The demostration of God's love
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Knowing the Love of Christ
Knowing the Love of Christ
14 For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, 15 from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, 16 that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man, 17 that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, 18 may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height—19 to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
We have to be grounded and rooted in God’s Love
We have to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge
If we don’t now what Christ love is, when he demonstrates his love towards us we will not recognize it.
Furthermore, if we misunderstand his love, we will find it difficult to walk with him.
Two people who are married, have their own way of expressing their love for one another. The one must know how the other expresses his/her love or else they may be misunderstanding
We too must know how God expresses his love towards us.
We know God loves us because he sacrificed his own life for us on the cross.
5 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. 6 For when we were still without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. 7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man someone would even dare to die. 8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
This is well known expression of God’s love towards us. He sacrifice his own life for the salvation of our souls. This is a demonstration of God’s love.
However, there are other ways that God demonstrates his love towards us that is not well known.
There are thimgs that God does in our lives that demostrate to us that he loves us
A call to sanctification is a demonstration of God’s love
1 “When Israel was a child, I loved him, And out of Egypt I called My son. 2 As they called them, So they went from them; They sacrificed to the Baals, And burned incense to carved images. 3 “I taught Ephraim to walk, Taking them by their arms; But they did not know that I healed them.
When God wan’t to show his love for you, he calls you out.
It is because of His love that He calls you out of the world, out of darkness, out of the poeple of the world.
Because God loved Abraham, above all the people of the earth he called him out of his Country, his kindred, his family to a land that he will show him Genesis 13:1
When God love us and wants us to be his chosen people, his sons and daughters he calls us out.
1 In the third month after the children of Israel had gone out of the land of Egypt, on the same day, they came to the Wilderness of Sinai. 2 For they had departed from Rephidim, had come to the Wilderness of Sinai, and camped in the wilderness. So Israel camped there before the mountain. 3 And Moses went up to God, and the Lord called to him from the mountain, saying, “Thus you shall say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel: 4 ‘You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles’ wings and brought you to Myself. 5 Now therefore, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be a special treasure to Me above all people; for all the earth is Mine. 6 And you shall be to Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words which you shall speak to the children of Israel.”
God’s call to holiness for his people showed his divine favour upon their life.
He called them out because he chose them to a be a special treasure to him above all else.
14 Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness? 15 And what accord has Christ with Belial? Or what part has a believer with an unbeliever? 16 And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will dwell in them And walk among them. I will be their God, And they shall be My people.” 17 Therefore “Come out from among them And be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean, And I will receive you.” 18 “I will be a Father to you, and you shall be My sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.”
Therefore, when God calls us to sanctification, we should respond in joy because God is showing his love towards us.
2. A call to sacrifice is a demonstration of God’s love towards us.
Whom God loves he calls to sacrifice
17 Now as He was going out on the road, one came running, knelt before Him, and asked Him, “Good Teacher, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?” 18 So Jesus said to him, “Why do you call Me good? No one is good but One, that is, God. 19 You know the commandments: ‘Do not commit adultery,’ ‘Do not murder,’ ‘Do not steal,’ ‘Do not bear false witness,’ ‘Do not defraud,’ ‘Honor your father and your mother.’ ” 20 And he answered and said to Him, “Teacher, all these things I have kept from my youth.” 21 Then Jesus, looking at him, loved him, and said to him, “One thing you lack: Go your way, sell whatever you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, take up the cross, and follow Me.” 22 But he was sad at this word, and went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions.
Jesus called the young man to a place of sacrifice because he loved him.
When God loves us he calls us to a place of sacrifice.
As matter of fact the more God loves us the more he calls us to sacrifice.
35 I have shown you in every way, by laboring like this, that you must support the weak. And remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that He said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’ ”
Jesus prayed this prayer
23 I in them, and You in Me; that they may be made perfect in one, and that the world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved Me.
Jesus testified that God has loved his desciples as he has loved his Son.
The Son of God was sacrificed, as a result of God’s love. The desciples were sacrficed as a result of God’s love.
Only in heaven we will comprehend the extent of God love, why it operate in such a way as this.
Therefore when God loves us, he calls us to sacrifice.
18 Then they will heed your voice; and you shall come, you and the elders of Israel, to the king of Egypt; and you shall say to him, ‘The Lord God of the Hebrews has met with us; and now, please, let us go three days’ journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God.’
Because God Loved the people of Israel, he called them to sacrifice to him in the wilderness
25 “Did you offer Me sacrifices and offerings In the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?
God was dissapointed because his people did not offer up a sacrifice for him.
3. God demonstrates his love through descipline
3 For consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners against Himself, lest you become weary and discouraged in your souls. 4 You have not yet resisted to bloodshed, striving against sin. 5 And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to sons: “My son, do not despise the chastening of the Lord, Nor be discouraged when you are rebuked by Him; 6 For whom the Lord loves He chastens, And scourges every son whom He receives.” 7 If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom a father does not chasten? 8 But if you are without chastening, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate and not sons. 9 Furthermore, we have had human fathers who corrected us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much more readily be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live? 10 For they indeed for a few days chastened us as seemed best to them, but He for our profit, that we may be partakers of His holiness. 11 Now no chastening seems to be joyful for the present, but painful; nevertheless, afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.
God descipline should not be a source of discouragment but rather encouragment, because by it God is showing us that he loves us.
24 He who spares his rod hates his son, But he who loves him disciplines him promptly.
4. God demonstrate’s his love by making us wait
3 Therefore the sisters sent to Him, saying, “Lord, behold, he whom You love is sick.” 4 When Jesus heard that, He said, “This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified through it.” 5 Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. 6 So, when He heard that he was sick, He stayed two more days in the place where He was.
God made Mary and Martha wait for an answer because he loved them. Jesus was showing them his love by making them wait.
By waiting, he was keeping the best miracle for them. Jesus raising someone who was dead 4 days. There was no other greater miracles that Jesus did in all of israel.
There is nothing that is hopeless to those who wait on him.
God made Abraham wait and gave him the best child, a child of promise,
8 For we do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, of our trouble which came to us in Asia: that we were burdened beyond measure, above strength, so that we despaired even of life. 9 Yes, we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves but in God who raises the dead, 10 who delivered us from so great a death, and does deliver us; in whom we trust that He will still deliver us,
4 For since the beginning of the world Men have not heard nor perceived by the ear, Nor has the eye seen any God besides You, Who acts for the one who waits for Him.
A special miracle, a special visitation is prepared for those who wait on him. God, out of his love makes us wait.