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Mar.03.05: Light
for the Day - "God's Love"
"God's Love Rules Without a Sword and
Binds Without a Cord"
-- John
3:16
"For God so loved the world that He
gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish
but have everlasting life."
-- Romans 8:38,39
38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers,
39 neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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-- John
3:16 - The message
of the Good News comes to a focus in this verse. God’s love is not static
or self-centered; it reaches out and draws others in.
Here God sets the
pattern of true love, the basis for all love relationships — when you love
someone dearly, you are willing to give freely to the point of
self-sacrifice.
God paid dearly with the life of His Son, the
highest price He could pay. Jesus accepted our punishment, paid the price
for our sins, and then offered us the new life that He had bought for
us.
When we share the Good News with others, our love must be
like Jesus’ — willingly giving up our own comfort and security so that
others might join us in receiving God’s love.
--
L.A.B.
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-- Romans
5:8
But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while
we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
-- 1
John 4:10
This is love: not that we loved God, but that He loved
us and sent His Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.
-- 1 John 4:19
We love because He first loved
us.
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**** Matthew 22:35-40
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35 One of them, an expert in the law, tested Him with this
question:
36 "Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the
Law?"
37 Jesus replied: "‘Love the Lord your God
with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ {Deut.
6:5}
38 This is the first and greatest commandment.
39 And the
second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ {Lev.
19:18}
40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two
commandments."
-- 1 John 4:9
7
Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from
God.
Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.
8
Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.
9 This is
how God showed His love among us: He sent His one and only Son into the
world that we might live through Him.
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-- 1 Corinthians 13
1 If I speak in the tongues of
men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a
clanging cymbal.
2 If I have the gift of prophecy
and can fathom all
mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move
mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
3 If I give all I
possess
to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not
love, I gain
nothing.
4 Love is patient,
love is
kind.
It does not envy,
it does not boast,
it is not
proud.
5 It is not rude,
it is not self-seeking,
it is not easily
angered,
it keeps no record of wrongs.
6 Love does not delight in
evil but rejoices with the truth.
7 It always protects,
always
trusts,
always hopes,
always perseveres.
8 Love never
fails.
8 (Love will last forever), but prophecy and speaking in unknown languages and special knowledge will all disappear.
9 Now we know only a little, and even the gift of prophecy reveals little!
10 But when the end comes, these special gifts will all disappear.
11 It’s like this: When I was a child, I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child does. But when I grew up, I put away childish things.
12 Now we see things imperfectly as in a poor mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity. All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God knows me now.
13 And now these three
remain:
Faith, Hope and Love. But the greatest of these is
LOVE.
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