This document summarizes key aspects of God's love according to several Bible passages and a quote from J.I. Packer. It explains that God's love is an exercise of his goodness towards individual sinners, that he identifies with their welfare and gave his son Jesus to be their savior in order to bring them into a relationship with him so they can know and enjoy him.

1. A window into
the heart of God…

2. John 3:16
[16] “For God so loved the
world, that He gave His only
begotten Son, that whoever
believes in Him shall not perish,
but have eternal life.

3. 1 John 4:16
[16] We have come to know and
have believed the love which God
has for us. God is love, and the
one who abides in love abides in
God, and God abides in him.

4. Romans 8:38-39
[38] For I am convinced that
neither death, nor life, nor angels,
nor principalities, nor things present,
nor things to come, nor powers,
[39] nor height, nor depth, nor any
other created thing, will be able to
separate us from the love of God,
which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

5. Ephesians 3:19
[19] and to know the love of
Christ which surpasses knowledge,
that you may be filled up to
all the fullness of God.

6. Understanding a
Deep Concept

7. “God’s love is an exercise of his
goodness toward individual
sinners whereby, having identified
himself with their welfare, he has
given His Son to be their Savior,
and now brings them to know and
enjoy Him in a covenant relation.”
-J.I. Packer, Knowing God

8. 1) This love is an exercise
of His goodness.

9. Matthew 7:11
[11] “If you then, being evil, know
how to give good gifts to your
children, how much more will your
Father who is in heaven give what
is good to those who ask Him!

10. 2) This love is toward sinners!

11. Romans 5:7-8
[7] For one will hardly die for a
righteous man; though perhaps
for the good man someone would
dare even to die. [8] But God
demonstrates His own love toward
us, in that while we were yet
sinners, Christ died for us.

12. 3) This love is toward
individual sinners.

13. 4) This love identifies Him
with our welfare.

14. Genesis 6:5-6
[5] Then the LORD saw that the
wickedness of man was great on the
earth, and that every intent of the
thoughts of his heart was only evil
continually. [6] The LORD was sorry
that He had made man on the earth,
and He was grieved in His heart.

15. Matthew 9:36
[36] Seeing the people, He
felt compassion for them,
because they were distressed
and dispirited like sheep
without a shepherd.

16. Ephesians 4:30
[30] Do not grieve the Holy Spirit
of God, by whom you were sealed
for the day of redemption.

17. 5) This love is expressed in the
gift of His Son to be our Savior.

18. 1 John 4:9-10
[9] By this the love of God was
manifested in us, that God has
sent His only begotten Son into
the world so that we might live
through Him. [10] 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.

19. 6) This love has the goal
of bringing us to know
and enjoy Him.

20. John 12:32
[32] “And I, if I am lifted up
from the earth, will draw
all men to Myself.”

21. “God’s love is an exercise of his
goodness toward individual
sinners whereby, having identified
himself with their welfare, he has
given His Son to be their Savior,
and now brings them to know and
enjoy Him in a covenant relation.”
-J.I. Packer, Knowing God

22. Knowing the love of
God should reshape our
view of life!