OCHENTAS PLACE: Christian Love

Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Christian Love

Christian Love
IT speaks in Galatians about love, the fruit of the Spirit being love, joy, peace, gentleness, long suffering, meekness and temperance. The way this writer has put it -- and I think it is very beautiful -- is that joy is love exultant, peace is love in repose, and long suffering is love enduring. It is all love, you see, a gentleness is love in society, and goodness is love in action, and faith is love on the battle-field, and meekness is love at school, and temperance is love in training.Now there are a great many that have got love and they hold the truth. I should have said they have got truth, but they don't hold it in love, and they are very unsuccessful in working for God. They are very harsh, and God cannot use them. Now let us hold the truth, but let us hold it in love. People will stand almost any kind of plain talk if you only do it in love. If you do it in harshness it bounds back and they won't receive it. So what we want is to have the truth and at the same time hold it in love.Then there is another class of people in the world that have got the truth, but they love so much that they give up the truth because they are afraid it will hurt some one's feelings. That is wrong. We want the whole truth anyway. We don't want to give it up, but hold it in love, and I believe one reason why people think God don't love them is because they have not this love. Now God is just what He says He is, and He wants His children to be sincere in love; not to love just merely in word and in tongue, but to love in earnest. -That is what God does. You ask me why God loves. You might as well ask me why the sun shines. It can't help shining, and neither can He help loving, because He is love Himself; and any one that says He is not love does not know anything about love. If we have got the true love of God shed abroad in our hearts we will show it in our lives. We will not have to go up and down the earth proclaiming it. We will show it in everything we say or do.

~truncated and expunged from "Christian Love" by D.L. Moody

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What do We Believe? and What must one do to be "Saved?"

We Believe:

1. The Bible is the verbally inspired Word of God for all man.
2. Christ is the only answer for the sin that lies in this wicked world.
3. Salvation is a gift of God. It is grace freely given to all who believe on Jesus only. "...I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man commeth unto the father, but by me." John 14:6
4. Jesus will one day come back to this earth to take his own. "In my father's house are many mansions ... I go to prepare a place ... And if I go ... I will come again, and recieve you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also." John 14:2-3

Why do I need Salvation and What must I do to be "Saved?"

1. First we must understand that we are all sinners and that sin and unbelief seperates us from God.
Romans 3:23 "For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God."

2. That the wages or the penalty of our sin and unbelief are death.
John 8:24 "I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins."
Romans 6:23 "For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord."

3. Death means eternal seperation for God.
John 3:18 "He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God."

4. But Jesus paid for our sin through his Death, Burial, and Resurection.
1 Corinthians 15:3-4 "...how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures: "

5. And through Him we can eternal life once our days on earth are done.
John 3:16 "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life."

6. It is only in repenting of our unbelief and turning to Christ that we are "saved."
Romans 10:9 "That if thou shall confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shall believe in thine heart that God hath raised Him from the dead, thou shalt be saved."
Romans 10:10 "For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation."

7. How do I know for sure that I am His eternally?
1 John 5:11-13 "And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life. These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God."

So see, this is where we stand! These and many wonderful truths are all found in the one and only true book: The Holy King James Bible.

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Tuesday, January 29, 2008

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