“Being Perfect as Kingdom People VS Being Perfect in the Love of God”

 

“Being Perfect as Kingdom People VS Being Perfect in the Love of God”

John 3:16 — “For 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.”
Rom. 5:5 — “The love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.”

Aspect	Being Perfect as Kingdom People (Matt. 5:20, 44–45)	Being Perfect in the Love of God (Rom. 5:5; John 3:16; 1 John 4:10; Eph. 2:4)
Meaning	• To be perfect is to be like the heavenly Father—expressing His love, righteousness, mercy, and light in our living. • Stresses the expression of God’s life in the outward living of the kingdom people.	• To be perfect in God’s love means to be constituted with God’s divine essence of love, having His love poured into our hearts. • Not behavior first, but inward constitution by the divine dispensing.
Distinction	• Emphasis on living out the Father’s perfection: loving enemies, praying for persecutors. • Based on the constitution of the kingdom (Matt. 5–7).	• Emphasis on being constituted with God’s divine love as an inner essence. • Love is not demanded but supplied through the Spirit.
Reason	• Because we are kingdom people; our living must match the Father’s nature and testify of His life. • We must express the Father to be His sons practically.	• Because God is love (1 John 4:8, 16). • He first loved us, chose us, had mercy on us, and poured His divine love into our hearts (Rom. 5:5).
Result	• Manifesting the kingdom life of righteousness, peace, mercy, and divine love. • Becoming the practical expression of God’s kingdom on earth.	• The believer’s heart becomes a heart of love. • Being built with God’s essence—Spirit, love, and light. • Spontaneous divine reactions toward others.
Examples	• Not retaliating, not seeking revenge. • Loving enemies; praying for persecutors. • Giving without demanding return.	• Experiencing the inward ability to love the unlovable. • Standing in love in trials, persecution, and misunderstanding (Rom. 8:35–39). • Being softened, renewed, and constituted by God’s life.
Application	• Taking the Father—not humans—as the standard. • Living out the kingdom constitution in church life. • Letting the Father’s perfection govern our family, work, and service.	• Daily turning to God’s dispensing so that His love may be freshly poured into our hearts. • Loving with God’s love, not with natural love. • Allowing God’s life to saturate us through prayer and the Word.
Burden	• That the kingdom’s reality would be expressed on the earth. • That the believers’ conduct would glorify the Father. • That the church would become the testimony of the kingdom.	• That believers would not rely on their natural love but on God’s essence of love. • That the saints would be more open to the divine dispensing of love.
Prophetic Speaking Guide	• Emphasize: perfection cannot be achieved by human effort; it must be lived by God’s inner life. • Highlight that the kingdom living is not law-keeping but a life-expression.	• Emphasize: God’s love is not merely a feeling but a divine substance poured into us. • Encourage saints to open their hearts to receive more divine dispensing.
Conclusion	Kingdom perfection is the outward expression of God’s life, which depends on the inward divine love. Only by being perfected in God’s love can kingdom people live as the Father is.	Being perfect in God’s love is an inward constitution. Only by being constituted with God’s essence of love can we live out the Father’s perfection.
Related Scriptures	Matt. 5:20 — “Unless your righteousness surpasses that of the scribes and Pharisees, you shall by no means enter into the kingdom of the heavens.” Matt. 5:44–45 — “But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may become sons of your Father who is in the heavens; because He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good and sends rain on the just and the unjust.”	1 John 4:10 — “Not that we have loved God but that He loved us and sent His Son as a propitiation for our sins.” Eph. 2:4 — “But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us.” 1 John 4:8, 16 — “God is love.” Rom. 8:35–39 — “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ…?”

 

*Please refer to the May 2025 International Elders and Responsible Brothers Training: General Topic: Matthew Chapters 5-7 - Extremely Important Aspects - Week 6: Be Perfect, Just as Perfect as Our Heavenly Father.