3. I. THE OF GOD IS UNCONDITIONAL

4. “FOR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD” “world” – (Kosmos) The ungodly multitude; the whole mass of men alienated from God, and hostile to the cause of Christ. That God should love the world only heightens the mystery of his love. If we could imagine a perfect world, fresh from the hand of the Creator and uninfected by evil, we could more easily comprehend God’s desire to save it.

5. A wayward world failed to recognize it maker. John 1:10 Openly hated His approach to it John 15:18 seemed like a poor choice for love. God’s love isn’t based on our spiritual condition or moral predisposition. It is based on our behavior or our attitude toward him.

6. AT A COMPARATIVE RELIGIONS CONFERENCE Only Christianity dares to proclaim God’s love is unconditional; an unconditional love that we call grace. Christians boldly proclaim that grace really has precious little to do with us, our inner resolve, or our lack of inner resolve. Grace is all about God and God freely giving to us the gifts of forgiveness, mercy, and love.

7. “There is nothing we can do to make God love us more. There is nothing we can do to make God love us less.” Philip Yancey

8. II. THE OF GOD IS SACRAFICAL

9. “THAT HE GAVE” “For this is how God loved the world…” ESV How did God love us? Giving Serving Sacrificing True love has nothing to do with what you can do for me, but everything to do with what I can do for you.

10. God takes the his pen and transfers the sum total om my indebtedness to the account of the Lord Jesus Christ. On the account the Lord Jesus wrote, “Transferred from the account of _______________.” He added up the total righteousness of Christ and against it wrote, “transferred to the account of _____________.”

11. III. THE OF GOD IS VALUABLE

12. “HIS ONLY” God gave out of his own poverty. God didn’t have a spare. He loved so much that he gave us the only thing he had. The power and passion of God’s love comes across, not through a special meaning of the Greek word, but through the length to which God was willing to go for the sake of the world.

13. IV. THE OF GOD IS PERSONABLE

14. “SON” God’s love is not merely some abstract concept, philosophy, or theological construct. God’s love was made manifest in this world through the person of Jesus Christ the only Son of the Father. God’s love is personable on the hone hand because it was made manifest through a person-Jesus Christ-but also because it is bestowed on a person-you.

15. “There are many reasons God saves you: to bring glory to himself, to appease his justice, to demonstrate his sovereignty. But one of the sweetest reasons God saved you is because he is fond of you. He likes having you around. He thinks you are the best thing to come down the pike in quite a while… If God had a refrigerator, your picture would be on it. If he had a wallet, your photo would be in it. He sends you flowers every spring and a sunrise every morning. Whenever you want to talk, he’ll listen. He can live anywhere in the universe, and he chose your heart. And the Christmas gift he sent you in Bethlehem? Face it, friend. He’s crazy about you! Max Lucado

16. V. THE OF GOD IS ACCESSABLE

17. “THAT WHOEVER BELIEVES IN HIM” God’s love is not limited to a select few. “From the human perspective, when you compare God to the other gods of the other religions in the world, you have to say our God is really sort of odd. He uses the most common of people, people that aren’t any different from any of us here; he come in the most common of ways, when by his Spirit an anonymous young woman is found with child.

18. “THAT WHOEVER BELIEVES IN HIM” And the strangest thing is that he comes at all… he’s not the Above-Us-God, too holy to come down. This God’s love is so immense that he wants to come down. And he has proven his love by the fact that he did come down and touch our ground. God has come down to our level. Not in the sense that he has lessened his holiness or lowered his standards. But only in the sense that he has made his love accessible to the average, ordinary person like me and like you.

19. “THAT WHOEVER BELIEVES IN HIM” He is not a distant God who loves us only from some mystical, far away place that is completely removed from us. Rather he has entered into our world and he longs to enter into our lives.” James Van Tholen “Where All Hope Lies”

20. VI. THE OF GOD IS NON JUDGMENTAL

21. “SHOULD NOT PERISH” God’s goal in sending his Son from heaven to earth was not condemn you are to show you how bad you are, how unworthy you are or how hopeless you are. God’s only desire in sending his Son was to show you his love and draw you into a love relationship with himself.

22. Jesus didn’t come into the world to… rebuke you. He came to rescue you. criticize you. He came to cleanse you. punish you. He came to pardon you. destroy you. He came to deliver you.

23. There is a difference between judging the unrepentant sinner and being judgmental. Being judgmental means that one has a critical spirit that only looks for the bad in people and then is quick to condemn when it is found. God on the other hand will judge us for our sins and even sentence us to hell, but only as a last resort-only over his Son’s dead body-only if we refuse to accept his offer of forgiveness.

24. VII. THE OF GOD IS BENEFICAL

25. “BUT HAVE ETERNAL LIFE” John Hopkins University in Baltimore Sociology professor assigned his class the project of interviewing 200 city youth residing in slums. They were asked to predict their future. Students predicted that 90% would serve in prison. 25 years later the same professor asked a class to track down the original boys and discover what had happened. 180 were located and only 4 had been found in jail.

26. THE STORY OF A FATHER AND SON QUARREL