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The Kingdom of Love
“He has delivered us from the dominion of darkness and transferred us into the kingdom of the Son of His love, Col 1:13
“For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. Joh 3:16
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“And hope does not put to shame, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.” Rom 5:5
A. INTRODUCTION
There is nothing we need more than a refreshing of the love of God in our lives. Let us pause so that the atmosphere and spirit of love may absorb our lives, that the warmth and glow of love may flood our hearts and minds. This quality of God’s love in us will stand the test of time and eternity. This will find true expression in us as we receive revelation by the help of the holy Spirit toward this one truth that The Father truly loves us
The picture of love is a photograph of the Lord Jesus Christ in His inner character. And in His church, His body, He wants to have many reprints. He is looking for His life of love in us, for what He was and is in this world, so are we to be. He is the Original, the pattern Son. To love like Him proves that you are born again through the Holy Spirit and partake of His new nature – His character, which is love.
B. THE SACRIFICIAL LOVE IS BEST ILLUSTRATED IN 1 CORINTHIANS 13.
The love of Jesus Christ in the world is challenged by the love of self. It stands in opposition to each other and is therefore clearly distinguishable. The Kingdom disciple has to break free from the Self-love in order to let “Thy Kingdom come” The Kingdom of God manifests itself whenever the character of Jesus Christ is mirrored in and through sacrificial love.
It is of utmost importance for each student to study John 3; 16 in the context of Jesus conversation with Nicodemus. This verse has been the key through the ages to thousands of believers whereby they have entered the kingdom.
This opposite sides of love can be tabled as follow:
| SACRIFICIAL LOVE | SELF-LOVE | ||
| • | Is very PATIENT | • | Is IMPATIENT |
| • | Is very KIND | • | Is DISCONTENTED and UNKIND |
| • | Knows NO JEALOUSY | • | Is ENVIOUS of others who have more that we do |
| • | Makes NO PARADE | • | Is very PROUD |
| • | Gives itself NO AIRS and is NEVER RUDE | • | Is ILL-MANNERED |
| • | Is never SELFISH | • | Is SELF-CENTERED |
| • | Is NEVER IRRITATED | • | Become SHORT-TEMPERED so easily |
| • | Is NEVER RESENTFUL | • | Look for SLIGHTS and CHERISHED WRONGS |
| • | Is NEVER GLAD when others go wrong | • | Takes a secret DELIGHT IN FAILURES of other people |
| • | Is GLADDENED BY GOODNESS, SLOW TO EXPOSE and BELIEVE THE BEST | • | Is CENSORIOUS and FAULT-FINDING |
Sin and Satan is trying to rob us of all likeness to God’s character, but here below is an outline of what the grace of God and the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit have come to do in our lives. The ingredients of the Kingdom love are illustrated in 1 Cor 13 verse 4-7. This kind of love is illustrated as both passive as well as active and positive:
C. THE INGREDIENTS OF THIS SACRIFICIAL LOVE
1. This Love suffers long
• Though love suffers wounds and injury, it does not strike back. The Lord Jesus when He was reviled, reviled not again. Love is an enduring grace. When the love of God burns within your heart, hate cannot kill it, persecution cannot destroy it, nor can envy cool it down. The history of the martyrs proofs this point.
• This fruit of the Holy Spirit can brave disappointment. It motivates you to move, and never consent to laziness, until your task is completed. This love is like Stephen, when being stoned to death (Acts 7; 60), it will not give up its cause, but remain faithful to Christ to the end.
2. This Love is kind
• To be kind to a person who has done the wrong is a triumph for the kingdom of our Lord. The greatest thing that we can ever do is to be kind to God’s children. Are we like that?
• Love is an active grace; it has the heart of Mary, and the hands of Martha. It is as the warmth of the sun, it awakens dormant powers in the heart, like the woman in the Gospel, who, out of love for Christ, washed His feet with her tears, and wiped them with her hairs of her head (Luke 7; 47).
• This love is as the incoming tide, which cleanses the shore and removes the refuse.
3. This Love envies not
• Only love can see all the inequalities of life and remain content with its own place. Envy appears even in the hearts of Christians and is so grievous to the Lord. Love is perfect content with the will of God. Are we eaten up with envy, jealous of other’s gifts, abilities, possessions, position in life? Envy is as cruel as the grave, and as dark as hell.
• The beacon light of God’s Word, shines out upon the black waters of envy, and reveals its sunken reefs, upon which many have made soul- shipwreck.
• Envy is the cause of persecution (Acts 5;17) and the mother of division (1 Cor.3;3), the companion of jealousy (Acts 7;9), the sign of unbelief (Acts 17;5), the child of the devil (James 3;14,15).
• This quality of love sees the best in others, and the worst in itself. Love will wash another’s feet, and think it is honored by so doing.
4. This Love displays not itself (Makes no parade).
• Love never seeks to win the praise and applause of others. It does not show off or brag. The greatness of the Lord Jesus was revealed not merely in what He displayed but in the things He concealed. He laid aside His glory and humbled Himself for the sake of others. Are you boastful, conceited, proud?
5. This Love is not puffed up
• Love is always humble. Love gives itself no “airs”. The Lord Jesus never showed vanity or conceit or contempt of others. Do you?
• The word “Puffed up” only occurs 7 times in the New Testament, and 6 out of the 7, occurs in connection with the Church in Corinth. Being puffed up by self-assurance, division is inevitable. This love ever takes the back seat, and is willing to work unseen.
• Love is like the harp-string as the musician strikes it, its vibrations cause it to vanish, but its music is heard and appreciated. Heaven appreciates the music of love, though not acknowledge by man.
6. This Love does not behave itself unseemly
• It is not rude or ill mannered, but always courteous. There is such a lack of real Christian goodness and courtesy in our everyday lives, yet the Lord Jesus always said and did the right thing in the right way at the right time.
• Love is content with what God gives and allows. This love is the guarantee of God’s presence in your life, and with your permission He will wipe any sign of this evil behavior from your heart with His Powerful sword. This guarantees the kingdom within you.
7. This Love seeks not her own
• How often do we seek our own advancements and interests, entirely unconcerned for the welfare, blessing and growth of others?
• Love is not selfish, but self-forgetful. Love finds its joy in serving others. This heavenly love is known by the fact that you do not think of yourself. Love does not save itself, but others. It never acts in a self-sacrificing way. It acts for others never for itself.
• Love never says these things of itself, but your action says it. It is like the face of Moses coming down from the Mountain, unconscious, and unconcerned about its own shining.
8. This Love is not easily provoked
• Love is not bad-tempered although it is often excused as something that people cannot help. The Lord Jesus hated sin but was never angry at wrong done to Himself. Never did He retaliate. Are you easily offended, quick to be resentful?
• As long as love holds the reins of the soul, there is no danger of its being provoked to anger, and to spiteful action, which leads to sin. Yet love may be provoked in the Lord’s service as it beholds that which is wrong. Acts 17:16 “Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred in him, when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry.”
9. This Love thinks no evil
• Love does not cherish in its memory a list of injustices; love has an amazing power to forget. The Lord Jesus came to blot out our transgressions and to remember them against us no more forever. When God sees the blood and my faith in my Lord’s atoning sacrifice, He not only forgives, but He forgets. Love will only keep a record of the many kindnesses it receives and be thankful for them.
• Love never condemns on mere suspicion, nor imputes evil without evidence. It delights to think well and speak well of others. It does not look around for evidence to prove an evil design, but hopes that what is doubtful, will, by further light, appear to be correct. It imputes no evil as long as good is probable.
10. This Love rejoices not in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth
• Love is never glad when others go wrong but is cheer up by goodness. Love will always yearn to cover and protect the man who has fallen, yet it will condemn the sin.
• In John 8 the Lord did not excuse the sin of the woman taken in adultery, but He protected and forgave her, the sinner. At the Cross-, mercy and truth met; their Jesus condemned sin but pardoned the sinner. Do you triumph over the misfortune and breakdown of other people and delight to gossip about them?
D. THE PINNACLE OF SACRIFICIAL LOVE
1. This Love bears all things
• Love patiently endures what it has to suffer. The Lord Jesus patiently bore all the wrong and injustice and prayed on the cross, “Father forgive them, for they know not what they do”. At the same time, He put His shoulder under the load of sin and bore the crushing burdens of others. Do you?
• In my home I seek to be true in utterance and right in action; in the Church I seek to love all; and in the world I endeavour to do to others, as my Lord would wish.
2. This Love believes all things
• Love is not basically suspicious. It takes the kindest view of others in every circumstance. Love considers the motives and makes every allowance for failure. When a man has fallen, love will think of the battle he must have fought and how he struggled before he went down.
• The Lord Jesus never misjudged anybody because he did not judge by outward appearances. He became the friend of sinners. Are we unfriendly towards those who are down and view every action with suspicion?
3. This Love hopes all things
• Love never despairs of anybody. It knows that God is not willing that one should perish. Christ is never discouraged because He is love and never gives up to despair. He goes on hoping and planning for our good.
4. This Love endures all things
• Love cannot be conquered. It bears, believes, hopes and then endures. Such love motivated Jesus to face Calvary. How He endured the contradiction of sinners against Himself! “Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.” 1 John 3:16
• But the greatest of these is love – Not because it is to “endure” the longest, but because it is the most important virtue; it exerts a wider influence; it is more necessary to the happiness of Christ’s followers; it overcomes most evils. It is the great principle, which is to bind His kingdom children in harmony.
• It unites God to his creatures, and his creatures to Himself, and which binds and unite all holy beings with each other. It is therefore more important, because it is relevant to the great kingdom of which God is the Head.
• Faith and hope rather pertain to individuals; love is most relevant to the kingdom disciple, without which the kingdom of God cannot stand. Individuals are saved by faith and hope; but the whole gigantic kingdom of God depends on love. It is, therefore, of more importance than all other graces and endowments; because it will survive them all; more important than faith and hope, because, although it co-exist with them, yet love enters into the very nature of the kingdom of God; binds us together; unites the Creator and the creature; and blends the interests of all the redeemed, and of the angels, and of God, into one.
In summary: How wonderful to know that Christ loved you so completely and perfectly! “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Mat 5:3. Most blessed you will be the moment you confess your total lack of this quality of love. This is the greatest sin we need to confess, our absolute lack of His love. Open your heart to welcome Him in, receive His love into your heart; yield to Him and then go out to love others as He did.
No matter what your circumstances are, His love never changes. In the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, God forever convinced me that He loved me. Never allow your heart to question His love for you. He created you for this very purpose. Every Divine appointment He has with you is an expression of His love for you. God would cease to be God if He expressed Himself in any way other than perfect love.
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