"I have loved you with an everlasting love......."
"And in the end remain these three: faith, hope, and love, and the greatest of these is love."
"And this is my commandment that I give unto you, that you love one another, as I have loved you."
"Love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your mind, all your soul, and all your strength, and love you neighbor as yourself; on this do all the law and the prophets rest."
“All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”
"I have the power to lay down my life, and I have power to raise it up again on the third day."
"I and my Father are One"
"God is Love..."
"Believe on him whom He has sent."
"I that speak unto you am He."
"I am the Way, the Truth and the Life; no man comes to the Father but through Me.
"I am the alpha and the omega, the beginning and the end."
"And this is the will of my Father, that of those He has given me, I should lose none of them."
"And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven... and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other."
CHRISTIAN APOLOGETICS AND
THE GOOD NEWS TODAY
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"Christian apologetics (Greek: ἀπολογία, "verbal defence, speech in defence") is a field of Christian theology which aims to present a rational basis for the Christian faith, defending the faith against objections." - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gospel of John, Chapter 3, Verses 16-21 (NIV)
(16) For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
17) For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.
(18) Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.
(19) This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil.
(20) Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed.
(21) But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what they have done has been done in the sight of God.
And that rational basis, that reason, is love...
... leading to light, life, truth, redemption, and holiness.
"Be holy for I am Holy."
"God is love."
Holy Bible, New Testament, The Gospel of John, Chapter 1, New International Version
The Word Became Flesh
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning. 3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. 4 In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
6 There was a man sent from God whose name was John. 7 He came as a witness to testify concerning that light, so that through him all might believe. 8 He himself was not the light; he came only as a witness to the light.
9 The true light that gives light to everyone was coming into the world. 10 He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him. 11 He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him. 12 Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God— 13 children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God.
14 The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.
15 (John testified concerning him. He cried out, saying, “This is the one I spoke about when I said, ‘He who comes after me has surpassed me because he was before me.’) 16 Out of his fullness we have all received grace in place of grace already given. 17 For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. 18 No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is himself God and is in closest relationship with the Father, has made him (the Father) known.
Love's Got Everything To Do With It!
HE CAME TO TEACH THE WORLD LOVE, LIGHT AND LIFE! AND TO SAVE IT! AND TO MORE FULLY REVEAL THE LOVE AND TRUTH AND CHARACTER AND HOLINESS AND SPIRIT OF HIS FATHER, OUR CREATOR!
Holy Bible: New Testament: The Epistle of Paul The Apostle To The Galatians: Chapter 5, Verses 22-23, New International Version
"But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law."
Yes, Love's Got 'Everything To Do With It!'
Holy Bible, New Testament, The First Epistle of Paul The Apostle To The Corinthians, Chapter 13, New International Version
1 If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.
4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. 11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. 12 For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
And The Son Of God Proclaims The Vine (Of Love) And It's Branches
Holy Bible: New Testament: The Gospel of John, Chapter 13, Verses 1-17, New International Version
1 “I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. 2 He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunesa so that it will be even more fruitful. 3 You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you. 4 Remain in me, as I also remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me.
5“ I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing. 6 If you do not remain in me, you are like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned. 7 If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. 8 This is to my Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.
9“ As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. 10 If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love. 11 I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete. 12 My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. 14 You are my friends if you do what I command. 15 I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you. 16 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you. 17 This is my command: Love each other.
If They Hate You... When The World Hates The Disciples
Holy Bible: New Testament: The Gospel of John, Chapter 13, Verses 18-25, New International Version
18 “If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first. 19 If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you. 20 Remember what I told you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also. If they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours also. 21 They will treat you this way because of my name, for they do not know the one who sent me. 22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin. 23 Whoever hates me hates my Father as well. 24 If I had not done among them the works no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin. As it is, they have seen, and yet they have hated both me and my Father. 25 But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law: ‘They hated me without re-a-son.’ (ir[e]-ra-tion-all-y?)
The Work of the Holy Spirit
Holy Bible: New Testament: The Gospel of John, Chapter 13, Verses 26-27, New International Version
26 “When the Advocate comes, whom I will send to you from the Father — the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father — he will testify about me. 27 And you also must testify, for you have been with me from the beginning.
"And with that he breathed on them and said, 'Receive the Holy Spirit.' "
"But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you."
"If you love me, keep my commandments. And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it sees him not, neither knows him: but you know him; for he dwells with you, and shall be in you. "
"God is love."
CHRISTIAN APOLOGETICS TODAY
Serving God in faith, hope, and love.
CHRISTIAN APOLOGETICS TODAY
Serving God in faith, hope and love.
"... because He was before me... grace and truth came through Jesus Christ."
CHRISTIAN APOLOGETICS TODAY
Serving God in faith, hope, and love.
Love's Got Everything To Do With It!
The Best Defences of The Christian Faith Are "The Word of God" And "The Gift Of Faith" And "The Fruit Of The Spirit" Themselves.
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