From: allan-sv@algonet.se   
      
                                  Two sorts of love   
      
   Some people's opinion is that my articles are loveless, but I am   
   only delighted and thankful for that criticism. I am thankful to   
   the Lord that they cannot find the sort of love in my articles that   
   they are looking for.   
      
   Some people can be very kindly and have a correct language and   
   self-imposed worship, but that is no sign of a Christian love. Please,   
   read Rom. 16:17-18 and Col. 2:18-23. We can read in Luke 11:37-54   
   how Jesus rebuked the Pharisees and the teachers of the law. Surely   
   they thought that Jesus could have been more kindly with them, for   
   they had in all cases given him a meal food. But it is not possible   
   to bribe Jesus, he says the truth yet.   
      
   A sure sign for a Christian love is the love to the Lord and his word.   
   Jesus is the Word, and if we do not love God's word, then we neither   
   love Jesus. John 1:1-14. Jesus says in Matt. 10:37-39, "He that loveth   
   father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth   
   son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. And he that taketh   
   not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me. He that   
   findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake   
   shall find it."   
      
   If we have the love of Christ, then we also love the Body of Christ   
   and are longing for seeing it be built-up according to the pattern.   
   What is the pattern of God's temple? It is all that the Bible teaches   
   about the Body of Christ, or God's temple. Eph. 4th Chapter and   
   Hebr. 8th Chapter. And we receive thankfully the teaching the   
   apostle Paul gives us in 2 Cor. 6:14-18. But then we are accused   
   of being severe and loveless, just because we want to follow   
   God's word and do not believe what they preach in the churches.   
      
   In 1 Cor. 13:4-6 we can read how the true love is. "Charity   
   suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth   
   not itself, is not puffed up, Doth not behave itself unseemly;   
   seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;   
   Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth."   
      
   The false love of the great whore (Rev. 17th and 18th Chapter)   
   is on the contrary. In the harlot-love, there are impatience,   
   contrariness and enviousness. The harlot-love is impolite and   
   self-seeking. It keeps watch of its own church, its own   
   denomination. And it is an obstacle for the rising and the   
   edification of the Body of Christ. The harlot-love is suspicious   
   and has a grudge against supposed injuries. It does not rejoice   
   in the truth, but in unrighteousness it suppresses the truth and   
   demand that people shall follow church traditions instead of   
   obeying God's word.   
      
   If we must keep silent with some bible truth "for the sake of love"   
   and for not to disturb the fellowship, then it is not any Christian   
   fellowship. The Christian fellowship becomes stronger the more   
   radical God's words are preached.   
      
   God's word teaches us to forgive and love one another, but we   
   do not need to forgive and love the devil. We must resist the devil   
   and combat him with the weapon that God has given us. Eph.   
   6:10-18. James 4:7. We must also resist and combat the tools   
   that the devil uses to divide and enslave the Christians. By the   
   power of God's word we can with frankness unmask and attack   
   churches and denominations, and help people to be free from   
   there.   
      
   Some ones have pointed out to me that we must distinguish   
   between the believing and the churches to which they belong, and   
   not to condemn the members along with the church system. But   
   the problem is that the church members are not willing to leave   
   church. They cannot see the difference between people and churches.   
   They feel as one with the church to which they belong, and they   
   cannot distinguish between a point at issue and a personal attack.   
   When I mention anything about the doctrine of the church, they   
   apprehend it as an attack against themselves. At once they cry   
   out, do not judge!   
      
   Those who are so quick to give prominence to that we shall not   
   judge, what are they doing? They defend the religious fraud and   
   condemn the truth! It does not give evidence of love to Jesus or   
   to the Body of Christ. They have no teaching to give regarding   
   the Body of Christ and they explain nothing. Nevertheless, they   
   are willingly to determine and command and pretend that they   
   know anything.   
      
   What I have written here is not any condemnation over anyone,   
   and there are no honest Christians who feel hurt or take offence   
   at this. This is eagerly awaited and releasing truths for God's   
   people. I want to help people to be free from the religious   
   harlot-being. The truth will set them free. But it is not enough   
   that we read or listen to the truth, we must also acknowledge   
   the truth and act according to the truth.   
      
   If we have an honest longing for being free from church tradition   
   thinking, then we can be free because God listens to our prayers   
   and the Holy Spirit reveals the truth of the Body of Christ.   
      
      
      
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