1 John 4:9-11 In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
"Never let it be thought that any sinner is beyond the reach of divine mercy so long as he is in the land of the living. I stand here to preach illimitable love, unbounded grace, to the vilest of the vile, to those who have nothing in them that can deserve consideration from God, men who ought to be swept into the bottomless pit at once if justice meted out to them their deserts." (Spurgeon)
"There is love in many places, like wandering beams of light; but as for the sun, it is in one part of the heavens, and we look at it, and we say, 'Herein is light.' … He did not look at the Church of God, and say of all the myriads who counted not their lives dear unto them, 'Herein is love,' for their love was only the reflected brightness of the great sun of love." (Spurgeon)
"If God had merely sent Jesus to teach us about Himself, that would have been wonderful enough. It would have been far more than we deserved. If God had sent Jesus simply to be our example, that would have been good too and would have had some value … But the wonderful thing is that God did not stop with these but rather sent His Son, not merely to teach or to be our example, but to die the death of a felon, that He might save us from sin." (Boice)
"Never let it be thought that any sinner is beyond the reach of divine mercy so long as he is in the land of the living. I stand here to preach illimitable love, unbounded grace, to the vilest of the vile, to those who have nothing in them that can deserve consideration from God, men who ought to be swept into the bottomless pit at once if justice meted out to them their deserts." (Spurgeon)
"There is love in many places, like wandering beams of light; but as for the sun, it is in one part of the heavens, and we look at it, and we say, 'Herein is light.' … He did not look at the Church of God, and say of all the myriads who counted not their lives dear unto them, 'Herein is love,' for their love was only the reflected brightness of the great sun of love." (Spurgeon)
"If God had merely sent Jesus to teach us about Himself, that would have been wonderful enough. It would have been far more than we deserved. If God had sent Jesus simply to be our example, that would have been good too and would have had some value … But the wonderful thing is that God did not stop with these but rather sent His Son, not merely to teach or to be our example, but to die the death of a felon, that He might save us from sin." (Boice)