“Now before the Passover Feast, Jesus knew that His hour had come [and it was time] for Him to leave this world and return to the Father. And as He had loved those who were His own in the world, He loved them to the last and to the highest degree.” Jn 13:1 AMP
The last and highest degree… Eis Telos
Outer limits love – love from out of this world! Love that has no outer limit nor end. Love that never fails, nor comes to and end. Love that covers every debt, and frees every debtor. This is the love that Jesus desires us to receive. World changing love that will declare we are Christians!
Love that previously turned the world upside down, defeated darkness, and behaved as a divine preservative!
This is not some eewey goowey sticky sappy love! It is a love forged in the fires of the heart of the Father, shared in the heart of the Son for the people of God, to face and confront evil and darkness in this present world. To stand equipped and ready to face down and fight every tactic of the enemy!
Look at the very juxtaposition of John 13:1 with John 13:2…In verse one we have the description of Jesus’ love – to the last and highest degree.
Now in verse two we have Satan putting betrayal into the thought and heart of Judas Iscariot. Judas is turning to betray Jesus to the High Priests for thirty pieces of silver. Within the space of two Scriptures we have a confrontation of Jesus’ love (to the last and highest degree) with sheer evil and the absolute betrayal of that love!
So the question I want to provoke you with, and am myself provoked by is: “Do we know Him this way? Do we know and have we received this same love?”
The word of God demonstrates it is not only possible, it is His provision!
This provokes me greatly! To know Him this way. To experience Him in this fulness.
Listen:
“May Christ through your faith [actually] dwell (settle down, abide, make His permanent home) in your hearts! May you be rooted deep and founded securely on love, that you may have the power and be strong to apprehend and grasp with all the saints [God’s devoted people, the experience of that love] what is the breadth and length and height and depth [of it];
[That you may really come] to know [practically, through experience for yourselves] the love of Christ, which far surpasses mere knowledge [without experience]; that you may be filled [through all your being] unto the fullness of God [may have the richest measure of the divine Presence and become a body wholly filled and flooded with God Himself]! Eph 3:17-19 AMP
It’s for all the saints!!!! Something to grasp, to have and hold in your hearts! But also to allow it to harness your heart and mind, to bring you to a transformation that renews our thinking and makes us Christ-like…
This is the factor that issues forth in life change. By the agency of the Holy Spirit, Who is charged to declare, disclose, and transmit to us all that is Jesus’, we can receive this love that is to the last and highest degree!
How do we receive this love? Read it, meditate on it, require it on the authority of God’s word, and sit before the Lord under its inspiration then get up by faith and walk as if it is the fuel rod of our life!
Surrender to its truth, believe it, and receive the substance of Christ, the Word made flesh, by the power of the Holy Spirit!
Eis Telos…to all
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