“And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.” Romans 5:5
God’s perfect love that has been shed abroad in our hearts casts out all fear from us. “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 had no fear whatsoever that Jesus would fail. God knew that Jesus would come and that He would be sacrificed, and then He would be raised from the dead and since He absolutely would be, we would be saved to the uttermost! Jesus knew the exact same thing and this is the confidence of God’s love that now dwells within us! God’s love drives all fear from us!
There is one basic commandment that Jesus has declared to us under the New Covenant; we are to love. "And this commandment have we from Him, that he who loveth God love his brother also." 1 John 4:21 We will see as we continue in this study that God provides everything for us just as He has provides everything for Himself. He can do nothing less, we are His body; we are His flesh! There is nothing that God has commanded us to do, that He is not within us doing! There is never any separation between God and us. Just as we do not remove body parts, God does not remove us! It’s always the Father within us; He is always doing the works through us by the power of Christ which has strengthened us so that He can! God says we are to love, so Jesus has made us one with the exact same love as God has. And we now cannot help but to love as our Head loves! The body acts as one! Jesus has made us one with the very power of God to fulfill His commandments. God places all of the burdens of our eternity on Himself. God says we need faith, (Hebrews 11:6) so our faith is now Authored and Finished by Jesus. (Hebrews 12:2) God says we need to love, so He gives us His love to love others with. God says we need to study to show ourselves approved, (2 Timothy 2:15) so He gave us the Holy Ghost to teach us all things. (John 14:26) God provides complete and total salvation for us! Jesus came and died for us, so that we might have life and have it more abundantly! Our abundance is now God’s abundance! Jesus leads us into the paths of righteousness by making us one with the only Righteous One, God! Jesus causes us to walk in God’s statutes and to keep God’s judgments by making us one with God Himself, so how could we walk any other way? We are not living this life alone, we are united with God through Christ and He never leaves us or forsakes us! God does not give us ordinances and rules that are dependent upon our own human efforts to succeed. No, God gave us Himself, He gave us His love, He gave us His Spirit, He gave us His Son; He gave us all of Himself to carry out the works of His righteousness within this world, and through our Father, and only Him, can we have any level of success! And our Father’s least is mans miraculous abundance!
God’s perfect love that has been shed abroad in our hearts casts out all fear from us. “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 had no fear whatsoever that Jesus would fail. God knew that Jesus would come and that He would be sacrificed, and then He would be raised from the dead and since He absolutely would be, we would be saved to the uttermost! Jesus knew the exact same thing and this is the confidence of God’s love that now dwells within us! God’s love drives all fear from us!
There is one basic commandment that Jesus has declared to us under the New Covenant; we are to love. "And this commandment have we from Him, that he who loveth God love his brother also." 1 John 4:21 We will see as we continue in this study that God provides everything for us just as He has provides everything for Himself. He can do nothing less, we are His body; we are His flesh! There is nothing that God has commanded us to do, that He is not within us doing! There is never any separation between God and us. Just as we do not remove body parts, God does not remove us! It’s always the Father within us; He is always doing the works through us by the power of Christ which has strengthened us so that He can! God says we are to love, so Jesus has made us one with the exact same love as God has. And we now cannot help but to love as our Head loves! The body acts as one! Jesus has made us one with the very power of God to fulfill His commandments. God places all of the burdens of our eternity on Himself. God says we need faith, (Hebrews 11:6) so our faith is now Authored and Finished by Jesus. (Hebrews 12:2) God says we need to love, so He gives us His love to love others with. God says we need to study to show ourselves approved, (2 Timothy 2:15) so He gave us the Holy Ghost to teach us all things. (John 14:26) God provides complete and total salvation for us! Jesus came and died for us, so that we might have life and have it more abundantly! Our abundance is now God’s abundance! Jesus leads us into the paths of righteousness by making us one with the only Righteous One, God! Jesus causes us to walk in God’s statutes and to keep God’s judgments by making us one with God Himself, so how could we walk any other way? We are not living this life alone, we are united with God through Christ and He never leaves us or forsakes us! God does not give us ordinances and rules that are dependent upon our own human efforts to succeed. No, God gave us Himself, He gave us His love, He gave us His Spirit, He gave us His Son; He gave us all of Himself to carry out the works of His righteousness within this world, and through our Father, and only Him, can we have any level of success! And our Father’s least is mans miraculous abundance!
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