Loving thy neighbor

Loving our neighbor and one another in and through Christ:

(3rd John Chapter 1:5-8
Beloved, it is a loyal thing you do when you render any service to the brethren, especially to strangers, who have testified to your love before the church. You will do well to send them on their journey as befits God’s service.
For they have set out for his sake and have accepted nothing from the heathen. So we ought to support such men, that we may be fellow workers in the truth.)

I am writing a truth that so many miss and is key to a true ministry. This key issue is what Paul writes about where he says that few love.

(1 Thessalonians, chapter 1:2-3
We give thanks to God always for you all, constantly mentioning you in our prayers, remembering before our God and Father your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.)

Now, why was it that the apostles gave thanks to God in their prayers for this particular group of people? Why and what did these group of people do that was the reason the apostles gave thanks? And always gave thanks? What was this "labor of love" this "work of faith"? It was the first commandment which was "Love the Lord with everything" which out of that love for God that birthed in them the second commandment, "Love they neighbor." Now what does "Love thy neighbor" mean exactly which is what I will be getting into and explaining and is the reason and point of all of this.

(2 Thessalonians, chapter 1:3-4
We are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren, as is fitting, because your faith is growing abundantly, and the love of every one of you for one another is increasing. Therefore we ourselves boast of you in the churches of God for your steadfastness and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which you are enduring.)

Again this love which is being shown by believers to believers is that which is called "charity," which means sharing Christ and extolling one another in faith and the truth, and that truth being Christ, testifying each others lives lived out of Christ to one another girded up and strengthened the body of Christ. And that is what loving your neighbor means. Nagurak, carnal love that is birthed by flesh giving birth to flesh cannot do this. Only that love which is of the Spirit can. Flesh gives birth to flesh, Spirit gives birth to Spirit. Whg do you think that the Church of God has become so weak? We have forgotten the difference between natural love and Spiritual real Godly love. We believe that coffee and monkey bread will show the world God's love. In the words of Aaron Weis, "A glass can only spill what it contains." The love we show one another is the love we show the world. Remember it is the Church that shapes the world.

(2 Thessalonians, chapter 1:11-12
[11]: To this end we always pray for you, that our God may make you worthy of his call, and may fulfil every good resolve and work of faith by his power,
[12]: so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.)

Now what does it mean "to make you worthy of His call" It means to perfect the Son who is in you. And that comes by beholding God daily, taking on gthe mind of Christ, for one of the greatest bagttlefields in the human is the mind, for as a man thinks he is. Once the mind us surrendered to God, we can move out in the calling, we are finally made worthy of His calling. But fhis does not come by the shedding of tears at an alter, nor does it come by reciting from wrote what someone else did or prayed.

Just like repentance it is through action, the will, not feelings or emotions. It is through thought and deed. That is what is means by "the Word of God is on their foreheads and hands." The forehead is the mind, the hand is the deed or way of acting it out. The greatest way that we show God that we have repented and changed our hearts is by our deeds and by our lives, not our feelings.

Being worthy of His call is living and imitating Christ in all things. And this is a reasonable request. But as long a we listen to man we will not be able to live this reasonable calling.

Society, that is Church society has become to Greekish thus inhibitting the move of the Holy Spirit of God. We take Him with us but never let Him out of us for those who are dying right in front of us. Greekish means too educated to make a difference. We take and take until theres nothing and the our fat weighs us down so that we can't move. Remember, "The Jews seek a sign, the Greeks seek knowledge(not Spiritual knowledge)

So in the end we must seek a revelation of the Cross. We must repent, seek God for His love which upset and forever changed the world. We must understand the true essence of the first and second commandment; Love the Lord your God with all that is in you and is you." and "Love thy neighbor as thyself." When we learn how to love thy neighbor and to first love God, then we are worthy of His call, that call which is reasonable and for every man woman and child who lives and breathes.

This is a labor of love, a work of faith. May Christ be made manifest in all that we do. May we understand this reasonable request. May we live living sacrifices, the reasonable request that is not hard, for His yoke is easy, His burden light. Obeying God is not the uphill battle.

(2 Thessalonians, chapter 1:12
so that the name of our Lord Jesus may be glorified in you, and you in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.)