上帝就是爱 作为基督徒,我们应该学会关心主耶稣所关心的,并且从最小的事做起(主耶稣在马太25:40里说:“我实在告诉你们,这些事你们既作在我这弟兄中一个最小的身上,就是作在我身上了”):我们(基督真正的追随者)要有勇气与软弱的人站在一起;我们要因上帝的名,对那些隔离罪人的人说“不”,因为上帝不恨罪人,是恨罪,为什么?因为罪使我们与上帝分离。所有真正追随基督的人,必须有勇气像主耶稣一样,在沙地上划出一条线(约翰福音8:6),这意味着即使我们面对的是残暴围攻,却仍然坚定地选择跟从主耶稣的教导。 也许我们认为自己在为上帝而斗争:直言定出身边人的罪。如果我们指责别人时却没有一个充满慈悲和仁爱的激励的灵,那我们根本就不能、也不是代表基督和上帝。如果在新约里选出一种视为最严重、最有害的罪,那就是基督徒和宗教领袖们没有爱心地判断和定罪。【没有爱心的,就不认识神,因为 神就是爱。 神爱我们的心,我们也知道也信。 神就是爱,住在爱里面的,就住在 神里面, 神也住在他里面---约翰一书4:8,16】。反过来也如此:【没有住在爱里的人,就是没有住在 神里面, 神也没有住在他里面】。【主耶稣在约翰福音14:23-24里说:“人若爱我,就必遵守我的道。不爱我的人就不遵守我的道。”马太福音7:23:“我就明明地告诉他们说:“我从来不认识你们,你们这些作恶的人,离开我去吧。”)主耶稣最严厉的话,正是对这种无爱之罪的谴责。我亲爱的弟兄姊妹们,不要让主的谴责是在对你说。 基督真正的追随者就是“爱,因为在我们不值得爱的时候,上帝却爱我们”。 GOD is love As Christians we should be learning to care about what JESUS cares, and that starts with the least (JESUS says, “Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me” Matt. 25:40). It is about us (the true follows of CHRIST) having the courage to stand with those who are vulnerable. It is about us saying "no" to hate of sinners, even when it is done in the name of God -- no, especially when it is done in the name of God because GOD does not hate sinners HE hates sins, why? It is because sins have separated us from HIM. All true followers of CHRIST must have the guts to draw that line in the sand like Jesus did (John 8:6). Even when that means facing that mob ourselves. We may think we are battling for GOD in our outspoken condemnation of wrong around us, but if we are not doing this in a radical spirit of grace and love, then we are simply not representing CHRIST and GOD. If there is one single sin in the New Testament that is seen as the most severe, the most harmful, it is the loveless judgment exhibited by the Christians and religious leaders (1 John 4: 8, 16 -Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in GOD, and GOD in them). And the opposite is also true: Whoever lives not in love lives not in GOD and GOD is not in them. (JESUS says in John 14:23-24 “Anyone who loves ME will obey MY teaching. Anyone who does not love ME will not obey MY teaching. Matt. 7:23 - Then I (JESUS) will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from ME, you evil doers!’ The harshest words of Jesus are reserved for condemning exactly this sin of lovelessness. My dear brothers and sisters let not this be said to you. True followers of CHRIST are those “who love because we have been loved by GOD when we were unlovable.
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