The answer of God to the question, how hast thou loved us is, I have loved you with free, sovereign, unconditional, electing love.

That's how I have loved you.

What does it mean for God to love us with a free sovereign unconditional electing love.

In this episode of Light and Truth,

John Piper turns to Malachai One, one to five for God's surprising answer to that very question.

This sermon was originally preached at

Bethlehem Baptist Church on October 4th, 1987.

Verse 2, the first thing God has to say to the people of Israel is, I have loved you, says

the Lord.

Does that make you tremble?

I have loved you, says the Lord.

Isaiah says, this is the man to whom I will look, him that is contrite and humble and trembles at my word.

Have you learned the love of God in such a way that it makes you tremble?

Malakai's burden in this book is to show us a God whose goodness makes us tremble.

Let me say that again.

Malakai's burden in this book

is to reveal to us a God whose goodness makes us tremble.

Now let me show you some texts to undergird that statement. V verse six.

If I am a father, where is my honor?

And if I am a master, where is my fear?

Says the Lord of hosts.

Vours 14.

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