The Dimensions of GoD’s Love
 The love of God is great.
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Ephesians 2:4-7
But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His
great love with which He loved us, even when
we were dead in trespasses, made us alive
together with Christ (by grace you have been
saved), and raised us up together, and made us
sit together in the heavenly places in Christ
Jesus, that in the ages to come He might show
the exceeding riches of His grace in His
kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
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John 15:13
"Greater love has no one than this, than to lay
down one's life for his friends."
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The Dimensions of GoD’s Love
 The love of God is great.
 It is the single most powerful
force in existence.
 It reaches out in every direction.
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Ephesians 3:14-16
For this reason I bow my knees to the Father
of our Lord Jesus Christ, from whom the
whole family in heaven and earth is named, that
He would grant you, according to the riches of
His glory, to be strengthened with might
through His Spirit in the inner man,
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Ephesians 3:17-19
that Christ may dwell in your hearts through
faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in
love, may be able to comprehend with all the
saints what is the width and length and depth
and height-- to know the love of Christ which
passes knowledge; that you may be filled with
all the fullness of God.
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The Dimensions of GoD’s Love
 The love of God is great.
 It is the single most powerful
force in existence.
 It reaches out in every direction.
 But what are the dimensions of
GoD’s Love?
 what are its width, length, depth
and height?
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The WiDTh of GoD’s Love
 It is so wide that it covers the
whole world.
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John 3:16-17
"For God so loved the world that He gave
His only begotten Son, that whoever believes
in Him should not perish but have everlasting
life. For God did not send His Son into the
world to condemn the world, but that the world
through Him might be saved."
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John 3:19-21
"And this is the condemnation, that the light
has come into the world, and men loved
darkness rather than light, because their deeds
were evil. For everyone practicing evil hates the
light and does not come to the light, lest his
deeds should be exposed. But he who does
the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may
be clearly seen, that they have been done in
God."
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The WiDTh of GoD’s Love
 It is so wide that it covers the
whole world.
 It is as wide as God Himself, for
God is love.
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1 John 4:8, 16
He who does not love does not know God, for
God is love.
And we have known and believed the love that
God has for us. God is love, and he who
abides in love abides in God, and God in him.
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The LenGTh of GoD’s Love
 It is from everlasting to everlasting.
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Jeremiah 31:3
The Lord has appeared of old to me, saying:
"Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love;
Therefore with lovingkindness I have drawn
you."
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The LenGTh of GoD’s Love
 It is from everlasting to everlasting.
 It reaches out to the ends of the
earth.
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Mark 16:15-16
And He said to them, "Go into all the world
and preach the gospel to every creature. He
who believes and is baptized will be saved; but
he who does not believe will be condemned."
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Acts 1:7-8
And He said to them, "It is not for you to know
times or seasons which the Father has put in
His own authority. But you shall receive
power when the Holy Spirit has come upon
you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in
Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and
to the end of the earth."
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The LenGTh of GoD’s Love
 It is from everlasting to everlasting.
 It reaches out to the ends of the
earth.
 It will outlast both faith and
hope.
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1 Corinthians 13:13
And now abide faith, hope, love, these three;
but the greatest of these is love.
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The DepTh of GoD’s Love
 It reaches down to the lowest of
sinners.
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Romans 5:8
But God demonstrates His own love toward
us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ
died for us.
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1 Timothy 1:15
This is a faithful saying and worthy of all
acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the
world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.
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The DepTh of GoD’s Love
 It reaches down to the lowest of
sinners.
 It will reach down into the grave
to raise the righteous unto everlasting life.
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John 5:28-29
Do not marvel at this; for the hour is coming in
which all who are in the graves will hear His
voice and come forth--those who have done
good, to the resurrection of life, and those who
have done evil, to the resurrection of
condemnation.
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The heiGhT of GoD’s Love
 It is the highest of loves because
iT “expresses iDeas previousLy unknoWn” (W.e. vine).
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1 Corinthians 13:1-3
Though I speak with the tongues of men and
of angels, but have not love, I have become
sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. And
though I have the gift of prophecy, and
understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and
though I have all faith, so that I could remove
mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. And
though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor,
and though I give my body to be burned, but
have not love, it profits me nothing.
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1 Corinthians 13:4-7
Love suffers long and is kind; love does not
envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed
up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its
own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not
rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth;
bears all things, believes all things, hopes all
things, endures all things.
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The heiGhT of GoD’s Love
 It is the highest of loves because
iT “expresses iDeas previousLy unknoWn” (W.e. vine).
 It is the highest of loves because
it is extended to all men.
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John 3:16
For God so loved the world that He gave His
only begotten Son, that whoever believes in
Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
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The heiGhT of GoD’s Love
 It is the highest of loves because
iT “expresses iDeas previousLy unknoWn” (W.e. vine).
 It is the highest of loves because
it is extended to all men.
 It is so high we would not be able
to reach it had God and Jesus not
demonstrated it for us.
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1 John 3:16
By this we know love, because He laid down
His life for us. And we also ought to lay down
our lives for the brethren.
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1 John 4:9-10, 19
In this the love of God was manifested toward
us, that God has sent His only begotten Son
into the world, that we might live through Him.
In this is love, not that we loved God, but that
He loved us and sent His Son to be the
propitiation for our sins.
We love Him because He first loved us.
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The Dimensions of GoD’s Love
 The love of God for man is indeed
great and powerful.
 The word that is most often used
To DenoTe The Love of GoD is “The
characteristic word of
ChrisTianiTy.” (W.e. vine)
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The Dimensions of GoD’s Love
 noT onLy Does iT “DesCribe The
aTTiTuDe of GoD ToWarD his son …
The human raCe, GeneraLLy … anD
to such as believe on the Lord
Jesus ChrisT, parTiCuLarLy,” buT
iT is aLso useD “To Convey his WiLL
to His children concerning their
aTTiTuDe one ToWarD anoTher …
anD ToWarD aLL men.” (W.e. vine)
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The Dimensions of GoD’s Love
 Just think of it.
 we are capable of loving as God
loves.
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Matthew 5:44-46
But I say to you, love your enemies, bless
those who curse you, do good to those who
hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use
you and persecute you, that you may be sons
of your Father in heaven; for He makes His
sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends
rain on the just and on the unjust. For if you
love those who love you, what reward have you?
Do not even the tax collectors do the same?
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The Dimensions of GoD’s Love
 Just think of it.
 we are capable of loving as God
loves.
 And, if we love as God loves, then
nothing can separate us from the
love of God in Christ.
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Romans 8:35-36
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?
Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or
famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it
is written: "For Your sake we are killed all day
long; We are accounted as sheep for the
slaughter."
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Romans 8:37-38
Yet in all these things we are more than
conquerors through Him who loved us. For I
am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor
angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things
present nor things to come, nor height nor
depth, nor any other created thing, shall be
able to separate us from the love of God which
is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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