1 John 3:8 He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.

For this purpose the Son was manifested.

At some point we all ask ourselves why does God love me? I’ve seen men reject the free will offering of salvation on this one point alone. God created us to beloved and to return that love. Love needs an object of affection. Love does not exist alone. Man searches his whole life to find love and to share love. Love is the only reason God created the universe to begin with.

Love has to be a choice, a free will offering. If it were not, then we would be nothing but puppets on a string to be toyed with. That isn’t love. Not as God loves. Satan messed that up from the very beginning with his whispering lies. It was not what God intended but Go could not interfere without destroying choice.

So the Son of God was manifested, made flesh, became man, to counter the lies with truth. But truth, in order to cancel out lies, to destroy the works of the devil, have to be believed.

John 6:40 And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.

These are just words. If you choose to believe they take on a whole new life, new meaning, because your positional condition is changed when you do. Believe and enter His Kingdom, be in Christ.

Now the enemy will whisper his last two words in a final ditch effort to keep you in bondage.

“Prove it.”

John 14:15 If ye love me, keep my commandments.

If you love me. Four more words that are integrated into the life of those who have entered into the Eternal Kingdom of Jesus Christ. But once again, if your position is in the world, and not in Christ, what do those words mean?

We have established that keeping the law is impossible and that salvation only comes by grace. So why is it asked of love to keep commandments? Jesus Himself defined the commandments in the simplest and most basic terms of the commandments.

Matthew 22:37-40 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

Before you say, no problem, let’s go for it, I must remind you that if you are in the world, you only know love as the world knows it. To be in Christ is to know the love of God in a way the world could never match. You can want it, but you cannot match it because it is perfect in form and function. Agape love.

If I couldn’t understand it and I couldn’t perform it, then what am I to do? Well that is where the next five words come into play. “I will send a helper.”

John 14:26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.

To those who are born again, who become Kingdom dwellers, the Comforter is given.

You didn’t think God was going to leave something so precious in the hands of the fallible did you?