God’s Attribute of Love

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Welcome to The Rapid Bull, daily edition, where we provide a quick biblical interpretations and applications.

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This is a ministry of striving for eternity. As we were completing the list of the attributes of God, we were looking at the category of His morality, and in that we had three classifications, holiness, truth, and love.

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This is the last of them, love, and this will be expressed in different ways, grace, mercy, long -suffering, kindness, and forgiveness that we'll look at later.

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As we look at love, it's simply defined as sacrifice. Now there are different ideas of love that we have, brotherly love, erotic love, familial type love, friendships, things like that that we say we love someone, but when we're speaking of love in this way, we're talking about a self -sacrificial love.

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In the Greek, it would be agape. It is the love that always involves some effort and time for us.

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The expression of God's love is that it moves Him to give of Himself.

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God is completely and totally loving, and that's why we see in 1 John 4, 8, it can say, for who does not love, does not know

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God, for God is love. God's love is proportionate to the worth of the one loved, to the degree and the expression.

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We love Him because His love for us is incomprehensible. He has a greater love than we can ever understand.

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The greatest expression of His love is the act on the cross of salvation. God's love is comprised of His grace and His mercy,

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His long -suffering, but we love because He first loved us. This podcast is part of the

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