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But the world also will know... John 13:35 "By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another."

The normal human way takes 2 possible shortcuts that deviate from the truth. One is to become religious and a harsh judge..believing that non-Christians are simply evil and incapable of any love (thus justifying their own religious dogmatism that they try passing for love). The other error is to...

There's an inversion that takes place. I prefer the word inversion to conversion....as in... when people accused Paul of "turning the world upside down." Exactly. We stop being self-absorbed and become Christ-centered.....and body conscious so that we don't say "I" but "we". We are not to set...

We tend towards religiosity so often as we get further away from our encounter with pure love...God. We try filling in the gaps with what seems right in our own eyes. But to do this is to take away from holiness. Whatever gets mixed in with what is pure becomes defiled. So we must keep our own...

The Spirit of God is the dimension of love. We could say this is the 4th dimension. When we walk in the Spirit we are walking in God's divine love. The fruit of the Spirit is love. We know we are walking in the Spirit when that love is in us and flowing through us.

God's politics are wrapped up in the message of the kingdom of God. The kingdom of God is love, joy and peace by the Spirit. His kingdom is NOT of this world. So we, as Christians are indeed political....just not worldly.

I think it is telling that the rapture is reduced to only one kind of reference from the bible.....to escape this world physically at no cost to ourselves. Religion is escapist by design. But most of the references to rapture (harpazo) involves walking in the Spirit in Zion while we yet live...

5 And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; 6 And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; 7 And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness .....love.

Be perfect as your heavenly father is perfect? Col. 3:14 Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.

1 Cor. 13 If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3...

We know we live according to the Spirit when we identify with Christ and His body. Are we really discerning the Body? What does it mean to discern the body of Christ? We are learning to love and to recognize Christ in one another. If we don't love then we can't discern the Body. Are gifts proof...

We are made in the image of God. What is that image? God is love. The image of God is love. So then we are created as beings to be loved and to love. Our faith in Christ makes it possible to love others without any evidence of love around us. We place no conditions on this love. This kind of...

The only proof of salvation (that can't be duplicated by the outer man) is that we love. We are saved BY love in order TO love. Too simple? This is the simplicity which is in Christ. How will people know that our gatherings are of the people of God? By the love that warms the gathering. You...

The apostasy is here already. It is the apostasy concerning the faith OF Jesus Christ. What has replaced this is a belief system concerning things about Jesus....and even a human belief in Jesus for services provided. But NOT people who worship in Spirit and truth. That's what is lacking. We...

We ALL as sheep have gone astray. The sheep are not exclusively as one kind of people. Jesus is the Shepherd of all His sheep.

In politics, the devil is working both sides against the middle, so to speak. Both sides are his already. All political power is the devil's. Satan offered Jesus the political powers of this world....if he would just conform to those powers. But Jesus refused...as ALL His followers also refuse...

Improving the flesh and the world is the province of human efforts and means. Trust God instead and look to the victory of Jesus Christ over this world. Go the way of faith in God. Faith is active...but the means are love and the Spirit of God. Nobody is advocating doing nothing. Christianity...

I think the difficulty with many here with the political seduction lies in the fact that people think they are citizens of a worldly country now and only a citizen of heaven after death. But this is false. We are not to love this world. Either we are presently a citizen of heaven or else we...

You are speaking as a person of this world.

No one earns salvation. It is always through God's mercy. God first loved us....not the other way around. We have not earned anything. God IS love. He loves because He loves. For no human reason. He has mercy on whom He wills. For no apparent human reason. No one can figure God out and make a...