The Nature of His Love by Jason Tax (summer reading list .txt) 📖

The Nature of His Love by Jason Tax
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Introduction

Hello my dear friends and family! I greet you in the love and glory of the mighty name of Jesus! These are exciting times that we are living in, and God is definitely on the move. I am very excited, blessed, and honored to be able to share with you some very important revelations and mysteries that have been lacking in the church for many years. We are in a time of reformation! God is unveiling the mysteries of His nature and glory! He is beginning to build the Church into the glorious sons and daughters He originally created us to be. And with this reformation means change. For many years there have been many original understandings, revelations, and foundational doctrines of Christ that have been “missing” from much of the church body as a whole.
This is a time of God transforming the foundations of His body and bride to be founded only on the solid rock of the Lord Jesus! 1 Cor. 3:11 “For no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.” In order for this to happen though, we must be open to change. Then when the true foundation comes, we must be willing to get rid of the old one to make way for the new. I believe that the greatest need in the world is the unconditional, highest benevolent affection, agape love of God. Unfortunately right now that is also the greatest absence in the world. This is due largely in part because of the lack of knowledge of the nature of God’s love. Hosea 4:6 “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.”
This book is designed to challenge the way you think, to help reveal the true foundations of God’s love to all people, and help every person be empowered in encountering the incredible love of God! My hope, prayer and desire is that the revelations contained in this book will help our family (the body of Christ) come back to its true and original foundation of being rooted, grounded, founded, established, and perfected in the agape love of God! Enjoy!


Ch. 1
All of God is Found in Love

There was a period of my life where the Lord started stirring up my heart to seek Him, and to know His attributes. I would enter into my time with the Lord with thanksgiving, praise, and then worship. When I got to the worship part I would begin to worship God for the different attributes of His nature like goodness, joy, peace, kindness, favor, blessing, wisdom, etc. I quickly discovered that it seemed that there were many attributes of God that I never knew were actually attributes. This really sparked an even deeper hunger to want to know, and explore, the many attributes of God’s nature. Then there came a point where one day the Holy Spirit showed me that there was only one fruit of the Spirit. In the Bible it says in 1 Cor. 12:4-6 that there are many gifts of the Spirit, ministries of the Lord, and activities of God. In Gal. 5:19 there are also works, or acts, of the sinful nature. But in Gal. 5:22 it says “fruit” (singular) of the Spirit. Not plural like the other verses…hmmm. I realized by the Spirit that the 9 attributes of God that are listed in Gal. 5:22-23 are only a few of the many attributes that come with the Holy Spirit. When we get the Holy Spirit we receive all the attributes of God in one package, or fruit! Within a few days after that the Lord brought 1 Cor. 13 to remembrance. I suddenly realized that all of the 9 attributes of God listed in Galatians 5 were either directly written, or implied, as being found in God’s love!! Instantly I began going into an encounter with the Father heart of God that massively overwhelmed my entire being! It would be challenging to describe in just a few words the overwhelming experiential manifestation of the love of God that occurred at that time, as God began to reveal to me that ALL of His attributes are actually found inside of His love!! That night, and for the next week, I would be overwhelmed constantly by various expressions of the Father’s heart of love. From weeping and mourning over the hurting, lost, and broken with an intensity I had never experienced before; to the overwhelming pleasure, and ecstasy, of the most pure and unconditional love I had ever experienced. Followed by great periods of revelation and downloads of the nature of His love that would often lead to more encounters. And I am very thankful to say today that these experiences haven’t stopped, but have only increased since then! My prayer for you right now is that even as you continue to read, that you too would be overwhelmed by the endless and infinite expressions of the Father’s heart of love, that you may know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge!!

The Fruit of The Spirit is Love

Let’s take a look at 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 NIV

“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. (5) It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. (6) Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. (7) It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. (8) Love never fails.”

And also 1 Cor. 13:5b-7 NKJV says love:

“thinks no evil; (6) does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; (7) bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.”

Now let’s look at Galatians 5:22-23 NIV

“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, (23) gentleness and self-control.”

Now take some time and compare these two versions of 1 Corinthians 13 with Galatians 5:22-23.
You can find all of the 9 attributes of God listed in Galatians being defined as love in 1 Corinthians 13 (either directly or by implication). You can also find multiple other attributes of God being defined as love in this passage as well, including faith, hope, trust, truth, and more! To make this easier there is a list below of the 9 attributes of God from Galatians 5, with the references to the parts from 1 Cor. 13:4-8 where I found them. After that is another list of some other attributes of God found in 1 Cor. 13 (directly written or implied) that are not listed in Galatians.
Here is the first list, and a little explanation for how I separated the different parts of the list. The first part is taken from different sections of 1 Cor. 13 (both versions). The second part lists which of the 9 attributes from Galatians 5 is written or implied here. There are also explanations included with some to help explain how they are connected:

1. Love (Love)
2. Love is patient (Patience).
3. Love is kind (Kindness)
4. Love does not envy (Self-control). It takes self-control to not envy something another person has or does. It is his love that gives us power over self.
5. Love is not rude (Gentleness) Rudeness and roughness go hand in hand. So the opposite of that is to be gentle in love.
6. Love thinks no evil (Goodness). A purely good God could never think evil of one He loves, but only good thoughts all the time.
7. Love is not easily angered (Peace) A peaceful God of love is not easily angered, nor is one who is at peace with God.
8. Love rejoices with the truth (Joy). It takes the joy of love to rejoice!
9. Love never fails (Faithfulness). A faithful God of love will never fail His people.
That’s all nine!

But it gets even better, it also says LOVE:

1. Does not boast (Meekness)
2. Is not proud (Humbleness)
3. Is not self-seeking (Selfless or Unconditional)
4. It keeps no record of wrongs (Forgiveness/Mercy)
5. It always protects (Protecting)
6. It always trusts (Trusting)
7. Believes all things (Faith/Believing)
8. Hopes all things (Hope)
9. Endures all things (Enduring)

Which is at least 9 more major attributes of God that are found in love, including all of faith and hope!! That is INCREDIBLE! Lord Your love is amazing!
This began hours and hours; and days and days of revelations, encounters, and experiences with the unconditional and extravagant love of God! As I said before I quickly began to realize that ALL of God’s attributes are found in His love! Which means that for years I, like many others, had learned many wrong understandings and false perceptions of the nature of God. The Lord began to show me that one of the biggest reasons that so many have misrepresented and misguided people concerning His nature is because we have been building on an incomplete, or partially right/partially wrong foundation.
Many believe that God is love, joy, peace, justice, mercy, wisdom, etc. As if all the attributes of God were all separate from each other, in a straight line, and love is a little bit greater than the rest. This wrong foundation of God’s nature makes it easy for us to wrongly perceive who He is, because it separates the attributes of His nature from His love, and from each other. This was also taught to me many times in the past as if God was some kind of split-personality being that one moment He loves you, and the next moment He wants to punish you, because He's just, and you just sinned. As if these attributes had nothing to do with each other.
But after this experience I began to know that the true foundation of Christ is that God is LOVE, and in His LOVE is: joy, peace, wisdom, excellence, majesty, perfection, justice, kindness, and every other attribute of His nature. Meaning that the greatest, most defining characteristic, word, and attribute of God is: LOVE! His love is excellent, His love is kind, His love is compassionate, His love is just, His love is merciful, His love is peaceful, and so much more! It also means that the nature of God is not a bunch of attributes in a straight line, and separate from each other. The nature of God is more like a circle of LOVE, and in that circle are found: joy, peace, patience, wisdom, mercy, truth, pleasure, justice, power, and much more! Wow! No wonder why 1 John 4:16 says “And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God and God in him.”
Now this may not seem like a big deal at first, but believe me when I say that it changes the understanding of those attributes greatly. When we look at every attribute of God as being found in His love, we can see the depth of God’s heart of love