331 - The Love behind All Loves
Napsal(a) Jonathan S. Rose
Title: The Love behind All Loves
Topic: Salvation
Summary: There are many kinds of love, some are good, some are evil. But there's ultimately only one love behind them all. That love may seem invisible and undetectable, but it is actually the only love that is true and pure.
References:
Genesis 29:20
Deuteronomy 7:7-8
Psalms 91:1-8, 14-16; 109:1-5
Isaiah 43:1-7; 63:7-9
Hosea 2:14-20
Zephaniah 3:17
John 14:15, 21; 15:9-17
1 Timothy 6:6-11
2 Timothy 3:1-5
2 John 1:5-6
Revelation 3:19-20
This video is a part of the Spirit and Life Bible Study series, whose purpose is to look at the Bible, the whole Bible, and nothing but the Bible through a Swedenborgian lens.
Spirit and Life Bible Study broadcast from 2/14/2018. The complete series is available at: www.spiritandlifebiblestudy.com
John 15:9-17
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Even as the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Remain in my love.
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If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and remain in his love.
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I have spoken these things to you, that my joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be made full.
12
"This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.
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Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
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You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you.
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No longer do I call you servants, for the servant doesn't know what his lord does. But I have called you friends, for everything that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you.
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You didn't 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 will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
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"I command these things to you, that you may love one another.
