230323 – What Is Perfect Love? 什么是完全的爱?

1 John 4:18 (NKJV) There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love.

The boldness to stand fearless in the presence of God on judgement day comes from understanding the perfect love of God. Let us look at how God pursued us with His perfect love to get us into the highest good that He intended for us.

Genesis 12:3 (NKJV) I will bless those who bless you, And I will curse him who curses you; And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”

God established an unconditional covenant with Abraham through which would come the Messiah, so that all the families of the earth will be blessed. Unconditional means the covenant would come to pass in God’s time and God’s way, irrespective of the imperfection of mankind.

Romans 5:8 (NKJV) But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

2 Corinthians 5:21 (NKJV) For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

Galatians 3:13-14 (NKJV) Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”), that the blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

These Scriptures reveal the fulfilment of God’s promise in Genesis 12:3. All the families of the earth will be blessed because for anyone who believes, whether they are Jews or gentiles, they would not have the sins and lawless deeds, but the righteousness of Christ, imputed on them.

Love has a corresponding action, which is in giving. In this case, God has demonstrated His love for us when He intentionally planned to have Jesus take our place on the cross. Because God’s agape love for us, He gave us Christ’s righteousness at the divine exchange on the cross. He took our filthiness, self-righteousness, inability to stand right before Him, all the curses that had been brought about by the law and our sins and had them placed on His Beloved Son. God judged the sin of mankind, and Jesus experienced the wrath of God on our behalf, went to the depth of the earth for three days and resurrected because He was sinless.

Once upon a time, we felt insecure of God’s love, felt rejected by Him because of sins, but we are imputed as righteous through the redemptive blood of Christ. It has everything to do with what Jesus has done. We played no part in obtaining it, so no man can boast because it is purely by the grace of God. We are hidden in Christ, and we are loved and accepted by God. Therefore, we have boldness on the day of judgement because our ability to stand before God is not based on phileo love, but on agape love and what Jesus has achieved on our behalf.

Sermon Series: Fearless


什么是完全的爱?

约翰一书 418 爱里没有惧怕;爱既完全,就把惧怕除去。因为惧怕里含着刑罚,惧怕的人在爱里未得完全。

在审判日坦然无惧地站在神面前的勇气来自于对神完全的爱的理解。让我们看看神是如何用祂完全的爱来追寻我们的,以便让我们得到祂为我们准备的至高的益处。

创世纪123 为你祝福的,我必赐福与他;那咒诅你的,我必咒诅他。地上的万族都要因你得福。

神与亚伯拉罕立了一个无条件的约,使弥赛亚得以降世,好教世上所有的家庭都得到祝福。“无条件”意味着它将在神的时间以神的方式实现,不会受制于人类的不完美。

罗马书58 惟有基督在我们还作罪人的时候为我们死,神的爱就在此向我们显明了。

哥林多后书521神使那无罪的,替我们成为罪,好叫我们在他里面成为神的义。

加拉太书313-14 基督即为我们受了咒诅,就赎出我们脱离律法的咒诅;因为经上记着:“凡挂在木头上都是被咒诅的”这便叫亚伯拉罕的福,因基督耶稣可以临到外邦人,使我们因信得着所应许的圣灵。

这三段经文向我们揭示了神在创世记12:3中所作应许的实现,世上所有的家庭都将得到祝福。因为所有相信的人,不管是犹太人还是外邦人,都不再有罪和不法的行为,唯有基督的义,这义是白白得来的。

爱有一个相应的行动,那就是给予。在这种情况下,当神有意计划让耶稣在十字架上取代我们的位置时,祂向我们展示了祂的爱。神出于祂的Agape爱,祂在十字架上的神圣交换中给了我们基督的义。祂把我们的污秽、自义、不能站在神面前、律法所带来的一切咒诅和我们的罪,都加在祂爱子身上。神审判人类的罪。耶稣替我们经历了神的愤怒,去到地底深处三天,然后复活了,因为祂是无罪的。

曾几何时,我们对神的爱感到不确定,因着罪感到被祂拒绝,但是籍着基督救赎的宝血我们白白称义。这完全是由于耶稣为我们所做的一切。我们无法凭自己获得义,没有人可以自夸,因为这完全是因着神的恩典。我们藏在基督里,蒙神所爱,被神接纳。因此在审判日我们可以坦然无惧地站在神面前,不是基于phileo 的爱,而是基于agape的爱以及耶稣代表我们所成就的。

讲章系列:坦然无惧