The Commandment To Love #4

 Who is my neighbor


While talking about the subject of love, many people I speak with find it hard to forgive and forget. For some there has been great devastation caused by people they know and for the moment refused to forgive them. This is to their own hurt because the scripture says:

Ps:66-19 If I regard inequity in my heart God will not hear me. You have to let the past go and let God work on you with the word, it's a process; make it happen.

Is:59,1-2 Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear: 2 But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.

When we come into covenant with God, all of our past sins have been washed away by the blood of Jesus, Rom:3-25   

Rom6-6 
 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. Now we are free to live unto God with a clean heart, free of all the issues that had us in bondage. You do have the ability to forgive and forget, by exercising faith in the word of God.

 This is how love work: 1Cor;13,1-13

13 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. 2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.
3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
4 Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
5 Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
6 Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
7 Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
8 Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
10 But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
11 When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
12 For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
13 And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

Lk:13-24  Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able. According to the word of God: we can love our neighbor as our self.

 Be Blessed
Bro James Stearns

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