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because God has given you HIS LOVE, and you not only love God,
by returning His own love to Him, but you also find that you
have enough of His love to share some of it with me. Also, I
think that you love me because you recognize that same LOVE OF
GOD--His Holy Spirit--is also in me.
And so I want all of you to know HOW MUCH and HOW DEEPLY
I LOVE YOU.
I love you because you are God's own begotten children--
and because you are standing so FAITHFULLY and generously back
of me in GOD'S WORK even to the point of real sacrifice.
Jesus says, "By this shall all men know that ye are my
disciples, if ye have love one to another."
LOVE is OUTflowing, not INcoming.
GOD IS LOVE! God's LAW is LOVE and LOVE is the fulfilling
(filling up full) of the law.
I like to explain the way of this world as "GET" and the
way of God as "GIVE." Love is GIVING. It is giving to GOD and
to MAN. It is GIVING God love with all your mind, heart and
soul--giving God obedience, reverence, adoration, gratitude,
and worship, etc., etc., etc. To neighbor--that is fellowman--
it is giving, helping, cooperating, sharing, giving brotherly
love, kindness, patience, etc., etc., etc. "GIVE" and "GET"
travel in opposite directions.
Love is sacrificing. When you make a real sacrifice to
send in money for the Work, you are showing LOVE to God, to His
Work, and to me. And we know that HE LOVES US.
What is more, we know that VERY SOON, now, God will send
KING JESUS CHRIST to earth to ESTABLISH THE KINGDOM OF GOD, to
restore the GOVERNMENT OF GOD (which already is restored in HIS
CHURCH and will then expand to include the WHOLE WORLD).
A young lady engaged to be married is filled with joyful
ANTICIPATION. Looking forward to her wedding gives her exuberant
happiness.
My children in Christ, God's Church is to be married to
Christ. Are we looking forward to that in JOYFUL ANTICIPATION?
Just thinkl What we have to look forward to--a world at peace--
no more wars--no more violence--no more locks on doors or keys
to carry around--no more pain, sorrow or suffering--no more of
this world's "GET"--no more discontent, unhappiness, fears and
worries.
So, let us live in JOYFUL ANTICIPATION. Let us keep in
our minds the things that God has prepared for us who LOVE HIM.
I have been saying lately that we must preach a lot less
about the evils of Satan's world TODAY, and a lot MORE about
THE WONDERFUL WORLD TOMORROW. And, by the way, one of the things