“How God Loves Men” | D. L. Moody Sermon | God Is Love | The Love of God | 1 John 4:16

1 John 4:16 - “God is love.” ⭐ For more sermons by D. L. Moody, check out our full playlist! 🔊    • D. L. Moody Sermons | Historic Homilies   Dwight Lyman Moody (February 5, 1837 – December 22, 1899), also known as D. L. Moody, was an American evangelist and publisher connected with Keswickianism, who founded the Moody Church, Northfield School and Mount Hermon School in Massachusetts (now Northfield Mount Hermon School), Moody Bible Institute, and Moody Publishers. One of his most famous quotes was "Faith makes all things possible... Love makes all things easy." Moody gave up his lucrative boot and shoe business to devote his life to revivalism, working first in the Civil War with Union troops through YMCA in the United States Christian Commission. In Chicago, he built one of the major evangelical centers in the nation, which is still active. Working with singer Ira Sankey, he toured the country and the British Isles, drawing large crowds with a dynamic speaking style. (source: Wikipedia) “How God Loves Men” a sermon by Dwight L. Moody. Read by: Joel Griffis Note: Some words or phrases may be modernized or adapted to aid understanding. Joel is a pastor at Grace Fellowship Church:    / @gracefellowshipchurch1948   Joel’s Other Channels: HeartStore Music – Bible memory songs    / @heartstore   JoelGriffis – Song performances, mostly covers, some originals    / @joelgriffis   Musings Under The Sun – Discussion/podcast channel, various topics    / @musingsunderthesun196   From the Sermon: It is a text on fire, and I hope it will burn down into your souls "God is love." Now, if you can not remember a word of the sermon, and your friends ask you what I preached about, just bear in mind that text "God is love." I don't believe there is a truth in the Word of God that tells us so thoroughly that God will blot out our sins as this text. I remember the rebuilding of a church on the North Side, by a friend of mine, after the fire, and he was very anxious to make the people believe this truth. To do this he had the text put up in the church like this. One night a man going by—the door was ajar a little—happened to look in, and there he saw this text, "God is love." He said to himself, "I don't believe that; God don't love me;" and he tried to pass the words from his mind, but couldn't. He kept thinking of them and turning them over in his mind until it seemed as if they had burned into his soul. He went a few blocks away, and after a little hesitation, thought he would just go back and see what was going on in that church. At the conclusion of the services I found a man sitting away back in a pew weeping. "What is the matter?" I asked him. "Well," said he, "that text up yonder has broke my heart God is love." I asked him if he was willing to accept His love, and spoke about it to him, and in a little time I had him on his knees, and he accepted the text. I hope there are some, I say some, I hope there are hundreds here who will believe this in spite of what the devil says, who is continually striving to make men believe it isn't true. My friends, "God is love," and He wants you all to receive this truth. You may ask, "Why does God love me?" It is a mystery, and always has been, to me why He loves the rebellious sons ol Adam; but, I suppose, it is upon the same principle as the shining of the sun; it can not help it. The trouble is with us; we are all the time trying to measure God's love with our own. If a man proves treacherous, if he proves a traitor to us, we turn our back upon him and cast him off. Our love may have been very strong toward this man, but whenever we find the bad traits in his character we throw him off. It is not so with the divine love. God's love is unchangeable. If a man goes down to hell, it is because he has turned from that love himself. God hates sin, mark you; but He loves the sinner. Keep this in your minds; it is sin that He hates with a perfect hatred, but He loves the sinner. "Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that His hour was come that He should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved His own which were in the world, He loved them unto the end." He loved them that very night. He knew that one of those disciples would betray Him for thirty pieces of silver, and yet He loved them. If there is anything that makes hell unendurable to Judas Iscariot it is the knowledge that He loved him even when he betrayed Him; that He loved him even while he kissed Him. That very night when He knew Peter was to forsake Him; that very night when He was hastening to the cross, He loved him. He loved them all to the end. Let us not be guilty of measuring God's love with our own. God loves us when we do not love Him. God loves us when we are at enmity with Him; when we are at war with Him.