Do You Know God as Love?

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Do You Know God as Love?

[My Offline Bible] 1 John 4
6 We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us.
Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

7 Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.

8 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

9 In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.

10 Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

20 If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?

The message God sent to the world through Christ is to get the world to know Him as He is. God is fundamentally and essentially love personified.

This love isn't such as has been experienced by man since the fall of man when man was introduced to the knowledge of good and of evil.

Jesus Christ came preaching that love and showing God to man in His real nature.

[My Offline Bible] Matthew 5
38 Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth:

39 But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.

40 And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloke also.

41 And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain.

42 Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.

43 Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy.

44 But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;

45 That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.

46 For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same?

47 And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so?

48 Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.

When God made man in His likeness, it was the likeness and image this kind of love that was shared... But man lost it and became savagery, wicked, selfish and self seeking.

Jesus Christ came to restore that image in us by showing us how God is Love and how God desires and has made arrangements as to how we can become like him to mirror that image.

Until man sees God as love, it's not possible for man to know Him.

This kind of love is such that pray for enemies, the kind of love that's not self seeking. The kind of love that wouldn't hate opposition.

But Jesus also knew that many won't accept that. The thief will always come to steal, kill and to destroy and he will bear that appellation of a thief by wanting to steal God's image to make God looks as if He is the one doing evil...

But the clear reflections of God is seen in Christ.

[My Offline Bible] Hebrews 1
1 God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,

2 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;

3 Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;

Jesus Christ announced to the world

[My Offline Bible] John 3
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

Jesus Christ came so that through His love we might acquire that same unconditional love and be saved... He didn't send Him to condemn the world. The world is condemned already...only a reconnection to God can save the people within it which is provided for in Christ.

That's the best available to mankind.

Jesus Christ could have cursed those who arrested Him and killed Him unjustly, He could have escaped to deprive the world the forgiveness that's in His blood, He didn't. He could have taken the position of an earthly king when He was about to be forcefully made one, He could have ridden upon His popularity at a time and use the political powers that follow to wage a physical war... He could have called fire down...to kill all His 'enemies' He didn't!

[My Offline Bible] Luke 9
54 And when his disciples James and John saw this, they said, Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven, and consume them, even as Elias did?

55 But he turned, and rebuked them, and said, Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of.

56 For the Son of man is not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them. And they went to another village.

He prayed for those who crucified Him and for everyone who supported that till date, that God should forgive them because they did it in ignorance...

Do you know that he'll fire wasn't created for man? Yes men will go there but by their own volition, he is a free moral agent, he can choose wherever he wants to go...including going to hell...

[My Offline Bible] Matthew 25
41 Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:

But God wouldn't want that... He doesn't rejoice in the death of sinners, He'll rather save them from the impending danger... God is Love..

If you are yet to see God as love, who loves sinners and would want them to come to repentance and be saved, not imputing their sins against them or seeking that they perish, then you are yet to know the true God.

[My Offline Bible] 2 Corinthians 5
19 To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.

If the pictures of God you see is one sending men to kill His 'enemies', one who is burning with vengeance and who is being appeased not to destroy the ungodly or who is empowering his 'people' to destroy those who are not his, then you are yet to meet the true God...

[My Offline Bible] 1 John 4
20 If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?

21 And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.

Look around you, you'll see that man needs God and needs His love. Man must recognize God enough to imbibe His love nature and Christ Jesus has been sent to let the world see God in His true nature... Without man seeing that love and enjoying it by faith, he can't be saved...the wickedness of man will eventually destroy mankind...

Will you see Him?