First John 3:11-12
For this is the message which you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another; not as Cain, who was of the evil one and slew his brother. And for what reason did he slay him? Because his deeds were evil, and his brothers were righteous.
[[ what is love, how does it act: (First Corinthians 13)
Love is patient
love is kind
Love is not jealous
love does not brag
Love is not arrogant
Love does not act unbecomingly
Love does not seek its own
Love is not provoked
Love does not take into account a wrong suffered,
Love does not rejoice in unrighteousness,
Love rejoices with the truth
Love bears all things
Love believes all things
Love hopes all things Love endures all things.
Love is a choice and it is an action Love is something you have to chose to do, then work at doing, it is not something you just wake up one morning and say I love and then you love, every moment of every day it has to be your choice to Love.
John 15:12-17
“This is My commandment, that you love one another,
just as I have loved you.
Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends.
You are My friends if you do what I command you.
No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you.
You did not choose Me but I chose you, and appointed you that you would go and bear fruit, and that your fruit would remain, so that whatever you ask of the Father in My name He may give to you.
This I command you, that you love one another.
Matthew 22:36-40
Jesus was asked “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” 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.
This is the great and foremost commandment. The second is like it,
YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.
On these two commandments depend the whole Law and the Prophets.”
John 3:16-18
“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.
For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him.
He who believes in Him is not judged; he who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.”
In the bible it has been explained to us that Father GOD sent to earth His son Christ Jesus that me may be saved from the great rath of Father GOD, that we are all sinners fallen short of the glory of GOD.
Jesus came to provide us a way to be cleansed of all our sins and to stand as our avocet before the Father in our behalf.
He gave His life for ours. (Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends.)
For doing this for us should we not give our life for Him in return?
Should we not follow His commandments?
And follow them with a heart of gratitude?
Jesus has many times asked us to love?
Jesus has told us that Love is the greatest and foremost commandment?
(“YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND. This is the great and foremost commandment. The second is like it, YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.)
It has been explained to us what Love is (read above 1 Corinthians 13)
All of the above has been directed at the believer and how one believer in Christ Jesus is to treat another believer.
But in most churches to day there is strife and arguments between believers and all because we refuse to love one another, and do not follow the guidelines of what Love is. (First Corinthians 13) but rather to chose to do the opposite and strive to put ourselves first rather then our fellow believer before our self.
“This is My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you.
Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends.
“YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND. This is the great and foremost commandment. The second is like it, YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.
Want the world to change?
Then change the way you act and treat others.
Obey the commandment of the Lord Jesus Christ and Love one another as Christ has loved you, willing to give your life for your brother, putting their needs before your own.
Will you choose to obey?
And live in this manner?
Love is patient
Love is kind
Love is not jealous
Love does not brag
Love is not arrogant
Love does not act unbecomingly
Love does not seek its own
Love is not provoked
Love does not take into account a wrong suffered,
Love does not rejoice in unrighteousness,
Love rejoices with the truth
Love bears all things
Love believes all things
Love hopes all things
Love endures all things.
Living out love is your choice, you say you love the Lord Jesus, you say you love the Father?
Then show it by the chooses you make, chose to love your fellow believer.
Choos to fallow the commandments of the Lord Jesus Christ rather then your own desires. ]]