Relationship with GOD

Beloved friends, let us love one another; because love is from GOD; and everyone who loves has GOD as his Father and knows GOD. Those who do not love do not know GOD; because GOD is love. Here is how GOD showed His love among us; GOD sent His only Son into the world, so that through Him we might have life. Here is what love is: not that we have loved GOD, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the kapparah (atonement) for our sins. 1 John 4:7-10 CJB (emphasis mine)

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with GOD, and the Word was GOD. He was with GOD in the beginning. All things came to be through Him, and without Him nothing made has being. In Him was life, and the life was the light of mankind. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not suppressed it…The Word became a human being and lived with us, and we saw His (Jesus) Sh’khinah (Divine presence), the Sh’khinah of the Father’s only Son full of grace and truth. John 1:1-5, 14 CJB (emphasis mine)

For I (Paul) want you to know how hard I work for you, for those in Laodicea, and for the rest of those who have not met me personally. My purpose is that they may be encouraged, that they may be joined together in love, and that they may have all the riches derived from being assured of understanding and fully knowing GOD’s secret truth, which is – the Messiah (savior)! It is in Him (Jesus) that all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden…For in Him, bodily, lives the fullness of all that GOD is. And it is in union with Him that you have been made full – He is the head of every rule and authority. Colossians 2:1-3, 9-10 CJB (emphasis mine)

As I was reading 1 Corinthians 12 and 13 I thought about how GOD is love and that before anything was created in mankind’s existence GOD loved us. The proof is, Everyone living on the earth will worship it (the beast) except those whose names are written in the Book of Life belonging to the Lamb slaughtered (crucified) before the world was founded. Those who have ears, let them hear! Revelation 13:8-9 CJB (emphasis mine)

Who are those whose names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life? Those who believe in their heart and confess with their mouth and are filled with His Spirit (Holy Spirit) doing the work of the Father in the earth as it is in Heaven! Jesus, the Lamb of GOD was crucified before the foundation of the earth was laid so that humanity could be redeemed back to their Creator and GOD! GOD loves us so much, how can we not love Him in return?

Salvation is the free eternal gift from GOD! But it is not like a human gift, His gift of salvation is living and starts the moment we have enough trust (faith) in GOD to believe that Jesus is who the Bible says He is and except Him and His work of salvation. We believe and His Spirit enters into our life, our very being (we become His living temple in the earth) and we confess (tell others) about our salvation through Jesus Christ the Son of GOD. Holy Spirit reminds us of everything that Jesus said while He was in the flesh; He teaches us, disciplines us, guides us and marks us (seals) as heirs of GOD’s eternal Kingdom.

This is why CHRISTianity is not a religion, we have a relationship with the One, True and Living GOD! And it is an eternal relationship!

After Yeshua (Jesus) had said these things, He looked up toward heaven and said, “Father, the time has come. Glorify Your Son, so that the Son may glorify You – just as You gave Him authority over all mankind, so that He might give eternal life to all those whom You have given Him. And eternal life is this: to know You, the One True GOD, and Him whom You sent; Yeshua the Messiah.” John 17:1-3 CJB (emphasis mine)

For while we were still helpless, at the right time, Messiah died on behalf of ungodly people. Now it is a rare event when someone gives up his life even for the sake of someone righteous, although for a truly good person one might have the courage to die. But GOD demonstrates His own love for us in that the Messiah died on our behalf while we were still sinners. Therefore, since we have now come to be considered righteous by means of His bloody sacrificial death, how much more will we be delivered through Him from the anger of GOD’s judgment! For if we were reconciled with GOD through His Son’s death when we were enemies, how much more will we be delivered by His life, now that we are reconciled! And not only will we be delivered in the future, but we are boasting about GOD right now, because He has acted through our LORD Yeshua the Messiah, through whom we have already received that reconciliation. Romans 5:6-11 CJB

But you, you do not identify with your old nature but with the Spirit – provided the Spirit of GOD is living inside of you, for everyone who doesn’t have the Spirit of the Messiah doesn’t belong to Him. However, if the Messiah is in you, then, on the one hand, the body is dead because of sin; but, on the other hand, the Spirit is giving life because GOD considers you righteous. And if the Spirit that raised Yeshua from the dead is living in you, then the one who raised Yeshua the Messiah from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit living in you. Romans 8:9-11 CJB (emphasis mine)

Thank You Heavenly Father, that You knew that humanity would reject You and that in our sin we would be judged to eternal damnation; that You ordained that Jesus Christ would be born the Son of Man and live a sinless life overcoming every temptation that is common to mankind, that He would give His life as a living sacrifice for humanity so that we can be delivered from Your righteous judgment and given eternal life through Jesus in Your eternal Kingdom. Amen!