Devotion 1 John 5:1-3 Only One Thing – The Love Of God

1 John 5:1-3 – Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves His child as well. 2 This is how we know that we love the children of God: by loving God and carrying out His commands. 3 In fact, this is love for God: to keep his commands. And His commands are not burdensome,

Matthew 22:37-40 – Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”

1 John 4:7-8 – Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.  8 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

John 14:15 – If you love me, keep my commands.

Micah 6:8 – He has shown You, O man, what is good; And what does the Lord require of You but to do justly, to love mercy, And to walk humbly with Your God.

How to have sure salvation is this: love God.  Family and Friends, God has not made it complicated, but simple.  God the Father sent Jesus His Son to pay the full and complete price for the sins of every person who has ever lived (John 3:16).  He did this to make a way back into to eternal and harmonious living with Him.  He sacrificed His Son because there was no other way.  He who knows all knows this to be true.  So God declared salvation, that is to be pulled from the highway to hell, we must come through Jesus.  The condition is to love the Father by loving the Son.  That’s it.  If we love God with all that we are then His love will live in us via the Holy Spirit taking residence within.  If we love God then His love lives within and transforms us.  That being so, having His love within, we will love each other.  Not only that, His love will cleanse us from sin because if we truly love Him then we will continue to have sin weeded from us because loving God means obeying Him.  We want to please Him who first loved us (1 John 4:19).

How to live eternally with God.  Love God only through Jesus.   If we truly love we obey God and love others.  Truly loving God means that increasingly we act with justice for all, we are merciful to others because we have received mercy, and we know who forgave us (though we did not deserve His mercy and grace), that being God Almighty the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.  Knowing that it is only by the love of God that we have received grace we are humbled.  Love is the key.  If one truly knows God’s love, then one knows that His love is the complete answer.  Praise God!  Live in the love of God and love each other!  That’s it.  Family, don’t listen to any heretical additional requirements.  Love.  God’s love.  That is what has and does save us.  Praise our God who loves us so!  Praise God!

Psalm 150:6 – Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.  Praise the Lord!

Micah 7:7 – But as for me, I watch in hope for the Lord, I wait for God my Savior; my God will hear me. 

Micah 6:8 – He has shown You, O man, what is good; And what does the Lord require of You but to do justly, to love mercy, And to walk humbly with Your God.

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