Love

Topic: WHAT IS LOVE?

Text: Romans 5:5 And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.

Biblical love is based in faith. In fact biblical love is the result that true faith produces. We cannot please God a part from faith. True faith molds the believer into the vessel that God can use, a vessel dedicated to serving the Lord.

James 2:20 says, "But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?"
Most often the reason people cannot love others is because they do not love God. 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."

Jesus in Matthew 22:39, added to the command of Deuteronomy 6:5 and said, "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself."

Love is not an option for a Christian because the Lord Jesus makes it a command.

This is not a love based on feelings or emotion. It does not require much to love those that love us. But biblical love is love that is given because one wills to give it. The Lord said in Romans 5:8 that He loved us when we were yet in our sins. That demonstrates biblical love. It is a willed love.

I Pray May God put his true love  in us all and destroy every spirit of hatred, lustfulness, greedy, enmity  in our country, land, tribe, family, church, friends.  in Jesus Name