December 18, 2016 · John 3:16

This Kingdom Love - John 3:16

“The love of Jesus is this incarnation. This God made flesh is this gift of, it's a self-sacrificial love. A love that gives of itself, and that's what he says, whoever believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. Do you ever imagine what eternal life is? When we talk about this gift a lot as Christians, if we follow Jesus, we believe in eternal life. Eternal life is this idea of waking and rising and every morning living a life of beauty and goodness and truth of love and hope and joy and peace like every day after day going into infinity being able to enjoy the gift of our existence. Can you imagine the preciousness of that gift? It's almost too good to hope for, isn't it? Yeah, there's something inside us as humans that knows it. You know what, this life, there's something more. It's going to last longer than when I close my eyes for the final time, and this hope and this joy were promised here through Jesus that we will be given the gift of eternal life. That the kingdom of God is a kingdom in which love reigns. The kingdom begins with love and it ends with love. It is love.”