Love Divine, All Loves Excelling

In answer to the question 'who do God love?' we may say:

1. God loves Himself - inter-Trinitarian love is a glorious mystery and foundational to our Lord's life and ministry since all He does is for the purpose of showing the world that He loves the Father.
2. God loves the world - He loves the sinful world; He loves all sinners and desires that they be saved; He loves particular sinners and has decreed that they shall be saved; He loves individual sinners not a faceless mass of humanity.