OUR VISION-TO SHARE THE LOVE OF JESUS CHRIST

Ephesians 3:17-19 (New King James Version)

17 that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, 18 may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height— 19 to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

The love of Christ surpasses scientific knowledge, mental knowledge and the only way to understand it is by revelation by the spirit of God and when you understand that love you are filled by the fullness of God

The level to which you are filled with fullness of God depends on your compression of the dimension of the love of God

Width of God’s love

What’s is its coverage, how wide is that love, who does it include

 Jh 3:16 “For God loved the world so much that he gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life

It covers the whole world of men everybody

And the question we ask everyone can you love everybody does your love include everyone? And the answer is simply yes because the word of God says so because we have all received the fullness of Christ of Christ so we can be able to walk in the love of Christ ,

John 1:16 (Amplified Bible)

16For out of His fullness (abundance) we have all received [all had a share and we were all supplied with] one grace after another and spiritual blessing upon spiritual blessing and even favor upon favor and gift [heaped] upon gift.

Colossians 2:9-10 (Amplified Bible)

9For in Him the whole fullness of Deity (the Godhead) continues to dwell in bodily form [giving complete expression of the divine nature].

    10And you [a]are in Him, made full and having come to fullness of life [in Christ you too are filled with the Godhead--Father, Son and Holy Spirit--and reach full spiritual stature]. And He is the Head of all rule and authority [of every angelic principality and power].

Walking in the agape love of Christ,

We should stir up the gift of God in us because we cannot be able to share or give what we don’t have

The length of God’s love

21 Then Peter came to Jesus and asked, “Lord, how many times shall I forgive my brother or sister who sins against me? Up to seven times?”

 22 Jesus answered, “I tell you, not seven times, but seventy-seven times

This was before the new covenant that was brought by Christ even then we are to forgive these many times

But under the new covenant

Colossians 3:13 (NIV)

13 Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you

Hebrews 8:12 (NIV)

12 For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more

How far can your love go can it reach the worst of sinners and  how much can you forgive ??

God length of love is seen in a case of Paul him being the worst of sinners

12 I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who has given me strength, that he considered me trustworthy, appointing me to his service. 13 Even though I was once a blasphemer and a persecutor and a violent man, I was shown mercy because I acted in ignorance and unbelief. 14 The grace of our Lord was poured out on me abundantly, along with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.

 15 Here is a trustworthy saying that deserves full acceptance: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners—of whom I am the worst. 16 But for that very reason I was shown mercy so that in me, the worst of sinners, Christ Jesus might display his immense patience as an example for those who would believe in him and receive eternal life.

1 Corinthians 13 (New Living Translation)

So our love should be able to forgive, without putting a limit. Many people were affected by the 2007 election and we should exercise love to even to those who were directly cause of our hurt

The depth of God’s love

This describes the intensity of that love

God didn’t love us when we were good but even when we were still sinners He made away for us.

Eph 2:4-5

 4 But God is so rich in mercy, and he loved us so much, 5 that even though we were dead because of our sins, he gave us life when he raised Christ from the dead. (It is only by God’s grace that you have been saved!)

An example of His great love is Paul though he was worst of all sinners God saved him

12 I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who has given me strength, that he considered me trustworthy, appointing me to his service. 13 Even though I was once a blasphemer and a persecutor and a violent man, I was shown mercy because I acted in ignorance and unbelief. 14 The grace of our Lord was poured out on me abundantly, along with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.

 15 Here is a trustworthy saying that deserves full acceptance: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners—of whom I am the worst. 16 But for that very reason I was shown mercy so that in me, the worst of sinners, Christ Jesus might display his immense patience as an example for those who would believe in him and receive eternal life.

The height of God’s love

The superior manner of your character of love

It shows how excellent our love should be surpassing human weaknesses and failures

It should be so high that bitterness of others cannot drown it

It should accept others who don’t accept us

Speak well of others who even speak evil of us

1 Corinthians 13

Love Is the Greatest

 1 If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn’t love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I had the gift of prophecy, and if I understood all of God’s secret plans and possessed all knowledge, and if I had such faith that I could move mountains, but didn’t love others, I would be nothing. 3 If I gave everything I have to the poor and even sacrificed my body, I could boast about it;[a] but if I didn’t love others, I would have gained nothing.

 4 Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud 5 or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. 6 It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. 7 Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.

 8 Prophecy and speaking in unknown languages[b] and special knowledge will become useless. But love will last forever! 9 Now our knowledge is partial and incomplete, and even the gift of prophecy reveals only part of the whole picture! 10 But when full understanding comes, these partial things will become useless.

 11 When I was a child, I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child. But when I grew up, I put away childish things. 12 Now we see things imperfectly as in a cloudy mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity.[c] All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God now knows me completely.

 13 Three things will last forever—faith, hope, and love—and the greatest of these is love

So we must choose to be different and stay at the high level of love

We must talk differently and think differently an example is David he couldn’t destroy King Saul though he had many opportunities

We must see with the eyes of Jesus which are full of compassion and purity thus seeing God in all the people and seeing everyone as He see’s them..(Pastor Chris -Dimensions of Love)