David Macdonald - March 8, 2020

Northbrook Bible Chapel

Amazing love! Romans 5:6-11 True love – God’s amazing love True love is what people search for in life People want to be loved and to love Google provides over 4.5 billion results for true love (Amazing Love only 3.6 Billion Hits! ) including: Advertisements on how to find true love, songs about true love Articles about how to ensure that you'll find true love Explanations as to what true love is all about We live in a fallen world Filled with broken and imperfect people Relationships can fail - when broken, imperfect people love other broken, imperfect people, their love is imperfect God's love – a different category 1 John 3:1 Tied back to previous verses (4:25 – 5:5) Love of God 1. Proof of God’s Love His gift is sacrificial Proof in the gift given – what’s love willing to give? God gave His Son and His Son gave His life His gift is unconditional Without strength – still helpless Without hope – without God in this world Dead in trespasses and sins – Eph. 2:1 Walking in those sins – Eph. 2:2 Insensitive to spiritual things His gift is incomparable Romans 5:7-8 Human love often based on the attractiveness of the object loved Our mistake - we attribute traits of human love to God We think God must love based on how good we are "If God loved us because we loved Him, He would love us only so long as we love Him, and on that condition; and then our salvation would depend on the constancy of our treacherous hearts" —Charles Hodge God's love is not like human love: 2. Provision of God’s Love (vs 9-10) 3. Product of God’s Love (vs 11)