And this is love…

 And this is love….

It is hard to watch the news anymore…although we do need to be informed…there is so much darkness, fear, hatred, division that spews out (exactly what Satan is)…

But, darkness cannot overshadow the light that shines as well…there is good news of goodness, kindness, celebration, sometimes hidden away in the back pages…or in the mission’s reports from various far away lands…

Still reading in 1 John…how we know what love is…God’s 

Love which transcends all…overcomes…is victorious…everlasting…transformative..and we know that he sent his Son to show his love…

Christmas to celebrate his birth….Easter to celebrate his sacrifice and victory…these are love…planned for us…while we were yet sinners in need of a Saviour…

Thank YOU….

 

 This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us….

And this is his command: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as he commanded us. 

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. 

This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. 

We love because he first loved us.

1John.3.16a,1John.3.23,1John.4.9,1John.4.10,1John.4.19

 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.

John.3.16-17

Jesus answered, “The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.”

John.6.29

 Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love me, for I have come here from God. I have not come on my own; God sent me.

John.8.42

 Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.

John.17.3

 You know the message God sent to the people of Israel, announcing the good news of peace through Jesus Christ, who is Lord of all.

Acts.10.36

 But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Rom.5.8

 For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,

1Cor.15.3

 But when the set time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those under the law, that we might receive adoption to sonship.

Gal.4.4-5

God is love….

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQ-B7YTpJLo 

Good good Father…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gSugruC1jQ