The Word is Agape Love
Whatever is required for the recapture of a rebellious world
springs from the matchless Love of God—Agape. Agape Love
opens fully the spiritual vision of the human being and the invisible
things becomes more real than the visible.
Because of this
divine illumination, those things that today appear as real end up
being perceived as a mirage. Things are about to become as they
were when humanity was filled with the eternal and inextinguishable
Agape Love and lived in the atmosphere of Agape Love.
It is extremely important to consider the following points:
The world was produced by Agape Love—it was beautiful and perfect.
Adam and Eve were produced by Agape Love—they were beautiful and perfect.
The relationship between the creatures and their Creator was beautiful,
boundless, perfect. Agape Love was in evidence as absolute and
perfect joy and peace.
When Adam and Eve chose to cast
aside the sovereign rule of Agape Love and replaced it with the
despotic rule of self love—sin, beauty, perfection, joy and peace
suddenly came to an end.
What was beautiful became ugly;
perfection turned imperfect, impure, fearsome and repugnant; happiness
soon was sadness and endless disappointment; peace gave way to torment,
implacable hatred and insanity.
In the absence of Agape Love
the human spirit was incapable of hearing, and much less of
understanding, the Word of the Creator. Each was in a separate
sphere. There was no point of contact.
In order to put
an end to such a horrible impasse, God moved Abel to offer a sheep in
sacrifice. That innocent animal symbolized the Creator—Agape
Love—who continued Loving his creatures and who, for them, would
someday yield his own life.
The actual recovery of humanity,
turned senseless by the absence of Agape Love, began with Abel’s
sacrifice. His action was prophetic.
The love of
self—sin, regarded Abel’s action as unforgivable. The forces
opposed to Agape Love had to silence it forever. For as long as
the love of self—sin--was in control, Agape Love was never supposed to
have the preeminence. For all practical purposes, the Creator had
been exiled from his own creation.
Humanity existed now for the sole purpose of offering its love to self--to worship sin.
What a horrendous god is sin—the idolized self, brutal, heartless, ferocious!
The offended Cain, rejecting the divine Love, his spirit as bitter as
bile by the absence of joy produced by purity, and suffering from the
blow of the tsunami of the lack of peace in his heart, arose against
his brother Abel and killed him.
Cain’s action was prophetic.
Agape Love and the love of self—sin—began to prepare for a direct clash from which there would be only one winner.
Human history has consisted of endless invitations to take sides.
Both sides have presented unquestionable evidences of their power.
The love of self—sin—has proven that, with exceptions counted with the
fingers of one hand, it is capable of controlling the totality of the
human race.
Agape Love, upon becoming a
Man, placed Himself at the mercy of his mortal enemy and thus he proved
that no person is predestined to sin.
Christ did not choose to
love self—sin—even once.
Agape Love, as it was manifested in the
life of Jesus, became evident in the Love emanating from every faculty
of his mind, his spirit, his heart, his body towards the Father and the
Holy Spirit, and it was likewise made evident in his Love for his
fellow men. He loved them as he loved Himself.
His Love
for God as well as his Love for the rebellious human being was such
that he came to the world in order to put an end to the separation
that the love of self—sin—had caused between the Father and the
prodigal son. The two conflicting spheres had once again become
one.
The selfish, rebellious, foolish prodigal son was redeemed when
he responded to Agape Love that drew him back to the Father with
irresistible cords.
Such is the weapon with which YAUE recaptures
the world that has turned its back on him and that, when it is not
giving him the cold shoulder, is attacking him intent on murder, just
like Cain attacked Abel.
The invincible weapon is called Agape Love, the Love that defines God.
False love, the love of self—sin and rebellion—sooner or later consumes all it comes in contact with.
Were it not for Agape Love there would not be a particle of hope for
the human race that ignores or rejects him, or rebels against him.
With his death, burial and resurrection, Christ stroke the love of self—sin—with a mortal blow.
The initiator of the love of self—sin, Lucifer, even as he led his mighty agents, was destroyed.
The
persons who learned about this wonder, who believed and accepted it
with all their hearts, who recognized the Resurrected One who had
annihilated the mortal enemy and who worshiped with the entirety of
their being the victorious Jesus Christ, dedicated their lives to the
proclamation of the message of the recapture of everything that had
been lost.
By 70 A.D. they had saturated the entire planet.
The
inconceivable miracle of their spiritual awakening had occurred
precisely when the disciples of the Master, at the time of their
overwhelming defeat by the fact of his death--when they felt totally
abandoned and lost, to their utter shock see him alive. To see
him alive after they had seen him dead was marvelous and mind-numbing;
the same thing happened when he spoke Loving words of peace to
them. What left them stunned, however, was to see him breathing
softly upon them. "What is the Master doing?" they asked each
other silently. Then they heard his reply, “Receive the Holy
Spirit.”
With the divine breath, Jesus wrapped and filled
them with divinity, just as he had done millennia earlier with Adam,
when he was merely a lifeless statue formed out of hardened clay.
In such an atmosphere of Agape Love, their spiritual resurrection took place—never again were they the same.
And, along with the gift of a new life, Jesus performed the miracle of
opening their understanding so that, at long last, they could
comprehend the Holy Scriptures.
Equipped with the fullness of Agape
Love—the divine nature, filled to capacity with the eternal Word—Jesus
Christ, living IN YAHWEH and YAHWEH residing IN them, and filled with
the fullness of the omnipotence of the Holy Spirit for the powerful
preaching of the Gospel of salvation in every corner of the planet, the
apostles did such a job in such a short time that there was not one
person who had not learned about the Incarnation of Agape Love known as
Jesus.
