Article 50

Pastor - Ralph E. Dale

"Shiloh Baptist Church is a Sovereign Assembly"

"We believe and preach the doctrines of God's sovereign grace"

The love of God

Many mistakenly think that the substitutionary sacrifice of Christ was to enable God to love us. The scripture plainly teach just the opposite. The sacrifice of Christ was because God did love us! "God commendeth His love toward us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us" (Rom. 5: 8). "God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son" (John 3: 16). Christ's death was the effect of God's love for siners, not the cause.

Hear an old writer on the subject of God's love: "It is self-evident truth that, as God only knows, so He only can reveal His love. It is a hidden love, veiled deep within the recesses of His very essence, for God is Love, not merely loving and lovely; but love itself, essential love. Who, then, can reveal it but Himself?"

Behold God's love! See how He has inscribed this glorious perfection of His nature in letters of blood drawn from the heart of Jesus. His love was so great that nothing short of the death of His beloved Son could give an adequate expression of its immensity.

Pastor Don Bell