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  GOD IS LOVE
  by Andrew Murray
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Summary: God's nature is to be always giving, and His love is the
foundation of the Trinity and the source of life and joy.

Topics: "Divine Love", "The Trinity"
Scripture References: John 3:16, Romans 5:5, Galatians 5:22, Ephesians 2:4, 1 John 4:8

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Andrew Murray emphasizes that God is the essence of love, demonstrating
His selflessness by continually giving to His creation. He illustrates
how God's love is evident in nature and in the divine relationship
within the Trinity, where the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit embody and
express love. Murray explains that God's nature is to share His love
abundantly with His redeemed children, and that the Holy Spirit, as the
Spirit of love, continues to impart this divine love to humanity. The
sermon highlights that understanding the Trinity as a revelation of love
deepens our comprehension of God's character and His desire to fill us
with His love.

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CONTENT
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God has no selfishness, God keeps nothing to Himself. God's nature is to
be always giving. In the sun and the moon and the stars, in every flower
you see it, in every bird in the air, in every fish, in the sea . God
communicates life to His creatures. And the angels around His throne,
the seraphim and cherumbim (sic) who are flames of fire -- whence have
they their glory? It is because God is love, and He imparts to them of
His brightness and His blessedness. And we, His redeemed children -- God
delights to pour His love into us. And why? Because, as I said, God
keeps nothing for Himself.

From eternity God had His only begotten Son, and the Father gave Him all
things, and nothing that God had was kept back. "God is love."

One of the old Church fathers said that we cannot better understand the
Trinity than as a revelation of divine love -- the Father, the loving
One, the Fountain of love; the Son, the beloved one, the Reservoir of
love, in whom the love was poured out; and the Spirit, the living love
that united both and then overflowed into this world. The Spirit of
Pentecost, the Spirit of the Father, and the Spirit of the Son is love.
And when the Holy Spirit comes to us and to other men, will He be less a
Spirit of love than He is in God? It cannot be; He cannot change His
nature. The Spirit of God is love, and "the fruit of the Spirit is
love."

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Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/andrew-murray/god-is-love/
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