I John 4:9-10This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Ephesians 2:3-5All of us ...
As a kid I remember being terrified of that verse, praying full of fear that God would make me a living sacrifice, picturing myself going up in flames. I didn’t notice that the key word in that phrase is LIVING. Living, breathing, working, serving. Presenting our bodies to Him, putti...
I know that I certainly never could. And yet that’s the staggering power of God’s love. It is so deep, so wide, so powerful, that it motivated him to sacrifice his Son on your behalf. God’s love for you is so far beyond your comprehension! 7. 1 John 3:1 See what kind of ...
There is a commercial that has been running on TV recently. A woman is looking carefully at a wall covered with dozens of different paint chip samples. She is trying to figure out what color would look best in her family room. As she is trying to make her decision her husband walks in...
we be able to be brought back to Him and His Father – God and Jesus are wanting all of us to love others with that same kind of intensity and loyalty – even to the point of being willing to sacrifice our life to save someone else’s life if that kind of need should ever arise....
22Let them sacrifice thank offerings and tell of his works with songs of joy. 23Some went out on the sea in ships; they were merchants on the mighty waters. 24They saw the works of the Lord, his wonderful deeds in the deep.
Bible verses about loving through sacrifice Love your enemies “But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he is kind to the ungrateful and the evil.” Luke 6:35 (ESV) To lov...
The debt could only be satisfied by sacrifice, the blood of Jesus on the cross paying the cost in full. This ‘giving of his son’ would become the measure by which love is measured. As the cross grew nearer, Jesus described its heights, the personal challenge for his followers, telling...
This will be known as the “War of Armageddon”, which will culminate in the latter stages on the likewise called Armageddon plains of Israel (see the Holy Bible). It is also imperative for people to know this revelation, because I want to emphasize how vitally important it is to always ...
No matter how devoted the characters are to one another, in real life or in the movies, it takes a very special kind of love to sacrifice one’s own life for. But that’s exactly what God did for us… ”For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever...