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RIPPLES OF GENUINE LOVE
CHAPTER ONE
GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD.
Love is a virtue that shows great concern and care towards a person. Love first began in creation. God loved us from the beginning. Love is a virtue that God placed in all humans because He is love and since we were created in the image and likeness of God, we were made with this wonderful virtue called love. An interesting fact is that love is the most important of all virtues (joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control).
In the beginning God created the world in six days and rested on the seventh day. He created out of nothing, and He spoke and things came into being, came to life and things appeared at the power of His words. The Word of God is Jesus Christ. He saw that His creation was good and He blessed it. Mankind was the only creation created in the image of God. God gave them power and blessed them that they should multiply and fill the earth and have dominion over all the other things God has created. God loved His creation especially Mankind who was created in His image.
Mankind was placed in the Garden of Eden and had a wonderful fellowship with the Lord. This continued day by day until, one fateful day, a serpent visited them and deceived them to sin against God. The serpent was the devil who rebelled against God in the beginning. He was an angel in heaven who sinned against God and was cast out of heaven. He took a third of God’s angels. A certain place called hell was made for him to dwell eternally with his fallen angels. He then came to mankind in the beginning to deceive them to sin against God. This brought about a separation from God. This brought about doom to mankind and when they departed from the earth, they went to join the devil to be destroyed eternally in a lake of fire. There were just a few righteous people who walked with God and they finally joined the Lord in eternal glory after their lives on earth had ended.
God looked down upon the earth in love and had mercy on mankind. This same world of sin and humankind who disobeyed Him. So He loved us so much so that, He decided to give us a ransom for our sin and disobedience in order to draw us back to Him. The Almighty God had compassion on mankind and provided us with a Redeemer, Jesus Christ our Saviour. He came in the form of a Man to sacrifice His life to cleanse us from our sins and deliver us from the bondage of the devil. Jesus is the word of God and He is God. This portrayed the wonderful love of God.
John 3:16, “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believe in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.”
The Holy Spirit caused a virgin to conceive and bring for a Child. This Child, Jesus Christ was born in a manger. Luke 2:7, “And she brought forth her firstborn Son, and wrapped Him in swaddling cloths, and laid Him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.”
He began His ministry at age 30 and was baptized by John the Baptist. He fasted for forty days and forty...
GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD.
Love is a virtue that shows great concern and care towards a person. Love first began in creation. God loved us from the beginning. Love is a virtue that God placed in all humans because He is love and since we were created in the image and likeness of God, we were made with this wonderful virtue called love. An interesting fact is that love is the most important of all virtues (joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control).
In the beginning God created the world in six days and rested on the seventh day. He created out of nothing, and He spoke and things came into being, came to life and things appeared at the power of His words. The Word of God is Jesus Christ. He saw that His creation was good and He blessed it. Mankind was the only creation created in the image of God. God gave them power and blessed them that they should multiply and fill the earth and have dominion over all the other things God has created. God loved His creation especially Mankind who was created in His image.
Mankind was placed in the Garden of Eden and had a wonderful fellowship with the Lord. This continued day by day until, one fateful day, a serpent visited them and deceived them to sin against God. The serpent was the devil who rebelled against God in the beginning. He was an angel in heaven who sinned against God and was cast out of heaven. He took a third of God’s angels. A certain place called hell was made for him to dwell eternally with his fallen angels. He then came to mankind in the beginning to deceive them to sin against God. This brought about a separation from God. This brought about doom to mankind and when they departed from the earth, they went to join the devil to be destroyed eternally in a lake of fire. There were just a few righteous people who walked with God and they finally joined the Lord in eternal glory after their lives on earth had ended.
God looked down upon the earth in love and had mercy on mankind. This same world of sin and humankind who disobeyed Him. So He loved us so much so that, He decided to give us a ransom for our sin and disobedience in order to draw us back to Him. The Almighty God had compassion on mankind and provided us with a Redeemer, Jesus Christ our Saviour. He came in the form of a Man to sacrifice His life to cleanse us from our sins and deliver us from the bondage of the devil. Jesus is the word of God and He is God. This portrayed the wonderful love of God.
John 3:16, “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believe in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.”
The Holy Spirit caused a virgin to conceive and bring for a Child. This Child, Jesus Christ was born in a manger. Luke 2:7, “And she brought forth her firstborn Son, and wrapped Him in swaddling cloths, and laid Him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.”
He began His ministry at age 30 and was baptized by John the Baptist. He fasted for forty days and forty...
