Before God ever made a world, he already existed.

And what the Scriptures make clear is that as he existed from all eternity, there was already,

in his nature from all eternity, the attribute of love.

It's remarkable when you consider the love of God to realize that because God is love, as we learned yesterday, his love is an eternal love. It's not something that he became

or added to himself. It is who he is.

This is the Tuesday edition of Renewing Your Mind, and this week R. C. Sproll is helping us

consider in-depth what the Bible teaches about God's love. Saturday is Valentine's Day.

Advertisements are filled with messages about love.

And often, what is promoted is a cheap and worldly version of love.

The result can mean that, as God's people, we carry some of that thinking into our own understanding

when we read about the love of God in Scripture, which is why

a series like this one from R. C. Sprawl is so helpful.

Well, since God's love is an eternal love, what was the object of God's love before the

world was made?

Here's Dr. Sprawl. The Bible does not say that pride goes before the fall.

What the Bible says is pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before the fall.

And I should be aware of that because one of the games we play at Ligonier is we play trivia

whenever we warm up

for these lectures. It's usually baseball trivia, but sometimes we'll do other things from the past.

And my pride was sorely wounded because in the first lecture I made a serious mistake about

Elmer Gantry. I attributed the role of Sister Sharon Falconer

to Shirley Jones when in fact it was played by Gene Simmons. I don't know how I did that.

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