Testament Scripture Reading: Psalms 98:1 – 9 (KJV)
Psa 98:1 A Psalm. O sing unto the LORD a new song; for he hath done marvellous things: his right hand, and his holy arm, hath gotten him the victory.
Psa 98:2 The LORD hath made known his salvation: his righteousness hath he openly shewed in the sight of the heathen.
Psa 98:3 He hath remembered his mercy and his truth toward the house of Israel: all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
Psa 98:4 Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all the earth: make a loud noise, and rejoice, and sing praise.
Psa 98:5 Sing unto the LORD with the harp; with the harp, and the voice of a psalm.
Psa 98:6 With trumpets and sound of cornet make a joyful noise before the LORD, the King.
Psa 98:7 Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.
Psa 98:8 Let the floods clap their hands: let the hills be joyful together
Psa 98:9 Before the LORD; for he cometh to judge the earth: with righteousness shall he judge the world, and the people with equity.
New Testament Scripture Reading: John 15:11 – 18 (KJV)
Joh 15:11 These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.
Joh 15:12 This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.
Joh 15:13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
Joh 15:14 Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.
Joh 15:15 Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.
Joh 15:16 Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.
Joh 15:17 These things I command you, that ye love one another.
Joh 15:18 If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.
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Transforming Power Statements:
1) God has published for all the world His position on the way He cares for all of mankind of every situation and nationality i.e. He loves all the people and has displayed His love publically to the point that it should never be said that He doesn’t care, and for this reason, the Psalmist has recorded that God shall be coming to judge the world in “righteousness” and “Equity”.
2) The very same love was “fleshed out” by Jesus the Son of God Who came to magnify the Love and promises that His Father had made in His Word publically when Jesus Himself, after showing by His miraculous deeds, that He was God in the flesh, was offered up as the only acceptable atonement to satisfy His Father’s wrath against all sin forever at one moment in time.
3) Jesus taught His disciples before and after the cross that Love is the principal motivation and power that prevailed over death which was defeated by the love of God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit, which culminated at the Cross and the victory was displayed after three days and nights when the tomb was powerless to maintain a hold on Jesus, Who got up and declared that “All POWER IS GIVEN TO ME IN HEAVEN AND EARTH!” (Mat 28:18)