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The flesh fights against the Spirit in order to bring on spiritual death. But your will, to serve God or not, makes the difference. If you want to serve God then you "will" not to yield to the lust (driving force or pressure of the flesh.) Romans 6: , 16Know you not, that to whom you yield yourselves servant to obey, his servants you are to whom you obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness? Agape love makes you aware of your righteousness, not of your sin, because it is an anointing from God. There are five major ways or types of attacks the devil will use on your mind (flesh) to get you to fall: affliction, persecution, cares of this world, deceitfulness of riches, and the lust of other things. Each of them leads to sin if you yield to them. You will not be successful unless you make a quality decision for Christ. Mark 4:14-19 You will never walk this walk without first making a quality decision for Christ to actually walk the walk, not just talk the talk. Satan may try these tricks on us, but God gave us a stronger weapon to defeat him with "Jesus", after all God is Love. When God gave his son for us, he gave us his love full and uncompromised -TOTAL LOVE. 1 Corinthians 13: 1-8 (paraphrased Amp. Bible) Gods' anointing of Agape Love is: long suffering + patient + kindness + is not envious + is not jealous + is not vain or boastful + does not display itself haughtily + is not conceited or arrogant + is not inflated with pride + is not rude + does not act unbecomingly + does not insist on its own rights or its own way, for it is not self-seeking + it is not touchy or fretful or resentful + it takes no account of the evil done to it and pays no attention to a suffered wrong + it does not rejoice at injustice and unrighteousness, but rejoices when right and truth prevail + bears all things + believes the best of every person + its hopes are fadeless under all circumstances and it endures everything without weakening + it never fails. Agape love is all of these parts together at the same time - nothing missing. All of our actions can be tested against this definition. If anything we do fails even one part of the Love definition, we have sinned. We may be walking in something that looks like the God kind of love, but it's only a figure or a form of God's kind of love. Never the fullness of the kind of love God would have you to walk in, AGAPE LOVE. Agape love is love unfeigned (2 Cor. 6:6), love with out respect to person or place or time or condition, always the same, never changing, never the worldly kind of love.
2 Corinthians 6:14 To love in darkness is halfhearted, partial, seeking gain in return for your love. It's worldly love. 2. God's interactive loveJohn 14:15-16, 23-24 Agapao is the Greek word for the love of your heart, whatever condition it is in. In Christians, it's the Love that comes from a new recreated God filled heart and grows up and becomes agape love. When God operates in Agapao love He reaches out to us in a compassionate or social form of the word Agapao (Matt.7:7-11). Gods' Agapao love for us comes from the fact that Jesus has suffered in the flesh all of the things that we suffer today. He has truly been there and He does understand the torment and fleshly pressure that we go through. Believers operate Agapao love out of the abundance of their new recreated heart which acknowledges that baby Christian love still needs to grow and mature to become perfect. He still needs to renew his mind and bring his flesh under control. Walking in (agape)love is the result of fellowshipping or interacting with the Father, Son, and the Holy Ghost that abide (live) in you on a constant basis. This constant interaction with God and His Word are essential to walking a perfect walk with God. Sinners can also operating in Agapao Love out of the fullness of their hardened heart. That can be seen in Luke 6: 32, 45; 1 John 2:15-16, and Luke 11: 43. A double minded person is a person that bounces back and forth between Agapao love and the flesh, Spirit filled love and sin. Never establishing or committing themselves completely, to walk in God's love or any other part of God's word.
James 1:7-18
James 2:1, 8-13 (Mercy is the opposite of judgment. Mercy is reserved for those who walk in love, and judgment for those who walk in sin.)
1 John 5:10-12 (You can continue down to verse 20 then 1 John 5:16-18) This is the record that God gave of his Son, that Jesus came to give us life, and to give us life more abundant. Pray with me now and fill your life with Life. Father, I do believe that Jesus Christ died on the cross for my sins and that he was raised the third day. Lord, I pray that you would forgive me of my sins for I forgive all those that have sinned against me. Lord Jesus, please come into my heart and guide me, fill me with your Holy Spirit, give me the strength to withstand anything the Devil can throw at me, and mold me into what you would have me to be, I pray in Jesus name, Amen. Congratulations you are now a new creature in Christ! Well done! 3. Love and CorruptionSimon Peter is probably the best example of a troubled love walk in the New Testament. He had some of the most glaring successes and failures in the New Testament. He shows us the successes that come with walking in love, and the failures that come from the flesh. John 15:7 7If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, you shall ask what you will, and it shall be done unto you. ("if" indicates uncertainty, do you live in Christ?) John 16:1 1These things have I spoken unto you, that you should not be offended. Jesus warned us of the five kinds of attacks that we can expect so stand ready to defend yourself with the word. Remember we covered Mark 4: 16-20 earlier. Peter's successes covered a multitude of things in his life. Some of which are shown in Acts chapters 3-4-5. We see him heal the man that was lame from birth, teach salvation to the Jews, become imprisoned with John, and confront Ananias and Sapphira, giving glory to God at every corner, but He also had his problems. Regular people have problems also, but it's how you handle them that count. Do you handle them in love or in the corruption of the flesh? Peter tried both ways in the confronting of his problems and came back to love every time. Remember Love (Jesus) never fails. Love never failed for Jesus and it will never fail for you! 4. Love and PrayerLove is an essential ingredient for prayer. Love supplies the communication or Love line with God. The Love line activates your faith and gets things done while sin breaks this line of communication. Remember sin is the opposite of scriptural agape Love and has no fellowship with it. (1 John 3: 18-24; James 1: all; Romans 8: 11-17; Heb. 12: 2-17, and 2 Tim. 3: 1-17) Note: There is no connection or fellowship between the love walk and the sin walk. You are either operating in one or the other.(Isaiah 59: 1-2) The recreated spirit is a love filled and powered spirit. Your old spirit was a sin filled and dead spirit. You lose your old sinful spirit at salvation. Salvation is when you should start renewing your mind by feeding it the word of God. Your mind and your will are part of your soul. As you renew your mind by feeding it the word, you bring your self, your will in line with God. You change your will to God's will. As long as you WILL to operate in love, and yield to the spirit of God, you can have what you say. Operating in the flesh or sin disconnects your love communication line. Repentance reconnects you. The time you spend in sin is lost. God cannot act in your behalf while you operate in sin. Remember, God will never leave you, but you can leave him. It is all a matter of your WILL. (Also read 1 Cor. 3: 12-17.)
Jude:17-21 DEFINITIONS: Mental assent and condemnation are a very powerful one two punch in the hands of Satan. First the Devil gets you to sin, then he pumps you up with feelings of self-righteousness, and gets you to pray great prayers, sometimes placing you and the public in jeopardy by the words that come out of your mouth. Then he hits you with extreme amounts of condemnation when your prayers don't come to pass. All the time it's really your fault not Gods that your prayers don't get answered. After all, you're the one that decided to operate in sin, but rejoice for our God is not a God of confusion and has made a way for you to know when you're correctly in a tune with him through the inward witness. The Holy Spirit of God, the comforter and teacher. 5. Love is knowing God loves you.
1 John 4:6-18 (also Colossians 3:14-16)
11Beloved, if God so (Agapao) loved us, we ought also to (Agapao)love one another. 6. Faith works or is powered by this anointing of Agape Love
James 2:15-17
Galatians 5:4-6 7. Love and Salvation
2 Peter 1: 2Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus
our Lord, 8For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be idle nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins. 10So then the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and relationship with God sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall: (English Only)Notes from the author: This lesson "AGAPE LOVE: the opposite of sin" was written and distributed by: Apple Sauce Kids on the Internet at https://applesaucekids.com. or we can be E-mailed at askaplsauce@gmail.com Please feel free to use this lesson: copy, teach, translate into other languages, place on the Internet and electronic Bulletin Boards, and distribute for non profit personal ministry reasons, as often as you wish. Yes, you can copy this lesson and use it on your web site, but please leave these Notes from the author with the lesson. Freely you have received this lesson, and freely you should give it to someone else. (written about 1977 and updated several times, May 29, 2014) |