{"id":10154,"date":"2022-11-04T23:14:23","date_gmt":"2022-11-04T23:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/?p=10154"},"modified":"2023-05-17T07:09:57","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T07:09:57","slug":"33-love-of-god-being-and-perfections-of-god-daily-definition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/2022\/11\/33-love-of-god-being-and-perfections-of-god-daily-definition\/","title":{"rendered":"33 Love Of God"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 align=\"center\">LOVE OF GOD<\/h3>\n<p class=\"drop-cap\">Is either his natural delight in that which is good, Is. 61:8. or that especial affection he bears to his people, 1 John 4:19. Not that he possesses the passion of love as we do; but it implies his absolute purpose and will to deliver, bless, and save his people. The love of God to his people appears in his all- wise designs and plans for their happiness, Eph. 3:10.&#8211;2. In the choice of them and determination to sanctify and glorify them, 2 Thess. 2:13.&#8211;3. In the gift of his Son to die for them, and redeem them from sin, death, and hell, Rom. 5:9. John 3:16.&#8211;4. In the revelation of his will, and the declaration of his promises to them, 2 Pet. 1:4.\u20145. In the awful punishment of their enemies, Ex. 19:4.\u20146. In his actual conduct towards them; in supporting them in life, blessing them in death, and bringing them to glory, Rom. 8:30, &#038;c. Rom. 6:23. The properties of this love may be considered as, 1. Everlasting, Jer. 31:3. Eph. 1:4.\u20142. Immutable, Mal. 3:6. Zeph. 3:17.&#8211;3. Free, neither the sufferings of Christ nor the merits of men are the cause, but his own good pleasure, John 3:16.&#8211;4. Great and unspeakable, Eph. 2:4,6. 3:19. Psal. 36:7.<\/p>\n<div class=\"simplefavorite-button\" data-postid=\"10154\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"box-shadow:none;-webkit-box-shadow:none;-moz-box-shadow:none;\"><div class=\"bookmark-off\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOVE OF GOD Is either his natural delight in that which is good, Is. 61:8. or that especial affection he bears to his people, 1 John 4:19. Not that he possesses the passion of love as we do; but it implies his absolute purpose and will to deliver, bless, and save his people. The love of God to his people appears in his all- wise designs and plans for their happiness, Eph. 3:10.&#8211;2. In the choice of them and determination to sanctify and glorify them, 2 Thess. 2:13.&#8211;3. In the gift of his Son to die for them, and redeem them from sin, death, and hell, Rom. 5:9. John 3:16.&#8211;4. In the revelation of his will, and the declaration of his promises to them, 2 Pet. 1:4.\u20145. In the awful punishment of their enemies, Ex. 19:4.\u20146. In his actual conduct towards them; in supporting them in life, blessing them in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":12742,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1085],"tags":[1215],"class_list":["post-10154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-charles-bucks-theological-dictionary","tag-divine-attributes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10154"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16142,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10154\/revisions\/16142"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}