We love him because he first loved us and that's the power or the triumph of his love that triumphs over our hostility, over our estrangement and brings us back to himself that God is a God of love.

Your unbelieving friends, co-workers or neighbors

likely believe that if there is a God,

surely he is loving, and surely he'll let them into heaven.

And some Christians add further confusion

because they only ever speak of God's love and not of His

holiness, His justice, and as we'll consider today His sovereignty.

Welcome to the Thursday edition of Renewing Your Mind and this week we've been

considering the love of God. If you'd like to study this topic further tomorrow is

the final day to request the entire 11 part series loved by God with R.C.

Sprawl when you give a gift of any amount at renewing your mind.org. So does God love everyone in the same way? Since God is a God of love, does that mean all

people will be saved? Here's Dr Sproll on the sovereign or electing love of God. As we've been exploring the biblical concept of the love of God, we've noted that God's love as an attribute of his character and

of his being must be always understood in connection with all the rest of his attributes.

And we've seen how, for example,

his love is an eternal love.

And that his love is an immutable love.

And that his love is a loyal love a steadfast love and we've looked at various

aspects of the way these other characteristics of God help us understand the nature of His love.

Today I want to look at a somewhat controversial aspect

of the love of God. In fact, a dimension of God's love that raises such serious

questions in some people's mind that they think that the very idea is somewhat self-contradictory and I'm talking now

about the electing love of God or another way of stating it,

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