Love from the Inside

Matthew McPheron

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Vision of Love

The precepts of God can only be manifest in the natural through the demonstration of God’s love (Agape).

1st Corinthians 2:6-14

King James Version Jude

16 These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men’s persons in admiration because of advantage. 17 But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ; 18 how that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts. 19 These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit. 20 But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost, 21 keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life. 22 And of some have compassion, making a difference: 23 and others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.

English Standard Version Chapter 2

6 Yet among the mature we do impart wisdom, although it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are doomed to pass away. 7 But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed before the ages for our glory. 8 None of the rulers of this age understood this, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. 9 But, as it is written,

“What no eye has seen, nor ear heard,

nor the heart of man imagined,

what God has prepared for those who love him”—

10 these things God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God. 11 For who knows a person’s thoughts except the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. 12 Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God. 13 And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual.

14 The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned. 15 The spiritual person judges all things, but is himself to be judged by no one. 16 “For who has understood the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?” But we have the mind of Christ.

Agape (Love) cannot be reproduced out of a sensual man or women, no matter how good their intentions, or even how fixed their aim is at the authentic love of God.

No matter what we do, no matter how godly in looks in the natural (or on the outside), there is no Kingdom value if it is not rooted in the love of God.

God’s love is beyond the capacity of our mind. It can only be received as a spiritual revelation.

King James Version Chapter 55

8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts,

Neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.

9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth,

So are my ways higher than your ways,

And my thoughts than your thoughts.

This is the very reason that the love of God is other. This contrast of thoughts and way, with God on one end of the continuum and us on the other. We are finite and He is infinite. To express Agape love is to express something that is infinite. We cannot do that (because we are finite), unless we are breathing out the infinite breath of God that was breathed into us.

To express Agape love is to exhale the breath of God.

Two Streams

New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update Chapter 4

20 My son, give attention to my words;

Incline your ear to my sayings.

21 Do not let them depart from your sight;

Keep them in the midst of your heart.

22 For they are life to those who find them

And health to all their body.

23 Watch over your heart with all diligence,

For from it flow the springs of life.

24 Put away from you a deceitful mouth

And put devious speech far from you.

The problem is that we have to sets of lungs.

V20-21 This idea of inclining your ear is not a natural idea. It is spiritual. It is saying, you have to lengthen the reach of you hearing, or spread it out beyond the word that you are literally hearing.

This is the same thing as when Jesus says, “He who has an ear, let him hear.” He is not saying, “Do you have an ear?” He is saying, “Can you hear past the natural into the spiritual? And if you can, listen up because I am about to speak a spiritual truth.”

It is the biblical equivalent to when I say, “The words that I speak are not as important as the words that Holy Spirit to you while I am speaking.” If you have come to hear the words of man, you have dealt foolishly with your day.

V22-23 Here is a key! There is a valve in our heart and that valve has to be watched with diligence, because the natural flow of that valve is the natural, but when that valve is kept with diligence only spiritual life flows through.

Get this - The value of the outward action is determined by the condition of the inward flow.

Lets read

V1-5 Here the Pharisees have made an outward observation, that the hands of the disciples were unclean, and they confronted Jesus.

V6-13 Jesus confronts the idea of tradition. He is no confronting tradition because it is bad to wash hands, He is confronting tradition because it is making His word of no effect. He is saying, your traditions make everything look good, but their is no life in them.

New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update Chapter 11

37 Now when He had spoken, a Pharisee *asked Him to have lunch with him; and He went in, and reclined at the table.

38 When the Pharisee saw it, he was surprised that He had not first aceremonially washed before the meal.

39 But the Lord said to him, “Now you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and of the platter; but inside of you, you are full of robbery and wickedness.

40 “You foolish ones, did not He who made the outside make the inside also?

41 “But give that which is within as charity, and then all things are clean for you.

42 “But woe to you Pharisees! For you pay tithe of mint and rue and every kind of garden herb, and yet disregard justice and the love of God; but these are the things you should have done without neglecting the others.

43 “Woe to you Pharisees! For you love the chief seats in the synagogues and the respectful greetings in the market places.

44 “Woe to you! For you are like concealed tombs, and the people who walk over them are unaware of it.”

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