Dear friends, let us love one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. The one who does not love does not know God, because God is love. God’s love was revealed among us in this way: God sent His One and Only Son into the world so that we might live through Him. Love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiations for our sins. Dear Friends, if God loved us in this way, we also must love one another. No one has ever seen God. If we love one another, God remains…
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Christ’s Death! God’s Love. Part 4
for while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. For one will scarcely die for a righteous person – though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die – but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Romans 5:6-9 Christ died for sinners. We were helpless and useless. Christ died to save us from our sins. Jesus died at the right time for all. God designed to deliver from sin into work a great change. While we are sinners in this sinful state, we are rebellious to God. We have…
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Mercy Seat Of God
Above it were the cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy-seat. Of these things we cannot now speak in details. Hebrews 9:5 The mercy-seat was used as the cover of the ark of the covenant in the Holy of Holies. The mercy-seat was sprinkled with the blood on the annual day of atonement. On the annual Day of Atonement both a bull and a goat were used. The bulls blood was used for the High Priest and His family. The goat’s blood was used for the whole nation. This served as an offering for the sins as an offering to God. The Mercy seat is where God would come and…