God’s love is universal: Jn.3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life. God’s love is demonstrated through Jesus Christ: Rom.5:8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Nothing can separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord: Rom.8:35,38-39 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 38 For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, 39 nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. 1)Who is the “us” in this Scripture? The people Paul is writing to: Rom.1:7 to all who are beloved of God in Rome, called as saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. So, the “us” is the saints. 2)How are we, the saints, not separated from the love of God? v.39…shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. The love of God is only in Christ Jesus our Lord. 3)Is remaining in the Fathers love conditional or unconditional? Jn.14:21-24 21 He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him.” Who is the one who loves Jesus? “He who has My commandments and keeps them” “And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father”. Who will be loved by the Father? He who loves Jesus. “and I will love him and manifest Myself to him.” Who will Jesus love and manifest Himself to? The one who loves Jesus because he has His commandments and keeps them. 1Jn.5:3 For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments; and His commandments are not burdensome. 22 Judas (not Iscariot) said to Him, “Lord, how is it that You will manifest Yourself to us, and not to the world?” 23 Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him. Who is the one who loves Jesus? “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word.” The one who loves Jesus is the one who keeps His word. Who is the one the Father loves? “and My Father will love him” The one who keeps Jesus word. Who do Jesus and the Father make their home with? “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him.” The one who loves Jesus, because they keep His word which is the only one the Father loves 24 He who does not love Me does not keep My words; and the word which you hear is not Mine but the Father’s who sent Me. Who does not love Jesus? “He who does not love Me does not keep My words” The one who does not keep His words
Jude1:21 keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life. Why would Jude say to keep yourselves in the love of God if it was impossible to not keep yourselves in the love of God?
We see, the love of God comes only in Christ Jesus, If we have and keep Jesus commandments, we are the ones who love Jesus Christ and we and only we will be loved by Him and by His Father, If we love Jesus we will keep His Word and the Father will love us, Christ and the Father will only make their home with the person who keeps His Word, People prove they do not love Jesus by not keeping His Word, We must keep ourselves in the love of God
We must have repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ. Acts 20:21 testifying to Jews, and also to Greeks, repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ. Why repentance toward God? Because God is the one people have offended. God hates the workers of iniquity, and the wicked, yet God’s love is demonstrated through Christ: Hosea 9:15 All their wickedness is in Gilgal; for there I hated them: because of the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of my house; I will love them no more; all their princes are revolters. Ps.5:5 The boastful shall not stand in Your sight; You hate all workers of iniquity. Ps.11:5 The LORD tests the righteous, But the wicked and the one who loves violence His soul hates.
Why faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ? Gal. 3:26 For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus. Rom.8:14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God. 1 John 4:10 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. Jn. 3:36 The one believing in the Son has eternal life. But the one disobeying the Son will not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him”.
If any man loveth not the Lord, let him be anathema (eternally condemned). Maranatha. 1Cor.16:22
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