Love Is Obedience To God

Love is a word that is used to describe many things

In the English language.

The New Testament, written in the original Greek,

Speaks of two types of love:

Phileo, or brotherly love and Agape, or God's love.

There is yet another Greek word for erotic love, sensual love, or Eros.

In our English language, in normal conversation,

We do not often speak of God's love.

We most often are referring to either Phileo or Eros

Or simply affection toward something.

Because of this the word love, in the English language,

Can loose its meaning in certain contexts.

The apostle John writes: God is Love. (1 John 4:16)

God's Love is His ESSENCE

And the most profound Love that can be given, and Eternal as He is Eternal.

For God so Loved the world that he gave His One and only Son,

That whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have Eternal LIFE.

(John 3:16)

Christ Jesus said that the greatest commandment is the First:

Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all you soul

And with all your mind.

This is the First and Greatest Commandment.

And the second is like it:

Love your neighbor as yourself.

All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.

(Matthew 22:37-40)

Those who obey His commands live in Him, and He in them.

And this is how we know that He lives in us:

We know it by the Spirit He gave us. (1 John 3:24)

Understand, that no one can obey

The First and Greatest Commandment

Unless Christ lives in him,

And no one can belong to Christ Jesus

Unless he obeys the First Commandment.

In other words we can only Love God by His Own Love in us,

Christ in us our only Hope of Glory. (Colossians 1:27)

This reality is critical to understand

All Faith in Christ Jesus hangs of this reality.

When the world speaks of love

It has no relationship to the Love that we have in Christ Jesus.

It is an entirely different language.

The world can have a form of brotherly love

And it can have eros or sensual love,

But it cannot have or understand the Love of God,

Because this requires the indwelling of Christ, the Holy Spirit;

Christ living in and through a person.

Every human being is born spiritual dead.

Unless you are born of God, Born Again, you remain spiritually dead.

Unless you are Born of God you cannot have the Love of God.

The spiritually dead person lives in the shallow world of the senses,

Never understanding the realm of the Spirit of God, the Kingdom of God;

Never knowing the Love of God, unless they respond to the call of God,

Which God gives to every person;

And by Faith, Believes and Receives Christ Jesus as Savior and Lord,

And Receives His Holy Spirit to live within them,

In accordance with the Word of God.

Do not love the world or anything in the world.

If anyone loves the world, the Love of the Father is not in him.

For everything in the world—the cravings of sinful man,

The lust of his eyes and the boasting of what he has and does--

Comes not from the father but from the world.

The world and its desires pass away,

But the man who does the will of God lives FOREVER. (1 John 2:15-17)

A follower of Christ cannot love the things of the world,

Because they are entirely SENSUAL and only lead to Eternal Death.

A follower of Christ Jesus must set his heart of THINGS ABOVE:

Since, then you have been raised with Christ,

Set your hearts on things above,

Where Christ is seated at the right hand of God.

Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.

For you died, and your LIFE is now hidden with Christ in God.

When Christ, Who is your LIFE, appears,

Then you also will appear with Him in Glory.

Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature:

Sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is IDOLATRY.

Because of these, the WRATH of God is coming.

You used to walk in these ways, in the life you once lived.

But now you must rid yourselves of all such things as these;

Anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips.

Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self

With its practices and have put on the new self,

Which is being renewed in knowledge in the Image of its Creator.

(Colossians 3:1-11)

Therefore, as God's chosen people, holy and early loved,

Clothe yourselves with compassion,

Kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.

Bear with each other

And forgive whatever grievances you may have against one another.

Forgive as the Lord forgave you.

And over all these virtues put on LOVE,

Which binds them all together in Perfect Unity. (Colossians 3:12-14)

Today, the world is raging against God, rushing toward oblivion. (Psalm 2)

America is being ground to powder because of her SIN against God.

Save yourself from this Corrupt Generation! (Acts 2:40)

As God has written, so shall it be! Hallelujah! Maranatha!

Father, Your Kingdom come, Your will be done, on earth as in Heaven!