To Be Loved Infinitely

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John Piper, Unknown, 163859, Pastor, Ask, Theology, Desiring God, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Questions

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🗓️ 9 June 2021

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

The essence of God’s love is not that he makes much of us, but that he frees us, at great cost to himself, to enjoy making much of him forever.

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0:00.0	Well, what does it mean to be loved infinitely?
0:07.6	That's the answer we're after today and to get the answer, we must first understand
0:11.6	the God for a time past over sin.
0:15.8	He simply passed over it.
0:17.4	He didn't bring final judgment on sinners in real time.
0:21.7	He would deal with sin finally, but only later in the cross.
0:28.1	Meanwhile, in the thousands of years of human history prior to the cross, God would show
0:32.7	his four barrens.
0:34.2	We read about this in Romans 3, verses 22 to 26.
0:37.8	We're Paul writes this.
0:39.2	For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God and are justified by his grace as
0:44.0	a gift through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation
0:50.1	by his blood to be received by faith.
0:54.0	This was to show God's righteousness because in his divine four barrens, he had passed
0:59.6	over former sins.
1:02.7	It was to show his righteousness at the present time so that he might be just and the
1:08.0	justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.
1:13.4	This text is loaded with theology and meaning and it answers this question of what it means
1:18.6	to be loved infinitely.
1:21.2	Here now is Pastor John preaching in Austin, Texas on January 1st, 1998 to explain.
1:28.7	The problem is that he passed over sins.
1:31.7	He just passed over them.
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