The Solution to Division in the Church 8-11-26

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Want to undo the works of Satan? LOVE is the Key!

LOVE-  

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.  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. 

And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.

Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up;  does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil;  does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

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. For we know in part and we prophesy in part.  But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away.

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. 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.

[Paul wrote to let us know that when he was a child (babe in Christ) he thought like a childe thought. But as he developed in his walk, he became mature and thought differently].

And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love (1 Corinthians 13).

Bearing fruit – But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control (Galatians 5:22-23a). [Notice that with the fruit, the first one is LOVE].

 I am the Vine; you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing (John 15:5). You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain (John 15:16a).

Everything is a process.

Example: when a farmer plants fruit. It tales time for it to grow to maturity and become edible.

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another (John 15:34-25).

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This is the AGAPE or unconditional LOVE with no stipulations.

Betty A. Burnett ~ burnettministries.org