From Faith To Hope
"And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love." (1 Corinthians 13:13)
Did you notice that LOVE is greater than FAITH?
Many Christians make man's faith greater than God's love it appears to me. They agree that God loves the world and sent Jesus to save it, but say that if a person does not place his faith in Christ he will be eternally condemned.
Nevertheless, God's love is greater than man's faith...and the gospel is about God demonstrating this to us...
"You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God’s wrath through him! For if, while we were God’s enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life! Not only is this so, but we also boast in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation... For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord." (Romans 5:6-11; 6:23)
God's LOVE will save all sinners in His GRACE. The sinner's FAITH in this salvation gives him hope in the face of death.
"For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God...The last enemy to be destroyed is death...so that God may be all in all." (Ephesians 2:8; 1 Corinthians 15:26-28)
Did you notice that LOVE is greater than FAITH?
Many Christians make man's faith greater than God's love it appears to me. They agree that God loves the world and sent Jesus to save it, but say that if a person does not place his faith in Christ he will be eternally condemned.
Nevertheless, God's love is greater than man's faith...and the gospel is about God demonstrating this to us...
"You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God’s wrath through him! For if, while we were God’s enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life! Not only is this so, but we also boast in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation... For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord." (Romans 5:6-11; 6:23)
God's LOVE will save all sinners in His GRACE. The sinner's FAITH in this salvation gives him hope in the face of death.
"For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God...The last enemy to be destroyed is death...so that God may be all in all." (Ephesians 2:8; 1 Corinthians 15:26-28)