have failed so many times, because what they don’t understand is that this is much more than an act of God but it is his nature. How do I know Spies? Because God can love us and expects absolutely nothing in return.

Now understand this that God does not love us because we love him. God does not love us because Jesus died for us. However, Jesus the Son of God died to redeem us because the father had already loved us. So, the only security, and the only safety that we have is in God’s love.

We got to understand that God’s love alone is enough to save us. God’s love is the formula for the family, his love is the formula for our homes, it is the formula for our community, our job, the streets and even the church.

Now there are four important aspects to this verse that I want to deal with; the first one is the supreme fact of love. And the supreme fact is that, God so loved the world.

Then the second is the supreme proof of love; and the proof is that he gave. The third is the supreme gift of love, which is that he gave his only begotten. The fourth is the supreme goal of love and that is whosoever believeth in him shall not perish but have everlasting life.

Now watch this, for God so loved the world, shows us that God loved us when we were loveless. When no one else wanted to be around us God loved us. When no one else wanted to have anything to do with us God loved us. What I love about God is that, his love was not influenced by anything or anybody and there was no hidden agenda he just loved us, in other words he don’t love us because somebody else loves us and he don’t hate us because somebody else hate us.