“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
God is absolute and perfect love, and through the power of Christ we are born of Him. “He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.” 1 John 4:8 We are born of perfect love and we now dwell in perfect love, because we are born again of God and we now dwell in God through Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior, and God is perfect love. The love that God had for Jesus now abides within us, John 17:26, so we have the perfect love of God abiding within us that casts out all fear from us! Fear has torment, so God gave us Himself to cast out all torment. God gave us His peace, so that in a world of tribulation, we could stand without fear as He rebukes the devourer for our sakes! God gave us a new heart and a new mind, so that we could accept and walk in these Truths that pass all human understanding! We don’t just have the mind of Christ, as if we could loose it, like a possession. No, this is the mind that has been born into us, it’s just who we are! God’s peace passes all understanding and His very own peace now keeps us! We are now strong in the power of His might!
God is not a man that He should lie. God spoke all of these scriptures that we have studied together, so they are all Truth. God will lead us in the paths of righteousness, so even if we are immature and not able to fully understand these Truth’s, God is right here walking with us, through the valley of the shadow of death. And because we are now born of Him and because He is now within us and we are now united with Him, we will fear no evil! For we have not been given a spirit of fear, but of love, peace, and a sound mind! God has provided it all for us, and He will Author and Finish the faith needed to walk in and live in His full and complete peace, His perfect peace! We may not understand it all, God’s peace does pass all understanding, but that doesn’t matter, it will still keep us. God’s perfect love has cast out all fear for those who have been empowered by the Holy Spirit to accept His salvation through Jesus Christ!
Consider all of the benefits that we have studied together so far about our salvation through Jesus: eternal life, abundant life, health, direct access to God, peace, Truth, God’s protection, whatever we do prospers, safety, and all of the other of His glorious benefits. Everything that would bring fear and take away our peace has been done away with, our Father has taken care of it all. God has brought us into a place in Him that we are able to take no thought for our own lives, just as Jesus takes no thought for His. That is probably the greatest and most peaceful thing of all, just knowing that God has us in His hands, and that no man and no thing can take us out of them, and knowing that we will be with Him forever! That is the peace that allows us to clearly and lovingly share Him with every creature. The same peace that Jesus had to come and serve is now the peace that we have to serve, and we now dwell in perfect love of God that casteth out all fear!
God is absolute and perfect love, and through the power of Christ we are born of Him. “He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.” 1 John 4:8 We are born of perfect love and we now dwell in perfect love, because we are born again of God and we now dwell in God through Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior, and God is perfect love. The love that God had for Jesus now abides within us, John 17:26, so we have the perfect love of God abiding within us that casts out all fear from us! Fear has torment, so God gave us Himself to cast out all torment. God gave us His peace, so that in a world of tribulation, we could stand without fear as He rebukes the devourer for our sakes! God gave us a new heart and a new mind, so that we could accept and walk in these Truths that pass all human understanding! We don’t just have the mind of Christ, as if we could loose it, like a possession. No, this is the mind that has been born into us, it’s just who we are! God’s peace passes all understanding and His very own peace now keeps us! We are now strong in the power of His might!
God is not a man that He should lie. God spoke all of these scriptures that we have studied together, so they are all Truth. God will lead us in the paths of righteousness, so even if we are immature and not able to fully understand these Truth’s, God is right here walking with us, through the valley of the shadow of death. And because we are now born of Him and because He is now within us and we are now united with Him, we will fear no evil! For we have not been given a spirit of fear, but of love, peace, and a sound mind! God has provided it all for us, and He will Author and Finish the faith needed to walk in and live in His full and complete peace, His perfect peace! We may not understand it all, God’s peace does pass all understanding, but that doesn’t matter, it will still keep us. God’s perfect love has cast out all fear for those who have been empowered by the Holy Spirit to accept His salvation through Jesus Christ!
Consider all of the benefits that we have studied together so far about our salvation through Jesus: eternal life, abundant life, health, direct access to God, peace, Truth, God’s protection, whatever we do prospers, safety, and all of the other of His glorious benefits. Everything that would bring fear and take away our peace has been done away with, our Father has taken care of it all. God has brought us into a place in Him that we are able to take no thought for our own lives, just as Jesus takes no thought for His. That is probably the greatest and most peaceful thing of all, just knowing that God has us in His hands, and that no man and no thing can take us out of them, and knowing that we will be with Him forever! That is the peace that allows us to clearly and lovingly share Him with every creature. The same peace that Jesus had to come and serve is now the peace that we have to serve, and we now dwell in perfect love of God that casteth out all fear!
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