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In Christ, Mark

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The scriptures. May God bless the reading of His holy word.

This is how we know that we live in Him and He in us: He has given us of His Spirit. And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent His Son to be the Savior of the world. If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in them and they in God. And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.

1 John 4:13-16

This ends this reading from God's holy word. Thanks be to God.

The moment a person chooses to believe in Jesus as Savior, they receive three of the greatest gifts from God, gifts we see highlighted in today’s scripture passage from the fourth chapter of 1 John. Let’s look at that Word of God here:

This is how we know that we live in Him and He in us: He has given us of His Spirit. And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent His Son to be the Savior of the world. If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in them and they in God. And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. Vv.13-16

The first thing we learn here is that a Christian is given the very Spirit of God. This happens the very moment the believers places their trust in Jesus as Savior. At that very instant, the Holy Spirit comes to dwell within and assures the Christ follower that God is with them in a Father to child relationship. The believer lives in their God and He in them.

Think about that a minute. By becoming a Christian, a person gets to have the most intimate relationship with the God who is the Maker and Master of all creation.

It’s unbelievable, right?

Now, that in and of itself would be enough but there’s more for the second thing we find the Christian believer receiving from God is the gift of testimony. For when someone chooses to accept Jesus as God’s Son and the Savior of the world, they accept the responsibility to go and make disciples, the command Jesus gave to all His followers (Matthew 28:18-20). And it’s this open sharing of the amazing nature of God’s grace through the willingness to grant salvation to anyone who believes in His Son (John 3:16) that shows He, God, “lives within” that Christian and, in turn, that Christian lives in Him.

Finally, a Christian receives the love of God, a love that lives within them as surely as God does. This is because “God is love” and so the love a believer has within is no ordinary love and definitely nowhere close to the love the world offers. It’s a love that is pure and perfect, a love that is selfless and self sacrificing. It’s a love that every Christian believer can rely on for it’s a love that never fails. Indeed, no love rivals God’s love anymore than they can rival Him.

Friends, our God is so good all the time. As Christians, He is not only in and therefore ever with us but for us (Romans 8:31), providing everything we could ever ask for, all we could ever need.

Today and every day, let us rejoice and be glad, giving thanks to the God who didn’t wish for us to perish but rather live with Him forever in the future glory of Heaven.

Amen.

In Christ,

Mark

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