1.What is the "love," of which Paul is speaking in this chapter? .

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It is God Himself. God is love. Christ is the expression of God’s love. As Christ is formed in us, Divine love is formed in us.

The person who is preaching a religious message but who is not motivated by Christ’s love is as a clanging cymbal. The love of God is the supreme power and principle of the Kingdom of God. All the persons, things, and circumstances God has employed in the creation are means toward one glorious end—that God may dwell in Christ who in turn will dwell in every person. The whole universe is destined to become filled to overflowing with God’s love.

Compared with Divine love, all else is scaffolding. Divine love always is in motion and always finds completion and fulfillment in another person.

God finds completion and fulfillment in Christ. Christ finds completion and fulfillment in God and in people. We find completion and fulfillment in God, in Christ, and in other people.

There is no other force or principle in the Kingdom of God that compares in importance with Divine love. He who is filled with Divine love is filled with God and possesses confidence and boldness in the day of judgement.

The person who loves God is known of God. The rulership of the peoples of the ages to come will be assigned only to saints who possess Christ’s love for those peoples. There is no exception to this, for only those who love people with Christ’s love can rule them as God wants them ruled.