God's Love Versus Human Love

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Word Based Versus Emotions Based. Spirit Led Versus being led by the flesh. God’s Love Versus Human Love Accountability Versus Isolation Kingdom First Versus Family First

Spirit Led Verse being led by the flesh.

God’s Love Verses Human Love

God’s Love Versus Human Love

Accountability Verses Isolation

Key Verses

John 13:34 ESV
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.

Love is and has always been a very important topic to the Godhead

John 13:31–35 ESV
When he had gone out, Jesus said, “Now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in him. If God is glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself, and glorify him at once. Little children, yet a little while I am with you. You will seek me, and just as I said to the Jews, so now I also say to you, ‘Where I am going you cannot come.’ A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
John 15:12–13 ESV
“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
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1 Thessalonians 4:9 ESV
Now concerning brotherly love you have no need for anyone to write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another,
1 Peter 1:22 ESV
Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart,
1 John 4:7–12 ESV
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.

According to Jesus, love is the single most important commandment in the whole of scripture.

Defining our terms

Matthew 22:34 ESV
But when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together.
Matthew 22:34–40 ESV
But when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together. And one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him. “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”
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Kingdom First Verses Family First

The answer from verses Matt. 22.45 was a quote from Deut. 6.5
Deuteronomy 6:5 ESV
You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.
The second part of Jesus’ answer in verse 39 was a quote from
Duet 6.5
Leviticus 19:18 ESV
You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord.
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Jesus concluded his answer with this statement from verse 40
Matthew 22:40 ESV
On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”
Matthew 22:40 NKJV
On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.”
matt 22.40
Matthew 22:40 AMP
These two commandments sum up and upon them depend all the Law and the Prophets.
Matthew 22:40 NLT
The entire law and all the demands of the prophets are based on these two commandments.”
James uses and interesting term when speaking about it.
James 2:8 ESV
If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well.

He uses the term ROYAL

Another way of saying this: If you really fulfill the “KINGDOM LAW.”

Jesus’ central message was about his new Kingdom. We have been delivered from the KINGDOM of darkness, and We are now in the Kingdom of God.

You cannot enjoy the benefits of a governing system if you are unwilling to keep its laws.

If you break the laws that govern its people, you are considered a “lawbreaker” and receive the penalty associated with breaking that law.

Since we have ONLY ONE LAW as kingdom citizens, it would be in our best interest to KEEP the law of love, IF we expect to enjoy the benefits of this citizenship.

Defining the Love of God

agapē, generally assumed to mean moral goodwill which proceeds from esteem, principle, or duty, rather than attraction or charm.

Agapē means to love the undeserving, despite disappointment and rejection;

the difference between agapaō and phileō is difficult to sustain in all passages.

Agapē is especially appropriate for religious love.

The verb agapaō was frequent in the Greek OT. Though agapē has more to do with moral principle than with inclination or liking, it never means the cold religious kindness shown from duty alone, as scriptural examples abundantly prove.

Agapē is called out of one’s heart by the preciousness of the object loved. It is a love of esteem, of evaluation. It has the idea of prizing. It is the noblest word for love in the Greek language.

Agapē is not kindled by the merit or worth of its object, but it originates in its own God-given nature. God is love.

Agape delights in giving

Agape keeps on loving even when the loved one is unresponsive, unkind, unlovable, and unworthy. It is unconditional love.

Agapē desires only the good of the one loved. It is a consuming passion for the well-being of others

This love keeps on loving even when the loved one is unresponsive, unkind, unlovable, and unworthy. It is unconditional love.

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Comparing Human love Versus God’s Love

Characteristics of human Love
1. It is selfish and gains based
2. It has strings and expects something in return
3. It is conditional
4. It could partial and unholy
5. It is sensual
6. Gives to get
7. Could be offended and may stop when not appreciated
8. Expects returns from recipients
9. Go to limited length to help other
10.. When disappointed totally discouraged
Characteristics of God’s Love
1. Sacrificial
2. No strings attached
3. It is unconditional
4. Holy
5. Spiritual
6. Gives to be a blessing
7. Continues against all odds
8. Expects returns from God
9. Go to every length possible to help others
10. May be disappointed but never discouraged

Human love is limited to natural abilities, but with God’s love, you will surpass your human ability.

Scriptures for further study
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Personal declaration for the day

Today, I receive the love of God, and I enabled to love beyond my natural ability.

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