God So Loved the World
God's love is for every creature, and Jesus Christ came into the world to reveal and bring it to us, that we might live for it and find our glory and blessedness in carrying it and making it known.
Andrew Murray emphasizes the profound love of God demonstrated through the gift of His Son, Jesus Christ, who came to unite humanity with the divine. This love is inclusive, reaching out to the lowest and most hopeless individuals, proving that no one is beyond its reach. Jesus dedicated His life to revealing this love, making it the central purpose of His existence, and prayed for His disciples to embody this love in their lives. The sermon highlights that this divine love is not only a gift but also a calling for believers to share and live out. Ultimately, it is through this love that believers find their true glory and fulfillment.
Text
The love of God has proved itself in the gift of the son, of himself. In sending Christ to become man God proved that he longed to have man one with himself, that all his life and love as God was for man, that man might be made partaker of the divine nature. And the wonderful, the blessed 'whosoever' of our text says that that love is for every creature. The lowest, the most degraded and rejected and utterly hopeless - the love is for him, the love longs for him and is able to triumph over him. Jesus Christ came into the world for the one sole purpose of revealing this love. He spoke of it, he lived for it, he died to bring it to us. It was his one aim, his one glory, the passion and strength of his life. It was his very life; it possessed him, and he knew no other joy.
And as he prayed 'that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them,' he meant his disciples just as much as himself, to have it in them, to live for it, to find their glory and blessedness in carrying it and making it known.
(Excerpted from The Coming Revival, pg. 63)
Sermon Outline
- The Love of God
- The 'Whosoever' of Our Text
- Jesus Christ's Purpose
- The Love of God in Us
- A Life of Glory and Blessedness
- Carrying and Making Known the Love
Key Quotes
“He spoke of it, he lived for it, he died to bring it to us.” — Andrew Murray
“It was his one aim, his one glory, the passion and strength of his life.” — Andrew Murray
“He meant his disciples just as much as himself, to have it in them, to live for it, to find their glory and blessedness in carrying it and making it known.” — Andrew Murray
Application Points
- We can experience the love of God in our lives by living for it and finding our glory and blessedness in carrying it and making it known.
- God's love is available to all who will receive it, without exception.
- We should allow the love of God to possess us and be our joy, just as Jesus Christ did.