1 Must be able to plan, create & sustain a universe

2 Must be willing to make creature in  own likeness

3 In the event these creatures go wrong must be willing to do all that is necessary for repair – even death

4 Must guarantee repairs eternally

5 Must intercede for creatures

6 Must be a father /mother/friend to these creatures

7 Must be the head of all those repaired on earth and be willing to intervene in their lives & engage in relationship.

8  Must ensure that those repaired have an eternal home

9 Must work with repaired to work towards  maximum   spiritual   potential on day to day basis

10 Must love  creatures unconditionally.

¹¹ This is the message you have heard from the beginning: We should love one another. ¹² We must not be like Cain, who belonged to the evil one and killed his brother. And why did he kill him? Because Cain had been doing what was evil, and his brother had been doing what was righteous. ¹³ So don’t be surprised, dear brothers and sisters,^[c] if the world hates you.

¹⁴ If we love our Christian brothers and sisters,^[d] it proves that we have passed from death to life. But a person who has no love is still dead. ¹⁵ Anyone who hates another brother or sister^[e] is really a murderer at heart. And you know that murderers don’t have eternal life within them.

¹⁶ We know what real love is because Jesus gave up his life for us. So we also ought to give up our lives for our brothers and sisters. ¹⁷ If someone has enough money to live well and sees a brother or sister^[f] in need but shows no compassion—how can God’s love be in that person?

Thanks CB Nov 17th

Romans 8.

Nothing Can Separate Us from God’s Love

³¹ What shall we say about such wonderful things as these?   If God is for us, who can ever be against us?

³² Since he did not spare even his own Son but gave him up for us all, won’t he also give us everything else? ³³ Who dares accuse us whom God has chosen for his own? No one—for God himself has given us right standing with himself. ³⁴ Who then will condemn us? No one—for Christ Jesus died for us and was raised to life for us, and he is sitting in the place of honour at God’s right hand, pleading for us.

QUESTION?³⁵Can anything ever separate us from Christ’s love?

ANSWER ³⁸  I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love.

Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,^[] neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow—

The fact is :- if God is for us , he is not against us.

Psalm56

But when I am afraid,
I will put my trust in you.
⁴ I praise God for what he has promised.
I trust in God, so why should I be afraid?
What can mere mortals do to me?

Thanks AJ  Nov 10th

“Resist the devil and he will flee” (James iv. 7).. When life becomes tough, which it often does, it is easy to become anxious, stressed, depressed & caught up with the worries of life. The circumstances of life can affect the experience of life. Life may not be happy but scripture tells us that the “Joy of the Lord” is our strength. As Christians we remember that God is with us whatever. Therefore we can choose “Joy” as an act of will because we are in Gods hands. Johns Gospel chapter 1 Verse 12 tells us that we if we receive Christ we become a child of God. Express the Joy of being a Child of God in every circumstance  (sad or happy) & don’t let fear steal the Joy we can have in Christ.

Hope this is a reasonable summary of Nov 3rd

Thanks HP