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Goodness Sovereignty Holiness Wisdom Justice Love Faithfulness

How God’s attributes are NOT: How God’s attributes ARE:

*Systematic Theology by Wayne Grudem

7Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God,

and whoever loves has been born of God and knows

• God. 8 Anyone who does not love does not know God,

because God is _______. 1 John 4:7-8

5This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim

to you, that God is ______, ___________________________. 1 John 1:5 love light and in him there is no darkness.

God is equally: Goodness Sovereignty Holiness Wisdom Justice Love Faithfulness

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. John 3:16

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. John 3:16

God’s love is: Giving

12 But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the

right to become children of God, 13 who were born, not of blood nor of the will

• f the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God. John 1:12-13

31 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can

be against us? 32 He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? Romans 8:31-32

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. John 3:16

God’s love is: Sacrificial

5 but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners,

Christ died for us. Romans 5:8

13 Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his

life for his friends. John 15:13

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. John 3:16

God’s love is: Unconditional

6 For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. 7 For

• ne will scarcely die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person
• ne would dare even to die— 8 but God shows his love for us in that while we

were still sinners, Christ died for us. Romans 5:6-8

4 But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, 5 he

saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his

• wn mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy

Spirit, 6 whom he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, 7 so that being justified by his grace we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life. Titus 3:4-8

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. John 3:16

God’s love is: Boundless

Your steadfast love, O Lord, extends to the heavens, Psalm 36:5

38 For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things

present nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 8:38-39

17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted

and grounded in love, 18 may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, 19 and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of

• God. Ephesians 3:17-19

How could a loving God send people to Hell for all eternity? Rather consider: How loving God must be if his plan was for his only Son to die a brutal death and bear the weight of all sin, from every person who ever lived.

That’s the Love of God.