![]() “Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us, and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.” (1 John 4:10-11) THE law commands love, indeed, all its precepts are summed up in that one word, “love.” More widely read it runs like this, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.” Yet all this amounts only to, “You shall love.” Since the Fall, man has become man’s bitterest foe upon the earth, and the world is full of hate, slandering, struggles, fighting, wounding, and slaying. All that the law can do is to show the wrong of war and hatred and threaten punishment, but it cannot supply an unregenerate heart with a fountain of love. Man remains unloving and unlovable till the gospel takes him in hand, and by grace accomplishes that which the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh. Love is winning many hearts to the kingdom of God, and its reign shall extend till love shall rule over the whole earth. And so the kingdom of God shall be set up among men, and God shall dwell among them. At the present moment love is the distinguishing mark of the people of God. Jesus said, “By this shall all men know that you are My disciples, if you have love, one to another.” You shall love! GiGi❤️ Taken from: A SERMON DELIVERED ON LORD’S-DAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 18, 1883, BY C. H. SPURGEON, AT THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE, NEWINGTON.
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