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JULY 18
BUT GOD COMMENDETH HIS LOVE

Scripture: Romans 5:8 “But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”

     The word “commendeth” means to show, to exhibit, to prove, or to demonstrate. To us as sinners, God is continually demonstrating His great love to us. The scripture is teaching us that “while” we were yet sinners; rebelling against His Word, and straying from His commandments, God showed to us the greatest love known to man. He sent us His only begotten Son, Jesus. “For God so loved the world” that He sent His Son to be our sacrifice.
     Notice He showed us that love when we were yet sinners. Not Bible believers. Not church members. Not righteous and upright. But while we were yet sinners. Jesus came to seek and to save all those that are lost. Those living in sin, He died for on the cross. Those in the prison of sin, He shed His blood for on Calvary. God gave His Son for those who are guilty of sin. Those who have told lies and stole and murdered and those who have committed adultery, these are the sinners that Christ died for. For the worst sinners and the outcast of society, those are the souls that He died for.
     Can you imagine such love? How He could love an old sinner like me, I’ll never know! But He proved that love by not only dying for us, but by saving us and cleansing us from all of our sin. No matter how bad a man, woman, boy or girl may be, the blood of Jesus is able to wash away every sin. No matter what you have done, Jesus' blood can make you white as snow. Oh, what a Savior is mine! "But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed" Isaiah 53:5.