For God So Loved The World

 

  John 3:13-17

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¹³ No one has ever gone into heaven except the one who came from heaven—the Son of Man. ¹⁴ Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, ¹⁵ that everyone who believes may have eternal life in him.”

¹⁶ For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. ¹⁷ For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.

We have in a nutshell the mission of Jesus.  Thank you Nicodmus for your questions and your willingness to listen. John 3:16 appears everywhere, on billboards, on posters at ball games, on holy cards. Jesus came to SAVE us. He willingly took on our humanity and suffered the most painful death, death on a cross, that man had devised to that point. Today we exult, we honor, we lift up that cross, we adore it, because we have been saved by it. As we pray today in the usual fashion, beginning with the sign of the cross, let us stir up prayerful attention and gratitude to Jesus for using that once ignominious sign as now a sign of his love for us and the key to our salvation.  Thank you, Jesus.

Bro. Rene

We adore you  O Christ, and we bless you, because by your holy cross you have redeemed the world. Amen.