The Everlasting love of God is the love that was before man was made and the love behind the affectionate, wonderful and crafty creation of man in his image. It is the same everlasting love demonstrated to the fallen seed of Adam especially those in Christ Jesus who are redeemed and bought by his precious blood and has blessed them with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ: according as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love. Ephesians 1:3-4. Note: the purpose of everlasting love in the creation of man was primarily to reflect divine nature through obedient love expected to be demonstrated by pure love out of his pure heart: this is the goal of the commandment first given to Adam in the Garden and the same goal set before us upon whom the end of the world is come. 1Timothy 1:5.
Adam was blessed beyond measure with dominion power over all things made. The everlasting love which placed Adam in the Garden of Eden also warned him to abide in that love for the continuation of his existence by his abstention from the consumption of the fruit from the tree of the knowoledge of evil and good lest he die – spiritual death. Spiritual death is the worst case scenario because it cut man off and away from the life of God to live for himself through the influence of the prince of the power of the air (Satan) the spirit that is now at work in the children of disobedience into the state called ‘dead in sins and trespasses’. It is either you are dead to sin or you are dead in it. If you want life, chose life to live by the word of life: and if you want to live in sin make up your mind to enjoy its pleasure very well for now with the consequencces afterward. But dying to sin today and living repeatedly in sin tomorrow is folly of them who are walking in the flesh and are indecisive in Christ. This is unimaginable and unacceptable before God: but he that is dead with Christ is freed from sin but alive unto God. Romans 6:7-14. Ephesians 2:1-3.
Instataneous discovery happened to Adam as soon as he ate the fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil: namely, he discovered his nakedness because he had lost spiritual senses for the natural taste he craved for to died spiritually just has God promised (Genesis 2:17) to cut off of the spiritual life supply and support umbilical cord between him and God to hide from the divine presence of everlasting love he once loved to welcome and embrace with fondness at every cool of the day, plung down into the conscious state of spiritual darkness, having lost the in-corruptible nature to become Satan’s and servant of sin. When David says he was born in sin, and in sin did his mother conveived him (Psalms 51:5) he meant to say that we were dead in sins and trespasses right from conception because of the inherited fallen nature of Adam in us: for by one man sin, sin entered into the world. This is the situation which man kind found themselves at naissance into the world, dead in sins and trespasses as the fall of Adam made all spiritually dead, without the life of God and were alienated (caused to be unloved) and enemies in our minds by our wicked works to sin conviniently as slaves of it and sons and daughters of Satan: whosoever sin is of the Devil for the sin from the beginning: for this purpose the son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of devil. Romans 5:12. 1John 3:8.
I want you to understand that the word everlasting speaks and reveals the spirituality (what is seen is temporal and what is unseen is eternal that God is eternal spirit) and other characteristics of the eternal God as One who lives or dwells in eternity with him also of a contrite spirit and of a broken heart: and as well with him that tremble at his word. To tremble here means, to have respect for his word, keeping and living by them: for by keeping them there is a great reward. Psalms 19: 11.
Everything about God is everlasting, just like the everlasting life (John 3:16) and everlasting or eternal judgement (Hebrews 6:2) and everlasting fire. Matthew 25:41. Daniel 12:2.
Jesus is the gift of God’s eternal love given and delivered unto death as the ransomed price for the fallen man from the wrath to come: thus we are drawn once again to the Bishop and Shepherd of our souls by his loving kindness of the everlasting love. Beware, because Jesus speaks a lots about eternal and everlasting hell and damnation more than any other discour, teachings and revelations subject about this life and the world to come with such strong words to his audience as you serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell (Matthew 23:33) to warm and prepare all and sundry in view of eternal reward and retribution of all the inhabitants of the earth – good or bad, small or great, male or female, righteous or sinners, holy or unclean, lest any be deceived by the word everlasting love for a licence to assume that God has no choice than to receive mix multiutdes into his holy abode though they are filthy, wicked, liar, decitful, unholy, unrighteous, immoral, filthy, ungodly, drunkards, thiefs, deceivers, wordly etc without heeding his warning that his reward is with him to give to everyone according as their works shall be: for the love of Christ constraints us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead: and that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again. 2 Corinthians 5:14-15. Revelation 22:12.
God is love and his love is everlasting: that is, it is unchanging and unfailing because love does not fail and you will always find him just as he is because we shall be like him and surely see him as he is if we keep to his word as he commanded us. You cannot find God’s love disappointing and unfulfilled, not now (having love his own, he loved them to the end. John 13:1) and neither shall it fail throughout all eternity for the intimacy and the eternal consummation of that love with the eternal comforts and rewards prepared for us that has loved and feared him on earth to walk and abide in his love for the sincere devotion presently expressed and displayed in purity to serve him acceptably with reverence and godly fear: your words have been stout against me, says the Lord. Yet ye say, what have we spoken so much against thee? Ye have said it is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the Lord of hosts? And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered. Then they that feared the Lord spoke often one to another: and the Lord hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon his name. And they shall be mine, says the Lord of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spares his own son that serves him. Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serves God and him that serves him not. Malachi 3:12-18.
The everlasting love is the God of truth without iniquity: therefore, if we have received any comfort of his love and any fellowship of his spirit, let us abide in such love to walk in the truth as we have received it: and this is the truth, that as you have heard from the beginning you should walk and abide in it. Ephesians 4:17-24. The Lord says, if any man hear his word and keeps them, he is truly demonstrating his graciousness, thankfulness and acceptance of his love through obedient acts in daily walk: and the Father of everlasting love will also love him and will come to stay or make his abode with him: but he that does not love him will not keep his commandments. John 14:23.
God is a deal maker and I will sincerely submit to you that though his love is everlasting, but they are conditional. Adam failed in the Garden but now Christ came from the Father with another deal with better promises. Anything covenanted is conditional based on contract, pledge, undertaking and agreements between two parties. Christ will say to you as he said to his disciples of old, as the Father loved me, so have I also loved you, continue ye in my love. If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in his love. John 15:9-10. Unending relationship with the everlasting love (God) is founded on the continuation of keeping up with his statutes that are right and with his pure commandments. Psalms 19: 8.
There is no better way to describe the act of eternal love than to see it though the practical offering of the sacrifice made by God for us in his Son as an offering for our sins. You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die; but God demonstrates his own love for us in this: while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God’s wrath through him! For if, while we were God’s enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life. Romans 5:6-9.
The everlasting love is pure, and to abide in his love is to keep yourself from the sin which beset you (Hebrews 12:1) to make yourself upright before him. Everlasting love does not protect, neither exempt those having a form of godliness but are denying the power thereof to perish with the unrepentant sinners. Love does not hurt, neither do evil, but while anyone keep hurting God over repeatedly by their sins, instead of them to be humbled by his unfathomable everlasting love, and to avail themselves of the power of this love to change for love’s sake, and not submerging it into diver lusts and ungodliness: and this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, that, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it. 2 John 1:6. Psalms 18:23.
I will not want and I pray that no one should err from the difference between God’s patience and longsuffering to change and grow in what he calls ‘I give her space of time to repent of her sexual immorality and idolatry (Revelation 2: 21-22) before the cup of such carnal and sinful lifestyles is filled to the brim and the Lord shall make the ungodly to drink all.
Remember the warnings from Hebrews Chapter 2 verses 1 -3: therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip. For if the word spoken by angels was steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward; how shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him. Sure, if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us and the blood of Jesus his son cleanses us from all righteousness. 1 John 1:9.
God is multifaceted who reveals himself as the pure and holy God to the pure and holy children: merciful to the merciful: just to the just: righteous judge to the righteous man and has reserved indignation and wrath to recompense those who are despising his word to work iniquity: to give unto them the shame they deserves: and all the sinners of his people (ungodly believers – hypocrites in Zion) shall die by the sword, which say, the evil shall not overtake nor prevent us, we are covered by everlasting love. Amos 9:10. Jeremiah 7:12.
The everlasting love of God for the present church believer is no lesser or bigger than the old or past everlasting love of God for the house of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob whom he brought out from the house of bondage from the Land of Egypt to become a holy nation unto him and were known as the church in the wilderness, but with all the cares and love he bestowed, they were all wasted in the wilderness because they abused the love and could not made it to the promised land. You want to get to heaven, do not abuse the love of God, but appreciate to walk and abide in it accordingly to keep yourself in the love of God and in the patience waiting for Christ. Acts7:38. Jude 1:21.
God will not be just as the just and impartial judge without respect of person to give you the harvest of everlasting life if you are sowing repeatedly to the flesh to make a mock at his everlasting love (Galatians 6:7) for everyman shall reap whatever they have sown.
To take any to heaven with their spirits of fornication, adultery and other damnable works of the flesh when it is clearly written that nothing unclean shall enter there. God forbid! If he has cleansed and justified you, abide in his cleansing to make yourself worthy of his love and of his lovingkindness works in you (Isaiah 63:7-10) and by so doing, our Lord will count you worthy of his calling as you continue to cleanse yourself from all the filthiness of the flesh and of the spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God (2 Corinthians 7:1) and not as fools who are mocking at sin: and it as sport for them to sin: by the way, the blood of Jesus exempt us from all sin, they will say! Note: eternal love is not the admission ticket for unlimited sin covered by everlasting love and grace, but the assurance of everlasting or eternal salvation and righteousness for all that Christ is to all them that will obey him. Hebrews 5:9.
God condemned sin in the flesh so that the righteousness of the law should be fulfilled in us in Christ Jesus by the merit of his Son who has fulfilled the requirements of the law: that the same righteousness of the law which could be not be fulfilled by our flesh because of its weakness and without our union with Christ, buried with him through baptism, could now be made possible if we chose to walk in the spirit: and not any longer in the works of the flesh as others are doing in the vanities of their minds and the blindness of their hearts. Should everlasting love spared any believer in Christ Jesus from the judgments and condemnation of the same sin the ungodly world of sinners shall be judged and condemned in eternity if they should continue to build what was once been destroyed? Romans 6:6. This is not the true picture or nature of God as the Jehovah witness organization would make us to believe that the everlasting love of God shall not send any to hell though he has sent his Son to show us the horror of sin and the way to heaven. Isn’t it? Surely they are damned for lack of knowledge. Hosea 4:6.
The price Christ paid for sins were not for any to enjoy sin again as a free lunch but to have power and victory over it. Should any walk and live presently as a Christian while crucifying Christ again the second time and to think they are on their way to heaven because of everlasting love, such are delusional and are doomed by the conscience sealed with hot iron! Philippians 3:17-21.
Those who shall be spared from eternal condemnation are those who are in Christ Jesus but are no more walking in the flesh to fulfill it in the lusts thereof but are subduing (1 Corinthians 9:27) it to walk daily in the spirit through the operation of the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus which has freed them from the law of sin and death, lest after doing all in the church and world for his name’s sake, should not be cast away. Romans 8:1-4.
Whoso practices righteousness is righteous even as God is righteous, but whosoever does not practice righteousness is not of God. God will forgive you that you might walk better and stronger, but not weaker and worst to be overcome by what you were once been delivered from: the righteous shall lay hold of his way, and he that has clean hands shall be stronger (Job 17:9) and to live in sin that grace may abound, God forbid. How can we that are dead to sin live in it any longer? Don’t you know that to whom you yield yourself to obey, his servant you are to you obey?
The everlasting love with the loving kindness shown to draw us unto him is to bless us (1) to turn every man away from their sins – to deliver us from the arch enemy (Satan) and from them that hates us that we might serve God in righteousness and holiness without fear all the days of our life. Acts3:26. (2). That we might reflect him on earth through our new life of Christ victory over sin, and to shine forth in his moral beauty through his divine power given unto us for all things that has to do with life and godliness through the knowledge of him who has called us to glory and virtue to escape from the corruption and to live above the moral sinful practices and standards set up or that is in the world through lusts. 2 Peter 1:3-4.
It is the glory of God to conceal a thing (Proverbs 25:2) but sooner or later, your sin will find you out here on earth for the shame, reproach, mockery and troubles it incurs: or in eternity, if sincere repentance is not sought and genuine renunciations are made now to awake to righteousness and stop sinning. 1 Corinthians 15:34.
Everlasting love will forgive and chastise you to correct your sins and waywardness that he might bring you back to obedient love in purity, so that you might be partakers of his holiness without which no man shall see God: but the scriptures made it clear that the everlasting love and loving kindness shall turn to the fiery indignation to destroy those who will not receive the love of the truth that they might be saved, alongside those who are disobeying the gospel of Jesus (2 Thessalonians 1:8) Christ refusing to learn from what has made them to fail and fall in the past and to repent to walk straight, upright and steadfast in obedient love: be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children; and walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling savor. But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becomes saints; neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks. For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience. Do not therefore be partakers with them. Ephesians 5:1-7.