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1 | Romans 5:6-8 how it shows Gods love | Rom 5:6 | jmar | 193928 | ||
what does romans 5:6-8 say about Gods unconditional love |
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2 | Romans 5:6-8 how it shows Gods love | Rom 5:6 | canawedding | 194013 | ||
I don't ever recall reading that God's Love is unconditional; it isn't. Read Ro 1-11 and especially notice: Ro 11:17. But if some of the branches were broken off and thou, being a wild olive, wast grafted in among them and didst become partaker with them of the root of the fatness of the olive tree, 18. glory not over the branches but if thou gloriest, it is not thou that bearest the root but the root thee. 19. Thou wilt say then, 'Branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in.' 20. Well, by their unbelief they were broken off and thou standest by thy faith. [If you are indeed in God's "one faith" - the exact faith of Ro 1:16-21; Eph 4:4-7 that was written to expound the critical command in Mt 6:33.] Be not highminded but fear, 21. for, if God spared not the natural branches, neither will he spare thee. 22. Behold then, the goodness and severity of God: toward them that fell - severity but toward thee - God's goodness, if thou continue in His goodness, otherwise thou also shalt be cut off. 23. And they also, if they continue not in their unbelief, shall be grafted in. For God is able to graft them in again. Also, read Jn 15:1-17 for a very similar lesson. |
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3 | Romans 5:6-8 how it shows Gods love | Rom 5:6 | BradK | 194026 | ||
Hello cana..., A.W. Pink wrote this about love in his "Attributes of God". I think it applies to this question: "The love of God is uninfluenced. By this we mean, there was nothing whatever in the objects of His love to call it into exercise, nothing in the creature to attract or prompt it. The love which one creature has for another is because of something in them; but the love of God is free, spontaneous, uncaused. The only reason why God loves any is found in His own sovereign will: "The Lord did not set His love upon you, nor choose you because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people: but because the Lord loved thee" (Deut. 7:7,8). God has loved His people from everlasting, and therefore nothing of the creature can be the cause of what is found in God from eternity. He loves from Himself: "according to His own purpose" (2 Tim. 1:9). "We love Him, because He first loved us" (1 John 4:19). God did not love us because we loved Him, but He loved us before we had a particle of love for Him. Had God loved us in return for ours, then it would not be spontaneous on His part; but because He loved us when we were loveless, it is clear that His love was uninfluenced. It is highly important if God is to be honored and the heart of His child established, that we should be quite clear upon this precious truth. God’s love for me, and for each of "His own," was entirely unmoved by anything in them. What was there in me to attract the heart of God? Absolutely nothing. But, to the contrary, everything to repel Him, everything calculated to make Him loathe me—sinful, depraved, a mass of corruption, with "no good thing" in me." Speaking the Truth in Love, BradK |
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4 | Romans 5:6-8 how it shows Gods love | Rom 5:6 | canawedding | 194087 | ||
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