Charles Spurgeon Commentary John 16:27

"for the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came forth from the Father." — John 16:27 (ASV)

Because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God.

God's first love to us is from himself alone. Then there is another love that grows in his heart because of our love for his Son.

You love your child. The reason lies in your own heart. After a while, that dear, loving, affectionate child has won a further place in your affection, and you love him because of his choice and special love to you.

Remember that Psalm: Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name.

Our love for God wins from him another love, of a different sort, although it comes from the same fountain as the first: For the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God.

Because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God.

Have you, dear friends, love to Christ? Do you believe that Christ came forth from God? Then does the Father give his special love to you.

For the Father himself loveth you,

What a delightful little sentence! "The Father himself loveth you."

For the Father himself loveth you,—

"The Father, whom you are so apt to think of as sterner than I, and farther off than I, the Son of Man, am, the Father himself loveth you,"—