What is Love?

Hi dearly beloveds,

How loved are you by God? Does God's love for me require me to be in His servitude? Is His love for me contingent on my good deeds? Will He ever curse me should I be disobedient to Him?

I'm sure these are some very valid questions to some of us out there.

The answer we seek is the Cross of Calvary. Please watch the short music video first before reading on.

"I See Love" by Third Day, soundtrack of The Passion.

I truly see Love on that rugged cross.

Can God love you so much that He gave His very best to be punished in your place? Yes because He is God. And HE can because He is a God of love.
We can use a phrase from the world to describe this: Love is not love till you give it away.

Can you and I do the same to our own child? To our own beloved flesh and blood? To punish your beloved one for someone else's sin?

This love is so amazing and incomprehensible that Paul called it a stumbling block to the Jews and foolishness to the Greeks.

1Corinthians 1:
22 For the Jews ask for a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom;
23 but we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling block, and to the Greeks foolishness.

We declare to the world that Jesus Christ was crucified and rose again on the 3rd day conquering death, satan and hell, rising victoriously for us!

All that God has done for us was summed up on the cross, ALL His love for us was summed up on the cross, ALL His forgiveness, ALL His mercy, ALL His judgment was summed up on the cross. I used the word was because now we're living in the IS of God. He IS our Refuge, He IS our Shelter, He IS our Hiding place, He IS our Healing, He IS our Provider, He IS our Prosperity, He IS our Righteousness, He IS our Holiness. We're now IN Christ. Whatever GOD IS so are we!!! Amen! Hallelujah!

Now, that is love isn't it? UNCONDITIONAL, IRREVOCABLE, ETERNAL.

ALL that GOD IS, IS us now, the believer in Christ Jesus. He paid His own price of Judgment on His beloved Jesus.

Blessed ones, now Rejoice!

Psalms 13:
5 But I have trusted in Your mercy; my heart shall rejoice in Your salvation(original Hebrew: Yeshua/Jesus).

Blessed is he who sees, blessed is he who hears.

Thank you Father that you hear me always! Father I rejoice in Your Yeshua!

Shalom Shalom,
Emmanuel

Yeshua Reveiled...

God is good, Amen...

Recently i was going through a book and there's some interesting revelations about the Hebrew codes in the Old Testament. God reveals Yeshua/Jesus beneath the Scriptures and it is upon us to discover it and glorify Him!

Underneath Isaiah 53:10 which says: "Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand." What was discovered, the second Hebrew letter Yod from "...he shall prolong his days,.." when counted every 20th letter onward will spell Yeshua Shmi, which means "Yeshua(Jesus) is My Name".

How beautiful is that? GOD even gives His name, telling us that He is our sin offering and once we accept and receive this truth,"...he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand." GOD tells us, "My name's Jesus. I'll be offering myself as a sacrifice for you. From now on, i will give you life that's exceedingly happy and long...! And it is my joy in you that will make you prosper beyond your imagination!"

Hallelujah! Thank you Father, for you loved us first...

Interestingly, on the subject of God's love for us, we remember the love story of Ruth. Pastor has preached many times on this topic. The book of Ruth tells us the story of Love, Devotion and Redemption. Let's take a look in the Hebrew Bible. As we begin reading Ruth 1:1 and looking at the Hebrew text http://www.mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt2901.htm we start counting from the first Yod. First י Yod is Zero, count 5 spaces forward(right to left) we get another י Yod, another 5 spaces we get ש Shin, another 5 we get וַ Waw/Vav and another 5 we get עָ Ayin. These alphabets were taken directly from the Hebrew Bible from Ruth1:1. This is no coincidence. Look at the above image for the 4 alphabets of Yod, Shin, Waw/Vav, Ayin. (Read from right to left)

This IS our LORD's official signature. Stamped for those who have eyes to see.

Matthew 13:16 "But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear."

This follows the scripture just after Jesus said in Matthew 13:14-15 "And in them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says: ‘ Hearing you will hear and shall not understand, And seeing you will see and not perceive; For the hearts of this people have grown dull. Their ears are hard of hearing, And their eyes they have closed, Lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, Lest they should understand with their hearts and turn, So that I should heal them.’

From Matthew 13:14 we can gather that in the ancient of days when the Jewish sages read their books, they missed out Yeshua altogether. But God still made the provision that if they should understand, our Lord Jesus will still heal them. So, in the New Covenant when Jesus came in the flesh, those that have eyes, saw. They saw Jesus in the flesh and they are blessed because their literal sight saw Him! We are now blessed because our spiritual eyes see Jesus.

How awesome is our GOD! The Book of Ruth speaks about His Love, His eternal devotion to us His children, His redemptive work for our sins and it begins with the foreknowledge of Yeshua/Jesus!

HE is indeed our Saviour... Yeshua HaMaschiach.

Praise the Lord! Hallelujah. And Amen.