God the Father
The Father's Love
The God Who Loves
Description
The Father is revealed supremely as the God of love—love that existed within the Trinity before creation, love that moved Him to create, and love that sent His Son for redemption. The Father's love is not mere sentiment but active, sacrificial, electing grace. He loved the Son before the foundation of the world, and He set His love upon His elect people in eternity past. This love reaches its apex at Calvary, where the Father gave His only begotten Son. Such love is the very essence of God's character, for 'God is love,' and this love flows eternally between the persons of the Trinity and overflows to creation.
Key Verses
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.
He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.
But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ.