Ongoing tender love and care is vital to our life in Christ/Messiah. Let us put our love into action and make it real. This how we learned what love is: He gave His life for us. We too should give our lives for our fellow Christians. If anyone has this world’s goods and sees his fellow … [Read more…]
1 CORINTHIANS 13 is the love chapter of the Bible. It is a Psalm of love/agape that takes us from our present to our future and is full of rich and encouraging flavor. 1If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a … [Read more…]
We are lively stones for God, living, active, quick, sprightly. “Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.” 1 Peter 2:5 KJV Lively stone are built up as God’s home in the spirit. Paul contrasts the Old Testament … [Read more…]
Kingdom Relationships please God. In the kingdom of God, we serve Messiah Jesus our King in right conduct, peace and joy through the Holy Spirit and God takes pleasure in us. ‘For the Kingdom of God does not consist of eating and drinking, but of right conduct (righteousness), peace and joy, through the Holy Spirit; … [Read more…]
“If we live by the Spirit, let’s also walk by the Spirit,” as Paul exhorted when contrasting works of the flesh with the fruit of the Spirit. When we walk by the Spirit, we walk worthy of the calling. “I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with … [Read more…]
The inheritance is stored up for us in heaven. “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah, who according to his great mercy caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Yeshua the Messiah from the dead, to an incorruptible and undefiled inheritance that doesn’t … [Read more…]
Kingdom of God love comes from God our Father’s love and Christ Jesus’ love in the Spirit. In that, we walk worthy of the Lord in our one another relationships. Our Father in heaven has poured His love into our hearts by the Spirit. 1 Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through … [Read more…]
Love is vital for the flow of the Spirit. Paul teaches us spiritual gifts, Paul declares love is “a way of life which transcends all others” (1 Cor 12:31). Then Paul writes the love chapter of the Bible (1 Cor 13) prior to urging “Be eager in your pursuit of this Love, and be earnestly … [Read more…]
God’s love motivates us. (1 Cor 13). Our ministry is God loving through us (Eph 4:6). The kingdom of God is in the Spirit (Ro 14:17-18) and God pours His love into our hearts by His Spirit (Ro 5:1-5). The fruit of the Spirit begins with love (Gal 5:22-23). “Beloved, let’s love one another, for love is … [Read more…]
Unless otherwise noted, all Scripture quoted above is from the World Messianic Bible.