Author: BTP

“We love Him, because He first loved us” (1 John 4:19).

Our love for the Lord seems so small and feeble compared to His love for us. To His own He says that “I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with loving-kindness have I drawn thee,” and “God commendeth His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.” He “who is rich in mercy, for His great love wherewith He loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved),” and now, being redeemed, we have “the love of God … shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.” But little as our love may seem compared to His, we do “love Him, because He first loved us,” and we say with David, “I will love Thee, O Lord, my strength.” “For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead: and that He died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto Him which died for them, and rose again,” and “eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love Him.” Our Lord said, “If ye love Me, keep My commandments.” “Grace be with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity.”

“We love Him because … He loved us,” And gave His live to prove so; “The love of Christ constraineth us” To take the place that is low.

Jeremiah 31:3 ~ Romans 5:8 ~ Ephesians 2:4‑5 ~ Romans 5:5 ~ Psalm 18:1 ~ 2 Corinthians 5:14‑15 ~ 1 Corinthians 2:9 ~ John 14:15 ~ Ephesians 6:24

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“Be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect will of God” (Rom. 12:2).

God wants His children to be different from those who do not know Him, “that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,” and “our Lord Jesus Christ … gave Himself for our sins, that He might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father.” God has told His children to “have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.” “What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?” “Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?” “Be ye clean, that bear the vessels of the Lord,” “as obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance,” and “be not ye therefore like unto them,” “but as He which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation.” For “our Saviour Jesus Christ … gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto Himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.”

God wants our lives to be different From those who know Him not, “Transformed by … renewing of … mind” That His name we may not blot.

Ephesians 4:17 ~ Galatians 1:3‑4 ~ Ephesians 5:11 ~ Romans 6:1‑2 ~ 1 Corinthians 3:16 ~ Isaiah 52:11 ~ 1 Peter 1:14 ~ Matthew 6:8 ~ 1 Peter 1:15 ~ Titus 2:13‑14

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“We all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord” (2 Cor. 3:18).

When God looks upon His redeemed people, He does not look for success or wealth or fame or popularity with men. Rather, He looks for Christ-likeness in our lives, that Christ-likeness of life and character which comes to us as we look upon Christ as He is revealed in the Word of God, “with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord.” God’s ultimate purpose for the saved is that we may be “conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren,” and “we know that, when He shall appear, we shall be like Him; for we shall see Him as He is,” “and as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.” So in our lives now, God desires to impart “the meekness and gentleness of Christ,” who is “meek and lowly in heart.” “For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ,” enabling us to “show forth the praises of Him who hath called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.”

Called to reflect the Lord Jesus, And called to show forth His praise, Called to behold Him in His Word, And walk with Him all our days.

Romans 8:29 ~ 1 John 3:2 ~ 1 Corinthians 15:49 ~ 2 Corinthians 10:1 ~ Matthew 11:29 ~ 2 Corinthians 4:6 ~ 1 Peter 2:9

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“The Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty” (2 Cor. 3:17).

Where is “the Spirit of the Lord” in this present day? For “where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.” He is in us who have believed on Christ as Saviour, all of us. “What! Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?” This is in fulfillment of our Lord’s promise that “I will pray the Father, and He shall give you another Comforter, that He may abide with you forever; even the Spirit of truth,” and “if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of His.” And the Spirit in us gives us “liberty,” even freedom from sin’s dominion, from the yoke of the law, and from self-centeredness. “Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.” “Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.” Our Lord Jesus said that “if ye continue in My word, then are ye My disciples indeed; and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” “But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumbling-block to them that are weak.”

Liberty to serve the Lord, Liberty to live for Him, Made free by His redemption From the dominion of sin.

1 Corinthians 6:19 ~ John 14:16‑17 ~ Romans 8:9 ~ Galatians 5:1 ~ John 8:31‑32 ~ 1 Corinthians 8:9

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“Comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do” (1 Thess. 5:11).

Every true Christian has the potential, and also the responsibility, to “comfort” and to “edify” other Christians, both by word and life. We are told to “consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works,” and to “exhort one another daily, while it is called Today; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.” “Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves. Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others,” “submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.” “Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.” “For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another,” “that no one of you be puffed up for one against another.” “Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another; … be pitiful, be courteous.” “Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus.”

How can I help my dear brother, Who is bowed beneath his load? I can speak a word of comfort, Instead of a word to goad.

Hebrews 10:24 ~ Philippians 2:3‑4 ~ Ephesians 5:21 ~ Galatians 5:13 ~ 1 Corinthians 4:6 ~ 1 Peter 3:8 ~ Romans 15:5

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“Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up” (1 Cor. 13:4).

Genuine love (charity) is both long-suffering and kind. It “is kind” in the times when it “suffereth long,” for genuine love in the Christian’s heart is “the love of God … shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us”; it is “love in the Spirit.” God’s love, though tested and tried and trampled on by men, still is both long-suffering and kind, “for He is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil,” “He is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness.” “Thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness.” “Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children, and walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us,” “and be ye kind one to another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you,” “with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, forbearing one another in love.” We are called upon to manifest our Lord to others “by pureness, by knowledge, by long-suffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned.” “Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honor preferring one another.”

We ought long-suffering to be, And kind while we are at it; It takes God’s grace to make us so; He alone can make us fit.

Romans 5:5 ~ Colossians 1:8 ~ Luke 6:35 ~ Joel 2:13 ~ Jonah 4:2 ~ Ephesians 5:1‑2 ~ 2 Corinthians 6:6 ~ Romans 12:10

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