It truly is amazing that God’s love has been bestowed upon us. Eternal life is a gift of the Father bestowed upon us because of the work of the Lord Jesus Christ His Son. John is here trying to arouse us spiritually to think about the greatness of this gift and what it is doing for us and what it is going to do for us who are fallen unworthy creatures in ourselves. It is a gift of the Father’s love that we should be called the children of God. What if he had not bestowed it, where should we be? We should be lost and undone forever! But because it has been bestowed we may gaze upon our whole eternity that lies before us with holy joy and anticipation. This evening we want to look at what kind of love the Father has, that has been bestowed upon us, that we should be called the children of God. It is 1st of all – A love which adopted us as children. It is 2nd – A love that the world does not understand. And 3rd – It is a love which we remember in the Lord’s Supper.
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Pastor Paul Rendall was born in November of 1951, and grew up in Davenport, Iowa. He went to college at Drake University and the University of Iowa where he received a B.A. degree in Social Work and History in 1974. Paul searched for truth in all the wrong places in college, but...
