Love Came Down

For this is how God loved the world... (John 3:16)

This is how God loved the world, he sent his son. God exists agape love (1 John 4:16). And "the Son is the radiance of his glory and the exact representation of his nature..." (Hebrews 1:3). God is love and Jesus is the exact radiance of his glory, thus existing love. Because God so loved, love came down.

Friends, let us love one another because loves exists from God and all the ones loving are born of God and know God (1 John 4:7).

Loving one another is how we are known as children of God. If we know God and claim to be mature in his character then the representation of God's character would be reflected in us. "The one not loving doesn't know God because God is love" (1 John 4:8). In this the love of God is revealed in us because love came down and we live and love through him (1 John 4:9)

In this is love, not because we loved God rather he loved us... (1 John 4:10)

He came down to give himself a sacrifice acceptable to God, to reconcile man to God, this is love. Because he loved us he gave himself up to establish a new covenant and gives of the promised Holy Spirit so we should be called children of God and if children then heirs of the promise. The promised Holy Spirit testifies we are his and pours out his love into our hearts, in our most inner being we know we are his and loved.

and we know and trust the love which God has in us, God exists love and the one who abides in love abides in God and God abides in him (1 John 4:16)

Because God is in us and he exists love, we have come to know him and trust in his love. If we know of God and how he loves us then we would love like he does. "This is the charge we have from him, the one loving God also must love his brother" (1 John 4:21). The one who says 'I love God; but hates his brother is a liar, for the one not loving his brother whom he sees cannot love God whom he has not seen" (1 John 4:20). For this is the love of God that we keep his charge (1 John 5:1). Loving one another his brethren is a sign of keeping his charge, of being his disciples (John 13:35)

in this the children of God and the children of the devil exist revealed... (1 John 3:10)

This is the word given to us. From the one who came down from God, who exists the radiance of his glory, and represents his character and nature. If we know him he lives and abides in us and he exists love therefore so do we. This is how good and evil is revealed in this world, as we become like him we love like him. Love came down and revealed God's love to us so we are called children of God, the world can not understand this because it doesn't know him (1 John 3:1). The children of God, good and evil, are revealed by their nature; good practices righteousness and loves.

now, if any loves God, he is known by God (1 Corinthians 8:3)

You are known by him because he is in you and you know his love. Jesus will say to some I never knew you depart from me and he associates knowing with loving his brethren. I hope God's love is revealed to you and you too become a child of God. What we speak of, agape love the world can not understand because we exist not of the world (John 17:15-19). The world hates us because it doesn't know God. So what about the world? How are we to love the world who hates us by our very existence?

that they all may be one, just as you Father are in me and I in you so they also exist in us so that the world believes because you sent me. Just as the glory which you give me I give to them so that existing one just as we are one. I in them and you in me so that existing fully one so that the world may know you sent me and love them even as you love me (John 20:23)

The same Spirit Christ gives to us, one of power and love so we may be one, is how the world knows we are from him and loves as he does. Those the Father gives will exist of his glory and see his glory because the Father loved them before the creation of the world. We do not have the strength to grasp the fullness of such love, we at first need a foundation to build upon then we may have strength to lay hold of more of his infinite love, that which has no bounds, and brings us into the fullness of God. Oh, how we struggle to know how we are fully known as beloved children.*. We too will see and exist of his glory, one day knowing fully, at present looking into his face in which shines the glory of God.

Love came down for this reason so the glory of God exists in us, and we know how much God loves us. The world will believe we are his disciples by our love for one another. The world will know he exists from God because his children exist as one in his glory and love. When God's children are filled to the fullness of God the world will know of him, of this love that came down.

Oh Holy Night

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O night when Christ was born!

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Truly He taught us to love one another;

His law is love and His gospel is peace.

Chains shall He break for the slave is our brother

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