Title: Love
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Mal Se-hun
⑤ True love
Colossians 3:12-14 “Therefore, as God’s chosen, holy and beloved ones, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and longsuffering; 13 If anyone accuses anyone, bear with one another and forgive one another, but that the Lord has forgiven you. So do you,14 and above all these add love, which is the perfect bond of binding.' - Amen.
Among the characteristics of the last days, there is a prophecy saying that love will disappear.
Loving people and embracing and loving everything in the world should be the core of life. However, there are several types of love, which can be broadly divided into the love of God and the love that comes from human desire. Of course, as Christians, we have received God's love, so we hope to become lovers with God's love, and that is also a command of God. do.
love each other These words are the most important goal of the Christian faith. How can we practice this love, divine love, and agape? Theoretically,
1 John 4:11 There is no question in the words of 'Beloved, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another'. Even if you receive forgiveness of sins through love. Today we want that love. There are steps to make that love. Just as there are steps in evangelism, so is love.
1. Understanding the other person comes first
In verse 12 of the text, we see that we are spiritually ready to love others.
12 'Therefore, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and longsuffering, as God's chosen, holy and beloved ones.'
looks like If you have clothed your heart with compassion, mercy, humility, gentleness, and long-suffering patience.
Anyway, in order to love people in verse 13, first, 13 'If anyone has an accusation against anyone, let each other bear with each other...' The word accusation momfhv means accusations, mistakes, etc. worthy of resentment.
Because the fundamental reason to love people is because of sins and faults, there are various mistakes and shortcomings, as well as things that do not fit well with each other. There is no one person in this global village that is exactly the same.
Therefore, first of all, understanding the problems we have as human beings should come first. There is no virtue as valuable as having a lot of understanding.
To tolerate means to suffer and endure ( ajnevxomai). In other words, it means that some emotional or physical patience is mobilized to understand the other person.
Understanding in English means not only knowledge to grasp, but also understanding. CR Rogers, an American psychologist, calls empathic understanding, and suggests that when counseling with psychotherapy, people are treated with a positive interest in the client's will and will, focusing on a consistent empathic understanding He is the founder of Non-Directive Counseling.
God loved us and even gave his son to the world as a countermeasure, but above all, we should find great meaning in the fact that he knew the situation we deserve to be punished for our sins and transgressions.
To love without understanding and love without understanding is close to an irresponsible lie. You can achieve something if you understand the other person, but have enough eye level, understand your weaknesses and problems, and come together to find a solution.
2. You must forgive before you love
13 'If anyone is accusing anyone, bear with one another and forgive one another, just as the Lord has forgiven you, so you too'. If you first accepted him with a passive attitude of forgiving, you can now move on to the stage of actively forgiving him.
Forgiveness (carivzomai) is the original word meaning to give permission without a reason and give freely. Therefore, it is mercy that does favors and satisfies.
Pardon of forgiveness in English also has the meaning of closing one's eyes. That is, it means that we close our eyes as if we do not see sin as a sin. It means doing something that didn't exist.
Therefore, it is a job to pretend that sin exists and does not exist, and this must have an aspect that is understood by faith as a spiritual motive. Because it is not by will. We remember the lessons the Lord gave us.
Matthew 18:22 "Jesus said to me, Not seven times, but seventy times seven times."
You can't love without forgiveness. We have received God's love concretely. We are enjoying the grace of being justified from our sins and transgressions. cross of jesus christ
Through his death, he shed His precious blood, so that we may receive redemption and eternal life through faith. We are loved beyond measure.
Therefore, even if we are someone we hate emotionally, it is right for us to have the burden of love because we are in debt to God's love.
Love is the greatest value in life. Before you can make that love, you must go through the stage of understanding and then the stage of forgiveness.
Forgiveness is as precious as love. Have you ever been forgiven? Those who know the taste of forgiveness forgive others. At least we have received forgiveness of sins from God.
I received that great forgiveness that is indescribable. For example, in Matthew 18, a man who owed ten thousand talents was forgiven by his master, and he went back and imprisoned him because he also had a servant, but he did not repay what he owed a hundred denarii.
When this fact became known to the great master, he was eventually arrested by the prisoners and had to pay off all the debt, so would that be enough?
After saying that, the Lord spoke to us, Matthew 18:35 'My heavenly Father will do the same to you, unless you forgive your brother from one heart to another.'
3. is to love
14 'Above all these things add love, which is the perfect bond'.
All of these refer to all the virtues mentioned above. Among them, it is to treat each other with an understanding heart, and specifically to show mercy and forgiveness. However, if you add love to it, you will become whole.
To love is not something you can handle with your emotions. Only those who are loved by God can handle it. In order to do that love, you must have a deep understanding of tolerating others with patience and have compassion for forgiveness.
Love is the goal of Christianity and the center of the church. In the Book of Revelation, the church in Ephesus says that he has lost his first love, so he commands him to find it.
Revelation 2:4-5 “But I have this against you, that you have left your first love. 5 Therefore remember where you fell and repent and do the first works.
If you do not repent, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place.”
He tells us how important love is at the heart of the church. This love goes far beyond understanding. This ajgavph love goes beyond forgiveness. This love is a commitment that requires some sacrifice.
Ephesians 5:2 says, “Walk in love as Christ loved you, who gave himself up for us as a fragrant sacrifice and livestock to God.”
The great commandment we have been given is, as you well know, Mark 12:30-31 'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.'31 The second is this: I am well aware of the Lord's teaching, saying, 'You shall love yourself as your own body, and there is no greater commandment than this.'
Romans 13:10 “Love does no evil to its neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.”
We live in the bleak times of the last days. The church is not a place that competes with the greed of the public, but an organization that needs to understand, forgive, love, and impress those who need to be saved.
C. The society secretly knows that, but the problem is that our church is not aware of that responsibility.
No matter how wrong the world is, our essential faith must be exercised. That is why we must work in the world so that God's salvation can be accomplished through love. A world without love. This is also a phenomenon of the last days. The Lord commands us, not exhorts us.
He commanded you to love your neighbor as yourself. We, who have received the Lord's love so much, should be willing to accept that command for granted so that we can love happily. four
Rather, I pray that you and I will be filled with the happiness of believers in the midst of love.
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