THE RICHES OF CHRIST'S LOVE LASTS FOREVER
Beloved Brethren;
We placed our trust in Christ Jesus as God our Savior and became God’s children by adoption through Him, and co-heirs of Eternal life and received great spiritual gifts to serve Him now and forever! (Rom.8:17-18)
Romans 8:
17 "And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together. 18 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us."
LOVE SENT BY CHRIST THRU THE HOLY SPIRIT
Galatians 5:22-23 tells us, “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.”
FRUIT ON THE VINE OF CHRIST
John 15:
I am the vine; you are the branches. The one abiding in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit. For apart from Me you are able to do nothing.
THE HOLY SPIRIT BRINGS US FRUIT
The fruit of the Holy Spirit is the result of the Holy Spirit’s presence in the life of a Christian. The Bible makes it clear that everyone receives the Holy Spirit the moment he or she believes in Jesus Christ (Romans 8:9; 1 Corinthians 12:13; Ephesians 1:13-14). One of the primary purposes of the Holy Spirit coming into a Christian's life is to change that life. It is the Holy Spirit's job to conform us to the image of Christ, making us more like Him.
THE GREATEST FRUIT LASTS FOREVER
1 Cor. 13:
13 And now abides faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
LOVE PAYS! WE COUNT IT GAIN OUR LOSS FOR CHRIST
What is it to each of us to suffer with Christ? We suffer in ministry, from the harsh and loveless conduct towards us by other professing "Christians" and the terribly lost who hate Christ, acting out against Him, through us, in the hatred they have for Him.
If we live Christ we live His rejection, His overcoming, His LOVE . WE LIVE THROUGH HIM (1 John 4:9: "In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him").
Rom.5:6: "For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly."
Rom.5:8: "But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us."
HE DIED FOR US AND WILL NEVER ABANDON US.
He will never leave us or forsake us.
Hebrews 13:
5 "Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
6 So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me."
WE DO NOT SUFFER ALONE!
We have a loving companion for life. And no matter what we go through, He is here, and His love is ever available to us. We "live" Christ in us, the hope of glory. This is our great blessing! And by Him we have eternal assurance.
Romans 8:
35 "Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?"
LOVE IS A MARKER OF HOLINESS
We are not our own! We are Christ's. Use us Lord. This is the truth of "being made Holy".
John 13:34 "A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
TO LIVE IS CHRIST
To live in Christ is evidenced by the fruit of His love. We are known by the fruits that manifest through us. The great and never ending is LOVE. His kind of love. Agape Love. There is no "self" in this love but Christ in us, through us, and His selflessness we receive as ours.
MINISTERING THE GOSPEL TO THE WORLD TAKES LOVE
1 John 4:14 "And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Savior of the world."
In the sacrificial love He loved us with when on the cross, and in His resurrection, we, undeserving, having nothing of our own God could accept, being made Holy through Him, demonstrate His love by telling the world the truth of Jesus Christ in us, the only hope of life now and forever.
SOMETIMES WE COME UP SHORT
We are dead to God in our fallen spirit, and even after being born again, we demonstrate this by conduct unbecoming a Saint. Yet through conviction of The Holy Spirit we will be brought to godly sorrow and repentance.
There are no "good" nor "perfect" Christian's this side of Heaven. But we seek His will to be ours daily, and our sins we hate.And though sin is fixed in our human nature, we seek deliverance from daily, that God in us first, be our light constant, in the dark world we live, our sin nature still ever tempted we resist, in Him, and will obey The Spirit:
John 14:15 " If ye love me, keep my commandments."
John 15:10 "If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love."
John 15:12 " This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you."
THE LORD IS OUR GUIDE
We do not sin to experience more grace! God forbid. We sin because we are sinners! And we live with the shadow of our dead nature that when we are not living Christ, we are on a walk through the valley of the shadow of death He delivered us from positionally as done, but He cannot light our way:
And we cannot live: "The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want..." Ps.23:1
But if we are His, 1 John 3:9: "Whosoever is born of God doth not commit (practice) sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God. (A child of God will not practice sin as a life style. We have no desire to flaunt it nor DEFEND it. This is the life style of a lost sinner, not a saved sinner who once was lost)
And this IS the foundation of our discontent! SIN! The loss of fellowship with God through sin,. We resist the Holy Spirit's conviction. And many there are who live in hate, professing others fall short of their improvised "perfect" standards.
Look for His love in such and find the spirit of "the Accuser". They see the speck in our eye, but not the beam in their own! They profess to be ministers of rightness! but come up empty in His Love.
WE WILL BE IDENTIFIED BY HIS LOVE
1 John 4:7 "Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
1 John 4:16 "And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him."
THE EVIDENCE OF LOVE
1 John 4:
11 "Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
12 No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.
13 Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit.
14 And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Savior of the world.
15 Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwells in him, and he in God.
16 And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwells in love dwells in God, and God in him.
17 Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.
18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear: because fear hath torment. He that fears is not made perfect in love.
19 We love him, because he first loved us.
20 If a man say, I love God, and hates his brother, he is a liar: for he that loves not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?
21 And this commandment have we from him, That he who loves God love his brother also."
CONCLUSION
Let us be strong in the Lord and the power of His might. Minister in the love of Christ. HIS LOVE IN US...a most precious FRUIT of God The Holy Spirit. Stand firm. Keep in remembrance Jesus Christ and His precious blood! His life. His truths. They will never fail.
So my beloved,
Heb.10:24 "And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works..."
Chaim, least
