As the Scriptures say…22
The Manner of Love
Behold, what manner of love the Father has bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world does not know us because it did not know Him (1 John 3:1)
Behold
- Attention must be paid
- Focus must not be divided
- Both heart and mind must be widely open to perceive
What manner of love the Father has bestowed upon us
- The source of love is none other than the Father
- The Father of the Lord Jesus
- The Father of us all who are in Christ
- The receipts of this love of God the Father
- The Lord Jesus
- All believers
- How does this come about?
- The Father has given this love to us
- The Father has bestowed this love upon us through Jesus His beloved Son
- The manner of love
- On the Father’s side:
- By giving us His only begotten Son (John 3:16)
- By allowing His beloved Son (the Lamb of God) to die on behalf of us (Cf. Romans 5:8)
- On the beloved Son’s side:
- By giving up Himself for us (Mark 10:45)
- By dying the death of the curse (Galatians 3:13)
- On the Father’s side:
That we should be called the sons of God
- The whole underlying purpose is that we become children of God
- God the Father has given us the right to become His children in Christ (John 1;12)
- God the Father has adopted us as His children in and through the Holy Spirit (Rom .8:15-17)
Therefore the world does not know us…
- There is a world of distinction between the sons of God and others
- The world representing the not-sons of God will not recognise us nor will they reconcile themselves to us
- The obvious reason is that they do not know the Lord Jesus as they should
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