“God Is Love” | D. L. Moody Sermon | For God So Loved The World | The Love Of God | No Greater Love

“God is love.” – 1 John 4:16 🔊 D. L. Moody Sermons – Playlist    • D. L. Moody Sermons | Historic Homilies   🔊 Charles Spurgeon Sermons – Playlist    • Charles Spurgeon Sermons | Historic Homilies   🔊 Historic Homilies – All Uploads    • Historic Homilies | All Uploads   If you feel led to donate to the work of this channel, feel free to do so through Venmo: https://www.venmo.com/u/historichomilies 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) “God Is Love,” 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   https://www.gfcbaker.org Joel’s Other Channels: JoelGriffis – Song performances, mostly covers, some originals    / @joelgriffis   Musings Under The Sun – Discussion/podcast channel, various topics    / @musingsunderthesun196   HeartStore Music – Bible memory verse songs    / @heartstore   Sermon Excerpt: My text is taken from the 1st epistle of John, and it is one of those texts the world does not believe. If I could make every one in this building believe this text, I would not preach a sermon. If we all believed it, we would not need a sermon. “God is love.” That is one of the texts the devil would like to blot out of the Bible. For six thousand years he has been going up and down the world trying to make men believe that God is not love. Love begets love, and hate begets hate. Let me tell any one of you that I heard a man say this week that you were one of the meanest men in town, and you will soon come to the conclusion that the man who said that was the meanest man you ever heard of. Let me tell you that I heard a man say he thought more of you than of any other man in the city, and though you may not have thought about him before, your love will spring up and you will say, “I think a great deal of that man.” Now, men are believing the devil’s lies when they don’t believe God is love. A few years ago, when we built a church in Chicago, a friend put up over the pulpit in gas-jets the words, “God is love.” We thought, if we couldn’t preach it into the hearts of the people we would burn it in. A man happened to see that text up there, and he said to himself: “God is not love; God does not love me;” and he came around into the church, not to hear the sermon, but to see the text as it was burning there upon the wall. The arrow reached its mark. He went into the inquiry meeting. I inquired what it was impressed him. He said it was not the sermon; it was those words that had burned into his soul. He was weeping, and he wanted to know what he should do to be saved. “God is love.” I hope this text will find its way into every heart here. I want to prove it from Scripture. The great trouble with men is, they are all the time trying to measure God by their own rule, and from their own standpoint. A man is apt to judge others from his own standard. If a man is covetous, he thinks every one else is covetous. If he is a selfish man, he thinks every one else is selfish. If a man is guilty of adultery, he thinks every other man is. If a man is dishonest, he thinks every other man is. Many are trying to bring God down to their own level. They don’t know that between human love and divine love there is as much difference as there is between darkness and light. God’s love is deep and high; Paul says it passeth knowledge. We love a man as long as he is worthy of our love, and when he is not we cast him off; but we don’t find in the Word of God that God casts off those who are not worthy of his love. If he did, there would be no one in the kingdom of God except Jesus himself. He was obedient unto death. He was worthy of love. If you have your Bibles, turn to the 13th chapter of John, at the first verse: “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 . . .