Title: Perfect Love
Perfect Love (Romans 5:8-10)
When we talk about the three elements of Christian faith, we
Based on the words of 1 Corinthians 13:13, “Faith, hope, and love, these three will always exist, but the greatest of these is love.” Based on the words of 1 Corinthians 13:13, we believe in the covenant of Almighty God, and hope and love for the afterlife and the future of the world. Says.
I said that the most important thing is love, so I believe that our personal knowledge of faith should be established with the biblical principle about the love that God teaches and that perfect love.
In fact, the historical significance of Christianity is for the love of God. The importance of love is, in a word,
Romans 13:10 “Love does no evil to its neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.”
The content of that love is to be saved by believing in Jesus, and I know that the principle must stand up when the saints try to practice this love in the world.
1. I love those who cannot love
You must first understand and embrace the other person's sins, mistakes, and vices.
However, when it becomes an incomprehensible problem, we rely on social and national laws to sue and be judged. Of course, a quick-tempered person may get his fists blown before the law.
What was our situation when God loved us?
8 “While we were still sinners...
10“When we were enemies…”
We are sinful enemies next to a very holy God, and sinners who are not worthy of love at all. Even those who can't understand it can't. Because he is a human being who cannot understand and understand, God decided to love him.
Ephesians 2:13 “Now you, who were formerly afar off, have drawn near by the blood of Christ in Christ Jesus.”
That's right. First of all, we must show a religious spirit that deeply understands the other person and forgives us when we do not understand. If you are a person who is not even able to forgive, then you go beyond the usual religious psychology and show God's divine love. We do not love our children by forgiving them. I love you unconditionally.
That's right. True love has no original conditions. No, the more problems I can't love, the more I love. That is truly precious love.
How many people today have conditional commercial love?
It's a wonderful world where divorces are done due to marital coma. Divorce because they can't make money and criticize them for being sick ... God understands, forgives, and loves the dirty and wretched human beings who can't love them. We receive this love and live without love, forgiveness, or understanding.
It's not about understanding people after years of studying human psychology to understand humans. It doesn't take a lot of discipline or great religious practice to do forgiveness. We can love if we remember how God loved us, how He forgives us, and how He understands us.
Matthew 5:46-48 "If you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even tax collectors do this? 47 And if you greet only your brothers, what are they more than others? Are not the Gentiles also like this? 48 Be ye perfect as your Father who is in
2. I love you with the truth
Perfect love has a principle. It's not philosophy. Nor is it romantic.
1 Corinthians 13:6 “Rejoices not in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth”
The principle by which we love God is not our usual religious sentiment. Loving your neighbor must be done with the principle. For example, if you have practiced love for your neighbor and do not even worship on Sunday, it is not love.
There is a principle in loving God. 1 John 5:3 “This is the love of God, that we keep his commandments, and his commandments are not heavy.”
God is an absolute God, and we should feel sorry for the fact that those who worship other gods are being deceived. Tolerating them and saying acknowledging their own god is not a loving act.
During the Japanese colonial era, many servants adhered to the principle that only God is the true God, so they showed an attitude of respect and love. Characteristics are disappearing and God is sinking into the religious culture. True love is based only on the will of God, who is holy in the truth.
3. It is a love that sacrifices your life
When God loves us, it is not in words. He did not draw attention to any doctrine or miracles. You gave your only son, Jesus, to this earth to sacrifice and redeem us.
Jesus came and gave His life for us.
8 “God demonstrates his love for us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”
Christian love is not a religious benevolence or social service dimension. The essential root of love is the spirit of devotion at the risk of life.
The most vain love is love in words.
James 2:16 “What profit does it profit if any of you say to him, ‘Go in peace, keep warm, and fill yourself up, and do not give him food for his body?’” The church is overflowing with love through words. When it comes to giving money to help, drawing blood, and practicing love, only a few people remain. Why did we have to risk our lives and shed blood to save and love us?
1) It was a covenant that had to shed blood to atone for sins.
Leviticus 17:11 "For the life of the flesh is in the blood... Because the life is in the blood, the blood makes atonement."
Hebrews 9:22 "...without the shedding of blood there is no remission"
Hebrews 9:12 “Not with the blood of goats and calves, but with His own blood He entered the Holy of Holies once for all, having obtained eternal redemption.”
2) If a person is evil and does not risk their life, it is because there is no emotion.
Even if you risk your life, if you are not moved, there is no answer.
Because people are evil, anything they risk their lives to try will pay off.
He commanded us to do the same when we love God and when we love our neighbor.
Matthew 22:37-39 “Jesus said to him, ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and greatest commandment, 39 and the second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself. You told me to do it.”
4. Saving Love
God's love is the love that ultimately leads to salvation.
God's love for us was not for the sake of anything perishable in this world, but for the salvation of eternal life.
As such, the result of the saints' practice of love must be followed by salvation.
10 “For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.”
The result of the love that the Lord loved by dying was the amazing result that He himself was resurrected, and now we not only come boldly to God, but have given us eternal life and blessings.
True love brings the result of saving people like this.
Communism kills people, but the Christian ideology of true truth is a movement that saves people. Various heresies and war-loving Muslims and various gods go into movements that destroy families, societies and morals. In the end, they fall into vain things, but the truth ideology movement saves people.
Wherever Christianity was preached, there was a life movement where people were reformed and society progressed. We were ignorant, wicked, and sinners who did not dare come to God, but now we have been redeemed through the blood of Christ and blessed with confidence to move forward through the resurrection.
Ephesians 2:13 “Now you, who were formerly afar off, are drawn near by the blood of Christ in Christ Jesus.”
Hebrews 7:25 “Therefore, he is able to save completely those who come to God through him, because he always lives to intercede for them.”
Since Christianity is a truth movement, doctrinal issues have been continuously debated for 2,000 years. However, killing people while carrying out the truth movement is not a movement of true love.
The significance of the church's existence is to save people.
The terrible persecution of Catholics burning Christians in England for not listening to them was a false doctrine. It is because of human claims that countless popes throughout the generations have killed and persecuted Christians.
Even now, people continue to kill people because of wrong knowledge. Many heretics kill people with false gospel ideas. The truth movement of true love will surely save people. It is not. Since we have received God's true love and that perfect love, we should always think and love as if we were in debt.
Romans 13:8 “Do not owe anyone except for the love of one another, for he who loves others has fulfilled the law.”
He prophesied that love would cease to exist in the last days. Therefore, what we need to do is practice the most important love movement. Knowing that God's perfect love has a principle and is love at the risk of our lives, become loving saints in the Lord's teaching, so that you and I may please God and save our neighbors in the name of the Lord. Congratulations.
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Source: Cyber Theological Seminary View Original Author: nulserom