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Love From Your Pastor: Holy Week Edition – 1
Love From Your Pastor
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Love From Your Pastor
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Love From Your Pastor
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Love From Your Pastor
Hi Friends!
40 Days Until Easter
Love From Your Pastor
And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God. (1 Corinthians 6:11)
Love From Your Pastor
The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. (Romans 16:20)
Love From Your Pastor
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Love From Your Pastor
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“The order of these two great commandments is important. Jesus did not teach that, in order to be in a loving relationship with God, his disciples must first love their neighbors. He taught instead that the “great and first commandment” is to love God with one’s entire being, and elsewhere Scripture makes clear that this love for God is possible only because God loved believers first (1 John 4:19; see also Rom. 5:8). A loving commitment to God, initiated by God himself, results in love for one’s neighbor. When we love God, we love what and whom he loves—because we desire to please and honor him.
In 2 Corinthians 8:1–7, Paul demonstrated how this works in practical terms. He used the Macedonian Christians as an example of unselfish generosity, to urge the Corinthian Christians toward the same kind of generosity. Although poor themselves, he says, the Macedonians gave beyond all expectation: “they gave themselves first to the Lord and then by the will of God to us” (2 Cor. 8:5). Jesus’ disciples do not earn God’s favor by loving their neighbors; they love God because he has shown them his grace and mercy through the sacrificial love of Jesus, and this love for God overflows in love for others (Eph. 4:32–5:2).” (Gospel Transformation Bible)
What a great reminder of the ultimate priority in the life of a follower of Jesus Christ – love! Are you loving God with your whole being? Are you loving your neighbor as yourself? What practical ways is that being demonstrated in your life? Read more…