Dial Daily Bread

Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":

When God commands us to do something He always supplies the power or ability to do it. If that were not true, He would not deserve John’s sublime definition, “God is love” (1 John 4:8). He gives the command; our response should immediately be, “Yes, Father in heaven; I choose to do and to be what You command! ‘Oh how I love Your law! It is my meditation all the day’” (Psalm 119:97). When the Gospel is understood, the “should” immediately becomes the active form of the verb: to do what He commands becomes now our own free-will, our delight. Miracle of miracles—we are “reconciled to God”! (2 Cor. 5:20). That’s what the “atonement” is—at-one-with God, who is Himself “love.”

 

One of those commands is, “Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for it” (Eph. 5:25). That word for “love” is the verb for agape, and agape is the love of God—so now we come face to face with a stupendous revelation: sexual love is a gift of the love of God—something pure and holy, in holy marriage. “Husbands” are always married men! That means: fornication and adultery are not “love” that is agape; illicit sex is self-love, which has murder wrapped within it.

 

Is agape a happy kind of love? If husband believes the Gospel, the answer has to be yes. There is a wisdom in agape that is wiser than all the cleverness of Satan and his evil angels; it’s a love that wins. TIME magazine once published an article by Jacques Levy that openly admitted that fornication is “rebellion against God.” True; it’s “the carnal mind,” “enmity against God” (Rom. 8:7). We all have it; it’s through our sinful nature inherited from the fallen Adam. And John defines “enmity” as murder (1 John 3:15); therefore illicit sex is always the re-crucifixion of Christ. It’s Hebrews 6:6—“crucifying again the Son of God and putting Him to an open shame.” It will all come out in the open in the final judgment, when it will be sadly too late for multitudes. But rejoice that the Holy Spirit can reveal that full truth to us today! There is blessed atonement in it.

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