~ Message preached in Liberia on Radio Bushrod D-15 FM 98.1 Sunday April 5 at 7pm on Sons & Daughters of Thunder Ministries’ Liberia Fire Fall Hour of Power ~
1 John 4:7-11 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. 8 He who does not love does not know God, for God is love. 9 In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him. 10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
GOD IS LOVE AND GOD MANIFESTED HIMSELF TO US IN THE FLESH AS JESUS CHRIST. GOD IS LOVE AND JESUS CHRIST IS THE EXPRESSION OF THAT LOVE IN THAT MANIFESTATION. GOD IS LOVE AND JESUS CHRIST IS THE EXPRESS IMAGE OF THAT LOVE. JESUS CHRIST IS FULLY GOD AND FULLY MAN AND ONLY HIS BLOOD CAN ATONE FOR THE SINS OF THE WORLD. GOD IS LOVE AND JESUS CHRIST BECAME OUR PUNISHMENT FOR OUR SIN. GOD BECAME A HUMAN BEING AND PUT ON A ROBE OF FLESH IN JESUS CHRIST SO HE COULD REDEEM US AND GIVE US ETERNAL LIFE.
John 4:24 God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”
Matthew 1:23 “Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and bear a Son, and they shall call His name Immanuel,” which is translated, “God with us.”
Isaiah 9:6 For unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given; and the government will be upon His shoulder. And His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
THIS IS IMPORTANT. THIS IS TRUTH. OUR CREATOR WHO IS SPIRIT BECAME OUR SAVIOR IN JESUS CHRIST.
John 1:1-5 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. 4 In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. 5 And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.
VERSE 1 SAYS THE WORD WAS GOD. VERSE 3 SAYS THAT ALL THINGS WERE MADE THROUGH THE WORD AND GOD. NOW WE CROSS-REFERENCE THIS JOHN 1 WITH COLOSSIANS 1 WHERE IT SAYS JESUS CREATED ALL THINGS.
Colossians 1:15-18 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16 For by Him (Jesus) all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. 17 And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist. 18 And He is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things He may have the preeminence.
John 1:14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.
WHO BECAME FLESH AND DWELT AMONG US? GOD. WHO IS THE ONLY BEGOTTEN OF THE FATHER FULL OF GRACE AND TRUTH? JESUS. JESUS IS GOD MANIFESTED IN THE FLESH.
1 Timothy 3:16 And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifested in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen by angels, preached among the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up in glory.
Hebrews 1:1-4 God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, 2 has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds; 3 who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high, 4 having become so much better than the angels, as He has by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.
GOD IS THE MAIN SUBJECT OF THIS SCRIPTURE AS STATED IN VERSE 1. GOD SPOKE IN TIMES PAST THROUGH THE PROPHETS AND NOW SPEAKS TO US THROUGH THE SON, JESUS CHRIST, GOD MANIFESTED IN THE FLESH. THE INVISIBLE GOD PUT ON A BODY OF FLESH TO BECOME VISIBLE TO HIS CREATION AND TO BE KNOWN BY THEM. GOD HIMSELF AS JESUS CHRIST PURGED OUR SINS AND SAT DOWN AT THE RIGHT HAND OF MAJESTY ON HIGH WHICH IS THE HIGHEST PLACE OF AUTHORITY, HONOR AND POWER OF THE THRONE OF GOD. ARE THERE TWO GODS SITTING ON THE THRONE? NO. THERE IS ONLY ONE GOD AND HIS NAME IS JESUS!
Acts 4:10-12 let it be known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, by Him this man stands here before you whole. 11 This is the ‘stone which was rejected by you builders, which has become the chief cornerstone.’ 12 Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”
John 3:16-17 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. 17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. 18 “He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed. 21 But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been done in God.”
ALL HAVE SINNED AND FALL SHORT OF THE GLORY OF GOD AND THE WAGES OF THAT SIN IS DEATH WHICH IS ETERNAL SEPERATION FROM GOD OUTSIDE OF HIS PRESENCE WHERE THERE IS WEEPING AND GNASHING OF TEETH, UNQUENCHABLE FIRE AND WHERE THE WORM NEVER DIES.
Romans 3:23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God
Romans 6:23 for the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Mark 9:42-48 “But whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were thrown into the sea. 43 If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life [j]maimed, rather than having two hands, to go to hell, into the fire that shall never be quenched – 44 where ‘Their worm does not die and the fire is not quenched.’ 45 And if your foot causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life lame, rather than having two feet, to be cast into hell, into the fire that shall never be quenched – 46 where ‘Their worm does not die and the fire is not quenched.’ 47 And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out. It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye, rather than having two eyes, to be cast into hell fire— 48 where ‘Their worm does not die and the fire is not quenched.’
JESUS IS YOUR SAVIOR TO SAVE YOUR SOUL FROM HELL BY REVEALING HIMSELF TO YOU AND YOU RESPONDING BY RECEIVING HIM AS YOUR LORD AND SAVIOR AND BELIEVING UPON HIS NAME.
John 1:10-13 He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world did not know Him. 11 He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him. 12 But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: 13 who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
TONIGHT, IS YOUR NIGHT. JESUS IS REVEALING HIMSELF TO YOU THROUGH THIS RADIO SHOW YOU ARE LISTENING TO. RECEIVE HIM INTO YOUR HEART NOW. CONFESS HIM WITH YOUR MOUTH THAT HE IS YOUR LORD AND SAVIOR. SURRENDER YOUR LIFE TO HIM. LET HIM HAVE HIS WAY IN YOU AND LET HIM CHANGE YOU INTO A NEW PERSON, INTO A NEW CREATION, INTO A CHILD OF GOD. LET HIM MAKE YOU HIS POSSESSION SO HE CAN KEEP YOU WITH HIM FOR ALL ETERNITY AND SO YOU WILL NOT HAVE TO GO WHERE THE WORM NEVER DIES AND THERE IS UNQUENCHABLE FIRE!
Revelation 3:20-21 Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with Me. 21 To him who overcomes I will grant to sit with Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne.
THE CHOICE IS YOURS TO MAKE. DECIDE TONIGHT WHICH WAY YOU WILL GO. CONTINUE LIVING YOUR LIFE WITHOUT JESUS IN THIS WORLD AND WHEN YOU DIE YOU WILL NOT BE WITH GOD FOR ETERNITY OR START TONIGHT AND GIVE YOUR LIFE TO JESUS AND WHEN YOU DIE YOU WILL LIVE WITH GOD FOREVER IN HIS KINGDOM OF HEAVEN.
THE PHONES LINES ARE OPEN. GIVE US A CALL AND GIVE YOUR LIFE TO JESUS. GOD IS LOVE AND JESUS CHRIST IS THE EXPRESSION OF THAT LOVE. JESUS IS CALLING YOU NOW. LOVE IS CALLING YOU NOW. CAN’T YOU HEAR THAT SWEET SOUND IN YOUR SOUL WHISPERING FOR YOU TO COME CLOSER. SURRENDER NOW. SURRENDER TO LOVE. GIVE YOUR LIFE TO JESUS! JESUS LAID DOWN HIS LIFE FOR YOU SO YOU COULD BE SET FREE FROM SIN. HE GAVE HIS LIFE SO YOU WOULD BELIEVE IN HIM AND TRUST HIM AND HIS WORD. JESUS SHED HIS BLOOD AND PAID THE PENALTY FOR OUR SIN SO THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN HIS NAME WILL LIVE WITH HIM IN HIS KINGDOM FOREVER. JESUS SAYS TO HIS DISCIPLES…
John 15:12-17 This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends. 14 You are My friends if you do whatever I command you. 15 No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you. 16 You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in My name He may give you. 17 These things I command you, that you love one another.
ENTER INTO THE LOVE OF GOD TONIGHT BY BELIEVING IN THE NAME OF JESUS AND IN GOD’S WORD THAT HAS BEEN SHARED WITH YOU TODAY. JESUS IS CALLING YOU AND ASKING YOU TO TRUST HIM. HE WANTS TO SET YOU FREE.
JOHN 8:36 – THEREFORE WHO THE SON SETS FREE IS FREE INDEED