Bible Matters 456: Undeniable Love – God

Jesus was sent by God with a message of love.   You understand the truth in God’s word from the testimony of the witnesses. The testimonies of all eight witnesses were that one should have undeniable love for God.   A message of love for God, the creator of heaven and earth!   No where does God tells you to love yourself.  Addiction, drunkenness, fornication and sin is all about love of self.   That is exactly why the preponderance of evidence coming out of the testimony of the witnesses, is about love of God. When you love God, you repent and turn from sin and follow his commandments.   Loving your neighbor as yourself.   

John 5:2 – By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.

Your worship of God is shown by keeping his words!  Worshipping him in spirit and truth.

Revelation 22:9 – Then saith he unto me, See thou do it not: for I am thy fellow servant, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of them which keep the sayings of this book: worship God.

John 4:24 – God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

The worship of God has been since the beginning. 

Deuteronomy 6:5 – And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.

Joshua 23:11 – Take good heed therefore unto yourselves, that ye love the Lord your God.

Daniel 9:4 – And I prayed unto the Lord my God, and made my confession, and said, O Lord, the great and dreadful God, keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep his commandments;

When you love God, you listen to his words and turn from your evil ways.  Within a couple of generations after the great flood of Noah, the people of Nineveh turned to their evil ways.  God sent Noah to deliver a message of repentance to the people.  He did not go right away, but he went!  The sailors saw the power of God and offered a sacrifice unto the Lord God.

Jonah 1:1-3,15-16 – Now the word of the Lord came unto Jonah the son of Amittai, saying,  Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me. But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the Lord, and went down to Joppa; and he found a ship going to Tarshish: so he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them unto Tarshish from the presence of the Lord.  So they took up Jonah, and cast him forth into the sea: and the sea ceased from her raging.  Then the men feared the Lord exceedingly, and offered a sacrifice unto the Lord, and made vows.

The king took heed to Jonah’s message from God.  The people turned from their wickedness.   God made them a great city.

Jonah 3:5-6,8,10 – So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.  For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.  But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands.  And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not.

When you love God, you repent and turn from your evil ways.   Like the young man at the jail that was raised in a Christian home and went twelve years of Christian schooling, who said he didn’t feel the love and glory of God!  He spent every night in a bar, spinning records and drinking alcohol.  Nothing he did in his life gave glory to God and no love of neighbor.  Many people that know of God are stuck in the flesh of this world, failing to give the God the glory.  To realize the glory of God, turn from the sins of the flesh, repent and follow God’s commandments.  Parable after parable was delivered to the people of growing in the glory of God.  God’s word is the seed.  Don’t let the devil destroy your walk with God.  Get in a good place and grow God’s word in your heart.  When you love God, you hear his word and do it!  Never turn from your walk with God.  Walk with the righteous and endure to the end. 

Luke 8:11-17,19,21 –  Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.  Those by the way side are they that hear; then cometh the devil, and taketh away the word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved.  They on the rock are they, which, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, which for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away. And that which fell among thorns are they, which, when they have heard, go forth, and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection.  But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience. No man, when he hath lighted a candle, covereth it with a vessel, or putteth it under a bed; but setteth it on a candlestick, that they which enter in may see the light.  For nothing is secret, that shall not be made manifest; neither any thing hid, that shall not be known and come abroad.  Then came to him his mother and his brethren, and could not come at him for the press.  And he answered and said unto them, My mother and my brethren are these which hear the word of God, and do it.

Jesus delivered God’s commandments of Love.  Love God and Love your neighbor. 

Matthew 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.

Luke 10:27 – And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.

Mark 12:30 – And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.

1 John 4:21 – And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.

When you Love God, then you Love your neighbor.  

1 John 4:8,11 – He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.  Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.

God has called you for a purpose.  Walk with the Lord God to know his word.  God will deliver.

1 Corinthians 2:9 – But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.

Romans 8:28 – And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

James 2:5 – Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?

Keep your walk with God, pure. 

2 John 1:6 – And this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, That, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it.

3 John 1:11 – Beloved, follow not that which is evil, but that which is good. He that doeth good is of God: but he that doeth evil hath not seen God.

Jude 1:21 – Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.

To God be the glory in all you do, Amen.