As we continue our Lenten Sermon Series on the Covenant Promises of God, this Sunday we come to the most familiar passage in all of the Bible: John 3:16 and the Promise of God's Love.
This Sunday we come to see that it is not just that God promises to be with us (last Sunday's sermon on The Ten Commandments) and count us among the family of the faithful (two weeks ago's sermon on Father Abraham) and extend his grace to us (three weeks ago's sermon on Noah and the promise of the rainbow). This Sunday we see that the promise of God is the promise of unconditional love.
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And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in him may have eternal life.
‘For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life.
‘Indeed, God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. Those who believe in him are not condemned; but those who do not believe are condemned already, because they have not believed in the name of the only Son of God. And this is the judgement, that the light has come into the world, and people loved darkness rather than light because their deeds were evil. For all who do evil hate the light and do not come to the light, so that their deeds may not be exposed. But those who do what is true come to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that their deeds have been done in God.’
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