SPIRITUAL ELEVATIONS ARE VERIFIED BY HIS LOVE IN US. The consummate of love, is that which is the very nature and character of the Lord Himself. Only of the Lord may it be said that the very being and essence of one, is love. There is no other love of any kind to which it may be compared. His love is immeasurable and exceeds the accumulated love of mankind from Adam to this day. Everyone who has been born of the Spirit has had a taste and a measure of that love revealed to them. They have come to trust in that love and have great confidence in His great love. The individual who dwells in that marvelous love is living and abiding in very God Himself. More wonderful yet, the Lord is living in Him. Love the Lord, express your love to Him. Make Him to be the object of delight for your heart and soul and you will learn of the reality of that great love, which He so willingly shares with us. 1 John 4:16 The demonstration of love is a strong indication of our knowledge of who the Lord is and what His requirements of us are. The person who does not love, even their enemies, does not know the Lord. 1 John 4:8 Rest assured, a person will never love the Lord more than he loves his neighbor. When the love of the Lord reigns in our hearts we love as He loved. That sent His Son to become the only sacrifice that reconciles man to the Lord. Because of the magnitude of that love, the Father sent and the Son came willingly to offer Himself for us. Now, He is our life, we have eternal life through the mighty gift of His great love. 1 John 4:9-10 He will perfect His love in a church which is without spot or wrinkle. The Lord cannot fail in any of His plans. There is nothing more certain than that of His finding a people, in the end of the age who measure up to all of His perfection. A church, scattered among the churches which will meet every Divine requirement. A bride which will love Him with the love that He has demonstrated to her. Love which has reached the peak of a Godly emotion and is in love with Him, totally, fully, absolutely. However much one has been loved in this life there is no love like that which exists and is manifest in the Lord, who is love personified. No greater love than this. 1 John 4:12
WHAT EVER ONE BELIEVES ABOUT PREDESTINATION, THE SCRIPTURAL ULTIMATE REMAINS THE SAME. Predestination is based on the infallible foreknowledge of the Lord. He is well aware of the end even from before the beginning of any matter. Whether it is a subject which is eternal or just an event in our lives which is completed in a moments time. He can and does declare the end from the beginning. Isa. 46:10 The knowledge of the Lord is boundless, it knows no limit. There is positively nothing about anything that is not familiar and fully understood by Him, from the outset to the conclusion. Rom. 8:29 Fully comprehending those who would accept and reject His presentation of salvation through Christ, He made those who would accept, His predestined. The climax of the goal which He has established is not merely occupancy of heaven but the completion of His Divine will in His people.
PREDESTINATION IS SET TO REACH A CERTAIN STATUS IN CHRIST. In advance, from before the foundation of the world the matter of personal salvation was settled. The whole scheme was brought into being to produce the end product. That will be a race of people who are absolutely sinless, not only that but who do not possess the capability of sinning. Making His choice for the explicit purpose of having a people who are totally in love with Him. No love for anything or anyone else ever enters into their hearts of minds. They are thoroughly committed to be holy and blameless before Him. Eph. 1:4 His grand all consuming desire is toward them. They will supply the answer to the only void that is otherwise found in the heart of the Lord. That is a Bride which is exactly what He is. His determination is that they be in the precise image and likeness of His beloved Son. Rom. 8:29 This is the likeness unto which it has been predetermined that we shall be Conformed, jointly formed, like an identical twin or a clone. The Spiritual man being fashioned into an exact likeness. The completeness of His life being lived in perfect and absolute harmony within those who have reached their predetermined destiny. The image, the likeness of that which is eternal and heavenly. 1 Cor. 15:49 It is determined to be a new self, which has been created in the very likeness of God, in true righteousness and holiness. Eph. 4:24 Remember that with the Lord there are no limits or extremes that are unobtainable by Him. As assuredly as we are made in the image and likeness of Adam, we will also bear the full and explicit likeness and being of He who is heavenly. I Cor. 15:49 The basis of the choice made in predestination was not determined by the individuals involved, but solely on the essence of acceptance or rejection of the Lord Jesus Christ. He is not willing that any should perish, but that ALL should come to repentance. 2 Pet. 3:9 It is well recorded that the Lord Jesus took upon Himself the sin of the whole of the human race, from Adam to the last man. Cleansing and forgiveness was made for ALL. He died for ALL. 2 Cor. 5:14-15