7.23-What is love?

7.23-
What is love?



Matthew 22.
34 But when the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered themselves together. 35 One of them, [n]a lawyer, asked Him a question, testing Him, 36 “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” 37 And He said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the great and [o]foremost commandment. 39 The second is like it, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 On these two commandments depend the whole Law and the Prophets.”


1.       We know that all the commands of God hang on a couple.  Love God 100% and love your neighbor as yourself.  God is love.  Those who love God must love their brothers and sisters. It is to avoid fornication and adultery.  But it is also hospitality to strangers.  It is a visit to a prisoner and treating them with dignity and mutuality.  Stand up for the poor who don’t have the resources to pay for a lobbyist.  It is honor your marriage vows.  It is to sit with a widow on the night her husband dies.  It is to be free from the love of money.  It is being content with what you have but not who you are.  It is knowing that God in His love will never forsake us nor desert us.  He is our helper.  Therefore, what can any man do to us.  It is to be secure in His love.  Love imitates the faith of those who taught them the gospel.  Love knows that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever.  It is to love God and love people and not to be distracted by the addiction to things.  It is to be willing to go outside the camp with Him.   Our heavenly life is filled with praise of God and doing good and sharing with others.  Heavenly life is one where we realize that this life does not last.  Love of one’s neighbor includes being a good follower.  Heaven love is to be honorable in all we do especially that which pleases God. It is to choose to be a vessel of honor every day.  This heavenly life is not quarrelsome, but kind and gentle.  There is a promise of eternal life to those who love God.

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