The Law of Love

1 John 4:7-8 (NKJV)

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.

There is so much that God wants to say to His people today, He has never stopped speaking, the problem has always been that people have stopped hearing. The same God, the Lord of Hosts, The God of the armies of Israel is the same God that lives inside the believer today by the Holy Spirit. Let him who has an ear hear what the Spirit says to the churches. The Spirit has never stopped speaking to the churches, the Spirit has never ceased in anything that He set forth to do since He has been upon the Earth. Healing has not passed away, prophecy has not passed away, tongues and interpretation of tongues has not passed away, the working of miracles, or faith or the word of knowledge or the word of wisdom or discerning of spirits have never passed away for the same God works in us now as worked in Jesus Christ Himself, the same God works in the Church now as worked in the Church in it’s inception on the Day of Pentecost. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.

There are so many people in the world today who are searching but they have no idea what they are searching for. To ask many of them, one thing that would be high on the list of things sought would be love, another would be truth. People want a spirituality that is real, and the enemy of their souls wants them to have anything but that. For too long have the people been held captive by a church that has become artificial, a church that has held to a form of godliness but has denied the power thereof. The Bible says that where the Spirit of the Lord is there is liberty, there is freedom. The truth contained in the Word of God does not put people in bondage to laws and rules and regulations rather it sets them free to live in the Spirit through the perfect law of liberty, the law of love. To love one another is the way that people recognize that we are the children of God. If we don’t have love then we are not born of God, anyone who is born of God has the love of God shed abroad in his heart by the Holy Spirit and that love will produce the peaceable fruit of righteousness as we cooperate with it. Love is the fulfillment of the law, if you love your neighbor then you will not commit adultery against him or her, you will not steal, you will not covet what he has, you will not murder him, you will not lie against him or bear false witness against him. Simply loving your neighbor will take care of all the requirements of the law and you wont even have to think about following a single rule. You will simply live according to the new nature that God has placed within you. If you are born of God then the new nature that God has put in you is love, for God Himself is love. Love is His very essence and if you are born of God then the nature of God the essence of God which is love is your nature and essence as well.

So many are bound under rules and regulations, trying to keep this commandment or that commandment but that is not the way of the New Covenant. The commandment of Jesus is that we love one another any other commandment that there ever was is summed up and fulfilled in this one, the law of love, which is the perfect law of liberty.