IT IS ABOUT TIME -WE MUST SPEAK OF THE GOODNESS OF JESUS
It is about time we start talking about the goodness of jesus christ in our lives. We need to tell the world how he died to pay for our sins upon the cruel cross. We need to tell the world that without him we would not be here because the law could not save us. What a mighty God we serve.
"When I think of the goodness of Jesus and all that he had done for me, my soul cries out halleljah! thank God for saving grace"
my friends, Jesus loves us so much, even on the cross he begged his father to forgive us because we have no idea of what we are doing. This is why we need to tell people about is goondess toward us.
DID YOU SENT A POST CARD TO JESUS FOR VALENTINE'S DAY? HE SENT YOU ONE, HE GAVE HIS LIFE FOR YOU ON THE CROSS. "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life
for his friends." JOHN 15: 13.
GOD IS EVERYWHERE HE LIVES IN YOU AND ME. HE SEES EVERYTHING THAT MEN DOES IN SECRET PLACES. EACH DAY WE LIVE IS MUCH BETTER THAN THE DAYS WE SUFFERED.
JESUS IS LOVE MY FRIEND. TRUST HIM,HE WILL NEVER FAILS YOU.
John
Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 13. Greater love hath no man than this , etc.]
By these words
our Lord shows, how far love to another should extend, even to
the laying down of our lives for the brethren; which is the highest instance
of love among men;
that a man lay down his life
for his friends ; and in which believers, should not come short of
them; and also his great love to his
people, and explains what he had just said, �as I have loved you�, ( John 13:34 15:12); which in a little time
would be seen, by his laying down his life
for them: for he not only came down from heaven, and laid aside his glory and royal majesty, but he laid down his life;
not his gold and silver,
and the riches of this world, which were all his, but his life;
than which, nothing is dearer to a man, is himself, his all: and besides,
Christ�s life
was not a common one, it was not the life
of an innocent person only, or the
life
of a mere man, but of a man in union with the Son of God; it was the Lord of glory and Prince of life,
who was crucified, and slain; a life
that was entirely at his own dispose; it had never been forfeited by sin, nor could it have been forced away
from him by men
or devils; it was laid down of and by
himself, freely and voluntarily; and that �for�, in the room, and instead of his people, as a
ransom for them; he being their
surety and substitute, and standing
in their legal
place
and stead, he took their sins upon
him, bore the curse of the law,
sustained his Father�s wrath, and
all the punishment due to sin; and so suffered death, the death of the cross;
the just, in the room and stead of
the unjust; the persons for whom be
laid down his life,
are described as �his friends�; not that they were originally so; being enemies and enmity itself to God, when he laid down his life
for them, and reconciled them; they
were not such as had carried themselves friendly, or had shown any love and affection to him, but all the
reverse: but they are so called, because he had chosen them for his friends; he had pitched upon them, and
resolved to make them so; and by
dying for them, reconciled them who
were enemies; and in consequence of
this, by his Spirit and grace, of enemies makes them friends; so that his love in dying for his people, is
greater than any instance of love
among men:
he laid down his life
for his enemies, without any sinister
selfish views, and that freely and voluntarily; whereas among men,
when one man has laid down his life
for others, either they have been very deserving, or he has been forced to it,
or it has been done with the view of popular
applause and vain glory.
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