Our Love Toward God
We love God because He first loved us. Our love for God is a result of God the Father’s calling through the power of the Holy Spirit, which opens our minds to understand the greatness and goodness of God’s love and the sinfulness of our own nature. God the Father leads us to genuine repentance and acceptance of the sacrifice and blood of Yahushua Christ for the forgiveness of our sins. We manifest our repentance and our faith in Yahushua Christ by being baptized in water, symbolically buying the old self into the death of Yahushua Christ and rising to walk in newness of life. Through the laying on of hands, the gift of the Holy Spirit is given to us as a spiritual begettal from God the Father, imparting the love of God into our hearts. The capacity to truly love God comes through His Spirit within us. We are individually to love God the Father and Yahushua Christ with all our heart, all our mind, all our soul, all our strength and all our being. Yahushua said that anyone who does not love God more than all others is not worthy of Him. Our love and our complete devotion to God the Father and Yahushua Christ are manifested by our willingness to live by every word of God and to keep all His commandments.
Scriptural References
1 John 4;16-19; 5:2-3 | Matt. 22:37-38 | Eph. 5:1-2
Rom. 5:5 | 1 John 2:5, 15 | 11 John 6
John 14:15-24 | Gal. 5:22 | Psa. 97:10
Deut. 6:5 | Deut. 13:3 | Matt. 10:37-38