Rom 13:10-14 "Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law. Besides this you know the time, that the hour has come for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed. The night is far gone; the day is at hand. So then let us cast off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light. Let us walk properly as in the daytime, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in quarreling and jealousy. But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires."
Love is not only an emotion, filled with passion. It is a passion that requires action. Heat and light are part of the fire. Cast off the night and walk in the light, both are part of putting on the personal nature of Jesus Christ. He is Absolute Love.
This putting on is both positive and negative activity. The desires of self-gratification are powerful masters- they can displace the lie of temporary fulfillment for true eternal absolute fulfillment. Don't throw away what is eternal for the temporary!
The light from the fire is the armor of protection, temporal self-gratification darkens the conscience and entraps to captivity, delusion and impurity.
The result is a loss of integrityand the inability to love with a pure heart.
Jas 2:14 "What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him?"
Impurity brings an unloving spirit of judgementalism.
Rom 14:1-4 "As for the one who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not to quarrel over opinions. One person believes he may eat anything, while the weak person eats only vegetables. Let not the one who eats despise the one who abstains, and let not the one who abstains pass judgment on the one who eats, for God has welcomed him. Who are you to pass judgment on the servant of another? It is before his own master that he stands or falls. And he will be upheld, for the Lord is able to make him stand."
Love is not only an emotion, filled with passion. It is a passion that requires action. Heat and light are part of the fire. Cast off the night and walk in the light, both are part of putting on the personal nature of Jesus Christ. He is Absolute Love.
This putting on is both positive and negative activity. The desires of self-gratification are powerful masters- they can displace the lie of temporary fulfillment for true eternal absolute fulfillment. Don't throw away what is eternal for the temporary!
The light from the fire is the armor of protection, temporal self-gratification darkens the conscience and entraps to captivity, delusion and impurity.
The result is a loss of integrityand the inability to love with a pure heart.
Jas 2:14 "What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him?"
Impurity brings an unloving spirit of judgementalism.
Rom 14:1-4 "As for the one who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not to quarrel over opinions. One person believes he may eat anything, while the weak person eats only vegetables. Let not the one who eats despise the one who abstains, and let not the one who abstains pass judgment on the one who eats, for God has welcomed him. Who are you to pass judgment on the servant of another? It is before his own master that he stands or falls. And he will be upheld, for the Lord is able to make him stand."
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