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Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us (believers in Christ) with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in (union with) Christ,//just as He (God the Father) chose us (to be) in (union with) Him (the Lord Jesus Christ) before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before Him (the Father). In (unconditional) love…
He (God the Father) predestined us to adoption as (adult) sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the kind intention of His will,//to the praise of the glory of His grace, which He (God the Father) freely bestowed on us in the Beloved (the Lord Jesus Christ).
A DEEP INTIMATE AND PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD
An individual involvement with God…intended just for you…planned by God in eternity past…a relationship containing the elements of dependence…independence (because you have free will)…and interdependence…a relationship extending far beneath the surface of things…a close, warm, intricate and familiar association suggesting privacy and a connection with the divine.
TODAY’S STUDY
Mothers are a Manifestation of Unconditional Love
Therefore, since we (believers in Christ) have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us (watching us from the Supreme Court of Heaven), let us (believers in Christ) also lay aside every encumbrance (the weights) and the sin (nature) which so easily entangles us (blocking our progress on all sides), and let us run with endurance the race (of our lives) that is set before us…
…fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
For consider (keep on thinking about) Him (the Lord Jesus Christ) who has endured such hostility by sinners against Himself, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart (fainting in your souls).
But now faith, hope, love, abide (in the sphere of) these three; but the greatest of these is (unconditional) love.
One of the scribes came and heard them (the Pharisees and Sadducees, and other Scribes) arguing, and recognizing that He (the Lord Jesus Christ) had answered them well, (the scribe) asked Him, “What commandment is the foremost of all?”
Jesus answered, “The foremost is, ‘HEAR (LISTEN), O ISRAEL! THE LORD OUR GOD IS ONE LORD…’”
“‘…AND YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND, AND WITH ALL YOUR STRENGTH.’”
“The second is this, ‘YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.’ There is no other commandment (request to free will) greater than these.”
For you were called to freedom, brethren; only do not turn your freedom into an opportunity for the flesh, but through (unconditional) love serve one another.//For the whole (Mosaic) Law is fulfilled in one word, in the statement, “YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.”
Owe nothing to anyone except to love one another (unconditionally); for he who loves his neighbor (unconditionally) has fulfilled the law.
For this, “YOU SHALL NOT COMMIT ADULTERY, YOU SHALL NOT MURDER, YOU SHALL NOT STEAL, YOU SHALL NOT COVET,” and if there is any other commandment, it is summed up in this saying, “YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.”
(Unconditional) Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore (unconditional) love is the fulfillment of the law.
“A new commandment (request to free will) I give to you, that you love one another (unconditionally), even as I have loved you (unconditionally), that you also love one another (unconditionally).”
“By this (display of unconditional love) all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have (unconditional) love for one another.”
If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have (unconditional) love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and (know) all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.
But now faith, hope, love, abide (in the sphere of) these three; but the greatest of these is (unconditional) love.
BREAK
Voice of Truth
When I Think About Home
“Can a woman forget her nursing child and have no compassion on the son of her womb?”The Lord Jesus Christ IS love.
The one who does not love (unconditionally) does not know God, for God is (unconditional) love.
The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman caught in adultery, and having set her in the center of the court,//they said to Him, “Teacher, this woman has been caught in adultery, in the very act.”
“Now in the (Mosaic) Law Moses commanded us to stone such women (to death); what then do You say?”//They were saying this, testing Him (the Lord Jesus Christ), so that they might have grounds for accusing Him.”
A MOTHER’S LOVE
The mother of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects insisted Thursday that her sons are not responsible for the attack…“America took my kids away from me,” she said. “I’m sure my kids were not involved in anything.” When she said this, 31 marathon victims were still in the hospital, one in critical condition.
If we are faithless, He (the Lord Jesus Christ) remains faithful, for He cannot deny Himself (His own righteousness in us).
CLOSING SONG
I Am
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