John 15:15 Jesus said:
No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you.

The book of 1 John is the most intimate and personal book that is in the entire Bible, with the exception of the Song of Solomon.

• In 1 John, the sins of a Christian are treated as though they are the offenses of a child against a Father. 
• Your sins are dealt with as though you are a Family Member.
•  In this respect, 1 John is written to you as “Little Children”, with great love and compassion.

When Paul writes in his letters, he is speaking to us about our “Position” with the Father as Sons and Daughters of God, John writes about our closeness to the heart of the Father.

• Of all the things you might do in your life since you first believed that Jesus Died for you and accepted Him as your  Lord and Savior, the most important thing in your life, to the Father is “Your Fellowship”, you Friendship with Him.

The entire meaning and purpose for your being created was so that you could be a Friend to the Creator of the Universe.

• The same purposes that you are looking for in your life, Love and Acceptance, someone to give your love to, and someone to love you unconditionally, is the same purposes that the Father is seeking from you and I.
• He wants your love, and He wants to love you.
• Amazingly, Of all the things that the Father could create, with his unlimited and abounding power, He cannot create Friendship and Love that is sincere and genuine.

Sincere Love and Friendship must be by “Free Will”.  In order for it to be meaningful, love must be freely given.

• If you had unlimited creative power, you could make anything, what would be the one thing that you would want most of all?
• Friends to share it all with.
• Oh You could create friends, you could even pre program them to love you.
• But unless their love was voluntarily given to you, that love would not have any meaning to you.

There is nothing that is more meaningful and fulfilling than when someone says “I love you”, and you know that they really mean it.

• That is what the Lord of Heaven is seeking from you!
• As Powerful as God is, He could  not create this.
• He could make the people, and give them the capacity to love, and make them with an overwhelming desire to be loved and have a desire to give their love, but he could not “Pre program” them to love Him ahead of time, if He really wanted their love to be meaningful.

God did not want Robots that said “I Love You”, every time He squeezed them, He wanted sincere love, that is freely given.

So, in making us with our own Free Will, their was a gamble of sorts.  What if they willingly chose not to love you?  How would you respect that decision?  What do you do with these that refused to love you and even rebelled against you?

• This is where the Laws of the Universe come into place.
• If you are going to make a creation, that creation must be governed by certain Laws, otherwise their will be disorder and chaos.
• The Father, wanting really only one thing, Love, bases all laws on one principle:

Love God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength.

Mark 12:30
Jesus said:  you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ This is the first commandment

Jesus came to make that possible…




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