God is love

and so we would expect his children to walk in what?

In love.

God's people bear his reflection.

Since love has God as its source, those who show that love give evidence that they are the children of God.

Their life and their love is derived from Him. If you are a Christian, if you've repented of your sins and received the salvation God graciously and lovingly offers.

How are you doing at demonstrating God's love to the watching world?

How well would your coworkers say you're doing?

And what about your friends, your spouse, your children?

Well today on Grace to you, John MacArthur looks at what it takes to follow Christ's example

of self-sacrificing love. It's part of a study simply titled The Love of God.

John is going to cover quite a few passages today, so if you're able, grab your Bible and follow

along now as he begins the message.

We went deep and high and far and wide in our

and discussion of God's love. And we tried to wrap our arms around the height, the depth, the length and breadth of the love that passes knowledge.

And when we got our arms as wide as we could get them and we were finally left in silence

unable to unscrew the unscrutable, we weren't done. Because there needed to be one other discussion and that is the one for this morning on how do we respond to that love

What is required of us?

We can't just put that great understanding of the love of God

out there and walk away from it. It has immense and it has specific and clear implications for us.

What is the appropriate response to being so greatly loved by God as he loves us?

What is the proper reaction for believers to having received this surpassing love, this perfect love.

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