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I, The LORD, Love Justice
"For I, the LORD, love justice; I hate robbery for burnt offering; I will direct their work in truth, And will make with them an everlasting covenant. Isaiah 61:8
And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him. Love has been perfected among us in this: that we may have boldness in the day of judgment; because as He is, so are we in this world. There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love. We love Him because He first loved us. If someone says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen? And this commandment we have from Him: that he who loves God must love his brother also. 1 John 4:16-21
“God is love” but He could not ignore the demands of justice even though it would cost the death of His only begotten Son on Calvary. As a result the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us. But God’s love doesn’t turn a blind eye to injustice, wickedness, lawlessness or hatred of the brethren as many religious ones tend to do. It’s true the Lord is mighty to pour His divine love into the heart of all those who repent. A sinner washed in the blood shed on the cross by the Lord Jesus receives a clean and righteous life. So also, when the Spirit of the Lord is poured as a flood of love into him, his human nature becomes transformed as that of Jesus. This is what St. Paul stated when he declared,
"It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me" Galatians 2:20
But it doesn’t mean that unrepentant fornicators, idolaters, adulterers, homosexuals, sodomites, thieves, covetous, drunkards, revilers, extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God. God’s grace is unlimited but it was not cheap. It demanded and received the life of God’s Son and it demands a repentant heart from those who will receive it. It demands that the recipient of the divine love lives in the power in God’s love following the life of Jesus as an example to follow:
For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that you should follow His steps: Peter 2:21
Then Jesus said to His disciples, "If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me. "For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it. Matthew 16:24-25
"For He whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for God does not give the Spirit by measure. "The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into His hand. "He who believes in the Son has everlasting life; and he who does not believe the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him." John 3:34-36
As soon as Jesus was baptized by John in the waters of river Jordan and reached the shore, He received the fullness of the Holy Spirit. If He, the expressed image of the invisible God, received the Spirit of God in that manner, it’s very necessary that all receive it so that they could be like Jesus! Jesus received such an experience so that He could go about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil. God’s word is true:
"God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him" Acts 10:38
"The kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force" Matthew 11:12.
"I will give of the fountain of the water of life freely to him who thirsts" Revelation 21:6.
It takes the power of the Spirit to deal with the demons and their effects on others. Human reasoning, logic and perspiration are not match against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. It takes the fullness of the Holy Spirit to bring resounding victory to any negative circumstance and situation. It takes the same anointing of the Holy Spirit that Jesus had to do the work of the LORD and bring healing to the sick, recover of the sight to the blind and deliverance to the captives. Flesh and blood will never inherit the kingdom of heaven. And most of the work done today in the ministry in the power of flesh is only wood, stubble and hay that will be burned in the great bonfire in the sky.
And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual people but as to carnal, as to babes in Christ. I fed you with milk and not with solid food; for until now you were not able to receive it, and even now you are still not able; for you are still carnal. For where there are envy, strife, and divisions among you, are you not carnal and behaving like mere men? For when one says, "I am of Paul," and another, "I am of Apollos," are you not carnal? Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers through whom you believed, as the Lord gave to each one? I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the increase. So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.
Now he who plants and he who waters are one, and each one will receive his own reward according to his own labor. For we are God's fellow workers; you are God's field, you are God's building According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I have laid the foundation, and another builds on it. But let each one take heed how he builds on it. For no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
Now if anyone builds on this foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw, each one's work will become clear; for the Day will declare it, because it will be revealed by fire; and the fire will test each one's work, of what sort it is. If anyone's work which he has built on it endures, he will receive a reward. If anyone's work is burned, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire. 1 Corinthians 3:1-15
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