Beloved, before we look at the biblical Christmas account, let us first see what biblical agape love truly is. This is the only way to read the Holy Scriptures when this word appears, and by doing so, you will never read the Word of God the same again, and you most certainly will personally never be the same again!
Biblical Greek Definition
Agape love is Almighty God’s self-giving, sacrifical and unconditional love which ONLY ever seeks His RIGHTEOUSNESS for all (John 3:16, Romans 5:8; 1 John 4:7-10/ Isaiah 9:6-7; Luke 2:10-11; John 14:3; Gal. 4:4-5; 2 Cor. 9:15; Titus 4:11; Rev. 1:7).
Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift! 2 Cor. 9:15
It is love that seeks Almighty God's PERFECT RIGHTEOUSNESS in ALL things. Agape love only seeks the highest good in RIGHTEOUSNESS for another without demanding anything in return. Agape love is not based on feeling, emotion, worthiness, or circumstance—it is a choice to give, to sacrifice, and to remain faithful. This is the love that ONLY comes from Almighty God the Father and is revealed perfectly and most clearly in and through Jesus Christ, the ETERNAL Son of God, the Word made flesh. (Gen. 1:1-3, Psalm 2; Psalm 110:1; Isaiah 53; John 1:1-14; Phil. 2:5-11, Tim. 3:16, Heb. 1:2-3, Rev. 1:17-18, Rev. 22:12-13)!
Beloved, as you read below the Agape Christmas Story, every time you see the word agape love used, enter in its biblical definition, and then you will see how ETERNALLY wondrous the Agape Love of Almighty God is for you and for this lost world!
The Biblical Agape Love Christmas Story
On a quiet night beneath a sky filled with stars, Almighty God's promised agape love came down. Almighty God, the Son clothed Himself in humility, lay in a manger, wrapped in flesh so that humanity could be wrapped in Almighty God's wondrous grace and agape love for all of Adam's fallen race. Christmas declared that agape love does not wait to be deserved—it is, and it has come for all! Jesus is Almighty God, the Father's agape love for all!
This agape love walked among us. This agape love healed the broken, touched the unclean, forgave the guilty, and welcomed the forgotten. This agape love spoke truth with compassion and mercy with tenderness and authority. This agape love carried a cross, bore our sin, and conquered death itself and rose on the third day FOREVERMORE to reign in ETERNAL LIFE! This agape love will save and deliver all to the utmost who call upon Him and receive Him!
But beloved, the story does not end at the manger—or even at the cross. Agape love is coming again!
This same Jesus who came quietly will return gloriously!
This same child who once lay in a manger will come and reign as a King FOREVERMORE!
This RIGHTEOUS Lamb who was slain will return as the GLORIOUS RIGHTEOUS Judge!
His crown of thorns will be replaced with an ETERNAL crown of glory!
At His first coming, agape love was wrapped in swaddling cloths.
At His second coming, agape love will be clothed in RIGHTOUS GLORIOUS majesty.
The first time, heaven's agape love touched earth in humility.
The next time, heaven's agape love will reign in RIGHTEOUSNESS upon the earth in ALL glory!
Beloved, this is the hope of Christmas, not only that agape love came, but that agape love will come again! Agape love will restore what was broken, gather His people, and make all things ETERNALLY new, where justice, mercy, and agape love will meet, and peace will reign FOREVERMORE without end! Oh beloved, no wonder the Scripture states that,
But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. 1 Cor. 2:9!
So dear friends, as we celebrate this Christmas, looking forward as well as to the past: let us, in the quietness and stillness of our heart consider such wonders!
Agape love came! Agape love gave! Agape love is coming again! And above all, my beloved, the most wondrous and glorious truth of all: Agape Love is a PERSON, and that PERSON is Yeshua/Jesus! Truly, this Christmas, I do not know how to say anything more wonderful than that!
Christmas is the wondrous promise fulfilled and Jesus' return is the wondrous and glorious fulfillment of ALL!
Dearly beloved, may this Christmas be wondrously saturated with the fullness of the agape love of Jesus! May His agape love fill your heart, soul, and mind with all knowledge in TRUTH, RIGHTEOUSNESS, and the JOY which only comes with an abiding relationship to the Savior!
Dear friend, on a postscript, maybe this Christmas, you do not personally know the biblical Jesus, the agape love of Almighty God the Father? Dear friend, I want to just encourage you in every way possible to consider such things and then enter into a saving relationship with the One who agape loved you so much that He laid down His RIGHTEOUS life for your ETERNAL redemption. May it be so!
Merry Christmas and Merry Maranatha!
The Agape Love of Almighty God and His Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!
DJP I.F
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