1 John 4 ~ God is love †

 

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And take as many people with you!

1 John 4

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1 Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world. 2 By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, 3 and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you heard was coming and now is in the world already. 

4 Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world. 5 They are from the world; therefore they speak from the world, and the world listens to them. 

6 We are from God. Whoever knows God listens to us; whoever is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of error.

7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. 

8 Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. 

9 In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent His only Son into the world, so that we might live through Him. 10 In this is love, not that we have loved God but that He loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 

11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 

12 No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and His love is perfected in us. 13 By this we know that we abide in him and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit. 14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent His Son to be the Savior of the world. 15 Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. 

16 So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. 

17 By this is love perfected with us, so that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because as He is so also are we in this world. 18 There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love. 

19 We love because he first loved us. 20 If anyone says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen. 21 And this commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother.

John describes Heaven as the walls fell away.

Life after death survivors tell us

the walls fell away.

21 And this commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother.

We know so many love languages: 

Abundant, joyous. Life. Philemon 1:7 Your love has given me much joy and comfort, my brother, for your kindness has often refreshed the hearts of God's people. Harbor. Safety. Tenderness. Trust. 

Long distance. Giving God the priority, let's us establish boundaries, letting people be people. And not overcrowding. Tough Love. 

Works. Praise. Encouragement. Memories. Time. Loyalty. Faith with Hope. Prayerful. Sincerity. Godly. Gift of God. Believe in the best of you. Listening. Talking. Honesty with bravery. Admonish as God would build up. Teach in teachable moments. The right to be heard.  Honesty with mercy. Steadfast. Dependable. Renewed. Resilient. Enduring. Patient. And... Abundant!

Wisdom. James, the Brother of Christ, tells us we can ask for wisdom and God will give us this.

When we aren't wise, apparently to ourselves or the ones we love, we can count on being unable to take us out of God's love for us. He will hear our prayers for our loved ones. We cannot break His Plan. Jesus tells us always to Pray with hope. This is sometimes confused with a prosperity Gospel. However, we can count on Jesus Christ to sort out Love and good intentions. God of Love. God of encouragement.

1 Corinthians 16:14

Let all that you do be done in love.

Tens of millions have discussed and watched Jesus in The Chosen. My favorite aspect of this series, creating healing in so many hearts during the Pandemic Recovery, is in John 21.

John 21:25

 Now there are also many other things that Jesus did. 
Were every one of them to be written,

 I suppose that the world itself 

could not 

contain the books that would be written.

My heart was filled with such joy, I wept to see Season 2, Episode 1. Jesus the Good Samaritan to help the Samaritan thief, deeply concerned he had killed a Jew.  The richness of the entire episode explaining Jesus, with His insight, bringing the Bible together. Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow.  Filling our hearts with the hope of more of the Light of Christ shining in mankind. Healing to a hurting world. His Good Creation.

I hope this will be your favorite Episode as well. Why? Because the Gospels can come into all the Books of the Bible, just as Jesus lived and explained The Good Samaritan to the thief on the cross.

This Series is a complete Gift of God. 

Filling our hearts, seeing the exact nature of our God.

The Light of Jesus

Shines Brighter and Brighter.

The Light in mankind

Philemon 1:7

Your love has given me much joy and comfort, my brother, 

for your kindness has often refreshed the hearts of God's people.

Psalm 84:3

Even the sparrow finds a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, 

where she may lay her young, at your altars, 

O Lord of hosts, my King and my God.

Luke 13:18,19

He said therefore, “What is the kingdom of God like? 

And to what shall I compare it? 

19 It is like a grain of mustard seed 

that a man took and sowed in his garden, 

and it grew and became a tree, 

and the birds of the air made nests in its branches.”

Psalm 126:6

He who goes out weeping, bearing the seed for sowing, 

shall come home with shouts of joy, 

bringing his sheaves with him.

Abba, Father,

Dwell in us mightily.

Know every cell and bring Light

within us in Your Joy and Love.

Be the Light to those I Love.

Help this Joy fill Your Good Creation.

Help us to not grow weary

Renew us

remembering our Living Water 

Streams of

 Jesus Christ, Messiah, Son of the Most High

In Your Mercy

help us to be

Your Joyful Temple.

Help us to Seek You First

and Pray

to You

in Jesus Christ

with all Joy of Your Steadfast

Love.

In The Highest Name of

Jesus Christ

we believe

and 

ask

Please Father,

Your Willing and Immeasurable

Blessings!

Our Father is able to do immeasurably more 

than all we ask or imagine, 

according to His power 

that is at work within us, 

to Him be the glory in the church 

and 

in Christ Jesus 

throughout all generations, 

forever and ever. 

Amen.

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