This week, and she said, I know what
you'll be preaching on, on Sunday, and she
caught me a little by surprise, but I
said, what will I, what, where will I
be preaching from?
She said, First John, and I said, how
did you know that?
She said, that's what you said the last
time we spoke.
We were in First John, and I think
I made the comment that we were going
to stick with that for a little while.
You know, the verse of scripture found in
scripture, his banner over me is love.
You know, that's the one thing that characterized,
or should characterize, Christianity.
I think we'll discover a little better insight
into some of that as we go along.
But if you will, turn to First John,
Chapter 3, and we're going to read the
first three verses, and then we'll read a
few verses in Chapter 4.
First John, Chapter 3, and verse 1, Behold,
what manner of love the Father hath bestowed
upon us, that we should be called the
sons of God, therefore the world knoweth us
not, because it knew him not.
Beloved, now are we the sons of God,
and it doth not yet appear what we
shall be.
But we know that when he shall appear
we shall be like him, for we shall
see him as he is.
And every man that hath this hope in
him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.
Turn over to the fourth chapter, and let's
read a few verses here, starting with verse
7.
Beloved, let us love one another, for love
is of God, and every one that loveth
is born of God, and knoweth God.
He that loveth not knoweth not God, for
God is love.
And this was manifested, the love of God
toward us, because it God sent his only
begotten Son into the world, that we might
live through him, here in his love.
Not that we love God, but that he
loved us and sent his Son to be
the propitiation for our sins.
Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought
also to love one another.
No man hath seen God at any time.
If we love one another, God dwelleth in
us, and his love is perfected in us.
If I know we that we dwell in
him, and he in us, because he hath
given us of his Spirit.
And we have seen and do testify that
the Father sent the Son to be the
Savior of the world.
Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son
of God, God dwelleth in him, and he
in God.
And we have known and believed the love
that God hath to us.
God is love, and he that dwelleth in
love dwelleth in God, and God in him.
Herein is our love made perfect, that we
may have boldness in the day of judgment,
because as he is, so are we in
this world.
There is no fear in love, but perfect
love casteth out fear, because fear hath torment.
He that feareth is not made perfect in
love.
We love him because he first loved us.
If a man say, I love God, and
hateth his brother, he is a liar.
For he that loveth not his brother whom
he hath seen, how can he love God
whom he hath not seen?
And this commandment have we from him, that
he who loveth God love his brother also.
And shall we just bow before the Lord
in another word of prayer?
Our gracious Heavenly Father, as we gather this
morning in this place, we are so thankful
that we have found our way here this
morning, and we are so thankful that we
had the wonderful privilege of sitting around the
table and remembering our Lord Jesus Christ, the
lover of our souls, our Savior.
We are so thankful now that we have
the word of God open, and we can
read and meditate and consider what you have
said to us, that the Spirit of God
will kindly remind us of the truth that
is set before us.
O Lord, we pray for your blessing upon
us.
We remember all those less fortunate.
We think of those that today are found
in hospitals and nursing care homes and so
many other places out across the face of
the earth.
Your dear blood-bought children, and they are
going through trial and testing.
Many are being persecuted.
Many are suffering martyrdom for their faith in
our Lord Jesus Christ.
O God, be merciful.
We ask all of this, giving thanks in
the name of the Lord Jesus.
Amen.
I would like to start with some comments
about what we have read in 1 John
3.
Behold, what manner of love the Father hath
bestowed upon us, that we should be called
the sons of God.
That is a wonderful promise.
In reading in Scripture, we discover that the
greatest of all gifts is love.
You couldn't have a spiritual gift that was
greater than love.
And when we think about so much that
our Lord said about love, that was a
very, very prominent statement in all that our
Lord had to say.
We look at something in a few moments
that reminds us, and some people that I
have used this and commented to them about
the meaning of it just couldn't seem to
grasp the full significance of it.
He says, If you love me, you will
keep my commandments.
And of course, his command is anything that
he asks us to do.
And yet there are those so often believers,
and at some point I think all of
us have to say, Yes, that means me,
too.
Because I know the Lord has asked us
to do this, and I'm going to be
honest and right up front, and I trust
everyone in this room will be, and I
didn't do it.
And I didn't do it.
And I'll grant that if you search your
heart a little bit, you're going to find
out, and no, I didn't do it.
So we need to look in our own
hearts and evaluate just how much love we
have in our hearts for the Lord and
for each other.
In just a moment, we're going to find
out that God has a way of balancing
things.
There's a statement made in scripture that helps
us to see that and see how important
it is.
I love you.
Those are just words.
They're just words.
I don't know how many times perhaps it's
said in the course of every day.
I love you don't mean a thing.
Don't mean a thing.
And I would base that upon what our
Lord has said.
So often the one that says that, there's
absolutely no evidence in their lives that they
love that person.
And let me define love for you as
it's found right here.
As most of you know, at least there
are two words in scripture, agape and phileo.
If you go to that 21st chapter of
John's gospel where the Lord is talking to
Peter, Peter must have felt terrible, and I
feel a sense of sympathy for him.
You know, he denied the Lord three times.
I don't know him.
Can you imagine this man that had said
so boldly, Lord, if it comes to it,
I will die with you or for you?
Yeah, it was a high point.
Emotions had been stirred.
I'll never deny you.
I will die with you and for you
if that's necessary.
And then a little servant girl says to
him, I believe you're one of them.
No, I don't know him.
I don't know him.
Three times over.
And then finally that old cock crow, you
know, and it came back to his mind
before that cock crow, you will have denied
me three times.
Well, you know the account there in chapter
21.
The disciples had been fishing, and as they
came ashore, there was breakfast on the table
waiting for them.
There were fish there.
I think someone said here one time, I
really never have relished the idea of eating
fish for breakfast.
And somebody responded and said, if the Lord
prepares them, I'll eat them.
So you know, there are thoughts like this
that come to our mind.
But Peter, recognizing that it was the Lord,
I think he was very cautious.
I would have been.
Some sense of embarrassment, remembering what he had
done, knowing that the Lord knew what he
had done.
And the Lord had a conversation with Peter.
He said, Peter, do you love me?
Now, the one thing, you know, if you
were in Peter's place, I wish he hadn't
said that.
I wish he hadn't said that.
Do you love me?
Well, Peter used that word which means, I
have a real strong affection for you.
He didn't commit himself.
Evidently, he knew and realized how much more
weight agape has, that word for love.
He realized it carried a whole lot more
weight than had been proven in his life.
Well, that dialogue went on, and the Lord
asked him again.
He asked him three times.
And each time Peter responded, I have a
strong affection, until finally exasperated, he said, Lord,
you know everything.
You know exactly how much I love you.
If this, if this, please don't ask me
anymore.
You know exactly how much love is in
my heart for you.
And you know, before the Lord right now
is looking in each of our hearts, he
knows exactly how much we love him and
what we would sacrifice for him.
He knows.
That's so important.
And sometimes we know, don't we?
We know.
Because as you apply that word, the use
and the way God uses it, it expresses
that deep and constant love and interest of
someone who is perfect.
Now, this is God speaking, and it comes
in the form of a question, perhaps, as
to how much we love him.
We're such unworthy objects of divine love.
We don't deserve it.
Most of us would say that.
No, I'm not deserving of the least of
his love and his devotion.
But by the grace of God, he loves
us.
And you can't take that away.
God so loved the world, he gave his
only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him
should not perish, but have everlasting life.
But this has been proven.
Love can be known only from the actions
it prompts.
Love can only be known by the actions
it prompts.
You love me, Peter?
There's no evidence of it.
You've denied me three times.
You've proven that, indeed, I can't pay much
attention to what you say about love.
What does it take in our lives as
believers in the Lord Jesus Christ to prove
that we love him?
It can be summed up in one word,
obedience, obedience to what he asks us to
do.
You've got a Bible.
You read the Word of God.
Most of us do, and we read it
every day and we pray.
Do we do what he asks us to
do?
I want to prove my love, my Lord.
I want to prove my love.
Love can only be known from the actions
it prompts.
And the love of God is summed up
in the gift of his Son.
We read that in 1 John 4, because
the love we're talking about is a sacrificial
love.
It's not words.
It's not just speaking words.
It is something that will go into action
the very moment that it's in need.
It'll go into action.
That's what divine love is all about.
And I think we can all see that
in what God has done for us.
Isn't it wonderful that he's been loving us
ever since he created all things?
All things were created by him and for
him.
And he loved us even then.
The love of God.
Scripture lets us know that it is immeasurable.
How high is it?
How deep is it?
How wide is it?
You can't measure it.
It's immeasurable.
Greater than anything that you or I can
think of this morning, the love of God
should be overwhelmed by it, should be humbled
by it, because if we make some kind
of measurement in our own lives based upon
our actions, we say, I am ashamed that
I know so little about love.
And I call myself a Christian, I call
myself a believer in Jesus Christ, and God
has given this love gift to the world.
He gave it to the unworthy ones, gave
it for poor sinners, and we've all sinned
and come short of the glory of God.
Oh, this love is something that is deep
and meaningful.
It's something that we need to take into
account as being very important to God.
You know, we've already read several times over
since we started in 1 John, God is
love.
God is love.
And God has acted, and he has proven
without any shadow of doubt that he loves
us.
And you've heard people say this.
Someone in this room may have said it.
Nobody loves me.
That's not true.
God loves you.
You may be pretty accurate as far as
thinking about how many people love you in
terms of people that love you.
But if we narrow it down to people
that really understand what Christian love is all
about, we can be thankful for every Christian
that loves us.
Some of God's people don't even know how
to love.
Keep going on, living in those little shallow
lives that they live in, so often just
eat up with self-interest.
I just do what I want to do
that appeals to me and helps me and
my own.
You don't believe, maybe, that a Christian could
be so confining as far as expressing what
God wants them to express in their lives,
but brother and sister, it's true, it's true.
It's borne out in the lives of many
every day.
But we are loved of God, and that's
not shallow.
I've already told you, you can't measure the
love of God.
It's too deep for you, it's too wide
for you, it reaches too high for us.
The love of God and his banner over
us is love.
I love you.
Lord, I don't feel like I deserve that
kind of love.
Never mind.
I love you, and I have given heaven's
best for you.
Well, let's think in terms of this kind
of love toward God.
If you will, and I'm not going to
have you search in the Scriptures this morning,
just a few.
If you will, turn back in Mark's Gospel
to chapter 12.
So often the Lord was kind of interrogated
by scribes and Pharisees.
On this occasion, one of the scribes came,
and having heard them reasoning together and perceiving
that he had answered them well, asked him,
Which is the first commandment of all?
Well, what's the first one?
Let's do it right.
Let's start at the top.
The Lord Jesus said, The first of all
commandments is, Hear, O Israel, the Lord our
God is one Lord, and thou shalt love
the Lord thy God with all thy heart
and with all thy soul and with all
thy mind and with all thy strength.
This is the first commandment.
How can a man measure his love for
God?
It's got to surpass any other love that
he has for anything else.
I think it just takes a little self
-examination, that's all.
What do you love most in your life?
What comes to mind when you think of
the thing that comes first in your life?
What is it?
And did you say God?
God comes first?
If so, you have fulfilled the first commandment.
But if something else popped up, if something
else popped up, and more than likely most
of us have to confess, sometimes he does
come first.
I'm thankful for those times when the Spirit
of God carefully helps me to see that
I've gotten off track and I confess to
it and get back to loving the one
that deserves to be loved first.
I would say to us men, as far
as our wives are concerned, the Lord Jesus
said that we are to love our wives
even as Christ loved the Church and gave
himself for it.
I'm telling you, brother, she comes pretty close
to the top.
Your wife, yes, your mate.
She comes up there real close and wants
you to love your wives even as Christ
loved the Church and gave himself for it.
Boy, that agape love has got to swing
into action.
She deserves it.
Our Lord said she did.
He wants you to love your wives.
Wives, I don't think that means you.
That means you, too.
You are supposed to love your husbands.
You are supposed to have that love for
your husband.
But this certainly brings things into sharp focus
if you want to know what the first
commandment is.
It is that we love the Lord, thy
God, with all thy heart and with all
thy soul and with all thy mind.
It pretty well covers us.
The soul of a man under the control
of the Spirit of God, and he is
activated to love God the way God deserves
to be loved, sacrificially I will give of
myself.
I will present my body as a living
sacrifice to God.
He comes first.
Yes, he comes first.
My mind, I try to just keep my
mind saturated with thoughts concerning my God.
How wonderful my God!
He is love.
He personifies everything that love really means.
He gives us a good example.
And does he know how to give?
Oh, he gives the best, the most treasured
gift of heaven.
He gives it for the likes of us
poor sinners.
God knows how to love, and he has
proven it to you and me.
Well, if we think about the first commandment,
we could examine it a little closer and
look in at that same passage, and we
could ask ourselves the question about what comes
next.
That's the first commandment.
And just read the next verse.
And the second is like, namely this, I
shall love thy neighbor as thyself.
Love your neighbor as yourself.
There's none other commandment greater than these.
Those two commandments, there's nothing greater than these.
You know that lawyer that asked the Lord
that day, Who is my neighbor?
Who is my neighbor?
Is it the guy that lives next door?
You remember the account that he gave him
of the good Samaritan?
I think living in the world we live
today, it would be safe to say anybody
that needs me and needs my help is
my neighbor.
Do you try to practice that?
I look for an opportunity to practice that
in my own life.
I don't even like to make that reference,
but if I see somebody that has a
need and I can help them, I try
to help them.
You say it can be dangerous trying to
help people today.
I know it.
But I think that's what God wants us
to do.
Don't go around scared all the time and
frightened by this world we live in.
Greater is he that is in us than
he that is in this world.
The devil wants us to be scared and
afraid and hide and not do what God
wants us to do.
Don't let him do it to you.
And perfect love castseth out fear.
Some people are afraid to go out at
night.
Too often I say, I can't do that,
I don't do that, I'm not going to
place myself in harm's way.
Don't you be so sure of that.
If you're still breathing and you're still going
outside, if you're living, you're in harm's way.
You can enlarge on that if you want
to, but you can't escape it.
Brother Henry Janetta, I remember when he found
out he had cancer and his nephew reminded
me the other day over at the hospital,
he said, God has some way of getting
us all home to heaven.
And he'd already told Henry, you're going to
live just a few months.
The doctor said, you won't live long.
And Henry said, God has his way of
getting us all home to heaven.
He's going to get you home one day,
brother and sister, if he doesn't come.
He's going to get you there.
Robert, it ain't going to take long, according
to what the doctor said, six to nine
months and he's going home to heaven.
It's not so bad, is it?
God loves us.
He knows what's best for us.
And he wants to see us manifest that
love that he expects from us.
And he likes to be loved.
God likes to be loved.
Your neighbor would like to have some of
your love, your sacrificial giving of yourself for
him.
He'd like that.
You say, well, they might not even appreciate
it.
So what?
You're doing what God asks you to do.
You help them, and they've never helped you.
They don't even like you.
And you still did something for them.
You manifest the love of God toward them.
Don't you feel good about it when you
do something like that?
I know they don't particularly appreciate this.
They probably said something unkind after I did
what I did.
That's what God wants us to do.
Your neighbor manifests the love of God, the
Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, great
lover.
And in that same chapter in Mark, there's
just a verse there or two, to prove
that it's not ritualistic.
It's not those things that when we think
about loving, that you have to perform some
ritual to prove your love.
In the 35th verse, Jesus answered and said
while he taught in the temple, How say
the scribes that Christ is the Son of
God?
For David himself said by the Holy Ghost,
The Lord said to my Lord, Sit there
on my right hand, till I make thine
enemies thy footstool.
David therefore himself calleth him Lord, and is
he then his son?
And the common people heard him gladly, and
he said unto them in his doctrine, Beware
of the scribes which love to go in
long clothing, and love salutations in the marketplace,
and the chief seats in the synagogues, and
the edimus peruns at feasts, and which devour
widows' houses, and for a pretense make long
prayers.
These shall receive greater damnation.
Well now, what we have to remember is,
it's not necessarily what you're doing.
You bring the best sacrifice you can think
of.
That could happen to the Israelite, of course,
and they could say, You know, I brought
the word there.
And yet if you haven't fulfilled that first
commandment, that second commandment, it don't mean a
thing.
It don't mean a thing.
You've got to get back to basics.
You've got to go check up and find
out just how much you really love the
Lord.
I mentioned about true love, and that kind
of love that's practiced in your life casts
out fear.
You live a fearless life.
God hath not given to us the spirit
of fear.
He doesn't give that to you.
That comes from some other source, and after
all, he has by his Spirit spread abroad
in our hearts.
This is Romans, chapter 5, the love of
God, the love of God.
And the Apostle Paul knew something about that.
He says, The greatest of all gifts is
love.
And then we think further, and we're reminded
that, indeed, if that one thing is lacking
in our lives, the whole thing just seems
to fall apart.
A relationship that is based upon love, this
kind of love, I'd say it's on a
good, solid foundation.
Marriage that starts out on that foundation, including
God.
I used to think about young couples that
I knew, and I admired them so much.
Even when they met and when they were
dating and all of that, they prayed together,
read the Scriptures together, let it be known,
I seek nothing but the mind and the
will of God, and would not dare say
to the other party, I love you, until
they really, really had examined this thing carefully
before the Lord and said, Yes, I do
believe I love you.
I want you to be my wife.
I want you to be my husband.
Man, that's a good, solid foundation to start
out marriage on.
So often marriage starts out, and you don't
spell it L-O-V-E, L-U
-S-T.
That's right.
That's all it is.
One party lusting after another.
She's pretty.
She's beautiful.
I want her.
And there's no seriousness in fulfilling what God's
plans and purposes were for a man and
a woman when they enter into marriage.
And it falls apart.
There's no love in it.
And in that passage that we read in
the 4th chapter of 1 John, we develop
a holy boldness in expressing this love.
As you mature as a believer, and you
should develop some maturity about seeing things as
God sees them, the Apostle Paul uses this
expression several times.
We all feel guilty, I guess, when we
read it.
I would not have you to be ignorant,
brethren, you know, so often.
Well, I don't understand that.
I don't understand.
Why don't you understand it?
He says the Spirit of God as our
teacher, as the one that can enlighten us
concerning the mind and the will of God,
He's not hiding anything from us.
We're just not looking for it.
We're not searching for it.
We're not applying ourselves to wanting to know
the mind and the will of God.
I've got a suspicion sometimes we don't want
to know.
Hey, I'd better stop right there.
I'm going too far.
First thing you know, I'm going to know
exactly what he wants me to do.
I've got my mind made up, I don't
believe I'd like that.
I guarantee there's somebody sitting in this audience
this morning that knows exactly what I'm talking
about.
I don't want to know the will of
God.
You're cutting it too close, brother.
I'm contented just to go along with things
as they are.
I don't want to stir up anything.
I don't want to be brought right there
to the edge and be presenting myself to
God.
And I'm doing it completely.
I'm presenting my body.
I've got all my resources together right here.
It all belongs to you, Lord.
You can do anything you want to with
it.
Just help me to be guided and directed
by the Spirit of God.
Well, I do want to make a few
comments on this passage that we read at
the outset.
Behold, what manner of love the Father hath
bestowed upon us.
What manner?
What kind of love is this?
It's divine love, brother, sister, and it's something
this world doesn't know a thing in the
world about.
They don't know what this is.
They don't know what it is, because only
the Spirit of God getting a hold upon
a man and spreading abroad in the mind,
the heart, and the soul of a human
being can let them know what divine love
is all about and then bear fruit in
your life.
The fruit of the Spirit is love, and
he can do it.
You can't do it.
I can't do it.
But he can do it in and through
us if we just let him.
If we just let him.
That's what it's all about.
What manner of love?
It's divine love.
See, look what God has done in his
love for us.
He gave us a Savior.
I'll start at the top.
I'm starting right where it really is.
He gave us his Son, the Son of
God, the one who knew no sin.
That's the one he gave.
The only one that could pay the penalty
for our sin.
He gave him to us.
Here's my gift to you.
This is proof of my love.
This is divine love in action.
It's giving his Son, the sinless Son of
God, for a poor sinner, a poor old
rotten sinner.
Don't deserve heaven's best.
Couldn't you do something else, modify that a
little bit?
No.
To save your soul is going to take
what God, and God alone will recognize as
a payment for your sin.
And don't become ritualistic and try to do
anything.
Just trust him, believe on the Lord Jesus
Christ, and you'll be saved.
You try to do anything else, some people
say God laughs.
He could laugh at that.
Look at that poor, worthless, hell-bound sinner,
and he's trying to clean up his act.
He's trying to get fit for my presence,
and you don't have to get fit for
his presence because you won't ever get there.
You've got to come just like you are.
You want to clean it up a little
bit, so be it.
But be sure you don't forget the only
way you get saved is trusting him.
I am the way, the truth, and the
life, and no man ever comes into the
presence of God but by me.
I don't care what this world says.
I don't care how beautiful that religion is,
and all of its rituals, and all of
the singing, and things that people think are
so important and so beautiful.
There ain't but one beautiful one, and it
is the Son of God who loved us
and died for us.
God sees beauty in him and what he
accomplished upon the cross.
It's ugly what happened.
Had to be ugly because we contributed all
of our sin to it.
That's what uglied the picture up.
That's what made that cross and the agony
and all those cries that went up from
the Son of God.
That's what made it ugly because he was
paying the penalty for our sin.
He had no sin of his own.
He took your filthy sin and my filthy
sin, and God laid it on him, and
he paid for it.
That's what our adopted love, that's what the
love of God will do.
Do you recognize that?
Oh, what manner of love the Father hath
bestowed upon us.
He's lavished his love upon us.
Beautiful is wonderful.
Now we can be called sons of God.
Someone said one time, I'm a born-again
Christian.
There ain't no other kind.
There are no other kind other than those
that have been born again spiritually.
You claim your spiritual birth.
You celebrate your natural birth.
You celebrate your natural birthday.
Some people have it marked on a calendar.
They know exactly when they were saved, and
they celebrate that day.
I ain't going to celebrate it every day.
I'm saved.
I got up this morning.
I'm saved, man.
I'm ready to go to heaven.
I'm ready to meet God on his terms,
not mine.
My terms stink.
Oh, the love of God, how wonderful, how
beautiful it is.
And now I'm a child of God.
It says sons of God, but we're children
of God.
We're in the family of God, and certainly
in the family of God, love should really
be working among the children of God.
Love for one another.
I try to love everybody.
I know some people I don't like, but
I love them, because God says so.
Love them.
I know a lot of people that don't
like me.
I said, so what?
I just hope you love me.
And if there is ever a need for
you to reach out in love to me,
forget you don't like me, but love me
and minister to me.
That's what I want.
I want the will of God.
Oh, you can like me if you want
to.
It's okay.
But for believers to love each other, love
your neighbor, all of this becomes a real
part of this.
The world doesn't understand this, but I expect
every believer to understand this and to believe
this.
But among God's people, sometimes you can't tell
that they understand this and that they even
believe this.
You can become so prejudiced in your mind
towards somebody just because they don't think the
way you think, do the things you do.
You become prejudiced.
The first thing you know, so what?
So what?
God don't work that way.
The world may do that, but no.
Beloved, now are we, now, you like that,
M-O-W?
We are the sons of God, and it
doth not yet appear what we shall be,
but we know that when he shall appear,
we shall be like him, for we shall
see him as he is.
I've never seen Jesus Christ face to face.
Songs tell me, face to face, one day
we will see him.
The Word of God tells me we will
see him.
When you do, when you do, you're going
to be different.
You know, people think about predestination, well, we've
been predestined to be just like Jesus Christ,
the Son of God, predestined by God.
Every person in this room that knows Jesus
Christ, the Son of God, is their Lord
and Savior.
They're going to be just like him one
day.
That includes me.
Think everybody in heaven will love each other
the way God wants them to?
Think we'll go form a little clique over
here in the corner and say, these are
my buddies over here.
No, no, these are my buddies over here.
Uh-uh, none of that.
We're going to be just like him, just
like him, the Son of God.
Every man that hath this hope in him
purifies himself, even as he is pure.
You want to have something in your life
that's pure and holy and needs to be
nurtured more and more, and the Spirit of
God wants to work in your life and
in my life and help us manifest more
and more of that purity that we are
talking about.
Well, let him produce spiritual fruit in your
life, the love of God, the love that
we should manifest toward him, our Savior and
our Lord and our God, toward our neighbor,
toward each other.
I didn't even want to use that word,
hatred, that a brother or sister in Christ
would hate somebody.
That's like being a murderer.
It's like being a murderer, hating somebody.
God, by his mercy and grace this morning,
if you've got a thought in your heart
and soul like that this morning, get rid
of it.
Confess it.
Lord, I don't want it there.
I want a pure mind.
I want a pure heart and soul.
I want to be like Jesus Christ, the
Son of God, my Savior.
L-O-V-E.
A love that we should manifest toward him,
the love of God, the love that we
should manifest