God Is Love
God's nature is to be always giving, and His love is the foundation of the Trinity and the source of life and joy.
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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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."
Sermon Outline
- God's Nature is Love
- God's Love is Revealed in Creation
- The Trinity is a Revelation of Divine Love
- The Father is the loving One, the Fountain of love
- The Son is the beloved one, the Reservoir of love
- The Spirit is the living love that unites both
Key Quotes
“God is love.” — Andrew Murray
“The fruit of the Spirit is love.” — Andrew Murray
Application Points
- We should strive to be like God, always giving and loving without condition.
- We can experience God's love and joy by recognizing and receiving His love in our lives.
- The Holy Spirit is the living love that unites us to God and overflows into the world.