Category: Jesus Loves His People, and We Should, Too.
[I am starting a new category which will include biblical passages expressing the profound love that God has for believers. There is a growing sentiment among many pastors that God's love for unbelievers trumps His love for believers and that if we spend time loving, encouraging, and edifying the church, we simply don't have the Father's heart. In doing so, they create a false dichotomy and commit the either/or fallacy, as though we had to pick one over the other. They also skip past the myriads of times the Scripture expresses not only Jesus' love for His Bride, but also the commands that we love Her as much as He does. This series of posts will merely show what our heavenly Father and His majestic Son have to say about Their love for Their people.]
Truly I say to you, among those born of women there has not arisen anyone greater than John the Baptist! Yet the one who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he (Matt. 11:11).