*Rhapsody Of Realities TeeVo* _Pastor Chris Oyakhilome PhD_ _Friday, February 21st 2025_ *TO KNOW HIM IS TO LOVE HIM* _(Jesus Christ, The Expression of God’s Love)_ *TO THE BIBLE:* *Romans 5:8 TLB* _“But God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners.”_ *LET’S TALK* How God loves man! What we just read in today’s opening verse brings to mind a related message in 2 Corinthians 5:19 which says, *“To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them….”* Hallelujah! Certain folks don’t like it when we preach and teach about the love of Christ and how God isn’t holding anyone’s sins against them. They say we’re giving people a license to do wrong. But how could that be? The love of Christ never gives anyone liberty to sin. The truth is that the more you learn about the Lord, the more you love Him because to know Him is to love Him. And the more you love Him, the less you want to do anything that’s offensive to Him. That’s the fact! The Bible says, *“Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?”* (Romans 2:4). Notice that it doesn’t say, *“The judgments of God make men repent and love Him.”* All He ever does is love, help and bless us. It’s that love that we reciprocate. The Bible says, *“We love him, because he first loved us”* (1 John 4:19). So, it’s not true that the love of Christ makes people want to do wrong and think they can get away with it. No! He enjoins us to take advantage of His grace and love but not against Him, not to do wrong. His Word demands that you abstain from sin. Romans 6:1-2 says, *“…Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?”* No one deliberately hurts or offends the one who loves them genuinely. God said in Jeremiah 31:3, *“…Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.”* Think about that! The result of His love for us is that we love Him in return. And because we love Him, we keep His Word; we do what He wants. That’s what Jesus said: *“If you love Me, keep My commandments”* (John 14:15 NKJV). No one gets to truly know Jesus and how loving He is without loving Him. The Bible says we know He loves us from the message He sent to us, and we received that message and came into fellowship with Him. Now that you’re in fellowship with Him, all you want to do is to walk worthy of Him, pleasing Him in all things. *GO DEEPER* *John 3:16* For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. *1 John 4:10* Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. *Ephesians 3:17-19* That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, *18* May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; *19* And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God. *Romans 8:38-39* For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, *39* Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. *PRAY* _Loving Father, I’m forever grateful for the revelation of your boundless love demonstrated towards us through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the Cross. I walk worthy of you, pleasing you in all things; I’m compelled by your love to preach the Gospel and turn sinners from sin into righteousness and the glorious liberty of the sons of God, in Jesus’ Name. Amen._ *DAILY BIBLE READING* *ONE YEAR* Mark 5:1-20, Leviticus 19-21 *TWO YEAR* Acts 20:13-24, Psalm 33-34 *ACT* Share this message of God’s goodwill and peace with someone today. 𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐌𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐲 𝐕𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨𝐬, 𝐀𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐨 𝐌𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐋𝐢𝐟𝐞-𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭, 𝐊𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐥𝐲 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐔𝐬 𝐓𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲! 📌👇👇 ☑ 𝐉𝐎𝐈𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐖𝐀𝐓𝐂𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐒 𝐍𝐄𝐓𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐊 𝟐 𝐖𝐇𝐀𝐓𝐒𝐀𝐏𝐏 𝐆𝐑𝐎𝐔𝐏 𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐄👇👇👇 🔗 https://chat.whatsapp.com/CFxv5QSdpw88jrd9Q7WcLH ☑ 𝐉𝐨𝐢𝐧 𝐎𝐮𝐫 𝐄𝐱𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐊𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐩 https://www.kingsch.at/jl/d0ZJVU ☑ 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐍𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐓𝐮𝐛𝐞 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐥 https://youtube.com/@thewatchersnetwork247?si=0cGo_RHuAGD3R12h ☑ 𝐒𝐮𝐛𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐊𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐋𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐓𝐮𝐛𝐞 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐥 https://youtube.com/@thekinginglife?si=ss0InAXzh53tbOPu 𝐍𝐁: 𝐃𝐨 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐉𝐨𝐢𝐧 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐎𝐧𝐞 (𝟏) 𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐩 𝐨𝐧 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭𝐬𝐀𝐩𝐩 𝐨𝐫 𝐊𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐭! 𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐁𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐎𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐬. 𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐍𝐊 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐆𝐎𝐃 𝐁𝐋𝐄𝐒𝐒 𝐘𝐎𝐔❤️🙏