KEY PRINCIPLES FROM THIS MESSAGE:
A loving heart is a grateful heart. In other words, if you love like Christ, and you know it, you are forever grateful for the gift to do so!
True love implies sacrifice because it requires some form of giving, which always comes at a cost to the giver.
There is no good news for the human flesh. There never really is for dead things. So, when the Word of God smashes all the flesh’s worldly thoughts, hopes, and dreams, it is a grace gift from God! It may cause you pain, but like any surgical procedure that cuts something cancerous out of you, it is meant to heal you.
There is NO godly excuse for sin. None. Ever. God does not lay down His own law only to break it because you’re acting pathetic and trying to justify sin.
Ellicott’s Commentary on Jonathan loved him as his own soul.
What won Jonathan’s heart was the shepherd boy’s sublime faith, his perfect childlike trust in the “Glorious Arm” of the Lord. Jonathan and David possessed one thing in common—an intense, unswerving belief in the power of Jehovah of Israel to keep and to save all who trusted in Him.
Philadelphia love is a type of love, not necessarily an amplitude.