Amazing Love
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A book that will bring growth and knowledge about prayer, grace and invite him to live with greater intimacy with God.
Written by Charles Spurgeon was one of the most important Christian writers of all time.
C. H. Spurgeon
CHARLES H. SPURGEON (1834-1892) was known as England's most prominent preacher for most of the second half of the nineteenth century. He preached his first sermon at the age of 16, and by 22, he was the most popular preacher of his day, habitually addressing congregations of six to ten thousand. In addition, he was active in philanthropic work and evangelism. Spurgeon is the author of numerous books, including All of Grace, Finding Peace in Life's Storms, The Anointed Life, and Praying Successfully.
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Amazing Love - C. H. Spurgeon
Summary
Loves Logic
Love's Crowning Deed
Prodigal Love for the Prodigal Son
The Drawings of Love
His Great Love!
Loves Logic!
We love Him, because He first loved us!
1 John 4:19
This verse contains a great doctrinal truth, and I might with much propriety preach a doctrinal sermon from it, of which the sum and substance would be, the Sovereign Grace of God. God’s love is evidently prior to ours: ‘He FIRST loved us.’ It is also clear enough from the text that God’s love is the cause of ours, for ‘We love him BECAUSE he first loved us.’ Therefore, going back to old time, or rather before all time, when we find God loving us with an everlasting love, we gather that the reason of his choice is not because WE loved him, but because HE willed to love us. His reasons, and he had reasons (for we read of the counsel of his will), are known to himself; but they are not to be found in any inherent goodness in us, or which was foreseen to be in us. We were chosen simply because he will have mercy on whom he will have mercy. He Loved Us, Because He Would Love Us.
The gift of his dear Son, which was a close consequent upon his choice of his people, was too great a sacrifice on God’s part to have been drawn from him by any goodness in the creature. It was not possible for the highest piety to have deserved so vast a boon as the gift of the Only-begotten; it was not possible for anything in man to have merited the incarnation and the passion of the Redeemer. Our redemption, like our election, springs from the spontaneous self-originating love of God. And our regeneration, in which we are made actual partakers of the divine blessings in Jesus Christ, was not of us, nor by us.
We were not converted because we were already inclined that way, neither were we regenerated because some good thing was in us by nature; but we owe our new birth entirely to his omnipotent love, which dealt with us effectually, turning us from death to life, from darkness to light and from the alienation of our mind and the enmity of our spirit into that delightful path of love, in which we are now traveling to the skies.
As believers on Christ’s name we ‘were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.’ The sum and substance of the text is that God’s Uncaused Love, Springing up Within Himself, Has Been the Sole Means of Bringing Us into the Condition of Loving Him.
Our love to him is like a trickling rill, speeding its way to the ocean because it first came from the ocean. All the rivers run into the sea, but their floods first arose from it: the clouds that were exhaled from the mighty main distilled in showers and filled the waterbrooks. Here was their first cause and prime origin; and, as if they recognized the obligation, they pay tribute in return to the parent source.
The ocean love of God, so broad that even the wing of imagination could not traverse it, sends forth its treasures of the rain of grace, which drop upon our hearts, which are as the pastures of the wilderness; they make our hearts to overflow, and in streams of gratitude the life imparted flows back again to God. All good things are of you, Great God; your goodness creates our good; your infinite love to us draws forth our love to you.
But, dear friends, I trust after many years of instruction in the doctrines of our holy faith, I need not keep to the beaten doctrinal track, but may lead you in a parallel path, in which the same truth may be seen from another point. I purpose to preach an experimental sermon, and possibly this will be even more in accordance with the run of the passage and the mind of its writer, than a doctrinal discourse. We shall view the text as a fact which we have tested and proved in our own consciousness.
Under this aspect the statement of the text is this: - a sense of the love of God to us is the main cause of our love to him. When We Believe, Know, and Feel That God Loves Us, We, as a Natural Result, Love Him in Return; and in proportion as our knowledge increases, our faith strengthens, and our conviction deepens that we are really beloved of God; we, from the very constitution of our being, are constrained to yield our hearts to God in return. The discourse of this morning, therefore, will run in that channel. God grant it may be blessed to each of us by his Holy Spirit.
I. At the outset we will consider THE INDISPENSABLE NECESSITY OF LOVE TO GOD IN THE HEART. There are some graces which in their vigor are not absolutely essential to the bare existence of spiritual life, though very important for its healthy growth; but love to God must be in the heart, or else there is no grace there whatever.
If any man love not God, he is not a renewed man. Love to God is a mark which is always set upon Christ’s sheep, and never set upon any others. In enlarging upon this most important truth, I would call your attention to the connection of the text. You will find in the seventh verse of this chapter, that love to God is set down as being a necessary mark of the new birth. ‘Every one that loves is born of God, and knows God.’
I have no right, therefore, to believe that I am a regenerated person unless my heart truly and sincerely loves God. It is vain for me, if I love not God, to quote the register which records an ecclesiastical ceremony, and say that this regenerated me; it certainly did no such thing, or the sure result would have followed.
If I have been regenerated I may not be perfect, but this one thing I can say, ‘Lord you know all things, you know that I love you.’ When by believing we receive the privilege to become the sons of God, we receive also the nature of sons, and with filial love we cry, ‘Abba, Father.’ There is no exception to this rule; if a man loves not God, neither is he born of God. Show me a fire without heat, then show me regeneration that does not produce love to God; for as the sun must give forth its light, so must a soul that has been created anew by divine grace display its nature by sincere affection towards God. ‘We must be born again,’ but you are not born again unless you love God. How indispensable, then, is love to God.
In the eighth verse we are told also that love to God is a mark of our knowing God. True knowledge is essential to salvation. God does not save us in the dark. He is our ‘light and our salvation.’ We are renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created us. Now, ‘he that loves not knows not God, for God is love.’ All you have ever been taught from the pulpit, all you have ever studied from the Scriptures, all you have ever gathered from the learned, all you have collected from the libraries, all this is not true knowledge of God at all unless you love God; for in true religion, to love and to know God are synonymous terms.
Without love you remain in ignorance still, ignorance of the most unhappy and ruinous kind. All spiritual attainments are transitory, if love is not as a salt to preserve them. Tongues must cease, and knowledge must vanish away; love alone abides for ever. This love you must have or be a fool for ever. All the children of the true Zion are taught of the Lord, but you are not taught of God unless you love God. See then that to be devoid of love to God is to be devoid of all true knowledge of God, and so of all salvation.
Further, the chapter teaches us that love to God is the root of love to others. The eleventh verse says, ‘Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another. If we love one another, God dwells in us, and his love is perfected in us.’ Now no man is a Christian who does not love Christians. He, who, being in the church, is yet not of it heart and soul is but an intruder in the family. But since love to our brethren springs out of love to our one common father, it is plain that we must have love to that father, or else we shall fail in one of the indispensable marks of the children of God. ‘We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren;’ but we cannot truly love the brethren unless we love the father; therefore, lacking love to God, we lack love to the church, which is an essential mark of grace.
Again, keeping to the run of the passage, you will find by the eighteenth verse, that love to God is a chief means of that holy peace which is an essential