God Is Love
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
4.8 • 4.9K Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
People have many ideas about what it means for God to be loving, but not all those ideas are accurate. Today, R.C. Sproul helps us avoid common misconceptions so we can better understand the Bible's teaching that "God is love."
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| 0:00.0 | Our problem is not so much that we tend to think of God as a God who has no love, |
| 0:05.7 | but rather the problem that we find in the culture of our day is a view of God |
| 0:11.8 | that carries with it a cheap view of love and a sense of love by which all the |
| 0:19.1 | other attributes of God are removed or stripped from his character and swallowed up by one attribute which |
| 0:28.8 | is the attribute of love. |
| 0:37.0 | The idea of love has been so distorted today |
| 0:41.0 | that not only is it often overly romanticized or sentimentalized, but it has also been |
| 0:46.5 | perverted to condone and justify sin. |
| 0:49.7 | And when it comes to theology, as you just heard from R.C. Sprawl, many use the love of God to try and |
| 0:56.2 | eclipse his other attributes. So this week on renewing your mind, we'll be taking the time to consider the love of God from a biblical perspective. |
| 1:05.1 | I'm Nathan W Bingham and I encourage you to listen all week. |
| 1:10.3 | As this is a new week, we have a new resource offer for you as well. |
| 1:14.0 | Build your Bible study library, |
| 1:16.0 | when you request the complete 11-part series on the love of God, |
| 1:20.0 | when you give a donation of any amount at renewing or mind.org. |
| 1:25.0 | When you think of the love of God, what Bible verses come to mind? |
| 1:29.0 | John 316? |
| 1:31.0 | What about 1st John 4-8 where we're told God is love? As it's a text that is |
| 1:37.5 | foundational and is often misunderstood that's where we'll begin this week's |
| 1:42.1 | study. Here's Dr. Sprawl. |
| 1:44.0 | I wonder how many of you who are here or who are watching this program or listening to |
| 1:51.8 | it ever saw the Hollywood movie entitled |
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