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1 | Biblical Love is not Worldly Love | 1 John 4:21 | DocTrinsograce | 160574 | ||
With all the discussion of respect, courtesy, and love on the forum lately, I thought these quotes were particularly apropos. "Love is the Queen of the Christian graces. It is a holy disposition given to us when we are born again by God. It is the love of God shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit. True spiritual love is characterized by meekness and gentleness, yet it is vastly superior to the courtesies and kindnesses of the flesh. "We must be careful not to confuse human sentimentality, carnal pleasantries, human amiability and affability with true spiritual love. "The love God commands, first to Himself and then to others, is not human love. It is not the indulgent, self-seeking love which is in us by nature. If we indulgently allow our children to grow up with little or, no Scriptural discipline, Proverbs plainly says we do not love them, regardless of the human sentimentality and affection we may feel for them. "Love is not a sentimental pampering of one another with a loose indifference as to our walk and obedience before the Lord. "Glossing over one another's faults to ingratiate ourselves in their esteem is not spiritual love. "The true nature of Christian love is a righteous principle which seeks the highest good of others. "It is a powerful desire to promote their welfare. "The exercise of love is to be in strict conformity to the revealed will of God. "We must love in the truth. "Love among the brethren is far more than an agreeable society where views are the same. It is loving them for what we see of Christ in them, loving them for Christ's sake. "The Lord Jesus Himself is our example. "He was not only thoughtful, gentle, self-sacrificing and patient, but He also corrected His mother, used a whip in the Temple, severely scolded His doubting disciples, and denounced hypocrites. "True spiritual love is above all faithful to God and uncompromising towards all that is evil. "We cannot declare, 'Peace and Safety' when in reality there is spiritual decay and ruin! "True spiritual love is very difficult to exercise because it is not our natural love. By nature we would rather love sentimentally and engender good feelings. Also many times true spiritual love is not received in love, but is hated as the Pharisees hated it. "We must pray that God will fill us with His love and enable us to exercise it without dissimulation toward all." --Arthur W. Pink |
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2 | Biblical Love is not Worldly Love | 1 John 4:21 | humbledbyhisgrace | 160579 | ||
Exactly what discussions would that be Doc? It would be interesting to compare this post to those you are referring to. I find it somewhat revealing and would like to compare it to the discussions you are referencing and see just how much more might be revealed. Thanks! Steve |
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3 | Biblical Love is not Worldly Love | 1 John 4:21 | DocTrinsograce | 160580 | ||
Hi, Steve... Certainly. In the upper right corner there is a box that with the simple word "Search." Enter there the word "love" and click on the search button. All of the postings I have in mind -- and many more -- will be listed for your purusal. Feel free to draw your own conclusions. :-) We are certainly not slaves of convention on the forum! :-) In Him, Doc |
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4 | Biblical Love is not Worldly Love | 1 John 4:21 | humbledbyhisgrace | 160582 | ||
Wow Doc! There appears to be hundreds. Surly you can simplify this for everyone. After all, you said your post was apropos to discussion of respect, courtesy, and love on the forum lately. The simple "Search" takes me all the way back to 2001. |
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5 | Biblical Love is not Worldly Love | 1 John 4:21 | DocTrinsograce | 160602 | ||
Dear Steve, The "hundreds" is part of my point. But I'll help you in your evaluation. Use the "Advanced Search" link. Enter the date of 10-01-2005 (for example) and the word "love." Scan down the list of posts that you encounter, mentally excluding the ones where people use "love" in their salutations or signatures. You'll see in the first 250 entries: love of God, love of neighbor, love of all people, God's love of us, love of the brethren, God's love for creation, God's love of the sinner, love of darkness, love of light, love of a verse, love in the spirit (do they mean Spirit?), love the sumum bonnum, love of family, love of children, love relationships, speaking in love, sharing in love, making love, primacy of love, serving in love, love of spouses, purity of love, love of the lost, etc. etc. Now consider the quotes of A. W. Pink on the Biblical definition of love. What you will find is that people have a very superficial understanding of love, in spite of a penchant for using the word. We've adopted the world's definition of love, if we bother to give any sort of definition at all. Anticipating the problems of modern Christianity, J. Gresham Machen wrote, "This temper of mind is hostile to precise definitions. Indeed nothing makes a man more unpopular in the controversies of the present day than an insistence upon definition of terms... Men discourse very eloquently today upon such subjects as God, religion, Christianity, atonement, redemption, faith; but are greatly incensed when they are asked to tell in simple language what they mean by these terms." (That was a 100 years ago!) The love that A. W. Pink so precisely describes knows nothing of the tepid, put-on-a-happy-face, kind of love of the modern church. If we have trouble with the word love, think what difficulties we have in a proper understanding of God, and all the doctrines that necessarily flow from that understanding. Think what difficulties we have with many other definitions. In Him, Doc |
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6 | Biblical Love is not Worldly Love | 1 John 4:21 | humbledbyhisgrace | 160604 | ||
Oh, advanced search! Thanks Doc that does narrow it down a bit! How silly of me. I went with the simple search. You wrote: “If we have trouble with the word love, think what difficulties we have in a proper understanding of God, and all the doctrines that necessarily flow from that understanding. Think what difficulties we have with many other definitions.” I couldn’t agree more with your statement Doc! Your post are always revealing! Steve |
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