Internet Daily Chapel 12/27/07, Featuring "God's One Law For Mankind"

Internet Daily Chapel - Thursday, December 27, 2007
Online Christian Worship Service
Featuring => God's One Law For All Mankind: "LOVE ALL PEOPLE AS YOURSELF."

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By Rev. Bill McGinnis, Director - LoveAllPeople.org Search our pages => http://loveallpeople.org/searchallpages.html

Welcome to you.

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Blessings to you, in Jesus Christ our Lord.
Worship Service Invocation

Holy Spirit, Lord be with us,
As we join to give You praise.
Share with us Your loving presence,
Fill us with Your perfect ways.

Let our love for You be pleasing,
Everlasting, pure and free;
Let our praise bring joy unto You,
Welcome may it always be.
Amen.
by William McGinnis, Public Domain
http://www.internetchurchofchrist.org/

Opening Song - "Love Divine, All Loves Excelling" Lyrics by Charles Wesley (1747); music is the hymn tune BEECHER, by John Zundel (1870); MIDI file by Bill McGinnis, altered from an existing Public Domain MIDI file. Everything here is Public Domain.
HTML page at http://www.internetchurchofchrist.org/lovedivine.html
MIDI music file at http://patriot.net/users/bmcgin/lovdivb.mid

The Lord's Prayer - with MP3 reading -http://www.internetchurchofchrist.org/lordsprayer.html MP3 at => http://www.internetchurchofchrist.org/lordsprayer2.mp3

Declaration Of Faith: The Apostles' Creed - with MP3 readinghttp://www.internetchurchofchrist.org/pearl-apostlescreed.html MP3 at => http://www.internetchurchofchrist.org/apostlescreed.mp3

Christmas Song - "Lo, How A Rose E'er Blooming" - with lyrics and MIDI music http://www.internetchurchofchrist.org/lohowarose.htmlPlay MIDI music here => http://www.patriot.net/users/bmcgin/umh216.mid

Prayer For You - "To See A Path You Never Saw Before" - with MP3 readinghttp://www.internetchurchofchrist.org/prayer4you99.html MP3 at => http://www.text-to-speech.org/toseeapath.mp3 - Reading by Sweet-Talk Girl

God's One Law For All Mankind: "LOVE ALL PEOPLE AS YOURSELF." All Other Rules And Commandments Are Subordinate To This One Law, And They Must Not Conflict With It.
Complete HTML page at => http://www.internetchurchofchrist.org/godsonelaw.html
Excerpts below . . .
The Bible states it very clearly, so there can be no possible misunderstanding: the Law Of Love fulfills the whole Law of God.
THE LAW OF LOVE _____________________________________________________________ For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself." (Galatians 5:14 RSV) _____________________________________________________________
And who is your neighbor? Everyone is your neighbor. This is shown in the Parable Of The Good Samaritan (Luke 10:25-37, shown below). Therefore, "Love your neighbor as yourself" really means "Love all people as yourself," because everyone is our neighbor. But what about love for God? Doesn't that come first? Yes, but God counts our love for others as if it were love for Himself. So when we love others, we are loving Him at the same time. This is shown in the Parable Of The Sheep And The Goats (Matthew 25:31-46, in the Appendix below). And we cannot claim to love God until we first love our fellow man.
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If any one says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen. (1 John 4:20 RSV) _____________________________________________________________
But what about The Ten Commandments? Aren't we supposed to obey them? Yes, but The Ten Commandments are only an approximation of what God wants from us. The Pharisees obeyed all of the Ten Commandments, yet God was very displeased with them because they did not have love. The exact thing God wants from us is that we should love our neighbor as we love ourselves. Everything else depends on this.
But what about holiness? Aren't we supposed to avoid improper sex, etc. and be pure and chaste? Aren't we supposed to deny our physical selves in order to strengthen our spiritual selves? Maybe so, but our feeble attempts at being holy do not even come close to God's high standards. To Him, they are like filthy rags (Isaiah 64:6). But if we have love for others, God will overlook a multitude of our sins (1 Peter 4:8). And if we forgive others of their offenses against us, He will forgive us of our offenses against Him (Matthew 5:14-15). Love makes everything holy, since God is love (1 John 4:8, 4:16).
So all of God's requirements for mankind boil down to this one command: "YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF." If you truly do this one thing only, it is enough. It then doesn't matter if you fall short on some of the dozens of others. But if you do not do this, all of the others together are not enough. This is the big one, more important than all the others combined.
_____________________________________________________________ If you really fulfil the royal law, according to the scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself," you do well. (James 2:8 RSV) _____________________________________________________________
Complete HTML page at => http://www.internetchurchofchrist.org/godsonelaw.html (Excerpts above . . .)

A Ceremony For Holy Communion - You Can Receive Holy Communion Here
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Invitation To Accept Jesus Christ As Your Personal Lord And Saviour http://www.internetchurchofchrist.org/jesusdirect.html

Closing song - Abide With Mehttp://www.internetchurchofchrist.org/abidewithme.html
MIDI music file at => http://patriot.net/users/bmcgin/abide4d.mid

Benediction

I pray the Lord that He will lead your path
Away from the temptations all around.
I pray that when temptation lingers near,
The Lord will lead you not into its reach.
But if temptation grabs you as you pass,
I pray the Lord that you will struggle free.
In Jesus' holy name I pray, Amen.

Blessings to you in Jesus Christ our Lord.
This chapel service is now complete.

Rev. Bill McGinnis
Pastor - http://internetchurchofchrist.org/
Director - http://loveallpeople.org/

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