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God's Love Revealed In Us

1John.4:7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God, and knows God.
4:8 He who doesn't love doesn't know God, for God is love.
4:9 By this God's love was revealed in us, that God has sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.

The apostles John speak in a parable here for the legal mind that always gets the cart before the horse! The legal mind is the fleshly mind that makes the truth of the Spirit into babel, which in fact, is the context of John's above thoughts how the world cannot hear us because they can't know the things of the Spirit.

Mark 4:34 Without a parable he didn't speak to them; but privately to his own disciples he explained everything.

1Cor.2:14 Now the natural man doesn't receive the things of God's Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can't know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
2:15 But he who is spiritual discerns all things, and he himself is judged by no one.

The legal mind always put the fleshly thinking first, that is, the spirit of flesh before the glory of God, now with that context; (1.) number one, we love one another, because we are born of God who is love. That is simple truth, the source of our new life, the power of our new life is love because we are birthed from love, from our Father love, because he is love.

1 John 4:19 We love Him, because he first loved us.

Subsequently, we know God because he birthed us from love, for simply put, he is love, so all that is birthed of God must also be love. legalist make themselves into what they think God's love is by commandments, but those of the Spirit are birthed from love, into a life, in Christ Jesus that remove their sins so they obey the commandments of God by love, without sin, those that sin cannot obey God at all! For the law was not created for a righteous man, which means without sin.

1 John 3:9 Whoever is born of God doesn't commit sin, because his seed remains in him; and he can't sin, because he is born of God.

There are no works of law in love, God's love is a gift given freely to his children, none, no not one person earned God's love. Those of God, love one another because God is loved, and his love birthed them, and teaches his children the law of Himself, love, the Royal law of our King, for God is love.

2 Corinthians 5:14 For the love of Christ constrains us; because we judge thus, that one died for all, therefore all died.

2 Corinthians 8:8 I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love.

Galatians 5:13 For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don't use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.

In that truth love, which is the context, we put the cart behind the horse, we do not think for a moment that we muster up from our flesh love, it can't be done, its that simple; have we figured that out yet? Hopefully, we have the Spirit that reveals all things of Spirit, God's love, it is in that truth of the Spirit we understand the love of God? It not about us, its about the glory of God, and now his Son's glory the exact representation of God himself Christ Jesus.

Ephesians 1:4 even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without blemish before him in love;

Ephesians 3:17 that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; to the end that you, being rooted and grounded in love.

Ephesians 3:19 and to know Christ's love which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

You see, the flesh cannot please God, at all! In fact, if we are interested, it can't be in subjection to God or his laws. Hence, how could a person imagine if they were not of the flesh: that they could muster God's love from flesh which can't please God at all?

Romans 8:7 because the mind of the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God's law, neither indeed can it be.

Romans 8:8 Those who are in the flesh can't please God.

This is the demarcation of the Spirit that cuts through darkness, it is the demarcation that causes the flesh confusion and fear that what God gives freely as undeserved kindness the flesh has to earn by commandments. “I must love, the unlovable because God commandments me or I don't know God” (sin of the flesh). That fear drives my flesh into lying that I love people like God love them. My fear causes me not to admit I don't love that much so I become a phony, a so called Christian's constantly justifying myself like a politician's so I can bring people to Christ!

Corinthians 1:29 that no flesh should boast before God.

Jude 1:25 to God our Savior, who alone is wise, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and forever. Amen.

Stating I am love in so many words, so people can see God's love, then teach all that will listen to uses commandments about love demanding they must act in love the way I interpret from my flesh God is love! No! That is not at all the truth of Spirit (the Spirit is love), we are born into Spirit as a new creation, Christ Jesus, who is God's love to us, the fruit of Holy Spirit is love. Thus, the fact we are born of God's love is how we know love!

1 John 4:12 No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God remains in us, and his love has been perfected in us.

This is how the Spirit lets us know who is of God, and who is not? its not a mystery, no one can act like God's love without boasting in their flesh, because God is love, and the flesh is not. The flesh acts like love, by using commandments, but the Spirit we are birthed from is love so the identifying mark of God's children is love, God is love how can we be birthed less?

1 John 4:9 By this God's love was revealed in us, that God has sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.

In others words, the truth is revealed to us by the Spirit of God, who is love. Yes, the truth is love, the revealing of Spirit reveal love to us about whom? Who we are birthed from, love, for God is love. We are not god's, we do not generate love that is life. life sustaining eternal life, we must have God's love to have eternal life. It is for that glory we live in Christ, not from our own love, or what we think Christian's should show by a commandment to love us. That is not John's message, and/or the message we heard from the beginning of our new birth from love, from our Father's love.

1 John 4:10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice{"atoning sacrifice" is from the Greek "hilasmos," an appeasing, propitiating, or the means of appeasement or propitiation--the sacrifice that turns away God's wrath because of our sin.} for our sins.

1 John 4:8 He who doesn't love doesn't know God, for God is love.

Now the mystery that some of these brothers and sisters were falling into at John's time was that somehow there was more needed in their flesh that they had birthed themselves from some commandments that the flesh cannot do or keep anyway, which solidly condemns them if they loved the truth; Christ, more than themselves. No! None of what's in the flesh is true no matter how great one thinks the teacher is of worldly wisdom, it can't change the birth of God's children, before they did good or bad, God had foreordained their birth for his own glory – love.

1 John 4:7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God, and knows God.

It is not by works, if its by works, it no longer a gift of God, who is love, it is earned by being able to make ourselves into God's love by hard works from our flesh. That's is the thief Christ warned us would come. which is, our flesh that steals and plunders and destroyed, God's love, for what purpose? For its own glory which is a lie for the flesh is a lie! To gain glory among flesh so one can hear the words that person is of God because he/she is love. So flesh might say; “Lets be like him/her, lets worship him/her like a god in the flesh because they have the love of God.”

1 John 5:21 Little children, keep yourselves from idols.

No! All the body of Christ is created by God's love, not some more, and/or some less, why? Because it not about us, as a finger, a foot, or because we have a gift given us freely. It is about God, his love that lets us live in his Son Christ Jesus. It is God's name, not our name we have become apart of God because God is love.

When we go to flesh, and demand, and get angry because the rules are being broken about love we are essentially thinking we can by application change the very nature of a weed into the nature of a wheat. Our energy, our time, our mind is distorted into our own judgmental flesh it can't be done, it is a waste of time that not even God crosses over. If we are born again from love the fruit of the body we are producing is love and if not? Its not of God, it can't hear us, it can debate us, dragging us into the flesh that can't know God, for it does not have the love of God that birthed us into a new heavens.

1 Corinthians 2:9 But as it is written, "Things which an eye didn't see, and an ear didn't hear, which didn't enter into the heart of man, these God has prepared for those who love him."{Isaiah 64:4}

1 Corinthians 13:1 If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don't have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. 13:2 If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don't have love, I am nothing. 13:3 If I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don't have love, it profits me nothing.

That is no little treasure that we should give it to the dogs, or pigs; lovers of the flesh that can't change their specie because they eat up our fine pearl! We may love both fleshly species its OK! But if we don't keep them in their kind, we make a fool of ourselves and what rightfully belongs to Christ our lives for God's glory.

Matt.7:6 "Don't give that which is holy to the dogs, neither throw your pearls before the pigs, lest perhaps they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.

1 Corinthians 10:31 Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

1 Corinthians 2:7 But we speak God's wisdom in a mystery, the wisdom that has been hidden, which God foreordained before the worlds for our glory.

Colossians 3:4 When Christ, our life, is revealed, then you will also be revealed with him in glory.

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