Bible Matters 455: Undeniable Love – Neighbor

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 and for one another.   A message of love for others!   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 one another. Love that is fed by good works serving others.    

Hebrews 10:24 – And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:

Galatians 5:13 – For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.

Love is a commandment given by God.   Serving out of love is the fulfilment of the law.

Romans 13:8-10 – Owe no man anything, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.  For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.  Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

1 John 3:11 – For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.

1 John 4:11-13,16,19-21 – Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.  No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.  Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit. And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. [19] We love him, because he first loved us.  If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?  And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.

Galatians 5:14 – For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

John 15:17 – These things I command you, that ye love one another.

John 13:34 – A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.

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 12:31 – And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.

Matthew 19:19 – Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

1 Thessalonians 4:9 – But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.

James 2:8 – If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well:

When you love one another with a pure heart, you are born again in the spirit, with a pure heart serving as directed by God.   

1 Peter 1:22 – Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:

1 John 4:7,11-12 – Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.  Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.  No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.

In the eyes of God, all that matters is love unto eternal life. 

Ephesians 4:2 – With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;

Jude 1:2,21 – Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be multiplied.  Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.

The preponderance of evidence concerning the commandment of love for one another is overwhelming.  All eight witnesses, spoke of it extensively.  There is no other subject matter spoken of consistently by all eight witnesses.  When you believe in God, then you live your life in his glory by loving and serving one another by doing good works.

Many of the lost have been deceived by the devil with this one verse:

Ephesians 2:8-9 – For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.   

You will sit back on your laurels and as a proud fool, convince yourself that you are saved by grace and you don’t have to do any works!   Jesus did it all. 

God wants you to know the truth in his word. 

Never rely on the testimony of one witness to understand the truth in God’s word.  God wants you to serve him, by serving one another in love.  Rely on the understanding of the truth in God’s word from the mouth or two or three witnesses.  When the testimony of all eight witnesses in agreement, then you listen and obey God’s word in truth.

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