God loves in a way that is consistent with his full glory.

And God's saving purpose and God's love is tied to God's glory, not man's. It is tied to God's glory, not man's.

It is tied to God's purposes, not man's.

It is tied to God's desires, not man's, and God's will not make.

Welcome to Grace to you with John MacArthur.

I'm your host Phil Johnson. Today John

continues a study that on the surface might not seem particularly controversial,

but the simple phrase God is love can be challenging when you

consider that he also judges people, even sends them to hell.

So how can God be loving and yet punish people for eternity? And how can

he be a god of grace and still allow evil in the world? John is answering those questions and much more in his current series on Grace to you.

It's a biblical look at The Love of God.

And with that, let's get to the lesson.

Here's John MacArthur.

When we announce we're going to speak about the love of God, most people would think,

well that's a fairly simple, straightforward, direct subject, one that would be easy to understand, easy to treat. But I think we have

found in going through this concept of the love of God that it has some profound mystery, and it has some depth to it that taxes our greatest intellectual

and even our greatest spiritual capacities.

At the very beginning when we started the series on God's love, I said to you that to say to people

that God loves the world is simple, but to accept that statement as fact is not so simple. There are some probing,

disturbing, and often unanswered questions that plague the minds of anybody who thinks deeply about the idea

that God loves the world.

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