"That's The Love of God"
Let us give all praise and honor to our Lord, Jesus Christ. Bless His Name, for He loved us from before the foundation of the world. He continues to love us even when we fail. My prayer today is that you will be encouraged and strengthened in these last days. I know that every child of God is under attack. Revelation 12:12 tells us that satan knows his time is short. Think it not strange that fiery trials are coming upon you. I too well know what it�s like to feel I�ve failed God and that I can�t go on. Oh but I�m so thankful for a loving God that never leaves us or forsakes us. I�m thankful for a loving wife who stands behind me and braces me, urging me on in the hottest battle and never giving up on me. I�m thankful for a Pastor that cares and a praying Church behind me. I�m so thankful for all of you who support me with your prayers and offerings, true brothers and sisters. We are a kindred, a family, and must always follow the leading of the Holy Spirit in prayer for one another. I want each of you, whether a child of God or among the lost, to know that you are loved. Sister Kim and I care about what you are going through. We love you and want to help you enter into God�s kingdom. We are never too busy to read your letters and pray for you, and our church will too. Oh, but One far greater is able and waiting to hear from you. He stands with arms wide open to receive you, to meet your need, to comfort you. His name is Jesus! He desires a better life for you, and for you to spend eternity in Heaven. He gave His life, just for you. He bore your infirmities and took all sickness, just for you. He was slapped and spat on, just for you. He had a crown of thorns forced down on His head, just for you. You see, before you even were, He knew you needed a Saviour and that He would have to leave Heaven just for you! And, �That�s The Love Of God!�
I want to establish something with you now in order for you to really understand and appreciate the love of God, that agape love. That is love without condition. You must grasp and truly understand: before this world was spoken into existence, our God knew you! He knew man would listen to a lie and choose evil over His instruction. He knew man would fall and reject His perfect world. Yes, He knew this, before Adam was ever created. Yes, He knew that a perfect, spotless sacrifice would have to shed It�s blood to offer you the opportunity of salvation. Oh, He even knew the choice you would make, even after His longsuffering. John 3:16-17, �For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through Him might be saved.� The word �world� means you and I and all that ever was, and all that ever will be! That �whosoever� is each of us and anyone that will believe on Jesus! Can you understand God knew all this from before the beginning? Still yet, instead of just scrapping His plan of creation, He created man and gave us a choice. �That�s The Love Of God!�
Most everyone knows the true account of creation in Genesis 1. We know that God created a beautiful garden for man to live in. We know that God gave man a name to be called by � Adam. Just picture for a minute the beauty of that garden. I don�t think our minds can truly grasp how green the grass was or how clear and cool the water was. I don�t believe with all of man�s agricultural knowledge today, that we have ever seen fruit and vegetables like God grew in that garden. I can�t imagine a lion walking by and laying down with a lamb! All this beauty, and Adam didn�t have to labor for it. Adam walking through that garden, with authority over the animals and God calling out his name. �Adam, you need a mate.� God created him the perfect wife. God the Father loved His children and called them by name. We love our children and give them names � it is a personal thing between a parent and a child. We don�t say �hey boy� or hey girl� all their lives, but call them by name. Isaiah 43:1 tells us that God called each of us by name. He knows us everyone and loves us just like He did Adam and Eve! In Genesis 3:1-5, satan perverts and distorts the Word of God, deceiving the woman. I need to tell you that it is important to know the Word of God! A lot of deceivers are in the land, distorting God�s Word. You know the story, Eve fell for satan�s lies and Adam followed along. Both had been told not to eat of that tree � they made a choice. A choice that brought sin and sorrow into the world. It opened the door for every sinful act, every crime, every war, every soul that stepped into hell! That one sinful act of disobedience in the garden set the stage for man to need a Saviour. Jesus would leave Heaven and come suffer all He did for all men. Again I tell you, God knew this would happen! Adam and Eve, the cause of sin entering the world � they had failed. Yet in Genesis 3:21 we see God�s love. After all this and all that would come, God clothed them. He still loved them and demonstrated it to them. I believe an animal was sacrificed that day � the first blood sacrifice, blood atonement, took place as a covering for them. �That�s The Love Of God!�
Many of you know my personal testimony. I existed outside the will of God for many years only by the mercy of God! I failed God and thought I could just quit and run. I thought I could be happy doing my own thing. I was on a fast road to destruction and thought I could just go ahead and die on my own terms. It seemed I had sunk about as deep as a man could and all hope was gone. God wasn�t ready to give up on me though! He gave me another chance once again and He�s been restoring me for years. No good for anything or to anybody, but God had a job for me. �That�s The Love Of God!�
Sometimes we receive chastisement over our disobedience. It�s hard at the time, when it comes upon us. I know I don�t like to have to give correction, punishment, to my children. Most parents don�t enjoy it, but we do so because we love them. In Matthew 7 we are reminded that our flesh nature is evil, still yet most parents try to give their children the best that they can. We don�t give a child things that will harm them. We do this out of paternal and maternal love, a love that we only know in this flesh. Matthew 7:11 says, �If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in Heaven give good things to them that ask Him?� The best love that we can give doesn�t come close to the love of God our Father! He loves all, regardless of their condition, saved or lost, rich or poor. He loves the vilest, even the ones who commit horrific acts. Can I tell you He loves the Muslim, the Hindu, the Buddhist, all that deny Him? Even though they are servants to satan the same as any devil worshipper, He still loves them! His heart mourns for them to turn from their error, repent and honor Him as a child. He desires that all His creation come to be with Him in Heaven. Many will reject Him until the end. Then God must keep His Word � they will receive the ultimate punishment by being cast into hell. A place of torment created for satan and his angels and demons. God does not want this and extends every opportunity to ALL, that they won�t have to suffer this. God takes no pleasure in His children choosing to go to hell. He is a God of love, but a God of judgment as well. Even as Jesus hung on the cross, men parted His garments and cast lots for them. He hung naked, suffering in great agony that we cannot grasp! He hung there taking the sin for even those men. Those men were at His feet for what they could get, just like many of the multitudes that followed Him. Sadly, many are at churches to get what they can, instead of coming to worship. He offered Himself as sacrifice for all, and that is extended to whosoever today. Search your heart and accept the gift. Jesus is waiting. �That�s The Love Of God!�
The devil has always been jealous of God�s creation, when he was in the garden and still today. God produced a plan of salvation for man, and satan seeks to destroy it (John 10:10). Sadly, false messengers have been in the pulpit and anywhere people will listen, long before Jesus came to die for us. Each day they are preaching a perverted gospel. They preach a gospel of �just believe� and leave out repentance. When you truly believe, you repent! When you repent, a change comes forth. A false salvation is in the land � a salvation that takes place in the head and not the heart. God looks on the heart. In Matthew 7:21-23, Jesus said that many will claim His name and all they did in it. Yet He warns that He never knew them, for them to depart as workers of iniquity. The Book of Isaiah says, �hell hath enlarged its boundaries.� It will be full of false preachers and teachers and those that have been deceived by them. Very soon the Holy Spirit will allow me to give a complete message concerning this and how to recognize such things. For now I urge you to study God�s Word, meditate, spend time with God in prayer and ask for the Holy Spirit to give you discernment. I can�t stress enough the importance in this. I can only warn you that your soul is at stake. Not only yours, but all those who you have influence over. God gave us His Word. He wants to spend time with us. He knew all these troubles would come. He makes Himself available to all who seek. My friends, �That�s The Love Of God!�
Please keep the ministry, our church and family in prayer. The battle to stop this work of God has been hot. God has been leading me to put together a �Discipleship Bible Study� to offer to all who desire it. He will have to make it possible. I�ve been teaching it already here on the inside, and am combining notes to put it all together. I ask that you pray God�s will for us. �That�s The Love Of God!�
In Christ's Love, Bro. Don George
