Modern Love | Part 1
Romans 5:1 - 11,
“Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this
grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. For one will scarcely die for a righteous person - though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die - but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Since therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God. For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life. More than that, we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation”.
God is Love and the world doesn’t get to say otherwise.
Matt. 22:37 “Jesus said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like it; You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets”.
1 Peter 1:15 - 16
“But as he who called you is holy, you also be holy (set apart from the world) in all your conduct, since it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy”.
Many people today want God’s Love without his holiness, but both are inseparable because it’s God’s love that shapes us into his likeness which is the process of sanctification.
Matt. 5:8 “Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God”.
If we want to know how to love, be moved with Compassion.
Phil. 2:3 (NLT) “Don’t be selfish; don't try to impress others. Be humble, thinking of others as better than yourselves”.
Jesus died on the cross to show us how we ought to die to ourselves.
