Love Fulfilled Ministry

for I am persuaded of this, because the one who began a good work in you will bring it to completion as far as the day of Christ (Philippians 1:6) There will be a day of Christ when the consumption of our salvation will be made complete. Just like the earth groans and suffers for this day when creation itself will be set free from its decay, likewise the Spirit moans within us awaiting our salvation, the redemption of our body, the glorious freedom of the children of God (Romans 8:19-24). For in this hope we are saved Paul writes. There will be a day of Christ, so there is hope of our calling, the glory and inheritance among the saints. And there is a present living hope in Christ, an eternal hope and security that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion. strengthening the souls of the disciples, encouraging them to remain steadfast of faith and through many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of God (Acts 14:22) Paul wrote this from experience. He was flogged on...

through whom given to us the honorable and effective promises so that through them you come into existence, escaping the corruption in the world, in sinful desires and come into existence as divine sharers, his divine nature (2 Peter 1:4) Through whom but Jesus, God predetermined in the beginning so that through him all the promises of God are yes and amen. Abraham was told "through your descendant" he would become the father of many nations, not plural as through many descendants but one descendant, Jesus Christ, Messiah and Holy One from God. God's eternal purpose in him is to fulfill his promises and the effects of that purpose and promise have tremendous meaning to the child of God.  blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the one blessings us in all spiritual blessings in the heavenlies in Christ (Ephesians 1:3) Here are hidden some great promises, we have been blessed in all spiritual blessings in the heavenlies. God chose you before he created the w...

and this I pray that your love abound more and more, in knowledge and all understanding to the extent you prove that to carry you through, so that existing of the light and not stumbling to the extent Christ's day (Philippians 1:9-10)  We are to walk in the Light as He is the Light, we are to walk as Jesus walked, not stumbling, tossed to and fro as children, but truth in love we come into existence, growing up into him, becoming mature, to the extent of the full measure of the stature of Christ. Truth in love we grow up into him. In unity of faith and in knowledge of him, the body the church grows into maturity. Faith is active or works or is energized through love, so when love abounds with truth (in knowledge and understanding in knowing Christ more and more) it will carry us through so that we exist mature like Jesus in the world. When the child does not grow or in the same sense the church is not growing though truth is spoken, then faith is not active because love is missing....