As for myself, i will boast about the love of GOD Almighty for me in Messiah, why.
If i say that i love GOD Almighty, i believe that is no big deal, as i and everyone should love Him.
Yet, the OMNIPOTENT, OMNISCIENT,OMNIPRESENT YHWH would reveal His love for me by giving His Holy sinless SON, who represents Him exactly in every way, attributes, character,attitude, personality and will to be the ONLY propitiation for each and every one of my sins.
YHWH forgives me before i was born,because Messiah paid in full the randsom of my sin,took my sins upon Himself to be judge upon the tree.
Messiah clothes me in His righteousness( so that i am not standing naked before ABBA )sanctifies me in Himself, imputes His Holiness to me and calls me His adopted son, even a saint.
Messiah mediates in Himself between me and my Father in the Heavens, and reveals in Himself to me who the Father is.
I know there is so much more i could say.
Now where would your boasting of love be placed your love towards GOD Almighty or His love towards you.
**THE ONLY THING THAT COUNTS IS FAITH EXPRESSING ITSELF THROUGH ***LOVE***!!{Galatians 5:6}
**THE FATHER LOVES HIS FAITHUL SAINTS JUST AS MUCH AS HE LOVES JESUS**
John 17:23: Jesus says to His Father, "You sent Me and have **LOVED THEM** even as you **LOVED** Me!!"
**JESUS LOVES HIS FAITHFUL SAINTS **JUST AS MUCH** AS THE FATHER LOVES HIM**!!
John 15:9,10" Jesus says, "As the Father **LOVED** Me, so I have **LOVED** you!! Now remain in My **LOVE . **IF** you obey My commands, you will remain in My **LOVE**, just as I have obeyed my Father's commands and remain in His **LOVE** !"
John 14:21,23: Jesus says, "Whoever has My commands and obeys them, he is the one who **LOVES** Me! He who loves Me will be **LOVED** by My Father, and I will **LOVE** him....If anyone **LOVES** Me, he will obey My teaching. My Father will **LOVE** him, and we will come to him and make Our home with him!!"
I John 3:18: Dear children, let us not **LOVE** with words or tongue but with actions and in truth!
WHAT'S **LOVE** GOT TO DO WITH IT??
I Peter 1:22: "Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that you have sincere **LOVE** for your brothers, **LOVE** one another deeply, from the heart. For you have been born again... through the living and enduring Word of God!
I Peter 4:8: **ABOVE ALL**, **LOVE** each other **DEEPLY**, because **LOVE** covers over a multitude of sins!
I Corinthians 13:2,4-8: If I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not **LOVE** I am nothing...**LOVE** is patient, **LOVE** is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. **LOVE** does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. **LOVE** never fails!!"
John 13:34: Jesus says, "A NEW command I give you: **LOVE* one another As I have **LOVED** you, so you must **LOVE** one another. By this all men will know that you are my disciples." John 15:12,13: Jesus says, "My command is this: **LOVE** each other as I have **LOVED** you. Greater **LOVE** has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.
I John 3:16: This how we know what **LOVE** is: Jesus Christ laid down His life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers!
Ephesians 5:1,2: Be **IMITATORS OF GOD**, therefore, as dearly loved children and live a life of **LOVE**, just as Christ **LOVED** us and gave Himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God!
Luke 6:27,28,35,36: Jesus says, "**LOVE** your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you. **LOVE** your enemies, do good to them. and lend to them without expecting to get anything back. Then your **REWARD** will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, because He is kind to the ungrateful and wicked. Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful!"
Matthew 28:19.20” Jesus commands, “Go and make disciples of all nations... teaching them to *OBEY EVERYTHING* I have commanded you!” {See I John 2:3-5}
EVERYTHING would also include all the other commands in God's inspired Word from Acts to Revelation as per 2 Timothy 3:16: 4:2: "All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work...Preach the Word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage--with great patience and careful instruction."
If we really **LOVE** our brothers and sister in Christ we will lovingly teach them to obey all the approximately 400 commands of the NT with **LOVE** in the hope of countless eternal rewards when Jesus comes with great power with all His angels.
Revelation 22:112: Jesus says,"Behold, I am coming soon! My reward is with Me, and I will give to everyone according to what he has done!?
Matthew 16:27: Jesus says, For the Son of Man is going to come in His Father's glory with His angels, and **THEN** He will **REWARD** each person according to what he has done."
Ephesians 4:15: "Speaking the Truth in **LOVE** , we will in all things grow up into Him who is the Head, that is, Christ! From Him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in **LOVE** , as each part does its work."
Ephesians 3:17-19: "I pray that you, being rooted and established in **LOVE** may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the **LOVE** of Christ, and to know this **LOVE** that surpasses knowledge--that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God!!"
I John 4:7-12: Dear friends, let us **LOVE** one another, for **LOVE** comes from God. Everyone who **LOVES** has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not **LOVE** does not know God, because God is **LOVE**. 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. This is **LOVE**, not that we **LOVED** God, but that He **LOVED** us and sent His Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so **LOVED** us, we ought to **LOVE** one another. No one has ever seen God, but if we **LOVE** one another, God lives in us and His **LOVE** is made complete in us!
Romans 8:35,37-39: Who shall separate us from the **LOVE** of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?...We are more than conquerors through Him who **LOVED** us! For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the **LOVE** of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord!!
You said the "Messiah paid in full the randsom of your sin" and I want to know what this "sin" is I always here about. No one seems to really know.
I know I feel bad sometimes but do not know why? Strange, I think sometimes but could that be "sin" in my life that I don't understand even what it is?
When I read the Bible it is so confusing to me? That is why I posted that verse in John 3 something now but now Im confused about this "sin" thing and what it is?
Sin, that word means To miss the mark. Each and every person born of a woman is bon with a SINFUL nature, a nature that is bent on seeking its own way. If we place two hungry 1 year old children in the same playpen and place one bottle inside, when one finds the bottle watch how they they react.GOD Almighty does not have a sinful nature, therefore He is not able to sin.
The mark,or way that man misses every day is found in the book of the law, which contains the Ten comandments. The pharisees and lawyers turned these 10 into 66 volumes of laws according to their understanding of those laws and the way they thought they should be applied. Then there was the ORAL laws or traditions the pharisees added to the commandments GOD Almighty had originally given to the people thru Moses. By not being obedient to the commandments,the people were SINNING against Yahweh, thus they were missing the mark.
The title of this thread is "Do you love God?" and so do we need to have just a small amount of faith to do what is right in loving Him back and what about this "sinful nature" you mentioned we have or does He give us power over that sinful nature when we ask Him? Or is it all hopeless, we will just continue to "sin" over and over again because of this "SINFUL nature" you speak of, that we are just "bent on seeking our own way" in doing things?
Finally we are getting to a HUGE question that I have never got answers too! The "mark/way" that we as hopeless miserable mankind just keeps "missing every day" as you state and this "way" or "law" is found in the ten commandments? I had to look that up, has been years! Is that found in Exodus 20:3-17? Is this the ten commandment "law" that you speak of and stated we will just continue to break them "every day" as you say because of our sinful nature? So its hopeless for us, we will never please Him nor Love Him?
Will try to get back to this forum later, man do I have headache, I need a drink dude!
Hey Quiznos, you stated "GOD Almighty does not have a sinful nature, therefore He is not able to sin." and brainless hungover me was thinking back to sunday school class when I was a kid, you know about the tree of "good and evil " and looked that up in genesis again. So adam and steve got that "sinful nature" when they ate of that tree or did they always have it? You mentioned "GOD Almighty does not have a sinful nature" and so He does not know what "good and evil " is, right? But we do you said. Seems to me that "GOD Almighty" should of never made that tree of "good and evil" for humans to eat from because then they would not know, right? Or maybe like I said, we are just made with a "sinful nature" and have always had it before that tree was even made? We are doomed like you say "every day" of our lives!?
But I keep going back to identify what sin is and you say its found in the ten commandments. Exodus 20:3-17?
Though GOD Almighty is sinless, He does no what is good and what is evil;
How about we use Right and wrong for the equivalant of good and evil.
In order to know what is right a person needs something, a standard by which to measure what is right, GOD Almighty is that standard.
He is the standard for what is good, and anything that does not meet His standard is evil.
Jeremiah 17 verse 9 - 10
9“The heart is more deceitful than all else
And is desperately sick;
Who can understand it?
10“I, the LORD, search the heart,
I test the mind,
Even to give to each man according to his ways,
According to the results of his deeds.
GOD Almighty does not have a heart, as He is spirit, so then how can He say man has a deceitful heart.
GOD, who is OMNISCIENT, knows everything about each and every person, their thoughts, motives,desires and decisions they will make beforw they are born,until they breathe their last breath
When Adam and Eve ( not steve as you put ) ate of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil did that take YHWH by surprize.( Now really Adam, how many times must i tell you not to eat from that tree ).
No, He knew they would not trust what He had said to Adam, then Adam changed the story to Eve,and the rest is His-story.
Adam and Eve were created with a neutral nature at that time, neithe good, nor evil, and they had never been tempted or tested by anyone or anything.
The first time the were tried, they failed, and the nature the now had was the result of their not believing what GOD Almighty had spoken about the tree of knowledge of good and evil, of right and wrong.
This sinful nature the consequence of unbelief would be handed down to each and every person born of a woman, even those developed in laboratories.
Had YHWH left man to eat of the tree of life, there would be no way to redeem them, as they would have been in an unregenerated state living in this life forever.
GOD Almighty would had to have had to wipe out what He had created including man, than He would have to start all over again.
