The Father’s Love
“The Church has surrendered her once lofty concept of God and has substituted for it one so low, so ignoble, as to be utterly unworthy of thinking, worshipping men...With our loss of the sense of majesty has come the further loss of religious awe and consciousness of the divine Presence. We have lost our spirit of worship and our ability to withdraw inwardly to meet God in adoring silence.” ― A.W. Tozer, “The Knowledge of the Holy”
1 John 4:8 (ESV)
“…God is love”
1 John 1:5 (ESV)
“…God is light,”
Deuteronomy 7:6-8 (NIV)
“For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on the face of the earth to be His people, His treasured possession."
Jeremiah 31:3 (ESV)
"the Lord appeared to him from far away. I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have continued my faithfulness to you.”
John 3:14-16 (ESV)
“As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in Him may have eternal life. “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life.”
Romans 3:9-18 (ESV)
“Are we Jews any better off? No, not at all. For we have already charged that all, both Jews and Greeks, are under sin, as it is written: "None is righteous, no, not one; no one understands; no one seeks for God. All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one. “Their throat is an open grave; they use their tongues to deceive.” “The venom of asps is under their lips.” “Their mouth is full of curses and bitterness.” “Their feet are swift to shed blood; in their paths are ruin and misery, and the way of peace they have not known.” “There is no fear of God before their eyes.”
Romans 5:8 (ESV)
“God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”
