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The Love of God (Part 1) – Why Christ Is Seeking a Bride
What does the love of God reveal about His eternal purpose? In this profound Christian teaching, Gene Edwards explores God’s love, creation, Adam and Eve, the Bride of Christ, and the extraordinary desire of Christ for a counterpart who will receive and respond to His love.
Beginning with Genesis, Gene takes us back before creation to consider God as life, light, reality, Spirit, and above all, love. What moved God toward creation? What does Adam’s longing for a counterpart reveal about the heart of God? And how does the creation of Eve point beyond Genesis toward Jesus Christ and His Bride?
Genesis declares that it was “not good that the man should be alone.” Gene explores Adam’s aloneness and God’s formation of Eve from Adam himself. She was not merely another creature; she was his counterpart—one who came out of him and could receive his love and return that love to him.
From there, the message turns toward an even greater spiritual reality.
Gene presents Adam and Eve as a picture pointing toward God’s eternal purpose in Christ. Jesus Christ took upon Himself humanity and came seeking a Bride. In Gene’s words, Christ “came to us seeking a bride.” The love at the heart of God seeks expression, relationship, and a people who will receive His divine love and respond to Him.
This message invites Christians to see God’s purpose from a different perspective—not merely asking what we want from God, but considering what God desires for Himself.
If you are seeking a deeper understanding of the love of God, the Bride of Christ, God’s eternal purpose, Christian spiritual growth, and an intimate relationship with Jesus Christ, this teaching offers a compelling picture of God’s heart from Genesis to Christ.
Imagine mankind. Can you see mankind? Can you see mankind? See the totality of mankind. See God walk up to mankind. I will show you the most incredible thing you have ever beheld. Watch the Spirit: God. Keep in mind what Adam was as God put Himself into Adam. Adam was a son of God. Watch God go up to man and pull out mind out of man…and will. Watch God reach into mankind and pull out joy. Watch Him reach into mankind and pull out loneliness. Watch Him reach into man and pull out sorrow. Watch God reach into man and pull out the passion of human love and put it on him.
Until the living God is clothed…in the essence of man. And God says, I am the Son of Man. Did you understand? I am now the essential, the very essence, the result…of man.
Please listen to what I’ve got to say.
Our God was now the Son of Man. He was no longer spirit, but mingled with that spirit which was divine; I tell you, there is now a human body with all its need. He has put upon Himself the form of perfect man, and He has put within Him the soul with the soul’s jealousy, with the soul’s hate, with the soul’s joy and with the soul’s desire and need of love and the passion to express love.
And now he is no longer an infinite God burning with a passion of divine love in the Spirit; He is also man, mingled with God, with also the passions of man needing to be expressed to one who is His counterpart. The passion of the love of God has been intensified.
Now you have got to say, Jesus. Lord Jesus. It is not good for You to be alone. For he has utterly become man, and it is not good that man be alone.
Brothers and sisters, I give you…I give you…I give you my God. I give you my Lord. I give you my Christ. He came to us seeking a bride; He was willing to take upon Himself human form with an even greater drive. He now has both divine and human love. Both need to be expressed.
Brothers and sisters, He has not yet ceased to be alone. All power…all eternity… and now all time…and He is still alone. Won’t someone come along and agree to accept the passion of God? To say to the Lord, “Have your Love. Have your counterpart. Here’s a place…Lord, here…Here is your counterpart…a place where you can love.
Oh Lord, open the eyes of us all, for if God had took man’s soul, Lord we took your spirit.
Oh Lord. My God. Awaken love. It is time that such a One as you had a bride who would just be one. My Lord, awaken love. Awaken love.
Deep within the wellsprings of our being, show us where we receive the divine love of God. Deep within our soul, show us where to receive the love of our Lord, our God.
Find the people. Find the people. Jesus…Your spirit has its way in our lives now.
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