The God of Love

Introduction:
I would like to introduce you to my spiritual Father: “The God of Love”. He changed my life. He is my life. He is the Greatest to identify with and much more effective than a belief in the “Great Bang”.

If you know Him, you will love Him with all your heart, because He is a lovable God. He is love. He loves the whole world; every human being born on this planet, including yourself, personally. You may think:”Too good to be true.” Yes it is fantastic, but true, as you will discover.  He is international, interreligious, interracial, interdenominational, the same in every language.  He does not see His world He loves with borders, fences and separating walls. He does not see mankind separated by color, race, religion, politics, denominationalism, nationalism, or any other label. He is always active in finding and saving the lost, because He is the one and only Savior of mankind.  His many Names describe only certain aspects of His Being. He is introduced to the world as JHWH, the “I AM WHO I AM”. He is the Unspeakable, Incomprehensible, Self Existing, Eternal, Omnipotent, Omnipresent, and Omniscient Origen of all that is visible and invisible. He reveals Himself through His action and communication.  
    
His love is unselfish, inclusive, personal, initiating, giving, sacrificial, unconditional and eternal.
Human love, unaffected by God’s love, is selfish, exclusive, responsive, taking, conditional and temporal.

God loves you so much that He made the ultimately sacrifice for you. He will even transfer you into His image, if you let Him. You will be love. You will not only respond to love from those who love you, but you will initiate love, including for the unlovable and extend it even for your enemies. You will receive His world view.

In conversations with religious people and through reading their literature, I noticed that many suffer from the consequences of distorted images of their God which is reflected in their lives. They are afraid and even scared to death of Him. Many try to ignore Him, hiding behind pseudo sciences or let clerics do their thinking.

Religious organizations often use their “theonologic” scare methods in order to control the minds of their members and extract their wealth through fear of agonies in purgatory and eternal hell. You are probably familiar with some of such teachings concocted by these wolves in sheep clothing. They teach that one can only be saved by being converted to Christianity. What they really mean is, converted to their own church organization. Religionists of today are no different than the ones that Jesus described as:

Matt 23:15,24,27,28
15 "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You travel over land and sea to win a single convert, and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of hell as you are.
24 You blind guides! You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel.
27 "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of dead men's bones and everything unclean. 28 In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.

To illustrate the conclusion of such horrific devilish doctrines, consider the experience of the Jewish Edelstein family from Poland during the Nazi occupation during World War 2.  Mr. Edelstein was arrested while participating in subverting activities with the partisans and was executed. Mrs. Edelstein, a devoted religious mother with her two daughters was also arrested and transported to a concentration camp. After months of exposure, sleepless prayerful nights, their lives were also terminated. According to most church doctrines, their immortal souls had to face their God. And since they were not Christians, He sent them straight to hell, the ultimate torture chamber, where their agony will never end. Would that God not be much more cruel than the Nazis? Only a devil could invent such a horrible tyrannical unjust God who enjoys the cries of agony of the tormented souls, offering no mercy or relief throughout eternity. No one could ever love that kind of a God. Such distorted imagery of God is also reflected in their inhuman relationships with one another. “Christian” nations have fought the most brutal and destructive wars. Catholics, against Catholics, Protestants of most denominations, against their brothers in faith, killing one another by the millions. Not even sparing women and children. And that was sanctioned by those “pious” church leaders, who led their flocks to the slaughter and praying on both sides to the same God for victory over the enemy. These hirelings just looked out to save their own skins. What a blasphemy against God and the Christ that taught us to include even enemies in our love to one another. Who could love that ugly “pseudo Christian God’ they represent?   

Yes, it is true that salvation is in Christ Jesus, [translated into English means the God Anointed appointed and enabled Savior]. God sent Him into our world to be the way into His Kingdom of Love Justice and Peace and pay through His sacrificial death the redemption price for every repentant sinner in this world and it is only He who knows whom He has forgiven and saved and who has accepted His sacrifice. Arrogant spiritual blind men have always misinterpreted the word of God, just the way their father the devil did when he tempted Jesus. 
He said:” Many false prophets will come in my name and deceive many.” 

A Christian, meaning being Christ like, is not one who confesses to be one, but one who is one, regardless of their religion, race or nationality.”From the beginning of this world, before the existence of “Jews and Christians,” Christ, the Co Creator, and God our spiritual Father, loved humanity. His Spirit was available to everyone. All who accepted the guidance of His spirit became children of God. They needed no other label.  By their fruits they were known as “Christ like” or “Godly”, because they became the workmanship of God. 
2500 years after creation, the new nation of Israel received the assignment to be a light to the world, by revealing the God of love through their godly conduct. They failed miserably. God had to say to them trough His prophets:

Rom 9:27-29
27 Isaiah cries out concerning Israel:
"Though the number of the Israelites be like the sand by the sea,
only the remnant will be saved.
28 For the Lord will carry out
his sentence on earth with speed and finality." 
29 It is just as Isaiah said previously:
"Unless the Lord Almighty
had left us descendants,
we would have become like Sodom,
we would have been like Gomorrah."

Matt 21:43  Jesus said:
43 "Therefore I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people who will produce its fruit.

When “The Anointed,” [Christ] “The Savior” [Jesus] entered our world in human form in order to reveal the true image of God He said:

John 14:9
He who has seen Me has seen the Father;

John 14:11
11 "Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me;

But He was rejected by the “respected” religious leadership. He had to be murdered. They had another God to their liking and had no intent to change.

John 1:12-13
 Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, children born not of natural descent,  nor of human decision or a husband's will, but born of God.

Yes there will come a day of judgment, when all evil and all unrepentant evil doers will be eliminated. Scripture calls it ‘God’s strange work, His alien task.” Isa.28:21. It has to be done because of necessity and justice, so that eternity can continue in love, peace, justice, freedom and order in all of God’s creation.

Rom 6:23
23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
  
For greater detail and answers to some of the open questions on this and other subjects, please see my scripts.

Now let us open our minds and behold the true God.


Behold the creator of the universe








                                                                                                  
      
                            
Isa 40:26                                                                                                            
26 Lift your eyes and look to the heavens:
Who created all these?
He who brings out the starry host one by one,
and calls them each by name.
Because of his great power and mighty strength,
not one of them is missing.

Ps 19:1
The heavens declare the glory of God;
the skies proclaim the work of his hands.

Mankind has always been awestruck when gazing into the heavens and concluded:
“There must be a greater intelligence than ours.”

In most societies they named it God, meaning the origin of everything, the One whom men’s limited three dimensional, five sensual perception, is unable to comprehend.
The One who cannot be described for lack of human perception and terminology.
He is the Absolute, The Sovereign.

Please let our limited terminology not confuse your spirit and imagination. The “spirit universe” is extraordinary supreme. “Son of God,” refers to the “Ultimate Origin” and the Being in whom He put so much of Himself, that it is His Image, designed for His purpose. It is also the expression of the compassionate loving relationship. This imagery gives us in human terms a glimpse into the most benevolent realities. God has many sons who are born of His spirit and who manifest His image in their lives. I hope that our Muslim Brothers who read this revelation, will not be offended by terminology by considering the spiritual meaning and significance.

Here are a few examples from God's Word:

Job 1:6-7
6 Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan also came among them.

Rom 8:14
14 because those who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. [Please understand there is no gender in the spirit universe. In this dispensation it also means that every woman who is led by the Spirit of God, is a daughter of God

In order to open our minds for understanding truth, we will need to let the spirit of God reveal it to us and also define many words in common use that are misleading,

GOD IS THE TRUTH..

Isa 55:9
9 "As the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts.







Gazing at just a tiny part of the universe through the Hubble space telescope, as seen in the enclosed picture, the astronomer stated, it contains over 10,000 galaxies, each galaxy contains up to one trillion stars and each star may have a system of planets. Now try to picture in your mind the entire universe. With amazement we must conclude:”How great God is”. And then looking at the illustration of comparative sizes of planets and stars including our little planet, we humbly realize: “how small we are.” Would the creator of the incomprehensible immense whole universe be even aware of that minute dot in the universe, we call planet earth, and much less of humans like you and me? Leaving in our minds for a moment the macrocosm and taking a glimpse through an electron microscope into the microcosm and see the precision of the building blocks of matter down to the atoms and its components, we can reasonably conclude that: “The almighty God who created the universe and also the components of the atom and microorganisms, living cells and beings, is well capable to know everything about us.” But surprisingly some argue: “There is no God.” All that exist is here by accident. Some ignorantly even try to shrink the Almighty to fit and contain Him in their religion or denomination, implying that “access to Him is only through us”.

Christ, the most accurate source of all knowledge, wants us to know:

Matt 10:29-31
29 Are not two sparrows sold for a penny ? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from the will of your Father. 30 And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. 31 So don't be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.

Is it not reasonable to conclude that the Super Intelligence that invented and created the incomprehensible enormous as well as the minutest, is well able to care for and even love us? Why would that God be interested in me personally and even love me? Amazingly, it is true, because we are a part of His creation and He has eternal plans for us. He wants to be our spiritual Father, so that we may be born of His spirit and become His children.
God revealed to mankind in Jesus, that He personally loves every individual born into our world.

What does that mean that God is Love?

1 John 4:16
God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him.

As the sun is energy, radiating and streaming light and heat in perpetuity into the universe, so does God, who is 100% Love, radiate and stream His Love to all His creation without ceasing. We have the privilege to choose how much of that limitless Love we will receive which transforms us into His image. God in us.   
So stay tuned in.
Try to comprehend the truth that Jesus revealed in the following parable:

Luke 15:11-24
11 Jesus continued: "There was a man who had two sons. 12 The younger one said to his father, 'Father, give me my share of the estate.'[this meant: Father you are already dead to me ]  So he divided his property between them.
13 "Not long after that, the younger son got together all he had, set off for a distant country and there squandered his wealth in wild living. 14 After he had spent everything, there was a severe famine in that whole country, and he began to be in need. 15 So he went and hired himself out to a citizen of that country, who sent him to his fields to feed pigs. 16 He longed to fill his stomach with the pods that the pigs were eating, but no one gave him anything.
17 "When he came to his senses, he said, 'How many of my father's hired men have food to spare, and here I am starving to death! 18 I will set out and go back to my father and say to him: Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. 19 I am no longer worthy to be called your son; make me like one of your hired men.' 20 So he got up and went to his father.
"But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion for him; he ran to his son, threw his arms around him and kissed him.
21 "The son said to him, 'Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son. '
22 "But the father said to his servants, 'Quick! Bring the best robe and put it on him. Put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet. 23 Bring the fattened calf and kill it. Let's have a feast and celebrate. 24 For this son of mine was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.' So they began to celebrate.

Luke 15:10
I tell you, there is rejoicing in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents."

Just imagine that. All heaven is involved in our personal life. God is never too busy to embrace us with His love when we come to Him. Can you fathom that this amazing God offers you personally, to be your Spiritual  Father?
I know, it seems “out of this world” to believe that, because it is. But it is true. This faith opens the most wonderful window and door to heaven, as you will discover. 

Does God want to be known by men?

God is a spirit being. Our limited senses are unable to perceive a spirit being. Words are the communication of the Spirit with physical beings. So God communicated with the spirit of men through words.

Heb 1:1-3
1 In the past God spoke to our forefathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways, 2 but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, and through whom he made the universe. 3 The Son is the radiance of God's glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word.

John 1:1-5, 10-14, 16-18.
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. 4 In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. 5 And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.
10 He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world did not know Him. 11 He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him. 12 But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: 13 who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.
16 And of His fullness we have all received, and grace for grace. 17 For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. 18 No one has seen God at any time. The only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him.

What a splendid way for God to reveal Himself to mankind in human form. Now in Jesus, the previously announced Messiah, men could perceive God with their own senses. Children of God, born through His spirit, will also be granted at times unspeakable extra sensory perceptions, but they always will be in harmony with the now written “Word of God”.

John 16:13
13 But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come.

Do men want to know God? Do you? Come meet my spiritual Father.

Jesus exposed two “Spiritual Fathers”:   
1. The Origin of Light, Life, Love, Truth and Good.
2. The origin of darkness, death, hate, lies and evil, called Satan.

This is why He said:
Matt 23:9
9 And do not call anyone on earth 'father,' for you have one Father, and he is in heaven.

We all are born into this world, without our choice by our physical fathers. But we have to choose our spiritual father.

Jesus revealed in His Life His Father, the God of Love, who is also our Spiritual Father after we are born of His Spirit.  If you are not yet born of God’s spirit, than you are not in the family of God and need to be born again of His Spirit.

John 8:44
44 You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father's desire. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

 John 3:5-7
5 Jesus answered, "I tell you the truth, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit. 6 Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit  gives birth to spirit. 7 You should not be surprised at my saying, 'You must be born again.'

For greater detail on this truth, please read my script:  “ The two greatest mysteries of our world,” and “The Mystery of the Kingdom of God.”

The God of love.

John 17:3
3 Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.

The world’s greatest Teacher, the one who knows, stated:  That,” to know God and His Annointed is eternal life”. This is not just life in quantity, but in quality in all dimensions of godliness in love, peace, contentment and joy in perpetual thankfulness. This “know” does not come from accumulating information to form a mental image of God, though important in the beginning, but it happens through divine transformation when our self becomes totally immersed in the will and mind of God and our identity is no longer with our past self but with “Christ in us,” our new self.  Or as the Teacher expressed this truth: “ I in you and you in Me.”.This knowledge is God experience.

Can man understand and describe God and His Love?

God did not intend to hide His love. He always shared His love with all His creation one hundred percent, never less, because He is love, and does not fragment Himself.  In understanding God, and permitting Him to dwell in us, we will also become love. This is the will of God that we are transformed into His image as revealed in Jesus, the Living Word, the Communication of God.
The word of God is the most accurate revelation of His Being. So I invite you to share with me in the delightful enlightening revelations in His Word. Can you comprehend this super fantastic fact that God loves you personally? Right now? The way you are? You think you are not worthy to be loved by God? So did I. But when God through Jesus comes into your life, He will bring all the worthiness with Him.

John 14:23
23 Jesus replied, "If anyone loves me, he will obey my teaching. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.

Would you like for Christ and the Father make their home with you? Then you will become a godly temple. If you consent, you have Christ’s promise: “We will come” and be the owners and permanent residents of you.

The beginning of mankind:

In the beginning, man was created in the image of God.

Gen 1:27
27 So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.

GOD communicated with man and man understood GOD.
 
Gen 2:16
6 And the Lord God commanded the man, saying,…"

God gave men a free will to choose between good and evil, truth and lies, and life and death.

Gen 2:16-17
16 And the Lord God commanded the man, "You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; 17 but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die."

Please do not get stuck in the imagery of language, but perceive the spirit and principle in it. In bible language, trees are fruit bearers. Christ and God’s children bear the good fruit of His spirit. Satan and his children bear the evil fruit of his spirit. Satan wants us to partake of his spirit.

Deut 30:19-20
19 This day I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live 20 and that you may love the Lord your God, listen to his voice, and hold fast to him. For the Lord is your life.

The post creation record of God’s communication with men is very sparse, but being created into His image means to be the recipient of the will of God with the understanding of good including the definition of right and wrong the latter being defined as sin.
    
Gen 4:7
7 If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must master it."

Sin or disobedience to God has negative consequences in your life. Sin makes life miserable and is the ultimately cause of death.
    
Rom 6:23
23 For the wages of sin is death.

Isa 59:2
But your iniquities have separated
you from your God;
your sins have hidden his face from you,

Once sin separated men from God, the image of the God of Love in them faded very quickly, and man began to create God into their own image and to their own liking. Even the very religious had a distorted and faulty image of God, which was reflected in their selfish and violent relationships with one another and especially with those of other nations, races or religions.

Rom 1:22-23
Professing to be wise, they became fools,
23 and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man — and birds and four-footed animals and creeping things.

The history of mankind gives us abundant evidence of this fact. Even the Israelites, who claimed to have a corner on God, had the same problems.
        
Ex 32:8
they have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them. They have made themselves a molded calf, and worshiped it and sacrificed to it, and said, 'This is your god, O Israel, that brought you out of the land of Egypt!'"

His instruction was:
   
Ex 20:2-4
"I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
3 "You shall have no other gods before Me.
4 "You shall not make for yourself a carved image — any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth;

If we do have a distorted image of God, our relationship with fellow human beings and His creation will reflect such distortion.

 How than could we humans with our limited minds and vocabularies even dare to describe and define the invisible Almighty God? Would not even our best efforts be doomed to fail? Has it not been the desire of the ages: ”God, if you want to be known, then reveal yourself to us.” What kind of revelation did man expect?
To be overwhelmed with His Omnipotence? That would deprive men of their free will in their decision making, which is contrary to the principles of the God of love.

God reveals and restores His image in man:

God in His infinite love lowered Himself and became man in Jesus Christ. Heaven announced His arrival on earth. Heaven came down, opening the door of all the graces and blessings of heaven. Now men can perceive with their own senses the true image of God and His love in human revelation.

Luke 2:10-11, 13-14
Then the angel said to them, "Do not be afraid, for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy which will be to all people.
11 For there is born to you this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.     
13 And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying:
14 "Glory to God in the highest, And on earth peace, goodwill toward men!"* 

God offers peace in His Son to all the people of our world. Jesus is the “Prince of Peace”.
Where there is love, there is peace, there is God.
Where there is hatred, there is war, there is Satan, the God of this world.
      
John 1:1-5, 14
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2 He was in the beginning with God.
3 All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made.
4 In Him was life, and the life was the light of men.
5 And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend* it.    
14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.

God can only be understood in Christ, the true image of God, the word revealed in flesh and blood.

John 1:18
18 No one has seen God at any time. The only begotten Son,* who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him. 

Heb 1:1-3
God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets,
2 has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds;
3 who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person,
     
John 14:10-11
10 Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me? The words that I speak to you I do not speak on My own authority; but the Father who dwells in Me does the works.
11 Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father in Me, or else believe Me for the sake of the works themselves.
   
Col 2:9
9 For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily;

Also the word of God in the Old Testament can only be understood through the mind of Jesus. Many wrong concepts and interpretations held by the Israeli hierarchy and theology, He came to correct.
        
Matt 5:21,22
"You have heard that it was said to those of old,…
But I say to you…
   
John 1:11-12
1 He came to His own,* and His own* did not receive Him.
12 But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name:

Blind, deceived, depraved humanity. He revealed Himself to you in the most perceivable way; He became man; but you rejected Him. You preferred a God to your liking, in your own image.  Your God was the God of this world, the deceiver, Satan, the god of war, power and greed. Your concepts and works proved it. You rather preferred to see the God of Love dead, before you would consider changing your ways.
Appallingly, our “Christian” world suffers from the same deadly disease: Not knowing the true God, the God of love and peace, the strange inconvenient God.

The strange misunderstood God.

When God in Christ entered our world, He was not born to Kings in royal palaces.
He certainly could have made such arrangements. But He chose to be born to a humble carpenter family and of all places in a barn. What a humble beginning. Surely not what mankind would expect, for the Messiah, the King of Kings. And contrary to all reason He came as a helpless baby.
Why not incarnate into a nine foot superman with a thundering most melodious voice and features that all men would respect and admire. No.  Scripture tells us:
 
Isa 53:2
2 “He grew up before him like a tender shoot,
and like a root out of dry ground.
He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him,
nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.”

He did not come to reveal a fantastic body. It would have been only a distraction from His godly spirit and life. Later when He chose the staff for His ministry, He did not call on impressive theologians and revered priests with impeccable reputation. He chose men of simple status like fishermen etc. who were not drunk with religious theories and philosophies. But they were open for truth, which He could fill with the word and virtues of God.

Today managers would look for the most attractive and gifted people they could find in order to succeed with their business. Imagine a male choir with angelic voices being also an orchestra with the most gifted virtuosos, whom the whole world would come to enjoy, paying generously to get a ticket. And then at that occasion present the plan of salvation by the most eloquent doctors of theology. What a success that could have been? Jesus could have composed the out of this world heavenly symphonies in order to make His good news more impressive. But it would have just been a distraction from the power of the life giving, life changing and life sustaining creative word that He incorporated. Could God have arranged it that way? Yes, but no. God works in different ways. Jesus said “I am the way”. “Follow me”. There is no better way.

God works His wonders in humility and simplicity. We humans often think our distracters are so important. The world seeks entertainment. Men thought there was a need for a beautiful frame in order to enhance the picture of the “Good News of the Kingdom of God.”  Now mankind reveres the frame because it has lost the picture. God’s simple way by His spirit in His most powerful word is eternal life.

Christ reveals God as our loving Father.
 
John 16:27
27 for the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me, and have believed that I came forth from God.

Before we let Jesus and His apostles reveal the God of love to us, we need to understand the biblical meaning of the word “love”. In the translation from the Greek language into English, several Greek terms with differing meanings have been translated as love.

              Agape = godly love, unselfish, giving, initiative, unconditional, inclusive, eternal.
              Phileo =  human love, towards family and friends, responsive, limited, exclusive, temporary.
              Philanthropia = love for man, motives can be selfish.
              Philarguria  = love of money, selfish, destructive, root of all evil.
              Eros = erotic, sexual love, natural, selfish, unless saturated with agape love.

Godly love is no longer natural in man. It is a gift from God through His spirit.
       
Rom 5:5
5 the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
    
Gal 5:22-23
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
23 gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.
  
1 Cor 2:14
14 But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

Love does not exist in isolation. Love needs recipients. It needs to give, share and serve. God created and gave Himself to His creation. All who receive Him will understand Him, love Him and become like Him.
    
John 3:16
16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.

Can we comprehend this marvelous truth? God loved and still loves every human being of our world, that He gave His Ultimate Best in His beloved Son to us, that includes you and me personally, so that we can be born again and become citizens of His Kingdom.  

Rom 8:31-39
31 What, then, shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all — how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? 33 Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. 34 Who is he that condemns? Christ Jesus, who died — more than that, who was raised to life — is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? 36 As it is written:
"For your sake we face death all day long;
we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered." 
37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,  neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, 39 neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Matt 7:11
11 If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!

What amazing grace!
God does not regard man made physical or mental borders. He loves every human being in the whole world and is willing to transform each individually into His image. Men always tried to confine God into their own religions or denominations. Just imagine, according to world statistics, we have today over 41,000 “Christian” denominations and most of them claiming to be the true and only saving church. What blindness and deception. We have only one savior and only He knows whom He has saved.

Acts 17:24
24 "The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by hands.[ nor by human minds.]

God designs and builds His Own dwelling places, which are His children.

1 Cor 3:16-17
16 Don't you know that you yourselves are God's temple and that God's Spirit lives in you? 17 If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him; for God's temple is sacred, and you are that temple.

John 14:6
6 Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

2 Peter 3:9
9 The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us,* not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.

God never uses force. Life from Him is based on free choice. It is a free gift. As a loving Father, He makes us aware of the consequences of ignoring or rejecting His gifts. He gives us the way, but only by His grace will we be willing to walk it, when we understand Him and love Him.
    
John 7:17
17 If anyone wills to do His will, he shall know concerning the doctrine, whether it is from God or whether I speak on My own authority.

Jesus the King opens the door of His kingdom which He established on this world.

He invites us to enter.
                       
Matt 11:28-30
28 "Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy and my burden is light."

Luke 16:16-17
"The law and the prophets were until John. Since that time the kingdom of God has been preached, and everyone is pressing into it. 
   
Luke 11:20
20 But if I drive out demons by the finger of God, then the kingdom of God has come to you.
   
Luke 17:20-21
20 Once, having been asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, Jesus replied, "The kingdom of God does not come with your careful observation, 21 nor will people say, 'Here it is,' or 'There it is,' because the kingdom of God is within you."

John 3:5-7
5 Jesus answered, "I tell you the truth, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit. 6 Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit b gives birth to spirit. 7 You should not be surprised at my saying, 'You c must be born again.'

When Jesus the King resides in us by His Spirit, then we are citizens of the kingdom of God.
    
John 14:23-24
23 Jesus replied, "If anyone loves me, he will obey my teaching. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.

Has God and Christ made their home with you? Too fantastic to believe it could happen? God is willing. Are you? You could invite Him right now.

John 6:37
37 All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never drive away.

Please read the chapter “The kingdom of God.”

The image of God in His children.
    
John 1:12
12 Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right [power] to become children of God…
            
Phil 2:14-16
14 Do everything without complaining or arguing, 15 so that you may become blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and depraved generation, in which you shine like stars in the universe.

1 John 3:1-2
 How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. 2
   
1 John 3:7-10
7 Dear children, do not let anyone lead you astray. He who does what is right is righteous, just as he is righteous. 8 He who does what is sinful is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil's work. 9 No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God's seed remains in him; he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born of God. 10 This is how we know who the children of God are and who the children of the devil are: Anyone who does not do what is right is not a child of God; nor is anyone who does not love his brother.

Many think and say that they are children of God, but the proof is in what they are and not what they say they are. God’s children are transformed into His image.

Matt 7:21-23
21 "Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22 Many will say to me on that day, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and in your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?' 23 Then I will tell them plainly, 'I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!'
   
Luke 6:46-47
46 "Why do you call me, 'Lord, Lord,' and do not do what I say? 4
    
Matt 7:20
Thus, by their fruit you will recognize them.
    
Gal 5:22-26
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. 24 Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the sinful nature with its passions and desires. 25 Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit.

How do we become children of God?

Eph 2:10
10 For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
    
1 Peter 1:23-24
23 For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.
    
John 3:5-7
5 Jesus answered, "I tell you the truth, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit. 6 Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit b gives birth to spirit. 7 You should not be surprised at my saying, 'You c must be born again.'
        
Ezek 36:26-28
26 I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. 27 And I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws.

Heb 8:10
0 This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel
after that time, declares the Lord.
I will put my laws in their minds
and write them on their hearts.
I will be their God,
and they will be my people.

Phil 2:12-13
work out your own salvation with fear and trembling; 13 for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure.

It is a peaceful assurance to know, that it is God who accomplishes all His designing and building in us from start to finish, even our cooperation is done by His Spirit. Our action is a fruit of the holy spirit.
     
Col 3:5-11
5 Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry. 6 Because of these, the wrath of God is coming.   7 You used to walk in these ways, in the life you once lived. 8 But now you must rid yourselves of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips. 9 Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices 10 and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.

Rom 12:2
2 Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is — his good, pleasing and perfect will.
   
2 Cor 3:18
18 And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect  the Lord's glory, are being transformed into his likeness with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.
    
1 Cor 2:16
6 "For who has known the mind of the Lord
that he may instruct him?" d 
But we have the mind of Christ.

Heb 12:2
2 Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith,..

John 14:23-24
23 Jesus replied, "If anyone loves me, he will obey my teaching. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.

2 Cor 13:5
5 Examine yourselves as to whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Do you not know yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you? — unless indeed you are disqualified. [reprobates, fakes.]

Christ in us means we are Christ like. We think, speak and do as He does in complete dependence on God. Christ said: “The words I speak, the works I do are not mine, they are my Father’s. Who sees me sees my Father. I and my Father are one. I am in the Father and the Father is in me.”
Who sees us, sees Christ who is in us. Unless we are reprobates, rejects, fakes.

Is God our Judge and Christ our defender?

In order to remove some of the distorting images of God, some basic revelations need to be considered.
       
John 5:22,27
22 For the Father judges no one, but has committed all judgment to the Son,
27 and has given Him authority to execute judgment also, because He is the Son of Man.

He was one of us and we can relate to Him.
   
John 12:48
48 He who rejects Me, and does not receive My words, has that which judges him — the word that I have spoken will judge him in the last day.

John 12:47, 48
47 And if anyone hears My words and does not believe,* I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world but to save the world.            
48 He who rejects Me, and does not receive My words, has that which judges him — the word that I have spoken will judge him in the last day.

As we get acquainted with Jesus through His word, we become convinced that He is the son of God. No human mind could ever invent and reveal such an image of God.
That is why men rejected Him. They did not want to think and be like that God. There are no discrepancies between the Father and the Son. The Son did not have to plead for us before the Father. Both love us equally. We love Him as our Lord and agree with every word He spoke. We live in harmony with His will without reservation. He is the only authority to judge between good and evil. Selective obedience is disobedience.
To reject a word of God means rejecting God and choosing condemnation. Judgment is an ongoing process during our lifetime. The choice between life and death is ours. Remember the causality law.

John 5:24
24 "Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life.

1 Cor 11:31
31 For if we would judge ourselves, we would not be judged.
   
John 16:26-27
In that day you will ask in My name, and I do not say to you that I shall pray the Father for you;
27 for the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me, and have believed that I came forth from God.

There is no one in heaven that is against us. All heaven is for us. Through the life, death and resurrection of Christ, every believer has been redeemed, sins are forgiven, eternal life has been imparted, and the image of God is restored. Christ paid for our redemption in full. Nothing can nor needs to be added. It is a free gift. Believe it, accept it, claim it and all that God offers you is yours. But this is an all or nothing proposition. If you accept God in part, it will be reflected in your life. You may have a lot of religion and forms of godliness, but you will not have the mind and life of God. His power will transform and sanctify you completely. He always finishes His works. Never less than 100%.
   
2 Tim 3:5
5 having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away!
       
Heb 10:10
10 By that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
   
1 Thess 5:23-24
23 May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through. May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. 24 The one who calls you is faithful and He will do it.

Heb 9:11-12
11 But Christ came as High Priest of the good things to come,* with the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands, that is, not of this creation.
12 Not with the blood of goats and calves, but with His own blood He entered the Most Holy Place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption.

His sacrifice is sufficient to cover every sin committed in our world. Every sinner who believes in Him, repents and accepts His incredible wonderful gift, will have eternal life.

God is love.

1 John 4:7,8
7 Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.
He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.

John 3:16
16 "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

Please note: God loved, and still does, the world, that is all humanity; not just Israelites, Christians, Muslims, Buddhists or Hindus etc. It is not your membership or label that identifies you as one of God’s children it rather is what you are that proves that His spirit is in you.

Matt 7:20
20 Thus, by their fruit you will recognize them.

Please note: We are not to be fruit inspectors and critics, but fruit bearers.

Gal 5:22
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

Rom 12:9-21
9 Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good. 10 Be devoted to one another in brotherly love. Honor one another above yourselves. 11 Never be lacking in zeal, but keep your spiritual fervor, serving the Lord. 12 Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer. 13 Share with God's people who are in need. Practice hospitality.
14 Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse. 15 Rejoice with those who rejoice; mourn with those who mourn. 16 Live in harmony with one another. Do not be proud, but be willing to associate with people of low position.  Do not be conceited.
17 Do not repay anyone evil for evil. Be careful to do what is right in the eyes of everybody. 18 If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone. 19 Do not take revenge, my friends, but leave room for God's wrath, for it is written: "It is mine to avenge; I will repay,"  says the Lord. 20 On the contrary:
"If your enemy is hungry, feed him;
if he is thirsty, give him something to drink.
In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head." 
21 Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

1 Cor 13:4-8
4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
8 Love never fails

This is the clear mark of all that know God.

You may think: “but what does it mean to believe in the name of Jesus”?

Acts 4:12
12 Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved.

This is very true. It is not the Hebrew word Jesus or the Greek word Christ. It is what these names stand for, namely the image of God who is able to save far beyond our narrow limited concepts. Who are we to limit the Almighty.

1.John.4:9,10
9 In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His uniquely existing Son into the world, that we might live through Him.
10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

Titus 2:13-14
our great God and Savior Jesus Christ,
14 who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from every lawless deed and purify for Himself His own special people, zealous for good works.

What incredible love is this? The Creator gives Himself to His creation to do with Him as they please. They reject Him, He seeks to save them. They rule and dominate, He serves. They hate Him, He loves them. They curse Him, He blesses them. They revile Him, He prays for them. They spit in His face, He shows them mercy. They beat Him, He endures. They torture Him, He offers them forgiveness.. They crucify Him, He gives His life to save them. They kill Him, He gives them life. He really loved His enemies even those that inflicted Him with pain and agony.  At any time He could have said, they are not worthy of my love and returned to heaven. But His love never failed, never ended.
   
Acts 8:32-33
He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; And as a lamb before its shearer is silent, So He opened not His mouth.
33 In His humiliation His justice was taken away, And who will declare His generation? For His life is taken from the earth."* 
   
John 13:1
1.Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that His hour had come that He should depart from this world to the Father, having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end.
   
1 John 4:16
16 And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.

God not only loves, but He is love. Whatever He thinks, does and communicates is motivated by love. Motif, reason, and purpose, is love. If it is “agape” love, it is from God.
   
James 1:17
17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning.  

Mal 3:6
6 "For I am the Lord, I do not change;
         
Heb 13:8
8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever
.
God is always 100% love and He loves always 100% no matter what the circumstances or conditions. He does not love evil or sin, but He loves the sinner,
the lost, the needy. Sin causes death. God is life. There is no compatibility between God and sin, nor death. But God came to seek the lost, free sinners from their sins, forgive and give life in abundance.
     
Matt 7:11
11 If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him!
  
Rom 8:31-32
31 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
32 He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?
           
John 17:20
"I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who will* believe in Me through their word;
   
Jesus wants us to know that we are always on His and our Father’s benevolent mind, wishing us only well. Only blessings come to His children.

John 17:23
I in them, and You in Me; that they may be made perfect in one, and that the world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved Me.   Can you comprehend this? God loves you, as He loves Christ. Let your mind dwell on this truth.
   
John 17:25-26
O righteous Father! The world has not known You, but I have known You; and these have known that You sent Me.
26 And I have declared to them Your name, and will declare it, that the love with which You loved Me may be in them, and I in them."

If you are believing in Christ through His words and the words of His apostles, than you will know for certain, that God loves you as much as He loved Christ. Is this possible? Too good to be true? You have His word. It is 100% true. You can bank on that. His love is always 100%. It changes not. What good would all the world’s riches, or the most beautiful gifts be to you if you do not accept them personally?
Please consider the following illustration:

The Eternal Bank of Heaven.

Pay to the order of:                                                                 Date: Today Now

Your Name________________

My eternal love, total pardon, eternal life, all My blessings, My kingdom.

Signed:

God, Jesus.

Memo:

Please endorse before claiming.
While you are reading this and you resolved in your heart to take God up on His incredible, fantastic offer, than as an exercise of your faith, put your name on the above line, endorse it, claim it and you will receive more than you can comprehend.

God has given you many promissory notes in His word. 7,428 of them. Accept all of them personally by endorsing them. Than go to God in faith to claim them. Every promissory note is covered in the Bank of heaven 100 %. He will never fail nor short you.
       
2 Cor 1:20
 For no matter how many promises God has made, they are "Yes" in Christ. And so through him the "Amen" [so be it] is spoken by us to the glory of God.
               
Heb 13:5
For He Himself has said, "I will never leave you nor forsake you."*
   
Jer 31:3
3 The Lord has appeared of old to me, saying: "Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love; Therefore with lovingkindness I have drawn you.
   
Isa 43:4
4 Since you were precious in My sight, You have been honored, And I have loved you; Therefore I will give men for you, And people for your life.
   
Isa 49:15-16
5 "Can a woman forget her nursing child, And not have compassion on the son of her womb? Surely they may forget, Yet I will not forget you.
16 See, I have inscribed you on the palms of My hands;

Isa 54:10
10 For the mountains shall depart And the hills be removed, But My kindness shall not depart from you, Nor shall My covenant of peace be removed," Says the Lord, who has mercy on you.

Rom 8:28
28 And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.
   
Rom 8:35, 37-39
35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?     
37 Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.
38 For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come,
39 nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
    
John 10:28-30
And I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand.
29 My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of My Father's hand.
30 I and My Father are one."

Please understand that many promises are conditional and you may disqualify yourself by choosing evil over good, sin over righteousness, mammon over God. When you ask God, do it in the name of Christ, that is “in harmony with His will.”
Do not get discouraged when your timing was wrong. Our God is so gracious to do what is best in any situation in your life, at the right time, His time.
If you ask for deliverance from a sin now, at this moment, you know that is always the will of God for you. Name and confess that sin, ask for forgiveness and immediate deliverance, repent [turn away from it], believe that you have received your request, and it is granted.

Mark 11:24
24 Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

James 1:6-8
6 But when he asks, he must believe and not doubt, because he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. 7 That man should not think he will receive anything from the Lord; 8 he is a double-minded man, unstable in all he does.

John 14:13-14
13 And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Son may bring glory to the Father. 14 You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it.

The serving God:                

Does men serve God or does God serve men?
Some imagine God sitting on a golden throne and all heavenly beings laying on their faces worshipping Him day and night. This picture would give a distorted view of God and heaven if it would not be interpreted by the realities in the life of Christ. All heavenly beings including “the son of men” love God with all their hearts 24/7, adoring Him as the highest authority in total submission to His will in freedom of choice with unceasing delight and thankfulness. Get the picture?

Rev 19:4
4 And the twenty-four elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshiped God who sat on the throne, saying, "Amen! Alleluia!"

Amen is the expression of complete agreement and submission. It means: yes, so be it. No “ifs” no “buts”. Every individual lives in total harmony with God and therefore with one another.
Alleluia is the attitude of persistent unending thankfulness.

God gives Himself lovingly to His creation in service. He is the origin, the owner, the giver, the sustainer. He is the greatest servant of all. Than all who bear His image are free will servants. In heavenly concepts, greatness is measured by service.
    
Matt 20:25-28
25 But Jesus called them to Himself and said, "You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and those who are great exercise authority over them.
26 Yet it shall not be so among you; but whoever desires to become great among you, let him be your servant.
27 And whoever desires to be first among you, let him be your slave — 
28 just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many."

Selfless service is godly. Lording and exercising authority is ungodly even if it is done in the name of God. If you are not born of the spirit of God you will not understand God nor the principles of the kingdom of God.
   
John 3:5-7
Jesus answered, "Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.
6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
7 Do not marvel that I said to you, 'You must be born again.'

God also was in the humble Christ when He washed the feet of His disciples.

John 13:14-15, 17
Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another's feet. 15 I have set you an example that you should do as I have done for you.
Now that you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them.

What a God is this. Washing the dirty feet of mere human beings. Incredible.

How can we humans serve God?

Matt 25:40
40 And the King will answer and say to them, 'Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brethren, you did it to Me.'
   
1 John 4:20-21
If someone says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can* he love God whom he has not seen?
21 And this commandment we have from Him: that he who loves God must love his brother also.
   
1 John 4:7-8
7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.
8 He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.

If we have a loving relationship with God, we will have a loving relationship with our fellow men. Are you fully aware that whatever you do or say, good or bad, to your fellow men, including your spouse, children, friend or enemy, you have done it to God? Do you comprehend that your spouse is the daughter or son of your king, the God of the universe who is always present with you and in you? What you do or say to others, He takes it very personally. “You have done it to Me.”
If this seems unreal to you, than you do not know God and the wonderful life in His kingdom. God’s children are like their Father, ”agape love.”

Are you the image of God?

2 Cor 3:18
18 But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.
   
Rom 8:29
29 For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren.
     
Eph 4:13
13 till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ;

1 Cor 2:16
16 For "who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct Him?"* But we have the mind of Christ.

A “Christian” who does not think and do as Christ did, is not a Christian. A Christian is Christ like that means godly.
    
2 Cor 13:5
5 Examine yourselves as to whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Do you not know yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you? — unless indeed you are disqualified.

If Christ is in you, who is “agape love”, than you also will be love. Not just “phileo love” which is responsive or reciprocal human love. It will be the godly, unselfish, initiating, unconditional, inclusive love. Love, that is international, interracial, interreligious, and interdenominational. Dividing borders and fences are made by men. Christ tore down these separations. He built bridges. And so do His children.
   
Matt 5:44-48
But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you,* 
45 that you may be sons of your Father in heaven; for He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.
46 For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?
47 And if you greet your brethren* only, what do you do more than others? Do not even the tax collectors* do so?
48 Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.
   
Matt 5:9
9 Blessed are the peacemakers, For they shall be called sons of God.

Let not your mind be conditioned by the majority of war makers and war profiteers in this world.
War, conflict, violence, force are the works of the Devil. Whoever thinks and does such works, no matter what his religion, title or position may be, is of the father the Devil the Destroyer.

[ Please refer to my paper on: “The kingdom of God” and “The world’s greatest mysteries” for greater insight of this subject.]
   
John 8:44
44 You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it.

1 John 3:7-9
Little children, let no one deceive you. He who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous.
8 He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil.
9 Whoever has been born of God does not sin, for His seed remains in him; and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God.
    
1 John 3:1
1.Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God!* Therefore the world does not know us,* because it did not know Him.

 If you would live in poverty, destitute and hungry and a King of a world domain would write to you, making you this offer: “ I would like to adopt you into my family and make you heir of all the wealth of my kingdom.” What would you think and do? This may not be a very exiting preposition to you. But what does it mean to you, that the almighty God has said to you: “I love you. I want you to be my child and become heir of my kingdom.”?  Have you heard His voice, expressed in His word to you? Have you taken it personally? Have you responded to His offer? Will you? You will never have a better offer. You do not have to wait until you become worthy of such a supreme gift. Jesus earned it for you. He is all the worthiness you can ever have. And He also will give you a new life fit for the kingdom of God.

Rom 12:1-2
1.I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.
2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
           
Eph 2:10
10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.
   
Heb 13:20-21
20 Now may the God of peace who brought up our Lord Jesus from the dead, that great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,
21 make you complete in every good work to do His will, working in you* what is well pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.
   
Phil 1:6
6 being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ;
    
1 Thess 5:24
24 He who calls you is faithful, who also will do it.

 Do not permit Satan, nor men, nor any human agency undo it.
  
Jude 24-25
4 Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, And to present you faultless before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy,
25 To God our Savior,  Who alone is wise,  Be glory and majesty, Dominion and power,  Both now and forever. Amen. 

O, what a wonderful God we have.
He is love.
He loves you.
Do you love Him?


Please read my paper on: “God is love. He loves you. Doyou love Him?