Yes but not relevant to the point. Jesus did not say he is love. Rather he said he is truth.
The point is that love is not all we need. I assert it is a lie because Satan will lie about what love is. Therefore, we need to be grounded in the truth, and be able to discern true love from false love.
Yea, I worded that awkwardly. In the video he made a list of things that we are told we need to cultivate. Everything on the list is a lie. And as you pointed out, what we need to cultivate is a relationship with our Savior.
Jesus Christ goes by a lot of names in the Bible!! I thought you would know that.
"The Word of God", or 'word of the Lord' is probably the most commonly used name for Him in the Bible. Though that might still be a revelation to some, which is why John specifically wrote it in Revelation!
Rev 19:13 He is clothed with a robe dipped in blood, and His name is called The Word of God
You also find that Moses used 'word of the Lord' for His name, like a lot of other prophets in the Old Testament.
Gen 15:1 After these things the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision, saying,
And we know that He, The Word, is God!
Jn 1:L1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
And we know that God, is love!
1 Jn 4:16 We have come to know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.
And from the above verse we know that God is love, and those of us who abides in love abides in God - and god abides in him.
So what does it mean to abide in God and God to abide in us?
1 Jn 2:14 I have written to you, fathers, because you know Him who has been from the beginning. I have written to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and you have overcome the evil one.
If He abides in us, then we can hear from Him words!! He is love, not us, so to do the loving thing we need to listen to Him and do what He asks us - that is the loving thing to do!! Leaning on our own understanding does not enable us to do the right and loving thing!!
That is why Paul wrote about taking all thoughts captive to Him, and why the foremost commandment in the Bible is "Hear, O Isreal", and why Mary, who was listening to Him, was doing the one thing necessary, where as Martha, though she meant good and was trying by hear own understanding, to do the right and loving thing was still not doing the right and loving thing to do, even for Jesus who was in her home!!
Therefore, the purpose of the devil is to separate us from God (our Lord God, Jesus Christ, who is the Word of God). and what He has to say to us!!! God is love, not us!! If we realize that and stop listening to that snake who from that early time in the garden was saying, "did God really say", and "You can be like God" - thereby being doubt that God is there for us and encouraging us to try and be God and Lord of our lives instead of seeking God who is the Lord of lords for instructions, even our Lord, right?
1 Cor 12:3 Therefore I make known to you that no one speaking by the Spirit of God says, “Jesus is accursed”; and no one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” except by the Holy Spirit.
Rom 10: 9 But what does it say? “THE WORD IS NEAR YOU, IN YOUR MOUTH AND IN YOUR HEART”—that is, the word of faith which we are preaching, that if you confess with your mouth Jesus
as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved;
We miss the depths of the meaning of those couple of verses above!!!!
Jesus Christ, the Word of God, is always with us!!! So we can and need to seek Him all though the day for the instructions He, as our Lord and the Word of God has for us!! That is how we wind up doing the right and loving thing to do!! Therefore love is the one thing needed, and we have Him, God, who is love in us, so that we can be loving - meaning we can do what He tells us to do!!
Prov 3:5-7 Trust in the LORD with all your heart And do not lean on your own understanding.
In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He will make your paths straight.
Do not be wise in your own eyes; Fear the LORD and turn away from evil.
That is what the Holy Spirit tells us, and is not what the devil tells us!!
The Holy Spirit tells us that Jesus Christ is the Lord, that we can turn to Him, acknowledge Him, and He will make our paths straight, and that not doing that and being wise in our own eyes is turning to evil and not turning away from evil and to the Lord!!
We overcome the evil one by turning to Jesus Christ, as the Word of God who is God and who is love!! Therefore, that is the one thing truly necessary.!!
I know I am hitting this topic hard, but it is the one thing truly needed! That we turn to Him and listen to Him!
Heb 5: 14 But solid food is for the mature, who because of practice have their senses trained to discern good and evil.
If someone truly practices listening to Him, they find out that practicing turning to Him is the training to discern good and evil!! That is to say, that I find out which thoughts are from Him or from evil, by taking those thoughts to Him, who is always with me, and seeking what He has to say about them!!
For example: Let's say I got a dream, and it applies to any thought and not just dreams, but let's go with a dream. To find out whether it is from God or from the devil, and also to find out what I need to know about the dream, I seek Jesus Christ and ask Him about the dream -eg "Lord, Jesus Christ, what was with that dream?" Then you listen to Him!!!!
On morning I woke up and had a couple of dreams I remember from the prior night. They were weird and I thought they must have been from the devil, but I asked the Lord about them. One of them had a big spider in it, and I had almost got bit by it, in the dream. When I asked Him about it, He started talking to me about this walk I was taking with someone. That person, and me too, needed to lose some weight, but he needed it really bad. He was a Christian man, and the Lord had told me before that If I wanted to lose some weight I should ask him to go on a walk with me a couple of times a week. The Lord told me that he didn't want to walk with me, but that he would simply because it is written that if someone asks you to walk with them a mile, walk with them two miles with them. And he need to get to where he would walk a couple of miles, for health reasons.
That morning we were going on another walk, and the Lord told me that a demon had gotten him, and that he was going to tell me that he had now walked 2 miles with me, so he didn't have to walk with me anymore. And it would be the end of it.
So that morning we started our walk, but I didn't mention what the Lord told me. Yet as we started the walk I saw a black widow spirit in a large web next to the sidewalk. I walked by it and realized the Lord was going to be right again. And sure enough that day, when we finished the walk that Christian man proclaimed to me, "That is two miles and is the end of our walking together". I just said, "OK." but I had never made it about getting him to walk 2 miles. That was all his thinking. And he never had to agree, if he didn't want to, I had just asked Him because the Lord told me to. The Lord cared about Him, and wanted to help him. But a evil spirit was getting him to eat too much and not walk enough, or get enough exercise. That can be my problem also. So the Lord askes me to walk with Him a lot.
The point is that - God is love!! We don't even know what the loving thing to do for others!!! In that case, the loving thing to do was walk with this Christian man, to help get him in better shape! Who would know that! Not me. I had only done it because the Lord told me. And it had only stopped because the devil got into that Christians man thoughts and he didn't talk all thoughts captive to Jesus Christ.