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Tabernacles: The Love of God
DIR By: Justin Mangonel
Date: December 4, 2012, 11:51 am
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It is written in 1 John,
“He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.”
1 John 4:8
Love is the very essence of who God is. It is also written that
Christ is the image of God,
“In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them
which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of
Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.”
2 Corinthians 4:4
And in the book of Hebrews we learn that Christ is indeed the
exact image of God,
“Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of
his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power,
when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right
hand of the Majesty on high:”
Hebrews 1:3
Therefore, the scriptures testify that Jesus is the image of
God, the express image of God’s person.
And finally Paul states that we shall someday be like Jesus.
“Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear
what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we
shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.”
1 John 3:2
Here is a truth,
“God is love: Jesus Christ is the express image of God: when
Christ shall appear we shall be like Him, therefore if we are to
be restored back into the image and likeness of God it shall be
said of us that “we are love.”
One of the primary attributes of the spiritual fulfillment of
the feast of Tabernacles is becoming one with God and this
oneness, in turn, naturally leads to the revealing of His love
to us and through us. This love is the first love; the pure
love originally given to us in the Garden of Eden, and, as such,
is divine in its origin and therefore holy in its expression.
When we become one with God, His love flows through us and our
actions become like the actions of Christ. Our eyes become His
eyes, our hands become His hands, and our voice becomes the
voice of God; for we speak only that which our hearts hear.
When people look into our eyes they see God looking back at them
and when they feel our touch they feel the very touch of God.
We, as the body of Christ, become corporately what Jesus was
individually at His first coming, Emanuel. In that day, as His
body, we will say, “If you have seen us you have seen the
Father”
As we begin to become love, (as God is love) our actions,
thoughts, and motives will begin to come into alignment with
these scriptures,
“Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not;
charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, Doth not behave
itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked,
thinketh no evil; Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in
the truth; Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all
things, endureth all things.”
1 Corinthians 13:4-7
And then we will come to know through experience what is spoken
of in the epistle of Titus,
“Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are
defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and
conscience is defiled.”
Titus 1:15
This is true of Divine love shown between His saints for if we
are in total union with God any action we do is holy and pure;
thus, we are at liberty to do anything the Holy Spirit leads us
to do.
The question then becomes, “How does the love of God reveal
itself among the brethren and what are the bounds and limits of
its expression?”
We know from scripture that Christians in the early church used
to greet each other with a holy kiss. This is mentioned 4 times
in the New Testament but one example will suffice,
“Greet one another with an holy kiss.”
2 Corinthians 13:12
We also know that early Christians used to partake of love
feasts as seen in the book of Jude,
“These men are blemishes at your love feasts, eating with you
without the slightest qualm—shepherds who feed only themselves.
They are clouds without rain, blown along by the wind; autumn
trees, without fruit and uprooted—twice dead.” NIV
Jude 1:12
So, even by our standards today, the Christian church expressed
the love of God in intimate ways that we do not currently
practice.
As Tabernacles Christians step into the role of the sons of God
they naturally start to do the things by the law of the Spirit
of life, which supersedes and is greater than the law of sin and
death. In the book of Romans 8:2 we learn,
“For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me
free from the law of sin and death.”
Romans 8:2
Therefore, as we begin to operate under the law of the Spirit of
Life we are no longer required to obey the law of sin and death.
In other words, as we are lead by the Holy Spirit (which was in
Jesus and now dwells in us) we are no longer subject to or
constrained by the Law of Moses (i.e. the law characterized by
sin and death).
When it comes to expressing the love of God (to each other and
to the world) we are to simply obey the law of the Holy Spirit
by doing whatever He says when He says to do it.
Also, we learn that Jesus said in the book of Matthew,
“But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by
bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth
of God.”
Matthew 4:4
No longer are we to gauge our behavior by the written Law of
Moses, but rather we are to be led by the Holy Spirit as our
heavenly Father sees fit. The lines that were previously drawn
by our interpretation of the Mosaic Law are erased and we enter
into the glorious liberty of the Sons of God. We return to the
first law (which was given in the Garden of Eden) and again live
by direct revelation. It is written in the book of Genesis,
“And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of
the garden thou mayest freely eat: But of the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the
day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.”
Genesis 2:16,17
When we enter into the Tabernacle experience of divine love we
find that the only line which really matters is the line that
that Holy Spirit draws at the time He speaks. Furthermore, the
line over which you cannot pass is different for each individual
and for each circumstance. We no longer live and act by
knowledge but live our lives by every word that proceeds out of
the mouth of God.
If God leads a person to give a holy kiss to a brother or sister
it is, by definition, pure because its genesis is the goading of
His Spirit. As long as you are lead by the Spirit of God,
literally anything you do is correct, pure and holy.
The law of life is stronger than the law of sin and death simply
because it is a law which is written upon our hearts. The law
of love constrains us in a more secure way to avoid evil than
any law written on stone tablets ever did. This law is not
something we must obey, but a law that we are. We are not
forced to do right because God says so but, instead, we cannot
do wrong because the desire to do evil is simply not in us.
Does this mean that we can do anything we want now because we
are not under the Law? No, this type of freedom presupposes
that you are acting out of God’s love as led by His Holy Spirit.
You cannot, for instance, simply commit sin contrary to the
leading of the Holy Spirit and call it God because that violates
the law of love. You cannot even greet one another with a holy
kiss if God does not lead you to do so. Those around you will
be instantly aware if you are acting out of ungodly desires
because they too have the mind of Christ.
This is the maturing of God’s saints and, as such, I speak by
faith to those who genuinely have a true heart be a servant to
all. If you are truly led by the then there is no law that you
must follow except the law of the Spirit of life.
In conclusion, when we come into the perfection of the saints
all the chains that bind us will fall off and we will truly be
free to do anything God leads us to do. We will find that what
God will and will not do is far, far greater than anything we
can currently imagine. This, in turn will cause many natural
minded people to judge us and seek to prevent us from sharing
this intense and heavenly love with the world. Nevertheless,
God’s people will mature and prevail, and out Father will touch
the lives of those around us in stunning and effective ways that
we never imagined possible.
Finally let us all seek to realize the full meaning of this
scripture,
”For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons
of God.”
Romans 8:14
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