The Secret of AGAPE LOVE
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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!