The Greatest Lesson: Love
Love
Lesson2: The True Christian
Christ Disciples
John 13:34-35 :
"34 And so I am giving a new commandament to you now- love each other just as much as I love you.
35 Your strong love for each other will prove to the world that you are my disciples."
It's Love that make us Christians, not our worship or our praise, when we shout thanksgiving to God and Jesus. The real way to worship our Father is by loving each other. It's Love that makes us Disciples of Christ and Children of God, not our shouts of praise, or or hands up in the air.
... It can even be pretty for God...
... But it's not what He wants us mostly to do...
The True Commandament
1 John 2:7-8 :
"7 Dear brothers, I am not writing out a new rule for you to obey, for it is an old one you have allways had, right from the start. You have heard it all before.
8 Yet, it is allways new, and works for you just as it did for Christ; and as we obey this commandament,
to love one another, the darkness in our lives disappears and the new light of life in Christ shines in."
Here is the only commandament that exists: love one another. If you follow Love, if you Love people, how can you steal them? How can you kill? How can you dishonor your father and mother? You can't! Because you Love them! So, my beloved brothers and sisters, Love each other! For it's through Love that comes the salvation. God and Christ, themselves, are Love! It's through Love that you have a life in Christ.
God is Love :
1 John 4:7-8 :
"7 Dear friends, let us practice loving each other, for love comes from God and those who are loving each other, for Love comes from God and those who are loving and kind show that they are children of God, and that they are getting to know Him better.
8 But if a person isn't loving and kind, it shows that he doesn't know God, for God is Love."
Again, God is Love. Loving each other is the way to the Father. The Bible says that Christ is the way to the Father. Christ is Love too...
... This is written everywhere in the Bible!
Love your Brother! :
1 John 3:14-20 :
"14 If we love other Cristians it proves that we have been delivered from hell and given eternal life. But a person who doesn't have Love for others is headed for eternal death.
15 Anyone who hates his Christian brother is really a murderer at heart; and you know that no one wanting to murder has eternal life within.
16 We know what real Love is from Christ's example in dying for us. And so we also ought to lay down our lives for our Christian brothers."
So... forgive your brothers and sisters! Love them if all your Heart. And of course, bring other people to the family, for you Love everyone, unconditionally!
Don't just say it; show it!
1 John 3:17-20 :
"17 But if someone who is supposed to be Christian has money enough to live well, and sees a brother in need, and won't help him- how can God's Love be within him?
18 Little children, let us stop just
saying we love people; let us
really love them, and
show it by our actions.
19 When we will know for sure, by our actions, that we are on God's side, and our consciences wil be clear, even when we stand before the Lord.
20 But if we have bad consciences and feel that we have done wrong, the Lord will surely feel it even more, for He knows everything we do."
Philipians 2:1-2 :
"1 Is there any such thing as Christians cheering each other up? Do you love me enough to want to help me? Does it mean anything to you that we are brothers in the Lord, sharing the same Spirit? Are your hearts tender and sympathetic at all?
2 Then make me truly happy by loving each other and agreeing wholeheartedly with each other, working together with one heart and mind an purpose."
Show your Love. Don't say "I Love my brother" and then don't forgive him... if you really Love him, forgive him! Love each other with all your Hearts, if all your Essence, your Spirit.
Christian Virtue
Philipians 4:8-9 :
"8 Finally brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, let your mind dwell on thse things.
9 The things you have learned and received and heard and seen in me, practice these things; and the God of peace shall be with you."
Love your enemies... (if you can call them so...) :
Matthew 5:43-48
"43 'There is a saying, 'Love your
friends and hate your enemies.'
44 But I say: Love your
enemies! Pray for those who
persecute you!
45 In that way you will be acting as true sons of your Father in heaven. For he gives sunlight to both the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and unjust too.
46 If you Love only those who Love you, what good is that? Even scoundrels do that much.
47 If you are friendly only to your friends, how are you different from anyone else? Even the heathen do that.
48 But you are to be prefect, even as your Father in heaven is perfect."
Here we can see even the hardest aspect of the Bible: intepretation vs literacy. In verse 45, the sun has a literal meaning and a metaphorical one! The sun here also means Love. The Love of God shining to evil and good and warming us up.
The rain means also purification through God, through Love.
Love your enemies! If you can Love your "enemies" (if you Love them, they are not your enemies anymore...) you are truly a Child of God! Your Love is perfect, and you have God's Love in your Heart.
Conclusion
Love all with all your Heart, unconditionally! Being them your brothers and sisters or your enemies, Love them! Believe on the Lord, believe in Love!
Christians, don't worry very much about those who didn't say that they accepted Jesus in their Hearts. If they have Love in their Hearts, if they Love unconditionally, they already have Christ in their Hearts! They already accepted Christ in their Hearts for they Love! I was one of those. I'm Christian for ony some months and I know all those things because the Word was in my Heart! The Word IS in my Heart. I've been following the Word for years eventhough I wasn't Christian, because I Love with all my Heart, unconditionally.
I Love you all,
Nelson