Desiring Advent - Love | Jeremiah Lepasana | "Make You Feel My Love": John 3:16

Here' is the link to the video shown at the beginning of the sermon.This past Sunday, we talked about love from John 3.16. We saw that love's 1)objects, 2) ends, and 3) nature. John 3.16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.In the first, we saw from Scripture that love is not, as we often view, a merely internal subjective experience, but it is something that God has within God's self. It is something he is, which is ultimately good news, because it is something outside of us that we are invited into (v. a thing we have to manufacture or fight to maintain). In the second, we saw that God longs for those he loves to experience eternal life. We talked about how we conceive of "eternal" as "life unending," which for us makes Christianity an entirely future hope. But, if time is merely a measure of change, we have to remember that God does not change. He is a-temporal in an incomprehensible way. Here's the big idea. Our creaturely problem is simply that time changes, and as we experience time changing, it is an incredibly lonely experience as everyone is set-off moving in a direction different from the people closest to them. Our great hope is that an incomprehensibly atemporal God steps into time and invites us into an incomprehensibly full atemporal love that does not change.