The Love of God

(The Love of God study for this Sunday has been posted under this post.)

In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 1 John 4:10.

The love of God is uniquely expressed through Jesus Christ as the propitiation for our sins in dieing on the cross.

When we speak of the love of God we are not talking about the love of God expressed only in him providing clothes, shelter, food and friends and family. These provisions are wonderful provisions and we should praise God for them. But when we speak of the love of God what we are talking about is different from how any other religion on earth talks about the love of God. As Christians when we talk about the love of God we talk about it as being expressed in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, the son of God.

"But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us." Romans 5:8.

God's love for me, you and the many students you will be teaching Sunday is expressed in the death and resurrection of his Son Jesus Christ. God's love is very unique and his expression of his love is one of a kind. It is like no other love. And a rejection of the Son of God, Jesus Christ, is a rejection of God's love; a rejection of God.

This Sunday help the students to see the Big Picture. God has created us for himself; for His glory. Because of sin we are separated from Him and cannot please or glorify Him. Sin has made us enemies of God; children of wrath. But God has demonstrated his love for us in sending His son to die for our sins that we may have peace with God and be in the family of God if we would only repent of our sin and put our faith in Jesus Christ.

Help the students to see God's love as not giving them what they want on earth and making their lives easy but to see God's love as giving them what they most desperately need now and for eternity for their good and God's glory; His Son Jesus Christ.