1 John 4:10-11

Peace to you my brothers and sisters. 

Today’s Bible Verse: 1 John 4:10-11

Verse Text: [1 John 4:10-11 KJV] Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son [to be] the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.

So, what is love?

Love is suffering pain and humiliation on a cross and dying for people that don’t even understand you so that you can be resurrected to defeat death so that these people, your children, can join you in everlasting life and be with you forever. That is the ultimate definition of love and that is what Jesus did for us.

[Galatians 5:22-23 KJV] But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

Love is one of the fruits of His Holy Spirit.

Propitiation is atonement and through the act of Jesus we have the atonement, payment, for our sin.

In our bodies we cannot approach the love Jesus has for us. The best we can do is be with and protect the ones we love. We were meant to be kingly priests and priests serve and protect. Our job is to serve and protect our family, the ones we love.

As you all may be aware, the family is under attack by many agendas today and we need to turn that around.

Our children are under attack in the indoctrination centers we call schools. The state should not be in the education business; education should be in the home. Strangers should not be taking care of our children; we should be taking care of our own. Defund education and bring it back to the home where it belongs. And, by defund, I do not mean shifting that money someplace else; leave it in the pockets of the taxpayers.

The family is under attack by the government. There are so many ways government is trying to tell people how to run their family. The government is trying to redefine family into something grotesque.

People need to get involved. Now, I know that many will be saying “Jesus is coming soon, and He will rapture us away from all of this”, but suppose the rapture is delayed for twenty years or more? After all, it has not happened in the last two thousand years. Meanwhile you are sitting on your hands and doing nothing. Loving your neighbor means doing things to help them and your help has never been needed more than now.

[John 14:16 KJV] And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;

That comforter is a helper called His Holy Spirit and we need to call on His Holy Spirit to help us love our neighbor. We must call on His Holy Spirit to help us get back involved and turn this society back into the place He wants it to be. Through His Holy Spirit working in us, His church, we can make things better until He comes.

In the movie The Longest Day there was a group of soldiers assigned to hold a bridge until relieved; their orders were hold until relieved. That is our job as well; hold until relieved by Jesus. Hold does not just mean hang on to, we can make things better and with the help of His Holy Spirit that is what we must do until He returns to relieve us.

Go forth and spread this good news.

I hope this has been a blessing to you. May the rest of your day be blessed. Walk Torah-ly. Peace.