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Free Love Pt 5
“And in the morning, rising up a great while before day, he went out, and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed.” Mark 1:35 Our challenge is to come to Christ every morning, receive a full day’s measure of God’s selfless love, and give every drop of it away freely by the end of day. Are you…
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Free Love Pt 4
“Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience. Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in…
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Free Love Pt 3
“The Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him who hears say, Come. And let him who is thirsty come, and let whoever will take the water of life freely.” Rev 22:17 Suppose it were possible to access God’s free love and use it. Anyone who could get access would have an endless supply…
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Free Love Pt 2
“You have searched me, Lord, and you know me. You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. You discern my going out and my lying down: you are familiar with all my ways. Before a word is on my tongue you, Lord, know it completely.” Psalm 139:1-4 NIV…
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Free Love
“… freely ye have received, freely give.” Matt 10:8 The term “free love” has a lot of meanings in our world. Today free love can refer to the sexual revolution and experimentation of the 1960s and 70s, or to the earlier 19th century social movement focused on freeing romance, marriage, sexuality, and birth control from…
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This Love, Pt 2
“Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.” 1 John 4:11 RSV The love of the Godhead for each other is full, complete, selfless, empowering, and freeing all at once. They would do anything for each other to support their growth In the marriage relationship Christians are to illustrate the…
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This Love
“In this is love, not that we loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the expiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.” 1 John 4:10-11 RSV Have you ever wondered what selfless love means or what it looks like?…
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All the Fullness
“For in him dwells all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.” Colossians 2:9 This verse is amazing to me. It’s a mystery of the highest kind. In Christ’s human body dwells all the fullness of God. All the love, the wisdom, and the power of the Father, the Word, and the Spirit, are at…
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Selfless and Unified
There is no fear in love. But perfect love casts out fear because fear has torment. 1 John 4:18 What is love? Desire does what feels good for self in the moment, while love does what is best for another. Beyond that, selfless love does what’s best for another at any cost to the self.…
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Face the fear
…Perfect love casts out fear, because fear has torment… 1 John 4:18 My heart is recovering. God had to break my heart in order to call out my fear. Then I had to look at it until I could see it from God’s perspective: tragic and painful, but small. There is no fear bigger than…
