Good morning, everyone, and welcome back to another morning's with the masters where we

devote ourselves to the Lord daily with you. Good morning, you guys. Good morning indeed. We

are picking up with day two of our The Seven Laws of Love devotional. In the Bible app, there's

a link to that in the description if you guys want to fall along with us. And as always, I'm

going to read the scripture then towards going to pick with the Devo. Let's do it. The scripture

is John chapter 15 verses 12 and 13. And they say this, this is my commandment. Love each other

in the same way I have loved you. There is no greater love than to lay down one's life for one's

friends. The devotional is titled Love Selflessly Sacrifices. It says this. The Academy Award-winning

World War II movie Savian Private Ryan tells the story of a young soldier, Private Ryan,

whose brothers have been killed in battle. To spare his family, the agony of losing all their

sons, the government orchestrates a rescue mission to save him and send him home. The rescue team

is led by a no-nonsense army captain who seems to believe that the whole thing is a bad idea.

In the film's final scene, the captain is fatally wounded while fulfilling his mission.

With his dying words, he looks at the soldier in the eyes and says,

earn this, earn it. The film flashes forward many decades and we see Private Ryan as an old man

standing at the grave of the captain. You can tell he has been haunted by those words and

trying to quote, earn it all his life. But he never knows for sure if he has measured up. He

pleads with the grave seeking approval, but he finds none. Many people believe that they have put

their faith in Jesus, but they also believe they have to earn what he did for them on the cross.

Here's the good news. When Jesus was hanging on that cross, dying to save you,

he did not use his dying words to say, earn this. Do you know what he said instead? He said,

it is finished. Did you catch that? It is finished. That means done, complete, sealed, finished.

...