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    The Gift of Love
    The Gift of Love
    The Gift of Love
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    The Gift of Love

    By Enoch Adejare Adeboye

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    Jesus Christ is "The Gift of Love". Imagine a Christmas basket loaded with innumerable presents. Jesus is like that, overflowing with true blessings God has given freely, with love, to the world. Those who receive Jesus Christ are blessed with many gifts: joy, peace of mind, and the knowledge that a place in Heaven is being prepared for them. No earthly gifts can compare.

    "The Gift of Love" explains how important it is to know and appreciate the intrinsic value of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Pastor Adeboye defines some of the precious blessings which He represents and lets us know how to walk in them.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherChristian Living Books, Inc.
    Release dateAug 31, 2014
    ISBN9781562299590
    The Gift of Love
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    Enoch Adejare Adeboye

    Enoch Adejare Adeboye is the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God. The church, which has over four million members in about three thousand parishes all over the world, has experienced unprecedented growth since he became the spiritual and administrative head. The monthly prayer meeting attracts about 500,000 to the Redemption Camp on the outskirts of Lagos, Nigeria.A mathematician, Pastor Adeboye holds a Ph.D. in Hydrodynamics and has lectured at the University of Lagos, Nigeria for many years. Renowned not only for the uncommon anointing of God on his life as a Pastor and international speaker, he is also a prolific writer. He is married to Pastor Foluke Adeboye and they are blessed with four children.

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      The Gift of Love - Enoch Adejare Adeboye

      The Gift of Love

      Freely Given, Freely Receive

      By Enoch Adejare Adeboye

      Largo, Maryland

      USA

      Copyright © 2014 Enoch Adejare Adeboye

      This eBook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. It may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please go to smashwords.com purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Published by Christian Living Books, Inc.

      An imprint of Pneuma Life Publishing, Inc.

      Largo, Maryland

      United States of America

      ISBN Smashwords Edition 9781562299590

      Printed Version ISBN 9780971176034

      Unless otherwise marked, all Scripture quotations are taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version ®. NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved.

      Scripture quotations marked NKJV are taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

      Contents

      Introduction

      1 Love Gives

      2 Love Gives Life

      3 Love Bestows Blessings

      4 Love Fuels Friendship

      5 Love Lends Heritage

      6 Love Fosters Freedom

      7 Love Bequeaths Benefits

      8 Love Gives Generously

      9 Love Gives Victory

      10 Love Gives Purposefully

      11 Love Gives Absolutely

      12 Love Makes a Way

      13 The Greatest Joy

      14 Accept the Love of God

      About the Author

      Introduction

      Jesus Christ is a Gift with many parts. It's like getting a Christmas basket, filled with many presents. There are so many things loaded in this single gift God gave us. To illustrate this point, we can look at the life of the leper in Matthew's Gospel:

      When he came down from the mountainside, large crowds followed him. A man with leprosy came and knelt before him and said, Lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean. Jesus reached out his hand and touched the man. 'I am willing, he said. Be clean! Immediately he was cured of his leprosy. (Matthew 8:1-3)

      Here we find someone who received Jesus Christ and through Him, was blessed with several gifts. Leprosy was not only deadly, it was contagious. This leper was a carrier of death. The day the leper crossed paths with Jesus Christ, he caught up with the Carrier of Life and there was a divine exchange. The Life in Jesus Christ swallowed up death in the man and he became a carrier of the testimony of life.

      Another way to look at this is to consider that the life of this leper was at a dead end. He could not trade, marry, work or live among people. When a man, whose life hits a dead end, comes across Jesus Christ, he will discover that in the same Jesus, he finds the Way.

      Jesus answered, 'I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. (John 14:6)

      If your life is at a dead end and you receive Jesus as your Lord and Savior, suddenly, ways and means become available to you because He is the Way.

      Joy Unspeakable

      The leper was a very lonely man. When a lonely man comes in contact with Jesus Christ, He finds a Friend. Hebrews 13:5 tells us that He will never leave us or forsake us. This leper must have been a sorrowful man. If such a man comes across Jesus Christ, he meets with the joy generator. Consider the words of Jesus:

      I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete. (John 15:11)

      When you give your life to Jesus Christ, you will begin to know the meaning of joy. If you are born-again and you do not have joy bubbling in your life, something must be wrong with you. This leper was living with an ailment, which causes perpetual psychological storms in its victim. His life was a continuous storm until He came across the Prince of Peace.

      For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. (Isaiah 9:6)

      In Mark 4:35-41, the Bible recounts how Jesus and His disciples were in a boat, buffeted by the storm. Jesus sentenced the storm to silence and then, there was peace. No matter the kind of storm in your life, just a brief encounter with Jesus Christ creates peace that endures.

      Despised and Rejected

      This leper was also a total reject. Both the society and his family rejected him. He was even rejected by the church. The day he met Jesus Christ, he met the compassion that willingly receives the forsaken. The psalmist tells us that the Lord will always receive us.

      Though my father and mother forsake me, the LORD will receive me. (Psalm 27:10)

      If you are already born-again and you are sorrowful, it is because you have refused to claim your joy. If you are poor, it is because you refuse to claim your prosperity. If you are still in bondage, it is because you want to be in bondage. Your liberty in Christ is waiting.

      But For Jesus ...

      Who is this only begotten Son that was given to us? He is called Emmanuel, which means, God with us.

      Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel. (Isaiah 7:14)

      What does this imply? If God had not been with us, the result would have been disaster. If God the Father had not given us God the Son, where would we have been? If His blood – which cleanses from all sins – had not been shed for us, where would we end up?

      If anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire. (Revelation 20: 15)

      The lake of fire had been lounging there, longingly waiting to barbecue us, but for this gift – Jesus – who changed that deadly destiny. If a trace of sin remains in one's life when he or she dies, such a fellow is heading, full steam, for hell-fire.

      If Emmanuel had not received those stripes that healed us (1 Peter 2:24), what would we have done when doctors and drugs became scarce commodities – like it so often happens in some less privileged parts of the world? Thank God for His stripes. What would we have done if there was no Holy Spirit to quicken our mortal bodies (Romans 8:11)?

      According to Romans 8:37, we are more than conquerors because of God who loved us. And, according to Romans 8:31, if God is on our side, it is inconsequential who is against us. Many of us would have been dead by now had God not remained with us. There are those who hate you just because God loves you. There are those who hate you because God makes you prosper. Even if you have only one outfit to your name, there will be people who will hate you because it looks so good on you. The people who hate you the most might be the people you shake hands and share smiles with, every morning. However, because God is with you, they have not been able to destroy you.

      The Alpha and The Omega

      The Lord tells us more about the One given to us.

      'I am the Alpha and the Omega, says the Lord God,' 'who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty. (Revelation 1:8)

      He is the Controller of the past because He is Alpha, the beginning. He is the Controller of the future because He is the Omega, the end. When He forgives your sins He simply exercises His control over the present and prevailing issues. It is with the same authority that He guarantees the well-being of the righteous.

      As Alpha, He holds the sole and supreme mandate to change someone – who qualifies for eternal damnation – into a brand new creature through His Son Jesus Christ. That's the assurance which fuels our faith when we affirm that we have a great future. Philippians 4:4 states that we should rejoice in the Lord always. If our joy is not in Him, what kind of joy would we have in a world where change is the only constant? Our joy is in the Lord – Who does not change – therefore our joy can last forever.

      Thank God for Emmanuel. Thank God for the Gift of God. Believers need to praise God and thank Him for this precious

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