God is Love!!!

God is Love. This scripture taken from 1 John 4:16 has been referenced many times in our society for good and for evil. Men use this scripture to conform men and women around them to be subdued and dull to the word of God. They use this to say that we as the children of God we must be loving one to another which is very true and is a great command from Jesus Christ to us in the gospel of John, yet they want us to love one another from the definition or standard of the world’s love. The world says if someone love’s you they will not hurt your feelings and they will do everything that makes you happy. This love is based off emotions and feelings. The love of God (which means the Love out from God) that we are called to have for one another is Agape. This is the Love that the Father has for us and that we should have for Him and one another. This love is one of choice, not based off any emotions and it flows from pure motives. The enemy wishes to keep men bound by his standards and lies and when the body of Christ acts as we ought to with love and correction one to another the enemy uses the scripture of love because someone’s feelings was hurt. The word of God was also made to bring the offense, the two-edged sword with is Jesus Christ that brings division was in God’s perfect will also!!! The Word of God along with the work of the Holy Spirit brings saints to full maturity so that their vessels can be used to re-present Christ into this fallen world. Choose to love today in purity and truth and allow the Light of Christ to shine through!!! Have a wonderful life of love on purpose!!!!!

1 John 4

Test the Spirits
1Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. 2This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, 3but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and even now is already in the world.
4You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world. 5They are from the world and therefore speak from the viewpoint of the world, and the world listens to them. 6We are from God, and whoever knows God listens to us; but whoever is not from God does not listen to us. This is how we recognize the Spirit[a] of truth and the spirit of falsehood.
God's Love and Ours
7Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 8Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son[b] into the world that we might live through him. 10This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for[c] our sins. 11Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.
13We know that we live in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. 14And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. 15If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in him and he in God. 16And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him. 17In this way, love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment, because in this world we are like him. 18There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.
19We love because he first loved us. 20If anyone says, "I love God," yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen. 21And he has given us this command: Whoever loves God must also love his brother.