THE TRUTH AND EXPERIENCE OF GOD’S SALVATION

Lesson Fourteen

GOD’S SALVATION THE SOURCE OF SALVATION IS GOD’S LOVE (4)

  1. God’s Salvation
    1. The source of salvation is God’s love – Eph. 2:4-5; Titus 3:4-7
      1. God’s love is eternal and nothing can separate us from this love – Jer. 31:3; Rom. 8:35-39

Burden to Impart:

Having seen how wonderful God’s love is, we must go on to see that His love is eternal. Eternal means uncreated, without beginning or ending, existing by itself and ever, unchange-ably existing. This love will never fall away (1 Cor. 13:8). And nothing can separate us from this love. No creature – not Satan, not our enemies, not even our self – can separate us from the love of God. What a comfort, and what an encouragement!

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Facts to Teach:

  1. The Lord loves us with an eternal love (Jer. 31:3). Because of this unchangeably existing love, He draws us with loving kindness.
  2. God does so much for us simply because He loves us. He loved us eternally. From eternity in the past, God loved us, and He still loves us today. His heart is our stay, our security, and His love is our safeguard.
  3. Do not have any doubt about your personal salvation. God loves you, and He assures you that He will accomplish everything on your behalf. If you cooperate with Him, He will ac-complish this smoothly.
  4. This love of God is the source of His eternal salvation. This love is in Christ and has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit (Rom. 5:5). Nothing can separate us from this love of God (vv. 38-39).
  5. In God's salvation this love to us has become the love of Christ (v. 35), which does many marvelous things for us through the grace of Christ until God's complete salvation is ac-complished in us.
  6. These marvelous things provoke God's enemy to attack us with all kinds of sufferings and calamities (vv. 35-36). However, because of our response to the love of God in Christ, these attacks have become benefits to us (Rom. 8:28 – we know that all things work together for good to those who love God). Hence, we more than conquer in all our afflictions and calami-ties (Rom. 8:37 – in all these things we more than conquer through Him who loved us).
  7. Because of God's unchanging love for us and the fact that Christ has accomplished every-thing on our behalf, neither tribulation nor persecution can suppress or defeat us; rather, in all these things we more than overcome and conquer through Him who loved us.