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Categories of Love: marriage love; family love; eros; agape=virtue in subject; object=philos; Love for our children; God's love for His Children: God gave Christ and Christ gave us Love to abide in; Command to Love God: How to Love God?: Abide in Christ's Love; How we commune with God; Spending time with God; Walk in love: They are all accomplished Abiding in God's Love. Eph 5:1-3; John 14:21 He who has My commandments(Abide in My Love!) and keeps them(Abides in 12 gates) is the one who loves Me; and he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and will disclose Myself to him(by gates 1 aand 2). 14:15;15:9-11;2 Cor 5:14a&15b For Christ's love compels us, having concluded...that they who live should no longer live for themselves, but they should live for Him who died and rose again on their behalf. v.17 Therefore if any man is in Christ He is a new creature: new family,God; new values, Christ's; new motivations, Live for Christ; New posessions, He Who seals us, and is pledge, Who fully possesses us, and we Him, the Holy Spirit. Pointed Paraphrase of Eph.3:14-21: Paul asks the Father that you believers: 1. may be strengthened with power (a superabundant or supernatural power implied in the repetition power+strength) by means of the Holy Spirit(God, a supernatural power. Passive voice, be strengthened, means our Holy Spirit is the active agent empowering us) in the inner man(soul and spirit, invisible, eternal, therefore also supernatural), So that Christ may dwell in your hearts(Someone favorably living in our soul's mentality is a poetic definition of love, our topic.) through faith (by the miracle of Bible Teaching, in part, about Christ); and, 2. that you believers, being rooted and established in (God's) love (system, abide in my love, John 15:9-11) may be able to understand God's Love system, along with all believers, fully in all it's gates, courts and vast dimensions, and, to know (practically, through experience) the love(system) of Christ(Abide in my love, John 15:9-11) which exceeds knowledge supernaturally(as a practical outworking of a spiritual system of love, from Christ, we both abide in and utilize), that you may be filled up(Lovegate1 and 2: Filling of the Holy Spirit, FHS, empowering us from v.16c) to all the fullness of God(Both FHS and Perfection, Maturity or formation: i.e. filled up to the stature of Christ, our objective: Lovegate 12 Eph 4:11-13). Now to the Holy Spirit, Who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above and beyond all we ask or think, according to His absolute power that works mightily within us(Gates 1 and 2), to Him, be the glory, both in the church, and in Christ Jesus(This love system was His and He bequeathed it to us), to all generations, forever and ever. Amen. Love for Christ and love for God are a supernatural outcropping, or in- and out-working of abiding in God's Love. Abide in My Love=Commandment!
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