{"id":1274,"date":"2012-05-01T14:07:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-01T19:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=1274"},"modified":"2014-12-16T11:20:45","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T17:20:45","slug":"stewards-of-good-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=1274","title":{"rendered":"Stewards of Good News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>John 3:16, 4:7-12<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Books have been known to start wars, (Uncle Tom&#8217;s Cabin).<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> A few written words may mean peace or trouble, (Declaration of Independence). Take a long look child!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I: &#8220;For God so loved.&#8221;<!--more--><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. &#8220;I have loved thee with an everlasting love.&#8221;<strong> Jeremiah 31:3<\/strong>.<br \/>\n&#8220;Love is strong as death.&#8221; <strong>Songs of Soloman 8:6<\/strong>.<br \/>\n2. The love of man:<br \/>\na. A love for country and liberty.<br \/>\nb. Love for their loved ones, (<strong>King of England<\/strong>).<br \/>\n3. The Greatest Lover, King of England.<br \/>\na. Everlasting love.<br \/>\nb. Love stronger than death.<br \/>\nc. Love that loves the unlovely.<br \/>\nd. Love that triumphs in face of hatred.<\/p>\n<p><strong>II: He loved the whole world.<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\n1. Every man that hears the invitation welcome, (<strong>pg. 952<\/strong>).<br \/>\n2. &#8220;Why will ye die?&#8221;<br \/>\n3. &#8220;No pleasure in the death of the wicked.&#8221; <strong>Ezekiel 18:32<\/strong>.<br \/>\n4. &#8220;Whosoever will may come.&#8221;<br \/>\n5. &#8220;The bride and the spirit say come.&#8221;<br \/>\n6. &#8220;Let him that heareth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>III: &#8220;He gave.&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\n1. Gifts of men can never compare.<br \/>\n2. Men give to those they love.<br \/>\n3. Men died for country, friends, and family.<br \/>\n4. God gave His son for a world that rejected Him.<br \/>\n5. He saved others, himself he couldn&#8217;t save.<br \/>\n6. God saw man hopeless condition.<\/p>\n<p><strong>IV: &#8220;Everlasting life.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. God isn&#8217;t an Indian giver.<br \/>\n2. God gave eternal life to an eternal soul.<br \/>\n3. Jesus came that they might have life.<br \/>\n4. &#8220;Who shall separate us from the love of God?&#8221; <strong>Romans 8:35<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>John 3:16 tells of God&#8217;s love, and man&#8217;s need for that love.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John 3:16, 4:7-12 Books have been known to start wars, (Uncle Tom&#8217;s Cabin). A few written words may mean peace or trouble, (Declaration of Independence). Take a long look child! I: &#8220;For God so loved.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1274"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1328,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274\/revisions\/1328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}