Being Perfected in Love as Kingdom People through God’s Love Poured into Our Hearts

In order for us as kingdom people to be perfect as our heavenly Father is perfect, we need to be perfect in His love; we need to see that the divine love is the nature of God’s essence, He loves us, He poured out His love into our hearts, and now He is perfecting us in His love.

Lord Jesus, we love You! Thank You for loving us so much that You came to die for us on the cross so that we may not perish but have eternal life! Hallelujah, the love of God has been poured out into our heart through the Holy Spirit, and we are today those who love the Lord and love one another! Amen, Lord, perfect us in Your love. Make us as perfect as You are in Your love, so that we may be children of our heavenly Father! Amen!

We need to deal with the Lord with the matter of our heart, for it is by these inward dealings that we, as kingdom people, can enjoy, experience, and express Christ to be the people of the kingdom of God in reality today.

We have an inner man, which is our heart and our spirit; we are being renewed in our inner man day by day.

As we come to the Lord in His word, we need to not just read His word and agree with it, and we should not just get some inspiration or nourishment from the word.

Rather, we need to pray over the Word, contact the Lord in His word, and deal with the Lord according to his word.

We need to have fine, detailed, and tender dealings with the Lord regarding what He speaks to us. We cooperate with the Lord not by trying to perfect ourselves so that we may become perfect according to our standard of perfectness; rather, it is by praying to the Lord.

Not just a general prayer of fellowship; we need to have not just conversations with the Lord but many transactions with Him.

There has to be a kind of back and forth between the Lord and us concerning His word, so that He may shine on us, expose us, and we would respond to Him.

We open our inward parts to Him, He reveals what is in us, and we allow Him to search our inward parts.

Under the divine shining, we are convicted, we are exposed, and we are even condemned in a proper way. So we are led to confess our sins, agree with the Lord’s shining, and allow Him to remove things from us, even to purge from us things that are not proper.

Not just the negative things, but even the things that are positive and good in us, including our disposition and character, everything needs to be confessed and dug away in our touch with the Lord and personal contact with Him in prayer.

The more we have such transactions with Him, the more we can enjoy Him, the more He infuses us with what He is, and the more He makes us perfect even as our heavenly Father is perfect; we are being perfected in His love.

For the Kingdom People to be Perfect as their Heavenly Father is Perfect is to be Perfect in His Love: we are being Perfected in His love!

If we read Matthew 5:20 with verses 44-45, we will see that, for us as kingdom people to be perfect as our heavenly Father is perfect, we need to be perfect in His love.

Our heavenly Father is perfect, and in particular, He is perfect in His love. He loves those who are good and those who are not so good.

He causes the sun to shine on both those who are evil and good, and He causes the rain to fall on those who are just and unjust. The divine love is the nature of God’s essence; thus, it is an essential attribute of God. God is love.

He simply is love; God doesn’t just love others, He is love. We as believers in Christ have received His heavenly life and nature, and the nature of the essence of God is love.

God is love not only in the New Testament but also in the Old Testament. If we read the commandments, we realise that the spirit of the commandments is love.

Love is the spirit of all the commandments, even the Old Testament commandments. We honour our father and mother because we love them.

We do not murder others and we don’t hate them because we love them. We do not steal from others because we love them; out of love for them, we don’t steal from them.

We do not commit adultery because we love others. The essence of all the commandments is love.

The Lord Jesus said that love is the greatest commandment (Matt. 22:36-40), and God Himself is love. He wants to perfect us in His love; our heavenly Father wants to make us as perfect as He is in His love.

We need to see some wonderful verses in the Bible that show us God’s love, we need to pray these verses before the Lord, and we need to allow the Lord’s love to melt our hearts, soften us, work in us, fill us, saturate us and be expressed through us so that we may be perfect in His love.

God as love has been dispensed into us, and we receive His divine dispensing of love to become the same as He is in the aspect of his love.

Our human love runs out, is not genuine, and does not endure; when we remain under God’s dispensing, we react with genuine love, which is God Himself, for God as love is infused into us to become our love.

As we remain under God’s dispensing, we are infused with His love toward others, and we simply love them, for we are being perfected in His love.

God so Loved the World that He Gave His Only Begotten Son (John 3:16)

John 3:16 tells us that God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that everyone who believes into Him would not perish but would have eternal life. God loved us. He loved us so much that He came in the Son to die for us.

Although we are fallen, God still loves us with His divine love, which is Himself (1 John 4:8, 16). We are vessels created by God according to His image to contain Him (Gen. 1:26; Rom. 9:21, 23).

He loves us with Himself as love, and He loves us so much that He gave His only begotten Son, His very expression, so that we may obtain His divine life.

He gave Himself up for us to make a way for us to contact Him, receive Him, and eventually contain Him and express Him. God is love itself.

There’s only one love in this universe that is real, genuine, and eternal; it is God’s love, even God as love. We are vessels created in His image, and we can contain the love of God.

When the love of God fills our inner being, when our vessel is filled with God as love, we can express God as love, and we are perfected in His love.

We are becoming perfect in God’s love when we are filled with the divine love. God so loved us that He gave His only begotten Son, His expression, that we might obtain His eternal life.

He dispenses His Son, the expression of His love, into our hearts, to fill us with Himself as love.

The Son of God is actually the love of God coming to us, reaching us, entering into us, and filling us, even spreading in our being to make us a vessel of love.

He fills us with Himself to such an extent that we become the same as He is in His love, perfecting us in His love.

This is so deep. This is the deep thought in God’s word. We are so thankful to the Lord for unveiling us to see this deep truth regarding the love of God, even concerning us being perfected in His love.

Thank You, Lord, for loving us so much that You gave Your only begotten Son to come and die for us so that we may believe into Him and have eternal life. Hallelujah, we are vessels created by God to contain Him, and by faith in Christ we are joined to Him organically to receive all that He is. We open to You, Lord, to receive Your divine dispensing. Dispense Yourself as love. We turn our heart to You to receive the divine dispensing of God as love into us. Fill us with Your love. Saturate us with Your love. We open our vessel to You to be filled with God as love until we are perfected in Your love. Amen, Lord, make us love itself by filling and saturating us with God as love!

Herein is Love, not that We have Loved God but that He Loved us and Sent His Son as a Propitiation for our Sins (1 John 4:10)

What kind of love is this? 1 John 4:10 says, Herein is love, not that we have loved God but that He loved us and sent His Son as a propitiaiton for our sins.

It is not us who loved God first but He who loved us. In this fact is the higher and nobler love of God.

He loved us, and He is love in us. The divine love as God’s essential attribute is mainly expressed in sending His Son to redeem us and impart God’s life into us so that we may become His children.

How we love God! He showed His love toward us by sending Christ as a propitiation for our sins; He made propitiation for our sins, He is the propitiation sacrifice, He is the propitiation place, and now we can come to God, even believe into God to become His children.

We are vile and poor and sinful people, yet we were redeemed and we can receive God’s life to become His own children.

Now if that is not love, I don’t know what is love! Thank the Lord for His love!

God, being Rich in Mercy, Because of His Great Love with which He Loved Us (Eph. 2:4)

God is rich in mercy because of His great love with which He loved us (Eph. 2:4). God loves us because we are the object of His selection.

He loves us so much that, even though we are dead in sins and offenses, He extends His mercy to us.

The object of God’s love needs to be in a lovable condition; the object of God’s mercy is always in a pitiful condition and situation.

God’s mercy reaches further than His love. God loves us. He selected us.

But we became pitiful and low, so because of His great love, God is rich in mercy to save us from our wretched position to a condition that is suitable for His love.

What a mercy! We were far away from God, but He reached us in His mercy.

Even today, as believers in Christ, so many times we stray away from the Lord, yet He still reaches us in His mercy.

God’s nobler love as His essential attribute needs the attribute of His mercy to reach us in the deep pit of our fallen life.

And He does this; He reaches to us, He has mercy on us, and because of His mercy, we are brought into a position where we can become the object of His love. Thank the Lord for His great love toward us!

Hallelujah, God is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us! Praise You, Lord, for Your great love! Thank You for being rich in mercy. Thank You for reaching in Your mercy to us further than Your love. How much we need Your mercy! It is Your mercy that we can receive and enjoy You as love. Praise the Lord, God is rich in mercy to save us from our wretched position to a condition that is suitable for His love! How we love You, Lord! We open to enjoy Your love today, for You qualify us to be in a position where we can enjoy Your love! Amen!

The Love of God has Been Poured Out in our Hearts through the Holy Spirit (Rom. 5:5)

It is wonderful for us to see that God is love and that He loves us; however, we need to go even further and realise that, according to Romans 5:5, the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us. Praise the Lord!

The love of God is not something separate from God; the love of God is God Himself as love.

God as love is the divine essence that has been poured out into our hearts.

When we were regenerated, we received the love of God. His love has been poured out into our hearts.

There has to be at least one moment in our Christian experience when we touch the love of God, even God as love, and sense His love being poured out into our heart.

His love is poured out; God doesn’t just give us a little love – He pours it out, flooding us with His love.

When we touch God’s love, we will have a personal sense of love, for we feel like a strong wave, a huge tide of love flows into us. His love comes to us wave after wave, and we taste of His love.

We will realise how deep God’s love is. We are the object of His selection, and we don’t know why us, but He has shown love to us, and He has poured out His love into our hearts.

We do not understand why this poor man, out of the thousands and millions of people, has received the love of God, but God has poured out His love into our hearts.

There’s no answer except He chose us to be the object of His love. Somewhere in eternity past, God chose me and you; He marked us out in His sovereignty, and He selected us.

We don’t know why, but that is His sovereignty. The pouring out of the love of God into our hearts is a matter of the essence of God.

Because we have been regenerated, we have love as the nature of God’s essence within us.

As believers in Christ, deep in our hearts we have something of the divine essence, and this is God the Father in His love (Matt. 18:35).

The love of God is in our hearts. His very essence is in us. We don’t have to feel it; we know it is there.

We simply need to turn our hearts to the Lord and love Him, and He will perfect us in His love.

Because the love of God has been poured into our hearts, the heart of a believer in Christ is a heart of love (Eph. 3:17).

Our heart is a heart of love. In our experience, however, we may see that our heart still hates, is still jealous, and still does not love God; we may wonder how we can have a heart of love if we still do these things.

The answer is that, at that moment, we are not partaking of the essence and nature of God; we regress to our own essence and nature, in our old man.

In the old man all we have is strife, jealousy, and hatred. But there’s a part in us, in our heart, where love is.

We need to exercise our spirit and turn our heart to the Lord so that we may be perfected in His love. As we turn to Him, we become perfect in His love.

We are becoming as perfect as our heavenly Father is perfect in His love. in our experience and enjoyment of God as the Father in His love, we experience and enjoy the dispensing of love as the nature of God’s essence into our hearts (Rom. 5:5, 8; 8:35, 39; 15:30; 2 Cor. 13:14).

Our Christian life is a life of love. The kingdom life is a life of love. We can live a life in love and of love only when we constantly remain in the enjoyment of the divine dispensing of God as love into our hearts.

When we enjoy God’s dispensing, when His love is continually dispensed into us as we turn our heart to Him, we are perfected in His love.

We can love people and we can love God because God as love is dispensed into us.

All the law and the prophets hang on love; we need to love God and love man, and we do this not by our natural love but by God as love being dispensed into us to perfect us in His love.

The higher requirements of the kingdom of the heavens are not just that we love our neighbours but even love our enemies, even love those who hate us and persecute us.

We can love them simply with God as our love.

A very good example of the love of God in recent events was displayed by a dear sister in the Lord whose husband was murdered publicly.

At an event where she spoke, in tears, she testified that she forgives the killer of her husband, because God loves her and He loves him also, and just as God forgives her, so she forgives him. It is not she who forgave the killer, but God as love being dispensed into her.

We do not uplift a person, but we learn from the example of many believers who experience and express God’s love.

May we remain under the divine dispensing of God’s love daily so that we may be perfected in His love, live a life of love, and love God and man with God as love.

Hallelujah, the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit, which has been given to us! Amen, Lord, we believe Your word and we stand on Your word. Thank You for dispensing Yourself as love into our hearts, making our heart a heart of love. May we see that God as love, even the divine essence of God, has been poured out into our hearts. May we realise that love as the nature of God’s essence is within us. Thank You, Lord, deep within our hearts we have something of the divine essence – God the Father in His love. Thank You for making our heart a heart of love. Keep us open to the divine dispensing of the divine love into us. Perfect us in Your love. We want to experience and enjoy the dispensing of love as the nature of God’s essence in our heart. Amen, Lord, fill us with Your love. Saturate us with Your love. Be expressed through us as love. We want to live the kingdom life today by living in love, expressing God as love, and loving others and loving God with God as love! Amen!

References and Hymns on this Topic

• Inspiration for this article/sharing comes from the Word of God, the enjoyment in the ministry, a sharing by the brothers on this topic, and portions from, The Conclusion of the New Testament, msg. 8, by Witness Lee, as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, Crucial Aspects of Matthew 5 through 7 (2025 September ITERO), week 6, Being Perfect as Our Heavenly Father Is Perfect – day 3.
• Hymns on this topic:
  – The love of God is greater far / Than tongue or pen can ever tell. / It goes beyond the highest star / And reaches to the lowest hell. / The guilty pair, bowed down with care, / God gave His Son to win; / His erring child He reconciled / And pardoned from his sin. / O love of God, how rich and pure! / How measureless and strong! / It shall forevermore endure— / The saints’ and angels’ song. (Hymns #28 stanza 1 and chorus)
  – Abide in Thee! in that deep love of Thine, / My Jesus, Lord, Thou Lamb of God divine, / Down, closely down, as living branch with tree, / I would abide, my Lord, my Christ, in Thee. / Abide in Thee! my Savior God, I know / How love of Thine so vast in me may flow, / My empty vessel, running o’er with joy, / Must overflow to Thee without alloy. (Hymns #563 stanzas 1-2)
  – Thy mighty love, O God, constraineth me, / As some strong tide it presseth on its way, / Seeking a channel in my self-bound soul, / Yearning to sweep all barriers away. / Shall I not yield to that constraining power? / Shall I not say, O tide of love, flow in? / My God, Thy gentleness hath conquered me, / Life cannot be as it hath hither been. (Hymns #431 stanzas 1-2)