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Love, The Infallible Test Of Salvation Series
Contributed by Jack Perkins, D.min., Ladc, Csac, Cclc on Aug 5, 2021 (message contributor)
Summary: The church has a different goal–we are to model for the world the authentic way to love. The spiritual quest we must follow is that Jesus calls us to be different. John suggest the failure to love extravagantly, as God first loved us, is perhaps one of the greatest sins.
The Jewish leaders, in Jesus’ time on earth, used Scripture in a way that they failed to see the incarnate love of God.
If not careful, we too will stumble over the infallibility and inerrancy of the Bible and fail to see the infallibility of Jesus’ love. Understanding the central authority of Scripture is foundational for godly living. It is the foundation upon which we arrive at meaning and purpose for all we are and do. Yet, it is sad the way I have witnessed the lives of Christians, to include very conservative theologians, destroyed by those who push a political agenda under the guise of “infallible and inerrant Word of God”. They fail to uphold the infallible and inerrant love of God; at this point they become fallible and errant in their ways. Paul draws this subject to an infallible and inerrant point of distinction in his epilogue to his chapter on love.
But for right now, until that completeness, we have three things to do to lead us toward that consummation: Trust steadily in God, hope unswervingly, love extravagantly. And the best of the three is love. I Corinthians 13:13
John would point to the failure to love extravagant, as God first loved us, is perhaps one of the greatest sins.
