The Great Commandment

We find that most people - I am speaking of well-educated people with plenty of money to meet their needs - do in fact live their lives selfishly. They make their plans, they select their studies, they choose where they will live and what job they will have and how they will spend their free time as though the only standard that mattered was their own gratification. So long as they commit no actual crime, they feel free to pursue their thoughts, conversation, and recreation exactly as they please.

By doing this they totally destroy the generous and alert spirit of Christian kindness, a spirit that is constantly looking for ways to express itself in the world around us. Selfishness is like a bomb that explodes this loving spirit. In its place, we erect a system of decent selfishness, a system that not only fails to recognize God, but one that also ignores any chance to spread joy through the world.

God’s Love Perfected in Us

God’s Love in Us Cleanses Us Of Sin

God’s Love in Us Causes Us To Obey

Friendship involves obedience on our part; and on His part the making known of the deep things of God. Even the Son learned obedience by the things which He suffered. It is by implicit obedience alone that we can pass into the closer intimacy of friendship and ultimately of sonship.

God’s Love in Us Commands Love of Us

Whenever God calls us to a task, He will enable us to complete that task. Michael Youseff

This quote is an adjustment of Smith Wigglesworth’s quote, “God doe not call the equipped, he equips the called.”

After looking at the characters of most nominal Christians, we see plenty to prove that the one essential thing they are lacking is the love of God.

God’s Love Perfected By Us:

The Old Commandment

English Standard Version Chapter 12

28 And one of the scribes came up and heard them disputing with one another, and seeing that he answered them well, asked him, “Which commandment is the most important of all?” 29 Jesus answered, “The most important is, ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. 30 And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ 31 The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.” 32 And the scribe said to him, “You are right, Teacher.

English Standard Version Chapter 13

8 Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law. 9 For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” 10 Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

God’s Love Perfected By Us:

The New Commandment

English Standard Version Chapter 13

34 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. 35 By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

Love is Light

MLK Light and Love

Let it be your “acceptable service” to help those who everyone else has forgotten, to sustain Christianity’s interests when they seem about to faint, and furnish such a sound and obvious argument for Christianity’s honest triumph, that even if you can’t totally refute all its enemies, you will at least confound them.

Wilberforce