Stay In His Love
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The Old and New Law
The Old and New Law
“Jesus was a living expression of the Father”
Definition of Expression- to represent, resemble, to utter words, to declare, a copy
Jesus said in John 12:44-5
Then Jesus cried out and said, “He who believes in Me, believes not in Me but in Him who sent Me. And he who sees Me sees Him who sent Me.
John 14:9 (NKJV)
Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and yet you have not known Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father; so how can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?
under the old covenant Where did God first write the law? On stone tablets which he gave to moses
Under the new covenant we have a new commandment which is?
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.”
Now we know this new commandment to love was written on our spiritual hearts not tablets of stone.
Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
An interesting thought experiment. I think its interesting that God put the law on stone tablet instead of parchment, scrolls.
the law revealed the wickedness of mans heart and hardened condition.
we never want our new hearts of love to be as hard as the old tablets of the law.
because thats how the word of God feels like when your heart is hard…laws, rules, hinderances
Love The Expression
Love The Expression
We all Know that love is an action!
Love has an expression!
we played emoji charades, emojis are used for what?
to bring emotion to text.
to give the receiver of that text tone
Apple gave us emoji for messaging
. Well God gave us emotions to help express our soul
God gave us His love to help express our New Spirit
who here has heard of the 5 love languages: Acts of service, physical affection, gifts, quality time, words of affirmations.
The Agape Love of God has different expressions:
For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
“If you love Me, keep My commandments.
Then of course we have 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 “Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away.”
“In order to live a clean life you have to fellowship with a clean spirit”-Candace
in other words
you become the expression of your fellowship!
You know if you ask me about electrical my mind can express it really well!
ask me about cars, and my mind can express it less.
ask me about french art from the 1800’s and my mind has nothing to express
the same is with our spirit! we can become skillful in expressing love with our spirit, by staying and abiding in His Love!
God gave us his love to help utter words (express) from our Spirit
Proverbs 18:2 A fool has no delight in understanding, But in expressing his own heart.