Manifest Love of God is Purifying
Ron McGatlin
True holiness begins with the love of God melting the hearts of men. The roots of submission and obedience are found in the heartfelt desire to please God created in response to experiencing His overwhelming love.
The cooperation and cohesiveness of the church flows from the experience of being in love with God. The substance of Christ is formed within men's hearts and flows out to the connecting joints of the Body of Christ. The kingdom of God on earth from heaven is glued together as one by the experience of the all consuming unending immeasurable love of God flowing by the Holy Spirit. Walking in the Spirit produces walking in the love of God. Walking in the experience of the love of God causes us to hate sin and empowers us to turn from sin and carnality toward the purity and holiness of God. What we could not do by trying to do right is done by the indwelling power of the overwhelming love of God.
One Body attached to one Head has always been the plan of God.
But you say, "I don't see it that way in the church now." To the degree that there is not yet the experience of the manifest love of God in the church there is division and competitive strife. Denominations continue to name themselves according to their differences and divide from one another according to knowledge and not according to the Spirit. Renewal / revival of the manifest presence of God in recent decades is the beginnings of a generation of change - a people of maturity in God - a people who love God and seek His kingdom and righteousness first above all else.
Personally speaking, I do not know how much of the fullness of this will be realized in the years I have left here. The reality of fullness of the love of God reforming the church into the desire of God is in the youth - in the children who are growing up in the manifest presence of God and are naturally being trained in the supernatural reality of the manifest presence God.
Today is the day of the restoration of apostolic fathers to guide the children of this generation into the New Jerusalem kingdom of God church - the "Christ in you" glorious Body of Christ on earth. Fathers must lead their children into the manifest presence of God and let them remain there. God will mold and shape them by His Spirit and the Word shall be in their mouths to turn a renegade world toward transformation into the glorious rule of God on earth as it is in heaven. The children must go far beyond the ways of the past into a season of reflecting the glory of Christ flooding the whole earth with the glory of His love and power.
God will have His people moving as one Body on earth as it is in heaven.
Pursue love, it never fails.
Ron McGatlin