There is no injustice with God, is there?

Does the fact that God chose mean that he's unfair?

No, fair sends everybody where?

To hell! Justice dams everybody. Fair, you don't want fair, my friend. I don't want

fair. I don't want justice. I want mercy.

Welcome to Grace to you with John MacArthur. I'm your host Phil Johnson. The story is told of a boy

who looked out his window one morning and saw his puppy in the yard and watched

horrified as his father shot and killed the dog.

Only years later did the son learn that his dad had been protecting his family

from a severe rabies outbreak in the area.

His dad had actually demonstrated love by what he did. In a small way that

story illustrates the limited understanding we often have when it comes to God's love.

But you can learn to trust in that love as John

MacArthur is showing you in his current study. It's called simply the love of

God. And with today's lesson now, here's John.

Obviously, if you have read the book of Romans, you know that by the time you have completed

Chapter 8, you have completed the greatest treatise on salvation ever penned.

It's all about God-loving sinners and saving them through Jesus Christ.

But when you come to Chapter 9, you were introduced to a most important issue with regard to God saving love.

And that is how God saving love mingles itself with all other of God's attributes, which must be

considered in line with God's saving purpose.

And I'm going to show you seven attributes of God

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