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Remain in Him

1John.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.
4:13 By this we know that we remain in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.

For us humans the criteria for worshiping God was not seeing him. Adam was created without sight worship of God, Adam lacked nothing in his worship of God, his worship was perfect because he was in God's love, and as long as he remained in God's love, he would remain perfection.

John 17:26 I made known to them your name, and will make it known; that the love with which you loved me may be in them, and I in them."

The idea, and practice of sight worship came into the human race when Adam sinned, once found in that sin he lacked what was good in God. He became incomplete lacking the very power of eternal life in his members. He found himself in want of heart, spirit, mind, and soul, such want is the criteria the foundation stones of sight worship found in our own world today.

2 Corinthians 5:7 for we walk by faith, not by sight.

Matthew 13:13 Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they don't see, and hearing, they don't hear, neither do they understand.

The alienation from the source of life created in us an error that we cannot be complete without seeing God, a popular form of false religion that Adam and Christ never practice while on earth in their flesh. Both were created in God's image and glory having no sin in them.

Matthew 25:38 When did we see you as a stranger, and take you in; or naked, and clothe you?

Matthew 25:39 When did we see you sick, or in prison, and come to you?'

Matthew 25:44 "Then they will also answer, saying, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and didn't help you?'

John now addresses the same erroneous error that was moving like gangrene into the Christian's congregation of God anointed son's the worship by sight, first in men, and later those teachings would spawn into a host of false teachings that a person could not be complete in pure worship without seeing God, and his people on earth, Christ brothers. Such teachings would dismiss the whole idea that people could live on earth, and for this earth could worship God in Spirit and truth, But instead exchanging that truth for a lie that without the constant sight seeing of God in Christ brothers mankind would fall into sin like Adam did.

Matthew 12:39 But he answered them, "An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, but no sign will be given it but the sign of Jonah the prophet.

Subsequently, coming upon the false teaching that all on earth was nothing more then an experiment of God when God fully planned to have every one in heaven with him in the first place. John speaks to those created in Christ as son's of God like Adam without sin. Their worship was like Adam's and Christ, in remaining in God's love, while under the evil test of their flesh alienated from God in darkness, which flesh is opposes and lust against God Spirit.

Galatians 5:17 For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.

That test of being in death, the flesh, while living in the life of Christ indwell them proves beyond in legal doubt Adam was created by God in perfect love, he could have remained in God's love, as so many angels have and did never leaving God's love for selfish pride of the flesh.

That case is closed at the death of Christ and his resurrection in to God's own incorruptibility. Case law established for an eternity Adam was created in God's love fully complete, he lacked nothing good if he remained in God's love he remained a perfect man. Adam chose to leave God's love for the darkness of his wife's love.

James.1:16 Don't be deceived, my beloved brothers.
1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.

So to the creation under the power of Christ and his body members will be set free, there are new heavens, and a new earth where righteousness dwells, where all in both heaven and earth remain in God's love.

2 Peter 3:13 But, according to his promise, we look for new heavens and a new earth, in which righteousness dwells.

Revelation 21:4 He will wipe away from them every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more. The first things have passed away."

The flesh is the lie, it is the first lie which created flesh without the Spirit of God. That lie created a lack, a lost of God, the Spirit of God (love), which if we remain in it, we are in God's love, the two are inseparable. God is love, what comes from God too us is love felt by the Spirit of love.

1 John 5:6 This is he who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ; not with the water only, but with the water and the blood. It is the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.

God gives all his children the Spirit, it is the Spirit that is pure worship not us, not the bible, not what a teacher has, but the Spirit. Once the Spirit is gone, so goes pure worship. So without love, the Spirit, knowledge is pointless, feeding the poor is pointless, prophecy is pointless, faith is pointless, none of which is good, what makes those gifts good is remaining in God's love, the Spirit.

1Cor.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.

If one does not commune in love, in God, life eternal does not exist, if one does not walk in God's Spirit, which is love, there is no brotherhood no matter how much powerful doctrine one possess it is without point, it will lack. Our master the Lord Jesus Christ told us, and them back at his time on earth, that it is the Spirit that is life the flesh profits us nothing. Amen!

John 4:24 God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth."

John 6:63 It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.

2 Corinthians 3:3 being revealed that you are a letter of Christ, served by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tablets of stone, but in tablets that are hearts of flesh.

John 14:24 He who doesn't love me doesn't keep my words. The word which you hear isn't mine, but the Father's who sent me.

John 13:35 By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another."

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