1/3/2024 Mid-week Mass, Tenth Day of Christmas
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Gospel Lesson: John 1.29-34, Jbap spoke of the Lamb of God
“takes away the sin of the world.”
Jbap felt unworthy, “he ranks ahead of me.”
speaks to divinity of Christ (“He was before me”)
1 John Lesson: writer speaks of God’s great love
What is God’s love?
How can we experience it? Measure it? Know it?
Gk Word used in the passage for love is agape.
used 46 times in 1 John
used 9 times in chapter 3
God’s love is not like the everyday love we might experience in this life
Human is fickle, shallow…
Closest thing we get is the love of a parent to a child
Then, in some cases, it can be deep, meaningful, life-long
God’s love transforms a person:
1 John 3:1“See what love the Father has given 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.” :
God’s love is not like human love, because human love is not entirely transformative
God’s love takes us from being one thing, one identity, one status, and completely makes us into another thing, another identity, another status;
God’s love is transformative
What’s makes this so special?
Aren’t we owed this sort of treatment? Don’t we earn this kind of love?
Think back to the garden of eden:
what happened?
Who betrayed who?
God could have destroyed humanity right then and there, but did he?
He chose forebearance
God’s love takes average humans-turns them into royals.
Reminds me of Prince Harry, previously of the English monarchy
He was born into the crown
Was it of his doing? No.
Can you become a royal? Maybe by marriage.
Royals are typically born, not made.
But God’s love is such that it takes average people of non-royal bloodlines and makes them heirs of his everlasting Kingdom.
The kingdoms of England, france, etc., will pass away, but God’s kingdom, the kingdom of which we are heirs, will last forever.
God’s love is not merely a thing we behold or experience temporarily, it is a thing that transforms us from one state into another.