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God's love is really like--a conclusion amply illustrated in Jesus' post resurrection address to followers at Alexandria:
"This gospel of the kingdom belongs to both Jew and gentile, to rich and poor, to free and bond, to male and female, even to the little children. You are all to proclaim this gospel of love and truth by the lives which you live in the flesh. You shall love one another with a new and startling affection, even as I have loved you. You will serve mankind with a new and amazing devotion, even as I have served you. And when men see you so love them, and when they behold how fervently you serve them, they will perceive that you have become faith-fellows of the kingdom of heaven, and they will follow after the Spirit of Truth which they see in your lives, to the finding of eternal salvation." (2044)
Jesus' plan for a new age is succinctly summarized in the ordination sermon. It is about multitudes of his followers actually dedicating their own lives in an endeavor to becoming living spiritual examples of the way in which Jesus lived his earthly life--a perfected revelation of the true nature of our Universal Father as it is comprehensible by man.
The ordination sermon and the explanations that follow it present the plan. The remainder of the Urantia revelation is merely subsidiary to this task--dominantly being an aid to our understanding and providing a universe frame in which we can think (1260).
This comment is found just after the sermon.
"Without a worthy goal, life becomes aimless and unprofitable, and much unhappiness results. Jesus' discourse at the ordination of the twelve constitutes a master philosophy of life." (1572) The ordination sermon follows in full.
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