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RADICAL LOVE

Verse 11 is about how the Bridegroom King's vineyard is a vineyard of

love, made up of a multitude of followers. I noticed several points as I
meditated on this verse.

Firstly, it is a vineyard and not a field or a dwelling.

Secondly, why a vineyard? I think one answer to this is found in the

fact that the vine has one use only—to bear fruit. The wood of the vine,

unlike the wood of trees, cannot be used for the purpose of building
tables, chairs, or houses, as it is too weak. Its only function, as

mentioned above, is to bear fruit, and this does not require any other
activity apart from remaining and abiding in the vine in order to receive

of its life-giving sap.

Thirdly, just as the vine receives life from the sap, we receive life from

the incredible love of Jesus. This is the life-giving sap for His people.

Love is the greatest and most costly fruit of all, and what the world
needs now more than anything else is to see, experience, and know the

agape love found only in Jesus Christ.

Jesus’ love can be described as offensive and shocking—in the sense

that it offends the mind, senses, and perceptions of the natural man’s

terminology for love. Words are totally inadequate to describe this love
fully—it has to be experienced, and can only come by the

acknowledgment of our own spiritual poverty.

We must learn to sit, with bowed-down hearts, in reverence to the One

who deserves our every breath because of what He has done for us at

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