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;"

What Does Hate Look Like According to God's Word

In the previous post, I wrote about what love looks like, now we will look at what hate looks like.

Have you ever wondered what hate looks like? God tells us in His Word, we don't have to guess.

1 John 4:20

If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.

Proverbs 10:12

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses.

1 John 3:15

"Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him."

Proverbs 6:16-19

"There are six things that the Lord hates, seven that are an abomination to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that make haste to run to evil, a false witness who breathes out lies, and one who sows discord among brothers."

Leviticus 19:17-18

"You shall not hate your brother in your heart, but you shall reason frankly with your neighbor, lest you incur sin because of him. 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."

Have you ever wondered what love looks like?

Here it is straight from God.

1 Corinthians 13:4-8a

4 Love is patient, love is kind,

it is not jealous;

love does not brag,

it is not arrogant.

5 It does not act disgracefully,

it does not seek its own benefit;

it is not provoked,

does not keep an account of a wrong suffered,

6 it does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;

7 it keeps every confidence,

it believes all things,

hopes all things,

endures all things."

8a Love never fails;"

The King, The Lion of Judah is Coming Soon

If God was done with Israel as many believe, how would they explain that Christ is coming back to rule from Jerusalem in the Millennium?

Revelation 5:5: Then one of the elders said to me, "Do not weep. See, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has conquered, so that he can open the scroll and its seven seals."

Jesus Christ is the Lion of Judah!!!

Not only is God not done with the Jews He has a special place for them in the Millennium.

Zechariah 8:23

"Thus says the LORD of hosts, ‘In those days ten men from all the nations will grasp the garment of a Jew, saying, “Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.” ’ ”

It has been prophesied that the Jews were persecuted continually in the church age, but will be revered by all during the 1000-year reign of Christ.

Anyone who is against the Jews or negates evangelizing to them will be dealt with severely.

Romans 11:26

26 And in this way all Israel will be saved, as it is written,

“The Deliverer will come from Zion,

he will banish ungodliness from Jacob”;

Jacob is another reference to Israel. God is not only NOT finished with Israel He will make them prominent worldwide.

The Lion, the King of Judah is Coming Soon!

Gossipers Shame Themselves

Remember the old saying "Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me"?

This principle can be translated to sharing our deepest desires, hurts, and pains with others. Sharing once and when they misuse it then it is on them, sharing with them twice and they misuse it, that is on us.

We need to stop sharing with anyone who has used what we said against us even one time. Those who want information for the purpose of making judgments do not love us nor do they care about truth. And, sadly they turn others against us who have not seen what has been gossiped nor have they spoken to us to find the other side of the story.

Those who gossip about others never tell the whole story and they certainly leave out the part that we were repentant and do not repeat those same sins again if the actions were even sins. Sometimes we do things that are right and the one who is jealous or hates us will interpret our actions as sin. They desire to think badly of us or they would assume the best about us.

In my experience, the gossipers always embellish the story making it worse and more frequent than what actually happened. They are not concerned about the truth, or the character growth of the repentant sinner, they only care about maligning the character of their target to gain the friendship of another gossiper.

All stories have two sides, when someone is willing to tell only one side based on their own desired belief about a person they are not showing good sense. They are more interested in feeling superior and ruining someone else than they are about loving and helping.

If there is no need to know then there is no reason to pass on the past repentant sins of others.

Gossipers do not want their targets to be repentant, this is why they are stuck in their own desired beliefs about the target. Sadly gossipers are very weak people, they cannot think well of themselves without making someone else beneath them.

It is one thing to relate to a close friend what you personally experienced and quite another to tell a tale you never saw for yourself., even making up details to validate what you never observed.

Gossips are Fools:

Proverbs 18:6

A fool starts fights.

6 A fool’s lips bring strife,

And his mouth invites beatings.

Proverbs 12:16

A fool is easily upset.

"A fool’s anger is known at once,

But a prudent person conceals dishonor."

Proverbs 14:15 A fool believes everything he reads.

"The naive believes everything,

But the sensible person considers his steps."

Proverbs 18:2

A fool loves to talk but hates to listen.

A fool does not delight in understanding,

But in revealing his own mind."

Proverbs 28:26

A fool is fiercely independent.

One who trusts in his own heart is a fool,

But one who walks wisely will flee to safety."

Proverbs 10:23

A fool makes light of sin.

Doing wickedness is like sport to a fool,

And so is wisdom to a person of understanding."

Proverbs 15:20

A fool hates their Mother.

"A wise son makes a father glad,

But a foolish man despises his mother."

Proverbs 17:9-10

"He who conceals a transgression seeks love, But he who repeats a matter separates intimate friends. A rebuke goes deeper into one who has understanding Than a hundred blows into a fool."

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