THE MANIFESTATION OF THIS LOVE. )The love of God is a necessity of His own natureH. (2)Latterly, in enmity. But the sinful world, which He loves with the love of compassion.IV. To rescue man from perishing.2. How natural the reply: "It serves you right"! 'What!' (1) This is a doctrine distinctive of the Bible. Let the world know that when the king gives he gives generously, like a king.' Low views of God go together with low views of man. Who can tell when it began?2. C. Jones, D. D.The ocean is always moving, but it is not self-moving. Love is the ground of His perfect happiness.II. To give your firm and cordial assent to the truth of the substitutionary sacrifice of Christ.2. THE GIFT OF GOD MUST BE RECEIVED BY FAITH. Love is as deeds, not words, desires, or feelings.1. It was glorious and justified the means — the salvation of the world. It is as necessary to preach that men are sanctified by faith. Love IN ITS GREATEST STRENGTH That is a poor philanthropy which can pity without helping: but "the philanthropy of God appeared" in action. Eadie, D. D.)The love of GodProf. (1)No other mercy can be so dear to God as Jesus is. H. Spurgeon.A story has been often told of the fondness of parents for their children; how in a famine in the East a father and mother were reduced to absolute starvation, and the only possibility of preserving the life of the family was to sell one of the children into slavery. Do you think she had not natural sensitiveness? Otherwise no man could be sure that it was made for himself.IV. Not only He came from God, but He came out of God. 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. The text before us was read. (3)It was good-will or benevolence. Such as cannot be sufficiently expressed or conceived (1 John 3:1).III. The first cause of redemption — the love of God to man. Morris. There is but one thing that God hates, and that is sin. When she dropped in her two mites He said that she had given more than they all. WE LIVE IN THE GLORIOUS DAY OF SALVATION! Every terror of sin and of unworthiness that strives to loosen his hold only makes him grasp with more terrible and death-like tenacity, for he knows that to part company is to perish.(R. Faith is the soul's own rest in Jesus as its own Redeemer.2. Spurgeon.)WhosoeverD. LOVE IN ITS GRANDEST SOURCE.1. The vessel is an utter wreck. Faith in the Son of God the condition of salvation.4. But was he neglected? (4)But His only begotten, well beloved, and everlasting Son.III. In these words I find my religion, theology, ethics, and politics, politics being one of the chief branches of ethics.1. Moody. What did they do to secure his life when their protest was not sufficient? Repent of treating it so negligently.2. J. Morris.I. Accepting that donation let us give it to others.(C. (3)Now, through Christ, in harmony once more: without Christ, still at enmity.4. )God's love for a sinning worldC. S. MacArthur, D. D.I. Coley. In the Person of the only begotten Son of God.III. Blessed. There is no tie which has knit Him to our hearts that He has not knit. ITS MANIFESTATION.1. Beecher. It is a necessity in the nature of things. This involves them in the greatest responsibility.3. He makes for the Saviour — he clasps Him — he cleaves to Him. There was fresh water all around them, they had nothing to do but to dip it up, and yet they were dying of thirst, because they thought themselves to be surrounded by the salt sea. J. IN THE PLAN OF SALVATION. By His designation and appointment unto death (Acts 2:23; Isaiah 42:1).2. Not perishing.2. H. Fear not its future. G. Finney, D. D.)God's wonderful loveR. "Stop," said the king, "take the other from me." Jones. This could only be done by allowing His Son to be treated as if He was a sinner, in order to treat the really guilty as if they were righteous, and so to identify the one with the other.II. We know the worth of life. When He commands, faith accepts His precepts as the perfect law of life. It offers the supremest blessings on the easiest, cheapest terms. New and Divine revelation: God is love.II. Glover.I. Beecher. The vessel is an utter wreck. )The love of God is a necessity of His own natureH. Observe —1. Could you fathers give your sons to die for your enemy?2. Without an immediate reply to his remark the preacher asked, "How do you get out of this place?" The great question is, What does God feel? THE MANIFESTATION OF THIS LOVE. The trouble with this statement is that there is a great deal of truth in it; and yet it has been made in such a manner as to give a very wrong impression. King gives He gives generously, like a king. no profit to demonstration! 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