(#64, Hinkley/Yermo/Kelso, 1951; Imperial, 1954)
Read 1 John 3:1-3.
The best and most wonderful word in heaven and earth is
LOVE, for God is love!
Love is the deep desire to give itself for the loved. Love finds it's joy in imparting all that it
has to make the loved happy. This is
what God has done for us.
A Moravian missionary went to preach the Gospel to the
slaves in the West Indies. Failing as a
free man to reach them, he became a slave himself and went with them to their
toils in the field and into all their hardships and sufferings. Then they listened to him.
This illustrates Christ's love for us. He entered into all our toils and sufferings,
even death, for us. (1 John 4:9-10).
I. The Love Bestowed Upon Us. Eph. 3:17-19
We can't measure God's love but indication is given as to
the greatness of God's love.
His love is truly sacrificial, unchangeable and unselfish.
A story is told of a King in Africa, offended by one of his
slaves, who determined to put the slave to death. As arrows were placed in the bowstrings, an
Englishman standing nearby pled for the slave but to no avail; the King did not
want Ivory or gold but blood. As the
arrow flew the Englishman jumped in front of the slave, taking the arrow for
him. As he removed the arrow and blood
flowed from his arm, he said to the King, "Here is blood; I give it for
this poor slave."
Think of the wounds in the hands, feet and side of Jesus,
there because of His great love for us.
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