Saturday, January 5, 2008
Offering Sermon:
~What we give determines the status of the person.
Love Undeservedly:
-Mercy is not getting what we do deserve. eg, Punishment
-Grace is getting what we do not deserve. eg, Blessing

-who deserved to be loved.
-people according to performance.
-according to benefits
-people who love us
-people because of relationships
-people who we are grateful to
- Evil/Non-Christian/Worldly people can also be very loving, not just Christians.
- However, people of the world only love those who deserved to be loved.
Then what makes Christians different from those people of the world?
- As a Christian, we should love people undeserving of our love.
- Look at Matthew 5:43-48
- We should not live in the world where we wait to be loved but we should be the one who initiates love.
- The sad truth=>We usually response to people's love. eg. In an orientation program, if someone who we don't know from the same group smiles at us and greets us, we will then do the same to them. Most of the people in the world are like this, they only respond when other people starts interacting with them. They won't even initiate the talk. Therefore, we should initiate love and not respond to love.
- Even God loves the undeserving people. He makes the sun rise on both the evil and the good and let rain fall on both the wicked and the kind. The bible didn't says that he makes the sun explode on the evil and let hail storms and thunderstorms strike the wicked.
- When people are down and out, undeserving, that is the time we should show them Love.
- The world=> The greater people are, the more they abuse their power.
- We should not be like that.
- However we should be like=> The greater we are, the more mercy and grace we should show.
- How we treat the people below/under us reflects how loving we are, not how we treat people above us. Cause people usually treat people with higher ranks with much more respect.
English Lessons:
Magnanimous=>Very generous or forgiving even towards one's rival.
Finally I'm gonna end off with a verse from the bible.
1 Corinthians 13:4
"Love Suffers Long and is Kind..."
~IceCleric~