There is nothing more desirable in life than loving and being loved. Every time we comment somebody as lovely, or, really loving, he/she responds appreciatively and truly feels good. Since therefore, it is a good thing to employ in life, how can we be sure we are doing it? What exactly does it take to love? Is it just a mere extension of good feeling, and doing towards somebody? How can we know and be sure, and from who? “There is a God in heaven who reveals secrets-Dan.2:28”. Why him and not any other? Friends, God is the author of life for, “…..He gives life to all men and breath, and everything-Acts.17:25”. So, what does He say, loving is? We all know that, God created men to be like him in every way, meaning, if we are to be right, it will only be when we do everything the way God does. This being the case, it warrants us to first know how God does things, loving included, in order to be sure we are right. So now, how does God do things? From where can we learn how God does things (our message, “where to begin”, has the answer. Visit www.endtimecog.org and read it there please)? As a wise master-builder, when He had finished creating all things, man included, God also wrote down a manual for man, with details about Himself(God), His life, man, and the life he should live, detailing everything, even on how to deal with every other form of creation. This manual is non-else other than that bible you read, may I believe, every day! Let’s therefore search from its pages, and understand how God lives, because, once we know that, we will have known how we should live and love.
“ In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God……In him was life, and the life was the light of man-John.1:1-3”. Here, we are talking of a time long before man or, any other thing existed, except God. As I always say, it is impossible to make a separation between somebody and his mind or life. Therefore, we here are told that this word-God, is life, and the light(knowledge-See 2Cor.4:6) of man. It therefore means that, God lives the way He says in his written word. How?
GOD’S LIFE
In the word, He tells us that, He is; “…..spirit-John.4:24”. Then again, He tells us that His “…word is spirit-John.6:63”. “ God is light-1John.1:5”- “ His word is light-Psalm.119:105”. “God is true-1 John.5:20”- “his word is truth-John.17:17”. “God is perfect”- His word is perfect-Psalm.19:7”. It therefore is a proven truth that the bible is God’s explanation to mankind, of His life, which is also the life of man, for we were created to be like God, as He says, “ you should be holy, for I am holy-1Pet.1:15-16”. I believe all of us who accept God and are striving, to learn to live like him, do also acknowledge that, His, “…laws are the only wisdom, and understanding anyone can have and apply in life-Deut.4:6”. God confirms this when He says, “….if they don’t obey the law, what wisdom have they-Jerem.8:9”. In turning away from obeying that word, God says that, men have become fools-rom.1:22. So now, because we want to be wise and so live rightly, we must go back to the obedience of the law (word). With this in mind, let’s now come to our topic-concern please. What should we be doing in order to be loving? Let’s assume we know nothing about it( its probably true we don’t know), and because we believe in God, and by His word, lets humbly, and in readiness of heart, take what He will tell us in His word. Hear what Christ reveals in his gospel please. “…..God is love- 1John.4:16”. Remember, we have emptied our minds of anything that we have been applying as knowledge about love, and we are now learning from the one who alone knows. What can we deduce from this verse? If the law of God is an explanation of His life, and this life is also our life, then, if He is love, it follows that, it is His life which is called love. Listen please to His confirmation of what am saying here. “ love is the keeping of the commandments-2John.1:6”. And again, “ If you love me, keep my commandments-John.14:15”. This is Christ’s own words, the one from whom alone, is knowledge about life gained. It is the acting(obeying), the applying of God’s word, which is called loving. We all know that It takes the spirit of God occupying our hearts, forming our minds, to obey, or do according to the word(the law), for, “…….the just requirements of the law are fulfilled in us who walk not, according to the flesh but according to the spirt-Rom.8:4”. We also know that, the law(word of God), is the very river-bed along which the spirit flows, for, “… the spirit of truth leads us into all truth( God’s word-John.17:17)-John.16:13”. Therefore, we hereby see that, outside God’s law, there is no God’s spirit, for, “…the spirit is given only to those who obey Him-Acts.5:32”. This is further proven by the fact that, Christ, who lives in us through the spirit can only be confirmed to be in someone if, such a one, “ ……keeps his word, then, in him is truly the love of God perfected; by this we know that we are in Him- 1John.2:5”. What do we say then? It is totally impossible to love, if we don’t apply the law of God as our knowledge on how to live, yes, on how to relate and treat each other. Being the way we are and, are still being created-Col.3:10, it’s only when we act the law, that we are exercising love for, “…love is the fulfilment of the law-Rom.13:10”.
EFFECTS OF LOVE
Let me believe, to this point, we are together, and in agreement. Now, this love, which is God’s way of life, which is also our lives, if we truly have accepted it, is the written word in scriptures. God wrote it for the purpose of, “…teaching, reproving, correcting, and training in righteousness, to make us complete, and fully equipped for every good work-2Tim.3:16-17. For by it, we are warned- 2Tim.3:16-17; Psalm.19:11”. Since it is the way of love, then, it is the only way we can treat others, to express our love for them; to fulfil our Lords command, to love one another as He loved us. But we should not forget this one fact, that, we all have been deceived and have all through lived the lie of Eden which, opposes every so called God, “…. Which is enmity to his law (word), and which can’t obey it- Rom.8:7”. “for we all once walked in it, in the passions of our flesh, following the desires of body and mind, and became by nature, children of wrath- Eph.2:3”. So, as true God worshippers, we are now learning to apply God’s word as our new knowledge, which we apply to live. But there is this self which opposes our new life, and which we have to resist, if this love life will find room in our hearts-Rom.7:22-23(for details, please read our message, “ Why the physical bodies”, found in www.endtimecog.org). So now, how will our application of true love to others, affect them? Beware of false prophets, beware of wolves who are the majority in the today’s world of, the so called God-worshippers; a people who “choose their teachers, and tells them; ‘leave the way, turn aside from the path, let us hear no more( God’s word which teaches and corrects) of the holy one of israel-Isa.30:11”; yes, “ who have turned away from listening to the truth(the only true love), and have gathered for themselves teachers who tell them smooth things; what they want to hear-2tim.4:3-4”. This I say brethren, because, as I continue to airing this wake-up call to Leodicea through Facebook and other media, so many are fighting me in self-defence. I am being called, a judge, self-righteous, a corrector of others, and one who is not ready to learn. Why? Because this people are of the world and hate being taught by God through our Lord, Jesus Christ, and by His word, which alone can develop one up to salvation- 1Pet.1:22-23. All they want to hear is, being called good, but hate to be good, which is in obeying God’s laws, who alone is good-Mat.19: 17, and the only one who can make us good. We have to watch such, so that we don’t get carried away from our sincere obedience of the truth. And since we have a cloud of witnesses, our forefathers who lived the way of love in past, lets please, with openness of minds, understand how love affects us, and those we apply it to.
CHRIST, OUR ONLY EXAMPLE
Christ our Lord was a messenger sent by God, “….to open our eyes, that we may part from darkness(ignorance) to light, from prison(destructive lie), to freedom…Isa.42:6-7”. So, He practically, and theoretically-Acts.1:1, taught the true way of loving, after which He told, and is still telling us, “…I have given you an example, that you also should do as I have done-john.13:15”. Yes, there is no other love, than the one Christ taught by deeds and words. When he practised it, how did men respond? “ the world hates me, because I testify to it that its deeds are evil- John.7:7”. Yes, because, “ ….men love darkness(wrong) than light, because their deeds are being exposed by the word( life) which Christ was teaching-John.3:19”. After seeing their negative opposive response, did Christ relax the word abit, trying to make them happy and, comfortable with Him? Listen please. “ then the desciples came to him saying, ‘ do you know that the Pharisees were offended, after hearing your sayings-Mat.15:12?’ The desciples were still in their carnal minds during this time. So, like the carnal minded, so called God-worshippers of today, they thought, being good and loving is to do what people want. But what was Christ’s response? Get it please. “Christ replied to them, ‘ leave them alone; they are blind guides. And if a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit-Mat.15:14”. This is exactly what the today’s Pharisees are doing, hating being corrected by God’s word, and encouraging those who support them in so doing, against anyone who follows Christ’s example. Truly speaking, true love is only appreciated by those who choose to live it, who “ do nothing except what they learn from God through his word- John.5:19; prov.3:5”. Hear what the true followers of Christ’s example had to say after experiencing, and employing this true love to others. “… for I wrote you out of much affliction and pain…. Not to cause you pain, but to let you know, the abundant love I have for you-2 Cor.2:4”. Why should the word of God cause pain? For we have the self to crucify. It is the one that Is pained by true love, “ for whoever has quit sinning, is suffering physically-1Pet.4:1-2”. Knowing it all well, Christ tells everyone who wishes to follow him, to begin by, “…denying the self-Mat.16:24”, for this self will never submit to God’s law-Rom.8:7, and so, to live the true love-life. Therefore, “ we must crucify it, taking it captive to obey love( Christ)-Gal.5:24; 2Cor.10:5”. Search the scriptures, and see how love has all through been responded to by many. Look at Joseph in Egypt with pontipa’s wife; moses with the fighting Israelites; Jeremiah and the kings of Judah, Elijah and Ahab; all these, after expressing true love, “… were tortured,….mocked, scorched, imprisoned, stoned, sawn in two, killed by the sword……of whom, the world was not worthy-Heb.11: 35-38”. Who are these today, “ turning things upside down, calling good bad and bad good- Isa.29:16; 5:20”, in order to continue nursing the lie of Eden, and mislead the unsuspecting many?
CHRIST IS KNOCKING.
Brethren, know and understand that, we right now are in the image of God, in which, we are dust of the ground-Gen.2:2; living beings, yes, men of dust and not spirits- 1 Cor.15:45,47. It is God who made us so, and for the purpose of creating us further, to make us spirit beings at last- 1 Cor.15:49. In the same way a building cannot construct itself, so we also can’t create ourselves. In the same way God didn’t involve us when He created the physical us, He also does not involve us in this spiritual creation. The only involvement we have is to obey His word, and it is by His power (not our own). We are being spiritually created into this word, which is what loving is. Outside the word, there is no creation but, destruction, for, life is that word, when applied, and it is also what loving is. The true Church of God is built on that word-Eph.2:20, but wolves came and pulled the majority out of the foundation, who are now deceiving the many to try their own way of living, but in the name of Christ. It is they who don’t want correction, nor to hear the word of truth and love. These are they who are telling you to just love; not to correct people or judge them, but just comment them. Even then, they will not tell you what it takes, to be either judging, or loving someone. Brethren, know and understand that, anyone who is not being careful to learn and obey God’s law, is not being spiritually created, and does not know anything to do with love. And because, it is God alone who can, and will create those who submit to him, to completion, know therefore for sure that those who will not take corrections from his word will never know love, neither will they be completed, and so, they will surely die( our message, “ very good”, has details). Christ is knocking outside the hearts of Leodicea, His present Church, because He wants, “….to sanctify it, having cleansed her by the washing of water, with the word… to make it spotless in readiness for His soon-second coming-Eph.5:26”. Do you want to be among the sanctified? It will only be, by learning to love, so that, we can be “…like our heavenly father, who is love-Mat.54:44-45,48”. This is because, God wants a man who is like Him-Gen.1:26; and God is love, which is his life, and is what He wants to make everyone who will choose his way, which way, is what loving is, and can only be taught by His word, and not anything else. Any other thing outside God’s word is meant to mislead those who take it, and it makes them blind. Whoever has ears, let them hear what God is telling the Church. “ He who overcomes, I will grant him to sit with me on my throne, just as I overcame, and am sitted with my father on his throne-Rev.3:21”. This voice is coming to you from your only saviour, Jesus Christ, through His-sent-servant,
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