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Thursday (1-8)
1 John 4:19-5:4:
Beloved, we love God because he first loved us. If anyone says, “I love God,” but hates his brother, he is a liar for whoever does not love a brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen. This is the commandment we have from him: Whoever loves God must also love his brother. Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is begotten by God and everyone who loves the Father loves also the one begotten by him. In this way we know that we love the children of God when we love God and obey his commandments. For the love of God is this, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome, for whoever is begotten by God conquers the world. And the victory that conquers the world is our faith.
St. Luke 4:14-22:
Jesus returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit, and news of him spread throughout the whole region. He taught in their synagogues and was praised by all. He came to Nazareth, where he had grown up, and went according to his custom into the synagogue on the Sabbath day. He stood up to read and was handed a scroll of the prophet Isaiah. He unrolled the scroll and found the passage where it was written: The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring glad tidings to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to captives and recovery of sight to he blind, to let the oppressed go free and to proclaim a year acceptable to the Lord. Rolling up the scroll, he handed it back to the attendant and sat down, and the eyes of all in the synagogue looked intently at him. He said to them, “Today this scripture passage is fulfilled in your hearing.” And all spoke highly of him and were amazed at the gracious words that came from his mouth.
*The more scripture i read (or better yet HEAR @ Mass…), the less i understand how anyone can believe in Once Saved Always Saved…
(“Ignorance of the scriptures is ignorance of Christ” as some saint said).
this scripture about not hating our “brother” would SEEM to contradict that other one (st. Luke??) that says Unless we hate our mother, father, sisters, brothers… (etc), we are not worthy of Christ… but it really is not a contradiction. We are to “hate” anything or anyone that is an obstacle to our getting into Heaven… but we are to love everyone, meaning do what we can for them (sometimes that means only praying for them, since we cannot be “unequally yoked with unbelievers”. )
Love is the most mis-used word in the English language… or any other, probably…
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1 John 4:19-5:4:
Beloved, we love God because he first loved us. If anyone says, “I love God,” but hates his brother, he is a liar for whoever does not love a brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen. This is the commandment we have from him: Whoever loves God must also love his brother. Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is begotten by God and everyone who loves the Father loves also the one begotten by him. In this way we know that we love the children of God when we love God and obey his commandments. For the love of God is this, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome, for whoever is begotten by God conquers the world. And the victory that conquers the world is our faith.
St. Luke 4:14-22:
Jesus returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit, and news of him spread throughout the whole region. He taught in their synagogues and was praised by all. He came to Nazareth, where he had grown up, and went according to his custom into the synagogue on the Sabbath day. He stood up to read and was handed a scroll of the prophet Isaiah. He unrolled the scroll and found the passage where it was written: The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring glad tidings to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to captives and recovery of sight to he blind, to let the oppressed go free and to proclaim a year acceptable to the Lord. Rolling up the scroll, he handed it back to the attendant and sat down, and the eyes of all in the synagogue looked intently at him. He said to them, “Today this scripture passage is fulfilled in your hearing.” And all spoke highly of him and were amazed at the gracious words that came from his mouth.
*The more scripture i read (or better yet HEAR @ Mass…), the less i understand how anyone can believe in Once Saved Always Saved…
(“Ignorance of the scriptures is ignorance of Christ” as some saint said).this scripture about not hating our “brother” would SEEM to contradict that other one (st. Luke??) that says Unless we hate our mother, father, sisters, brothers… (etc), we are not worthy of Christ… but it really is not a contradiction. We are to “hate” anything or anyone that is an obstacle to our getting into Heaven… but we are to love everyone, meaning do what we can for them (sometimes that means only praying for them, since we cannot be “unequally yoked with unbelievers”. )
Love is the most mis-used word in the English language… or any other, probably…
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