On this Sunday Service, we see a God who loves His creation so much that He ransomed them from sin with His own blood, herein is love

This is not the typical “Christmas message” you might expect the last Sunday before Christmas, but it is in the truest sense of what the birth of Jesus means from a biblical perspective. The day that God the Father took on a human form and came to this Earth to redeem His own creation is perhaps the greatest day in recorded history, second only to His arrival at the Second Advent to establish His Millennial Reign of perfect rule and righteousness. Today you will hear about the renowned atheist Stephen Fry and his accusations against the God he calls ‘a monster’. What we find is the exact opposite, we find a God in love with His creation and willing to sacrifice Himself to redeem it. This is where we find true love.

“Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.” 1 John 4:10,11 (KJB)

SUNDAY SERVICE STUDY NOTES: Herein Is Love

Herein is Love

Atheist Stephen Fry on God

Gay Byrne:

… suppose it’s all true and you walk up to the pearly gates and you are confronted by God. What would Stephen Fry say to him, her or it?

Stephen Fry:

I will basically (it’s known as theodicy I think) I’ll say, “Bone cancer in children? What’s that about? How dare you! How dare you create a world where there is such misery that is not our fault! It’s not right. It is utterly, utterly evil. Why should I respect a capricious, mean-minded, stupid god who creates a world that is so full of injustice and pain. That’s what I’d say.

GB: And you think you’re going to get in?

SF: Oh, but I wouldn’t want to. I wouldn’t want to get in on his terms. They’re wrong. Now, if I died and it was Pluto, Hades and if it were the twelve Greek gods, then I’d have more truck with it because the Greeks didn’t pretend not to be human in their appetites, and in their capriciousness and their unreasonableness; they didn’t present themselves as being all-seeing, all-wise, all-kind, all-munificent; because the god who created this universe (if it was created by God) is, quite clearly, a maniac – utter maniac, totally selfish.

We have to spend our life on our knees thanking him? What kind of god would do that?

Yes, the world is very splendid, but it also has in it insects whose whole life-cycle is to burrow into the eyes of children and make them blind. They eat outwards from the eyes. Why did you do that? Why? Why did you do that to us? You could easily have made a creation where that didn’t exist. It is simply not acceptable. So, you know, atheism is not just about not believing there’s a god – but, on the assumption there is one, what kind of god is it? It’s perfectly apparent that he is monstrous, utterly monstrous, and deserves no respect whatsoever. The moment you banish him your life becomes simpler, purer, cleaner – more worth living in my opinion.

Refuting Atheism And Answering The Charge That God Is “Unfair” Or “Unjust”

“This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.” 1 Timothy 1:15 (KJB)

“For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:” 1 Peter 3:18 (KJB)

“Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.” 1 John 4:10,11 (KJB)

“And they cried out all at once, saying, Away with this man, and release unto us Barabbas: (Who for a certain sedition made in the city, and for murder, was cast into prison.) Pilate therefore, willing to release Jesus, spake again to them. But they cried, saying, Crucify him, crucify him.” Luke 23:18-21 (KJB)

1) Start Where The Bible Starts: God Is, And He Is Creator

Key truth: Atheism doesn’t merely “lack belief”—it suppresses truth God has made plain.

• Romans 1:19-20 (KJV): “Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:”
• Genesis 1:1 (KJV): “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.”
• Psalm 19:1 (KJV): “The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.”

Outline notes:
Creation is not “neutral.” It testifies. Scripture says the problem is not lack of evidence, but moral refusal.

2) The Bible Describes “No God” As A Moral Posture, Not An Intellectual Achievement

• Psalm 14:1 (KJV): “The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.”

The “heart” language matters. The denial is rooted in the inner man—conscience, will, and love of sin—not simply an IQ debate.

3) Why The Hatred Toward God: Light Exposes Sin

The Bible explains why people resist God: God’s light condemns their darkness.

• John 3:19-20 (KJV): “And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.”
• Romans 8:7 (KJV): “Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.”
• Colossians 1:21 (KJV): “And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled”

Scripture uses words like enmity and enemies—that’s hostility. When someone calls God “unfair,” it often functions as a shield against repentance.

4) The “Unfair God” Accusation: Who Is Man To Put God On Trial?

God answers the charge directly: the creature is not the judge of the Creator.

• Romans 9:20-21 (KJV): “Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus? Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?”
• Job 38:4 (KJV): “Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.”
• Isaiah 55:8-9 (KJV): “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.”

The Bible does not flatter human pride. It confronts it. God is not accountable to man; man is accountable to God.

5) God Is Not Unjust—He Is Perfectly Righteous

God’s justice isn’t “like” ours—ours is the broken imitation. His is the standard.

• Deuteronomy 32:4 (KJV): “He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.”
• Psalm 145:17 (KJV): “The LORD is righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works.”
• Romans 3:4 (KJV): “God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.”

If God is “unjust,” then words like justice collapse—because justice must have an ultimate standard above man. Scripture says that standard is God Himself.

6) The Real “Unfairness” Argument Usually Ignores The Bible’s Diagnosis: All Are Guilty

People often speak as if humanity deserves innocence. The Bible says humanity is guilty.

• Romans 3:10 (KJV): “As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:”
• Romans 3:23 (KJV): “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;”
• Romans 6:23 (KJV): “For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.”
• Ezekiel 18:20 (KJV): “The soul that sinneth, it shall die.”

If God gave everyone what they “deserved,” that would be judgment. The shock of the Bible is that God offers mercy.

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