But perfect love drives out fear,

because fear has to do with punishment.

The one who fears is not made perfect in love.

(I. John 4.18).

HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!

He has given us of His Spirit. And we have seen and

testify that the Father has sent His Son to be the Savior

of the world. If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the

Son of God, God lives in him and he in God. And so we

know and rely on the love of God for us.

God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God

in him. In this way, love is made complete among us so

that we will have confidence on the day of judgement,

because in this world we are like Him. There is no fear

in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear

has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not

made perfect in love.

(I. John 4.13-18).

HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!

In this way, love is made complete among us so that we will have

confidence on the day of  judgement, because in this world we are

like Him. There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear,

because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not

made perfect in love.

(I. John 4.16 b-18).

HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!

it comes down from the Father of all light, in  Whom

there can be no variation or shadow cast by His turning.

And it was of His own free will that He gave us birth by

His Word of Truth, so that we should be a kind of

firstfruits of His creatures.

(James 1.17 & 18)

HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVER!

By faith in our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ we are born of the Holy Spirit.

“ That which is born of the flesh is flesh, that which is born of the Spirit is

spirit.” This spiritual birth, second birth is the the prerequisite for being in

God’s Kingdom. Apart from this new birth we remain dead men walking.

With this new birth from above, of the Holy Spirit we are new men.

If we are new men, then the old man is dead and buried at baptism.

We see that Jesus Christ has set us free. If the Son makes you free you are

truly free.

We are free from sin and death. We stand as righteous before God and in

our weakness we are strong. The first is last, the last is first and the weak is

strong with God. The least, the last, the lost and the little find salvation

in Christ Jesus our Lord. He redeemed us and we are free at last.

He made us what we are not. He made us new. He made us for Himself.

He has started a good work in us and will perfect it.

He created us for good works which he prepared in advance.

He is with us. He takes us as His own.

His victory is ours and His peace is our peace!

HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!

Led by the Spirit, we understand that we are now sons of God.

This is our new identity when we are in communion with Jesus the Christ.

We know He became one of us and did not count equality with

God something to hold on and grasp to, but He emptied Himself

of His divine privileges and prerogatives. This is known as Kenosis.

He came to identify with humanity as a human, as a servant and

experienced the death on the cross by being identified as a criminal.

When we embrace Him as our Lord and Savior we take on His identity

and are in union with Him. We then have His thought pattern and become like

minded with Jesus Christ:

“Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus,

who. though He was in the form of God, did not regard

equality with God as something to be exploited, but emptied

Himself, taking the form of a slave, being born in human likeness.

And being found in human form, He humbled Himself and became

obedient to the point of death- even death on a cross.

Therefore God has also highly exalted Him and gave Him the name

that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee

should bend, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every

tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord , to the glory of God

the Father.

(Philippians 2;5-11).

His mind is present in the born-again Spirit-filled Christians.

This is the identity of the reborn sons of God. Because Christ

in you is the only hope of glory. Jesus Christ gives you His life,

so the life you live should be lived to glorify Him and serve Him.

He has redeemed us from sin and death and given us eternal life.

As St. Paul declares: I am crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live,

but the life that I live is the life of Christ Jesus the Eternal Son of God

Who gave His life for me. Since the Holy Spirit Who raised Jesus Christ

dwells in you, the same Spirit will quicken your mortal body.

The Holy Spirit gives you life and freedom. Where the Spirit of the Lord

is there is freedom. The Holy Spirit is the Helper, the Advocate, the

Comforter and the Spirit of adoption of wisdom and revelation.

You can have freedom from fear.

“You have not received the Spirit of bondage again unto fear; but you

have received the Spirit of adoption whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

This is because the love of God is shed abroad in our heart by the

Holy Spirit and we know He is our Daddy. God is love and He is perfect.

Perfect love casts out fear. Fear has torment, but God’s divine love

dispels fear. This has tremendous implications of immense potential.

The vanity and futility of thought, worry, anxiety simply vanish.

The emptiness and desperation of dissatisfaction disappear.

The bondage to the mere physical with its impotence is  now gone.

Gone are the limitations of time, space, physicality with the preoccupations

of mortality and transitory, frustrating experience, illusory existence

of unregenerate material life.

Because Jesus Christ is fully human and fully divine and we are recreated

in His Spiritual image we now are full-fledged sons of God. No longer

strangers or aliens, no longer subjects or slaves, no longer clinging to

the fanaticism of yesteryear, the dogmas of modernism, the crutch of

postmodernism. You are truly free. As the son or daughter of God you

receive the fullness of the blessedness and favor of God to His glory.

God has not given us a spirit of fear, but the Spirit of power, love and a

sound mind.

This is the Spirit of Sonship freely given through our Lord and Savior

Jesus the Christ. The Spirit bears witness with our spirit that we are

children of God.

” 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.

By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus

has come in the flesh is from God, and every spirit that does not confess

Jesus is not from God. And this is the spirit of the antichrist, of which

you have heard that is coming; and now it is already in the world.

Little children, you are from God, and have conquered them; for the

One Who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world. They are

from the world; and therefore what they say is from the world, and the world

listens to them. We are from God. Whoever knows God listens to us, and

whoever is not from God does not listen to us. From this we know the

spirit of truth and the spirit of error.”

(I.John 4;1-6).

“Many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who do not

confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh; any such person is

the deceiver and the antichrist! Be on your guard, so that you do

not lose what we have worked for, but may receive a full reward.

Everyone who does not abide in the teaching of Christ, but goes

beyond it, does not have God; whoever abides in the teaching has

both the Father and the Son. Do not receive into the house or

welcome anyone who comes to you and does not bring this teaching;

for to welcome is to participate in the evil deeds of such a person.”

(II. John 7-11).

POINTS FOR MEDITATION AND PRAISE

1) Our freedom from spiritual and intellectual error is totally dependent

on abiding in Jesus the Christ Who as our Lord and Savior is the Way, the

Truth and the Life. He backs up all His assertions with the Holy Spirit, the

spirit of wisdom and revelation.

2) The Holy Spirit leads you into all truth. He guides us in the new creation.

He transforms us from glory to glory. Eye has not seen, ear has not heard,

neither has entered into the human mind the things God has prepared for us.

God reveals these to us by His Spirit.

Prepare for the adventure of eternity. The most  intellectually and

spiritually rewarding new life, the Life! Life in the Light!

HALLELUJAH! WE THANK YOU AND PRAISE YOU LORD JESUS FOREVER!

(dread does not exist),

but full-grown, complete

and perfect love throws

away fear and expels every

trace of terror.

(I.John 4.18a).

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?

Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution,

or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

As it is written: ” For Your sake we are killed

all day long; we are accounted as sheep for

the slaughter.”

Yet in all these things we are more than

conquerors through Him who loved us.

For I am persuaded that neither death

nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor

powers, nor things present nor things to come,

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.

( Romans 8.35-39).

PRAYER AND MEDITATION POINTS

Pray and meditate on the following:

1) The love of God is found fully expressed

and experienced in Christ Jesus or Lord.

2) Nothing can ever separate us from His love.

Love never fails. But whether there
are prophecies, they will fail.

Whether
there are tongues, they will cease,
whether there is knowledge,

it will
vanish away.
For we know in part and we prophesy
in part.
But when that which is perfect has
come, then that which is in part will
be done away.
When I was a child, I spoke as a
child, I understood as a child, I
thought as a child,

but when I
became a man, I put away childish
things.
For now we see in a mirror, dimly,
but then face to face.

Now I know
in part, but then I shall now just
as I also am known.
And now abide faith, hope, love,
these three

but the greatest of
these is love.

( I. Corinthians 13.8-13)

LOVE NEVER FAILS
BECAUSE GOD IS LOVE
AND HE NEVER FAILS

God is perfect love and perfect love casts out fear.

( I.John 4.18).

His love always endures and is permanent.
” Bears all things, believes all things,
hopes all things, endures all things.”
( I. Corinthians 13.7)