Christ Came Into the World for the Purpose of Revealing His Love.
Jesus Christ came into the world to reveal God's love, which is for every creature, and the church plays a vital role in sharing this love.
Andrew Murray emphasizes that Christ came into the world solely to reveal His love, which is available to everyone, including the most hopeless and rejected individuals. This love was the driving force of Jesus' life, and He desires for His disciples to embody and share this love with others. The connection between belief and the promise of everlasting life is highlighted, as is the responsibility of believers to communicate this divine love and life to the world. Murray asserts that every believer is called to propagate this love, reflecting the self-replicating nature of true life and love within the church.
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And the wonderful, the blessed 'whosoever' of our text says that that love is for every creature. The lowest, the most degraded and rejected and utterly hopeless -- the love is for him, the love longs for him and is able to triumph over him. Jesus Christ came into the world for the one sole purpose of revealing this love. He spoke of it, he lived for it, he died to bring it to us. It was his one aim, his one glory, the passion and strength of his life. It was his very life; it possessed him, and he knew no other joy. And as he prayed 'that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them', he meant his disciples just as much as himself, to have it in them, to live for it, to find their glory and blessedness in carrying it and making it known.
And now think of this life-giving Christ. God gave him that whosoever believeth in him might not perish, but have everlasting life. The 'whosoever' and 'believe' are inseparably connected. 'But how shall they believe on him of whom they have not heard?' Did Christ fail here, and after revealing the love and winning the life make no provision for the message being made known? Verily, no. He made provision. He arranged that every believer, every member of his body, should share with him the glory and blessedness of communicating the divine life and love. The self-propagating power, which is the mark of all life and all love, was to find its highest manifestation in his church. The life of each believer was to be a seed bringing forth fruit after its kind.
(Excerpted from The Coming Revival, by Andrew Murray , pg. 63)
Sermon Outline
- Christ's Purpose in Coming to the World
- The Extent of God's Love
- The Church's Role in Sharing God's Love
- To communicate the divine life and love
- To manifest the self-propagating power of God's love
Key Quotes
“Jesus Christ came into the world for the one sole purpose of revealing this love.” — Andrew Murray
“He made provision. He arranged that every believer, every member of his body, should share with him the glory and blessedness of communicating the divine life and love.” — Andrew Murray
Application Points
- We should strive to live for and communicate God's love to others.
- The church should prioritize sharing the divine life and love with those around us.
- Each believer has the potential to be a seed bringing forth fruit after its kind, manifesting God's love in their lives.