HOW DEEP IS GOD'S LOVE? (1)
(Message by Tanny Keng)
1. How deep is God's love?
a) Let us take you into some deep water for a moment. We know that God is love and that love does not seek its own. Does that mean that God created you for your own good, not His selfish interest. Yes, because God is not selfish, although all things were created for His pleasure, His pleasure is to pour out His loving compassion on to you, and in to you, and through you to others. As in every case it is more blessed to give than to receive, so God is more blessed than we are because He gives, we receive.
b) We believe that God’s greatest pleasure is to give in compassion to His children, showing forth mercy, grace, and love. We are created in the image of God and our greatest pleasure is to give in compassion also, it brings the greatest happiness in our lives that we can experience on earth, because it brings the presence of God. It is more blessed to give than to receive, if you don’t believe it, try it and see. We seem to be blinded to this wonderful pleasure always seeking to get more so that we can be happy in the future, that attitude always puts happiness just out of our reach, leaving us empty when we finally get what we thought that we wanted.
(Proverbs 14:21 KJV)
… he that has mercy on the poor, happy is he.
c) God is Love. Compassion is the kind of Love that God is, and the kind of love that He desires that we have for others. God’s compassion is manifested by His mercy, grace, pity, patience, loving kindness, goodness, truth, forgiveness, and justice.
(John 3:16-17 NKJV)
“For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. {17} “For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.
The End ...
1. How deep is God's love? a) Let us take you into some deep water for a moment. We know that God is love and that love does not seek its own. Does that mean that God created you for your own good, not His selfish interest. Yes, because God is not selfish, although all things were created for His pleasure, His pleasure is to pour out His loving compassion on to you, and in to you, and through you to others. As in every case it is more blessed to give than to receive, so God is more blessed than we are because He gives, we receive.
b) We believe that God’s greatest pleasure is to give in compassion to His children, showing forth mercy, grace, and love. We are created in the image of God and our greatest pleasure is to give in compassion also, it brings the greatest happiness in our lives that we can experience on earth, because it brings the presence of God. It is more blessed to give than to receive, if you don’t believe it, try it and see. We seem to be blinded to this wonderful pleasure always seeking to get more so that we can be happy in the future, that attitude always puts happiness just out of our reach, leaving us empty when we finally get what we thought that we wanted.
(Proverbs 14:21 KJV)
… he that has mercy on the poor, happy is he.
c) God is Love. Compassion is the kind of Love that God is, and the kind of love that He desires that we have for others. God’s compassion is manifested by His mercy, grace, pity, patience, loving kindness, goodness, truth, forgiveness, and justice.
(John 3:16-17 NKJV)
“For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. {17} “For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.
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