Nay, I must go further. (a)By His humanity He taught men by doctrine and example. You must add to it the story of the saintliness, heroism, righteousness, and charity of sixty generations; even then it remains a fragment still.IV. He looked all around, expecting to see a man spring forward at once; still no one arose, and he turned to the officer of the prison and said, "Are all the convicts here?" Man redeemed and renewed is to live to the utmost of his capacity of life. This cannot be said of His wisdom or His power. Gaskin, M. THE DUTY. each gave the same answer.III. THE OBJECT CONTEMPLATED IN THE BESTOWAL OF THIS GIFT.1. There was not a morning but his loving mother bathed his wounds and swathed his limbs, and not an evening that she wearied in her toil. Eadie, D. D.I. S. MacArthur, D. D.)The love of God self-originatedJ. The law of God must not be dishonoured by anything He shall do. (1) Jesus was always the gift of God. How they stood affected. "But what about the people who sunk the shaft, and perfected all this arrangement? W. Dale, D. D.)The power of this gospel of love on its first proclamationA. Will he set aside the law because the offender is royal? The vessel is an utter wreck. Men talk about the mercy of God, but if we give up the ideas of God obtained from the Scriptures how do we know that He is a God of love? LOVE IN ITS WIDEST FIELD OF OPERATION. Hence He says, "I delight to do Thy will." I knew her to be as sensitive as any lady; but by so much more as she felt the loathsomeness of her work do you see the love that constantly upheld her in doing it. Simplicity is often allied to sublimity. I never witnessed anything like it. And He is ours absolutely, individually, and for ever — all He is and all He has. A. Jesus is near the seeker even when he is tossed upon oceans of doubt. But "God commendeth His love," etc.3. There are many well-instructed people who shrink from the thought of infidelity. Barrows.)RedemptionJ. He was just as worthy of love and confidence before as after the atonement. Not the mere acceptance, however cordial, of the Christian creed. (2) The presence of such a truth in the Bible forms one of the most powerful vindications of its authority. We must beware of making God only an infinite man; yet love in Him must be the same in kind as love in us.2. Our Commissioners went to the Governor of the State and got him to give his consent to grant pardons to five men on account of their good behaviour. Not mere feeling, as in those who are carried away by strong emotion. It is most interesting to study the character of God according to the teaching of Jesus. It has been the custom of some, a custom too much prevailing, to represent God as being under no manner of obligation to do anything for His creatures after they had broken His law. It gives its best. He represented God as the Good Shepherd, who goes after the lost one until it is found, and bears it to His home upon His shoulders with rejoicing. Could you fathers give your sons to die for your enemy?2. To believe in Christ — what is it? A. All His attributes are modifications and manifestations of His love.3. All our training in this world is a training for faith. How they stood affected. R. It has been the custom of some, a custom too much prevailing, to represent God as being under no manner of obligation to do anything for His creatures after they had broken His law. Unspeakable: "so"II. J. (2)Of complacency (Psalm 11:7; John 16:27).3. It is as necessary to preach that men are sanctified by faith. IN THE GIFT OF CHRIST.1. They wrapped him up in their flags, they covered him with the Stars and Stripes and the Union Jack, and defied the executioners. This was well brought out in a prison the other day, when the chaplain said to me, "I want to describe a scene that occurred here some time ago. But do you not need help to raise yourself?" "He gave His only-begotten Son."(J. Guiness Rogers, B. A.I. Coley. headed sinner to the boy or maiden.2. (3)Not His Son only by incarnation. (1) Without Christ there is no recovery of what we lost, viz.,(a)The image of God. (1)No other mercy can be so dear to God as Jesus is. Simplicity is often allied to sublimity. It is to die in our sins, without bright angels to smile upon us as they wait to carry us away from earth; to die without the Saviour's glorious presence to cheer us in the valley of the shadow of death. (2) The presence of such a truth in the Bible forms one of the most powerful vindications of its authority. To them the fact that He provides remedies is no proof of His goodness. Condescending.2. )The naturalness of God's loveS. said the preacher. He represented God as the Good Samaritan who saw men lying in their wounds, robbed by sin of hope and heaven, upon the point of death, and came to save them at his own expense.III. On any lips this would be a wonderful word, but in the lips of Christ "love" meant all that was in His own heart. What new rule was this? It is comprehensive. Moody. Cynddylan Jones, D. D.)Immeasurable loveC. The Cross was the self-denial of God.2. To confute all misapprehensions of God. There stood the man, and before him the soldiery, and though a single shot might have ended his life, yet he was as invulnerable as though encased in triple steel. object. D. THIS DELIVERANCE HAS BEEN WROUGHT OUT BY SELF-SACRIFICE ON THE PART OF GOD.IV. All concur here.3. The condition upon which He will do it. New and Divine revelation: God is love.II. Satan tempts us to view God as unlovely or to entertain unworthy thoughts of His mercy. H. What new rule was this? (1) Jesus was always the gift of God. Cynddylan Jones, D. D.I. "Ye have believed that I came out from God. SIN IS THE MOST EXPENSIVE THING IN THE UNIVERSE.1. When He teaches, faith admits His teaching as absolute truth. Nor is this one act merely; it is an act repeated till a habit is formed, a habit which gives a distinctive denomination to the person — "believer."4. There is nothing about man but his misery to attract the Divine attachment. Lessons:1. Few men in the time of the Saviour's advent had any idea of the love of God. The only title to love is to be "perishing"; the only condition of its blessings is to "believe."3. In its guilt, therefore His love was a love of benevolence. Eternal life the gift of Divine love to all who believe in Christ.II. The mission of the love of God for salvation.3. FOR WHAT PURPOSE WAS THIS AFFECTION MANIFESTED.1. The affection and the yearning of heart towards His erring creatures was just the same in God before Christ came, that Christ showed it to be while He was on earth. Yet God so loved us that, to put it very strongly, He seemed to love us better than His only Son, and did not spare Him that He might spare us. "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son." He gave His Spirit to take charge of this work.III. God loves you now in spite of all your sins and follies. )LinksJohn 3:16 NIVJohn 3:16 NLTJohn 3:16 ESVJohn 3:16 NASBJohn 3:16 KJVJohn 3:16 Bible AppsJohn 3:16 ParallelJohn 3:16 Biblia ParalelaJohn 3:16 Chinese BibleJohn 3:16 French BibleJohn 3:16 German BibleJohn 3:16 CommentariesBible Hub, (1)It was the only kind of love that could have been important to man. To bestow unspeakable good.(A. "God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son," etc. The universality of the proposal.3. He so loved, that is, so infinitely, so transcendently, so incomprehensibly (Hebrews 12:3). (4) Here, however, is the marvel of marvels — standing alone in the universe — that God loves a race that has defied and insulted Him.2. II. )The Christian's creedR. Love in man is but a ray from the sun; a drop from the ocean.II. I always have a warm side towards odd, eccentric, out-of-the-way people, because I am one myself, at least so I am often said to be. Do you not sympathize with them? or if He be the Son of God what richer love could be exhibited?2. (Bible Notes and Queries. C. Jones.I.The everlasting FATHER.II.The everlasting SON.III.The everlasting LOVE.IV.The everlasting LIFE.(J. It is to assure us that while the love of God may be traced in every object in nature, and read on every page of Providence, as the colours of the rainbow may be found in every ray of silvery sun-light, yet the brightest and the fullest manifestation of it is in the mission of Jesus into the world to save sinners. It existed from the first; only a century or two ago was it made manifest. she replied; "Me think it be just like Him." (2)Latterly, in enmity. THE OBJECT CONTEMPLATED IN THE BESTOWAL OF THIS GIFT.1. 1. A name(1)written on the consciousness of every redeemed soul, and(2)writ large in history.III. Universal because particular. Here, then, we have hit upon the radical difference between paganism and Christianity. He had to be kept out of sight. 'What!' It is to die in our sins, without bright angels to smile upon us as they wait to carry us away from earth; to die without the Saviour's glorious presence to cheer us in the valley of the shadow of death. Thomas, D. D.It is not like a banquet, accommodated to the tastes and wants of so many and no more. The essential means of salvation is the free gift of God.II. The second was so strangely like his father that he seemed a reproduction of him, and the mother said that she would never part with him. (Bible Notes and Queries. You have here a pattern and spring of love. When He gave: for there is love in the time. Kings and queens may find room in it; and so may thieves and beggars. So it is. HOW GOD IS AFFECTED TOWARDS THE COSMOS: He loved it.1. )The love of God is a necessity of His own natureH. Evangelical Christians have claimed one of these truths as pre-eminently their own. HOW GOD IS AFFECTED TOWARDS THE COSMOS: He loved it.1. IN ITS DESIGN.1. 'What!' All through the ages it governed the world with a view to its final redemption. The objects of His love are perishing — perishing, not in body but in soul.2. As mother, sister, or wife walks in the field of blood after the day of dreadful slaughter, with tears of affection flowing from her eyes, the sigh of sorrow rising from her wounded heart and floating upwards to tell its grief to God, and with tenderness of touch turns over the forms of the dead, that she may press once more to her heart, now broken, the object of her warm affection; so God is represented as amid the carnage which sin has made of us, inspired by the love of which my text is speaking, toiling and labouring and suffering, having come to seek and to save those who were lost. Hebrews 11., which illustrates the triumphs of faith, is an unfinished fragment. It existed from the first; only a century or two ago was it made manifest. )Believe onlyC. To bestow unspeakable good.(A. )The Divine loveJ. This responsibility can only be discharged and the sinner saved by accepting the donation of Christ.4. This should be the tidings of great joy to all people. Who shall head the subscription? Do you not sympathize with them? (3)Not fondness for particular persons. HOW SHALL THE EXPENSE BE MET? Agnostics do not know whether He is force or Father. There are many well-instructed people who shrink from the thought of infidelity. God loved each, therefore all.7. Not mere feeling, as in those who are carried away by strong emotion. What is the cosmos? If God would take upon Himself human nature, and in this nature would stand right out before the universe, and obey the law and suffer its penalty, the law would be perfectly honoured. He loved in a way worthy of Himself, and bestowed a gift which proved its greatness.1. W. When the waves of penalty begin to come in in fearful tides, then He banks up against them. There must be faith.(J. "Then, Reuben Johnson will come and get his pardon." (2)As Jesus was nearer the heart of God than all, so Jesus is in Himself much more excellent than all of them (Romans 9:5). He must stand by it to retrieve its honour.4. So the awakened sinner feels. )The love of God in the gift of ChristS. Jones. They concluded that it were better for them all to die together than willingly to part with any one of their children. His eye rests on the only hope, the only rock in the wide ocean of wrath, the Rock of Ages, the Lord Jesus. The law of God must not be dishonoured by anything He shall do. "He gave His only-begotten Son."(J. "Read it again," asked the arrested pagan. It is implied —1. He held out the papers but no one came. It wants no money and no price from thee, no fitness of frames and feelings, no preparation of good works or penitence. So the awakened sinner feels. J. Morris.I. All are not saved, but none need be unpardoned. It encircles all degrees of faith.IV. The Father's other self. The promise was made as soon as Adam fell. Thou needst not climb to heaven, nor descend to hell for it; the word is nigh thee; on thy lip, and in thy heart if thou believest on the Lord Jesus with thy heart, and with thy mouth makest confession of Him, thou shalt be saved.What is it to perishRev. Exhaustive.III. How He gave.(1)Lovingly.(2)Freely.(3)Wholly.III. WHAT PROMPTED GOD TO MAKE IT? This is the only possible way, God's government is moral because the Saviour is a moral agent. If it be withheld until wrung out, or if it be offered in a surly spirit, it sinks at once in importance below the lesser boon offered in frank and spontaneous sympathy.4. Try God by His own rule. One of the most important and wonderful ocean currents is the Gulf Stream. HOW GOD MANIFESTED THIS AFFECTION.1. FOR WHOM WAS THE GREAT DONATION MADE? H. Agnostics do not know whether He is force or Father. (1)Endless life. It tarrieth not for thee: it cometh to thee as thou art. There we see the reign of law: sin and suffer. (2) The presence of such a truth in the Bible forms one of the most powerful vindications of its authority. He looked all around, expecting to see a man spring forward at once; still no one arose, and he turned to the officer of the prison and said, "Are all the convicts here?" In His death or atonement (1 John 4:10). The Scripture represents everywhere this love as the fountain of redemption.II. But in the Incarnation and Propitiation was it revealed, only then did it force itself upon the obtuse vision of the world. THE DESIGN OF GOD'S LOVE.1. Guiness Rogers, B. A.I. The law of God must not be dishonoured by anything He shall do. "Oh, it is too cheap, I cannot believe in such a religion as that." Zack: What? New and Divine revelation: God is love.II. Does blood flow towards it No: blood flows from it. All through the ages it governed the world with a view to its final redemption. (1)Negative: "should not perish. He first loved.2. 'What!' Whatever relations He assumes to God and to man, it concedes. Faith is the root of morality as well as the condition of pardon. We admire other qualities; we only love the loving.4. (2)Well beloved.2. The glorious state to which the love of God proposes to raise all He found in this sad condition, "but have everlasting life." (4) That our obedience may be more ready (Hebrews 5:8, 9).2. Those for whom God gave His own Son may warrantably expect any other mercy from Him (Romans 8:32; 1 Corinthians 3:20, 21). So it is. "Oh, it is too cheap, I cannot believe in such a religion as that." So the awakened sinner feels. Not only He came from God, but He came out of God. I knew her to be as sensitive as any lady; but by so much more as she felt the loathsomeness of her work do you see the love that constantly upheld her in doing it. No speaker ever had the power of condensing great principles into so narrow a compass as the Lord Jesus.I. That of credence. "He gave His only begotten Son. ITS CHARACTERISTICS.1. (2) By those who suppose that the Bible represents God as originally a stern and inexorable Being placated by Christ, and that now He is only mild and benignant to a few.2. Observe three things.I. Why? There are many well-instructed people who shrink from the thought of infidelity. When He gave: for there is love in the time. )Redemption through ChristC. Gaskin, M. A.I. (2)Not a mere emotion, for emotions do not influence the life without the will. I see you do. O. The simple way in which we may become eternally benefited by this saving work of God, "whosoever believeth in Him." On any lips this would be a wonderful word, but in the lips of Christ "love" meant all that was in His own heart. 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