4TH ADVENT WORD IS LOVE…after all

What’s all this Advent-Christmas stuff about, anyway? —

This is how much God loved the world: He gave his Son, his one and only Son. And this is why: so that no one need be destroyed; by believing in him, anyone can have a whole and lasting life. God didn’t go to all the trouble of sending his Son merely to point an accusing finger, telling the world how bad it was. He came to help, to put the world right again.

God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son so that anyone who believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.  God did not send his Son into the world to condemn it, but to save it.

God did so love the world, that His Son — the only begotten — He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during. For God did not send His Son to the world that he may judge the world, but that the world may be saved through him.

— Yup, those are three difference versions of John 3:16 + 17.

Not subtle.

Pretty clear.

Very clear, in fact.

Yup, that’s Christ Jesus!