Sunday, May 21, 2023

The Fruit is more than just actions, it is bone and sinew.

In the two previous posts, I addressed the nature of hate and the nature of love according to God's Own Words. The purpose of the post was for us to learn how to love God's way and how to avoid hating as the world hates.
The world does not know what love looks like because they evaluate themselves according to what they want to believe rather than according to God's kind of love.
The world justifies hate by excusing it as "having a good reason", not according to God's standards.
Love is only real love when it is according to God's principles and His Spirit. This is why the world doesn't know how to love. It is also the reason so many cultural Christians do not demonstrate love, their love is self-serving and judgment oriented according to their own thoughts, their own desires, and their own jealousies, because they have never been born-again.
Please, I beg you, do not judge God according to the cultural Christians. Do not judge anyone according to your own thinking. When we judge righteously we will judge according to God's principles and never without all the information necessary as well as plenty of prayer.
Matthew 7 tells us to judge according to God's standard and not to judge others if we are doing the same things others are doing.
The modern church does not understand judging properly nor does it understand God's love. The reason is that most of the people in these "Christian" gatherings have never been born-again.
Anyone judging someone without all the information is choosing to believe rather than reasonably and rationally evaluating something according to "all the evidence."
Often those who love to judge others on minor things or things without all the information are the first to shout "Don't judge" when someone points out sin to bring someone to repentance.
What people are saying when they say don't judge while they never judge sin in anyone, is that they get to judge what they want to but no one else is allowed to judge righteously.
The devil is clever he always has the perp accuse others of the crimes that the perp is doing and the others are not.
1 Corinthians 16:14
"14 Let all that you do be done in love."
Amen, however, make sure you know what God's kind of love looks like and ask the Holy Spirit to show you the fruit of God's Love.
Galatians 5:22-23
"22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law."
God's love walks in the fruit all the time, rarely deviating from it because it is their bone and sinew. So deeply a part of who they are in their character that it shows up without thinking or trying.
We don't have to think about breathing, just as we don't have to think about the fruit, it is so deeply a part of who we are we can do nothing else except live according to its instinct. The fruit is consistently consistent, never wavery, steadfast, and persistent. It does not come and go with the wind, it is ever-present.
Ephesians 4:14 "As a result, we are no longer to be children, tossed here and there by waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of people, by craftiness in deceitful scheming;"

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