1 Cor 13:13
And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

The understanding of what this "Love" is in "for God so loved the world that HE gave"

Poleni.. did not post on Saturday as promised.

There are lots of posts up here im itching to respond to but will not for now.

The Gospel?

Simply.

After Adams disobedience at the garden of eden Adam and all of the human race (in him) died.
Died? yes Died.
SIN is a spiritual posture of disobedience or rebellion toward God.
Sin gives birth to Death. The wages of SIN is death.
What death? Spiritual death.. Separation from the fellowship of God. See Adams behavior after his disobedience and ultimately being banished from the garden.
Followed (for the unrepentant) by the 2nd death.. all eternity in hell.

What next?

God reintroduces himself to humanity via Moses and the Law.
Introduces the priesthood in the order of Aaron and the tribe of Levi.

Fast forward... consider the following words in the book of hebrews.

11 If perfection could have been attained through the Levitical priesthood—and indeed the law given to the people established that priesthood—why was there still need for another priest to come, one in the order of Melchizedek, not in the order of Aaron?
12 For when the priesthood is changed, the law must be changed also.
13 He of whom these things are said belonged to a different tribe, and no one from that tribe has ever served at the altar.
14 For it is clear that our Lord descended from Judah, and in regard to that tribe Moses said nothing about priests.
15 And what we have said is even more clear if another priest like Melchizedek appears,
16 one who has become a priest not on the basis of a regulation as to his ancestry but on the basis of the power of an indestructible life. 17 For it is declared:

“You are a priest forever,
in the order of Melchizedek.”[a]
18 The former regulation is set aside because it was weak and useless
19 (for the law made nothing perfect), and a better hope is introduced, by which we draw near to God.

20 And it was not without an oath! Others became priests without any oath,
21 but he became a priest with an oath when God said to him:

“The Lord has sworn
and will not change his mind:
‘You are a priest forever.’”
22 Because of this oath, Jesus has become the guarantor of a better covenant.

23 Now there have been many of those priests, since death prevented them from continuing in office;
24 but because Jesus lives forever, he has a permanent priesthood.
25 Therefore he is able to save completely[c] those who come to God through him, because he always lives to intercede for them.

26 Such a high priest truly meets our need—one who is holy, blameless, pure, set apart from sinners, exalted above the heavens.

27 Unlike the other high priests, he does not need to offer sacrifices day after day, first for his own sins, and then for the sins of the people. He sacrificed for their sins once for all when he offered himself.
28 For the law appoints as high priests men in all their weakness; but the oath, which came after the law, appointed the Son, who has been made perfect forever.

The new covenant = the good news = the Gospel

That divine perfection, taking the form of human flesh though the virgin birth (The word became flesh and dwelt among us) would become SIN that we..who believe might become the righteousness of God.

The Gospel.
That he who is blameless would take the penalty for our sin.
His sinless life credited to us. Our sin, credited to him.

2nd Corinthians 5:
21 God made him who had no sin to be sin[b] for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

This is what I 'think'.

The world knows and recognises it's own.
Laws made by man whom God created are meant to bring order on earth not heaven.
They have no eternal bearing.
But God has also made a provision by giving us the right to choose btwn what is right and wrong because choices have eternal consequences.
He is not ignorant of some silly laws made by us, but He respects the fact that the devil still roams the earth until his time is up.
He respects the Governing Institutions but not the 'funny laws'made by them.
So sio eti God approves gay rights but He leaves us to choose because we appoint the people making those laws.
God has His own Democrat Goverment you know and he wouldn't force us into it unlike the man made one.

By the way,the devil can actually lead one to God.

@mtubiz

I Think At The End Of The Exposition, The Gospel Is All About John 3:16.
The Verse We Were All Supposed To Memorise But Didnt!!!

Let me start from the top...



@Muheani
Quoting or memorizing John3:16 in isolation gives an inaccurate..wrong picture of what God is saying here.. consider this..

The context of that chapter is Jesus teaching Nicodemus the meaning of new birth.

The verses immediately following John 3:16 read thus..

17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.
18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.
19 This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil.
20 Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed.
21 But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what they have done has been done in the sight of God.

The Gospel is not just about a loving God. It is also about Sinful man.

When John 3:16 is looked at over and over (memorized) in isolation it creates the impression of an all loving God who will indiscriminately embrace everyone.. the believing and non believing (believing here refers to believing the message of the Gospel)
This is definitely not the case from the verses following john3:16.