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February 14
Saturday



WRITTEN
IN RED

READ:
1 John 4:7-19
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God has sent His only
begotten Son into the
world, that we might
live through Him.
__1 John 4:9
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My first Bible was printed mostly in black type, but some of its words were in red. It didn't take me long to discover that the ones in red had been spoken by Jesus.

More than 100 years ago, a man named Louis Klopsch published the first "red-letter" Bible. As he thought about Jesus' word in Luke 22:20, "This cup is the new covenant in My blood, which is shed for you." He purposely used blood-red ink to call specific attention to His words.

The words of the Bible are priceless to us because they tell of the "love letter" God sent 2,000 years ago in the Person of His Son (1 John 4:10).

Jesus' purpose in coming to earth as a Man was to die, to be sacrificed, to give His life for ours. God's plan was written in red-- without blemish and without spot" (1 Peter 1:19).

Those of us who have accepted God's gift of love are called to be "letters" to those who don't know Him. We are epistles of Christ "written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God" (2 Cor. 3:3).

Long before a day in February was set aside to celebrate love, the world received a love letter--and that changed everything (John 3:16).
__Cindy Hess Kasper
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``````````If you'd like to know the love of God the Father,```````````
`````````Come to Him through Jesus Christ, his loving Son;```````````
`````````He'll forgive your sins and save your soul forever,```````````
````````And you'll love forevermore this faithful One. __Felten````````
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Nothing speaks more clearly of God's love
than the cross of jesus Christ.

*************Today's Bible Reading __ 1 John 4:7-19***************

7 Beloved, let us love one
another, for love is of God;
and everyone who loves is
born of God and knows God.

8 He who does not love does
not know God, for God is
love. 9 In this the love of God
was manifested toward us,
that God has sent His only
begotten Son into the world,
that we might live through
Him. 10 In this is love, not
that we loved God, but that
He loved us and sent His Son
to be the propitiation for our
sins. 11 Beloved, if God so
loved us, we also ought to
love one another.

12 No one has seen God at
any time. If we love one
another, God abides in us,
and His love has been
perfected in us. 13 By this we
know that we abide in Him,
and He in us, because He has
given us of His Spirit. 14 And
we have seen and testify that
the Father has sent the Son
as Savior of the world.

15 Whoever confesses that
Jesus is the Son of God, God
abides in him, and he in God.

16 And we have known and
believed the love that God
has for us. God is love, and
he who abides in love abides
in God, and God in him.

17 Love has been perfected
among us in this: that we
may have boldness in the day
of judgment; because as He
is, so are we in this world.

18 There is no fear in love;
but perfect love casts out
fear, because fear involves
torment. But he who fears
has not been made perfect in
love. 19 We love Him because
He first loved us.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>INSIGHT<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

Some have taken the scriptural text "God is love" (1 john 4:8) and
turned it around to promote their own nebulous idea that "love
is God." But is this what the verse is really saying? The Greek
translation more accurately reads, "God as to His nature is love," or
"God is a loving God." __Dennis Fisher