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The Father's Perfect Love

(Mt5:38-48)

God is perfect.

He loves perfectly without deceit and

He perfectly carries out that love.

Faith is knowing His love and receiving it, and

The life of this faith is about perfectly loving like Him.

While romance love may be the most passionate kind of love,

It is conditional thus when one is betrayed that love turns into hatred, and

This is because it is false love.

The parental love for her child, on the other hand, is an unconditional and unilateral, and thus

The parent infinitely forgives and waits patiently for the ungrateful child.

When the angel sinned once he was thrown into Hades to be judged (Is14:12-15; 2Pe2:4; Jude1:6).

But God's weakness towards man was shown when

In spite of the fact that the created man, Adam, sinned and became fearful,

God clothed him in garments of skin before banishing him from the Garden (Ge3:21).

Furthermore, God put a mark to save Cain who had killed his brother (Ge4:15).

The Law given to the Israelites is referred to as the spirit to fear (Rm8:15) for

They did not have much of a choice but to receive it.

As such, those who caused personal injury on others would be avenged

Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, life for life, burn for burn etc (Ex21:23-25).

The temple where the stone tablets were reminded them

How God brought them out of their slavery (Dt6:12) and that

Following the Law they had to love God and love their neighbors (Dt6:5; Lev19:17-18; Mt22:34-40).

In spite of it, however, they remained fearful for the divine punishment and their neighbors' revenge.

Yeshua came and said, "Destroy this temple and I will raise it again in three days (Jn2:19), because

Through the death and the resurrection of the temple of His body,

God would give the life of the one and only Son as a ransom for many (Mt20:28; Jn3:16), and

Give not the spirit of servant but the spirit of adoption as sons (Rm8:15).

However, for neither the disciples nor the crowds understood

They all betrayed and left Him (Mt26:51-52).

But as He died, He said, "It is finished (Jn19:30), declaring that He:
1) Died selflessly and revealed the perfect love of the Father (Php2:6-8; 1Jn4:8-11);
2) Condemned the devil the betrayer (1Jn3:8); and
3) With His blood redeemed the sin of Adam who had betrayed, and gave the Spirit of sonship
for all (Lk23:34; 1Pe1:23).

After He resurrected Yeshua ascended to heaven,

The kingdom of the beloved Son where there is no more betrayal (Col1:13).

The Holy Spirit who comes from there

Pours out His love into the spirits of believers (Rm5:5) and

Lets them know the depth, the breadth and the height of His love.

The true Christian is he who has been seized of

The right or the heart to curse or avenge those who reject or betray him (1Co13:5).

Thus he does not repay evil with evil but

Overcomes evil with good (Rm12:17-21),

Putting every effort to love perfectly as the Father in heaven (Mt5:38-39), for

He possesses the name that appears powerless but is powerful,

The name that appears weak but is strong,

The name that appears dead but is living, and

The name that appears defeated but is victorious ”

The name Yeshua!

O Lord,

Our loving Father in heaven!

Before I die let there be not even one I have not forgiven.

Before I die let me raise one more soul to life! Amen.