Title: The greatest love (Romans 5:8)
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Best love
Romans 5:8
Do you feel the heart of a father who had no choice but to kill his beloved child to save people? You have to sacrifice people to save your children. A father had only one choice to save people's lives because of his son's job. It was just giving up on children.
There were various people on the train. Joyful youngsters, drug-drug youngsters, soldiers, lovers, but they don't know what happened outside the train. No one knows that great sacrifices were made to save them.
The same is true today. They don't care that Jesus Christ died to save them.
Jesus died for people like me. He died on the cross for a sinner like me. The Bible says that we are all like sheep and have gone astray, each of us going our own way. We do not go on the right path, even though we know we are on the right path. More often than not, we do not live a life that is in accordance with God's will. We know God's Word, but sometimes we willfully break it. Our evil nature is quicker to sin. We are willing to do good, but we do not do good. We can't stand the loss, we can't stand being unfair, and we can't stand being ignored by someone. We cannot be morally superior to non-believers by far greater than them.
Everyone! Know that God never saved us because we are doing what is right in His heart or pleasing Him. Rather, our actions are more often than not to discredit God's glory and obscure God's glory. We are unable to please God in our own strength. The Bible says our righteousness is like a dirty garment.
We are all children of wrath by nature. We have followed the rulers of the air before. We didn't do anything that satisfies God's heart, but rather we lived a life that dishonored God. But, as such sinners, Christ died for us. Jesus Christ died on the cross to save you and me. If you are like me, you can't do that. Not an honorable death, how could I die for a prisoner, for sinners?
Can you die for a sexual offender? Can you die for an ex-convict? Can you die for a murderer?
There is one reason why Christ died for us. The truth is that God loves us so much. Because He loves us, He wants to deliver us from the destruction of Hell. There was only one way to deliver us from the punishment of hell. There was no other way than to die in the place of the sinless Jesus Christ. So God exchanged us for the life of His Son.
God's love is more than enough to cover all my transgressions and sins. We are all sinners and we are not clean. We are all sinful human beings who have no choice but to sin. God loves me like that. There's nothing you don't know about me. We may be disappointed with each other if we get to know each other. There are times when we even hate ourselves. There are times when we ourselves want to give up on ourselves. But God loves me. You have decided to love me. Our love is “I love you because you .. If you do this, you will love it.” Conditional love. But God's love is nevertheless love. It is unconditional love. God loves us unconditionally.
When did the Lord decide to love us? When we were sinners. It's not the time we've been sober. When we say, “Now we will live a clean life!” And it's not the time to be humble. God loved us when we were still wandering in our sins, selfish, wandering, and separated from Him. He sent Jesus Christ for us.
Even your loved one will disappoint you. Your spouse is never perfect either. A person can change his mind someday. But God does not change his heart. His love for me is eternal. Even when I failed, even when we did not seek Him, God was looking at me. God's love is eternal. Isaiah 49:15 says, "How can a mother forget my nursing baby, and have no pity for the son born in her womb! Even if a mother forgets her children, I will never forget you."
If you realize that Jesus Christ died for you, don't forget that grace! Don't forget that love! Respond to that love! Spread that love! And it has to be different. We can't let Jesus down and live a life that goes against God's will forever. If I lived my own stubbornness, now I have to live a life that pleases the Lord for the sake of the Lord.