this hope doesn't disappoint because the love of God is poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, the one given to us.*
This word for disappoint, is from two words ""according to, against" and "to dishonor, humiliate, shame, frustrate, disappoint." As children of God we are not disappointed, not put to shame as we have this hope in Christ. Also we should not be frustrated and discouraged, the world doesn't love us because it doesn't know him. The children of God love one another, as He loves us. Peter writes if anyone suffers being a Christian we should not be ashamed but glorify God for this name.* Notice, it says "this name," we glorify God in that we are called Christians, such means that we are like Christ but also that we are called the children of God and so we exist. I am a Christian is synonymous with I am a child of God. And a child speaks of inheritance, in which the Spirit is a guarantee. We should find it very honorable, very worthy to be called a Christian, and to suffer for such doesn't even compare to what God has prepared for those he loves.* We should not become disappointed and frustrated in this Life, because of the love he has for us. Oh, what a great blessing it is to know Him and to be loved by him.
Behold what manner of love the Father has given us that we should be called the children of God, and that is what we are!* ... For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son...* God gave his Son that... as many as received him, to them He gave power to become children of God.*
And walk in love, in this manner, also as Christ loved us and gave himself up for the furtherance of us, as far as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.*
From the riches of his grace and glory we have received the spiritual blessing of adoption. "he predestined us for adoption as his through Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure of His will, to the praise of his glorious grace whom favored us in the beloved."* Think about that, it is from the riches of his grace as God adopted you not because you did anything to deserve it but because it pleased Him, he favored you to become a child. Truly, we are saved by grace, through faith, God the Father chose and adopted us by grace, by the good pleasure of His will. He willed to send his Son because he loved us, he gave us favor when we did nothing to deserve it, he adopted us because it pleased him. Think about that it is from the riches of his glory. He sent Jesus to give us the power to become children, and he doesn't leave us as orphans but gives us his Spirit, whom pours out love into our hearts. Truly, to know him is to be loved by him. Do we comprehend what it is to be loved by him? Do we understand what a true blessing it is to be loved and adopted by Him? What a great blessing we have from the heavenlies, in that we are called children of God, and this hope doesn't disappoint us, for the love of God is poured out into our hearts.
How He Loves
This word for disappoint, is from two words ""according to, against" and "to dishonor, humiliate, shame, frustrate, disappoint." As children of God we are not disappointed, not put to shame as we have this hope in Christ. Also we should not be frustrated and discouraged, the world doesn't love us because it doesn't know him. The children of God love one another, as He loves us. Peter writes if anyone suffers being a Christian we should not be ashamed but glorify God for this name.* Notice, it says "this name," we glorify God in that we are called Christians, such means that we are like Christ but also that we are called the children of God and so we exist. I am a Christian is synonymous with I am a child of God. And a child speaks of inheritance, in which the Spirit is a guarantee. We should find it very honorable, very worthy to be called a Christian, and to suffer for such doesn't even compare to what God has prepared for those he loves.* We should not become disappointed and frustrated in this Life, because of the love he has for us. Oh, what a great blessing it is to know Him and to be loved by him.
The fact that He loved us so much so that he gave his only Son, sent him to give us the power to become children of God, is an amazing thing. This a new creation unlike anything that exists of this earth, not of flesh but of Spirit in which God's divine nature, His Spirit was placed in us. And this is how we become children of God when we believe in Jesus, we enter new, as a child, into the kingdom of heaven, being born of Spirit, "the one given to us." The Spirit testifies that we are his children.* And this is how we know he loves us, because he has given us his Spirit, we have this greatest testimony, and we know, can comprehend, the great love of God, one without bounds. We know that he loves us "because the love of God is poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit."
And so we know and trust the love that God furnishes us, the one in us. The one God exists love and the one abiding in love abides in the one God and the one God abides in him.*
God furnishes us love and it is in us. We love God because He first loved us.* How do we know God loves us? because He abides in us, "through the Holy Spirit, the one given to us," and He exists agape love, thus the one who knows God has "come to know, recognize, understand, perceive" through the Holy Spirit that God exists agape love. And the one who knows God loves his brother, as God exists in him and God is love.* The Spirit has been given us, a Spirit of adoption, not of fear, but of power and love, whereby we cry Daddy Father!* We have been adopted into His family, this is great love that Christ would lay down His life for us so that we could enter into the kingdom of heaven and this love for us continues as Paul writes, it has no bounds. He doesn't leave us as orphans, frustrated, disappointed, and without hope in this world, no, he pours out in our hearts that he loves us. As we come to know more of Him "we know and trust the love that God furnishes us..." This word furnishes speaks of possessing, having, and that it is a love that He gives us, or furnishes to us.
In this is Pastoring, in that one becomes like Christ who "gave himself up for the furtherance of" others. The greatest in the kingdom are not first, not rulers and leaders who lord over, but are servants, last, who follow the example of Christ giving their lives for the furtherance of others.
God exists agape love, so if the Spirit of God abides in a person, they exist his children and exist of agape love. If we could comprehend more of the love of God, we would love others as God loves. And as Jesus said, this the world would know that we are his disciples, by our love for one another.* The issue of devotion to God is one of the heart, and it is of love thus if we could understand the love our heavenly Father has for us, what he has done for us, and what he has planned for us in heaven, devotion would come easy, but we struggle to comprehend the love of God. So we pray as Paul that we are empowered to possess, to have, to lay hold of, as with all the saints, what is His great love, a love without bounds.* We pray that we may comprehend what a blessing, from the riches and glory of the heavenlies, it is to be adopted, to be called Christian, his children.
Bless the God and Father of our lord Jesus Christ who blessed us in all spiritual blessings in the heavenlies in Christ Jesus.*
From the riches of his grace and glory we have received the spiritual blessing of adoption. "he predestined us for adoption as his through Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure of His will, to the praise of his glorious grace whom favored us in the beloved."* Think about that, it is from the riches of his grace as God adopted you not because you did anything to deserve it but because it pleased Him, he favored you to become a child. Truly, we are saved by grace, through faith, God the Father chose and adopted us by grace, by the good pleasure of His will. He willed to send his Son because he loved us, he gave us favor when we did nothing to deserve it, he adopted us because it pleased him. Think about that it is from the riches of his glory. He sent Jesus to give us the power to become children, and he doesn't leave us as orphans but gives us his Spirit, whom pours out love into our hearts. Truly, to know him is to be loved by him. Do we comprehend what it is to be loved by him? Do we understand what a true blessing it is to be loved and adopted by Him? What a great blessing we have from the heavenlies, in that we are called children of God, and this hope doesn't disappoint us, for the love of God is poured out into our hearts.
How He Loves