Why share
the gospel?
God loves all peoples
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God’s love before creation
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‘You loved me before the creation of the world’
—John 17.24
Why am I here?
Eph 1.4-6
God loves all peoples
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God’s love before creation
God’s love in creation
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Gen 1-2
Gen 3.9 – ‘Where are you?’
God loves all peoples
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God’s love before creation
God’s love in creation
God’s love in his wrath
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Mt 10.28, Rom 1.18, Rev 19.15 [14.20], Eph 2.3, Jn 3.36
What would it mean if God were not angry at evil?
Sin/evil – a good thing twisted (light/dark)
Sin is a relationship problem – ‘a loss of love for God’
Pleading with people
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God’s
God’s
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love
love
love
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before creation
in creation
in his wrath
in the cross
When did God decide the cross was the answer?
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Eph 1.4-6, Rev 13.8, 1 Pet 1.19-20
God loves all peoples
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God's love is incomprehensible and
unchangeable.
For it was not after we were reconciled
to him through the blood of his Son that
he began to love us.
Rather, he has loved us before the world
was created, that we also might be his
sons along with his only begotten Son—
before we became anything at all!
Augustine
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God’s
God’s
God’s
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before creation
in creation
in his wrath
in the cross
When did God decide the cross was the answer?
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love
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Eph 1.4-6, Rev 13.8, 1 Pet 1.19-20
Our sin problem dealt with by God within God
God loves all peoples
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God’s love
God’s love
God’s love
God’s love
God’s love
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before creation
in creation
in his wrath
in the cross
in his patience
2 Peter 3.9: ‘He is patient with you, not wanting anyone
to perish, but everyone to come to repentance’
God loves all peoples
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God’s love
God’s love
God’s love
God’s love
God’s love
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before creation
in creation
in his wrath
in the cross
in his patience
We are Christ’s ambassadors [2 Cor 5.20]
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Flee from judgment [2 Cor 5.11]
Flee to a God who is love [2 Cor 5.14]
God loves all peoples
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1. To what extent can outsiders see God’s loving
character in my life?
2. What opportunities do I have to mirror God’s
missionary heart?
3. What will it look like for GUCU to love our
neighbours on campus?
4. How should this affect my prayers?