COG The Law of Love
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A theological cornerstone that David imparted to the Family was the doctrine referred to as the "Law of Love." The Law of Love is the foundation of Christianity, the all-encompassing principle of sacrificial love for God and others by which all Christians should conduct their lives, based on Jesus’ commandment to love God and our neighbors. "Love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like unto it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' All the law and the prophets hang on these two commandments" (Matthew 22:35–40).
"Whatever is done in pure love, the Love of God, unselfish love, sacrificial love, for God or others, is lawful, according to God's Word and Law of Love!"
David taught that according to these and other Scriptures that loving God first and foremost and loving others result in the ultimate fulfillment and completion of biblical law, including the Ten Commandments. If we as Christians love the Lord with all our heart, soul, and mind, and our neighbor as ourselves, we will naturally fulfill the spirit of all the other laws. For example, we won't put other gods before Him or take His name in vain. To love our neighbors as ourselves precludes murdering them, stealing from them, lying to them, or coveting what they have.
The motivation for us—as Christians—to obey these commandments should not be out of a fear of divine judgment, but rather because we are compelled by our love for God and others to exhibit consideration and kindness to our neighbors. We refrain from activities forbidden by the Ten Commandments because they would not be in accordance with our love for God and others.
David contended that through the Lord's salvation, and because of His Law of Love as expressed in the verses listed above, Christians are released from the hundreds of rules under the Mosaic laws in the Old Testament and are no longer required to observe them. If a person's actions are motivated by unselfish, sacrificial love-the love of God for others—and are not intentionally hurtful to others, these actions are in accordance with Scripture and are lawful in the eyes of God. "The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace. ... Against such there is no law" (Galatians 5:22-23).
When Jesus came, He abolished all other laws but Love! He gave only one law which fulfills all the laws of the Bible, both old and new, and that is Love!—For God and fellow man!
>This is our specific religion and the religion of every Christian who truly believes in the Love of God in Jesus and the Bible! We are Christians and we believe in the religion of Jesus Christ, His Law of Love! We believe in the Bible, God, Jesus and Love—because God is Love! Jesus preached Love, and when asked what the greatest law was, He said God's only law now was Love.
“Love God ... and love thy neighbor as thyself! ... In these are all the law and all the prophets!” That's all the laws put together, the whole Bible—Love! If you have Love you have everything!—You are fulfilling all the laws of God! [1]
Some additional verses:
From http://inkaboutit4u.com/?p=One_Law_One_Saviour_One_God_One_Jesus_One_heaven
One Law One Savior One God One Jesus One heaven
Major index for the research on sexuality and the Bible and Liberated Christians. God make every detail of our sexuality and said it was very good. God make every detail of animal sexuality and said it was good.
Jesus said "My yoke is easy".
One Savior--Jesus Christ, One God--our creator God, One Command-- go and tell everyone, One law to follow-- the law of love (the whole law is fulfilled in one law-- the law of love), One heaven-Jesus when to prepare a place for us, One hell-- for non-believers, One heaven- for believer, One work to do--to trust in Christ.
Christ is the second Adam to make us a "new Creation" similar to Adam and Eve before the sin of the first Adam. "(as Adam before the sin, when Adam and Eve were 100% nude and with out any shame) We are 100% pure in Christ alone. All sins: pass, present, and future, Christ has paid for them all.
"To the pure ALL things are pure" titus 1:15. "All things are lawful to us" We don't have any list of laws (either in Old Testament or in the New) to follow, we are under one law only, the law of love.
In Christ we are as Adam and Eve were before they sinned. We only have one law, the law of love. The law of love judges our actions. If you have a sexual fantasy, then judge it on the law of love. Is it a loving fantasy? If yes, then it is ok. If it is unloving, unkind, then it is bad.
What list of laws did Adam and Eve have? Basically None! What list of sex rules did Adam and Eve have? Basically None! They were also basically under the law of love also with action toward others.
Christ is the second Adam to undo Adam and Eve sin. Christ paid the cost for 100% of our sins, so we are basically sinless before God, because of Christ. With only one rule.
Always ask yourself, " did Adam and Eve have this law?" Did they have this rule?
We don't have any list of rules or laws to follow. We only have one, the law of love. We are liberated in Christ to love others with no laws or rules, other then the law of love.
Legalism is picking a list of laws or rules and force people to follow them. We put hard yokes on people. We make major man made heavy load guilt trips on people. The Law of Love is our rule and law.
Even St Paul is very legalistic at times. Even church leaders want to put a heavy load of long list of rule on us. They go read some Bible verse and act like its another list of rule on us to follow with out thinking that we only have one rule.
"Don’t call unclean what God calls clean"(Acts 10 or 11) God call all things clean. This was a major reversal of the Old Testament rules. "All things are lawful to me"( 1 Cor 6:12 )"the whole law is fulfilled in: love God and love others as you love yourself."
Most people have a major misunderstand of the Gospels. Jesus lived under the law; age of grace did not come until after his death. Also Jesus and others spoke totally different to legalist non-follows, non-believes then how he spoke to believers. Much of the Sermon on the Mount after vs. 12 was spoken to legalistic, under law, non-believer who were trusting in the law to get them to heaven and not to Christians. You always have to ask yourself, "who is Jesus talking to?" non-believer or believer? This is very important. This misunderstanding has caused much legalism in Christianity and we have lost many freedoms in Christ and put heavy yokes on people.
Marriage they promote possessiveness and jealousy to rule and not love. Marriage is after the pagan Romans, the "Roman"tic love of one man, one women. Under Jewish rule they always had many wives and concubines and other sexual lovers both before and after marriage. Even God solution for David's Adultery was to go get as many women as he wanted, (2 Sam 12:8) just don't steal other men's wives or kill them to get their wives from them. God's solution was more wives not less or not just one will do you. 2 Samuel 12:8 I (God) gave you (David) his (Saul's) house and his (Saul’s) wives and the kingdoms of Israel and Judah. And if that had not been enough, I would have given you much, much more. That is as many women as you desire.
God designed every detail of our sexuality, our sexual fantasies, sexual lust, and our individual sex drive and God said it was very good.
God designed sexual lust, we did not. God built it into us to lust after sexual pleasures. God design it.
Lust is greatly misused and misunderstood by religion people. There is good healthy lust and bad lust. Sexuality is good lust. God built it in to the system. Animals are designed by God and their sexual also has built in program. Animal did not sin. Human nature was design by God. The only bad part is the "sin principal" part of it.
We are free in Christ and only have one law to follow the law of love.
One command to follow: to go and tell the world of God's love for them, that Jesus paid the penalty 100% of their sins and tell them about one law to follow, the law of love.
The whole law is fulfilled in this that you love your neighbor as you love yourself. God as the only creator God, there is no other.
If all these sex rules were that important then God would have given a long list of sex do's and don't rules to Adam and Eve to follow. He would not have waited hundreds of years and then come up with a list.
Most of the sex rule was to solve a special problem of the special time and special culture.
Sexual lovemaking is a wonderful way to show affectionate love to a person. This is a much deeper and personal love that the person can feel and enjoy and it meets an important love need we all have. Many people's love language is touch and physical loving touch and many don't real feel loved unless it connects to them or touches them physically.
The Bible says, "they will know us by our love". The deepest and most powerful love to most humans is sensual or sexual intimacy love making kind of love. Even the Bible talks of a "holy" kiss. Is this a passionate lovers kiss or just a good night kiss at the door?
Religion people want to put a very hard yoke on people and make lots of legalistic rule to create major man made guilt trip and over burden people with a heavy load of do's and don'ts and tell them that their God designed love making sex drive is evil. This is not true.
We have freedom in Christ to love everyone. The true will set you free. We are free. Enjoy your freedom.
Before a person finds a Bible Verse that hinds that we are suppose to be unloving, then show them these 8 pages of love verses.
Don't major on the minor. Major on the major (love) and everything is minor.
Jas 2:12 - So whenever you speak, or whatever you do, remember that you will be judged by the law of love, the law that set you free.
Micah 6:8 The Lord has told you, human, what is good; he has told you what he wants from you: to do what is right to other people, love being kind to others, and live humbly, obeying your God.
Ge 1:31 - Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good. ...(Note: God designed our human nature, every detail of our natural sexuality, and said it was all very good. The only bad part of us is what we added, the "sin principal" part.)
Ro 13:8 Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.
Tit 1:15 Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.
Ro 14:20 - For meat destroy not the work of God. All things indeed are pure; but it is evil for that man who eateth with offence.
1Co 10:23 – All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not.
2Co 5:17 - Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.
Ga 6:15 - For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but a new creation.
Acts 10:13 Then a voice said to Peter, "Get up, Peter; kill and eat." 14 But Peter said, "No, Lord! I have never eaten food that is unholy or unclean." 15 But the voice said to him again, "God has made these things clean so don't call them 'unholy'!" 16 This happened three times
(Note: this was not only about food, but almost everything.)
Ga 5:14 - For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."
2Jo 1:6 - Love means doing what God has commanded us, and he has commanded us to love one another, just as you heard from the beginning.
1Co 14:1 - Let love be your highest goal, but also desire the special abilities the Spirit gives, especially the gift of prophecy.
Ro 13:9 - For the commandments against adultery and murder and stealing and coveting – and any other commandment – are all summed up in this one commandment: "Love your neighbor as yourself."
Ac 20:24 -But my life is worth nothing unless I use it for doing the work assigned me by the Lord Jesus – the work of telling others the Good News about God's wonderful kindness and love.
Ro 12:10 -Love each other with genuine affection, and take delight in honoring each other.
Ga 5:13 - For you have been called to live in freedom – not freedom to satisfy your sinful nature, but freedom to serve one another in love.
Note: this is the "sin principal" part of us. Being unloving, unkind, unforgiving, unthankful, being mean, selfish, rude, etc opposite of 1 Cor 13. God designed the human nature and said it was very good. We added the "sin principal" part.
Joh 13:35 - Your love for one another will prove to the world that you are my disciples."
Ro 12:9 - Don't just pretend that you love others. Really love them. Hate what is wrong. Stand on the side of the good.
Ro 13:8 - Pay all your debts, except the debt of love for others. You can never finish paying that! If you love your neighbor, you will fulfill all the requirements of God's law.
Ro 13:10 - Love does no wrong to anyone, so love satisfies all of God's requirements.
1 Corinthians 13: 1 - 13
1 If I could speak in any language in heaven or on earth F63 but didn't love others, I would only be making meaningless noise like a loud gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I had the gift of prophecy, and if I knew all the mysteries of the future and knew everything about everything, but didn't love others, what good would I be? And if I had the gift of faith so that I could speak to a mountain and make it move, without love I would be no good to anybody. 3 If I gave everything I have to the poor and even sacrificed my body, I could boast about it; F64 but if I didn't love others, I would be of no value whatsoever.
4 Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud 5 or rude. Love does not demand its own way. Love is not irritable, and it keeps no record of when it has been wronged. 6 It is never glad about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. 7 Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.
8 Love will last forever, but prophecy and speaking in unknown languages and special knowledge will all disappear. 9 Now we know only a little, and even the gift of prophecy reveals little! 10 But when the end comes, these special gifts will all disappear. 11 It's like this: When I was a child, I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child does. But when I grew up, I put away childish things. 12 Now we see things imperfectly as in a poor mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity. All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God knows me now. 13 There are three things that will endure – faith, hope, and love – and the greatest of these is love.
1Co 16:14 - And everything you do must be done with love.
1Co 16:20 - All the brethren greet you. Greet ye one another with an holy kiss.
Gal 5:14 - For the whole law can be summed up in this one command: "Love your neighbor as yourself."
Ga 5:22 - But when the Holy Spirit controls our lives, he will produce this kind of fruit in us: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
Eph 3:18 - And may you have the power to understand, as all God's people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep his love really is.
Eph 3:19 - May you experience the love of Christ, though it is so great you will never fully understand it. Then you will be filled with the fullness of life and power that comes from God.
Eph 5:25 - And you husbands must love your wives with the same love Christ showed the church. He gave up his life for her
Eph 5:28 - In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as they love their own bodies. For a man is actually loving himself when he loves his wife.
Eph 5:33 - So again I say, each man must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
Col 3:14 - And the most important piece of clothing you must wear is love. Love is what binds us all together in perfect harmony.
Colossians 3:12-17
12 Since God chose you to be the holy people whom he loves, you must clothe yourselves with tenderhearted mercy, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience. 13 You must make allowance for each other's faults and forgive the person who offends you. Remember, the Lord forgave you, so you must forgive others. 14 And the most important piece of clothing you must wear is love. Love is what binds us all together in perfect harmony. 15 And let the peace that comes from Christ rule in your hearts. For as members of one body you are all called to live in peace. And always be thankful. 16 Let the words of Christ, in all their richness, live in your hearts and make you wise. Use his words to teach and counsel each other. Sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs to God with thankful hearts. 17 And whatever you do or say, let it be as a representative of the Lord Jesus, all the while giving thanks through him to God the Father.
1Th 3:12 - And may the Lord make your love grow and overflow to each other and to everyone else, just as our love overflows toward you.
1Th 4:10 - Indeed, your love is already strong toward all the Christians in all of Macedonia. Even so, dear brothers and sisters, we beg you to love them more and more.
1Th 5:13 - Think highly of them and give them your wholehearted love because of their work. And remember to live peaceably with each other.
1Th 5:26 - Greet all the brethren with an holy kiss.
2Th 1:3 - Dear brothers and sisters, we always thank God for you, as is right, for we are thankful that your faith is flourishing and you are all growing in love for each other.
1Ti 1:5 - The purpose of my instruction is that all the Christians there would be filled with love that comes from a pure heart, a clear conscience, and sincere faith.
1Ti 6:10 - For the love of money is at the root of all kinds of evil. And some people, craving money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many sorrows.
1 Timothy 6:6-12
6 Yet true religion with contentment is great wealth. 7 After all, we didn't bring anything with us when we came into the world, and we certainly cannot carry anything with us when we die. 8 So if we have enough food and clothing, let us be content. 9 But people who long to be rich fall into temptation and are trapped by many foolish and harmful desires that plunge them into ruin and destruction. 10 For the love of money is at the root of all kinds of evil. And some people, craving money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many sorrows. 11 But you, Timothy, belong to God; so run from all these evil things, and follow what is right and good. Pursue a godly life, along with faith, love, perseverance, and gentleness.
Heb 13:5 - Stay away from the love of money; be satisfied with what you have. For God has said, "I will never fail you. I will never forsake you."
Tit 2:4 - These older women must train the younger women to love their husbands and their children,
Jas 2:8 - Yes indeed, it is good when you truly obey our Lord's royal command found in the Scriptures: "Love your neighbor as yourself."
1Pe 1:22 - Now you can have sincere love for each other as brothers and sisters because you were cleansed from your sins when you accepted the truth of the Good News. So see to it that you really do love each other intensely with all your hearts.
1Pe 4:8 - Most important of all, continue to show deep love for each other, for love covers a multitude of sins.
1Pe 5:14 - Greet ye one another with a kiss of charity. Peace be with you all that are in Christ Jesus.
Ga 5:6 - For when we place our faith in Christ Jesus, it makes no difference to God whether we are circumcised or not circumcised. What is important is faith expressing itself in love.
1Jo 3:14 - If we love our Christian brothers and sisters, it proves that we have passed from death to eternal life. But a person who has no love is still dead.
1Jo 3:18 - Dear children, let us stop just saying we love each other; let us really show it by our actions.
1Jo 3:23 - And this is his commandment: We must believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, just as he commanded us.
1Jo 4:7 - Dear friends, let us continue to love one another, for love comes from God. Anyone who loves is born of God and knows God.
1Jo 4:8 - But anyone who does not love does not know God – for God is love.
1Jo 4:10 - This is real love. It is not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to take away our sins.
1Jo 4:11 - Dear friends, since God loved us that much, we surely ought to love each other.
1Jo 4:12 - No one has ever seen God. But if we love each other, God lives in us, and his love has been brought to full expression through us.
1Jo 4:16 - We know how much God loves us, and we have put our trust in him.God is love, and all who live in love live in God, and God lives in them.
1Jo 4:17 - And as we live in God, our love grows more perfect. So we will not be afraid on the day of judgment, but we can face him with confidence because we are like Christ here in this world.
1Jo 4:18 - Such love has no fear because perfect love expels all fear. If we are afraid, it is for fear of judgment, and this shows that his love has not been perfected in us.
1Jo 4:19 - We love each other as a result of his loving us first.
1Jo 4:20 - If someone says, "I love God," but hates a Christian brother or sister, that person is a liar; for if we don't love people we can see, how can we love God, whom we have not seen?
1Jo 4:21 - And God himself has commanded that we must love not only him but our Christian brothers and sisters, too.
2Jo 1:5 - And now I want to urge you, dear lady, that we should love one another. This is not a new commandment, but one we had from the beginning.
Re 2:4 - But I have this complaint against you. You don't love me or each other as you did at first!
Lu 7:45 - You didn't give me a kiss of greeting, but she has kissed my feet again and again from the time I first came in.
Ro 16:16 - Salute one another with an holy kiss. The churches of Christ salute you.
Lu 7:45 - Thou gavest me no kiss: but this woman since the time I came in hath not ceased to kiss my feet.
Ro 16:16 - Salute one another with an holy kiss. The churches of Christ salute you.
2Co 13:12 - Greet one another with an holy kiss.
1Jo 3:3 - And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.
Jas 2:8 - If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself," you do well;
James 3:17 But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peace-loving, gentle, compliant, full of mercy and good fruits, without favoritism and hypocrisy.
NLT James 3:17 But the wisdom that comes from heaven is first of all pure. It is also peace loving, gentle at all times, and willing to yield to others. It is full of mercy and good deeds. It shows no partiality and is always sincere.
New Century Version James 3:17 But the wisdom that comes from God is first of all pure, then peaceful, gentle, and easy to please. This wisdom is always ready to help those who are troubled and to do good for others. It is always fair and honest.
NLT Micah 6:8 No, O people, the LORD has already told you what is good, and this is what he requires: to do what is right, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God.
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A theological cornerstone that David imparted to the Family was the doctrine referred to as the "Law of Love." The Law of Love is the foundation of Christianity, the all-encompassing principle of sacrificial love for God and others by which all Christians should conduct their lives, based on Jesus’ commandment to love God and our neighbors. "Love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like unto it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' All the law and the prophets hang on these two commandments" (Matthew 22:35–40).
"Whatever is done in pure love, the Love of God, unselfish love, sacrificial love, for God or others, is lawful, according to God's Word and Law of Love!"
David taught that according to these and other Scriptures that loving God first and foremost and loving others result in the ultimate fulfillment and completion of biblical law, including the Ten Commandments. If we as Christians love the Lord with all our heart, soul, and mind, and our neighbor as ourselves, we will naturally fulfill the spirit of all the other laws. For example, we won't put other gods before Him or take His name in vain. To love our neighbors as ourselves precludes murdering them, stealing from them, lying to them, or coveting what they have.
The motivation for us—as Christians—to obey these commandments should not be out of a fear of divine judgment, but rather because we are compelled by our love for God and others to exhibit consideration and kindness to our neighbors. We refrain from activities forbidden by the Ten Commandments because they would not be in accordance with our love for God and others.
David contended that through the Lord's salvation, and because of His Law of Love as expressed in the verses listed above, Christians are released from the hundreds of rules under the Mosaic laws in the Old Testament and are no longer required to observe them. If a person's actions are motivated by unselfish, sacrificial love-the love of God for others—and are not intentionally hurtful to others, these actions are in accordance with Scripture and are lawful in the eyes of God. "The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace. ... Against such there is no law" (Galatians 5:22-23).
When Jesus came, He abolished all other laws but Love! He gave only one law which fulfills all the laws of the Bible, both old and new, and that is Love!—For God and fellow man!
>This is our specific religion and the religion of every Christian who truly believes in the Love of God in Jesus and the Bible! We are Christians and we believe in the religion of Jesus Christ, His Law of Love! We believe in the Bible, God, Jesus and Love—because God is Love! Jesus preached Love, and when asked what the greatest law was, He said God's only law now was Love.
“Love God ... and love thy neighbor as thyself! ... In these are all the law and all the prophets!” That's all the laws put together, the whole Bible—Love! If you have Love you have everything!—You are fulfilling all the laws of God! [1]
- "Our Answers for the Daily News," ML #633, 1977.
Some additional verses:
From http://inkaboutit4u.com/?p=One_Law_One_Saviour_One_God_One_Jesus_One_heaven
One Law One Savior One God One Jesus One heaven
Major index for the research on sexuality and the Bible and Liberated Christians. God make every detail of our sexuality and said it was very good. God make every detail of animal sexuality and said it was good.
Jesus said "My yoke is easy".
One Savior--Jesus Christ, One God--our creator God, One Command-- go and tell everyone, One law to follow-- the law of love (the whole law is fulfilled in one law-- the law of love), One heaven-Jesus when to prepare a place for us, One hell-- for non-believers, One heaven- for believer, One work to do--to trust in Christ.
Christ is the second Adam to make us a "new Creation" similar to Adam and Eve before the sin of the first Adam. "(as Adam before the sin, when Adam and Eve were 100% nude and with out any shame) We are 100% pure in Christ alone. All sins: pass, present, and future, Christ has paid for them all.
"To the pure ALL things are pure" titus 1:15. "All things are lawful to us" We don't have any list of laws (either in Old Testament or in the New) to follow, we are under one law only, the law of love.
In Christ we are as Adam and Eve were before they sinned. We only have one law, the law of love. The law of love judges our actions. If you have a sexual fantasy, then judge it on the law of love. Is it a loving fantasy? If yes, then it is ok. If it is unloving, unkind, then it is bad.
What list of laws did Adam and Eve have? Basically None! What list of sex rules did Adam and Eve have? Basically None! They were also basically under the law of love also with action toward others.
Christ is the second Adam to undo Adam and Eve sin. Christ paid the cost for 100% of our sins, so we are basically sinless before God, because of Christ. With only one rule.
Always ask yourself, " did Adam and Eve have this law?" Did they have this rule?
We don't have any list of rules or laws to follow. We only have one, the law of love. We are liberated in Christ to love others with no laws or rules, other then the law of love.
Legalism is picking a list of laws or rules and force people to follow them. We put hard yokes on people. We make major man made heavy load guilt trips on people. The Law of Love is our rule and law.
Even St Paul is very legalistic at times. Even church leaders want to put a heavy load of long list of rule on us. They go read some Bible verse and act like its another list of rule on us to follow with out thinking that we only have one rule.
"Don’t call unclean what God calls clean"(Acts 10 or 11) God call all things clean. This was a major reversal of the Old Testament rules. "All things are lawful to me"( 1 Cor 6:12 )"the whole law is fulfilled in: love God and love others as you love yourself."
Most people have a major misunderstand of the Gospels. Jesus lived under the law; age of grace did not come until after his death. Also Jesus and others spoke totally different to legalist non-follows, non-believes then how he spoke to believers. Much of the Sermon on the Mount after vs. 12 was spoken to legalistic, under law, non-believer who were trusting in the law to get them to heaven and not to Christians. You always have to ask yourself, "who is Jesus talking to?" non-believer or believer? This is very important. This misunderstanding has caused much legalism in Christianity and we have lost many freedoms in Christ and put heavy yokes on people.
Marriage they promote possessiveness and jealousy to rule and not love. Marriage is after the pagan Romans, the "Roman"tic love of one man, one women. Under Jewish rule they always had many wives and concubines and other sexual lovers both before and after marriage. Even God solution for David's Adultery was to go get as many women as he wanted, (2 Sam 12:8) just don't steal other men's wives or kill them to get their wives from them. God's solution was more wives not less or not just one will do you. 2 Samuel 12:8 I (God) gave you (David) his (Saul's) house and his (Saul’s) wives and the kingdoms of Israel and Judah. And if that had not been enough, I would have given you much, much more. That is as many women as you desire.
God designed every detail of our sexuality, our sexual fantasies, sexual lust, and our individual sex drive and God said it was very good.
God designed sexual lust, we did not. God built it into us to lust after sexual pleasures. God design it.
Lust is greatly misused and misunderstood by religion people. There is good healthy lust and bad lust. Sexuality is good lust. God built it in to the system. Animals are designed by God and their sexual also has built in program. Animal did not sin. Human nature was design by God. The only bad part is the "sin principal" part of it.
We are free in Christ and only have one law to follow the law of love.
One command to follow: to go and tell the world of God's love for them, that Jesus paid the penalty 100% of their sins and tell them about one law to follow, the law of love.
The whole law is fulfilled in this that you love your neighbor as you love yourself. God as the only creator God, there is no other.
If all these sex rules were that important then God would have given a long list of sex do's and don't rules to Adam and Eve to follow. He would not have waited hundreds of years and then come up with a list.
Most of the sex rule was to solve a special problem of the special time and special culture.
Sexual lovemaking is a wonderful way to show affectionate love to a person. This is a much deeper and personal love that the person can feel and enjoy and it meets an important love need we all have. Many people's love language is touch and physical loving touch and many don't real feel loved unless it connects to them or touches them physically.
The Bible says, "they will know us by our love". The deepest and most powerful love to most humans is sensual or sexual intimacy love making kind of love. Even the Bible talks of a "holy" kiss. Is this a passionate lovers kiss or just a good night kiss at the door?
Religion people want to put a very hard yoke on people and make lots of legalistic rule to create major man made guilt trip and over burden people with a heavy load of do's and don'ts and tell them that their God designed love making sex drive is evil. This is not true.
We have freedom in Christ to love everyone. The true will set you free. We are free. Enjoy your freedom.
Before a person finds a Bible Verse that hinds that we are suppose to be unloving, then show them these 8 pages of love verses.
Don't major on the minor. Major on the major (love) and everything is minor.
Jas 2:12 - So whenever you speak, or whatever you do, remember that you will be judged by the law of love, the law that set you free.
Micah 6:8 The Lord has told you, human, what is good; he has told you what he wants from you: to do what is right to other people, love being kind to others, and live humbly, obeying your God.
Ge 1:31 - Then God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good. ...(Note: God designed our human nature, every detail of our natural sexuality, and said it was all very good. The only bad part of us is what we added, the "sin principal" part.)
Ro 13:8 Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.
Tit 1:15 Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.
Ro 14:20 - For meat destroy not the work of God. All things indeed are pure; but it is evil for that man who eateth with offence.
1Co 10:23 – All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not.
2Co 5:17 - Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.
Ga 6:15 - For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but a new creation.
Acts 10:13 Then a voice said to Peter, "Get up, Peter; kill and eat." 14 But Peter said, "No, Lord! I have never eaten food that is unholy or unclean." 15 But the voice said to him again, "God has made these things clean so don't call them 'unholy'!" 16 This happened three times
(Note: this was not only about food, but almost everything.)
Ga 5:14 - For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."
2Jo 1:6 - Love means doing what God has commanded us, and he has commanded us to love one another, just as you heard from the beginning.
1Co 14:1 - Let love be your highest goal, but also desire the special abilities the Spirit gives, especially the gift of prophecy.
Ro 13:9 - For the commandments against adultery and murder and stealing and coveting – and any other commandment – are all summed up in this one commandment: "Love your neighbor as yourself."
Ac 20:24 -But my life is worth nothing unless I use it for doing the work assigned me by the Lord Jesus – the work of telling others the Good News about God's wonderful kindness and love.
Ro 12:10 -Love each other with genuine affection, and take delight in honoring each other.
Ga 5:13 - For you have been called to live in freedom – not freedom to satisfy your sinful nature, but freedom to serve one another in love.
Note: this is the "sin principal" part of us. Being unloving, unkind, unforgiving, unthankful, being mean, selfish, rude, etc opposite of 1 Cor 13. God designed the human nature and said it was very good. We added the "sin principal" part.
Joh 13:35 - Your love for one another will prove to the world that you are my disciples."
Ro 12:9 - Don't just pretend that you love others. Really love them. Hate what is wrong. Stand on the side of the good.
Ro 13:8 - Pay all your debts, except the debt of love for others. You can never finish paying that! If you love your neighbor, you will fulfill all the requirements of God's law.
Ro 13:10 - Love does no wrong to anyone, so love satisfies all of God's requirements.
1 Corinthians 13: 1 - 13
1 If I could speak in any language in heaven or on earth F63 but didn't love others, I would only be making meaningless noise like a loud gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I had the gift of prophecy, and if I knew all the mysteries of the future and knew everything about everything, but didn't love others, what good would I be? And if I had the gift of faith so that I could speak to a mountain and make it move, without love I would be no good to anybody. 3 If I gave everything I have to the poor and even sacrificed my body, I could boast about it; F64 but if I didn't love others, I would be of no value whatsoever.
4 Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud 5 or rude. Love does not demand its own way. Love is not irritable, and it keeps no record of when it has been wronged. 6 It is never glad about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. 7 Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.
8 Love will last forever, but prophecy and speaking in unknown languages and special knowledge will all disappear. 9 Now we know only a little, and even the gift of prophecy reveals little! 10 But when the end comes, these special gifts will all disappear. 11 It's like this: When I was a child, I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child does. But when I grew up, I put away childish things. 12 Now we see things imperfectly as in a poor mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity. All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God knows me now. 13 There are three things that will endure – faith, hope, and love – and the greatest of these is love.
1Co 16:14 - And everything you do must be done with love.
1Co 16:20 - All the brethren greet you. Greet ye one another with an holy kiss.
Gal 5:14 - For the whole law can be summed up in this one command: "Love your neighbor as yourself."
Ga 5:22 - But when the Holy Spirit controls our lives, he will produce this kind of fruit in us: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
Eph 3:18 - And may you have the power to understand, as all God's people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep his love really is.
Eph 3:19 - May you experience the love of Christ, though it is so great you will never fully understand it. Then you will be filled with the fullness of life and power that comes from God.
Eph 5:25 - And you husbands must love your wives with the same love Christ showed the church. He gave up his life for her
Eph 5:28 - In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as they love their own bodies. For a man is actually loving himself when he loves his wife.
Eph 5:33 - So again I say, each man must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
Col 3:14 - And the most important piece of clothing you must wear is love. Love is what binds us all together in perfect harmony.
Colossians 3:12-17
12 Since God chose you to be the holy people whom he loves, you must clothe yourselves with tenderhearted mercy, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience. 13 You must make allowance for each other's faults and forgive the person who offends you. Remember, the Lord forgave you, so you must forgive others. 14 And the most important piece of clothing you must wear is love. Love is what binds us all together in perfect harmony. 15 And let the peace that comes from Christ rule in your hearts. For as members of one body you are all called to live in peace. And always be thankful. 16 Let the words of Christ, in all their richness, live in your hearts and make you wise. Use his words to teach and counsel each other. Sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs to God with thankful hearts. 17 And whatever you do or say, let it be as a representative of the Lord Jesus, all the while giving thanks through him to God the Father.
1Th 3:12 - And may the Lord make your love grow and overflow to each other and to everyone else, just as our love overflows toward you.
1Th 4:10 - Indeed, your love is already strong toward all the Christians in all of Macedonia. Even so, dear brothers and sisters, we beg you to love them more and more.
1Th 5:13 - Think highly of them and give them your wholehearted love because of their work. And remember to live peaceably with each other.
1Th 5:26 - Greet all the brethren with an holy kiss.
2Th 1:3 - Dear brothers and sisters, we always thank God for you, as is right, for we are thankful that your faith is flourishing and you are all growing in love for each other.
1Ti 1:5 - The purpose of my instruction is that all the Christians there would be filled with love that comes from a pure heart, a clear conscience, and sincere faith.
1Ti 6:10 - For the love of money is at the root of all kinds of evil. And some people, craving money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many sorrows.
1 Timothy 6:6-12
6 Yet true religion with contentment is great wealth. 7 After all, we didn't bring anything with us when we came into the world, and we certainly cannot carry anything with us when we die. 8 So if we have enough food and clothing, let us be content. 9 But people who long to be rich fall into temptation and are trapped by many foolish and harmful desires that plunge them into ruin and destruction. 10 For the love of money is at the root of all kinds of evil. And some people, craving money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many sorrows. 11 But you, Timothy, belong to God; so run from all these evil things, and follow what is right and good. Pursue a godly life, along with faith, love, perseverance, and gentleness.
Heb 13:5 - Stay away from the love of money; be satisfied with what you have. For God has said, "I will never fail you. I will never forsake you."
Tit 2:4 - These older women must train the younger women to love their husbands and their children,
Jas 2:8 - Yes indeed, it is good when you truly obey our Lord's royal command found in the Scriptures: "Love your neighbor as yourself."
1Pe 1:22 - Now you can have sincere love for each other as brothers and sisters because you were cleansed from your sins when you accepted the truth of the Good News. So see to it that you really do love each other intensely with all your hearts.
1Pe 4:8 - Most important of all, continue to show deep love for each other, for love covers a multitude of sins.
1Pe 5:14 - Greet ye one another with a kiss of charity. Peace be with you all that are in Christ Jesus.
Ga 5:6 - For when we place our faith in Christ Jesus, it makes no difference to God whether we are circumcised or not circumcised. What is important is faith expressing itself in love.
1Jo 3:14 - If we love our Christian brothers and sisters, it proves that we have passed from death to eternal life. But a person who has no love is still dead.
1Jo 3:18 - Dear children, let us stop just saying we love each other; let us really show it by our actions.
1Jo 3:23 - And this is his commandment: We must believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, just as he commanded us.
1Jo 4:7 - Dear friends, let us continue to love one another, for love comes from God. Anyone who loves is born of God and knows God.
1Jo 4:8 - But anyone who does not love does not know God – for God is love.
1Jo 4:10 - This is real love. It is not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to take away our sins.
1Jo 4:11 - Dear friends, since God loved us that much, we surely ought to love each other.
1Jo 4:12 - No one has ever seen God. But if we love each other, God lives in us, and his love has been brought to full expression through us.
1Jo 4:16 - We know how much God loves us, and we have put our trust in him.God is love, and all who live in love live in God, and God lives in them.
1Jo 4:17 - And as we live in God, our love grows more perfect. So we will not be afraid on the day of judgment, but we can face him with confidence because we are like Christ here in this world.
1Jo 4:18 - Such love has no fear because perfect love expels all fear. If we are afraid, it is for fear of judgment, and this shows that his love has not been perfected in us.
1Jo 4:19 - We love each other as a result of his loving us first.
1Jo 4:20 - If someone says, "I love God," but hates a Christian brother or sister, that person is a liar; for if we don't love people we can see, how can we love God, whom we have not seen?
1Jo 4:21 - And God himself has commanded that we must love not only him but our Christian brothers and sisters, too.
2Jo 1:5 - And now I want to urge you, dear lady, that we should love one another. This is not a new commandment, but one we had from the beginning.
Re 2:4 - But I have this complaint against you. You don't love me or each other as you did at first!
Lu 7:45 - You didn't give me a kiss of greeting, but she has kissed my feet again and again from the time I first came in.
Ro 16:16 - Salute one another with an holy kiss. The churches of Christ salute you.
Lu 7:45 - Thou gavest me no kiss: but this woman since the time I came in hath not ceased to kiss my feet.
Ro 16:16 - Salute one another with an holy kiss. The churches of Christ salute you.
2Co 13:12 - Greet one another with an holy kiss.
1Jo 3:3 - And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.
Jas 2:8 - If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself," you do well;
James 3:17 But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peace-loving, gentle, compliant, full of mercy and good fruits, without favoritism and hypocrisy.
NLT James 3:17 But the wisdom that comes from heaven is first of all pure. It is also peace loving, gentle at all times, and willing to yield to others. It is full of mercy and good deeds. It shows no partiality and is always sincere.
New Century Version James 3:17 But the wisdom that comes from God is first of all pure, then peaceful, gentle, and easy to please. This wisdom is always ready to help those who are troubled and to do good for others. It is always fair and honest.
NLT Micah 6:8 No, O people, the LORD has already told you what is good, and this is what he requires: to do what is right, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God.