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  WORTHY OF LOVE
  by Clement of Rome
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Summary: The sermon emphasizes the importance of living a life of love,
being blameless in love, and keeping God's commandments in harmony with
love to receive forgiveness and be made perfect in love.

Topics: "Godly Love", "Christian Perfection"
Scripture References: Romans 4:7, 1 Corinthians 13:4, Ephesians 1:4, 1 John 1:9, 1 John 4:7

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DESCRIPTION
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Clement of Rome preaches about the greatness and perfection of love,
emphasizing that only those whom God has enabled can truly abide in it.
He urges the congregation to pray for God's mercy to live blamelessly in
love, devoid of favoritism. Those perfected in love by God will be
revealed in Christ's kingdom, as written in Scripture. The blessedness
of having sins forgiven and being chosen by God through Jesus Christ is
attainable through keeping God's commandments in love.

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CONTENT
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Ye see, beloved, how great and wonderful a thing is love, and that there
is no declaring its perfection. Who is fit to be found in it, except
such as God has vouchsafed to render so? Let us pray, therefore, and
implore of His mercy, that we may live blameless in love, free from all
human partialities for one above another.

All the generations from Adam even to this day have passed away; but
those who, through the grace of God, have been made perfect in love, now
possess a place among the godly, and shall be made manifest at the
revelation of the kingdom of Christ. For it is written, "Enter into thy
secret chambers for a little time, until my wrath and fury pass away;
and I will remember a propitious day, and will raise you up out of your
graves." Blessed are we, beloved, if we keep the commandments of God in
the harmony of love; that so through love our sins may be forgiven us.

For it is written, "Blessed are they whose transgressions are forgiven,
and whose sins are covered. Blessed is the man whose sin the Lord will
not impute to him, and in whose mouth there is no guile." This
blessedness comes upon those who have been chosen by God through Jesus
Christ our Lord; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

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