{"id":3423,"date":"2020-04-29T07:20:06","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T07:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arisesister.com\/?p=3423"},"modified":"2020-04-29T12:35:27","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T12:35:27","slug":"gods-covenant-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arisesister.com\/index.php\/2020\/04\/29\/gods-covenant-love\/","title":{"rendered":"God\u2019s Covenant Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>John 3:16 <\/strong><em>New King James Version (NKJV):<\/em><strong><em><sup> \u201c<\/sup><\/em><\/strong><strong><em>For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The nature of God is love and out of His love, He gave His son as a living sacrifice for our sins. The blood of Jesus Christ on the cross confirms the Covenant between God and His people. This blood of Jesus Christ was poured out as a sacrifice to forgive the sins of humanity (Matthew 26:28), and this sacrifice was made from a place of God\u2019s abounding love.<\/p>\n<p>So now, what is our response to the love of God?<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0 expected response to God\u2019s love is believe in Jesus Christ. Everyone who believes in Jesus Christ becomes the son of God.\u00a0 A relationship of love is the kind of relationship God wants with us. God\u2019s love is abundant and it endures forever (Psalm 136). Regardless of everything we do, God\u2019s nature of love remains the same and will never change. What may vary is our response to His love. Will you accept or reject this amazing love of God? The way to accepting this love of God is by believing in our heart that Jesus Christ is our Lord and Savior. Our belief in Jesus Christ is evident in our Love for God, Obedience to His commandments and Faith in Jesus Christ (1 John 5:1-12).<\/p>\n<p>God is a God of love, His Children carry His nature which is love and we are in a Covenant of love. <strong><em>But anyone who does not love does not know God for God is Love (1 John 4:8).<\/em><\/strong> It is God\u2019s will that His children become more and more like Him. His nature is love, so His children are bearers of His love and ought to reproduce this love in our world. The Christian love is summarized like this: Love for God, Love for others and Love for self. In Matthew 22:37-39, <sup>\u00a0<\/sup><em><strong>Jesus replied: <\/strong><\/em><strong><em>\u201cLove the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.\u2019<sup data-fn=\"#fen-NIV-23910a\" data-link=\"[&lt;a href=&quot;#fen-NIV-23910a&quot; title=&quot;See footnote a&quot;&gt;a&lt;\/a&gt;]\">\u00a0<\/sup>This is the first and greatest commandment.<\/em><em> <sup>\u00a0<\/sup>And the second is like it: \u2018Love your neighbor as yourself.\u201d <\/em><\/strong>Loving God leads us to a relationship with Him and out of this relationship, we become more like Him through the help of \u00a0God\u2019s Spirit, &#8211; the Holy Spirit. With the help of the Holy Spirit in us, we can love our neighbors and love ourselves too. The kind of love we possess as Christians is the Christ-like love, the sacrificial love which places others before self. This is the love we are to reflect in our world as our Christian duty. For our love is the sign that we are truly Disciples of Christ. <sup>\u00a0<\/sup><em>\u201c<strong>A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.<\/strong><\/em><em><strong> <sup>\u00a0<\/sup>By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.<\/strong>\u201d<\/em> (John 13:34-35).<\/p>\n<p>God\u2019s love for us is a Covenant love. Let us react positively to this love by believing in Jesus Christ and let this love be reflected in our world through us.\u00a0 Remember, <strong>&#8220;<em>This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.<\/em><em> This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. 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