Featured TO KNOW GOD.

To know God is to Love God in others, and that’s how He knows us as well.

When I was hungry it was you who gave me something to eat. You were the dude, I’d recognise you anywhere.

That is why the people who were Faith alone and had faith enough to perform many miracles, were condemned by the Lord.

“Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and in your name perform many miracles?’ 23 Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!’

These dudes were powerhouses of Faith but didn’t have the good works of Love and that’s why the Lord said He never knew them. You know the Lord through acts of Love. The Lord gives through us and receives through us.

That is why it is a lie to say you Love God but hate your neighbour, because you Love God when you Love your neighbour.

Worse still many believers are indifferent to their neighbour, they accepted the grace to believe but not the daily graces to Love, the daily bread from the Father. Their days are littered with missed opportunities to Love and supp with the Lord. We did feast together many times, I know you, each will say to the other.

God gives us opportunities to know Him, Love commune with Him all throughout the day. But his own recognise him not, they do not recognise the time of the Lord’s passing each day.


17So the LORD said to Moses, “I will do this very thing you have asked, for you have found favor in My sight, and I know you by name.”18Then Moses said, “Please show me Your glory.”19“I will cause all My goodness to pass before you,” the LORD replied, “and I will proclaim My name—the LORD—in your presence. I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”b20But He added, “You cannot see My face, for no one can see Me and live.”21The LORD continued, “There is a place near Me where you are to stand upon a rock, 22and when My glory passes by, I will put you in a cleft of the rock and cover you with My hand until I have passed by. 23Then I will take My hand away, and you will see My back; but My face must not be seen.”

It’s only when we look back we recognise the the Lord, those moments of Love are moments of recognition for the Lord and us.

We are only given a daily portion of Love each day, because we do not have the capacity, to receive it all is to Look upon His Face which would kill us.

These moments are not faceless today brothers, every face you meet each day is made in the image and likeness of God. In Love is recognition of the Lord and Lord’s recognition of you.

 

When is the last time you sold all and gave it to the poor? Or rented a room in a flop house so you could bless your enemies with God's love in giving?

 

Those feasts are between me and the Lord, I don’t recall you there.

 

Nice try. But even our best works are corrupt and lacking.

 

Those works are not ours, those are the works are God’s works done through us. Love from the source of all Love.

This is why certain believers do not recognise the Lord in the grace filled works of the Lord, this is Love, God expressing Himself through us.

The Faith aloners see nothing, blind to even the whole point of the Gospel, Love.

Go then, be those people of great faith that prophecy, cast out demons, and perform many miracles by your faith alone. See how that ends.

Unless you Love you will not be recognised, “Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!’”

With all the emphasis on “ Faith alone “ they discarded Love as non essential.

They did built an idol to the pet doctrine of “ Faith alone “ and forgot the God of Love.

“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.“

The Will of The Father is that you Love.

Faith and the good works of Love.

 

Here's what's wrong with your position. You trust in your pathetic works to save you. I trust in Christ's perfect righteousness imputed to me. And in appreciation for that, I strive to do the good works the love in my heart drives me to do.

 

Keep in mind this stuff is written AFTER the resurrection/ ascension.

2 John 1

4I was overjoyed to find some of your children walking in truth, just as we have received a commandment to do from the Father. 5Now I ask you, lady, not as though I were writing to you a new commandment, but the one which we have had from the beginning, that we love one another. 6And this is love, that we walk according to His commandments. This is the commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning, that you are to walk in it.

7For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the antichrist. 8Watch yourselves, that you do not lose what we have accomplished, but that you may receive a full reward. 9Anyone who goes too far and does not remain in the teaching of Christ, does not have God; the one who remains in the teaching has both the Father and the Son. 10If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your house, and do not give him a greeting; 11for the one who gives him a greeting participates in his evil deeds.


Not a lick about faith alone, or cross your fingers and hope you are elect.

10If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your house, and do not give him a greeting; 11for the one who gives him a greeting participates in his evil deeds.

What teaching? faith alone? Chosen elect? NOPE.....----->the one which we have had from the beginning, that we love one another.

9Anyone who goes too far and does not remain in the teaching of Christ, does not have God;


The battle is always right there. ---> WHAT JESUS TAUGHT versus what PEOPLE teach ABOUT Jesus.

Those against Jesus will do what they can to diminish and toss aside what he taught.

1 john 4

8The one who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

 

Good works is Love, this what I mean about Protestants sneering at Love like it’s not important, calling it “ pathetic works “.

The Catholic position is Faith and Love together is essential for Salvation.

You could have a huge Faith to move mountains, prophecy, cast out demons, and perform many miracles, but if you don’t have good works of Love The Lord will not recognise you. “ I never knew you “

True and False Disciples
21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22 Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and in your name perform many miracles?’ 23 Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!’

The Lord recognises you by your Love, because He is Love.

Many believers walk by the suffering every day in their lives and don’t show Love, they are not praying for Love from the source each day to Love as Christ Loves.
“ I new commandment I give you, that you Love one another as I have Loved you “. Do you Love others as Christ Loved?

Great, you received Faith to believe in Christ by grace. Now pray for the grace to Love as Jesus Loved, you can not Love as He Loved without the daily Grace, the daily bread from the Father.

 

The good works you do by Grace are Christ’s works not your works.

This is why I warn Protestants not to dismiss Jesus works through us as “ pathetic works “ it’s Jesus Loving others through us.

“ It is no longer I that lives, but Christ who lives in me “ or don’t you guys even believe this as well.

You know when you are very tired and a person calls you great suffering and is possibly suicidal, by Grace Jesus stirs in you and speaks to them and Loves them, talking to them for hours. Many believers ignore that stirring of Grace and say they have got to go.

I remember being really tired one morning in the jungle mountains of New Guinea after working 16 to 18 hours a day, it was my turn to go to the clinic to help. I remember praying and saying, just make it an easy day with no horror this time.
Well the first case that showed up was a woman with little bundle of rags in her arms. She placed it on the table and I opened it up. It was worst case of foot to head scabies I had ever seen, a little baby boy. But when my eyes met his eyes that seemed so miserable and ashamed of his condition, it was like our two miseries met. It was Jesus Love that burst out of me with such power and compassion that I was renewed and strengthened for weeks on incredible heights.
That is the power Christ operating when we a burnt out, one moment of Love.

We only bring handful of loaves and fish, but by Love Christ turns it into a feast for a multitude.

 

But you make LOVE a phony work. For me, it's a loving heart God produced in the New Birth. So it's what I do along with breathing and other natural dispositions.

“And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.” Deuteronomy 30:6 (KJV 1900)

 

Love isn’t natural works with natural disposition, it is supernatural and not your works.

You sneer at the Love Christ does through others calling it “ pathetic works “ and maliciously judge and condemn others as unsaved. Scripture says you will be judged as you have judged, but what do you care, you hold that you are “justified “ right.

You are hostile to Love and I do not recognise Jesus in your words.

“These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.“

 

Unless Born Again, any works are phony.

 

We are born again through faith by free gift of grace, that’s what I’ve told you but you haven’t listened.

Many received the gift of Faith to believe, but ignore the daily graces to Love, they have no Love and have become hard of heart.
They don’t even realise that they have grown cold of heart, they do not Love others as Christ does.

Receive the daily graces to Love as you first received the grace of Faith to believe.

 

You have it exactly backward. The new birth happens in the elect before they can believe in Christ. It creates His presence in their hearts causing them to believe. Based on that experience.