Agape – The Love of God
In the beginning God made the earth with land and sea areas, rivers, plants, land and sea animals. It was all very beautiful, but God felt the need for a being on this beautiful planet who would be able to guard and keep His creation and with whom He could have a heart to heart relationship. So He made the first man, Adam.
In the beginning God made the earth with land and sea areas, rivers, plants, land and sea animals. It was all very beautiful, but God felt the need for a being on this beautiful planet who would be able to guard and keep His creation and with whom He could have a heart to heart relationship. So He made the first man, Adam.
A spirit is the breath of God Himself. It is this breath of God in human beings which makes us able to contact God, because He is also a Spirit and is seeking spiritual contact with us, human beings.
There is just one problem: there are other lesser spirits which want contact with human beings also. These lesser spirits call themselves gods and they claim to guide us, but they are imposters. They are counterfeits and they want to turn us away from the God who created us, to themselves, so that they can control our lives.
But the God who created us human beings says that He loves us. The reason He loves us is because we are His creation; it is His breath of life that is in us; and He has not given up on us. This is the God of the Bible!
So God created mankind in His own image, in the image of God He created them; male and female He created them.
Agape – The Love of God (The Separation)
When the separation between God and human beings happened, it was because we decided that we could be our own god, and we could manage our lives for ourselves. We therefore declared our independence from Him.
When the separation between God and human beings happened, it was because we decided that we could be our own god, and we could manage our lives for ourselves. We therefore declared our independence from Him.
But God did not want us to remain living dead people. He did not want to lose contact with us forever. So He decided that He would bridge the gap between us and Himself. He HIMSELF became human being.
The human being who was God, is Jesus Christ. He had always been God and had been an active participant in the creation. But when He became a human being, He was born as a baby. When we got separated from God, we died spiritually, we became corrupt in our thinking, in our emotions, in our motivations, and our bodies began to die physically.
Agape – The Love of God (The Work of Jesus Christ)
When Jesus Christ came, born to a virgin through a supernatural miracle of God, He was not corrupt in His spirit, mind, emotions, motivations or body. He did not have the splendour of God. Instead He humbled Himself to human limitations.
When Jesus Christ came, born to a virgin through a supernatural miracle of God, He was not corrupt in His spirit, mind, emotions, motivations or body. He did not have the splendour of God. Instead He humbled Himself to human limitations.
But God had planned things this way. It is a principle of the spirit world that the shedding of blood brings together the one whose blood was shed, with the one for whom the blood is shed. So the shedding of the blood of Jesus Christ brought back the way of contact between God and human beings.
This is how I know that God loves me:
He made a way for me to contact Him even when I was dead to Him by my own choice. He made this way for me even when I was going my own way and even though I had declared my independence of Him and told Him, “I will not obey You!” God made this way of access to Himself at great cost to Himself, even though it costs me nothing. This is how I know that He loves me.
But this God of the Bible has something even better in store!
Agape – The Love of God (Jesus Conquers Death)
An amazingly wonderful event happened AFTER Jesus Christ died.
An amazingly wonderful event happened AFTER Jesus Christ died.
But on the third day after dying, Jesus came back to life. He was resurrected from the dead!
He brought back from the region of the dead, the KEYS of death and hell! Jesus Christ is now alive forever more, and is now seated in the place of power and honour in heaven where He represents before God, any human being who will put their trust in HIM!
When I decide to put my trust in the Lord Jesus Christ, He releases
into my life, the Blessed Holy Spirit of God, the One Who seals my life for Him, the One Who stays with me, Who is my Comforter and Guide, the One Who will work in me to change me so that the life of the Lord Jesus can transform me in my inner person, the One Who gives me the way out when I’m tempted and Who makes his power for right living available to me as I need it, so I can reflect in the earth, the glory of Our Father in Heaven!
This is how I know that God loves me:
Our Father in heaven made a way for me to contact Him even when I was dead to Him by my own choice. The Lord Jesus made this way for me even when I was going my own way and even though I had declared my independence of Him and told Him, “I will not obey You!”
He made this way of access at great cost to Himself, even though it costs me nothing. The Blessed Holy Spirit of God comes to stick with me throughout my lifetime to be my Comfort and Guide.
This is how I know that He loves me. Now, you can meet this God of the Bible!
PRAISE GOD!