Real Love- Part 3 Series

The truth of God and the love of God turn people away from sin. When God said, “I loved you with an everlasting love. I gave My blood to wash you from your sins. I have sanctified you. I have set you apart as My own peculiar treasure that in the ages to come I may pour upon you, according to Ephesians 1, the treasures, exceeding great benefits.” That’s God’s design, such an awesome design, an awesome plan that He will fulfill for everyone that loves Him.

When God says that, He also says, “You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.” (John 8:32) It is the truth that will make you free. The love comes in, it melts away all of our antagonism against God, begins to change us. But the truth is right along with the love. No such thing as the love of God without the truth of God. Otherwise, we can all get together with different religions, all of the false gods, and have that worldly love without truth and all end up in hell. God’s love shows us that He came down and gave his life for us. But He spoke many things and He has written many things. The 66 books of the Bible, 39 in the Old, as you know, 27 in the New; all together were given for a purpose. It was not for the pastors or the preachers or the apostles or the prophets only. It is for every single believer. Because the Word of God is given to all of us so that the truth may set us free. Set us free from what? Human love, human love that is devoid of the divine touch. Human love will keep us confused, never standing on the truth. But when we have Divine love, grounded in Divine truth, mercy and truth have met, and we are able to walk the straight and narrow path, not giving in to our human emotions but the will, being directed, the Holy Spirit directing a heart that is surrendered to Him to accomplish the will of God in our lives, bring many souls to Him also. That is well-pleasing to God. So the love of God has the truth of God. If I say, “I love God, I must love His truth.” And it is the truth of God that James says in James 5:19[King James Version],

19. My brothers and sisters, if one of you should wander from the truth and someone should bring that person back, 20. Remember this: Whoever turns a sinner from the error of their way will save them from death and cover over a multitude of sins.

Who does the saving? One who loves, God working in one who has surrendered to Him. Because of that love, a person who is walking with God with divine love has the boldness and the absolute concern for the welfare of that soul that has strayed from the truth. That’s exactly what the scripture says. One who wanders from the truth will end up with a multitude of sins, but they’ll be saved from the error of their way. They will be saved from death, saved from death. Is it talking of physical death? No. It’s talking of spiritual death. Spiritual death. Because everyone dies. Everyone has an appointed time unless they are in that generation when the Lord Jesus comes. As it says in 1 Corinthians 15, we who are alive at that time, there will be transformed, translated. But everyone else will go through death, the normal way. This death here is speaking of spiritual death. So, the love of God compels me to give what? Not only the good works to help someone with my material possessions, my affection, my words of encouragement and comfort; but also the truth of the Lord Jesus.

What is the use of a knife in the surgeon’s hand? What is the use of a knife in a criminal’s hand? Two different purposes: the one seeks to destroy, that is all that person knows, selfish, murderers. The other seeks to heal, but he also seeks to destroy. What does a surgeon seek to destroy? Obviously the malignant tumor, that is destroying the person. No one would dare go to a surgeon and say, “Don’t use that instrument, it’s so sharp. Can’t you see it can cause pain?” But when one understands the purpose of the surgeon, the design of his surgery, one backs off and is ever grateful. Because of the removal of this tumor, this surgeon can say later, “This cancerous doctrine, this false teaching, this error I have saved this person from a multitude of sins and from death.”

When I love God, I will love his truth. I will have such a benevolent attitude that I will go to any lengths within reason, within divine reason, within the divine will to save that soul by presenting that soul with the truth. It’s not enough to put my arm around a person and tell them, “it's ok.” It’s not enough to wipe their tears. I must present the truth of God. And the truth is all over the scriptures. Thy word is truth. God will show us what is necessary to encourage each other, to exhort each other, to warn each other. These are all necessary. It is the absence of this aspect of God’s love, that is the truth that has caused multitudes to go into false doctrine, into self-complacency, into darkness, into sin and they don’t feel like they need to be checked, because everyone is in the same boat. But they say, they love each other, they say they love God. What happened to God’s truth? We need the truth of God. This is what James says, In Jude verse 20-23 [King James Version], it says this:20. But you, dear friends, by building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit, 21. Keep yourselves in God’s love as you wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you to eternal life.