The Love of God

Damon Thompson Ministries

Damon, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Thompson

4.8 • 930 Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2022

⏱️ 92 minutes

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The love of God is the absolute commitment to come after anything that is not of love's kind. If you know He loves you and you know He is for you and not against you, you begin to understand that His wrath is not anger but it is His fierce love on display. You are the beloved of the Father!

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0:00.0	I really have had some things in my heart for a while and I'm going to stay with the
0:04.0	template we're in because I think it's perfect for it but I'm going to share some
0:07.6	things that have been brewing in me for quite some time regarding the love of
0:10.8	God and I want to preface are we ready And I want to preface, are we ready?
0:13.9	Okay, I want to preface what I'm about to say by saying to you,
0:17.6	I have felt in my mind at times that I wanted to explain what I meant when I talked about the love of God.
0:28.0	And I have felt the Holy Spirit say to me, don't do that.
0:32.0	Because I need people to learn to walk in the tension of
0:40.0	having to develop their own theology.
0:45.4	One of the most dangerous things that ever happened to theological exploration
0:50.9	is doctrinal certitude. Let me say it again. One of the most dangerous things that ever happened
0:57.0	to theological exploration was doctrinal certitude. This is what we believe about heaven. Don't ask any questions. This is
1:05.9	what we believe about hell. Don't ask any questions. This is what we believe about
1:08.9	sin. Don't ask any questions. This is what we believe about original sin. Don't ask any questions. This is what we believe about original sin, don't ask any questions.
1:15.0	And there is something incredible that begins to happen in you when you get in a governmental
1:20.6	atmosphere that is secure enough for you to have permission to ask questions.
1:25.8	For you to be able to say, why do I believe what I believe about heaven? And if I had time tonight and I won't take the time to do it, but at some point maybe I will.
1:36.6	I would teach you that most of what you believe about heaven, you probably believe about heaven because of Plato. And most of what you believe about hell, you probably believe
1:46.0	about hell because of Dante, not because of the Bible. So Dante had this philosophical influence on our vision of the afterworld as it relates to hell and Plato or the platonic influence had a lot to do with shape shaping how we see about heaven.
2:01.5	He's the one that put heaven millions of light years away from us instead of just beyond the veil.
2:07.0	Yet we're still framed in that thinking even if you don't intellectually agree with that, we mourn the way we mourn oftentimes
2:15.9	because a loved one has been taken from us when they actually haven't been taken very far. And I think part of the way that we can process loss is to stop seeing
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