Lord, we do
not understand that those that are of this world are taking away our basic
freedoms (education (histories truths), religion, speech...)!
Lord, lead
us to actions that will stop our enslavement!
Lord we
must understand the fear; shared for decades in music and your answer in music
of worship.
1
John 3 New International Version
See
what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called
children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us
is that it did not know him. Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will
be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears, we shall
be like him, for we shall see him as he is. All
who have this hope in him purify themselves, just as he is pure.
Everyone
who sins breaks the law; in fact, sin is lawlessness. But you know that he appeared
so that he might take away our sins. And in him is no sin. No one who lives in him keeps on sinning. No one who
continues to sin has either seen him or known him.
Dear
children, do not let anyone lead you astray. The one who does what is right is
righteous, just as he is righteous. The one who does what is sinful is of the devil, because
the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God
appeared was to destroy the devil’s work. No
one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God’s seed remains in
them; they cannot go on sinning, because they have been born of God. This is how we know who the children of God are and who
the children of the devil are: Anyone who does not do what is right is not
God’s child, nor is anyone who does not love their brother and sister.
More
on Love and Hatred
For
this is the message you heard from the beginning: We should love one another. Do not be like Cain, who
belonged to the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him?
Because his own actions were evil and his brother’s were righteous. Do not be surprised, my brothers and sisters, if the world
hates you. We know that we have passed from
death to life, because we love each other. Anyone who does not love remains in
death. Anyone who hates a brother or sister
is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life residing in him.
This
is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we
ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters. If anyone has material
possessions and sees a brother or sister in need but has no pity on them, how
can the love of God be in that person? Dear
children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth.
This
is how we know that we belong to the truth and how we set our hearts at rest in
his presence: If our hearts condemn us, we know that God is greater than
our hearts, and he knows everything. Dear
friends, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God and receive from him anything we ask, because we keep his
commands and do what pleases him. And this is
his command: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one
another as he commanded us. The one who keeps
God’s commands lives in him, and he in them. And this is how we know that he
lives in us: We know it by the Spirit he gave us.
1
John 4 New International Version
On
Denying the Incarnation
Dear friends,
do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from
God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. This is how you can recognize
the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in
the flesh is from God, but every spirit that
does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the
antichrist, which you have heard is coming and even now is already in the
world.
You,
dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in
you is greater than the one who is in the world. They are from the world and
therefore speak from the viewpoint of the world, and the world listens to them.
We are from God, and whoever knows God listens to us;
but whoever is not from God does not listen to us. This is how we recognize the
Spirit of truth and the spirit of falsehood.
God’s
Love and Ours
Dear
friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves
has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is
love. This is how God showed his love among
us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.
This is love: not that we loved God, but that he
loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love
one another. No one has ever seen God; but if
we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.
This
is how we know that we live in him and he in us: He has given us of his Spirit. And we have seen and testify
that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God
lives in them and they in God. And so we know
and rely on the love God has for us.
God
is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. This is how love is made
complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment: In
this world we are like Jesus. There is no
fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with
punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.
We
love because he first loved us. Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister
is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have
seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen. And he has given us this command: Anyone who loves God
must also love their brother and sister.
We Claim
these things with the Power in the Names of Jesus; Christ The Messiah. Amen.
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