“For God so loved the world, that He gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” In this sermon I consider that of the Holy Lord’s gospel. I consider of how the world was given the gospel of Jesus Christ by considering of the grace and love of God. Next, I look at who the Gospel was given to; the lost. I then reconsider the unimaginably great love of God that is truly awesome.
My consideration is that there is no greater love that exists than the Father has for His only begotten Son. Consider again Scripture that teaches that God gave his only begotten Son that the lost could believe upon him and be saved, receiving eternal life. The Bible teaches that God is love. It is by the grace of love who is God that we can hear of the great and glorious gospel of Jesus Christ.
That which was lost and is now saved by His grace and love cannot measure either his grace or love. We cannot fully fathom the great love God has loved the world with that the lost can be saved. The Bible teaches that the Lord is mysterious with respect to His creation and that His depths are unsearchable. I take it that the measure of His great love that gave the world His Son’s gospel will be an awe-inspiring mystery for the believer for all times.
The bride of Christ, that which had been lost but is now saved by His grace and love, has been given the first and greatest commandment to obey and that commandment being that it is to love the bridegroom, the Christ, with all it’s heart, mind, soul, and strength. Christ is the bride’s first love and without Him the bride would have no capacity to love at all. The worthy Christ is the Creator and has loved the unworthy sinning mankind with a love so great that the saint has eternal reasons to love back with passion.
A man without belief upon Christ is not a saint and therefore not part of the Christ’s bride but rather is wicked and lost and under the dominion of Satan. The lost are in danger of eternal destruction. The cost of not believing in Jesus Christ is an ultimate cost and the fate the lost who die in their sins go to is a fate too terrible for the mind of man to construct or fully fathom. The sinner without the saviour, who he is in need of, in and of himself is the child of Satan and is worthy of a fate of eternal death which is hell.
There is no good in the lost. The Christ taught that only God is good and that He and the Heavenly Father are one.The lost are after the image of their father, who is the Devil, and who is a liar, murderer, and thief. This is some of what Satan is with respect to His Creator. Whereas Jesus Christ is the truth, there is no truth in the lost or the Devil. Satan is an abomination unto God. The Bible reveals Satan’s children to be known as the children of wrath.
By Christ’s grace, love, suffering, and victories that which had been of the abominable has been transformed into that of the bride of life. The bride has the God given capacity to love the truth above all. The saints in light have eternal reasons to exist with passion for their Lord and to love Jesus Christ, who is the truth and King of kings, with all of their persons.
The Holy Father’s Son, the Son of man, fulfilled God’s law while living as the lamb without blemish. His life he lived was sinless. He walked amongst the lost and helped them come to believe upon Him. The Bible teaches that, “For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.” Among His works, the Christ himself healed the sick, befriended evil men, such as his disciples, and taught truth to the lost. He battled against wickedness and delivered humans from demons.
Upon reconsidering the love of God, I consider again that the God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believeth upon him shall not perish. With love amongst the worthy, God the Father and His only begotten Son, being unthinkably great, how great is the love of the gospel for the lost? For the believer, who is saved by Christ, the love of the gospel is unimaginably great as well. The gospel of Jesus Christ is truly worthy of being believed and kneeling in awe of.
