Biblical love,what GOD Almighty says love looks like.

Posted : 30 Aug, 2014 07:23 PM

Hello everyone:

In America,i have heard people say to me that they loved me,yet the word that was said,'love' had no actions behind it,so i only heard words.

I find many 'christians' saying the word 'love',yet also not having any actions to prove its genuineness.



In the word of GOD,love is a decision,as we decide to love another person.

GOD Almighty has also decided to love man,even from before mans fall.

Love also has actions which show to others that we actually do love them.

Love does not have to have any emotions involved,for ones emotions can be manipulated,and taken advantage of.

GOD so agapao' the world,did He have any emotion involved in that decision.



I would rather have a person show me that they loved me,rather then just saying the words.

Words can be cheap,and the word 'love' has definitely been cheapened over the years.



The Father showed His love for man by giving to man the only way into His presence,that way is through His Son,Yeshua.

Messiah Yeshua showed the world that He loves those He created,by taken the sin of the entire world upon Himself,then taking the judgement of mans sin upon Himself by dying upon the cross at Calvary.



LOVE

What does GOD Almighty say about love within His Word the Bible.

In the first book written to the Corinthian believers,the thirteenth chapter the entire chapter tells believers what love is,what love looks like,and how love is to behave.

Within the word of GOD we will find what GOD is telling us about love.



Remember love in not necessarily an emotion,nor is love a feeling,though a person may have some feeings,but do not let your emotions betray you into believing that you love them just because you have feelings about them.



Love really is a decision which we will see when we study the Word of GOD.

1Co 13:1 If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but I do not have love, I have become as sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.

1Co 13:2 And if I have prophecies, and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so as to move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.

1Co 13:3 And if I give out all my goods, and if I deliver my body that I be burned, but I do not have love, I am not profited anything.

1Co 13:4 Love has patience, is kind; love is not envious; love is not vain, is not puffed up;

1Co 13:5 does not behave indecently, does not pursue its own things, is not easily provoked, thinks no evil;

1Co 13:6 does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices in the truth.

1Co 13:7 Love quietly covers all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

1Co 13:8 Love never fails. But if there are prophecies, they will be caused to cease; if tongues, they shall cease; if knowledge, it will be caused to cease.

1Co 13:9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part;

1Co 13:10 but when the perfect thing comes, then that which is in part will be caused to cease.

1Co 13:11 When I was an infant, I spoke as an infant, I thought as an infant, I reasoned as an infant. But when I became a man, I caused to cease the things of the infant.

1Co 13:12 For now we see through a mirror in dimness, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will fully know even as I also was fully known.

1Co 13:13 And now faith, hope, and love, these three things remain; but the greatest of these is love.



What we need to do,is to look at the individual words in verses 4-8 in order to have a Biblical understanding

of what love actually is,accoding to GOD Almighty.



Verse 4 Love is patient.

English-patient

Greek-Strong's Concordance

makrothume�: to persevere, to be patient

Original Word: μακροθυμέω

Part of Speech: Verb

Transliteration: makrothume�

Phonetic Spelling: (mak-roth-oo-meh'-o)

Short Definition: I suffer long, have patience, am forbearing

Definition: I suffer long, have patience, am forbearing, perseverance.

HELPS Word-studies

Cognate: 3114 makrothym�ō � properly, long-tempered (to defer anger), refusing to retaliate with anger, because of human reasoning.

[The literal sense if the term is "extending a long time (way)."]

3114 /makrothym�ō ("showing divinely-directed patience") is "longsuffering" because it only expresses anger as the Lord directs (i.e. is the opposite of being "quick-tempered"). See 3115 (makrothymia).



Gen 4:1 And the man knew his wife Eve. And she conceived and bore Cain, and said, I have gotten a man with the help of Jehovah.

Gen 4:2 And she continued to bear his brother, Abel. And Abel became a shepherd of flocks. And Cain became a tiller of the ground.

Gen 4:3 And in the end of days, it happened that Cain brought an offering to Jehovah from the fruit of the ground.

Gen 4:4 And Abel brought, he also, from the firstlings of his flocks, even from their fat. And Jehovah looked to Abel and to his offering.

Gen 4:5 And He did not look to Cain and to his offering. And Cain glowed greatly with anger, and his face fell.

Gen 4:6 And Jehovah said to Cain, Why have you angrily glowed, and why has your face fallen?

Gen 4:7 If you do well, is there not exaltation? And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door; and its desire is toward you; but you should rule over it.

Gen 4:8 And Cain talked with his brother Abel. And it happened as they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel, and killed him.



Cain did not love his brother,as he had become very angry with Abel in order to kill his brother.



We will look at what being patient actually looks like in the life of David when King Saul was trying to kill David.

Saul tried a few times to kill David,yet GOD Almighty protected David,as David was chosen of GOD,and annointed to be King of Isreal according to the choosing of GOD Almighty.

1Sa 18:10 And on the next day it happened that the evil spirit from God came on Saul. And he prophesied in the midst of the house; and David was playing with his hand, as he did day by day. And Saul's spear was in his hand.

1Sa 18:11 And Saul threw the spear, and said, I will strike David, even to the wall. And David twice drew back from his face.



We will continue with this study on Biblical love.



Blessings

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