THE GOSPEL

"For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish - but have everlasting life!" Joh 3:16

This verse is a little Bible in itself - for it contains the whole gospel.

It shows us the source of man's redemption - God's love.

It shows us the measure of this divine love - God gave His only begotten Son.

It shows us how the redemption was accomplished - by the sacrifice of Christ.

It tells us how to be saved - by believing on the Son of God.

It tells us who will be saved - whoever believes on Christ.

It shows us what the salvation is - deliverance from perishing, and the gift of eternal life.

Any one who truly believes that God loves him - is saved; the consciousness of this blessed truth is life in the soul. A story is told of a child in Luther's time, who thought of God only with dread, as of a terrible Judge! In her stern home, God had been held before her only in this way - to terrify her. She had never heard a word about God's gentleness or affection. But one day in her father's printing office, she picked up a scrap of paper and found on it just the first part of this verse, "For God so loved the world - that He gave" the remaining words were torn off - but even this mere fragment was a revelation to her.

God loved - "loved the world", loved it well enough to give something. Exactly what He gave - she did not know - but it was enough for her to know that God loved at all, and that He loved the world enough to give anything to it. The new thought changed all her conception of God. She learned from this time, to think of Him as one who loved her - and this thought brought sweet comfort to her.

But we have the whole verse - and we know that God is love. We know just what His love gave - the most costly and most valuable gift in all the universe! This revelation should fill us with unutterable joy!

1Jn 4:7-12,14,19,21: "Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another. No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us. … And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world. … We love him, because he first loved us. … And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also."

Blessed day to you and may you continue to walk in the true love of God  throughout this month in Jesus Christ mighty name! Amen!

Aps Timothy Oluwajoba
Lamshem International

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