1 John 3:1

See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.

From Background Notes [BN] for September 14^th & 15^th written by Pastor Bob Brown:

God’s love is a persistent expression of His nature (see 1 John 4:16) that finds unexpected and utterly amazing form in the coming of Jesus. By sending His Son, God determined to reaffirm that we “should be called children of God.”

 

According to the writer, we already are God’s children, thanks to Jesus. Yet, our full redemptive potential as God’s children has not yet been reached, “but we know that when he appears, we shall be like him” (3:2). There is a true progression between “what we are” (already) and “what we shall become” (not yet), and so we live between the two. [BN,2]

Join us this week in Study, Worship, Praise and Celebration at Chicago First Church of the Nazarene:

* Saturday 6:00pm
* Sunday 8:30am & 11:00am, 5:30pm