"Supernatural Love"

"Supernatural Love of Jesus"

    During the Korean War, a South Korean Christian, a civilian, was arrested by the communists and ordered shot. But when the young communist leader learned that the prisoner was in charge of an orphanage caring for small children, he decided to spare him and kill his son instead. So they shot the nineteen-year-old boy in the presence of his father.
   Later the fortunes of war changed, and the young communist leader was captured by the United Nations forces, tried, and condemned to death. But before the sentence could be carried out, the Christian whose boy had been killed pleaded for the life of the killer. He declared that he was young, that he really did not know what he was doing. "Give him to me," said the father, "and I'll train him."


   How many of us would be able to do that, invite the person into our home to care for and love on as Jesus would have done? A "Supernatural Love".
    The rest of the story....


   The United Nations forces granted the request, and that father took the murderer of his boy into his own home and cared for him. Today the Young Communist is a Christian Pastor. 


   We don't always know the big picture, or what God's plan is, all we have to do is  TRUST.


   Four years after the Titanic went down, a young Scotsman rose in a meeting in Hamilton, Canada, and said, "I am a survivor of the Titanic. When I was drifting alone on a spar that awful night, the tide brought John Harper, of Glasgow, also on a piece of wreck near me. 'Man,' he said, 'are you saved?'

'No,' I said. 'I am not.' 

He replied, 'Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved."

"The waves bore him away; but, strange to say brought him back a little later, and he said, 'Are you saved now?' 
'No,' I said, 'I cannot honestly say that I am.' He said again, 'Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved,’ Then He took off his Life Vest and gave it to me saying… you need this more than I do. Shortly after he went down; and there, alone in the night, and with two miles of water under me, I believed.

I am John Harper's last convert."

Rev. John Harper

   The giving a ones life for another is the ultimate act of love. A "Supernatural Love"

   The definition of love today in our culture has become blurred, whitewashed and made to fit todays worldly views. Today "love" is used to gain leverage over another. If you love me then you will do as I ask or If you loved me you would not do that.- Leverage-

  If you really want to love like Jesus, you have to be truthful. Tolerance has become the catch word of todays world. Do not let someone tell you what the world has re-defined love to mean. If a man is an adulterer, you love him like Jesus would. Hate the sin, but love the sinner. You can not be tolerant of the sin. Regardless of what the sin may be, the person involved knows it is wrong, they may be trying to justify it, but in the end they know it is wrong- a sin. We love the person, Love the Hell out of them!

   I have my own testimony, my stumbles, my falls so to speak. I have friends who are battling their own set of stumbling blocks. Addictions, pornography, adultery, homosexuality. I love my friends and I pray for them daily. I do not on the other hand tell them it is ok to continue on the road they are on, enabling them to continue to justify their own sins. Enabling someone to continue sinning is not love.


   Are you afraid that they will get mad at you, maybe decide your not much of a friend after all?? Let me ask you this.. What kind of a friend allows their friend to continue to run for the cliff to jump?? What kind of a friend helps an addict by doing drugs with them or suppling?? Not much help there,.. is there??


   A "Supernatural Love", when you love enough to be straight forward and honest with your friend. Loving them so much that you want them to know Jesus. When people start seeing Jesus in you, you are on the right path to love like Jesus.


  Whenever someone sins against you or does you wrong. Make a decision to forgive them right then, don't judge them...forgive them. Are you saying they don't deserve to be forgiven?? They have hurt you all your life to the point of almost ruining you? Jesus shed His blood to cover all of our sins, the sins from yesterday and the sins we have yet to commit. Remember love like Jesus, a "Supernatural Love"


   Mark 11:25-26 “And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses. But if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father which is in heaven forgive your trespasses.”


  Love like Jesus! This means to forgive them, ask Jesus, through His strength and love help me to forgive them. Doesn't mean you have to tell them that you forgive them. The forgiveness is between you and Jesus. You will know when and if the time is right to tell the person who transgressed against you that you forgave them.

    John 15:1-10¹"I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. ² Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. ³Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you. ⁴ Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. ⁵I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. ⁶If anyone does not abide in me he is thrown away like a branch and withers; and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned. ⁷If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. ⁸ By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples. ⁹ As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love. ¹⁰ If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love.

   Like the branches on a vine, we grow daily as we abide in Jesus's love. We reach out to others and love like Jesus. The greater our trust in Jesus, the more compassion we will have. 

     Brandon Heath's song "Give Me Your Eyes", is a wonderful song as well as a psalm to God. Worth listening to the words. It's a prayer to help each of us grow in His love.

   




  May God bless your walk with Him today. Allow Jesus to work through your life so others can see Him. Forgive, Love and keep Praising the One Who is worthy of all our praises. Brothers and Sisters, I love you and I pray that each day you find a new way to show the world what Jesus has done in your life. Love like Jesus- A "Supernatural Love"!