Tony Hyman
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If we look at John 17 ,Christ assures God that He (Christ) has taught the disciples everything He was sent to teach them "I have revealed you to those whom you gave me out of the world.They were yours you gave them to me .Now they know that everything you have given me comes from you.8.For I gave them the words you gave me and they accepted them.They knew with certainty that I came from you,and they believed that you sent me.9.I pray for them ,I am not praying for the world,but for those you have given me,for they are yours."(N.I.V.John.John.17:6-9)
So here we have a confident Christ presenting his "students" to God who have "graduated" to carry on with the Christian Good News ,after Christ has been voluntary sacrificed on the Cross.We are to love each other with the same love God has for us.In other words Greek Agapao love which we find in the passages already mentioned in Matthew above with reference to Deuteronomy is the standard of all embracing "love" which God gives and expects from us as "believers".
It is a love that bridges all differences in the body of Christ.A willingness to forgive as God forgives us Matthew 6:12.This is a lot easier said than done,of course esp. pertaining to traits such as the "acts of the sinful nature"(Eph 5:19-21) which we no doubt find in the church as well as between churches or dinominations.When we commit these sins between ourselves we in fact send Christ back to the Cross and reopen those old wounds which He recieved for our salvation "and as another scripture says ,'They will look on the one they have pierced'.(John.19:37)So we have to "love" each other with all our individual "dislikes and likes" whether we "like" it or not.Christ did not sacrifice himself for nothing.According to Strong's Hebrew and GreekDictionies,this "love" is nothing less than:
"agapaō
ag-ap-ah'-o
Perhaps from ἄγαν agan (much; or compare [H5689]); to love (in a social or moral sense): - (be-) love (-ed). Compare G5368."
Therefore anything else means nothing to God unless it is done in this form of love.This is what Christ prayed for before He was sacrifed in His prayer on our behalf in Jn 17.So lets live up to what is expected of us as brother and sisters in Christ,as simply put in Mt.22:37-40.
So here we have a confident Christ presenting his "students" to God who have "graduated" to carry on with the Christian Good News ,after Christ has been voluntary sacrificed on the Cross.We are to love each other with the same love God has for us.In other words Greek Agapao love which we find in the passages already mentioned in Matthew above with reference to Deuteronomy is the standard of all embracing "love" which God gives and expects from us as "believers".
It is a love that bridges all differences in the body of Christ.A willingness to forgive as God forgives us Matthew 6:12.This is a lot easier said than done,of course esp. pertaining to traits such as the "acts of the sinful nature"(Eph 5:19-21) which we no doubt find in the church as well as between churches or dinominations.When we commit these sins between ourselves we in fact send Christ back to the Cross and reopen those old wounds which He recieved for our salvation "and as another scripture says ,'They will look on the one they have pierced'.(John.19:37)So we have to "love" each other with all our individual "dislikes and likes" whether we "like" it or not.Christ did not sacrifice himself for nothing.According to Strong's Hebrew and GreekDictionies,this "love" is nothing less than:
"agapaō
ag-ap-ah'-o
Perhaps from ἄγαν agan (much; or compare [H5689]); to love (in a social or moral sense): - (be-) love (-ed). Compare G5368."
Therefore anything else means nothing to God unless it is done in this form of love.This is what Christ prayed for before He was sacrifed in His prayer on our behalf in Jn 17.So lets live up to what is expected of us as brother and sisters in Christ,as simply put in Mt.22:37-40.
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