'Appreciating God's Love'
Triune Godhead Revealed
I John 5:7 For there are three that bear witness in heaven: the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit; and these three are one.
God revealed Himself in the Triune Godhead (Trinity) as the Father, the Son (Word) and the Holy Spirit, for us to see the unity and harmony from the perfect divine love within the Godhead.
Whoever comprehends and practises God's perfect love, he too will be able to find the unity and harmony within his own family and also in the family of God.
John 17:22 And the glory which You gave Me I have given them, that they may be one just as We are one:
Father's Greatest Blessing
From the OT, we have a fair knowledge of His attributes of love, mercy, provision, delivery, salvation, teaching, protection, healing, comfort and care.
A good, holy and faithful Father whose unfailing love and great patience blesses His children by teaching and helping them to reject and overcome sin, walk in righteousness, live in holiness and partake of Jesus' sufferings until they achieve perfection.
Acts 3:26 "To you first, God, having raised up His Servant Jesus, sent Him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from your iniquities."
Father's Chastisement
Heb 12:6,11 For whom the Lord loves He chastens, and scourges every son whom He receives... Now no chastening seems to be joyful for the present, but painful; nevertheless, afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.
Out of His great love, our Father God chastises His children to transform the wayward to those bearing peaceable fruit of righteousness.
Unfortunately, disobedient and faithless Christians using worldly wisdom have created spoilt brats.
Father's Protection
From the OT, many cannot understand God, who seemed cruel and unreasonable for wiping out many nations, till we see Jesus protecting His people from being destroyed by deceptions, idolatry and abominable practices of the wolves and the wicked.
For Jesus cursed the depraved and covetous Jewish leaders who were wolves in sheepskin and hypocrites for they were the devil's agents out to destroy the faith of His people and lead them to damnation.
Note remove all wolves from your chat groups and churches.
Mat 23:13-14 "But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut up the kingdom of heaven against men; for you neither go in yourselves, nor do you allow those who are entering to go in."
Jesus as the Son
Phi 2:5,8 Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus... And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross.
As Son, Jesus obeyed the Father even the horrific death on the cross.
Similar, as God's children, we must obey Him by keeping His commandments.
Jesus as the Husband
Eph 5:23-26 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her, that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word,
Jesus loved His church by willingly accepting all the pains, sufferings and death meant for us because of our sins. We, being His bride, must love Him by keeping His words.
Holy Spirit as the Helper
John 16:13-14 "However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come."
God sent the Spirit of truth to teach and guide us into all truth so that we are free from all worldly fears and bondages, and helps us to overcome the deceptions and temptations of the evil one.
Indwelling of the Triune Godhead
John 14:23 Jesus answered and said to him, "If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him."
The Triune God loves to dwell within us to temporarily fellowship with us before finally accepting us as His son or the bride of the Lamb in eternity.
True Disciple - Fervent love for one another
John 13:34-35 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another."
To be a disciple of Jesus, we must love one another as He had loved us. We have been commissioned by our Lord Jesus to make disciples of all nations by teaching them to observe all His commandments.
Mat 28:19-20 Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age." Amen.
