The whole bible is a love story it's God's love affair with the human race
you see God has all those billions of planets out there all those hundreds of billions of stars
and it's all God's but of all the planets in the whole universe
the whole universe stands in awe at the love that God showers on this little planet called the earth
we are the only planet in so far as I know that are in rebellion against God and yet
in spite of our rebellion in spite of our disobedience in spite of our sins God loves us
that's the thrilling thing about it and God loves every person in the whole world
with a love that is beyond our comprehension and God proved his love by giving his son on the cross
if you ever doubt that God loves look at the cross because God was in Christ reconciling
the world unto himself that's the greatest illustration of love in the whole world
is the cross because God is saying from the cross I love you I love you I love you
you and I was saved by the cross our Lord loved us so much that he gave his
only son to die on that cross now love is not feeling you say I feel I love him
it's not feeling love is doing love is a verb God did something God gave his love God
commendeth his love taught us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us the Apostle
John looking at that cross said behold what manner of love the father hath bestowed upon us
and when you look at that cross and think about it that the Romans used the instrument of execution
on a colossal scale and they put nails in the hands and spikes in the feet and
spat on the people and mutilated the bodies broke their legs to help them die quicker and all sorts
of terrible things the most cruel death in the whole world is the death of the cross
and our Lord was hanging there with the mocking crowd making fun of him
and he hung there for you and you and you and God was saying I love you Jesus laid down his life
for us and that's the reason the scripture says there's no other way to heaven
you can't be saved any other way you cannot find life with a capital l any other way
you cannot gain entrance to the kingdom of heaven without coming to the cross because if God could
have found another way he would have found it it's God's love it's so deep and so wide and
so high and so great and has such dimensions to it that no words in any language can describe it
it's a love that God has for you
that in spite of the fact that you were rebelling against him in spite of the fact that you were a
sinner in spite of the fact that you broke his laws he gave his son to shed his blood
in spite of everything we've ever done God loves
and words cannot describe it and God says the moment you receive his son is
savior he gives you the spirit of God to live in your heart and the spirit of God
produces this love in you and through you that's the reason Jesus said thou shall love thy neighbor
as thyself it's a supernatural love for your neighbor you may not like your neighbor
but you can love your neighbor
God's love in our hearts produced by the Holy Spirit supernaturally produced
no I cannot love everybody but God can give me the capacity to love everybody
and maybe your wife is you're irritable maybe you are irritable God can take you and change you and
transform you and transform that relationship until you can fall in love all over again
God can take you young people here tonight and forgive your past sins
every one of them think of it every sin forgiven and make your heart just as clean
as it was the day you were born and resensitize your conscience which is in danger
of becoming hardened and give you a new tenderness and give you the real meaning of love
let Jesus Christ come into your heart let him forgive your past sins let him change
your life and say from this moment on I want him to be in control of my life I want him to
sit in the cockpit of my life and run it and direct it I turn my life over to him tonight