The God of the Living

[farouk]

2 hours ago, Rosie1jack2pauline3 said:

We Love, because He first Loved us....otherwise how would we know what God’s Love is?

1 John 4

 

New International Version

 

 

On Denying the Incarnation

4 Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. ² This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, ³ but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and even now is already in the world.

⁴ You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world. ⁵ They are from the world and therefore speak from the viewpoint of the world, and the world listens to them. ⁶ We are from God, and whoever knows God listens to us; but whoever is not from God does not listen to us. This is how we recognize the Spirit^[a] of truth and the spirit of falsehood.

God’s Love and Ours

⁷ Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.⁸ Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. ⁹ This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. ¹⁰ This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved usand sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. ¹¹ Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. ¹² No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.

¹³ This is how we know that we live in him and he in us: He has given us of his Spirit. ¹⁴ And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. ¹⁵ If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in them and they in God. ¹⁶ And so we know and rely on the love God has for us.

God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. ¹⁷ This is how love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment: In this world we are like Jesus. ¹⁸ There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.

¹⁹ We love because he first loved us. ²⁰ Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen. ²¹ And he has given us this command: Anyone who loves God must also love their brother and sister.

@Rosie1jack2pauline3 Wonderful passage there, which seems to blend well with John 3.16, also from the pen of the same author, as led by the Holy Spirit.

[Selah7]

Let’s go deeper, folks; it’s getting late in the game . . .

I’d like to add, regarding the subject of “tongues,” that the Holy Spirit will once again speak through the mouths of His elect in the end times.

"But watch out for yourselves, for they will deliver you up to councils, and you will be beaten in the synagogues. You will be brought before rulers and kings for My sake, for a testimony to them. "And the gospel must first be preached to all the nations. "But when they arrest you and deliver you up, do not worry beforehand, or premeditate what you will speak. But whatever is given you in that hour, speak that; for it is not you who speak, but the Holy Spirit.

- Mark 13:9-11 (NKJV)

No interpreter will be necessary, for the world will hear what the Holy Spirit is saying in their own native tongue.  This is the way that the gospel will go forth in the latter days.

This is why Peter, in Acts 2 on Pentecost day, would say to the people, "This is that which was spoken of by Joel the Prophet."

"But this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel: 'And it shall come to pass in the last days, says God, That I will pour out of My Spirit on all flesh; Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, Your young men shall see visions, Your old men shall dream dreams. And on My menservants and on My maidservants I will pour out My Spirit in those days; And they shall prophesy. I will show wonders in heaven above And signs in the earth beneath: Blood and fire and vapor of smoke. The sun shall be turned into darkness, And the moon into blood, Before the coming of the great and awesome day of the LORD. And it shall come to pass That whoever calls on the name of the LORD shall be saved.'

- Acts 2:16-21 

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[JustClay]

14 hours ago, Selah7 said:

Let’s go deeper, folks; it’s getting late in the game . . .

I’d like to add, regarding the subject of “tongues,” that the Holy Spirit will once again speak through the mouths of His elect in the end times.

"But watch out for yourselves, for they will deliver you up to councils, and you will be beaten in the synagogues. You will be brought before rulers and kings for My sake, for a testimony to them. "And the gospel must first be preached to all the nations. "But when they arrest you and deliver you up, do not worry beforehand, or premeditate what you will speak. But whatever is given you in that hour, speak that; for it is not you who speak, but the Holy Spirit.

- Mark 13:9-11 (NKJV)

No interpreter will be necessary, for the world will hear what the Holy Spirit is saying in their own native tongue.  This is the way that the gospel will go forth in the latter days.

This is why Peter, in Acts 2 on Pentecost day, would say to the people, "This is that which was spoken of by Joel the Prophet."

"But this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel: 'And it shall come to pass in the last days, says God, That I will pour out of My Spirit on all flesh; Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, Your young men shall see visions, Your old men shall dream dreams. And on My menservants and on My maidservants I will pour out My Spirit in those days; And they shall prophesy. I will show wonders in heaven above And signs in the earth beneath: Blood and fire and vapor of smoke. The sun shall be turned into darkness, And the moon into blood, Before the coming of the great and awesome day of the LORD. And it shall come to pass That whoever calls on the name of the LORD shall be saved.'

- Acts 2:16-21 

S e l a h

@Selah7…. These are awesome scriptures that tie together the prophecies of Joel and the actual manifestation of the Holy Spirit on the Day of Pentecost.  What happened that day was truly evidence that God’s Holy Spirit is a gift for the common good.  That very day the Lord began adding to His church, and we’re still here. 

[farouk]

On 2/23/2023 at 7:10 AM, JustClay said:

@Selah7…. These are awesome scriptures that tie together the prophecies of Joel and the actual manifestation of the Holy Spirit on the Day of Pentecost.  What happened that day was truly evidence that God’s Holy Spirit is a gift for the common good.  That very day the Lord began adding to His church, and we’re still here. 

Hi @JustClay Do you see a future aspect of a restored Israel here?