Jehovah's Witnesses Straight Talk - Forum/Blog

1Cor.13:4 Love is patient and is kind; love doesn't envy. Love doesn't brag, is not proud.

Can love really mean more than just a fuzzy feeling based on meaningless emotions? Does love have to be patient and kind to be love, or is patient and kindness just a byproduct of love? Well, if we think in human wisdom then everything out side of our opinion of love is a byproduct that once and a while we might show to someone. But if we go to the source of love, God, Yahweh, we find that love and all the things it produces is essential for eternal life, which for us Christian's, is Jesus Christ.

All the qualities of love are systemic to the body of Jesus Christ members, where one is lacking it affects the whole body, this is why we as Christian's now sin against the law of love, and need the forgiveness for our lack of faith in God's love, by our faith in Jesus Christ. We don't sin against the Law, it has been removed in Christ Jesus for his body members, and this is why we have no condemnation in Christ Jesus.

Rom.8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don't walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.{NU omits "who don't walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit"}
8:2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death. 8:3 For what the law couldn't do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh.

Human love from the wisdom of men, which Paul is refuting here by comparison to God's love in Jesus Christ, man's love is based upon merit gained from our own self-will. In other words, look at how much knowledge I have, look how kind I am, look how loving I am, and so on..., which makes me better than you. But the love of God in the body of Christ is not about merit, it is given freely to all members just like a physical body has many members, but none of them vibe for power over others, by a show of some quality they have mastered in their life through self-will.

The will for the body of Christ Jesus, is God will, it is God will that all body members conform to the personality of Christ Jesus. Thus, God has given each body member a new personality in Christ Jesus, it is the law of love written into their hearts by God that produces the natural desire in them to conform to Christ-like person, which is the full scope of God's love, Paul is stating here in his letter to Corinthian's.

This is how Christian's identifying the good tree of Christ Jesus, it is not by knowledge alone, or truth, or powerful works, or feeding the poor, it is about the whole scope of love on the tree of Jesus Christ produced in the body of Christ Jesus as the living Temple of God on earth.

This does not mean that a body member in the flesh are perfect or do not lack a certain quality of God's Holy Spirit, but on the other hand, neither does it mean that one strong quality proves the person is in Christ Jesus and walking in love. Thus, we are told time and again that we cannot judge the matter of who is, and is not part, of the body of Christ on earth. But we are not fooled as members in body as to how we are to individually conducts ourselves under the Holy Spirit.

1Cor.4:3 But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you, or by man's judgment. Yes, I don't judge my own self. 4:4 For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord.
4:5 Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.

Rom.14:10 But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you again, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.

However, we do know that when one of the the body of Christ tries to control or make other subvert in their faith by self-will, that is, wisdom of the world, using the tactics of the worldly wise to beat fellow slaves into submission by knowledge or powerful works than it is not the love spoken here in the body of Christ Jesus.

The control for the body member comes from the head Christ Jesus, in love, no man every hated his own body, but feeds and cherished it like Christ does the congregation of his own body. It is not the position of any body member to control other body members, it is the laws of the flesh that control people who are wicked that world uses too control evil in society. But those is Christ Jesus are not wicked, they are justified by the blood of Christ Jesus under Royal Law of love, which has no law against it.

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

Eph. 5:28 Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.
5:29 For no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord also does the assembly;
5:30 because we are members of his body, of his flesh and bones.

On cannot be beat into submission under rules of law or doctrine(s) and produce the fruits of the Holy Spirit in the members of the body of Christ Jesus. No more so than a man can beats his wife with his fist, or verbally and call it love. All correction for the body members must be done in love, the full scope of love, where as the world, under the flesh requires strong measure in unkindness and harsh words to make those of the flesh obey. The Holy Spirit is the teacher and corrector of God's children, where a body member is used by God to correct another part of the body in love under Holy Spirit it will produce certain good fruits of everlasting life, but where it is not done in love, it will produce the works of the flesh, promoting more contention and back biting among it members.

Galatians 5:15 But if you bite and devour one another, be careful that you don't consume one another.

Jude 1:8 Yet in like manner these also in their dreaming defile the flesh, despise authority, and slander celestial beings.
1:9 But Michael, the archangel, when contending with the devil and arguing about the body of Moses, dared not bring against him an abusive condemnation, but said, "May the Lord rebuke you!"
1:10 But these speak evil of whatever things they don't know. What they understand naturally, like the creatures without reason, they are destroyed in these things.

It is the godly love that separates us from the beast, we do not wage war against flesh and blood, but in the spirit, how can the body of Christ overcome the world and save those being corrupted by a world lacking love, where the love has cooled of the greater number, certainly not by judgment, and harsh words designed to put down others or offend them.

Moreover, we can rest assured in God's promises too us those not of the body, who do not have a lowly servant like spirit, after being corrected in love will leave because they are not of our sort, which mean, they do not walk in love.

1John 2:4 One who says, "I know him," and doesn't keep his commandments, is a liar, and the truth isn't in him.
1John 2:5 But whoever keeps his word, God's love has most certainly been perfected in him. This is how we know that we are in him:

John 2:8 Again, I write a new commandment to you, which is true in him and in you; because the darkness is passing away, and the true light already shines.
2:9 He who says he is in the light and hates his brother, is in the darkness even until now. 2:10 He who loves his brother remains in the light, and there is no occasion for stumbling in him. 2:11 But he who hates his brother is in the darkness, and walks in the darkness, and doesn't know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

1John 2:27 As for you, the anointing which you received from him remains in you, and you don't need for anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as it taught you, you will remain in him.

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Matthew 5:44 But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who mistreat you and persecute you,
Matthew 5:43 "You have heard that it was said, 'You shall love your neighbor,{Leviticus 19:18} and hate your enemy.{not in the Bible, but seeu, what reward do you have? Don't even the tax collectors do the same?
Matthew 5:46 For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Don't even the tax collectors do the same?

That type of correction is not spirit lead, moreover, it kills the spirit by fleshly thinking, producing more dead works in death of the spirit in the children of God.

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