{"id":7420,"date":"2016-08-16T23:33:56","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T04:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/christlove-of\/"},"modified":"2016-08-16T23:33:56","modified_gmt":"2016-08-17T04:33:56","slug":"christlove-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/christlove-of\/","title":{"rendered":"CHRIST,\nLOVE OF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>I am nothing, I have nothing. I desire nothing but the love of Jesus in Jerusalem.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Walter Hilton<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>He loved us not because we were lovable, but because He is Love.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>C.S. Lewis<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>The love of Christ is like the blue sky, into which you may see clearly, but the real vastness of which you cannot measure.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Robert Murray McCheyne<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Live on Christ\u2019s love while ye are here, and all the way.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Samuel Rutherford<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Christ loved you before you loved him.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>He loved you when there was nothing good in you.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>He loved you though you insulted him,<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>though you despised him and rebelled against him.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>He has loved you right on, and never ceased to love you.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>He has loved you in your backslidings and loved you out of them.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>He has loved you in your sins, in your wickedness and folly.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>His loving heart was still eternally the same, and he shed his heart\u2019s blood to prove his love for you.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>He has given you what you need on earth, and provided for you an habitation in heaven.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Now, Christian, your religion claims from you, that you should love others, as your Master loved you. How can you imitate him, unless you love too?<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>With you \u201cun\u201dkindness should be a strange anomaly. It is a gross contradiction to the spirit of your religion, and if you do not love your neighbor, I cannot see how you can be a true follower of the Lord Jesus.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>C.H. Spurgeon<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>I believe that saying which is written \u2013 \u201cAs the Father has loved me, even so have I loved you,\u201d and a higher degree of love we cannot imagine.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>C.H. Spurgeon<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Behold, what manner of love is this, that Christ should be arraigned and we adorned, that the curse should be laid on His head and the crown set on ours.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Thomas Watson<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am nothing, I have nothing. I desire nothing but the love of Jesus in Jerusalem. Walter Hilton He loved us not because we were lovable, but because He is Love. C.S. Lewis The love of Christ is like the blue sky, into which you may see clearly, but the real vastness of which you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/christlove-of\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;CHRIST,<br \/>\nLOVE OF&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}