So I heard this really great sermon titled "Love Suffers Long" by Kris Vallotton I just wanted to put up a few points he made regarding love and suffering.
A woman was recently married and she found out she was pregnant. She went for a check up and she was found to be full of cancer. The Doctor told her that the only way to save her life was to start chemotherapy right away. But do do the chemo she would have to abort the baby, because the chemo would destroy the baby. She looked at the doctor and said with out hesitation, that she would be keeping the baby. And that she would take her chances because she believes in a God who does impossible things. The doctor told her that she had made a very poor choice and that there is absolutely no way she would survive long after the six months left in her pregnancy.
The woman had her baby, and the baby was perfectly healthy. The woman went on to be with the Lord shortly after giving birth. But the point he made was that while it was sad that she died so her baby could live, what was even sadder was the fact that many people live with nothing to die for, and therefor never really live.
He made a great point that Jesus didn't die for your mistakes he died for your sins. the difference comes because a sin is intentionally done whereas a mistake was unintentional. You cant sin on accident.
He made many pionts sbout how when you love much you suffer with the people that suffer.
Luke 6:27“But I tell you who hear me: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,28bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you.29If someone strikes you on one cheek, turn to him the other also. If someone takes your cloak, do not stop him from taking your tunic.30Give to everyone who asks you, and if anyone takes what belongs to you, do not demand it back.31Do to others as you would have them do to you.
32“If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? Even ‘sinners’ love those who love them.33And if you do good to those who are good to you, what credit is that to you? Even ‘sinners’ do that.34 And if you lend to those from whom you expect repayment, what credit is that to you? Even ‘sinners’ lend to ‘sinners,’ expecting to be repaid in full.35But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked.36Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful."
Very interesting sermon... without God you cannot fullfill what this passage talks about
It is normal to suffer becuase you are in community, If you live your life for pleasue and you think tghat joy and pleasure are the same thing, then you will think something is wrong when you go through a season of mourning with someone who is mourning, but really it is just you coming into the Kingdom
too many good pionts.. I cant out them all down here
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Don't you know the young mother was richly received in Heaven! The angels must have sounded awesome!
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