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God's Love is Loving our Brother, There is Only One

1John. 4:19 We love Him, because he first loved us.
4:20 If a man says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who doesn't love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen? 4:21 This commandment we have from him, that he who loves God should also love his brother.

Do we honestly know how God first loved us? Now think about that question seriously, but why?

Well, human are without doubt self-center when we love some one they think its about our own love, the love we give to someone, and our showing them love. And when we feel slighted in our love we remove our love because human make people earn their love. Moreover, all mankind's loving kindness is but a mist, a flower that is very weak and not long lasting.

Isa.40:6 The voice of one saying, "Cry!" One said, "What shall I cry?" "All flesh is like grass, and all its glory is like the flower of the field.
40:7 The grass withers, the flower fades, because Yahweh's breath blows on it. Surely the people are like grass.
40:8 The grass withers, the flower fades; but the word of our God stands forever."

Jeremiah 31:3 Yahweh appeared of old to me, [saying], Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love: therefore with loving kindness have I drawn you.

But how has God first loved us? Most don't feel loved of God unless they are associated with a group of Christian's that shows them love, and that is fine, and its is great, but if there love stops by some correction or evil done by the group, many find they don't know God loves them or if God cares about the evil or even exist because they believe only in human love found in their religious group.

John 5:41 I don't receive glory from men.

John 5:44 How can you believe, who receive glory from one another, and you don't seek the glory that comes from the only God?

Romans 3:23 for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

1 Peter 1:24 For, "All flesh is like grass, and all of man's glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls;

Ps. 90:9 For all our days have passed away in your wrath. We bring our years to an end as a sigh.
90:10 The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away.

So once again how has God first loved us? Well, the problem we have here is if we take the apostles John words in context within all the Greek writings, “after the Holy Spirit was pour out”, why is that important? It is important because the scriptures written from that point on focus on one specific group, who is that group?

It was God's own children birthed by His own power. Yes, from his Holy Spirit into the life of Christ. They became the body of Christ in Spirit and truth, they became the temple of God in Spirit and truth the placed of God's own habitation! It is in that specific group John is addressing loving our brother. In other words, not every person in the world, or for that matter those weed Christian's that take over the field of God's planting the brothers of Christ as the wheat.

1 Corinthians 6:19 Or don't you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own.

2 Corinthians 6:16 What agreement has a temple of God with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, "I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they will be my people."{Leviticus 26:12; Jeremiah 32:38; Ezekiel 37:27}

One cannot love the flesh that is against and hates the Spirit of God the residing place of God's Spirit in the temple of God, Christ, and his brothers. Now that we narrowed the thoughts of John's words to those that were “in the body of Christ” it not hard to see why one cannot hate ones own foot, eye, mouth, finger, foot, or any other part of Christ whom they are now part of.

That is an act that is unnatural, it not the way we are created and certainly not in Spirit and truth in Christ as our body.

Eph.5:23 For the husband is the head of the wife, and Christ also is the head of the assembly, being himself the savior of the body.
5:24 But as the assembly is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything.
5:25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the assembly, and gave himself up for it;
5:26 that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word,
5:27 that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
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;

Eph.5:31 "For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will be joined to his wife. The two will become one flesh."{Genesis 2:24} 5:32 This mystery is great, but I speak concerning Christ and of the assembly. 5:33 Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

So now we ask the question how does God love the body of Christ? Well, that quit a difference is it not? First, God gives them Christ life undeservingly that is no small gift of God's love.

Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

In other words, he removes their judgment of sin, sin that wages demand death. He forgives their sins one time and forever, no little thing that is a paramount act of love. Then he places them into Christ body so Christ righteousness sanctifies them from all the evil they must deal with in their own flesh and from others like Christ whom they carry sins of others as vessel in God's temple.

1 Corinthians 9:13 Don't you know that those who serve around sacred things eat from the things of the temple, and those who wait on the altar have their portion with the altar?

Levitius 6:16 That which is left of it Aaron and his sons shall eat. It shall be eaten without yeast in a holy place. They shall eat it in the court of the Tent of Meeting

Levitius 6:18 Every male among the children of Aaron shall eat of it, as their portion forever throughout your generations, from the offerings of Yahweh made by fire. Whoever touches them shall be holy.'"

Levitius 6:26 The priest who offers it for sin shall eat it. It shall be eaten in a holy place, in the court of the Tent of Meeting.

They are made into the royal priesthood of God to do the works of Christ as his body. They are love by God and nothing in this world, in all its evil and trouble that can separate them from God's love. God's love is Christ. How does one separate a body part of Christ by anything on this earth and/or in heaven.

Rom.8:35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
8:36 Even as it is written, "For your sake we are killed all day long. We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter."{Psalm 44:22}
8:37 No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
8:38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,
8:39 nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

So now we have established the real context of John's words that now take on real meaning. How could one be given that much love and not love God? Moreover, how could one so easily hate their brother killing them with laws for the unrighteous, that is, for sinners, while their own sins has been forgiven once for all times? How could they revert to man's religion destroying the love of God in their brothers?

Philippians 2:1 If there is therefore any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassion,

Philippians 2:2 make my joy full, by being like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind;

Colossians 1:4 having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which you have toward all the saints.

Colossians 1:8 who also declared to us your love in the Spirit.

Colossians 1:13 who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love;

Colossians 2:2 that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and gaining all riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ.

How could they become part flesh, false religion, and part Christ Spirit, and think they are not killing their brother when the flesh attacks the Spirit? How could they be part of the world its religion, governments, and commerce and not kill the Spirit in their brothers in the same body that is no part of this world.

1 Corinthians 5:6 Your boasting is not good. Don't you know that a little yeast leavens the whole lump?

1 Corinthians 5:7 Purge out the old yeast, that you may be a new lump, even as you are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, has been sacrificed in our place.

Galatians 5:17 For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, that you may not do the things that you desire.

Romans 8:8 Those who are in the flesh can't please God.

Romans 8:9 But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn't have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.

You, see the depth of truth in Christ and his wisdom of his God given and created mind in the exact representation of his Father YHWH puts each one of his body members in harmony, but only by the one precious gift of God the Spirit for the Spirit is the truth and teacher of us in God's love. When we reject that Spirit for the flesh, and its wisdom in any fashion we reject the love of God and ultimately hate our brothers in Christ. For one cannot separate God's children without first killing God in us.

Revelation 17:16 The ten horns which you saw, and the beast, these will hate the prostitute, and will make her desolate, and will make her naked, and will eat her flesh, and will burn her utterly with fire.

1 Peter 1:2 according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, that you may obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.

1 John 3:24 He who keeps his commandments remains in him, and he in him. By this we know that he remains in us, by the Spirit which he gave us.

1 John 4:6 We are of God. He who knows God listens to us. He who is not of God doesn't listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

1 John 4:13 By this we know that we remain in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.

1 John 5:6 This is he who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ; not with the water only, but with the water and the blood. It is the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.

1 John 2:20 You have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all have knowledge.{Or, "know what is true." Or, "know all things."}

1 John 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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