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Love Won.

Blessed Sunday Friends,

I've seen many uses of the rainbow over the years. Unicorns, leprechauns, Skittles, and most frequently a symbol of gay pride. More than likely our experiences with the rainbow have been alterations of its original purpose. I thought it would be refreshing for some believers to hear that even while some things that we hold sacred may be being used for personal deviations we can know that no matter what happens in this life nothing can remove the the ultimate purpose of God in bringing glory to himself in Christ Jesus. All things are made by God and for God. My heart breaks for our world but I am also joyful because I know that at the end of it all love did win. Love won when Jesus laid down his life for a broken and sinful people and was resurrected and seated at the right hand of God. He saw each and every single one of us and he knew that for each lash, for each punch, for each kick, and for each nail that he took that we were worth the sacrifice. In spite of all of our effort to declare sovereign control over our lives he loves us even while we are still sinners. Each one us has been given an opportunity to die to ourself and follow him despite what we have done. That is amazing grace.

"God said, "This is the sign of the covenant which I am making between Me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all successive generations; I set My bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a sign of a covenant between Me and the earth. It shall come about, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow will be seen in the cloud, and I will remember My covenant, which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and never again shall the water become a flood to destroy all flesh. When the bow is in the cloud, then I will look upon it, to remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth."-Genesis 9:12-16

For while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. For one will hardly die for a righteous man; though perhaps for the good man someone would dare even to die. But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us."-Romans 5:6-8


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