“There is such love and such grace in the heart of God [that] if you understood the length and breadth and height and depth of it, you would never be discouraged.” – Jonathan Edwards
In this episode, Dane Ortlund reads Jonathan Edwards’s sermon on 1 John 4:16, “The Spirit of the True Saints Is a Spirit of Divine Love.”
Jonathan Edwards is considered by many to be the greatest theologian in American history. He was a pastor in Northampton, Massachusetts, in the 18th century in the midst of the First Great Awakening. The text of this sermon is found in The Glory and Honor of God: Volume 2 of the Previously Unpublished Sermons of Jonathan Edwards (ed. Michael McMullen; B&H, 2004), 338-41.
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