God's Unconditional Love and Justice
Explore the depths of God's love through lessons on Hosea, God's character, and testing His limits. Discover how God freely offers His love to all, emphasizing the importance of choice in receiving His grace and entering His kingdom.
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Gods Love and Justice Lesson 1 God Loves Freely
Memory Text Hosea 14:4 NKJV "I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely, For My anger has turned away from him. Who is speaking these words? What does God promise to do for His backsliding people? What are the conditions for this promise to be fulfilled? What do you think it means when Hosea says that God will love them freely?
Overview God is love, and He freely and voluntarily offers His love to everyone. He so loved the world that He gave His son to die for every sinner. But He respects our choice as to whether or not we will receive His love in Christ. The Love of God Testing the Limits The Chosen Summary
The Love of God How did God describe His character to Moses when He hid him in the cleft of the rock? (Ex 34:5-7) What did God tell the prophet Hosea to do as a living object lesson to His people Israel? (Hosea 1:2) Who did God love before the creation of angels and mankind? (John 17:24) What free choice of love did Jesus make that would eventually lead Him to the cross?
Testing the Limits How did Abraham seek to test the limits of God s love and justice? (Gen 18:23,24,32) What was Jesus indictment against the religious leaders at Jerusalem that would result in their house being left desolate? (Luke 13:34) To whom does Jesus offer His love and grace and invite into His kingdom? [Invitees]
The Chosen What parable of Jesus did Matthew record about a wedding feast? (Matt 22:2-3) Who, then, did the king invite to the wedding? (Matt 22:9-10) Who came in to look over the dinner guests and what did He find? (Matt 22:11-12) What happened to the man without a wedding garment? (Matt 22:13) What is Jesus punchline? (Matt 22:14)
Summary God s greatest relational attribute is love, agape love. From that love flows all the gracious acts of God for mankind. On Mt. Sinai, God described His character to Moses: He abounds in steadfast love and faithfulness and maintains a love relationship with thousands of generations; His love is the source of His grace, His compassion, His patience, His forgiveness of sin, and even His justice. Hosea describes God as loving us freely, of His own free will, not because we have earned or deserve His love, but because He is loving; that s His nature. Even before creation, love was shared between the Persons of the Godhead.
Summary Abraham probed the limits of God s love and justice by bargaining from 50 to 10 righteous to save Sodom from destruction. In the end, only three could be found, and they hardly qualified. Jesus wept over Jerusalem desiring to gather her children under His wings of love, but they were not willing. Although the religious leaders were unwilling to accept Him, the invitation is going out to whosoever will. God will have all men to be saved and come unto the knowledge of the truth. Jesus parable of the wedding feast illustrates God s plan for the kingdom of God.
Summary The punchline of the parable is many are called, but few are chosen. The many who are called are the ones who hear the invitation to come to the marriage feast in the kingdom of God. The few that are chosen are the ones that accept the invitation, have their sins forgiven by the blood of Jesus and are covered in the judgment by His robe of righteousness. The chosen (also called the elect) are those who have chosen Jesus as their Savior and are justified by faith in Him. You have been invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb in the kingdom of God. Will you put on the wedding garment that Jesus so lovingly has provided for you?
Exodus 34:5-7 ESV The LORD descended in the cloud and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD. 6The LORD passed before him and proclaimed, "The LORD, the LORD, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, 7keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children's children, to the third and the fourth generation." [R]
Hosea 1:2 ESV When the LORD first spoke through Hosea, the LORD said to Hosea, "Go, take to yourself a wife of whoredom and have children of whoredom, for the land commits great whoredom by forsaking the LORD." [R]
John 17:24 NKJV "Father, I desire that they also whom You gave Me may be with Me where I am, that they may behold My glory which You have given Me; for You loved Me before the foundation of the world. [R]
Genesis 18:23-24, 32 ESV Then Abraham drew near and said, "Will you indeed sweep away the righteous with the wicked? 24Suppose there are fifty righteous within the city. Will you then sweep away the place and not spare it for the fifty righteous who are in it? ... 32 Then he said, "Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak again but this once. Suppose ten are found there." He answered, "For the sake of ten I will not destroy it." [R]
Luke 13:34-35 ESV O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing! 35Behold, your house is forsaken. And I tell you, you will not see me until you say, 'Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!'" [R]
Invitees Romans 10:13 KJV - 13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. John 3:16 KJV - that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. Luke 9:24 KJV 24 but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it. Revelation 22:17 KJV - 17 And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely. 1 John 4:15 KJV - 15 Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God. John 1:12 KJV - 12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: [R]
Matthew 22:2-3 ESV "The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who gave a wedding feast for his son, 3and sent his servants to call those who were invited to the wedding feast, but they would not come. [R]
Matthew 22:9-10 ESV Go therefore to the main roads and invite to the wedding feast as many as you find.' 10And those servants went out into the roads and gathered all whom they found, both bad and good. So the wedding hall was filled with guests. [R]
Matthew 22:11-12 ESV "But when the king came in to look at the guests, he saw there a man who had no wedding garment. 12And he said to him, 'Friend, how did you get in here without a wedding garment?' And he was speechless. [R]
Matthew 22:13 ESV Then the king said to the attendants, 'Bind him hand and foot and cast him into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. [R]
Matthew 22:14 ESV For many are called, but few are chosen. [R]
