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MAGNIFYING GOD (3 OF 3)

by Donald Cantrell

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Title: Magnifying God (3 of 3)
Series: Living Godly in an Ungodly World
Author: Donald Cantrell
Text: 1 John 4: 7, 8, & 16

1Jo 4:7 KJV - Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.

1Jo 4:8 KJV - He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

1Jo 4:16 KJV - And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.

Sermon 3 of 3

Sermons Series "Living Godly In An Ungodly World"

I - God's Love Is Passionately Swift

II - God's Love Is Perfectly Supreme

III - God's Love Is Plentifully Slow

IV - God's Love Is Pointedly Symbolized

V - God's Love Is Pleasingly Sympathetic

VI - God's Love Is Powerfully Shown

VII - God's Love Is Pristinely Sure

Story Behind "The Love of God"

The first two stanzas are Lehman's own work. The third, by his own account, he heard in a camp meeting sermon. They were apparently lines "found written by a demented man on the wall of his narrow room in the asylum where he died"; those words are a translation of an Aramaic poem, "Haddamut", written ca. 1050 by Rabbi Meir of Worms, Germany. From the Qur'an (31st Sura) from the early 7th century there are these lines:

If all the trees on earth were pens,
and the ocean were ink,
replenished by seven more oceans,
the writing of God's wonderful signs and creations
would not be exhausted;
surely God is All-Mighty, All-Wise.

Mennonite Hymnody - Ken Nafziger

The Love of God

The love of God is greater far
Than tongue or pen can ever tell.
It goes beyond the highest star
And reaches to the lowest hell.
The guilty pair, bowed down with care,
God gave His Son to win;
His erring child He reconciled
And pardoned from his sin.

O love of God, how rich and pure!
How measureless and strong!
It shall forevermore endure-
The saints' and angels' song.

When hoary tim ...

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