GOD’S LOVE: OVERFLOWING IN HIS FULLNESS

1 John 3:1, “How great is the love that the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God. And that is what we are.” God’s love is an eternal and universal love: It is a love that is for everyone; male and female, the people of Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North and South America, and even beyond, it is for the entire universe. And God’s love is an abbreviation of many of our confessions. The G is ‘God is my Father’. The O is ‘Overflowing in His fullness.’ The D is ‘Doer of the Word.’ The S is ‘Serving God in Spirit and Truth.’ The L is ‘Living life, Spirit-filled.’ The O is ‘Oneness with the Body of Christ.’ Living life Spirit-filled in oneness with the body of Christ. The V is ‘Virtuous, Happy, and Strong.’ The E is ‘Enjoying Eternal life; Everything is fine. I am enjoying eternal life, everything is fine. Nothing will ever go wrong that is irredeemable. If there is anything wrong, there is a plan to redeem it. If there is a soul, there is a divine plan to redeem that soul. If one body is weak, there is a plan to redeem that body that is weak and failing. Even your certificates, career, and business can be redeemed. If there is anything that is wrong and out of tune with the Word, I tell you, there is a redemption by God’s intervention in the name of Jesus. This message is for the world. It’s a global message because it is about God’s love: ‘For God so loved the world… (John 3:16) God loves this world, and that is why He redeemed the world from the bondage of the adversary, restoring our dominion. Let this message see through, let it have the reach: pass it on to your brothers, your sisters, your children, your parents, your neighbors, and to all your loved ones. Tell them that “God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, and that whosoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.” This is the reason why we have the topic: God’s Love. He loves the world and no one is exempted, for it reaches everywhere even to the ends of the earth. The reason we are to see the world, let your eyes see to the ends of the earth and let your love reach those places. You are the reason that caused Love to come, and since He has impacted on you His love, you must pass it on. Tell yourself, ‘I will pass on the love of God. I will tell the whole truth about the love that has brought me a new life. I have a new life that comes through the love of God.’ Praise be to God! The world must hear this message, and they must be saved and healed, their eyes must be opened, their sins must be forgiven, and they must take their inheritance: the inheritance that comes in the Word. Today, we shall be talking about the O, the second letter in God’s love. The O stands for ‘Overflowing in His Fullness.’ Whose fullness? God’s fullness. You are overflowing in God’s fullness. Is there anywhere you go in this world that you will not see or feel the presence of God? The presence of God is everywhere. Anywhere you go, in the face of the universe, you will see the presence of God. Go to the air, you will see God’s presence. Go in to the sea, you will see God’s presence. Go into the forest, you will see God’s presence. Everywhere you go, the power of God is visible and the work of God is there. Everywhere is filled with the fullness of God. He created all things, and His glory fills everywhere as the water covers the sea. To God there is no vacuum, everywhere is filled up by His presence, His beauty, His love, His compassion. The fullness of God is overflowing our lives. Where can we go from His presence? There is nowhere; it’s everywhere. He is the omnipresent God and He is everywhere. You love to be in His presence; I love to be in His presence. In His presence there is love, healing, and deliverance. And He says, “How great is the love that the Father has lavished on us that we should be called children of God. And that is what we are.” Of all the creations of God that filled the whole universe, He still chose us as His own, to be called by His name. He created us in His image and likeness, in true righteousness and holiness. Out of all the things He created, He took time to create us in His own image, and He called us His children. And that is what we are! “God is my Father; I am His child. As a son/daughter and member in His family, I am taking my own place and I am acting my own part. Christ is in me; I am in Him; we are One.” We have that oneness – the unity and union within. He is never rejecting us; He is always accepting us, approving us, commending us to be atop of the world, and making all things new every day for us. We live in this newness – the old has gone. The time of old things has gone; old things have become new. Every day your marriage comes new. Yesterday it seemed as if your marriage was meant to end, but by the turn of the day, the love of your marriage is revived. There is newness and a new capacity, the ability and strength to march on from glory to glory, proving the enemy wrong. The devil is always wrong concerning you, your marriage and your children. I tell you, the enemy has been wrong, and he will ever be wrong. The truth is that God is with you, and that He loves you, and He uses every space and opportunity to profess you as His child. You are special, the apple of His eyes. He will give up anything and everything because of you. He said that if God did not spare His own Son, but gave Him up for us all – shall He not also, along with Him, freely give us all things? (Romans 8:32). All things belong to you, because you are the Father’s love. Reading from the book of Ephesians 3:19, “…and to know this love that surpasses knowledge – that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.” What are we looking at? We are looking at God’s love, and you want to know this love. The love that made Jesus, the only begotten of the Father, to come and die for us. “…and to know this love that passes all understanding – that we may be filled with the measure of all His fullness”. You can’t understand this love, it passes beyond what you can express or imagine. This is the kind of love that the Father has for us. In this love, we are filled with the measure of all the fullness of God. The number one point here is that we have the fullness of God. God Himself is in us. He filled us with His presence; His being. God is life, He gave us life – the life that overcame, destroyed, and disgraced death. It made death to be of no effect: to be powerless, meaningless, and useless. When it comes to you, death has no dominion – death cannot rule over or conquer you. Jesus destroyed death and gave us life and immortality through the gospel. He brought life to us through this message of His love. So we are overflowing with God’s life (eternal life). Now we have eternal life, and from generation to generation, this life fills you and gives you courage, a new meaning, a new agenda, a purpose to live for. You cannot think of yourself as a failure, as weak, rejected, abandoned, or forsaken; you can’t think of yourself in that way. You will treat yourself as someone who is loved by God. And God is giving up everything to always have you and retain your love. And He says, “I will never leave you; I will never forsake you (Hebrews 13:5). That expression comes in the covenant. With God’s love in your heart, you can’t say that ‘Father, don’t leave me, don’t forsake me.’ He is the one that said that He will never forsake you. We are the ones running away from Him, always giving excuses on why we cannot pray, why we cannot be in the church, why we cannot be kind, why we cannot show love, why we cannot do good. You are the one always giving excuses for all of those wrongs. For God has done everything for us. He came down to redeem us when we were helpless and could not save ourselves. We were subject to Satan, and he was dominating, oppressing, killing, creating fear in us, and making us to feel abandoned. We kept crying, ‘Father, remember us.’ But in your life, the devil is proved to be a liar. The devil will always be a liar in the name of Jesus. All the lies of the devil come to an end in your life; your healing, salvation, redemption, and victory are all true. We are the people in the heart of God, for it is because of us that Jesus came. Jesus did not come for angels or animals or the beauty of this world. He came because of us. The moment man fell out of favor with God by committing the treasonable sin, he was outlawed. The law of sin and death began to reign over as king. Through the mercies of God, He devised the plan to restore the glory with which we were created; the plan to make us to be princes and daughters of God. Jesus gave Himself for our redemption, and now we are removed from darkness unto the light of God: the Kingdom of the Son of God. We were removed out of death to life, and now we are to live in triumph. This is the wonderful work God has done for us in Jesus Christ. Now we are called friends of God. And God did not stop there, He filled us with Himself: His fullness. Praise be to God! What do you think of God’s fullness? His wisdom is there; His power is there; His love is there; His grace that is upon us is there; His life that is eternally upon our lives is there. We are His image; you are righteousness, holy, and saints of God. He fills us with His fullness, telling us we are filled with God. See how extraordinary you are; you are super. I tell you, you are super because you are filled with God to full capacity. As He fills you, He fills my brother, my sister, and everyone else. And there is still more for any other person that is ready to be filled. Do you want to be filled? If you are not yet filled, God is ready to fill you with His presence, and you will overflow with His fullness. For the second point, Ephesians 5: 18-19, “Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to debauchery. Instead, be filled with the Spirit, speaking to one another with psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit. Sing and make music from your heart to the Lord.” “All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them.” (Acts 2:4) That is the second part of His fullness: The fullness of the Spirit. Be filled with the Holy Spirit. “And Paul asked them, ‘Have you been filled with the Holy Spirit since you believed?’ And they answered, we have not heard so much about the Holy Spirit.” (Acts 19:2). And at that very moment, they were all filled with the Holy Spirit. As you are hearing me now, you are hearing the Word: the voice of God, and of heaven, and If you want to be filled with the Holy Spirit, you can be. It is important to be filled with the Holy Spirit because you can’t live successfully in this world without Him. The world will attack you and push you around, so the only way we can live successfully in this world is when we are filled with the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of power. When you are filled with the Holy Spirit, fear cannot come near you. You will be filled with His ability, with strength, and with power to do extraordinary things. Demons, circumstances, and situations will be afraid of you. When they come, you will push their heads. You need the Holy Spirit for you to live well in this world. “Unless a man is born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter the Kingdom of God.” (John 3:5). You are full of the Spirit. When you say you are born again, what you are telling us is that you are full of the Spirit. Being born again is not just a promise, it is being born of the Spirit. The Spirit came back to you. You are a child of the Spirit, so you are a spirit. When you are born of the Spirit, you have become spirit. It is not theology, it is a practical experience. If you are not born of the Spirit, you cannot be filled with the Spirit, because you don’t belong to the Spirit. The Spirit can only fill His own. The Spirit cannot fill those that do not belong to Him. Satan fills those who belong to him; he fills them with doubt, fear, and weakness. But God fills those who belong to the Spirit of God, with His Spirit and love. You will be filled with love. “And God has brought out His love in our hearts by His Spirit.” (Romans 5:5). God will fill those who belong to Him with love and His Spirit (the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of God). You will begin to tell the story of the new life. It’s an experience, and you will experience it. It is something that happens to you, not a story. The Holy Spirit wants to fill you till you overflow. That is the second one: ‘Overflow with the Spirit.’ You overflow with the Spirit, the Spirit will fill you. You can’t be saying, “I can’t love.” It is the Spirit of love that you are filled with, He is the Spirit of God and of life. “For there is no more condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus. For the Law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me free from the law of sin and death.” (Romans 8:1-2).The law of the Spirit of life. He is the Spirit of life. Once He comes in, you are not afraid of death. When this body becomes useless and it cannot go, you will just walk out of it. When this house we live in is destroyed, we have an eternal house that is not built with human hands. It is there in the heavens. And where is the heaven? Any place outside the earth’s crust is the heavens. There is another house in heaven not built with human hands and God gives it to you. You have eternal life because you have the Spirit of eternal life, and of love. And you are put under a super law, the law of life. Death cannot come near that law. It cannot cancel it because it is the superior law; the law of heaven, of God, and of life. The law of life is at work in you, bringing out the purpose and the will of God, and making your life good, splendid, and full. Praise be to God! So we must be filled with the Spirit, the fullness of Christ, and of God. Ephesians 4:13, “…till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ”. This is the first point: anyone that does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to Christ. We have the fullness of Christ, confess it to yourself. The Spirit of Christ is the Spirit of love. It is love that led Him to come down to redeem and save us from ourselves. The Spirit of Christ is precious and holy. You cannot have that Spirit and be doing wrong. It is the Spirit that commends and approves you. It is the Spirit that intercedes for you and gives you peace. The Spirit forgives you and strengthens you. It is the Spirit of prophecy. The Spirit of Christ is the Spirit of prophecy. That is why He prophesies in this place, and the ministry is a prophetic ministry. And He says in the book of John 1 verse 16, “Out of the fullness of His grace, we all have received one blessing after another blessing. The Spirit of Christ brings you blessing, and you have the grace to do good things. Go ahead and do anything that is good, you have the grace, and so you can step out in faith. It is about the law of faith; we don’t walk by sight but by faith. In Colossians 2:9-10, “In Christ the fullness of the Deity was pleased to dwell. All the powers in heaven and on earth were found in Him. And in Christ you have been brought to fullness. He is the head over every power and authority.” The Spirit of Christ introduces power into your life; power to bless; power to cast out demons; power to take up serpents and scorpions; power to lay hands upon the sick and they will recover; power to raise the dead; power to open the eye of the blind; power to call the lame to walk and run. The Spirit that is from above is never in weakness and failure, and never living life in chaos. Ephesians 1: 20-22, “And God raised Him from the dead and set Him at His right hand in the heavenly places, far above all principality and power and might and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in that which is to come. And God appointed Him to be the head, over everything for the church, which is His own body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all.” We are the body of Christ. The body of Christ is a glorious body, without spots, without blemish, without anything strange. It’s a glorious body, and we are the body of Christ. God will defend His body to the last; Christ will defend His body to the last. He will never allow evil to touch His body. You are the body of Christ. We are members of that glorious and triumphant body. Individually, we belong to the body of Christ. What is that sickness? What is the power and authority against the body of Christ? It’s impossible for His body to experience decay. When the body of Christ is present, death will fly away. The lord of death and sin will go away. We have the fullness of God, of Christ, and of the Spirit. We have the fullness of Christ, the Godhead, and the Trinity: God the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. And now may the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God the Father, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit fill us, and we overflow. And there is also the fullness of wisdom. Ephesians 1:17, “…that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father may give you the Spirit of wisdom and of revelation that you may know Him better.” No one here asks, “Father give me wisdom”, because wisdom is yours, it is your right. Jesus has become wisdom from God, for those of us who believe. He is our righteousness, our holiness, and our redemption. He redeemed us from the punishment of our past, and gave us the communion that belongs to us that we lost in the garden. That is a restoration coming upon us. I see them upon us in the name of Jesus. We pray for you, ‘Be filled with God’s wisdom.’ You have wisdom, so never speak against wisdom. The wisdom that is from our God is in you. When God is in you, Christ is in you, and the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Christ, is in you, what else is missing? You have the best. The wisdom of this world decays, ebbs and fails. The wisdom of the anointing is the heavenly wisdom; it’s not a fake. The anointing is real, and I see it working in your life. I see the glory, and it is here permanently; it will last forever, as long as you live. And there is another fullness, from the book Malachi Chapter 3 verse 10, “Bring all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be food in My house, and try Me now in this,’ Says the Lord of hosts, “If I will not open for you the windows of heaven and pour out for you such blessing that there will not be room enough to receive it.” And I speak to you, you are living in the fullness of divine abundance and of God’s blessings in the name of Jesus. As you keep step with the Word of God, there is another abundance of food in the house of God, I tell you, you already have the covenant with God. As you give, you will receive; press down, shaking together is handed to you. And I tell you, begin to receive. The secret of receiving has come on you, you are receiving in the name of Jesus. There are those who trust in the Lord, who belong to Christ, who are filled with his good, and I say this to you that you will know that my joy is full, and that your joy may be complete and full.