[스크랩] God loves us

God loves us

John 3:16

 

We want to receive love from other people. We like to hear that "I love you." In the world many people like the word called love. Therefore the word called love often used in novels, dramas and movies. Even though we like the word of love, it is difficult that we love other people. Indeed, the word called love that people say in the world is just for humanity. It is the love between parents and children, between brothers and sisters, and between teachers and students. We can't love other people who we don't have relationship with. But the Bible says different love from the world. It is God's love.

 

1. Love of God

 

God loves us

 

The Bible said that "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son," The world that God loved is the place where we live in. The world include our presence. Therefore we can say that "God loves us of the world." Where is the world we belong to?

 

In Ephesians 2:2-3, "in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our sinful nature and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature objects of wrath."

 

In the world, we don't try to know God, and we disobey God's word, and we follow our desires. That is why God burst with wrath and judge us. But God so loved us that He gave his one and only Son. Sometimes our parent can't love us. Sometimes wives can't love their husbands who they loved and married. We don't know God, but God knows and loves us.

 

We show interest in love. Other people aren't interested in us. But God showed interest in us. When did God be interested in us?

 

In Ephesians 1:4, "For God chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight."

 

God chose us before the creation. God chose us before we were born in the world. We didn't know God, but God knew and chose us. If God chose us before we were born, in fact, it is that God loved us. David said about it that "From birth I have relied on you ; you brought me forth from my mother's womb. I will ever praise you."(Psalms 71:6)

 

And people of the world love other people when they have relationship with them, but they don't love other people when they don't have relationship with them. Further they hate each other. But God love us until the end.

 

"Jesus knew that the time had come for him to leave this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he now showed them the full extent of his love."(John 13:1)

 

God gave his one and only Son for us

 

God's love for us is different with people's love. People's love is conditional while God's love is unconditional where in we can't compare with other love. Love needs sacrifice. There are people who even though say "I love you", but they don't accept what other people want. Their love is not true love. It's not love but lust. If we love other people, even though we want something, we need to give what they want. That is a true love.

 

God loved us so. He sacrificed for us. He wanted to deliver us from our sins. The sacrifice is Jesus Christ who died on the Cross. God's love is that he gave his one and only Son to die on the Cross. This is God's love that God so loved us. When God sent Jesus Christ to the world, we were sinners. In fact, we were sinner from birth, because of the sin of Adam who was our forefather. And we will be judged before God, and we will receive a punishment forever. But God sacrificed Jesus to die on the Cross instead of us.

 

"But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinner, Christ died for us."(Romans 5:8)

 

This is God's love. Who will give their son to die for other people? God so loved us that he gave his lovely one and only Son Jesus to die on the Cross instead of us. This is the best love that God showed us.

 

"He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all - how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?"(Romans 8:32)

 

2. Reason that God loves us

 

For we get eternal life

 

When we love other people, there is a reason. Example, when she is beautiful, or she is his ideal type, or she is sure that he loves her, they can love each other. But when God loved us, how about us? What is beautiful in us that God recognizes? What is ideal type that God acknowledges? Did you confess that you only love and follow God? No! Instead, we disobeyed God, and we did not try to know God, and we did just wicked things that God hated, so that we were by nature objects of wrath. But yet, God loved us.

 

Why did God so love us? What reason is that God loved us? It is that God make us to believe in Jesus Christ and to have eternal life. Those who believe in Jesus Christ shall not perish but have eternal life.

 

In the beginning when God created the world, he created Adam and his wife according to his image. God put Adam in Eden and he wanted to associate with Adam. There are good trees and the life tree which get the eternal life in Eden. If Adam stretch out his hands, he can always get fruits of good tree and life tree. If Adam eat the fruit of life, he can have eternal life, and he can live with God forever.

 

By the way, there was the tree of knowledge of good and evil in the middle of Eden. In Genesis 2:17, God told Adam that "But you must not eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die."

 

But Adam and his wife did not obey God's word, but ate the fruit according to their desire. As a result, they were cast out from Eden and lived in curse and died. Adam and his wife were cast out from the way of the tree of life which have eternal life. Adam and his wife were cast out from Eden, because they wanted to be God and disobeyed God's word and were judged before God. They lost the chance to have eternal life, because they disobeyed God according to their desire. Instead, they were cursed and died and will perish. And all Adam's descendants will perish.

 

But God planed to deliver us when we betray and disobey Him. God said that he who comes as woman's descendant delivers the world. Adam's descendants will all die, because we were born as a sinner. And after death, we must received God's judgment and punishment. But God don't want that we will die because of our sins. God sent his son Jesus into the world and made him to die on the Cross for us. God loved us who were his enemies, and made Jesus to die to deliver us. Because God wanted us to live with him.

 

"This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him."( 1 John 4:19)

 

God loved us for God give us the chance to have eternal life. The chance is that we believe in Jesus Christ. Those who believe in Jesus Christ shall not perish but have eternal life. God's will is that we believe in Jesus Christ and have eternal life.

 

"For my Father's will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day."(John 6:40)

 

3. Blessing of man who have eternal life

 

What is eternal life?

 

What is eternal life that God wanted to give us? Eternal life doesn't just mean that we live forever, but it means that we live with God. Eternal life is that we know God and Jesus Christ who is life. When we live with God, we will live forever, because God is life.

 

"Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent"(John 17:3)

 

Eternal life is that we know God and Jesus Christ. At this, knowing God means what we know him through our experiences. It is that we live in Jesus. If we don't live in him, we don't know him. When we live with him we can know him. Eternal life is that we know Jesus and live with him. Because Jesus himself is eternal life.

 

"We know also that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true - even in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life."( 1 John 5:20).

 

life style of one who have eternal life

 

How do we know God's love and live with him? God loved and gave us eternal life, because he wanted to live with us, as like parents live with their children. How do we live with god?

 

First, we need to have a place with God, to live with Hom, as like children live with their parent. Of course, God's house means the Kingdom of God, and also it means God's presence in the world. There is church where we have service every Sunday, and a place where we pray to communicate with God. But the most important is that we live in God's presence. It is that we recognize that God is with us everywhere. When we meet friends, or in the school or in the workshop, we must say and do in God's presence.

 

Second, we need to have a time with God, whatever we do. When we read or watch or eat meal or talk with our family, we need to spend time thinking about God is there. At that time, we can't do just what we want. We need to do what God wants. When we spend time, we recognize that Jesus is with us, and we will know how Jesus loves us. When we try to live with Jesus, we will know that we love Jesus.

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