God is Love
God is always with us and will always love us no matter what.
In John 3:16, Jesus said, "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life."
God loves the world, not just those that believe in Him.
God does not just love us....HE IS LOVE!!!! :-) WOW!!!
Romans 8:37-39 "But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels nor demons, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."
Nothing can separate us from the love He gave us.
1 John 4:7-19 God is Love
The author of 1 John, 2 John and 3 John is the apostle and the author of the Gospel of John and the book of Revelation explains that God is love.
"Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. The one who does not love does not know God, for God is love. By this the love of God was manifested in us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world so that we might live through Him. 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. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has seen God at any time; if we love one another, God abides in us, and His love is perfected in us. By this we know that we abide in Him and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit. We have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son to be the Savior of the world. Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. We have come to know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. By this, love is perfected with us, so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment; because as He is, so also are we in this world."
Is there fear in love? John continues.... "There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves punishment, and the one who fears is not perfected in love. We love, because He first loved us."
The author of 1 John, 2 John and 3 John is the apostle and the author of the Gospel of John and the book of Revelation explains that God is love.
"Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. The one who does not love does not know God, for God is love. By this the love of God was manifested in us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world so that we might live through Him. 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. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has seen God at any time; if we love one another, God abides in us, and His love is perfected in us. By this we know that we abide in Him and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit. We have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son to be the Savior of the world. Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. We have come to know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. By this, love is perfected with us, so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment; because as He is, so also are we in this world."
Is there fear in love? John continues.... "There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves punishment, and the one who fears is not perfected in love. We love, because He first loved us."
Romans 5:5, The Apostle Paul states, "and hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out within our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us."
Romans 5:8 "But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us."
Ephesians 3:17-21, Paul writes to the people of Ephesus, "so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all fullness of God. Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us, to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen."
Paul describes what love is in 1 Corinthians 13. We can substitute God in the place where we see love in this entire chapter.
Romans 5:8 "But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us."
Ephesians 3:17-21, Paul writes to the people of Ephesus, "so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all fullness of God. Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us, to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen."
Paul describes what love is in 1 Corinthians 13. We can substitute God in the place where we see love in this entire chapter.
2 Corinthians 5:14-17 "For the love of Christ controls us, having concluded this, that one died for all, therefore all died; and He died for all, so that they who live might no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died and rose again on their behalf. Therefore from now on we recognize no one according to the flesh; even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know Him in this way no longer. Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come."
The Great I AM
Jesus Christ is the message, meaning, and communication from God to man. Jesus is everything the written and spoken Word of the Lord was in the Old Testament. Jesus is the expression, revelation and communication of the Lord. He is both the incarnate (God become flesh) and the inspired Word.
The Gospel of John has many names for Christ including the 'I Am's.' There are hundreds of names for Christ throughout the Bible.
Malachi's prophecy of Jesus coming as the messenger of the Covenant in Malachi 3:1 "Behold , I am going to send My messenger, and he will clear the way before Me. And the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to His temple; and the messenger of the covenant, in whom you delight, behold, He is coming, says the Lord of hosts. (probably written around 430 B.C.)
The Last Adam
1 Corinthians 15:45, "So also it is written, 'The first MAN, Adam, BECAME A LIVING SOUL." The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
Paul is referring to Jesus as the last Adam. This is significant as it means that Jesus was the last man (Adam) to walk the earth who would impact every person to ever walk the earth - past, present and future. Jesus opened the gates of heaven, allowing those from the past, present and future to enter.
Romans 5:18-21, Paul tells us, "So then as through one transgression (Adam's sin) there resulted condemnation to all men, even so through one act of righteousness (Jesus on the cross) there resulted justification of life to all men. For as through the one man's disobedience the many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the One the many will be made righteous. The Law came in so that the transgression would increase; but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more, so that, as sin reigned in death, even so grace would reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord."
God's love tells us, "I am inside of you and you are in Me forever!" To live is Christ! Our life is hidden with Christ inside of God.
Emmanuel-God with us! :-)
