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Understanding The Breadth And Length And Depth And Height Of God's Love
Contributed by Dr. Stanley Vasu on Jan 10, 2011 (message contributor)
Summary: THIS SERMON IS ABOUT UNDERSTANDING THE BREADTH AND LENGTH AND DEPTH AND HEIGHT OF GOD'S LOVE AND LOVING GOD AND LOVING ONE ANOTHER
UNDERSTANDING THE LOVE OF GOD
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OUTLINE
1. GOD'S LOVE TOWARDS US : WE MUST UNDERSTAND THE BREADTH AND LENGTH AND DEPTH AND HEIGHT OF GOD'S LOVE
2. OUR LOVE TOWARDS GOD : WE MUST LOVE GOD WITH ALL OUR HEART AND SOUL AND MIND
3. OUR LOVE TOWARDS ONE ANOTHER : WE MUST LOVE ONE ANOTHER AS CHRIST LOVED US
EPILOGUE
THE HOLY SPIRIT FILLS OUR HEARTS WITH THE LOVE OF GOD
THE MESSAGE
1. GOD'S LOVE TOWARDS US: WE MUST UNDERSTAND THE BREADTH AND LENGTH AND DEPTH AND HEIGHT OF GOD'S LOVE
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God loves us so much that He gave his only Son to save us. God loved us even before we loved him. We must understand the breadth and length and depth and height of the love of God.
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For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.
This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.
This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.
For this reason I kneel before the Father,
from whom his whole family in heaven and on earth derives its name.
I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being,
so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love,
may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ,
and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
THE BREADTH OF GOD'S LOVE
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The love of God is so broad and wide that He wants everyone to be saved. He will never drive away anyone who comes to Him. His love is so wide that He removes our sins as far as the east is from the west. The Lord has no pleasure in the death of the wicked. He wants everyone to repent of their sins and come to Him. There is more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than ninety nine righteous persons who do not need to repent.
SCRIPTURE REFERENCES
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All those the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never drive away.
as far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.
This is good, and pleases God our Savior,
who wants all people to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth.
For there is one God and one mediator between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus,
The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. Instead he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.
EZEKIEL 18 : 23 , 32
Do I take any pleasure in the death of the wicked? declares the Sovereign LORD. Rather, am I not pleased when they turn from their ways and live?
For I take no pleasure in the death of anyone, declares the Sovereign LORD. Repent and live!
Say to them, ‘As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that they turn from their ways and live. Turn! Turn from your evil ways! Why will you die, people of Israel?’
Now the tax collectors and sinners were all gathering around to hear Jesus.
But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law muttered, “This man welcomes sinners and eats with them.”
Then Jesus told them this parable:
“Suppose one of you has a hundred sheep and loses one of them. Doesn’t he leave the ninety-nine in the open country and go after the lost sheep until he finds it?
And when he finds it, he joyfully puts it on his shoulders
and goes home. Then he calls his friends and neighbors together and says, ‘Rejoice with me; I have found my lost sheep.’
I tell you that in the same way there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who do not need to repent.
“Or suppose a woman has ten silver coins and loses one. Doesn’t she light a lamp, sweep the house and search carefully until she finds it?
