Amen for that Drew.
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----- Original Message -----
From: Drew B Parker
To: [email protected]
Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2008 6:05 PM
Subject: {dbilg} Re: Daily Bread
I have always heard that Agape love means giving love without expecting
anything in return.
----- Original Message -----
From: Carleeta Manser
To: [email protected]
Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2008 2:42 PM
Subject: {dbilg} Daily Bread
When the Bible says that “God is love,” the word in the original is AGAPE.
A different idea than what we think of when we think of “love.”
Our natural idea of love is to love nice people, beautiful people, people
who are good to us.
The idea of loving a bad person, ugly, mean, even an enemy, is foreign to
our thinking; it seems to be impossible, and in fact, such love is indeed
impossible for us humans to experience.
We would never have known about it, never imagined its existence, until God
made it known to us.
All through the Old Testament, this love (agape) was revealed for the Lord
never kept it away from us; but its real revelation came when God’s own people,
the Jews, grabbed His only Son, Jesus, and took Him to a place where they made
a cross and nailed Him onto it to kill Him; thus they hated Him.
We may say, “Oh, I have nothing to do with that; I would never have joined
them in killing God’s only Son! I am a better person than to have done that!”
But we don’t know ourselves; we think that we are righteous, but the Bible
says that “There is none righteous, no, not one; there is none that
understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. They are all gone out of
the way, ... there is none that doeth good, no, not one” (Rom. 3:10-12).
“The carnal mind is enmity against God” (Rom. 8:7), and the word “carnal”
means natural, of the flesh, the kind of mind that we all have by nature. It
may be dressed up in good clothes and we may make it seem like we’re good, but
our natural self is at odds with God.
None of us can say, “I wasn’t there when they killed God’s only Son. I had
nothing to do with it.”
In a corporate sense, we were ALL there; the carnality of our human mind
that we all have by nature is basic enmity against God and against His
righteousness. Don’t ever say that you are too good to have taken part in the
crucifixion of Christ, for you don’t know your own self. Someone very wise has
said that “the books of heaven record the sins that we would commit if we had
the opportunity.”
The crucifixion of Christ is the sin of the whole world; and we have not
even begun to repent until we include that sin in our personal guilt.
But this is not Bad News; it is Good News to confess this truth, because
the Son of God pleaded with His Father while they were driving spikes in His
wristbones and anklebones, “Father, forgive them; for they know not what they
do” (Luke 23:34).
John says, “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us
our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness” (1 John 1:9, 10).
But please note: if we don’t confess our sin in the crucifixion of Christ,
we lose the joy of that forgiveness and cleansing!
That’s why confessing the truth of our involvement in the crucifixion of
Christ is Good News.
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