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The Implications of The Implications of Possessing God’s Love Possessing God’s Love

REVIEW

• Access to God

ROMANS 5:5A – And hope maketh not ashamed;– and hope does not put us to shameand hope does not put us to shame,

Commentary• Followers of Christ have no reason to fear

humiliation on the judgment day, for they now belong to God.

ROMANS 5:5

• because the love of God is shed abroad in our

hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.

• Who is receiving this love of God? (Vs.1)

whywhy

ROMANS

• Romans 5:5 – because the love of God is shed abroad in

our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.

• Poured out into our hearts

1 Corinthians 6:10-11

And such were some of you: but

ye are washed, but ye are sanctified,

but ye are justified in the name of the

Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our

God.

Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor

extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

TITUS 3:5

• Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;

New wine into new bottlesPurge out therefore the old leaven,

that ye may be a new lumphe is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are

become newAnd that ye put on the new man

By a new and living wayAnd to Jesus the mediator of the new

covenant

SOUND DOCTRINE

• The Apostle Paul teaches very clearly that all The Apostle Paul teaches very clearly that all who have been justified (saved or born-who have been justified (saved or born-again) receive both:again) receive both:

• God’s LoveGod’s Love• Holy SpiritHoly Spirit

• He does not indicate any additional thing one must do to receive the Holy Spirit.

BENEFITS OF BEING A CHILD OF THE KING• Justified• Declared Righteous• Set Apart (sanctified)• Adopted into His family

• Given His LoveGiven His Love• Indwelt with His Holy SpiritIndwelt with His Holy Spirit

GOD’S LOVE

• 1 John 3:1 – Behold, what manner of love the Father hath

bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.

“Love” is Subjective

God’s Demonstration is very God’s Demonstration is very OBJECTIVE (vs. 6-10)OBJECTIVE (vs. 6-10)

ROMANS 5:6

• For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.

• Picture of LovePicture of Love– Morally Weak—sinners—ungodly people Morally Weak—sinners—ungodly people

are those whom Christ died for to save.are those whom Christ died for to save.

ILLUSTRATION

• Romans 5:7 – For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet

peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die.

GOD’S LOVE

• 1 John 4:10 – Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he

loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

A sacrifice that bears

God’s Wrath and turns it

to favor.

GOD’S LOVE

• Romans 5:8 – But God commendeth [demonstrated] his love

toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

EPH 5:25

• Husbands, love your wives,

• even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;

What does this love look like?What does this love look like?

GOD’S LOVE

• 1 John 3:14 – We know that we have passed from death unto

life, because we love the brethren. – He that loveth not his brother abideth in death.

Paul & John

“Unified in Truth”

1 John 4:7-211 John 4:7-21

God is Love

Now Look at Romans 5:9Now Look at Romans 5:9

ROMANS 5:9

• Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.

Love doesn’t Love doesn’t mean the mean the

absence of absence of wrath.wrath.

RECONCILIATION

• Romans 5:10 – For if, when we were enemies, we were

reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.

Irreconcilable differences between two Christians are NOT

optional.

If they can’t be reconciled, If they can’t be reconciled, someone is not born-again.someone is not born-again.

TWO POINTS:

• Reconciliation between two adults doesn’t mean that one rolls over and plays dead in a blind and obnoxious submission to the will of the other.

• Expecting someone to submit like that is NOT love!

Practical Application:

What do two Christians, who love each other, do when they

are heading down a road of irreconcilable differences?

Christ’s Standard

Matthew 18:15Matthew 18:15

GOD’S LOVE

1 John 5:3• For this is the love of God, that we keep his

commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.

Poured in Poured in YouYou

AMAZING THING

• I am commanded to love Him, and He pours that love in me to love Him.

• I am commanded to love my brother as I am commanded to love my brother as myself, and He pours that love in me. myself, and He pours that love in me.

• In fact, He loved me before I love Him.

Fact: Fact: It’s all Grace!It’s all Grace!