BEING CHRISTLIKE [BEING CHRIST’S AMBASSADOR] IN LOVE: LOVING THROUGH THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD IN THE EYES OF CHRIST JESUS!
“And [that you may come] to KNOW [practically, through personal experience] the LOVE of Christ which far SURPASSES and TRANSCENDS [mere] SENSE knowledge [without experience], that you may be FILLED up [throughout your being] to all the FULLNESS of God [so that you may have the RICHEST experience of God’s presence in your lives, completely FILLED and FLOODED with God Himself]” Ephesians 3:19/AMP.
Being CHRISTLIKE [Being Christ’s Ambassador] in LOVE in our lives, should be every believer’s earnest desired intent and expectations to live along in the grace; this is very important for our whole being. And the question that comes to mind in Being CHRISTLIKE [Being Christ’s Ambassador] in LOVE would be – how have you being applying the love of Christ in your day to day living thus far? How would you start to do the love of God in Christ Jesus now? And how can you go about doing God’s love, in order to sustain it, in an onward and upward trajectory without a stop? Is the love of God through the eyes of your DENOMINATIONAL and DOCTRINAL Church sectarianism and religious by-laws and creeds? or your kind of love in action, is it as being done in the World’s sense of definition? Being CHRISTLIKE [Being Christ’s Ambassador] in LOVE, means doing life through the EYES and FACE of Christ Jesus, in the LIGHT of the KNOWLEDGE of God as in the Holy Scripture.
“For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” is the One who has SHONE in our hearts to give us the LIGHT of the KNOWLEDGE of the glory and majesty of God [clearly revealed] in the FACE of Christ” 2 Corinthians 4:6 Amplified.
Being CHRISTLIKE [Being Christ’s Ambassador] in LOVE is the life of LOVING through KNOWLEDGE of God, in the EYES and FACE of JESUS by the Holy Spirit that’s GIVEN to us; this is the essence of FULFILLING scriptures and to being FULFILLED in God, in Christ Jesus stead. Amen.
“And hope maketh not ashamed; because the LOVE of God is SHED abroad in our HEARTS by the Holy Ghost which is GIVEN unto us . . . 8 But God COMMENDETH his LOVE toward us, in that, while we were YET sinners, Christ DIED for us” Romans 5:5-8.
If you live assured by being CHRISTLIKE [being Christ’s Ambassador] in LOVE, you can then actualised your essence of being a carrier of God’s love in order to do life both near and far and beyond the eyes of limitations that the DENOMINATIONAL and DOCTRINAL Church can create.
“And [that you may come] to KNOW [practically, through personal experience] the LOVE of Christ which far SURPASSES and TRANSCENDS [mere] SENSE knowledge [without experience], that you may be FILLED up [throughout your being] to all the FULLNESS of God [so that you may have the RICHEST experience of God’s presence in your lives, completely FILLED and FLOODED with God Himself]” Ephesians 3:19/AMP.
For when you take the step to being CHRISTLIKE [being Christ’s Ambassador] in LOVE, you then allows God’s eternal love to captivate you through the KNOWLEDGE that’s on the eyes and face of Christ Jesus. The essence, is to enable one to do life and live godly. Being CHRISTLIKE [Being Christ’s Ambassador] in LOVE, helps one to go about LIBERATING many from all forms of bondage and captivity; and it thus gives one the assurance to eventually experience the WHOLENESS of God in one’s triune-being: spirit, soul and body; Being CHRISTLIKE [Being Christ’s Ambassador] in LOVE causes God’s love in Christ Jesus to take hold of you in every way, in order to do life and live blessedly, thereby fulfilling the Scripture meaningfully and purposefully as written:
“Love is to be sincere and active [the real thing—without guile and hypocrisy]. Hate what is evil [detest all ungodliness, do not tolerate wickedness]; hold on tightly to what is good. 10 Be devoted to one another with [authentic] brotherly affection [as members of one family], give preference to one another in honor; 11 never lagging behind in diligence; aglow in the Spirit, enthusiastically serving the Lord; 12 constantly rejoicing in hope [because of our confidence in Christ], steadfast and patient in distress, devoted to prayer [continually seeking wisdom, guidance, and strength], 13 contributing to the needs of God’s people, pursuing [the practice of] hospitality . . .” Romans 12:9-21 Amplified.
Genuine freedom is seeing God’s love from the eyes of Christ Jesus if you dare desire to genuinely live free in GRACE and in God’s KNOWLEDGE – wholesomely, purposefully and meaningfully. And living through being CHRISTLIKE [being Christ’s Ambassador] in LOVE makes one unique in everyway.
SCRIPTURAL THOUGHTS WORTH PONDERING ON CONTEXT:
“Now then we ARE AMBASSADORS FOR CHRIST, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ’s stead, be ye reconciled to God” 2 Corinthians 5:20.
“A WICKED MESSENGER falleth into mischief: but a FAITHFUL AMBASSADOR is HEALTH” Proverbs 13:17.
“That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, 18 may be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; 19 and to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God” Ephesians 3:17-19.
“A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have LOVED you, that ye also love one another. 35 By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have LOVE one to another” John 13: 34-35.
“This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have LOVED you. 13 Greater LOVE hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. 14 Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you” John 15: 12-14.
“And hope maketh not ashamed; because the LOVE of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us . . . 8 But God commendeth his LOVE toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us” Romans 5:5, 8.
“For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of LOVE, and of a sound mind” 2 Timothy 1:7.
“Now I beseech you, brethren, for the Lord Jesus Christ’s sake, and for the LOVE of the Spirit, that ye strive together with me in your prayers to God for me” Romans 15:30.
“But the fruit of the Spirit is LOVE, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith” Galatians 5:22.
“If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any COMFORT OF LOVE, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies” Philippians 2:1.
“Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye LOVE one another with a pure heart fervently: 23 being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever” 1 Peter 1:22-23.
“For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power. 21 What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in LOVE, and in the spirit of meekness?” 1 Corinthians 4:20-21.
“Who shall separate us from the LOVE of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. 37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. 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 creature, shall be able to separate us from the LOVE of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord” Romans 8:35-40.
“Though I speak with the TONGUES OF MEN and OF ANGELS, but have NOT LOVE, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal” 1 Corinthians 13:1/NKJV.
“Beloved, let us LOVE one another, for LOVE is of God; and everyone who LOVES is born of God and knows God. 8 He who DOES NOT LOVE does not know God, for GOD IS LOVE. 9 In this the LOVE of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON into the world, that we might LIVE THROUGH HIM. 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. 11 Beloved, if God so LOVED us, we also ought to LOVE one another” 1 John 4:7-11.
REV. CHUKIE MORSI
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