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Unfailing Love
||April 03, 2009|220 reads
 

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Prentiss United Methodist Church
April 03, 2009

My theology centers around the unconditinal love of God that made all this possilbe. He had more to say about unmerited love than any other subject. When James and John wanted to call fire down from heaven to destroy the Samritan village, it was Jesus who said I came not  to destroy but to save. John so  loved the world (not based on what the world deserved) but that kind of unconditional love is the nature of who God is. All of his being and works are based on this concept. Everypage of the New Testament is embellished with this mysterious love. We love because God first loved us. I have come to seek and save, he said. That kind of love was not a man made add on: It is at the heart and soul of the nature of Christ. Eph. 2:8 says that it is  not works that save us but grace by faith extended by the simple fact that God loves us with no strings attached. Love and hugs.
Pastor Chuck
pandabear
April 03, 2009
Oh yes, His unfailing Love - how wonderful!!! Praise the Lord.  Blessings, Liz.
Keeping The Faith
April 03, 2009
Amen. Thank you for sharing this. Blessings,
Sugg
April 03, 2009
Ah, Beautiful...His Love...something I have a hard time grasping...but I'm so thankful for! Be blessed sweet Liz Bell!
Liz Bell
April 03, 2009
Thank you Pastor Chuck, Pandabear,Lynne and sugg for you comments   God Bless
Prentiss United Methodist Church
April 03, 2009
Most of you already know that I am in the camp of God's unconditional love. It is the premise or basis for Christ willingness to suffer and die on our behalf. Because of it Salvation cannot be earned or obtained by even the best of works. There is so little we can count on these days, but His love is  the one thing we can. If it were conditional, then all of us would continue to be lost in our perpetual efforts to be saved by the Law that not even the Jews were able to keep. Unconditional means to St. Paul in Romans 8:28, that nothing can separate us from it. I am glad that you my sister across the sea have such "Christian Assurance." Blessed Assurance Jesus is mine, O what a fore taste of glory Divine. Love yall....Bro. Chuck
Prentiss United Methodist Church
April 03, 2009
PS. I would love to expand my friendship with Sugg and Lynn. I offer it in Christ. If they are friends with Liz, that is convincing enough for me. Blessings Pastor Chuck
Mike n Laura
April 03, 2009
Hey Liz from the UK, this is awesome!! (Great comments too!)
Joey     R
April 03, 2009
Liz, thank you... for writing this so very well.  I'm utterly lost in His love.
Liz Bell
April 04, 2009
Aww thanks friends I know that God in His infinite love for us which began before creation gave His only beloved son to pay the price for us and to be the means of appeasing God's wrath for a sin cursed world.
The Spirit has been laying this much on my mind of late perhaps I am to be made aware just how much Jesus had to pay for my sin I will never know just what pain and suffering He went through but all that I can say is
Lord Jesus I thank you from the bottom of my heart for dying in my place Amen