Faithful Unto Death by John Hagee

For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.

Jesus Loves You So Much; He Gave His Life To Redeem You From The Gutters Of Sin!
What is love?  Love is not the same as emotion.  Love begins with an act of your will.  But young people come into my office for counseling before marriage and they’ll say things like, “I’m so in love.  When I see him, I can’t catch my breath and my face turns red.”  “That’s not love, that’s asthma,” I tell them.

Why do we confuse emotion with love?  Hollywood helped sell us that idea.  It’s even worse when Hollywood tries to talk about God’s love.  “Somebody up there likes me,” you’ll hear them say in the movies.  Let’s get something straight.  Nobody up there likes you.  No one in heaven—not God the Father, not Jesus Christ, not the Holy Spirit—nobody in heaven likes you.  You like your car.  You like your dog.  You like your golf clubs.  But God doesn’t like you—He loves you.

God does not love you because you deserve it.  He does not love you because you’ve earned it.  God loves you because God is love.  Love is His nature and He cannot restrain himself from loving you.

It is the very nature of God to love the unlovable.  He loved you when you were unlovable.  When you were covered with the stench of sin His heart was broken for you.  In your despicable condition God loved you so much that he sent His only Son to die for your.  Even if no one on the face of this earth loves you, rejoice and be glad because God loves you.

Source:  12 Sunday Mornings—Volume 2

REVELATION 2:10

 August 17
Be thou faithful unto death.

Unto Death—Not Until Someone Insults You, Not Until You Get Your Feelings Hurt, But When You Die—Then You Can Stop Being Faithful!

Persistence is Abraham looking for a city whose builder and maker was God, and not finding it until he died and saw the Lord.  Persistence is Noah building an ark for 120 years without a Black & Decker saw and without a government grant.  Persistence is Job attending the funeral of his children, watching his wealth vanish, his health failing, and listening to his sharp-tongued wife who told him to curse God and die.  But Job said, “Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him” Job 13:15.

Persistence is a decision.  Matthew 24:13 says, “But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.”  Who is the winner in the Olympics?  Not the one who starts, the one who finishes.  The starting gun is fired and they all begin to run.  Sweat pours down their faces.  Tiredness sets in as they strain toward the finish line.  Exhaustion overtakes one and he drops out.  Another trips and falls.  Each runner feels the lungs burning, trying to get more air.  Finally, one crosses the finish line.  Who is it that wins?  He that endures to the end.

Finish what you start.  Don’t let your life be just beginnings and there’s never a conclusion to anything.  Finish!  A child of God endures and finishes his assignment.

Source:  12 Sunday Mornings—Volume 2