Now, "love" in the Bible is not an emotion, or feeling, it is JEHOVAH Elohiym:
1 John 4:8 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for
God is love.
1 John 4:16 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.
Since God is love. Since God is not an emotion. God is fruit. God is works. This is clearly demonstrated in the creation. This is clearly seen in: God sent HIS only begotten Son. Our love that demonstrates God is also not an emotion but fruit. Our love is also not an emotion but “works” of the Spirit. Galatians 5:22-23 [22] But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, [23] Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
Ephesians 5:9-14
[9] (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth [10] Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord. [11] And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them . [12] For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret. [13] But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light. [14] Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.
Proverbs 12:13-14
[13] The wicked is snared by the transgression of his lips: but the just shall come out of trouble. [14]
A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth: and the recompence of a man's hands shall be rendered unto him.
Matthew 15:10-11
[10] And he called the multitude, and said unto them,
Hear, and understand: [11] Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.
Matthew 7:20-21
[20] Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them. [21] Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
John 6:30-34
[30] They said therefore unto him,
What sign shewest thou then, that
we may see, and believe thee?
what dost thou work? [31] Our fathers did eat manna in the desert; as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat. [32] Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven; but my Father giveth you the true bread from heaven. [33] For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and
giveth life unto the world. [34] Then said they unto him, Lord, evermore give us this bread.
John 10:37-38
[37] If
I do not the works of my Father, believe me not. [38] But if I do, though ye believe not me,
believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him.
John 14:10
[10] Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but
the Father that dwelleth in me,
he doeth the works.
Thus, since "God is love", He always hates sin, and since God loves us so much that He gave His only-begotton Son:
Leviticus 19:17 Thou shalt
not hate thy brother in thine heart:
thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and
not suffer sin upon him.
Leviticus 19:18 Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but
thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the LORD.
He does this, since all sin (
1 John 3:4), is consumed in His presence, He rebukes us, in love, correcting us, and delivering us from sin, that we might stand in His loving presence and not be consumed. That we might see His face and live and not die.
“He rebukes us, in love, correcting us, and delivering us from sin, that we might stand in His loving presence and not be consumed. That we might see His face and live and not die.”
Well said! Beautiful and again: the works of God are LOVE in action, the correction of the Father upon a child. Here is the question: what will remain through God’s consuming fire? Will this temporal flesh or meat that has been crucified and is dead remain? Paul spoke as if dragging around a corpse he couldn’t wait to get off his back and from taunting of the old ways of Saul. Is that what God corrects the dead man that has already been judged and condemned to death? Or does God Judge the new heart (mind)He has giventhe a child of God? Where the fruit of love runs freely with living water? We are told the former things are forgotten and are passed away. If I focus every day on sins of the flesh, I am looking back on the former things and what happens is ... I am focused on my sin, my goodness or lack of, and not on love.
“...that we might stand in His loving presence and not be consumed. That we might see His face and live and not die.“
What will stand in His loving presence and not be consumed? What might see His face and live and not die?
Is it not the works of LOVE?