A Bible Believers series on
The Love of God

Love from the New Testament viewpoint


Let is turn to some Christian applications of love as it is found in the New Testament.  (None of this will make any sense to a religious person who professes "Christianity" without ever having been regenerated - saved - by the Holy Spirit - and many of those 'saved' brethren even have a difficult time with it - they err not knowing the scriptures, amen?)

The first fruit of the HOly Spirit in the life of a saved sinner is love (Galatians 5:22).  The order of this love in it's direction and application is:

God in His completeness!
(God, Jesus Christ who is God in the flesh, the Holy Spirit that Jesus left us
and the words through which He speaks to us - the King James 1611 Bible!)
Our spouse and our children!
The 'Brethren'!
The 'Neighbour'!
Things above:  New Jerusalem, etc. etc.
Souls of unsaved people!

Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.
Romans 12:9

Also, on the negative side - the side the popes, modernists, liberals and humanists
NEVER talk about, the believer is to abhor that which is evil:

Avoid all entanglements with the world system. (II Timothy 2:4)
Reject the companionship of unsaved people, including their fellowships.
Hate lying and falsehood!
Hate "self" and unrighteousness!
Reject and oppose any movement of the nations to 'get together"!
(Gen. 11; Zeph. 3; Deut. 32)
Rebuke the deeds and lifestyles of unsaved sinners.
Make no treaties, pacts, agreements or covenants with any ungodly people or nations.

God said He hated six things, and two of them were PEOPLE (Prov 6:16-19).  No man can be a good lover of God unless he is a good hater of some things.

The purpose of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was to force anyone who believes the Book to have fellowship and be yoked up with people who hate the Book (Bibliomalia) and/or fear the Book (Bibliophobia).  This way, the Book could be silenced.

All you had to do was make it a felony (called a 'hate crime') if anyone believed what the Book SAID about blacks, queers, bossy women, women preachers, ecumenical movements & activities, the disciplining of your own children, education of your own children, clean speech, abortion, segregation and the United Nations.

So called "Racial slurs", "ethnic slurs" and "sexual slurs" are to be interpreted NOT in the light of the Scriptures, but in the light of CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, NPR, the Associated Press, Time and Newsweek and USA Today.  (They sure did put a damper on a lot of good jokes nowadays!)

The News Media's task is to make "hate" a federal offense; a "felony" to be handled by the SWAT teams, the BATF and FBI.

These are the people who talk about 'love' and everybody loving and "accepting" everybody when in reality, they are licensed killers.  (Waco; Ruby Ridge, Idaho)


God is Love

Problem:   For our God is a consuming fire. Hebrews 12:29
Problem: The LORD your God is a jealous God.  Ex:20:5; Ex:34:14; Deut:4:24; Deut:5:9; Deut:6:15; Josh:24:19;
Problem: I am jealous over you with Godly jealousy. (II Corinthians 11:2)
Problem: Then the anger of the LORD and His jealousy shall smoke against that man...and the LORD shall blot out his name from under heaven (Deuteronomy 29:20,21).
Problem: They provoked Him to anger...for a fire is kindled in my anger and shall burn into the lowest Hell. (Deuteronomy 32:22)
Problem: In flaming fire taking vengeance upon them that know not God and that obey not the Gospel (II Thessalonians 1:8).
Problem: He will burn up the chaff with fire unquenchable (Matthew 3:12).
Problem: Shall be in danger of Hell fire... (Matthew 5:22)
Problem: They shall cast them into a furnace of fire.  (Matthew 13:42)

Jesus Christ speaks about Hell 15 times himself - could be why the new modern bibles take the word 'hell' out of their perversions, amen?

Those problems 'in the scriptures' cause folks to reject the scriptures instead of just simply learning the truth about God's love!


What About our Neighbour?
Now, when Jesus was asked, Which is the first commandment of all? And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord: And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment. And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these. Mark 12:28-31

Note the order - God first!  - Then Neighbour as thyself! so thyself (including all in above list) comes before your neighbour.

If you love 'yourself' enough to feed yourself the word of God (Luke 4:4), then you will automatically try to feed your neighbour the word of God.  If you don't care enough about yourself to feed yourself the word of God, then you won't care about your neighbor's spiritual life, either.

Makes sense, eh?


And then, don't forget the Biblical limitations regarding this 'love'.

Romans 16:17 - Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.
II Corinthians 6:14-17 - Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,
Ephesians 5:11 - And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.
Colossians 2:18 -  Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,
II Thessalonians 3:14,15 -  And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed. Yet count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

To the Christ-rejecting liberal and to many Christian 'liberals' out there, loving your neighbours means 'loving those who HATE the Lord and those that HATE the Bible".

By confining themselves to the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7) and rejecting what God revealed to Paul (Acts 26:16; Galatians 1:6-12), God is Love becomes just one more perverted Biblical quotation to back up a pagan philosophy which states: "go along and support everything, and cooperate with everybody or else get killed - (or at least fired, black-listed, excluded, 'churched' or imprisoned).

Modern Twentieth century Christianity knows nothing about God or love!

How DO you give God's Love to your friends & family?
You give them BIBLE!  THAT IS GOD's LOVE!

Stay tuned to more about God's Love!


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