This morning my wife and I went to church. The Pastor's message came from 1 John 3 and it was about the love of God; how He pronounced it, illustrated and demonstrated it to his children. It was a wonderful message and my love for my Lord and His Word increased. Sometimes, however, like Sunday, it is not the exposition of a biblical text that satisfies but rather a plain reading of Scripture that both nourishes the soul and draws one to repentance...again:
"If you know that he is righteous, you may be sure that everyone who does right has been born of him. See what love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God; and that is what we are. The reason that the world does not know us is that it did not know him."
"Everyone who commits sin is guilty of lawlessness; sin is lawlessness. You know that he was revealed to take away sins, and in him there is no sin. No one who abides in him sins; no one who sins has either seen him or known him. Little children, let know one deceive you."
"We know love by this, that he laid down his life for us--and we ought to lay down our lives for one another. How does God's love abide in anyone who has the world's goods and sees a brother or sister in need and yet refuses help?"
"And this is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he has commanded us. All who obey his commandments abide in him, and he abides in them. And by this we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit that he has given us."
Thanks be to God for sending His son so that we may have a perfect example of love, and be reminded again of who we are and what we are being asked to do.
Nice.
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