The Real God - The Love of God, Part 2

Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast

Living on the Edge

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 24 September 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

People play all kinds of games when it comes to love. Our minds can get wrapped up in ego and selfishness that hinder love at its best. God demonstrates His love in ways that are so different from ours. Join Chip as he explores God's love and what could happen if we stop looking for love and start giving it away instead.

Introduction - Three facts about love

Fact #1: It’s a universal need - Everyone is looking for love!

Fact #2: There’s a universal solution - God loves all people everywhere and longs to meet the deepest needs of every heart for love!

Fact #3: There’s a tragic disconnection - Even so, most people remain starved for love… for three primary reasons:

They don’t know God loves them.
They know of God’s love, but have not received it.
They have received God’s love, but don’t know how to experience it in daily life.

Love is giving another person what they need the most, when they deserve it the least, at great personal cost.

God reveals His love to us through:

CREATION - He made you for Himself.
PROVIDENCE - He shows His kindness to all.
INCARNATION - He is proactively pursuing you.
DISCIPLINES - He chastises us to protect us from self-destructive behavior.
INDWELLING - He supernaturally pours His love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit.
JESUS – The Second Person of the Trinity demonstrated the nature of God’s love for us.

How must we respond to God’s love?

We must RECEIVE IT by faith in our hearts. -John 3:16, 1:12
We must BELIEVE IT by faith in our minds. -1 John 4:13-16, Romans 8:38-39
We must SHARE IT by faith through our choices and decisions. -1 John 3:18

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0:00.0	When I counsel with people, I often hear them say something like this.
0:05.4	You know, Chip, I know God loves me, but I just don't feel it.
0:09.2	He feels so far away, even though intellectually, I know he loves me.
0:13.5	How do I get that sense of God's love?
0:15.9	Well, if that's you, stick around.
0:17.9	We're going to learn how to experience God's love today.
0:22.0	Thank you for being with us for this edition of Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram.
0:27.4	Chip serves as our Bible teacher for this global teaching and discipleship ministry,
0:31.9	helping Christians develop an authentic faith.
0:34.9	Today, we're picking up where Chip left off last time in our series,
0:38.5	The Real God. And we hope you've enjoyed and learned a lot from this study into the core
0:43.1	attributes of our great God. And to help others learn as you have, would you take a minute
0:48.1	after this program and share this series with someone? You can do that easily through the
0:52.8	Chip Ingram app or from wherever you listen to
0:55.5	podcasts. Thanks for spreading the word on how our ministry is impacting you. All right, if you're
1:01.3	ready, here's Chip with part two of his message, The Love of God. The Second Evidence is Providence.
1:09.2	And this is not so much a theological word, is it,
1:13.2	that he shows kindness. It's, it's God's kindness to all men. As Christians, sometimes we
1:20.8	kind of get the idea that God loves us, but we get a little ticked off when he loves other people.
1:26.5	We do.
1:29.2	We really do.
1:30.9	You know, it's us for no more club.
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