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Here's is one of the most important verses in scripture. And one of the most misunderstood!
Because people think this is something you do, or you just say.
But it's something that you have no control of!! John is telling us it has already been done by the Holyspirit!
Notice the last four words doesn't say you SHOULD LOVE your brother also. IT SAYS YOU DO! OR IT'S DONE. THIS IS PERFORMED BY THE HOLYSPIRIT. ITS AGAPE.
1 John 4:21. And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God LOVE HIS BROTHER ALSO.
1 John 3:10. IN THIS THE CHILDREN OF GOD ARE MANIFEST, AND THE CHILDREN OF THE DEVIL: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, NEITHER HE THAT LOVETH NOT HIS BROTHER.
If this Love don't exist between two then maybe you're not brothers. Which implies you have separate Fathers.
Jude 1:4. For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
Jude 1:12. These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots
Jude 1:18-19. How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.
These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit.
1 John 2:19. They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, THAT THEY MIGHT BE MADE MANIFEST THAT THEY WERE NOT ALL OF US.
Beware of woman and men who say they're Christian but join themselves with EVERYONE how is against truth.
John 14:6. Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
Very well said. Jesus did not command us to go out and love the Lord thy God with all our heart, soul, and mind. Nor did He command us to love our neighbor as ourselves. And by the way, to the Jew, their neighbor would be their fellow Jew. For us Gentiles, neighbor refers to our brothers and sisters in Christ. But we're not commanded to go out and love.
That's the beauty of the Greek text. In our English bibles, we can make the argument that we are commanded to love God, and we are commanded to love our neighbor because that's what it says, right? But in the original language, (YOU WILL) love the Lord thy God with all your heart, and (YOU WILL) love your neighbor as yourself is not written in command form. It is written as a statement of fact!
The command is not for us to produce this love (Agape), because we cannot produce it. The command is "You will," meaning that once God places His Spirit in our spirit, we will love our neighbor, and we will love God with all our heart because He commanded it to happen that way, in that it will be His Spirit in us giving us the capacity to do so. So God says "you will" love. It's a statement of fact, not a command. He's telling us that once we are born of His Spirit, we will love!
Another way I can look at is that God gives us Himself, and He is love. When I show love for Him or for my neighbor, it's not me in my human effort doing it, because my flesh might want to reach out and choke someone. But His Spirit in me is what causes me to love. What an awesome and wonderful Savior we serve!
Jesse that's why Jesus Christ said spirit is willing that which God Gave us is Perfect but the flesh is weak, perfect example King David had spirit upon Him but when he saw bathsheba it was bypassed so to speak. In the book of psalms David says to God take not thy Holy Spirit from me. Whats tremendous, look at Gods forgiveness this man orders the husband killed after committing adultery and after all that the Bible says David was still a man after Gods own heart. Talk about a Loving father that knows were going to blow it. Jesus Christ said it forgive 70 Times 7. God Bless
Because people think this is something you do, or you just say.
But it's something that you have no control of!! John is telling us it has already been done by the Holyspirit!
Notice the last four words doesn't say you SHOULD LOVE your brother also. IT SAYS YOU DO! OR IT'S DONE. THIS IS PERFORMED BY THE HOLYSPIRIT. ITS AGAPE.
1 John 4:21. And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God LOVE HIS BROTHER ALSO.
1 John 3:10. IN THIS THE CHILDREN OF GOD ARE MANIFEST, AND THE CHILDREN OF THE DEVIL: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, NEITHER HE THAT LOVETH NOT HIS BROTHER.
If this Love don't exist between two then maybe you're not brothers. Which implies you have separate Fathers.
Jude 1:4. For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
Jude 1:12. These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots
Jude 1:18-19. How that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.
These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit.
1 John 2:19. They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, THAT THEY MIGHT BE MADE MANIFEST THAT THEY WERE NOT ALL OF US.
Beware of woman and men who say they're Christian but join themselves with EVERYONE how is against truth.
John 14:6. Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
Thanks Jesse for much on this lesson.
God bless.
Very well said. Jesus did not command us to go out and love the Lord thy God with all our heart, soul, and mind. Nor did He command us to love our neighbor as ourselves. And by the way, to the Jew, their neighbor would be their fellow Jew. For us Gentiles, neighbor refers to our brothers and sisters in Christ. But we're not commanded to go out and love.
That's the beauty of the Greek text. In our English bibles, we can make the argument that we are commanded to love God, and we are commanded to love our neighbor because that's what it says, right? But in the original language, (YOU WILL) love the Lord thy God with all your heart, and (YOU WILL) love your neighbor as yourself is not written in command form. It is written as a statement of fact!
The command is not for us to produce this love (Agape), because we cannot produce it. The command is "You will," meaning that once God places His Spirit in our spirit, we will love our neighbor, and we will love God with all our heart because He commanded it to happen that way, in that it will be His Spirit in us giving us the capacity to do so. So God says "you will" love. It's a statement of fact, not a command. He's telling us that once we are born of His Spirit, we will love!
Another way I can look at is that God gives us Himself, and He is love. When I show love for Him or for my neighbor, it's not me in my human effort doing it, because my flesh might want to reach out and choke someone. But His Spirit in me is what causes me to love. What an awesome and wonderful Savior we serve!
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