GOD AND LOVE

• Posted by REV. ANDRE G. DENIS D.D. May 14, 2013 - #PHEASE 20  - 721 views
  The Proof of God's Love... REV. ANDRE G. DENIS D.D.
  God proved His love toward us. How? It was not by writing His love in flaming letters across the sky nor by belting His strong voice from heaven expressing His love. The Bible says, “When the fullness of time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law” (Galatians 4:4). Jesus was not some sort of remedial action, a last-...minute splint for a broken world when everything else had failed. The preparation God had done was staggering. He had raised up a Greek nation that took the Greek language across the known world so the gospel could spread without a language barrier. He raised up a Roman empire that built a road system of fifty thousand miles across the world so the gospel could move from country to country. Yes, it was in the “fullness of time” that Christ came (Galatians 4:4). Each of us longs to be loved. And God loves us so much that He demonstrated “His own love toward us”: He sent His Son. No one on the earth has DNA like yours. No one has a thumbprint just like yours. You are an individual, loved by the Lord. And the love you can voluntarily return to Him is indescribably valuable to Him. The phenomenal thing about the love of God is that He expressed it to us not when we were perfect or deserving. He loved us “while we were still sinners.” In fact, “scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man someone would even dare to die. But God demonstrates His own love toward us in that while we were still sinners Christ died for us” (Romans 5:7–8, emphasis added). Those two little words but God make all the difference. Jesus came and clothed Himself in human flesh. He came to where we are so that one day we could go to where He is. In other words, He came to earth so we could go to heaven. He was forsaken so that we might never be forsaken. As someone said, “The Son of God became the Son of Man in order that the sons of men could become the sons of God.”