The Kingdom Power of True Love (Part 3)

The Kingdom Power of True Love (Part 3)

Love is a debt we owe. In Romans 13:8, “Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for whoever loves others have fulfilled the law.” Sometimes, we owe people and we don’t FEEL like paying them. Like when the mortgage bill comes, we don’t feel like paying them that debt, but we choose based on our integrity to pay. In other words, we owe no man, but to love them. We should remove our feelings out of our mind, when it comes to loving someone. It’s good to feel good about something, but we are not to mix it up with love because it doesn’t work. In John 13:34-35 and John 15:12-13, “My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.” Jesus keeps repeating the love for each other because it’s a law. He commanded or instructed us to do it. In John 15:17, “This is my command: Love each other.” And, in John 14:15, “If you love me, keep my commands.” If we love Jesus, then we will love those who Jesus loves.

Where does the real love come from? We don’t ever consider, sex is love, and they’re never the same. As a matter of fact, they call sex MAKING love. Then, it means it doesn’t exist, we have to invent it or make it. They mean they don’t have love, and they are making it for 45 seconds. That’s not love. According to Galatians 5:23, Love is not a gift, it’s a fruit (ninefold fruit of Love is joy, peace, patience, kindness (thought), goodness (behavior), faithfulness, gentleness and self-control). According to Galatians 5:14, says, “For the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command: “Love your neighbor (next to you) as yourself.” The Fruit of the Spirit is Love. It’s not a gift, it’s a fruit. So, we have to get some knowledge, like what is gentleness or self-control? There’s no gift of love in the Bible. Either, it’s in us by God’s grace or we don’t have it! Born again means we have the Holy Spirit. That means we have the love of God or the fruit of God’s love in us.

Why do we have a divorce? The answer is, we lack knowledge and having the Holy Spirit is not equal to having the knowledge. For example, we can have a complete tool set for our car, but we can’t fix our car. So, having the knowledge of God is not the same as having the knowledge to fix our car. So, we need teaching, on how do I use these tools? People who divorced, still loves that person. The problem is, they just couldn’t live together, that’s all! There were many misunderstanding, on how to use the tools? It’s possible that people will hurt and abused us and still love us. They don’t know why they’re doing it. What they’re really saying is that I still have the agape love, but I don’t know, how to use the tool? That’s why we need the knowledge and we don’t get married for love.

In 1 John 4:7, speaks about being born of God (love=agape). God doesn’t have love, He IS Love! It’s His very being and we are created in that same image. God is Love. Whoever lives in love, lives in God. True Love comes from God. Sometimes, we meet someone that has everything, but doesn’t have God, then he/she is not for us. We don’t go with someone telling us, I’m saved, they don’t qualify yet. They need to learn how to use the tool (love) set. However, don’t get me wrong. If you take a chance, at least get the one with the tool set. At least they have the material (God’s Holy Spirit).

Love is a decision to commit, to meet another person’s need for life without expectation. This is agape. Agape (unconditional) has no expectation and that is a high order. If somebody falls in Phileo (brotherly) love with you, it means they expect you to treat each other nicely. It’s not agape because they expect you to behave yourself. Eros (erotic) love says, if you give me some, then I will give you some. Sterego (friendship) love says, we are friends as long as you don’t hurt me. Love is caring (anticipating before it’s demanded of you for others need and to meet it, right now) for a person. When we care about someone, we study what they will need tomorrow, and we give it to them today. Caring means out thinking the other person’s need for today or tomorrow. It means we don’t allow that person to ask us for anything because we know what they need, that’s caring. They will spend all their lives to give it to us now, if they truly love us. Always check, if they anticipate on what you need. The Lord said, cast your care upon Him because He cares for you. Care in the Hebrew means to anticipate a need. That’s why when you pray to God, He knows what you need and what you’re going to ask Him? In Isaiah 65:24, “Before they call I will answer; while they are still speaking I will hear.” While you are speaking, God says, Here I am! Even before we finished our sentence. You see, God died for us, not after our sin, but while we were in sin. That’s caring! Before the foundation of the world, He accounted it just in case we fall or sin against Him. Love is the manifestation of the inherent nature of God. God always cares. It’s when God’s agape love flows through a man and a woman that’s true love.

Here’s Agape love define in a practical way: True Love has no reason. This is what love is about. In other words, if we can find a reason to love someone, then we just canceled love. If we tell someone why we love them, we just abandoned love. It’s no longer love. God never told us why he loves us. God so loved the world, not the earth that He sent His one and only son, Jesus. The next time someone says, they love you. Ask them, why? Wait for the answer. Whatever they answer, it will destroy the relationship because true love has no reason. This is how we can measure, if its true love or not. Whenever there’s a reason, then there’s a condition. Now with that condition, there’s an expectation. Expectation produces disappointments. The disappointment leads to division in a relationship, which results in disaster, destruction, and trouble in our life. Division; Di means two and vision means one. Once we end up having two visions, our relationships are over! God said, a house divided cannot stand. Therefore, true Love has no reason! God is engaged in caring for us for the rest of our life, without expectation, and He decided to commit Himself forever to us! It says, in Hosea 2:19, “I will betroth (engaged) you to me forever.” Praise God!

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