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Be like Jesus and love, then love some more

POSTED BY: Just Jim | COMMENTS: 0 Comments | DATE: July 10, 2014

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1 st Corinthians 13 says that even if I speak like an angel, feed the poor, or even give my body to be burned for my faith, if I don't have love then I have nothing. That is the most important thing I have learned on my journey with God. It is my commandment to love everyone with agape love. Agape love is the love that does the hard things. Giving when there is no earthly appreciation, and doing it cheerfully because you genuinely love everyone. That doesn't mean you never get frustrated with anyone, because you do. But, you quickly realize that you have done, or do the same things and forgive and repent for the bout of anger. When we truly love our neighbors as ourselves we will automatically start being in line with 6 of the ten commandments as a result of that love. because, if you love your mother and father you will honor them. If you love everyone you most certainly wont want to murder them. If you love your wife you wont want to comit adultry. If you love your neighbors you wont steal from them. If you love everyone you wont give false testamony about them. If you love you neighbors you wont covet their stuff. The other 4 commandments are about love as well. The love of God is what they are about. If you truly love God you will have no other Gods before Him, not even the TV. If you Love God with all your mind and strength you will not make for yourself graven images and worship them. If you truly love the Lord you will not use His name for illicit gain or in any other vain way. If we loved God like we should we would observe the Sabbath and keep it holy. But these obedience will come from an internal attitude of gratitude, service, and love. 1st Corinthians 13 The Greatest Gift 13 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. 2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned,[a] but have not love, it profits me nothing. 4 Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; 5 does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; 6 does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8 Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part. 10 But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away. 11 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. 12 For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known. 13 And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

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1 corinthians 13

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 If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast,but do not have love, I gain nothing. 4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. 8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. 11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhoodh behind me. 12 For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. 13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love.l But the greatest of these is love

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