The Love of God, Part 2

Insight for Living Daily Broadcast

Chuck Swindoll - Insight for Living

Religion & Spirituality, Christian, Religious And Spirituality, Christianity

4.7 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2026

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Many people imagine God’s love as something like a kindly grandfather—affable, lenient, and unbothered by sin. But this misunderstanding cheapens love rather than exalts it. God’s love is not soft. It is fierce and purposeful. Weaving through Deuteronomy 7, John 3, and 1 John 4, Pastor Chuck Swindoll explores why God chose to love an undeserving people—not because of who they were, but because of who He is. The cross stands as the ultimate proof. Let the depth of God’s love move you. Understand it clearly, receive it fully, and let it reshape how you see yourself and others!

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0:00.0	There are three words at the heart of today's message.
0:10.0	Not a slogan, not a bumper sticker, but a declaration that has the power to reorient your entire life.
0:17.0	God is love.
0:19.0	It sounds so simple, but how do we wrap our minds around the love of God?
0:24.1	Today, on Insight for Living, Chuck Swindall surveys the Bible, guiding us toward an understanding
0:29.9	of divine love that's both theologically honest and deeply personal. Whatever you're carrying
0:36.0	today, whatever you've done or left undone, this is for you.
0:40.9	Chuck titled his message, The Love of God.
0:51.0	On your way toward the New Testament, stop off at Jeremiah, chapter 31, verse 3.
0:57.8	The Lord appeared to him from afar, saying, I have loved you with an everlasting love.
1:05.4	Therefore, I have drawn you with loving kindness.
1:10.8	We're getting close to unconditional here, aren't we? There are moments,
1:15.4	I'm going to be real candid here and vulnerable. There are moments I'm sort of overwhelmed
1:20.3	with the love of my wife for me. And she's been far more faithful to tell me about her love for me than I have to say it to her.
1:32.6	It was a few weeks ago. It was a hot summer day and her car had gotten dirty in the rainstorm and
1:38.2	the clouds had gone away and sun had come. It was Saturday morning and I thought I need to,
1:50.9	I need to get her car cleaned up for her so I sat down in her car and I could smell her perfume that lingered in her car and in one of those unusual moments I just I thought
1:58.4	man I love this woman so I got a little post-it and I write on it,
2:05.8	I love you. And I thought, okay, well, I can do better than that, you know. So I'm going to
2:13.9	write a little bigger so she won't miss it. And I wrote, I love you.
2:18.2	And I underscore love.
2:19.9	And then I thought, well, shoot, I'm going to fill the whole page.
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