Agape has been PERFECTED in us!

Saints of the Living God, GREETINGS!

It is another week, and we thank and rejoice in the Living God, our Heavenly Father, through the Lord Jesus Christ, for His provision, love, care, and his indwelling peace in us by the Divine Person of the Holy Spirit.  

Main Bible Scripture: 1John 4 v 12

Other Associated Scriptures: 1John 4 v 17, Romans 5 v 5, Ephesians 5 v 1-2, 1Corinthians 13 v 1-8 and so on.

Prayer: Heavenly Father, in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ, we thank you for another week of divine health, divine peace, divine provision and divine wisdom and revelation of God, the Father of spirits. We come today, this very hour, in our own accord, to feed our born-again spirit-beings with the rich nutrient of God’s Holy Word. We agree that your Word is the truth. We trust the Holy Spirit to bring the light of God’s Word into our minds and the direction of that Word into our spirits. We trust you, the Lord Jesus Christ, that we will be doers of your Word and not hearers, readers or speakers only. In Jesus Name. Amen

Theme/Subject: Love (Agape) has been perfected in us

In the natural there is a saying that knowledge is power. And it is debatable what kind of power knowledge exerts. Does knowledge exert power to do good or to do evil. But the word of God teachers that knowledge puffs up, but love, Agape edifies or builds up (see 1 Corinthians 8 v 1) But the power of knowledge is meaningless and useless if that knowledge is not acted upon or practiced. This is particularly so when it comes to the new creation person knowledge from the Holy Written Word of God that the love of God, Agape, has been perfected in him or her. The love of God has been perfected in us. The Greek word which translates ‘perfected’ also translates ‘matured.’ The love of God, Agape, has been perfected or matured in us. To the natural man, this knowledge from God’s Word is foolishness. The natural man (person) unlike the spiritual man and the carnal man is NOT born of God in Christ. Although, the natural man is a spirit being but his spirit is not regenerate. The natural man spirit is estranged from the Father of spirits. The natural man is a person who Jesus Christ is not Lord and Saviour. The natural person is not a new creation in Christ. The natural man has no eternal life. The natural man is what you and I called the unbeliever. He is an unbeliever because he is yet to believe and receive Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour (see 1 Corinthians 2 v 14).

To the carnal man, her knowledge from God’s Word that the love of God, Agape, has been perfected in her is either ignored or not acted upon or practiced. This knowledge is not foolishness to her but as a babe in Christ, not desiring to grow in Him, she struggles to put this knowledge into practice. She struggles to speak to herself that with conviction that indeed according to the Scripture, the love of God is perfected in me. Because she struggles to speak this knowledge over and over to herself and to others and be convinced in her spirit (her heart) by it, she now tries to do things in her own strength to prove that the love of God is indeed perfected in us or she absolutely does nothing concerning this knowledge. The carnal man (person) like the spiritual man is born of God in Christ. He has eternal life. But the carnal man is sense ruled and not Christ ruled. Or he or she is not ruled by the Word of God unlike the spiritual man.  The carnal man’s sense rule characteristic is self-inflicted and deliberate. The reason for this is that the carnal man lacks the desire, the will and the determination to grow through sound teaching from the Word of God. In the environment of the carnal man, he or she has no appetite or hunger for the meat of the Word of God to gradually grow into maturity in Christ. The carnal man is the milk man, a babe in Christ dominated largely by the senses and not by the Word of God (see 1Corinthians 3 v 1-4, Romans 8 v 4-8).

To the spiritual man, his knowledge from God’s Word that the love of God, Agape, has been perfected in him is gladly received, gladly acted upon; meaning he confesses or says this knowledge to himself and others over and over until such knowledge sinks deep in his spirit to the point that he becomes this knowledge, he epitomises this knowledge, he lives and breath this knowledge that the love of God, Agape, has indeed been perfected in him. He does not struggle to perform this knowledge in front of others to prove that the love of God has indeed been perfected in him. He simply lives the knowledge that the love of God, Agape, has been perfected in him. He does this unconsciously through his sayings and doings in the Name of Jesus. He does this effortlessly through his sayings and doings because he believes that the Word of God is truth (see John 17 v 17) and he also knows that by his own strength and actions, he cannot perfect God’s love in him but he can certainly trust the works that his heavenly Father has done in him through Christ Jesus. He can certainly trust that one of such works is the fact that love, Agape, has been perfected in him, the moment he became a new creation in Christ (2Corinthians 5 v 17). The spiritual man does not only know that the love of God, Agape, has been perfected in him, but he also knows that this love is his new nature. His way of life that is in Christ Jesus – the Lord! The word of God is the final authority in the life of the spiritual man. The spiritual man believes that God’s Word is true or it is the reality and he works and lives God’s Word by the guidance of the Holy Spirit. The spiritual man lives and proclaims the gospel of Christ because he or she is aware that it is in the gospel of Christ that the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith. The spiritual man knows that the gospel of Christ is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes. The spiritual man is never ashamed of the gospel of Christ either in word or deed (see Romans 1 v 16-17). For he does and say all in the Name of Jesus (see Colossians 3 v 17).

Saints, the love of God, Agape, has been perfected in us. Not only that but that same love has been perfected among us (see 1John 4 v 12 & 17).

Why? This is because the very love of God, Agape, has been shared abroad in our spirits (hearts) by the Holy Spirit who was given to us (see Romans 5 v 5). No wonder, that our heavenly Father knowing what He has done in us and for us in Christ is now asking us to love as Christ Jesus loved us and He is now asking us to forgive as the Father Himself forgave us in Christ. He knows that we can do it because it is He that has perfected His love in us, the moment we receive Christ Jesus as our Lord and Saviour. The Father will not ask us to do any that He has not already equipped us to do. Remember, He is a good Father!

 Shalom! To God be the glory forever and ever in Jesus Name by the power of the Holy Spirit. I know that you are blessed by these teachings, why don’t you share them with others to be a blessing also? It is also important to get your feedback and how together, through these teachings we are growing in faith in God’s Holy Written Word.  You can now follow us on TIKTOK and receive our devotions and also listen to our recorded teachings at your leisure by visiting: TIKTOK.COM/@EDIFICATION.COMPA

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By: Apostle Thomas Boakye