God's Love Post

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AT PEACE WITH GOD

We have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

This is His peace. His peace is real and lasting.

He made this peace available to us by enduring the

Passion and the Cross. This is the pivotal event of all

history we are commemorating this week.

Only in the Cross of Christ are we able to see the love of

God that passes all understanding. This is why St. Paul

says ‘ I am determined to know nothing among you

other than Jesus Christ and Him crucified’. This is Who

God is. God is Love.

The Cross of Christ Jesus our Lord and Savior established

the peace between God and man. We are brought into

right standing with God through the forgiveness of our sins.

We now stand in awe of Him, in gratitude to Him, in love with

Him. Our righteousness is totally based on His holiness.

The wholeness of our identity is based on  His integrity.

His faithfulness is the basis of our faith.

We have to realize that apart from His righteousness we have no

basis for security in our fellowship with Him.

‘The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom’ so the love of

God is based on the reality of God Who is Holy, Perfect and

Wholly other. On the other hand the heart of natural man is ‘full of

deceit, lies and desperately wicked.’ This gaping canyon between God

and man has been scaled by The God-Man Jesus Christ Who is Wholly

Divine and Wholly Human. Without Him this peace is unthinkable.

He is our peace. He has broken down the wall of hostility.

The love, adoration and awe we feel towards Him must be based on

the healthy fear of the unfathomable distance between God and men.

Any so called mysticism, intimacy and romantic idea that discounts this

unfathomable distance disregards the Holiness of God and the Goodness

God.

It is the Goodness of God that leads us to repentance. Repentance from

dead works, repentance from delusion and deceit.

If people think they are OK and not so bad after all, they are living a lie.

We have to start out by admitting like St. Paul “What a wretched men I am”

and confessing that “in me nothing good dwells” and agreeing with our Lord

that “there is only One that is good.” In the  human sphere “there is none

that does good, no not one’.

After we realize who and what we are with no delusion, deceit and conceit

are we able to esteem and appreciate the enormity of God’s Goodness

which leads us to repentance.

Man have “imprisoned the truth in unrighteousness”.

In other words, because our deeds fall far short of the glory of God,

because of intrinsic human sinfulness humanity has tended to cloud

the truth and obscured the reality of who we are and Who God is.

Thus a false God, who is No-God has been substituted for the True

and Living God.

To realize the Peace of God which passes understanding we need to

admit our sinfulness and admire God’s righteousness.

We can have peace with God only through faith in Christ Jesus our

Redeemer and His Blood cleanses us from all unrighteousness.

The Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus introduces us to the Fullness

of God, His Salvation, our Union with Him, the Reconciliation wrought

at the Cross, by the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ and celebrated at the

Holy Communion.

HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!

The love of God is poured out into our hearts by

the Holy Spirit whereby we cry ‘Daddy, Father!’

In this is revealed God our Father, His Eternal Son Jesus

Christ our Elder Brother, the Holy Spirit bearing witness

to our adoption as sons.

In the unique Unity of the Trinity God is eternal,

permanent and perfect Holy Love.

The interaction of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit is

eternally initiated, motivated and perpetuated by,

for and in this divine and excellent Love.

All of this is in the context of eternal parameters, beyond

time and space.

We have this Love transferred to us as a timeless,

supernatural and existential action by God to bring us

into His true and majestic Unity.

His timeless Love became  fully manifest in the

Passion of  our Lord and 

Savior Jesus the Christ  and at His resurrection.

We celebrate this in the Holy Communion.

We see the invisible Union into which we have been

made participants.

When we take Holy Communion

we are participating in the glory divine,

the Holy Trinity, the Agape Love Who is God,

Incarnate Word made flesh and crucified for our justification, 

sanctification and eternal life of glory in God.

“In this the love of God was

made manifested toward us, in that God sent His only

begotten Son into the world, that we might live

through Him.” (I.John 4.9).

We see this in the words of Jesus:

“The words spoke Jesus, and lifted up His eyes

to heaven and said:

‘Father, the hour has come, glorify Your Son, that

Your Son also may glorify You:

As You have given Him power over all flesh, that

He should give eternal life

to as many as You have given Him.

And this is eternal life, that they might know You

the only true God, and Jesus Christ, Whom You have sent.

I have glorified You on the earth: I have finished the work

which You gave Me to do.

And now, O Father, glorify Me with Yourself with

the glory which I had with You before the world existed.

I have manifested Your Name unto the men You have

given Me out of the world.

They were Yours, and You gave them to  Me,

and they have obeyed and kept Your word.

Now they know and understand that all You have

given Me are of You.

For I have given them the words You gave Me

and they received them and have known surely

that I came forth from You and they have believed

that You did send Me.

I pray for them: I am not praying for the world,

but for those You have given Me, for they are Yours.

And all Nine are Yours and Yours are Mine; and I am

glorified in them.

And now I am no more in the world, but these are in

the world, and I come to You.

Holy Father, keep through Your own Name

those You have given Me, that they may

be One, as We are.

While I was with them in the world, I kept them in My

Name: those You have given Me I have kept,

and none of them is lost except the son of perdition;

that the scripture might be fulfilled.

And now I come to You; and these things I speak

in the world, that they might have my joy

fulfilled in themselves.

I have given them Your word; and the world has hated

them, because they are not of the world,

just as I am not of the world.

I pray not that You would take them out of the world,

but that You would keep them from the evil.

They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.

Sanctify them through Your truth: Your word is truth.

As You have sent Me into the world world, I also send them

into the world.

And for their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they also might

be sanctified through the truth.

Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which

shall believe on Me through their word,

That they all may be One, as You, Father are in Me and

I in You, that they also may be One in Us:

that the world may believe that You have sent Me.

And the glory which You gave Me I have given them;

that they may be One, just as We are One.

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.

Father, I will that they also, whom You have given Me,

be with Me where I am; that they may behold My glory,

which You have given Me; for You have loved Me

before the foundation of the world.

O righteous Father, the world has not known You:

but I have known You, and these have known that You

have sent Me.

And I have declared Your Name, and will declare,

so that the love You have Me with may be in them,

and I in them.

(John 17).

HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU HOLY FATHER!

THANK YOU LORD JESUS AND HOLY SPIRIT FOREVERMORE!