What is there in humanity that would cause God to love them?

The world does not love God. I have heard unconverted people say they love Him, but I have never seen any of them who really love God with all their heart, and with all their soul, and with all their mind (cf. Matthew 22:37). It is a commandment, but it is a commandment that no fallen child of Adam obeys. Just the opposite is true of unconverted men and women -





“Because the carnal mind is enmity against God” (Romans 8:7).





Instead of loving God, the lost world wants nothing to do with Him. The Apostle Paul made this very clear when he said,





“There is none that seeketh after God” (Romans 3:11).





After 48 years in the ministry, I have never known the Apostle to be wrong when he said that on the sacred page of Scripture,





“There is none that seeketh after God” (Romans 3:11).





Yet, in spite of the fact that the masses of humanity are “against God” (Romans 8:7), and in spite of the fact that





“There is none that seeketh after God,”





yet (and this is what makes it so amazing) - and yet, our text says, “For God so loved the world”! God loves mankind in spite of the fact that they are against Him, and in spite of the fact that “There is none that seeketh” for Him. Yet He loves the world! This is truly startling and amazing. It cannot be explained by human logic. It cannot be explained by philosophy. It cannot be explained by man-made religion. In fact, we would not know this great truth if it had not been revealed to us in the Bible, “For God so loved the world.”





Now, we must be careful here. Some tell us that God’s love means that all are accepted simply because God loves us. But, according to the Bible, this is not so. You must look at the verse again. It doesn’t end with the words, “God so loved the world.” There’s another word after the word “world.” Look at it in the Bible. It says God loves the world so much “that” He did something to save this ruined and rebellious race. The word “that” is very important. And that takes us to the second point.





II. Second, the verse tells us of God’s great gift.





“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son…” (John 3:16).





God did something truly awesome. Yes, that overused word “awesome” really applies here! God did something really and truly awesome because of His great love for lost mankind. This is what God did: he loved fallen man so much “that he gave his only begotten Son.”





What does it mean when it says “he gave” Jesus? First, God gave Jesus at the incarnation. The Bible says,





“When the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman…” (Galatians 4:4).





God sent Jesus down from Heaven and put Him in the womb of Mary. So, when our text says, “he gave his only begotten Son,” it refers to that. It speaks of God putting Jesus into the womb of Mary supernaturally, without a human father. That’s why our text calls Jesus, “his only begotten Son.” The words “only begotten” are translated from a single Greek word, “monogēnē,” which means “sole, only begotten child” (Strong #3439). This refers to the virgin birth of Jesus. He is uniquely the only procreated Son of God, without a human father. It does not mean that God created Him. The old writers correctly said that Jesus was “begotten, not made,” because Jesus existed in Heaven as the Second Person of the Trinity, but He was begotten in the womb of the virgin by God. Yes, God “gave” His Son when He begat Him in the Mary’s womb.





“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son…” (John 3:16).





But God “gave” Jesus in another way. Not only was Jesus given to be born of a virgin, God also “gave” Him to die on the Cross so our sins could be forgiven. The Bible says,





“God commendeth [gives] his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us” (Romans 5:8).





God “gave” Jesus to die on the Cross to pay for our sins. God gave Him to undergo unspeakable torture, beatings, floggings, nailed to the Cross, to provide a vicarious atonement for our sins. “Vicarious” means “one person in the place of another.” Christ died in our place, to pay the penalty for our sins. So that God





“might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus” (Romans 3:26).





The wrath and judgment of God fell on Jesus on the Cross, making the full payment of our sin-debt and satisfying the justice of a holy God. That means Jesus was punished by God in our place, for our sins.





“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son…”





The word “gave” contains yet one more idea - that salvation is a gift. You can’t earn it. You can’t merit it. Salvation is a free gift because God “gave his only begotten Son.” And that takes us to the third point.





III. Third, the verse tells us the way to receive this gift.





“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish…” (John 3:16).





The only way you can receive the benefits of Christ’s “love gift” on the Cross is by believing in Him! The little Greek word translated “in” is very important here. It is “eis.” It means, literally, to believe “into” Jesus. This clears up much confusion. It shows that we are not merely to believe what the Bible says about Jesus. No, no! The Devil believes what the Bible says about Jesus. But the Devil does not believe “into” Jesus. Don’t make the mistake of the Devil. Don’t just believe what the Bible says about Christ. Instead believe “into” Him. Put your faith directly into Jesus Christ, the risen Son of God in Heaven. So many have made the mistake of believing about Jesus without believing “into” Him. Many of the old songs make this clear.





“I am coming, Lord! Coming now to Thee!”


(“I Am Coming, Lord” by Lewis Hartsough, 1828-1919).





“Why not now? Why not now?


Why not come to Jesus now?”


(“Why Not Now?” by Daniel W. Whittle, 1840-1901).





And especially,





“Out of my sin and into Thyself,


Jesus, I come to Thee”


(“Jesus, I Come” by William T. Sleeper, 1819-1904).





The way to be saved is to believe “into” Jesus. Put your whole faith into Him and Him alone.





“That whosoever believeth in [into] him should not perish…” (John 3:16).





That’s the way you receive the loving gift of God in Christ, by believing into Him. As great Spurgeon put it, “Lie flat on Christ.” Trust Jesus alone. That’s the way you receive God’s gift. As Joseph Hart put it,





“Venture on Him, venture wholly:


Let no other trust intrude:


None but Jesus, none but Jesus,


Can do helpless sinners good.”


(“Come, Ye Sinners” by Joseph Hart, 1712-1768).





Spurgeon said,





Put your sins into His care; do it deliberately. Dare to [give] up all other hopes. Venture on Jesus…Cast yourself simply on Jesus…believe in Him, and trust in Him, and you shall never be made ashamed of your confidence. “He that believeth on Him shall not be confounded” (C. H. Spurgeon, Around the Wicket Gate, Christian Focus Publications, 1987 edition, pages 26-27).





Put your whole trust in Jesus. That’s what it means in our text, “That whosoever believeth in him should not perish…” (John 3:16). And that takes us to the fourth and last point.





IV. Fourth, the verse tells us the results of receiving the gift of Christ.





Look at it, please. Read it out loud.





“…that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life” (John 3:16).





When you come to Jesus by faith and believe “into” Him by faith you receive two benefits instantly. First, you will not perish. That means you will not go to Hell. No person who has trusted Jesus, no person who has believed “into” Jesus will ever perish in the flames of Hell. Why? Because Jesus said,





“I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish”


(John 10:28).





You are eternally secure, saved for all eternity, the moment you trust Jesus by coming to Him in faith, small and weak though that faith may be. It is Jesus who does the saving, not the amount of faith you have in Him.





So, the first result of believing in Jesus by faith is that you will never perish. You will have passed from death into life the very moment you trust Him, coming to Him in faith.





The second result, when you come to Jesus and believe in Him, is that you will instantly receive eternal life. You are born again into eternal life, and it cannot ever be taken away from you. “They shall never perish” (John 10:28).





What a wonderful promise! What a marvelous hope! Stand one more time and read John 3:16 aloud.





“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life” (John 3:16).





Would you like to believe in Jesus, trusting in Him, “laying flat” on Him, as Spurgeon put it? Then, as we sing, slip out of your chair and walk to the back of the room quickly as we sing the last song. Dr. Cagan, Mr. Mencia and I will be there to help counsel you. May God bless you and help you to trust Jesus this very morning. Stand as we sing the last hymn on the song sheet. Slip out to the back of the room as we sing and Dr. Cagan will take you up to my office where we can talk together.





“Out of my bondage, sorrow and night,


Jesus, I come, Jesus, I come:


Into Thy freedom, gladness and light,


Jesus, I come to Thee.”


(“Jesus, I Come” by William T. Sleeper, 1819-1904).





(END OF SERMON)


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What is there in humanity that would cause God to love them?
“For God so loved the world”! God loves mankind in spite of the fact that they are against Him, and in spite of the fact that “There is none that seeketh” for Him. Yet He loves the world! This is truly startling and amazing. It cannot be explained by human logic. It cannot be explained by philosophy. It cannot be explained by man-made religion. In fact, we would not know this great truth if it had not been revealed to us in the Bible, “For God so loved the world.”





this is true but the rest is ********. God loves unconditional where there is that there cannot be hate, jealousy, ego, judgement and so on. Don't believe me. read the definition of love and unconditional and then you may see. He did not need to send anyone down to die for our sins. Man made up the term of sin. Not God. God sees us finding who we are by knowing who we are not. That is it in a nutshell. funny how easy that was and i didn't need all the hell and demons to complicate it.
Reply:God gave us free will to love him or not. He loves us because he created us.
Reply:I don't think it's anything in our nature, but what's in *HIS* nature, that causes Him to love us.





Thank you, Lord!
Reply:1) You are not impressing anyone. Really.





2) Speak for your own God. The Gods I honor and adore love ALL people, with a love that surpasses human understanding.





3) Cutting and pasting a sermon is a violation of the Yahoo! Answers Community Guidelines.
Reply:Henry Drummond wrote a book called "The Greatest thing in the World" about our love for God and his love for us, you may like to read it. It isn't very long but very good!





http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/16739
Reply:Do you love him? I teach perfection. look at my profile.





and I seeketh after God. God Called me the great seeker.
Reply:God is the creator, provider and the destroyer of all living beings including man. Man is special now, at this point of time, in the scheme of things, for he has the consciousness which helps him to realize his essential relations with God and choose to connect with him. We waste this capacity to be conscious of our relation with Him.
Reply:Because life is hard and God doesn't hand out free rides only Satan does. I love you too, can I have a sucker now? ;-)
Reply:What is that unconverted people ?, The people who are converted are true to themself ?. Humanity and religion are entirely different. Humanity is more than religion.


God created human beings to be human . But we are worse than any beast. Do you think u r living as said in Bible ask urself.


Humanity doesn't have religion %26amp; god doesn't have name or body. We have given .


It is not true that converting to one religion will change a man, he may be converting to his personal benefit, not on love towards that religion.
Reply:Didn't read. too long.





Because he created us in his own image. We are all his children and parents love their children.
Reply:In the first instance of her conception, by a singular privilege and grace granted by God, in view of the merits of Jesus Christ, the Saviour of the human race, was preserved exempt from all stain of original sin."








The formal active essence of original sin was not removed from her soul, as it is removed from others by baptism;





it was excluded,





it never was in her soul.





Simultaneously with the exclusion of sin. The state of original sanctity, innocence, and justice, as opposed to original sin, was conferred upon her, by which gift every stain and fault, all depraved emotions, passions, and debilities, essentially pertaining to original sin, were excluded.





But she was not made exempt from the temporal penalties of Adam -- from sorrow, bodily infirmities, and death.





The person of Mary, in consequence of her origin from Adam, should have been subject to sin, but, being the new Eve who was to be the mother of the new Adam, she was, by the eternal counsel of God and by the merits of Christ, withdrawn from the general law of original sin. Her redemption was the very masterpiece of Christ's redeeming wisdom.





Such is the meaning of the term "Immaculate Conception."











Genesis 3:15


Luke 1:28
Reply:Because god doesn't exist, duh.