Unfeigned Love Series

The little girl said, ‘I will not have many chances to serve the Lord while I am small. But [by His grace] I will use the one-cat power I have, and serve Him all I can.” (Knights Treasury of 2,000 Illustrations)

We all have done something good for someone without seeing the results we hoped for. Often our efforts were unappreciated. Worse yet, we set before our spiritual hearts wrong expectations of the act shown through our human love. Thus, we struggle in doing good for those to whom we have shown our human love.

Let the Holy Spirit put this truth deep with in your spiritual heart. You are not to do good to others because of your expectations of certain results. You are to good to all as the Lord makes the way, simply because God’s Word tells you to. Holy Spirit Illuminated Christians exercise true religion through agape love. This love comes only from God, thus enabling the child of God to first express unfeigned love to the Lord, then to the Body of Christ and then unto all of mankind.

Transitional Sentence: Unfeigned love is expressed by your doing what God tells you to do because of the knowledge there will be a day of accountability. Acts 17:31 says, “For He has set a day when He will judge the world with justice by the man He has appointed. He has given proof of this to all men by raising Him from the dead." Romans 14:12 says, “So then, each of us will give an account of himself to God.” Romans 2:16 says, “This will take place on the day when God will judge men’s secrets through Jesus Christ, as my gospel declares.”

The New American Standard Bible says that God has “Fixed,” (hístemi) meaning that the day of Judgement has been set, already determined. (The Complete Word Study of the Bible; The Preacher’s Outline Study Bible) This is a righteous judgment dealing with how men lived and behaved.

Jesus Christ will be the judge who is worthy. He took all the sins of the world upon Himself. God raised Him from the dead thus giving our Lord victory over sin and death. (Isaiah 53:4; Matthew 8:17; Acts 2:24) Unlike all other judges, Christ never sinned. (Hebrews 4:15)

The Lord, Jesus will some day review and evaluate the ministry of His servants (The Bible Knowledge Commentary; Matthew Henry Commentary) and not only Christians but all of mankind. (Isaiah 45:23; Romans 14:11; Tyndale Concise Bible Commentary) The whole of Scripture teaches us that Christians and non-Christians will give an accounting of their time, how they improved on their opportunities, what they did and how they lived their life on this earth.

There is nothing that speaks more terror to unrepentant sinners and gives more comfort to the Body of Christ than the Biblical fact that Jesus Christ is a righteous Judge. The secrets of men’s hearts will be exposed, judged, then rewarded or punished according to what is found deep within the heart of mankind. (Matthew Henry Commentary; Jeremiah 17:10; A Commentary, Critical and Explanatory; The Bible Exposition Commentary) The Holy Spirit moved the Apostle Paul to proclaim a truth that should be grasped by Christians and non-Christians, “God will give to each person according to what he has done." (Romans 2:6) This truth proclaimed by Paul agrees with the truth written by the psalmist who wrote, “Surely you [O’ God], will reward each person according to what he has done.” (Psalm 62:12b)