SMBC EASTER EXPRESSION 2016 X

LET US CONSIDER THE VOLUNTARY NATURE OF THE LORD'S ACTIONS WHILE WALKING THE ROAD TO CALVARY. LOVE MOTIVATED HIM. HUMILITY BROUGHT HIM OBEDIENCE UNTO DEATH.EVEN THE DEATH OF THE CROSS.
BUT HOW HEARTBROKEN  HE MUST HAVE BEEN  BECAUSE OF THE TREACHERY OF JUDAS .

MOST OF OUR  TROUBLES COME UNEXPECTED. TEMPTATIONS, HIDDEN SNARES , OFTEN TAKE US UNAWARES.

BUT THE LORD JESUS KNEW WHAT WAS FACING HIM.

RIGHTEOUNESS LOOKED INTO THE CUP AND SAW THE DREGS OF 

UNRIGHTEOUSNESS.

HOLINESS PEERED AT SINFULNESS IN THAT CUP

AND YET IN LOVE JESUS MARCHED ON.

DESPITE DECEIT BY JUDAS, DENIAL OF HIS RIGHTS BY THE PHARISEES

DESPISEMENT BY THE ROMANS

DISAVOWAL BY SIMON PETER

DESERTION BY THE DISCIPLES

THE LORD JESUS SO LOVED US THAT HE WAS WILLING TO GO ON

AND SUFFER , BLEED AND DIE AS A RANSOM FOR ALL

JOHN 18: 1-14     

SMBC EASTER 2016 EXPRESSION Y

 CHRISTIANS NEED TO BE MORE FULLY AWARE OF THE LORD'S LOVE FOR THEM.

WHEN WE ARE IGNORANT OF HIS LOVE OR NEGLECT IT, FELLOWSHIP IS BROKEN

 AND WE DO NOT ABIDE AS CHRIST DESIRES. WHAT A FANTASTIC CONCEPT HERE

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GOD THE FATHER LOVES US WITH A LOVE LIKE THAT HE HAD FOR HIS SON JESUS 

CHRIST.

WE SHOULD ABIDE IN THAT LOVE.

ONE WAY TO ACHIEVE THIS GOAL IS THROUGH  OBEDIENCE.

WE SHOW WE ABIDE  IN THE SAVIOR'S LOVE FOR US WHEN WE OBEY HIM. AS THE 

LORD JESUS CHRIST KEPT THE FATHER'S COMMANDMENTS AND ABIDES IN THE 

FATHER'S LOVE, SO WE, BY OUR OBEDIENCE  CAN ABIDE IN CHRIST'S LOVE.

WHOLE HEARTED OBEDIENCE TO THE WORD OF JESUS CHRIST RESULTS IN A 

JOY THAT IS FRESH AND INEXHAUSTIBLE.

IT IS THE JOY OF ABIDING LOVE

ABIDING IN CHRIST LOVE, CHRIST ABIDING IN YOU


WILL YOU BE THE ONE???