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"What True Love Does"
Contributed by William Young on Aug 26, 2001 (message contributor)
Summary: The true Love of God is a most amazing power~experience it today!
What True Love Does:
Matt 22:37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
John 5:42 But I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you.
OBEYS
John 14:15 If ye love me, keep my commandments.
I Jn 5:3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.
Gal 5:6 For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.
SACRIFICES
John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
2 Cor 8:9 For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.
LIVES BY TRUTH
John 8:31-32 Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed;
And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
II Th 2:10-12 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
PERSISTS
Rev 2:4 Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love.
1 Tim 4:10 For therefore we both labour and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of those that believe.
Matt 24:12 And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.
REMEMBERS
1 Cor 11:23-26 READ.
2 Pet 1:12 Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present
truth.
GROWS
Phil 1:9-11
9 And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment;
10 That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ;
11 Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.
2 Peter 1:5-12 READ
1 Thes 4:9-11 READ