DAILY TRUTH - What is True Biblical Love？
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Love, according to God's standard, is a self-sacrificing love. Biblical love is a caring commitment at the cost of self, and it is committed toward a particular end, not just the person s physical and temporal preservation, but their eternal salvation and continued sanctification being formed more and more into the image of God.
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All right, listen guys, I get it. Many of you are unable to financially support this ministry
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because you're spending your cash and your lives on raising young children in the fear and
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admonition of the Lord. Praise God for you and that endeavor. However, algorithms are a thing.
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Shadow banning, sadly, is a thing. And one major way that you can help to expand the reach and
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effectiveness of this ministry that doesn't cost you a dime is by spending just a few moments
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but from every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.
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We must recognize that love, according to God's standard,
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is a self-sacrificing love. Jesus himself said this, love has no one greater than this, that a man
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would lay down his life for his friends. According to Jesus, love is costly. Love is sacrifice. True
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biblical love comes at the cost, if necessary, of your own life. But here's the deal. There are many
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people that in God's common grace image bearers but unregenerate that is human beings who are not
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Christians they're not believers but they still bear the image of the living God because all
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people have been created in his image and in his common grace rather than his special saving grace
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they're not his children they're not Christians but in his common grace simply being image bearers
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of the living God there are unbelievers unregenerate people that in their heart of hearts according to
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Romans chapter 8 they are hostile towards God not just neutral but they are rebelling against them
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they hate God and they go to war and make incredible sacrifices for their brothers in
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arms I mean there is just story after story after story as we look through human history
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of people who hated God on theological terms who were not followers of the Lord Jesus Christ
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who were not born again and yet were willing to care for others at the cost of their own life
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see so biblical love therefore is even more than that we cannot define biblical love
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as a self-sacrificing love and stop then because there are many throughout human history
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who have paid the ultimate sacrifice of their very own lives and still did not model biblical
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love. Biblical love is a caring commitment at the cost of self, even being willing to lay down your
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life. And it is committed toward a particular end, not just the person's physical and temporal
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preservation for the next 30, 40, 50 years, but their eternal salvation and continued
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sanctification being formed more and more into the image of the sun and anything short of that
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is a failure at biblical love and we could even say one step further that biblical love is not
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just self-sacrifice being willing to lay down your physical life in the temporal sense but the
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apostle Paul says in Romans 9 that he would be willing to be eternally cut off for the sake of
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his kinsmen his fellow Israelites according to the flesh and I will confess to you church I don't know
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if I've ever loved like that I would be willing not just to die for someone I love but to go to
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hell forever. And all of this, not just to preserve them for 30, 40, 50 years, but to
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preserve their very eternal soul and to shape them into the image of Christ. Now that is love.
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Set an example for the believers in love. What a tall task.
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But real quick, before you go, do us a small favor,
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This is undoubtedly the best way that you can help us