The love of God toward a penitent sinner is rich, lavish, effusive, exalting love.

It is not minimal, it is maximum, it is maximum it is lavish

the Bible is a precious treasure, but knowing our tendency to forget even precious truths,

our Lord included parables in his teaching,

memorable stories with unexpected and profound meanings.

Today on Grace to you, John MacArthur shows you how one parable in particular,

the one about the prodigal son, reveals the amazing depth of God's love for his

children how he desires to pour out his grace on your life. John is continuing

the study he began last week. It's simply titled,

The Love of God.

And now with a look at what you can learn from the most famous of Christ's parables,

here's John MacArthur.

We've been looking at this whole matter of parables, here's John MacArthur.

We've been looking at this whole matter of God's love.

John 316 says God so loves the world.

And we've looked at how God loves the world.

The love of God of the world is manifest in in his common

grace as theologians call it or his general goodness.

skies are blue and the grass is green and the flowers grow in the garden of even the

unregenerate people and music comforts our hearts and gives wings to the

expressions of our emotions and we can enjoy a little child and we can enjoy the fruits of love and labor and all of that is

common grace, common to all people and his manifestation of God's love.

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