Verse of the Day: But God proves [demonstrates] his own love for us because Christ died for us, when we are still sinners (Romans 5. 8).
Do you notice this? is in the present and? belongs to the past.
- This present indicates that this manifestation is an ongoing act that continues to occur in the present today and in the present of tomorrow.
The past? This implies that Christ’s death occurred once and for all and will not be repeated. “For Christ also died, once, for sins, the righteous for the unjust, to lead you to God?(1 Peter 3:18).
Why did Paul use present time (Does God show it?)?He would have expected Paul to say, “God showed (in the past) His own love for us because Christ died for us when we were still sinners. “Wasn’t Christ’s death a demonstration of God’s love?And this demonstration hasn’t taken place in the past?
I think the clue is given a few verses before. Paul has just said that “tribulation produces perseverance; perseverance, experience; experience, hope. Now, don’t you confuse hope? (Verses 3-5).
In other words, the purpose of all that God leads us to go through is hope; wants us to feel desperate in the midst of all the tribulations.
But how can we?
Paul responds with the following prayer: “Why does God’s love spread in our hearts by the Holy Ghost, which has been given to us?(Verse 5). God’s love” spreads in our hearts. “The time of this verb indicates that God’s love spread in our hearts in the past (in our conversion) and is always present and active.
God has shown his love for us by giving his own Son the death once and for all in the past for our sins (verse 8), but He also knows that this past love must be lived as a present reality (today and tomorrow), so that we may have perseverance, experience, and hope.
Therefore, he not only demonstrated it on Calvary; He continues to demonstrate this now by the Spirit; He does so by opening the eyes of our hearts so that we may like and see the glory of the cross and the security that nothing can separate us from God’s love in Jesus Christ (Romans 8: 39).
Original: May 2nd? God shows his love, © 2017 Faithful Ministérium. All rights reserved. Website: MinisterioFiel. com. br. Translation: Camila Rebeca Almeida. Reviewer: Vinicius Musselman. Narration: Emílio Garofalo Neto.
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