TRUE LOVE

TRUE LOVE!

IS IT

SUBTLE SENSUALITY OR

SUPREME SPIRITUALITY?

WHERE ARE OUR ULTIMATE AFFECTIONS?

WHAT OR WHOM DO WE WORSHIP??????????????????????????????????????

LUCIFER SATAN DRAGON    OR    JESUS CHRIST JEHOVAH?

WHAT DOES THE WORLD ESTEEM MOST?  GOOD LOOKS?   OR CHARACTER?

PHYSICAL SATISFACTION?   OR  CONCERN FOR THE WELFARE AND HAPPINESS OF OTHERS?

LUST???

OR TRUE LOVE????

Ezekiel 28:12      Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. 

 28:13    Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone [was] thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created. 

 28:14    Thou [art] the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee [so]: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire. 

 28:15    Thou [wast] perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee. 

 28:16    By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire. 

 28:17    Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee. 

Romans 7:7         What shall we say then? [is] the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet. 

Galatians 5:16    [This] I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. 

 5:17      For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would. 

1 Thessalonians 4:3          For this is the will of God, [even] your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication: 

 4:4        That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour; 

 4:5        Not in the lust of concupiscence,  [extreme or  unlawful physical/sexual desire]  even as the Gentiles which know not God: 

James 1:14          But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. 

 1:15      Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.

4:1         From whence [come] wars and fightings among you? [come they] not hence, [even] of your lusts that war in your members? 

 4:2        Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. 

 4:3        Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume [it] upon your lusts. 

1 John 2:16         For all that [is] in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

IN CONTRAST

Matthew  22:35 Then one of them, [which was] a lawyer, asked [him a question], tempting him, and saying, 

 22:36    Master, which [is] the great commandment in the law? 

 22:37    Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. 

 22:38    This is the first and great commandment. 

 22:39    And the second [is] like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. 

 22:40    On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets. 

LUST OF THE WORLD AND IT’S WORSHIP, (ORGANIZATIONS, GOVERNMENTS, STRUCTURES, TECHNOLOGIES)

Revelation  13:4 And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who [is] like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him? 

 13:5      And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty [and] two months. 

Matthew 4:8       Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and showeth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them; 

 4:9        And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me. 

Matthew  24:1   And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to [him] for to show him the buildings of the temple. 

 24:2      And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down. 

Mark 13:1            And as he went out of the temple, one of his disciples saith unto him, Master, see what manner of stones and what buildings [are here]! 

 13:2      And Jesus answering said unto him, Seest thou these great buildings? there shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down. 

IS THERE SOMETHING WRONG WITH ADMIRING THE BEAUTY OF PHYSICAL THINGS, EVEN GOVERNMENTS, STRUCTURES, TECHNOLOGY?  OR IS IT MORE TO DO WITH PRIORITIES?

1 Corinthians  2:9             But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. 

 2:10      But God hath revealed [them] unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. 

 2:11      For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. 

 2:12      Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. 

 2:13      Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual. 

 2:14      But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know [them], because they are spiritually discerned. 

 2:15      But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. 

 2:16      For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ. 

Philippians 2:5    Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: 

1 Samuel 16:7     But the LORD said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for [the LORD seeth] not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart. 

THERE ARE BASICALLY TWO  POWERS OUT THERE!  ONE IS  SEEKING TO DESTROY OUR INNERMOST CORE BEING AND MORAL MAKE-UP FOREVER THROUGH SELFISH LUST AND FALSE WORSHIP, THE OTHER IS SEEKING TO  SAVE THIS  BY CONVERTING US  INTO  UTMOST UNSELFISH INSTRUMENTS OF LOVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

LET EACH AND EVERYONE OF US MAKE THE RIGHT CHOICE EVERY MORNING;  AND THROUGHOUT EACH DAY; AND SHARE THIS CONCERN BY SMILE, ENCOURAGEMENT, GENTLE BUT URGENT DIRECTIVES AND EXAMPLE;    BY THE MORAL DECISIONS WE MAKE EVERY MINUTE;  HANDING OUT THESE PROMPTS IN GOOD DEEDS, LOVING, THOUGHTFUL FACIAL AND BODILY EXPRESSIONS, LOVING AND TRUTHFUL WORDS, LEAFLETS, BOOKS, CD’S, DVD’S  ETC.

LET US CONTINUE , BY GOD’S GRACE AND STRENGTH, TO ‘SOLDIER ON’ IN OUR ‘SPIRITUAL BATTLE’ UNTIL OUR ‘CREATOR/ SAVIOUR GOD GIVES US THE VICTORY AND ALL IT’S REWARDS – ULTIMATE UNSELFISH CHARACTER,   AND LIFE FOREVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

1 John 2:15         Love not the world, neither the things [that are] in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 

 2:16      For all that [is] in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. 

 2:17      And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever. 

2 Peter 1:2          Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord, 

 1:3        According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that [pertain] unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue: 

 1:4        Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. 

 1:5        And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; 

 1:6        And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; 

 1:7        And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. 

 1:8        For if these things be in you, and abound, they make [you that ye shall] neither [be] barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 

Philippians  2:1   If [there be] therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies, 

 2:2        Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, [being] of one accord, of one mind. 

 2:3        [Let] nothing [be done] through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves. 

 2:4        Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others. 

 2:5        Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: 

Gary Southwell

25/5/14

Revised 23/10/20