The World Loves Not God
God’s Love Begets Our Love Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you. 1 John 3:13. The gospel is to be carried forward by aggressive warfare, in the midst of opposition, peril, loss, and suffering. But those who do this work are only following in their Master’s steps. As the world’s Redeemer, Christ was […]
Love to One Another
God’s Love Begets Our Love And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling savour. Ephesians 5:2. We need not begin by trying to love one another. The love of Christ in the heart is what is […]
What Does God Require
God’s Love Begets Our Love And now, Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul. Deuteronomy 10:12. Let the youth […]
Christ Gave Himself for Our Deliverance
God Provides a Way of Escape Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father. Galatians 1:4. The price paid for our redemption, the infinite sacrifice of our heavenly Father in giving His Son to die for us, should […]
He Was Our Sin Offering
God Provides a Way of Escape Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand. Isaiah 53:10. It is […]
Christ’s Sufferings Bring Us to God
God Provides a Way of Escape For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit. 1 Peter 3:18. God gave His Son to a life of humiliation, self-denial, poverty, toil, reproach, and […]
