"In everything give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you." (1 Thess. 5:18) We are instructed to give thanks to God "in" everything, not "for" everything. Not all things that happen to us are the will of God. Sickness, disease, fear,...

"Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body; and be thankful." (Col. 3:15 NASB) Let Christ's peace control you because God has called you into His peace by bringing you into His body. So be thankful. Jesus does so much...

"And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling savour. " (Eph. 5:2) To walk in love means to conduct yourself as Jesus would and willingly sacrifice your plans and options as He...

"We have come to know and have believed the love, which God has for us. God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him." (1 John 4:16 NASB) Love is of the heart. We respond to it and we make choice for it in our hearts. It is...

"For the love of Christ constraineth us, because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead." (2 Cor. 5:14) What does this mean? "Constraineth" means to control, to hold together, or to arrest like a prisoner. A prisoner has lost his rights to do...

"The one who does not love does not know God, for God is love." (1 John 4:8 NASB) Anyone who does not love has never been introduced to, or become acquainted with, God. They do not know God as He truly is. But we are born of God through the new birth and therefore...

"Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God." (1 John 4:7 NASB) We are to love one another with the love with which Jesus loves us. John exhorts that we must love like that to qualify as being born of...

"By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another." (John 13:35 NASB) Jesus had just given the New Commandment for the New Covenant. "Love one another as I have loved you." Now He says that if you keep on showing His love, among...

"A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you, that you also love one another." (John 13:34 NASB) I am repeating the same verse again today because it is that important to us. We must understand what Jesus was saying. Many...

"A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you, that you also love one another." (John 13:34 NASB) The only commandment the new creation Christian is to keep is this new commandment of love. Jesus fulfilled the Old Covenant...

"Therefore, brethren, be all the more diligent to make certain about His calling and choosing you; for as long as you practice these things, you will never stumble." (2 Peter 1:10 NASB) We have gone through what Peter told us about the divine nature of God that...

"For he who lacks these qualities is blind or short-sighted, having forgotten his purification from his former sins." (2 Peter 1:9 NASB) The qualities referred to here are faith, virtue, knowledge, self-control, patience, godliness, brotherly kindness, and love....