• Title Page
• Introduction
• The Nature of God
• The Nature of Moral Being
• The Nature of Sin
• The Nature of Moral Government
• The Nature of Justice
• The Nature of Mercy
• The Nature of Substitution
• The Nature of Grace
• The Nature of Salvation

The Nature of Moral Being

Chapter II

The most profound, appealing and faith-inviting news ever announced to the sinning inhabitants of this earth is in the words: “God is love” (I John 4:16). In these words is bound up God’s ultimate purpose in the creation of man.

Think what these words mean. Love is self-giving. It constrains the one it possesses to give himself to the one he loves, in any and every way which will insure perfect and permanent happiness. Nothing in harmony with that which ought to be which can bring joy is withheld from the loved one, everything being lavished upon him which can bring true and lasting pleasure and satisfaction.

Love, therefore, because it is self-giving, demands those toward whom self-giving can be expressed; for to have the power and the urge to love, and yet to have no one upon whom to satisfy that urge, is torment indeed.

The infinite fulness of love, in the Being of God, is first given perfect satisfaction and joy in the limitless expression of that love which forever pours forth from the heart of each divine Person in the Triune Godhead upon the other Two, in the unspeakable delight of self-giving.

The three Persons in the Godhead, also, that they might have the infinite joy of perfect fellowship and communion with each other in the united outflow of self-giving, gave to Themselves myriads of angels upon whom to lavish their common love.