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By this, love is perfected with us, so that we may have confidence in the Day of Judgment because as He is so also are we in this world.
1 John 4:17
If we have been born of God then He is our own Father just as God was Jesus' own Father. Men wanted to kill him for that.
Our Father wants His children to be like Him and to be as He is. They know they are His children because His Spirit testifies to our spirit that they are children of God, His own children, those begotten of Him. If they are begotten of God they, like Jesus, are out of God.
4 You are out of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world. 5 They are of the world; therefore they speak as from the world, and the world listens to them. 6 We are out of God. He who knows God hears us; he who is not from God does not hear us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error. 1 John 4:4-6
If we are born of God, He gives us His Spirit so that we can personally know Him and totally comprehend what He is like, His character, His ways, His will, His Love. And His Spirit teaches us exactly what the Father is like. Such as the power of His love. And so we walk by His Spirit. And if we walk by His Spirit we become as He is and become like our Father. But God only gives His Spirit to those who obey Him.
If His Spirit is truly in you, then you have no need to ask what Heaven is like because the reality Heaven is abiding in you and you already know. And you also know that you are already there in Heaven just as much as you are here in the world because you have been born of God by His Spirit and Heaven has been opened to you. The natural man simply cannot comprehend this but the children of God do know they are truly there in Heaven right now seated with Christ in the heavenlies since their Father's Spirit makes that reality known to them.
This is how Jesus walked and became like his God and Father. He walked by the Spirit of his God and did only what the Father abiding in Him wanted Him to do. We are to walk as Jesus walked following in his footsteps. Eternal life is to become as our Father is and He gives us His Spirit so that we might know what He is like and how to become like Him.
To know the only true God, the God of Jesus, is eternal life. And we only come to know Him if we become as He is and we only become as He is by giving as He gives. Love concerns itself with giving and has no interest in getting.
But men reject becoming as the Father is because they want something else. They delude themselves into believing they can add God's salvation to their collection of worldly things. For them it's all about the getting not the giving. And they want to get His salvation and add it to their worldly collection. Such men cannot have God's salvation because God and His salvation are not things they can add to their worldly possessions. And so these men love the world and hate the children of God, those born of Him.
We have come to know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. 1 John 4:16
1 John 4:17
If we have been born of God then He is our own Father just as God was Jesus' own Father. Men wanted to kill him for that.
Our Father wants His children to be like Him and to be as He is. They know they are His children because His Spirit testifies to our spirit that they are children of God, His own children, those begotten of Him. If they are begotten of God they, like Jesus, are out of God.
4 You are out of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world. 5 They are of the world; therefore they speak as from the world, and the world listens to them. 6 We are out of God. He who knows God hears us; he who is not from God does not hear us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error. 1 John 4:4-6
If we are born of God, He gives us His Spirit so that we can personally know Him and totally comprehend what He is like, His character, His ways, His will, His Love. And His Spirit teaches us exactly what the Father is like. Such as the power of His love. And so we walk by His Spirit. And if we walk by His Spirit we become as He is and become like our Father. But God only gives His Spirit to those who obey Him.
If His Spirit is truly in you, then you have no need to ask what Heaven is like because the reality Heaven is abiding in you and you already know. And you also know that you are already there in Heaven just as much as you are here in the world because you have been born of God by His Spirit and Heaven has been opened to you. The natural man simply cannot comprehend this but the children of God do know they are truly there in Heaven right now seated with Christ in the heavenlies since their Father's Spirit makes that reality known to them.
This is how Jesus walked and became like his God and Father. He walked by the Spirit of his God and did only what the Father abiding in Him wanted Him to do. We are to walk as Jesus walked following in his footsteps. Eternal life is to become as our Father is and He gives us His Spirit so that we might know what He is like and how to become like Him.
To know the only true God, the God of Jesus, is eternal life. And we only come to know Him if we become as He is and we only become as He is by giving as He gives. Love concerns itself with giving and has no interest in getting.
But men reject becoming as the Father is because they want something else. They delude themselves into believing they can add God's salvation to their collection of worldly things. For them it's all about the getting not the giving. And they want to get His salvation and add it to their worldly collection. Such men cannot have God's salvation because God and His salvation are not things they can add to their worldly possessions. And so these men love the world and hate the children of God, those born of Him.
We have come to know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. 1 John 4:16
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