The Love of God: He Will Do Whatever It Takes to Make Us Holy

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1. God so loved the world -- God's love in recent church history -- God's love and the contemporary church -- God's love for the unbelieving world -- 2. God is love -- Love is at the heart of God's character -- Everyone who loves is born of God and knows God -- The one who does not love does not know God -- The cross is consummate proof of divine love -- 3. Behold the goodness -- Sin city -- A reluctant prophet and a great revival -- God's gift of repentance -- 4. And the severity of God -- He is a God of inflexible justice -- He is a God of irresistible power -- He is a God of infinite mercy -- He is a God of inconceivable righteousness. 5. Everything that I need to know about God I learned in the nursery? -- Wrong answers to the hard questions about God's love -- Wrong questions based on a wrong perspective of God -- Wrong inferences from a faulty view of divine providence -- Two aspects of the love of God -- 6. The love of God for humanity -- Does God love the whole world? -- Is God sincere in the gospel offer? -- Can God really love whom he does not save? -- In what sense is God's love universal? -- 7. The love of God for his elect -- The limits of universal love -- The magnitude of God's saving love -- A love sovereignty bestowed -- A graphic picture of unfailing love -- God's enduring faithfulness -- 8. Finding security in the love of God -- The illustration: the prodigal son -- The doctrine: Romans 8 -- The conclusion: Nothing can separate of from the love of God in Jesus Christ.