Welcome to this weekend's Intouch Podcast with Charles Stanley.

God's love toward us is unconditional.

A reminder is coming your way as the liberated to love series continues.

The greatest gift that God has to offer us is the one that we probably have the most difficult it receiving.

Because somehow we just have a hard time understanding it.

What am I talking about? I'm talking about God's love for us.

And I think there are two primary reasons we have difficulty receiving it.

Number one, we don't think we deserve it and we don't.

And secondly, we don't understand it.

And for those two primary reasons we have a very difficult time receiving accepting God's love for us.

And so the reason I think we have difficulty is because we can't quite make his love, harmonize with our love.

And so we want to be able to feel that God loves us the way we love others.

And when we put it in that light somehow, if God loves us like we love others, then I'm not sure God will always love me the way the Bible says he does.

So what I want to talk about in this message, I want to talk about God's love for us.

And the title of this message is God the greatest lover of all.

And I want you to turn if you will to 1 John, chapter 4.

This book is full of love.

1 John, that's revelation from the back, 3rd, 2nd, 1st John.

And I know that most of you know where it is, but every once in a while somebody doesn't know where these small epistles are.

1 John, chapter 4.

So beginning in verse 16 he says, now look at this.

And we have come to know and have believed the love which God has for us.

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