Love is Perfect

August 5, 2016 Discerning Reader 0 Comments

Our most important prayer request is to love people the way God loves them. God’s love in your heart is evidence of your relationship with Jesus.

Perfect love is to love like God loves.

1 John 4:7-11, 17-18
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. He who does not love does not know God, for God is love. In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him. 10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
17 Love has been perfected among us in this: that we may have boldness in the day of judgment; because as He is, so are we in this world. 18 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love.

If you don’t love God, you are not saved. If you don’t love people the way God loves them, you will be fearful in the day of judgment. If you love the way of God, you will have boldness and confidence.

In Luke 16, the only thing that Jesus criticized the rich man for was his lack of love. The rich man went to hell because he didn’t love people the way God loved them. He loved and cared about his family – he asked for Lazarus to go back and tell them about hell. But he didn’t care about the dying beggar, Lazarus. He had human love, but not God’s love. He didn’t have compassion or pity.

1 John 3:14
14 We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren. He who does not love his brother abides in death.

If you don’t love your brethren, you will not be saved. If Jesus is in your heart, He will live inside you. Jesus is love. Love is the evidence of salvation.

God bless you,
Pastor Sun Hui East

Read other parts of the “What is Love?” Series:
Part 1: Love is a Choice
Part 2: Love is Sacrifice
Part 3: Love is not Prejudice
Part 4: Love is Abundant
Part 5: Love is Intimacy
Part 6: Love is Passion
Part 7: Love is Perfect