F4S: We tend to love people who are just like us, but not so much those who are not like us. Admit it, it's more challenging for both you and me to show love to strangers. God can through us today.

Monday, July 8, 2019

We tend to love people who are just like us, but not so much those who are not like us. Admit it, it's more challenging for both you and me to show love to strangers. God can through us today.

It’s easy to love people we have an affinity with, but do we show love by word and deed to those who are unlike us? God can help us with that -- He did that. He loves sinners like me. 

Jesus did that.. all the way to the cross and He sill loves us all. It’s a selfless love, aka it’s a giving kinda agape love. 
In this day when the foolishness of rampant promiscuity, antisemitism, and Open-borders in the western nations is so radically vogue and hard-pushed on citizens, we don't have to act or think unwisely in regards to love towards strangers, towards the Jews or towards others too. We can love people biblically by the Holy Spirit's grace.   
The mentality of the world today: "If only the world was just like me. I wish everyone in the world was like me..what a wonderful place that would be!” 
Want God to show you His love today... I mean in a way where you can start a love relationship with Him? This is such a huge love.  
2.  The penalty for our sin is death—For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord (Romans 6:23).  This verse encapsulates the whole Bible in a nutshell.  God is life and light, He is pure and perfect.  His presence cannot abide sin and wickedness; and because we have sinned, we’re separated from Him.  As a result, we’re as dead as a tree limb when sawed from the main trunk.  The word death is used in the Bible in the sense of separation.  Physical death occurs when the soul is separated from the body.  James said, “The body without the spirit is dead” (James 2:26).  Spiritual death occurs when the spirit and body are eternally separated from God by sin.  But this verse goes on to offer hope: God wants to give us a gift—eternal life through Jesus our Lord.
Heaven is going to be so SO cool -- a place for selfless love. It’ll be like an incredibly loving family celebrating and loving each others and of course the One who loved us first, loved us most, loved us til the end.. closer than a brother kinda love and who loves you / us now. 

You can do this -- you can know the Lord well, and then make the Lord well known. He will fill, bless, help, provide for, and empower you. Now is good. Come as you are. This is only the introduction, but I am talking about an ongoing lifestyle of love in the Lord. 


Jesus said, "But I say unto you which hear, Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you, bless them that curse you, and pray for them which despitefully use you. And unto him that smiteth thee on the one cheek offer also the other; and him that taketh away thy cloak forbid not to take thy coat also. Give to every man that asketh of thee; and of him that taketh away thy goods ask them not again. And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise. For if ye love them which love you, what thank have ye? for sinners also love those that love them. And if ye do good to them which do good to you, what thank have ye? for sinners also do even the same. And if ye lend to them of whom ye hope to receive, what thank have ye? for sinners also lend to sinners, to receive as much again. But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil. Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful." Luke 6:27-36