I challenge you to read parts one through three on this, as we are now getting to the core of righteousness and how grace and truth are embedded within it. We can see that today’s emotional connection with Christ is not via an affectionate love called Agape. Rather, it is loving God through the world’s order of diversity, equity, and inclusivity or love by a social-emotional hype. John reveals the light of truth concerning Agape. A love God is. 1 John 4:10-13 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
A fundamental principle of Agape is knowing that it comes from the Spirit of God to love one another among the body of Christ and humanity. It is a love that will not allow unrighteousness to be a part of its perfection; any other kind of love holding favor in one’s heart reveals they are out of character to Agape and ignorant of the grace and truth that came by Jesus Christ. 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12 No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God abides in us, and His love has been perfected in us. 13 By this we know that we abide in Him, and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit.
God abides in those who love one another. Say this: If God abides in me, I can love another. This sets the standard for interaction, grounded in His love (Agape), brought to fruition because He lives in you. When believers love one another in Agape, it reveals not only that He is present but also that He has the liberty to reveal it. This is a principle written so that every believer is perfected in Agape, having grace toward all within them. Thus, look at Verse 11 also. It says that if God loved you, you ought to love one another; this is Agape, built on a spiritual perspective of grace at work in all righteous believers.
The truth of the word brings faith, and faith perfects Agape. Loving other believers and developing it to a degree that all will reveal such love to other believers and to those in darkness, or those we call unbelievers, means grace cannot be left out of this. It is synonymous with Agape. His sons and daughters must have grace toward each other or be in error about what the Holy Spirit reveals as truth for Agape to abound toward all. Today, believers eagerly abstain from the fellowship of another spiritual sibling because of denominational errors, or, in a nutshell, instruction that encourages spiritual abstinence of those who do not uphold the tenets you are taught, which is an evil precept.
The world has no problem loving itself; it can do Phileo or Eros all day long and never get tired. So, why is it that the body of Christ so eagerly rejects Agape of itself? It is because no understanding of love as Agape that comes by grace and truth at today’s pulpits. Like it or not, I am every believer’s spiritual brother, and I need Agape from all of you, as the Holy Spirit helps me perfect it. Though any believer can take refuge in their relationship with Christ and be nurtured by God’s love without anyone else, living in this manner is out of character with grace and truth in Christ, and they will not live loving others as themselves. Luke 10:27 And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.
The spiritual well-being of the Church, as the body of Christ, depends upon corporate spiritual interaction, which is nurtured by each righteous sibling, who in turn is nurtured by the Holy Spirit. This process is founded on grace and truth, and endows Agape love. No one can separate God from Agape or Agape from God. That fact means no one separates Agape from the Holy Spirit nor the Holy Spirit from Agape, as it is the only love He abides in and provides for all believers, a truth to be in the faith of all.
Heb 10:24-25 (GW)We must also consider how to encourage each other to show love and to do good things. 25 We should not stop gathering together with other believers, as some of you are doing. Instead, we must continue to encourage each other even more as we see the day of the Lord coming. The preceding truth reveals that every believer can manifest such love by grace and truth as the Father has towards them if they perceive the righteousness of His presence with and in them. Take note of verse 25. The writer says believers must continue to encourage one another; this applies to all members of Christ’s body, not just those who are ministerially gifted or serve at the pulpit.
Since those who minister at the pulpit are called to instruct and edify all things, the activity to be manifested by all parts of Christ’s body is heavily affected by what they say and do. The truth from the word sets the spiritual standard of the whole, and that’s why the Holy Spirit is the only revealer of it. The importance of all this is that, in the last days of Christ’s Church, a vital part of an end-time harvest is Christians prepared in faith, but a faith built on truths that reveal His power and authority to overcome the fields of humanity that are today ripe for harvest.
Everything shown here is not measured by conformity to a worldly order of faith that flows through most churches today, but by the truth. Untruths and lack of revelations of what is happening today prevent the Church body from fulfilling what the head, Christ, has made it to be. Division is at an all-time high within the body of Christ in spiritual and social contexts due to worldly content within the dynamics and the ushering in of humanist preambles as what is now considered necessary for today’s ministry and Christian living.
The Truth of The Word Builds Dominion Faith, not Worldly Egos
The Holy Spirit is at work in those believers who are willing to bring forth signs, wonders, and miracles confirming righteousness in Christ, as they perceive themselves as children of God. Though God does not expect us to be perfect in living out righteousness, He wants us to show the glory of the Lord through the word of truth at work in us, which images the righteousness we have in Him, and draws people to Christ. The more your witness is by the truth of His word, the more Christ is revealed, but the more worldly it is, the more ignorance you have, and neither Christ nor the Father is seen.
Mark 16:20 And they went forth, and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following. Amen. John 12:32 And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me. John 6:44 No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day. Jesus never fails to reveal the righteous character of His Father in you, and in doing so, the Spirit of God draws people to Christ by the good work God created you to do. Eph 2:10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God ordained that we should walk in them.
This conflicts with today’s dynamic ministries, which draw people in through the worldly preambles of sight and sound. When you, by the Holy Spirit, speak the word of God, the truth, you reveal an inner witness He uses to draw others to it as they see themselves in need of right standing with God. Any judgment of sin is not based on your right standing but on their error amid righteousness in Him. Scripture is filled with truths about everything God ordained and has promised for humanity during this Church age event, and our part in this is written in and among all of it for His glory.
Nothing is said about His words being unable to do as He says in every aspect, proving that God is faithful to fulfill what He says by His power within them. The two most important elements in your living righteousness and in what God says about you are the Holy Spirit and the Word, which transform anyone into a Christian who can reveal the image of God, who is always fully righteous.
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