THE LAW AND LOVE: ONE DEFINES THE OTHER!

GOD'S DEFINITION OF LOVE AS TAUGHT 

IN THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS!

Matthew 7:12 - Therefore all things whatsoever you would that men should do to you, do you even so to them:  for this is (the basis for, and the sum of) the Law and the Prophets.

Matthew 22:36-40 - Master, which is the great (greatest; most important) commandment in the Law?  Jesus said unto him, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.  This is the first and great commandment.  And the second is like unto it, You shall love your neighbor as (much as you love) yourself.  On these two commandments hang (these two commandments are the foundation of) all the Law and the Prophets.

Mark 12:28-33 - And one of the scribes came, and having heard them reasoning together, and perceiving that He had answered them well, asked Him, Which is the first commandment of all?  And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:  and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength:  this is the first commandment.  And the second is like, namely this, You shall love your neighbor as (you love) yourself.  There is none other commandment greater than these.  And the scribe said unto Him, Well (said), Master, You have said the truth:  for there is one God; and there is none other but He:  and to love Him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love your neighbor as (you love) yourself, is more (desired by God) than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices (demanded of those who fail to love God and love their neighbor).

Romans 13:8-10 - Owe no man anything, but to love one another:  for he that loves others has fulfilled the Law.  For this, You shall not commit adultery, You shall not kill, You shall not steal, You shall not bear false witness, You shall not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in (it is understood by) this saying, namely, You shall love your neighbor as (you love) yourself.  Love works no ill to (does nothing but what is good for) your neighbor:  therefore love is the fulfilling of the Law.

Galatians 5:13-14 - For, brethren, you have been called unto liberty; only do not use your liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.  For all the Law is fulfilled in one word (saying), even in this; You shall love your neighbor as (you love) yourself.

THE LAW WAS GIVEN TO TEACH US THREE THINGS:

1) GOD'S WILL FOR MANKIND:  TO LOVE ONE ANOTHER;

2) THAT FAILURE TO LOVE ONE ANOTHER IS SIN; 

3) IN OTHER WORDS, THAT ALL OF US NEED A SAVIOR!

Galatians 3:21 - . . . if there had been a law given which could have given life (provided a means to achieve the new birth, that is, eternal life - see John 3:1-18), verily righteousness should have been by the Law.  But the Scriptures have concluded all under (that all are guilty of) sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.  But before faith came, we were kept under the Law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.  Wherefore the Law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.  But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.  For you are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.

A SHORT BIBLE QUIZ:

WHICH OF THESE TRULY LOVED AND TOTALLY TRUSTED IN GOD?

Adam and/or Eve?

Cain and/or Abel?

Nimrod and/or Noah?

Abraham and/or Sarah?

Moses and/or Aaron?

Ruth and/or Rahab?

Saul and/or David?

Job and/or Jonah?

Zacharias and/or Mary?

John the Baptist and/or Lazarus?

Judas and/or Thomas?

Philip and/or Stephen?

Eutychus and/or Dorcas?

Onesimus and/or Philemon?

The Thessalonicans and/or the Bereans?

The Philadelphians and/or the Laodiceans?

Joseph Smith and/or Helen G. White?

Sister Theresa and/or Billy Graham?

Richard Nixon and/or Donald Trump?

YOU and/or your Pastor?

THE WORK NECESSARY FOR YOU TO BE SAVED!

THE STATE OF UNSAVED MAN!

Ephesians 2:1 - And you . . . were dead in trespasses and sins....

Romans 3:10, 23 - As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one - - - for all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.

Romans 6:23 - For the wages of sin is death....

ALL THE WORK NECESSARY FOR US TO BE SAVED! 

Romans 5:6, 8 - For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly - - - But God commended (demonstrated) His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

1 Corinthians 15:1-4 - Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the Gospel which I preached unto you, which also you have received, and wherein you stand; by which also you are saved - - - For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures; and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures....

2 Corinthians 5:21 - For He (God the Father) has made Him (God the Son) to be sin for us, Who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him.


1 John 2:2 - And He (Jesus) is the propitiation (the total satisfaction of a debt) for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.

SALVATION IS A GIFT APPLIED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT!

Ephesians 2:5-9 - Even when we were dead in sins, (God) has quickened (made alive again) us together with Christ....And has raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:  that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.  For by grace are you saved through faith; and that not of yourselves:  it is the gift of God:  not of works, lest any man should boast.

1 Corinthians 15:22 - For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.

2 Corinthians 5:17 - Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature:  old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

John 3:3-7 - Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.  Nicodemus said unto Him, How can a man be born when he is old?  Can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born?  Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a man be born of water (physical birth) and of the Spirit (Spiritual birth), he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.  That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.  Marvel not that I said unto you (that) You must be born again.

WHAT MUST YOU DO TO BE SAVED?

BELIEVE IN JESUS AS YOUR LORD AND SAVIOR!

"WOE" IS A SORROWFUL WARNING!

"WOE":  A SORROWFUL WARNING TO CHANGE!

Isaiah 5:20-21 - Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!  Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!

Isaiah 10:1-2 - Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed; to turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of My people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!

Isaiah 29:15 - Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who sees us, and who knows us?

Hosea 7:13 - Woe unto them!  For they have fled from Me:  destruction unto them!  Because they have transgressed against Me:  though I have redeemed them, yet they have spoken lies against Me.

Amos 5:18 - Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD!  To what end is it for you?  The day of the LORD is darkness, and not light.

Matthew 23:13-30 - But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!  For you shut up the kingdom of heaven against men:  for you neither go in yourselves, neither do you allow them that are entering to go in.  Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!  For you devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayer:  therefore you shall receive the greater damnation.  Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!  For you compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, you make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.  Woe unto you, you blind guides, which say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor! - - - Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!  For you pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the Law, judgment, mercy, and faith:  these ought you to have done, and not to leave the other undone. - - - Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!  For you make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess. - - - Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!  For you are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness. - - - Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!  Because you build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous, and say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.

Luke 6:24-26 - But woe unto you that are rich!  For you have received your consolation.  Woe unto you that are full!  For you shall hunger.  Woe unto you that laugh now!  For you shall mourn and weep.  Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you!  For so did their fathers to the false prophets.

Luke 11:42-52 - But woe unto you, Pharisees!  For you tithe mint and rue and all manner of herbs, and pass over judgment and the love of God:  these ought you to have done, and not to leave the other undone.  Woe unto you, Pharisees!  For you love the uppermost seats in the synagogues, and greetings in the markets.  Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!  For you are as graves which appear not, and the men that walk over them are not aware of them. - - - And he said, Woe unto you also, you lawyers!  For you laden men with burdens grievous to be borne, and you yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers.  Woe unto you!  For you build the sepulchres of the prophets, and your fathers killed them. - - - Woe unto you, lawyers!  For you have taken away the key of knowledge:  you entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in you hindered.

Revelation 8:13 - And I beheld, and heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe, to the inhibitors of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels, which are yet to sound!

Revelation 12:9-12 - And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, who deceives the whole world:  he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.  And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of His Christ:  for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, who accused them before our God day and night.  And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the Word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.  Therefore rejoice, you heavens, and you that dwell in them.  Woe to the inhibitors of the earth and of the sea!  For the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knows that he has but a short time.

GOD'S WARNINGS ARE CALLS TO REPENTANCE!

Revelation 3:19 - (To the pretending Christians of Laodicea - the church that excludes Jesus) -
As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten:  be zealous therefore, and repent.

Revelation 9:20-21 - And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood:  which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:  neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries (Greek pharmakeia - drug use), nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.

Revelation 16:8-11 - And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.  And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, Who has power over these plagues:  and they repented not to give Him glory.  And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues for pain, and blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and repented not of their deeds.

2 Peter 3:1-9 - This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance:  that you may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Savior:  knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, and saying, Where is the promise of His coming?  For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.  For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the Word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:  whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:  but the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same Word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.  But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.  The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some men count slackness; but is long suffering toward us, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.  

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