THE FAITH THAT WORKS: IT’S FOUND IN THEM THAT LOVES GOD AND HIS WORD!
“If ye ABIDE in me, and my WORDS ABIDE in you, ye shall ASK what ye WILL, and it shall be DONE unto you. 8 Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples. 9 As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: CONTINUE YE IN MY LOVE. 10 If ye KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS, ye shall ABIDE IN MY LOVE; even as I have KEPT MY FATHER’S COMMANDMENTS, and ABIDE IN HIS LOVE” John 15:7-10.
There’s the need to abide in God. And abiding in God is abiding in His Word and in His love. Thus indicating that there’s no way one can say I am of God and or I am in God, while doing despite to God’s word and or God’s love. It’s not a matter of ‘either’ this and ‘or’ this, and ‘if’ this and ‘but’ these choices. Abiding in God is in abiding in Christ Jesus stead. And it’s to rooted and grounded in His love without sentiments, prejudice and dissimulation. And it’s in this spirit of ABIDING that our PRAYERS are heard when we ask and answered [done] in the grace in the will of God; thus, indicating much of the will of God is in ABIDING in His LOVE and His WORD to ABIDE in Him effortlessly in Christ Jesus stead. Amen.
“That Christ may DWELL in your hearts [spirit-being] by FAITH; that ye, being ROOTED and GROUNDED in LOVE, 18 may be able to COMPREHEND with all saints what is the BREADTH, and LENGTH, and DEPTH, and HEIGHT; 19 and to Know The Love Of Christ, which PASSETH [TRANSCENDS, SURPASSES] knowledge [HUMAN SENSE], that ye might be FILLED with all the FULNESS of God” Ephesians 3:17-19/Emphasis Mine.
And to ensure God’s abiding essence to His Word and His Love, He assures that all things will always WORK together for good, for those who LOVES Him as they walk in the cause of His WORD, in His PLAN, PURPOSE and PURSUIT for them [Romans 8:28; Ephesians 1:11-12]. Meaning, walking in God’s intended Plan, Purpose and Pursuit is walking in His WORD and His Love, in context and perspective.
“And we know that ALL THINGS WORK together for good to them that LOVE God, to them who are the CALLED according to his PURPOSE” Romans 8:28.
“In whom also we have OBTAINED an INHERITANCE, being PREDESTINATED according to the PURPOSE of Him who WORKETH ALL THINGS after the COUNSEL of his own WILL: 12 that we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ” Ephesians 1:11-12.
Loving God is loving His WORD in Christ Jesus. When we love God’s Word we generate a living FAITH because Faith comes by the Word of God. And by that Faith we can win victorious and overcome the opposing world and system that tends to hold us back. And God’s WORD is not GRIEVOUS [IRKSOME, BURDENSOME, TASKMASTER, AND DIFFICULT]. And Loving God’s WORD is welcoming the ever-present author the Blessed Holy Spirit, who is ever present to give understanding and wisdom.
“For this is the LOVE of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not GRIEVOUS [IRKSOME, BURDENSOME, TASKMASTER, AND DIFFICULT]. 4 For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the VICTORY that OVERCOMETH THE WORLD, EVEN OUR FAITH. 5 Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?” 1 John 5:3-5/Emphasis Mine.
“So then FAITH cometh by hearing, and hearing by THE WORD of God” John 10:17.
Loving God and His Word is giving yourself an opportunity to receive the direct revelation of the Holy Spirit to matters of yours without distortion and adulteration of any intermediary and interference of any man who tends to pose as mini-God to affect your life from the truth. For with God are things about you that no ears have heard, no eyes have seen nor have it entered into any man’s heart concerning you [Psalms 32:14; Amos 3:7; Deuteronomy 29:29]. And God wants to fellowship with you by the Holy Spirit to make them possible as you open your being to love Him and His word. It’s not a matter of either, you have to love Him and His word.
“But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that LOVE Him. 10 But God hath REVEALED them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God” 1 Corinthians 2:9-10/[Psalms 25:14; Amos 3:7; Deuteronomy 29:29].
Therefore, the FAITH THAT WORKS is found in those who WALK in God’s LOVE and keep to His WORD [COMMANDMENTS] in Love. Just as LOVE lubricates FAITH, the WORD sustains and keeps LOVE alive. For God will only COMMEND what He COMMAND, meaning God will honour those who walk according to His WORD – revealed and affirmed by the written WORD.
SELAH – PAUSE AND THINK.
SCRIPTURAL THOUGHTS WORTH PONDERING IN CONTEXT:
“And we know that all things WORK together for good to them that LOVE God, to them who are the called according to his PURPOSE” Romans 8:28.
“But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that LOVE Him. 10 But God hath REVEALED them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God” 1 Corinthians 2:9-10
“For this is the LOVE of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not GRIEVOUS [IRKSOME, BURDENSOME, TASKMASTER, AND DIFFICULT]. 4 For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the VICTORY that OVERCOMETH THE WORLD, EVEN OUR FAITH. 5 Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?” 1 John 5:3-5/Emphasis Mine.
“So then FAITH cometh by hearing, and hearing by THE WORD of God” John 10:17.
“The SECRET of the Lord is with them that FEAR [REVERENCE] him; and he will shew them his covenant” Psalms 25:14.
“Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but he REVEALETH HIS SECRET unto his servants the prophets” Amos 3:7.
“The SECRET things belong unto the Lord our God: but those things which are REVEALED belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may DO all THE WORDS of this law” Deuteronomy 29:29.
REV. CHUKIE MORSI