3:16 (AMP)
For God so greatly loved and dearly prized the world (kosmos) that He
[even] gave up His only begotten (unique) Son, so that whoever believes in
(trusts in, clings to, relies on) Him shall not perish (come to destruction, be
lost) but have eternal (everlasting) life.
Beloved, God loves you. He loves you
with a passion that even if you are the only person in the world, He will still
come down and die for you. Beloved, do you know that the word for world here is
“kosmos”, which can mean “inhabitants of the earth, men, the human family”. The world is big, but the Chinese bible translates it accurately,
for God so love man, that He sent His only son. (神愛世人, 甚至賜下他的獨生子，好讓所有信他的人不至於滅亡，反得永恆的生命)
John 15:9 (AMP)
I have loved you, [just] as the Father has loved Me; abide in My love [continue
in His love with Me].
1 John 4:10 (AMP)
In this is love: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent
His Son to be the propitiation (the atoning sacrifice) for our sins.
Romans 8:37 (AMP)
Yet amid all these things we are more than conquerors and gain a
surpassing victory through Him Who loved us.
Beloveds let us dwell in the love of God. When you are in lack, focus on
His love for you. Even in your worst day, let His love bath you. Through His
love, we are more than a conqueror. He had overcome, therefore, be of good
cheer. (John 16:33)
Romans 8:39 (AMP)
Nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation will be able to
separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Beloved, God has promise us that He will ALWAYS loves us. NOTHING, no angel, no
devil can separate us from the love of God. He will always love us. He will
always be there for us. This is agape love, the self-sacrificing love. The love
so strong that He voids Himself of everything and came to earth as a human to
die for us.
1 John 4:16 (AMP)
And we know (understand, recognize, are conscious of, by observation and
by experience) and believe (adhere to and put faith in and rely on) the love
God cherishes for us. God is love, and he who dwells and continues in love
dwells and continues in God, and God dwells and continues in him.
Psalm 106:1 (AMP)
Praise the Lord! (Hallelujah!) O give thanks to the Lord, for He is
good; for His mercy and loving-kindness endure forever!
Psalm 103:8 (AMP)
The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger and plenteous in mercy
and loving-kindness.
God is love, when He is angry, He is strange at heart. Judgement and punishment
was never in His heart. He is merciful and kind, wonderful and loving. This is
our God.
Isaiah 53:3-5 (AMP)
He was despised and rejected and forsaken by men, a Man of sorrows and
pains, and acquainted with grief and sickness; and like One from Whom men hide
their faces He was despised, and we did not appreciate His worth or have any
esteem for Him. Surely He has borne our griefs (sicknesses, weaknesses, and
distresses) and carried our sorrows and pains [of punishment], yet we
[ignorantly] considered Him stricken, smitten, and afflicted by God [as if with
leprosy]. But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our
guilt and iniquities; the chastisement [needful to obtain] peace and well-being
for us was upon Him, and with the stripes [that wounded] Him we are healed and
made whole.
Beloved, Jesus doesn’t need to go through the whipping. But He went
through the lashes just for us to be healed. Every whip what was whipped upon
His body was for our sickness. Have the image of Him standing up after each lashes;
telling you, “I have conquered that sickness for you”. Another whip came and He
stood up and says “I’ve take your depression for you”. Now be healed for He has
taken ALL our grief and our sickness upon Himself.
Romans 5:8 (AMP)
But God shows and clearly proves His [own] love for us by the fact that
while we were still sinners, Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One) died for us.
Luke 23:46 Bible (AMP)
And Jesus, crying out with a loud voice, said, Father, into Your hands I
commit My spirit! And with these words, He expired.
Beloved, this is how Jesus loves us. When we were still His enemies,
when we were still in our sins, He came and died for us. There is a little
story by Kenneth E. Hagan(i think) that I want to share. I’m sure Ps. Prince has shared
it in His sermons a few times.
My little boat
A
father and his small son worked together and built a toy boat. They
whittled out it's hull, painted it red and attached a white sail. Then
they enjoyed many happy hours sailing it in the river running through
their village.
Somehow the father died. When the boy sailed the
boat alone, it brought back wonderful memories until one day a bigh wind
caught the little boat and carried the boat down the river faster than
the boy could run after it. Out it sailed into the sea.
The boy
missed his boat so much for the long time it was gone. About
thanksgiving time, he was overjoyed to see his little boat appeared in
the toy shop window. He ran inside and said "that my little boat in the
window"! My father and I made it but it was lost to the sea".
The
shop owner said that it was brought in by sailerman who found it. He
will let the boy have it but at a price. The boy had no money, he did
everything he could to earn some. He cut wood,
sold paper and each day he passes the toy show just to see if the boat
is there.
At last on Christmas day, he had enough money to buy
the little boat. Out he came from the shop, clasped the little boat in
his chest and cried, "little boat, little boat, you were twice mine,
I've made you and I've brought you!"
(Taken from the blood and the glory by Billye Brim)
This is how Jesus loves us, He made us and redeem us, not by silver or gold, but with His precious blood.
Beloved, God is not mad at you, God is mad about you.
Lastly,
Let us worship Jesus with a song....
The
love of God - MecryMe
