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HOW MUCH DOES JESUS CHRIST
REALLY LOVE US?
This is how we know what love
is: Jesus Christ
laid down his life for us
(1 John 3:16).
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or
distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
37 Yet
in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.
38
For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor
angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come,
39 nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing,
shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our
Lord
(Romans 8:35-40).
I have been crucified with
Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the
Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me
(Galatians 2:20).
I pray
that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his
Spirit in your inner being, 17 so that Christ may dwell
in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being
rooted and established in love, 18 may have power,
together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is
the love of Christ, 19 and to know this love that
surpasses knowledge—that
you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God (Ephesians
3:16-20).
Husbands,
love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her (Ephesians
5:25).
OUR
RESPONSE
This is how we know what love is:
Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And
we ought to lay down our
lives for our brothers (1 John 3:16).
Grace to all who
love our Lord Jesus Christ
with an undying love
(Ephesians 6:24).
And this
commandment we have from Him: that he who loves God must love his brother also
(1 John 4:21).
Jesus answered
and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will
love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him
(John 14:23).
He who has My
commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me.
And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest
Myself to him (John 14:21).
He who loves father or mother more
than Me is not worthy of Me.
And he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not
worthy of Me (Matthew 10:37).
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