His Great Love quickens the Dead !
I know that God does not Love everyone without exception because everyone without exception is not and will not be quickened because of His Great Love.
Eph 2:4-5
4But God, who is rich in mercy
, for his great love wherewith he loved us,
5 Even when we were dead in sins,
hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved )
God performed this deed for those He Loved while they were dead in sins. Not when they repented or when they came in Faith, but even while dead. In fact coming in repentance and faith are direct results of having been quickened or made alive.
The psalmist wrote once this
Ps 80:18
18So will not we go back from thee:
quicken us, and we will call upon thy name.
The calling upon the name of the Lord follows the quickening..
God's Love to those He Loves is not just a mere emotion, but it is also application. God's Love gives Life [spiritual] to dead sinners.
This was Illustrated with Jesus and the story of Lazarus See
Jn 11:3,
36
Lazarus was one for scripture says Jesus loved " behold, how He loved him"
Christ love was demonstrated by quickening Lazarus from the dead.
God nor Christ's Love could be of no lesser degree of that which they command of their followers.
1 Jn 3:16-18
16Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
17But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?
18My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue;
but in deed and in truth.
Let us Love in deed. The word deed is the same word in the greek for work, its the word ergon and it means doing !
James using the almost same identical situation adds this James 2:
15If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food,
16And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled;
notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit?
Does not God's Love give those He Loves what is needful for their souls.
God's Love gives those He loves, and sees them dead in trespasses and sins, He is mover with compassion and gives them life from the dead. Love expresses itself in deed to the brethren.
Now are not those Christ died for considered His brethren ?
Heb 2:11,
17
11For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause
he is not ashamed to call them brethren,
17Wherefore in all things it behoved him
to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.
Where they not His Brethren before they believed in Him ? Yes they were, thats why He was made like unto them to deliver them from their spiritual ruin and enmity against God.
Was He not the Firstborn of many Brethren who had not yet been born sinners ?
Rom 8:29
29For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son,
that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
If Christ sees one of His Brethren dead in trespasses and sins, and He has all Power in His Hands, will He suffer His Brethren, whom for sure He Loves, to remain helpless in that dead state ? Cannot and will He not quicken whomsoever He wills?
Jn 5:21
21For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even
so the Son quickeneth whom he will. Certainly He will s to quicken those He Loves, He laid His life down for them.
Jn 15:13
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
Scripture says that He died for them while they were yet enemies, and in spite of that, by His death He reconciled them to God, and those so reconciled [even while dead in sin and enemies] Shall be saved[Experientially] by His Life. That says it all.
It can read Shall be quickened by His Life, made alive. So, those who die in their sins, dead to God, alienated from Him, God did not Love them, nor did Christ Love them and Lay down His Life for them, if He did ,He would have quickened them, made them alive, saved them.
Eph 2:5
5Even when we were dead in sins, hath
quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved)
Ye see that ? The quickening results in being saved by Grace..
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