“And I have declared unto them Thy Name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith Thou hast love Me may be in them and I in them.” John 17:26
Jesus taught us that in the world there will be tribulations, just turn on the news or pick up a newspaper and you will see that He knew what He was talking about. But Jesus also told us to be of good cheer, because He has overcome the world for us! Jesus has robbed the evil that is in the world of all its power over us, it can no longer harm us, or move us off of our firm foundation of Truth that has set us free! “These things I have spoken unto you, that in Me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.” John 16:33 Jesus came and declared God’s Name unto us, and He continues to do so today, and because of the Truth that He gives, we now have love, and not just any love, we have been given the ultimate love, the love that God has for Jesus. This is the love that now abides within us! Remember what Jesus said: that He will continue to declare God’s Name unto us so that we will eternally have love. Jesus ever lives to intercede for us; He is right here with us, He never leaves us or forsakes us!
God’s love for Jesus, the love that Jesus has given to us, is perfect love and God’s perfect love casts out all fear. “There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.” 1 John 4:18 Jesus gave us the perfect love of God and that love casts out fear! Notice that it’s God’s love that casts out fear. God is the One Who is doing it, He has not left us alone to just use His love to cast out fear, He is right here with us, never leaving us or forsaking us! God does not leave us on our own to love! To become perfect in love does not mean that we will be the ones doing the works; it means that God is the One Who will be doing the works through us, just like it was God in Jesus doing the works. “Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me? The words that I speak unto you I speak not of Myself: but the Father in Me, He doeth the works.” John 14:10 Now if you go on to verse 11, Jesus teaches that it is by the works of the Father that we can believe. If it was just you and I using God’s love, we would fail all of the time! But it’s not us, it’s God in us doing His works through us, and God never fails, and that is why people can believe. People can see God within us, and that is what will bring the hope of an abundant life, a life without fear, and a life of perfect salvation!
Jesus taught us that in the world there will be tribulations, just turn on the news or pick up a newspaper and you will see that He knew what He was talking about. But Jesus also told us to be of good cheer, because He has overcome the world for us! Jesus has robbed the evil that is in the world of all its power over us, it can no longer harm us, or move us off of our firm foundation of Truth that has set us free! “These things I have spoken unto you, that in Me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.” John 16:33 Jesus came and declared God’s Name unto us, and He continues to do so today, and because of the Truth that He gives, we now have love, and not just any love, we have been given the ultimate love, the love that God has for Jesus. This is the love that now abides within us! Remember what Jesus said: that He will continue to declare God’s Name unto us so that we will eternally have love. Jesus ever lives to intercede for us; He is right here with us, He never leaves us or forsakes us!
God’s love for Jesus, the love that Jesus has given to us, is perfect love and God’s perfect love casts out all fear. “There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.” 1 John 4:18 Jesus gave us the perfect love of God and that love casts out fear! Notice that it’s God’s love that casts out fear. God is the One Who is doing it, He has not left us alone to just use His love to cast out fear, He is right here with us, never leaving us or forsaking us! God does not leave us on our own to love! To become perfect in love does not mean that we will be the ones doing the works; it means that God is the One Who will be doing the works through us, just like it was God in Jesus doing the works. “Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me? The words that I speak unto you I speak not of Myself: but the Father in Me, He doeth the works.” John 14:10 Now if you go on to verse 11, Jesus teaches that it is by the works of the Father that we can believe. If it was just you and I using God’s love, we would fail all of the time! But it’s not us, it’s God in us doing His works through us, and God never fails, and that is why people can believe. People can see God within us, and that is what will bring the hope of an abundant life, a life without fear, and a life of perfect salvation!
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