I have written several blogs, doing the best I can to “rightly divide the word of truth” for all who read this blog. I have talked about the Emergent Church, Grace, Arguing, The Prosperity Gospel, etc… And in all of those blogs I have talked about the word love. God’s love to be specific. But I feel like it is time to analyze that word and to post what I truly believe is the biblical definition of the word love. I am working on the blog over the next two days and hope that all of you will be blessed by the Lord as you continue your daily walk with Him! What a great God we serve!
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“Love thy neighbor, too, albeit that he be of a different religion. Thou thinkest thyself to be of that sect which is the nearest to the truth, and thou hast hope that thou and thy compeers who think so well, shall certainly be saved. Thy neighbor thinketh differently. His religion thou sayest is unsound and untrue; love him, for all that. Let not thy differences separate him from thee. Perhaps he may be right, or he may be wrong; he shall be the rightest in practice, who loves the most. Possibly he has no religion at all. He disregards thy God; he breaks the Sabbath; he is confessedly an atheist; love him still. Hard words will not convert him, hard deeds will not make him a Christian. Love him straight on; his sin is not against thee, but against thy God. Thy God takes vengeance for sins committed against himself, and leave thou him in God’s hands. But if thou canst do him a kind turn, if thou canst find aught whereby thou canst serve him, do it, be it day or night. And if thou makest any distinction, make it thus: Because thou art not of my religion, I will serve thee the more, that thou mayest be converted to the right; whereas thou art a heretic Samaritan, and I an orthodox Jew, thou art still my neighbor, and I will love thee with the hope that thou mayest give up thy temple in Gerizim, and come to bow in the temple of God in Jerusalem. Love thy neighbor, despite differences in religion.” (Love Thy Neighbor- Aug. 9th, 1857)
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I have written several blogs, doing the best I can to “rightly divide the word of truth” for all who read this blog. I have talked about the Emergent Church, Grace, Arguing, The Prosperity Gospel, etc… And in all of those blogs I have talked about the word love. God’s love to be specific. But I feel like it is time to analyze that word and to post what I truly believe is the biblical definition of the word love. I am working on the blog over the next two days and hope that all of you will be blessed by the Lord as you continue your daily walk with Him! What a great God we serve!
~ by Tim Kurek on September 19, 2007.
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