God shows no partiality and we aren’t to either. We don’t favor the rich over the poor. Part of the church growth movement is to target a demographic. But who is targeting the elderly, the infirm, the disabled? We love them all. We welcome them all. We give the Good News to all.

It’s the poor who are chosen to be rich in faith. You don’t get to heaven by being poor, but the poor have the advantage of knowing they have need. When the rich rely on themselves, they are keeping themselves from crying out for a Savior.

God’s kingdom is for those who love God.

Those who love God love their neighbors, no matter who they are.

We show mercy because we have been shown mercy and want to be shown mercy. Our liberty in Christ isn’t to sin, but to show mercy and love to all.

We are required to show love, but we aren’t saved by works. How can we be required to live under the law of love?

It’s not that we earn our salvation by doing good. George Whitfield compares trying to earn your salvation to trying to reach the moon with a rope made of sand. It can’t be done.

We are saved by grace, God’s undeserved gift. We receive that grace by faith.

Our faith shows in what we do. If we believe we are loved and have been forgiven and shown such great mercy and received such an enormous undeserved gift, then we live like we are loved and love others and show mercy to others.

We aren’t proving we are saved. We are responding, naturally reacting to the love and mercy we’ve been shown.

If you don’t have love in your heart, then you’re missing faith in what God has done for you.

Head knowledge of the facts of Jesus’ life and resurrection doesn’t give you eternal life. Our salvation is when our hearts are transformed by the love of God. When we repent and obey God’s Word and walk in His ways, we become a friend of God.

A life lived loved and lived to love is a life of faith in the great salvation we have in Jesus Christ.