{"id":15565,"date":"2025-02-21T13:13:49","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T13:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.42ndgenerationfoundation.com\/achieversfaithdigest\/?p=15565"},"modified":"2025-02-23T13:15:44","modified_gmt":"2025-02-23T13:15:44","slug":"occupy-till-i-come-as-christs-ambassador","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.42ndgenerationfoundation.com\/achieversfaithdigest\/occupy-till-i-come-as-christs-ambassador\/","title":{"rendered":"OCCUPY TILL I COME AS CHRIST&#8217;S AMBASSADOR"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><strong>OCCUPY TILL I COME AS CHRIST&#8217;S AMBASSADOR: THE HOLY SPIRIT DEFAULT LOVE THAT ENHANCES EARTHLY USEFULNESS AND HEAVENLY MINDEDNESS FOR AN AMBASSADOR!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><em>&#8220;And hope maketh not ashamed; because THE LOVE of God is SHED (LAVISHED) abroad in our HEARTS (SPIRIT-BEING) by the Holy Ghost which is GIVEN unto us . . . 8 But God commendeth his LOVE toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us&#8221;<\/em> <strong>Romans 5:5, 8.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\">The Holy Spirit default LOVE of God for God&#8217;s AMBASSADOR FOR CHRIST, is the only purpose driven enabling in the grace, to keep the enemy and cohorts at bay, and to advance the kingdom cause. And here is a didactic sense of measure, such that we don&#8217;t just say we have love, but we do LIVE and WALK in the default LOVE of God, knowing that LOVE is God and is of God; and it&#8217;s the default LOVE is the lubricant for our life in Christ Jesus and for all mankind. Take the Holy Spirit out of God&#8217;s love, one is then bound to have an adulteration and distortion of the love context that&#8217;s built on sentiment, prejudice and dissimulation. For its upon the Holy Spirit default LOVE for God, we can then OCCUPY in Christ until he comes to &#8220;BEING EARTHLY USEFUL and HEAVENLY MINDED&#8221; in the grace, wherein we stand in the faith.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><em>&#8220;Beloved, let us LOVE one another: for LOVE is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. 8 He that loveth not knoweth not God; FOR GOD IS LOVE. 9 In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. 10 Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins . . . 16 And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. GOD IS LOVE; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. 17 Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: BECAUSE AS HE IS, SO ARE WE IN THIS WORLD. 18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love&#8221;<\/em> <strong>1 John 4:7\u201310, 16-18. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\">Love is an attitude, and of a deliberate and intentional choice, and an exercise of the will, and a gracious choice to do life and live godly in Christ Jesus stead; and it&#8217;s not just a feeling, it is an expression of the nature and person of God by the Holy Spirit in Christ Jesus, hence it&#8217;s spiritual, divinely inspired and imbedded in the very human hearts [spirit-being] of all God&#8217;s human creation that&#8217;s reborn of God in Christ Jesus; and more importantly, it&#8217;s in the very nature of the redeemed child of God, filled and led by the Holy Spirit to fulfil purpose meaningfully. The Holy Spirit default love is not a doctrine, creed and dogmas. The Holy Spirit default love outlived generations because it&#8217;s timeless and it&#8217;s of God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. For God is love personified in our spirit-being for our well-being in Christ Jesus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\">The Holy Spirit default LOVE of God is a FRUIT and not a GIFT. And FRUITS are GROWN while GIFTS are IMPARTED. Genuine Bible love \u2013 AGAPE \u2013 is for the reborn of God and is a product of the Holy Spirit that indwells in us as written:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><em>&#8220;And hope maketh not ashamed; because THE LOVE of God is SHED (LAVISHED) abroad in our HEARTS (SPIRIT-BEING) by the Holy Ghost which is GIVEN unto us . . . 8 But God commendeth his LOVE toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us&#8221;<\/em> <strong>Romans 5:5, 8.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><em>&#8220;But the FRUIT of the Spirit is LOVE, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 23 meekness, temperance: against such there is no law&#8221;<\/em> <strong>Galatians 5:22-23.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><em>&#8220;For the FRUIT of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth\u201d<\/em> <strong>Ephesians 5:9.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\">To OCCUPY TILL I COME as Christ&#8217;s ambassador, is by doing life and living godly by the Holy Spirit default LOVE; and this default of LOVE, gives the enabling to enhance earthly usefulness and heavenly mindedness for an ambassador for Christ. Let\u2019s therefore consider LOVE in diversity for a clearer understanding of the various kinds of LOVE being implied in this context that&#8217;s applicable for the good of humans.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><strong>DEFINING THE THREE KINDS OF LOVE THAT AFFECTS THE HUMANS &#8211; BODY, SOUL AND SPIRIT [1 THESSALONIANS 5:23; HEBREWS 4:12-13]:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><strong>The PHILEO love: Grk (of the soul)<\/strong> \u2013 The Love relationship in family \u2013 which is between parent and child, otherwise, the Family kind of love. It also embodied love relationship towards friends and colleagues. It means to be fond of; it is based on FEELINGS and not on PRINCIPLE. It\u2019s never used of man\u2019s love to or for God. This is human or natural kind of love.<strong> [Deuteronomy 6:4-9; Genesis 8:19; Ephesians 6:4; Colossians 3:21].<\/strong> This kind of love is however essential and crucial for a family bonding and wellbeing.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><strong>The EROS Love: Grk (of the Physical body)<\/strong> \u2013 The Sexual kind of love, which is pure and purely reserved for the married \u2013 within the bond of marriage. It&#8217;s based on PHYSICAL ATTRACTION. It\u2019s neither for fornication nor adultery. Unfortunately, lust and immoral desires have gotten some into it, hence there&#8217;s a great act of PERVERSION, DISTORTION and ADULTERATION in our societies today &#8211; and we are paying hugely for the consequences and effects across the board. <strong>[Hebrews 13:4; 1 Corinthians 7:1-9; 1 Corinthians 6:15-20].<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><strong>The AGAPE Love: Grk (of the spirit)<\/strong> \u2013 The God kind of love; the kind of love that&#8217;s unconditional, limitless, divine and spiritual. It transcends race, gender, generation, culture, family, physical, personal (self) etc. The love without sentiments, prejudice and dissimulation &#8211; <strong>[1 Corinthians 13:1-13].<\/strong> It&#8217;s built on PRINCIPLE and does not demand but gives. Agape love even helps to ENSURE, STRENGTHEN and MAINTAIN the vitality of the phileo and the EROS kind of love in all life endeavours. Agape love is a faith-based principle on the word of God \u2013 which is towards empowering people as AMBASSADOR FOR CHRIST in doing life and living godly in Christ Jesus stead. Amen.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\">Notably, the PHILEO or EROS kinds of Love, need to be controlled and subjected by the AGAPE kind of love or else it will hinder and affects our fellowship with God and leads to unwelcome SIN and sinful acts. <strong>[E.g. EROS \u2013 1 Corinthians 13:5; PHILEO \u2013 1 Samuel 2:22-36].<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\">Therefore, as AMBASSADOR FOR CHRIST, let&#8217;s not just say we have love, but let&#8217;s go forth in the grace, and LIVE and WALK in the Holy Spirit default LOVE, knowing that love is of the Holy Spirit and the Holy Spirit is given to only the Believer&#8217;s [reborn] of God in Christ Jesus stead. Amen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><em>&#8220;And I will pray the Father, and He shall give you another Comforter, that He may abide WITH you for ever; 17 even the Spirit of truth; whom THE WORLD CANNOT RECEIVE, because it seeth Him not, neither knoweth Him: but ye know Him; for He dwelleth WITH you, and shall be IN you&#8221;<\/em>\u00a0 <strong>John 14:16-17.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\">Dear friend and beloved of God in Christ Jesus, just know that&#8217;s it&#8217;s a high time to LIVE and WALK in love. Lets make it happen, for the charge &#8211; OCCUPY TILL I COME &#8211; as AMBASSADOR FOR CHRIST, is the essence; and by the Holy Spirit of LOVE default, the Believer\u2019s in Christ Jesus can then enhances earthly usefulness and the heavenly mindedness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\">SELAH &#8211; PAUSE AND THINK.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #339966;\">SCRIPTURAL THOUGHTS WORTH PONDERING IN CONTEXT:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><em>&#8220;Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a NEW CREATURE: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. 18 And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; 19 to wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation. 20 Now then we are AMBASSADORS FOR CHRIST, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ\u2019s stead, be ye reconciled to God. 21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him&#8221;<\/em> <strong>2 Corinthians 5:17-21.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><em>&#8220;If we LIVE in the Spirit, let us also WALK in the Spirit&#8221; <\/em><strong>Galatians 5:25.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><em>&#8220;Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children; 2 and WALK IN LOVE, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour\u201d<\/em> <strong>Ephesians 5:1-2.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><em>&#8220;That Christ may dwell in your hearts 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,\u00a0 SURPASSED) KNOWLEDGE (SENSE), that ye might be FILLED with all the FULNESS of God&#8221; <\/em><strong>Ephesians 3:17-19.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><em>&#8220;But the FRUIT of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law&#8221; <\/em><strong>Galatians 5:22-23\/NKJV<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><em>&#8220;For the FRUIT of the Spirit is in all goodness, righteousness, and truth&#8221; <\/em><strong>Ephesians 5:9\/NKJV.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><em>&#8220;Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you through and through [that is, separate you from profane and vulgar things, make you pure and whole and undamaged\u2014consecrated to Him\u2014set apart for His purpose]; and may your SPIRIT and SOUL and BODY be kept complete and [be found] blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ&#8221; <\/em><strong>1 Thessalonians 5:23\/Amplified.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><em>&#8220;For the word of God is living and active and full of power [making it operative, energizing, and effective]. It is sharper than any two-edged sword, penetrating as far as the division of the SOUL and SPIRIT [the completeness of a person], and of both JOINTS and MARROW [the deepest parts of our nature], exposing and judging the very thoughts and intentions of the heart. 13 And not a creature exists that is concealed from His sight, but all things are open and exposed, and revealed to the eyes of Him with whom we have to give account&#8221;<\/em> <strong>Hebrews 4:12-13\/Amplified.<br \/><br \/><\/strong><strong>REV. 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