Holi\u00adne\u00adss and love belong tog\u00ade\u00adther. He who loves com\u00adple\u00adte\u00adly does not allow harm to come to the bel\u00adoved. We have a choice: we can place our\u00adsel\u00adves under the love of God or we can choo\u00adse self-rea\u00adli\u00adsa\u00adti\u00adon and sel\u00adfi\u00adsh\u00adness. With the lat\u00adter, our actions will affect, harm others. Becau\u00adse God loves all peo\u00adp\u00adle, he does not allow that, his holi\u00adne\u00adss does not allow that. God\u2019s holi\u00adne\u00adss is so important for love becau\u00adse it gua\u00adran\u00adtees that he never cea\u00adses to seek the abso\u00adlu\u00adte good, this leads to \u00abglo\u00adry\u00bb: whe\u00adre he comes into play with his holy love, it beco\u00admes \u00abglo\u00adrious\u00bb.<\/p>\n
The mother bear \tStart: I con\u00adsider some\u00adthing to be valuable and \u00abwort\u00adhy of love Now God\u2019s love is holy: that means: He loves unce\u00ada\u00adsing\u00adly and com\u00adple\u00adte\u00adly. The\u00adre is no dimi\u00adnis\u00adhing of his love, neither in time nor in inten\u00adsi\u00adty. Now the gre\u00adat mys\u00adtery of the uni\u00adver\u00adse is that God has cho\u00adsen to love man, to make him his children. \tWith God as my Lord and Father and Christ His Son and my Brother I can only with\u00addraw from this love if I distance mys\u00adelf. That is what Adam and Eve did, they cho\u00adse the path of self-rea\u00adli\u00adsa\u00adti\u00adon, that is why they had to lea\u00adve para\u00addi\u00adse and sin\u00adce then man has been sepa\u00adra\u00adted from God. Whoe\u00adver sins des\u00adtroys the good that God has made. Every sin\u00adgle sin \u2013 des\u00adtroys some\u00adthing and thus makes him an ene\u00admy of God, the guar\u00addi\u00adan of good. His holi\u00adne\u00adss is the strength and deter\u00admi\u00adna\u00adti\u00adon with which he seeks the good and sepa\u00adra\u00adtes hims\u00adelf from all evil. Or as the Bible says: \u00abThis is the mes\u00adsa\u00adge he has given us to tell you: God is light; in him the\u00adre is no dark\u00adness\u00bb (1 John 1:15 NLB<\/span>). In other words, anyo\u00adne who choo\u00adses dark\u00adness or remains in it has the light as their enemy. What is the dif\u00adfe\u00adrence bet\u00adween a mother bear pro\u00adtec\u00adting her child\u00adren and the hea\u00adven\u00adly Father? (pos\u00adsi\u00adble ans\u00adwer: The mother bear is not all-powerful, but God is. A mother bear can\u00adnot pro\u00adtect her cubs against all dan\u00adgers, God can).<\/p>\n Do you belie\u00adve that God real\u00adly loves you and seeks the good for you and wants to be clo\u00adse to you, or is God some\u00adwhat ali\u00aden to you becau\u00adse of his holiness?<\/p>\n How far have I unders\u00adtood that it is me with my decis\u00adi\u00adons that leads to a sepa\u00adra\u00adti\u00adon with God or main\u00adta\u00adins the exis\u00adting sepa\u00adra\u00adti\u00adon with God and not God who is the one see\u00adking the sepa\u00adra\u00adti\u00adon? (God always loves me. God always seeks the good for me. But if I choo\u00adse self-rea\u00adli\u00adsa\u00adti\u00adon and sel\u00adfi\u00adsh\u00adness, it des\u00adtroys my envi\u00adron\u00adment. If I beco\u00adme the des\u00adtroy\u00ader, I auto\u00adma\u00adti\u00adcal\u00adly beco\u00adme the ene\u00admy of the \u00abbuil\u00adder\u00bb).<\/p>\n How far do you share the view that holi\u00adne\u00adss and love belong tog\u00ade\u00adther? And if so, what does that mean for your ever\u00ady\u00adday life?<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Holi\u00adne\u00adss and love belong tog\u00ade\u00adther. Tho\u00adse who love com\u00adple\u00adte\u00adly do not allow the bel\u00adoved to be har\u00admed. We have a choice: we can place our\u00adsel\u00adves under the love of God or we can opt for self-rea\u00adli\u00adsa\u00adti\u00adon and sel\u00adfi\u00adsh\u00adness. If we choo\u00adse the lat\u00adter, our actions will harm others. Becau\u00adse God loves all peo\u00adp\u00adle, he does not allow this\u2026<\/p>","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":7334,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","wpfc_preacher":[95],"wpfc_sermon_series":[90],"wpfc_sermon_topics":[],"wpfc_bible_book":[],"wpfc_service_type":[12],"class_list":{"0":"wpfc_preacher-harry-graf","1":"wpfc_sermon_series-heilig-heilig-heilig","2":"wpfc-sermon-single","3":"post-7314","4":"wpfc_sermon","5":"type-wpfc_sermon","6":"status-publish","7":"has-post-thumbnail","8":"hentry","11":"wpfc_service_type-gottesdienst"},"acf":[],"sermons_blog_filters_topics":"\t\t\t\t
\nA mother bear is dan\u00adge\u00adrous. Why? For whom? The dan\u00adger comes from the fact that she wants to main\u00adtain a safe space for her child\u00adren. For the bear\u2019s cubs, she is not a dan\u00adger \u2013 on the con\u00adtra\u00adry. For them, she is the caring mother. The\u00adre are only two spaces for a mother bear: you are her child and are the\u00adr\u00ade\u00adfo\u00adre under her pro\u00adtec\u00adtion, or you are out\u00adside of it. The bear\u2019s love for her child\u00adren beco\u00admes a dan\u00adger for tho\u00adse who want to jeo\u00adpar\u00addi\u00adse this love.
\nGenui\u00adne love is sacred: it crea\u00adtes a clear sepa\u00adra\u00adti\u00adon bet\u00adween good and evil. Dan\u00adge\u00adrous and loving, we also expe\u00adri\u00adence this ten\u00adsi\u00adon with God \u2013 for the same reason. God is holy, but he is also love:
\nWhoe\u00adver lives with God is under his love
\n\u00abGod is love, and tho\u00adse who live in love live in God and God lives in them\u00bb (1 John 4:16 NLB<\/span>).
\n\u00abThe ways of the LORD<\/span> are pure good\u00adness and faithful\u00adness to all who keep his coven\u00adant and his tes\u00adti\u00admo\u00adnies\u00bb (Psalm 25:10 LUT<\/span>).
\nWhoe\u00adver turns against good\u00adness is struck by the holi\u00adne\u00adss of God:
\n\u00abBut just as the LORD<\/span> your God gave you the good things he pro\u00admi\u00adsed you, so he will bring dis\u00adas\u00adter on you if you break the coven\u00adant of the LORD<\/span> your God that he com\u00adman\u00added you. He will cut you off from this good land he has given you. If you wor\u00adship other gods and ser\u00adve them, his anger will fla\u00adre up against you\u00bb (Joshua 23:16 NLB<\/span>).
\nWhoe\u00adver breaks the coven\u00adant breaks out of this cir\u00adcle of the loving Father\u2019s pro\u00adtec\u00adtion and deci\u00addes for the worse. Like the pro\u00addi\u00adgal son. He also left his father\u2019s pro\u00adtec\u00adtion and wan\u00adde\u00adred the world until he could no lon\u00adger even eat what pigs are allo\u00adwed to eat \u2013 lite\u00adral\u00adly, he had to live \u00abunder the worst of circumstances\u00bb.
\nUnder\u00adstan\u00adding love correctly
\nHow does love actual\u00adly work?<\/p>\n
\n\tI won\u00adder what the bel\u00adoved needs to deve\u00adlop fully
\n\tI am total\u00adly com\u00admit\u00adted to making good a rea\u00adli\u00adty for the beloved.<\/p>\n
\nIn this world, the\u00adre are only two ways to seek happiness:<\/p>\n
\n\tOr about self-rea\u00adli\u00adsa\u00adti\u00adon = ego\u00adism = sin<\/p>\n
\nLove over\u00adco\u00admes, the sepa\u00adra\u00adti\u00adon bet\u00adween God and man
\nIf God were \u00abonly\u00bb holy, the sepa\u00adra\u00adti\u00adon bet\u00adween God and man would have remain\u00aded fore\u00adver. It was God\u2019s love that bridged the gap bet\u00adween God and man. The love of God is the motor that dro\u00adve God to over\u00adco\u00adme the gulf bet\u00adween God and man:
\n\u00abFor God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, so that ever\u00adyo\u00adne who belie\u00adves in him shall not peri\u00adsh but have eter\u00adnal life\u00bb (John 3:16 NLB<\/span>).
\nIf God were only holy, he would have wiped out huma\u00adni\u00adty com\u00adple\u00adte\u00adly becau\u00adse it does not love. That is what the holy God almost did with Noah. But God loves man. But God does not just lea\u00adve man ali\u00adve, alo\u00adne on his own. No, man can\u00adnot find real hap\u00adpi\u00adness wit\u00adhout God. Leone\u2019s love is the motor that He Hims\u00adelf came into this unho\u00adly world in His Son Jesus Christ. God has over\u00adco\u00adme the gulf bet\u00adween Him and man not us. All reli\u00adgi\u00adons tell us that we have to over\u00adco\u00adme the gap with the gods. The bibli\u00adcal God is dif\u00adfe\u00adrent, He has ope\u00adned up to us.
\nBut God has not given up his holi\u00adne\u00adss. The fact that God took upon hims\u00adelf to beco\u00adme man does not make him pure. It took the sub\u00adsti\u00adtu\u00adtio\u00adna\u00adry death on the cross, in which God hims\u00adelf took the sins of man\u00adkind upon hims\u00adelf and washed them clean. The secret of the cross is that God, despi\u00adte his love, did not betray his holi\u00adne\u00adss. He found a way to remain holy and still be able to love us by washing us clean through the sacri\u00adfice of Christ. He beca\u00adme unho\u00adly for us so that we could beco\u00adme \u00absanc\u00adti\u00adfied\u00bb. God\u2019s holi\u00adne\u00adss and love meet at the cross, whe\u00adre God hims\u00adelf takes upon hims\u00adelf sepa\u00adra\u00adti\u00adon from life \u2013 death!
\nOnly on the basis of the sacri\u00adfice of Jesus Christ does ever\u00adyo\u00adne have the oppor\u00adtu\u00adni\u00adty to deci\u00adde for them\u00adsel\u00adves whe\u00adther they want to live under God\u2019s love and come back to Him, or whe\u00adther they remain God\u2019s ene\u00admy who des\u00adtroys God\u2019s good with their \u00absins\u00bb.
\nGlo\u00adry \u2013 the place whe\u00adre holi\u00adne\u00adss and love meet
\nGod is all light and no dark\u00adness is in him. He is holy. Light is good. Light gives colour, light gives warmth, light gives ori\u00aden\u00adta\u00adti\u00adon, light lets us see every object as it is. Light gives us the abili\u00adty to see things cor\u00adrect\u00adly. In the dark\u00adness the\u00adre is cold\u00adness, ever\u00ady\u00adthing is black, you can\u00adnot see or reco\u00adg\u00adni\u00adse anything.
\n\u00abThe fruit of the light is pure good\u00adness and righ\u00adteous\u00adness and truth\u00bb (Ephe\u00adsi\u00adans 5:9 NLB<\/span>).
\nGod is always light, God is always holy (full of truth and jus\u00adti\u00adce), but God is also always full of good\u00adness. Holi\u00adne\u00adss and love can\u00adnot be separated.
\nThis makes it clear why holi\u00adne\u00adss is so important, espe\u00adci\u00adal\u00adly for love. God\u2019s holi\u00adne\u00adss gua\u00adran\u00adtees that he never cea\u00adses to seek the abso\u00adlu\u00adte good, which leads to \u00abglo\u00adry\u00bb.
\n\u00abThey cried out to one ano\u00adther, \u00abHoly, holy, holy is the LORD<\/span> Almigh\u00adty! The earth is fil\u00adled with his glo\u00adry!\u00bb (Isai\u00adah 6:3 NLB<\/span>).
\nGlo\u00adry means that in a place (keit), someone (a Lord) reacts in a cer\u00adtain way (lich). With self-glo\u00adry \u2013 I rule and that does\u00adn\u2019t come good. Glo\u00adry, glo\u00adrious is posi\u00adti\u00adve. Now when it says that the \u00abearth is fil\u00adled with his glo\u00adry\u00bb, it means that the unrest\u00adric\u00adted, holy love of God brings an incre\u00addi\u00adble glo\u00adry to the who\u00adle earth. We see what such glo\u00adry can look like in crea\u00adti\u00adon. After crea\u00adti\u00adon, God loo\u00adked at ever\u00ady\u00adthing and recor\u00added: It is very good.
\nAnd we are alre\u00ada\u00addy allo\u00adwed to live with this God. If Christ has room in our hearts, he will \u00abglo\u00adri\u00adfy\u00bb hims\u00adelf in and through us. We will sepa\u00adra\u00adte our\u00adsel\u00adves from ever\u00ady\u00adthing dark and bad and turn to the light and good. In this chan\u00adge of our lives, holy love of God and his Son and his Spi\u00adrit will then beco\u00adme visi\u00adble in our lives. And then peo\u00adp\u00adle will see the crea\u00adti\u00adve power and love of God in us.
\nAre we holy \u2013 is the love of God visi\u00adble in us and through us?
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\nPos\u00adsi\u00adble ques\u00adti\u00adons for the small group <\/p>\n