When you see love, you see God. Because God is love.

Here is an analogy, so that you will understand this better. Have you been angry? One way or another, you have been angry with somebody, so you know what anger is. Do you also know what hate is? One way or another you have hated somebody, so you know what hatred is. If God is love, and if you change the word love into hate, then you would see God as hate. You would then say that God is hate.

If God were money, then, you would say that God is money. When you see money, then, you see God. For example, you have not seen the money but you only smelled it, and it smelled like a five peso bill, then, that is the smell of God. If God were money and you have seen money, you have seen God.

The Scriptures say that God is love. There are many religions today that are in search of God. They want to find out where God is, in whom God lives and where God can be found. That is the reason why there are many religions today. There are more than 3,000 Christian religions, more than 30 million Hindu gods and thousands of other religions which all promise us that if we will join them, we will find God. But instead of finding God, we find jealousy, bitterness, hatred and worldliness. We find everything but not love.

Three Kinds of love

One is what we call Filio Love, or your love towards your family members like parents, grandparents, children and relatives.

Another kind of love is Eros Love. What is Eros Love? Eros Love is the love in the flesh. This is your love for the opposite sex. If you are a man, you love a woman and if you are a woman, you love a man. That is Eros Love, and that kind of love will fade.

Love in the family sometimes evaporates. In the newspapers you sometimes read that a father killed his son or a son killed his mother and vice versa. It is because this kind of love is not lasting, because it is only in the flesh; it is only in this world. Eros Love is the same. Broken marriages and bitter divorces in court show that this kind of love evaporates, for this is not true love.

When Jesus Christ came, He gave us the meaning of true, divine love. John 3:16 says, "For God so loved the world, He gave His only Begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life."

But what did the first chosen people do to Jesus, who was the Son in the Jewish setting? They mocked Him, crucified Him and put a crown around His head. They nailed and killed Him on Calvary . Jesus said, "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do." That was love unchanging - a love unchanging inspite of the circumstances. It is not affected by hate, jealousy and by any other circumstances in life. That love is the same. It is the love of God. That is why God is love. When you have seen that kind of love, you have seen God.

Religions tried to explain what God is. However, they have not shown us who God really is or where God is. It is just like wanting to show us the carabao, but not being able to show us where the carabao had been. All they can show us is where the carabao had been. Then we get a magnifying glass and try to analyze where the carabao was. Religions are like that - always analyzing where the carabao was.

But the question is where is it now? Ask religion, "Where is God now?" and they cannot answer you. They will get the magnifying glass again to see where the carabao went. "Look at the footsteps of the carabao! He was here! It is still warm and it smells of a carabao here. Maybe he was here an hour ago, because it's still warm. Let us all stay here."

This is the excitement of religion and denomination. They are always preaching about where the carabao was, but they have not found where the carabao is. When you enter these religions and denominations, the spirit of hate, jealousy and all the fruits of the flesh are there. But the carabao is nowhere to be found. They said that Jesus Christ was crucified on Calvary and we went there. We touched the Via Dolorosa, and said, "This was where the carabao walked!" But where is He now? That is a big question mark.

God is love. When you have seen and felt that divine, unchanging love, without any vested interest, then you have seen God. Sometimes a man will go to a woman and tell her "I love you." But two months after they got married, they separate. What kind of love is that? When his desire is gone, his love is gone too.

But God's love is forever. Where can you find that kind of love? You can find that kind of love in the Kingdom. Here, we will not tell you where God is. We will not only let you smell the smell of God but we will show you who God is.

When you see love, you see God. Do you see love here? Do I love you even if you are poor? Although I get nothing out of you, I will still love you. Businessmen will love you because they can get something out of you. But I love you because I cannot get anything from you. That is God's love.

God is love. If you have seen love, you have seen God. So here, we do not teach you where God is. The first thing we teach you when you want to enter into the Kingdom and see God is that you must be cleansed.

How can you be cleansed?

You can only be cleansed when you repented of your sins and say, "Father, I surrender myself to you. Not my will but Your will be done in my life." When you do this, the Lord will take that filthy spirit of disobedience out of you and will put a new spirit of obedience within you. That new spirit will bring you the heartbeat of God's love. The new spirit will teach you the will of God, until you grow in the spirit and know what God is all about. Then, God's love is going to be perfected in you.

The apostles sought the Lord when they found that love and it was perfected in them. Paul was able to say "Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? Neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." (Romans 8:35-39)

Now, this love is resident in us, because He said, our body is the temple of the Holy Ghost. ".Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not of your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's" (1 Corinthians 6:19 )

What was His commandment? "Love one another as I have loved you. by this, shall all men know that ye are my disciples." (John 13:34-35) Citizens of the Kingdom, you shall love one another. He did not say hate one another. He said, "Love one another, that the love transcends brotherhood and even the house of God. This love even encompasses our enemies.

As citizens of the Kingdom, we do not have enemies anymore. Our main enemy here is Satan. However, there are people outside of the Kingdom who consider us as their enemies. But we do not hate them. We pray for them. We pray that they will also be enlightened and that God will enlighten their darkened mind. We pray that they will see the light and that they will also find love, the love that we have in abundance, because God is love and He is residing in us.

The people in the outside world are very hungry. They are not hungry for bread or for something to eat in the physical realm. They are very thirsty but not for water. They are thirsty and hungry for real love. People in the outside world are starving for real love, because the love that they are seeing is the kind of love that fades away. We thank the Father for the kind of love that fades away. We thank the Father for the kind of love He has put within us is the love that does not fade away. This is the love He had shown on the Cross of Calvary - the unconditional and unfading love He has for each one of us.

Love creates but hate destroys

When you see a beautiful flower arrangement, you see a creation of love. That is not the creation of hate. When you see orderliness and cleanliness, you see love in action. Here in the Kingdom, cleanliness is Godliness, because love is clean and God is love. You love your body because that is a creation of God and that is where He resides.

The Word of God in 1 John 4:7-12 says, "Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loved not, knoweth not God; for God is love. In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we may live through Him.

"Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent His Son to be the propitiation of our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another, God dwelleth in us, and His love is perfected in us." (1 John 4:10-12)

Many religions and denominations are looking for Him but cannot find Him. But what the Bible says is, "If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and His love is perfected in us." That means that when we love one another, we will find Him. "God dwelleth in us" is a revelation that His love is perfected in us. When we have perfect love, we will not look for anything else.

"Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the Day of Judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world. There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made in perfect love. If a man says, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen? And this commandment have we from Him, that he who loveth God, love his brother also." (1 John 4:17-21)

When you say, "God dwells in me and I dwell in God," then you have found Him. You have found the carabao and you are living with it. You are not only telling the people where the carabao was but you are also telling them where the carabao is and that you are living with it.

So we will love the sinners and bring them to the house of God. Let us bring them to the carabao's wallowing place, so they will be muddy with the love of God, like us. They will be wrapped with mud. We will cover this world with the love of God. Let us love those that are not yet in the Kingdom. Let us go out and spread this unconditional love which God put within us, and tell them about it.

Let us spread this love all over the world. Even if we do not know the people who are coming into the Kingdom, but if they will go near the Lord, we will love them as we love one another. If you have seen that kind of love now, then you have seen Jesus Christ . He is already in our midst. We are willing to sacrifice because of that love. Our lives are futile without Him because of that love. We do not only love ourselves but we live for others because of that love. We are branches that bear fruits for the glory of God because of that love.

"Herein is my Father glorified that you bear much fruit; so shall you be my disciples." (John 15:8) We are taking care of the fruit that will remain because of that love. Spiritual growth is continuously working in our lives because of that love. We have become workers and warriors in the spirit because of that love. We take care of souls because of that love. The youth of the Kingdom will be seen as the light of the world because of that love. You will refuse drugs because of that love. You will refuse the temptations of the world because of that love. You will stand, although persecuted and undergoing hardship, because of that love.

In everything that you do, you will still remain steadfast in your faith with Him because of that love. You are willing to die and lose everything because of that love. You share everything because of that love. You are willing to go the extra mile because of that love. You are willing to share your food to somebody who needs it because of that love. You are willing to support the Kingdom of God and its work because of that love. You have dedicated your whole life to the Father because of that love.

We thank the Father for that unfading, unending and unchanging love we have seen in Him the true, perfected love. He let us understand these words of wisdom, these words of wisdom, these revelations that He has revealed unto us through His Appointed Son. He has enlightened our darkened minds and freed us from the deception of Satan. As we look at the world outside, we see the deception of Satan. Race fighting against race, nation fighting against nation, religion battling against one another - but here in the Kingdom, we have found true peace, because this is where He dwells. We have found true love that is everlasting, love that cannot be bought with money, and love that cannot change. We have found the love that saves, the love that creates and the love the lives in our hearts. God lives in our hearts today and God is love.