Creator-Creature Conflict 483: The Challenge of Receiving Unconditional Love

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JOH 3:19
“This is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were evil.”
 
JOH 3:20
“For everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come to the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed.”
 
JOH 3:21
“But he who practices the truth comes to the Light, so that his deeds may be manifested as having been wrought in God.”
 
 

TODAY’S STUDY

The Challenge of Receiving Unconditional Love 

 
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TODAY’S STUDY

The Challenge of Receiving Unconditional Love 

 
FATHER CAVANAUGH
TO RUDY RUETTIGER
Son, in 35 years of religious study, I have only come up with two hard incontrovertible facts: there is a God, and I’m not Him. 
 
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When I Think About Home
 
TEN POINTS TO PONDER ABOUT UNCONDITIONAL LOVE
Number 1
Unconditional Love is the foundation of Christianity
1CO 13:13
But now faith, hope, love, abide (in the sphere of) these three; but the greatest of these is (unconditional) love.
 
TEN POINTS TO PONDER ABOUT UNCONDITIONAL LOVE
Number 2
If you don’t understand unconditional love you can’t understand God 
1JO 4:8
The one who does not love (unconditionally) does not know God, for God is (unconditional) love.
 
TEN POINTS TO PONDER ABOUT UNCONDITIONAL LOVE
Number 3
Unconditional Love Separates the Doer From the Deed
JAM 1:25
But one who looks intently at the perfect law, the law of liberty, and abides by it, not having become a forgetful hearer but an effectual doer, this man will be blessed in what he does.
 
TEN POINTS TO PONDER ABOUT UNCONDITIONAL LOVE
Number 4
Unconditional Love Lays Aside the Old Self
COL 3:9
Do not lie to one another, since you laid aside the old self with its evil practices…
 
TEN POINTS TO PONDER ABOUT UNCONDITIONAL LOVE
Number 5
Unconditional Love Picks Up and Puts on the New Self
COL 3:10
…and have put on the new self who is being renewed to a true knowledge according to the image of the One who created him —
 
TEN POINTS TO PONDER ABOUT UNCONDITIONAL LOVE
Number 6
Unconditional Love Comes From the Spirit
2CO 6:4-6
…but in everything commending ourselves as servants of God, in much endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses,//in beatings, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in sleeplessness, in hunger,//in purity, in knowledge, in patience, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in genuine love…
 
TEN POINTS TO PONDER ABOUT UNCONDITIONAL LOVE
Number 7
Unconditional Love Means Listening to a Different Voice
JOH 16:13
“But when He, (God) the (Holy) Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth; for He will not speak on His own initiative, but whatever He hears, He will speak; and He will disclose to you what is to come.”
 
TEN POINTS TO PONDER ABOUT UNCONDITIONAL LOVE
Number 8
Unconditional Love Comes from the Heart Not the Head
 1SA 16:7b
“…God sees not as man sees, for man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.”
 
TEN POINTS TO PONDER ABOUT UNCONDITIONAL LOVE
Number 9
Unconditional Loves Forgives Even Though it Seldom Forgets
 
TEN POINTS TO PONDER ABOUT UNCONDITIONAL LOVE
Number 10
Unconditional Love Does Not Mean God Wants You to Sin
1JO 2:1
My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin.
 
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