Welcome to Defenders, the teaching class of Dr. William Lane Craig.

Today, the Doctrine of God, Part 21.

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Today we want to bring to a close, a major section of our Defenders class,

dealing with the attributes of God. And we are going

to look at an application of the moral attribute of God, His love. We saw in the lesson last time

that God exhibits agape love, universal, unconditional, impartial love, and that even while we were

hateful enemies of Christ, God loved us and sent his son to win us back to himself. So what

application might we draw from this attribute of God's love?

Well, first of all, we should bathe in the sunshine of God's love for us.

Ephesians chapter 3 verses 14 to 19.

Ephesians chapter 3 verses 14 to 19. Paul writes, for this reason, I bow my knees

before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, that according to the riches of his glory,

he may grant you to be strengthened with might through His spirit in the inner man,

and that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have power to comprehend

with all the saints what is the breadth and depth and length and height, and to know the love

of Christ, which surpasses knowledge that you may be filled with all the fullness

of God. What an incredible description of our union with Christ, that we are rooted and grounded

in love. And Paul asks that we might know the depths, the extent, the height

of Christ's love for us, love which he says even surpasses knowledge. For all the knowledge

that we might acquire, the love of Christ surpasses that. And that is the love that we have as we are in Christ.

And we need to revel in that, we need to bathe in that love that God has shown toward us.

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