It is God's desire that His love is suppose to be imparted into our children First off, it is supposed to be transferred from the parents into the children; this is the responsibility of the parents. The parents are supposed to transfer God's love that they have received from Him and transfer it into their children. Let me explain how this is done below.
Let us examine people in general before we go on with our children. All the people in the world can be split up into three groups. There are the few people that are totally made good by Christ's Holy Spirit residing and living in and through them. Then there are the multitudes of people that have a mix of good and evil, and then there are the few that are completely evil. The extent of how good or how evil a person is is determined by how much of God's love/truth they have accepted in their life.
To a certain extent, God has poured out his Spirit onto all people. This is why you won't find very many people that are totally evil. Even the ones that don't believe in God, they will almost always believe in some of God's truth. When anyone believes in any of God's truth, it will produce some good. Most of us know many people that aren't Christians, but we can also see some good in them while we can also see some evil in them as well. This mix of good and evil will only produce works that are tainted with evil (bad fruit). This is what God calls "dirty rags". But we have to admit, there is some good in almost everyone. So, we also have to admit that God's Spirit of goodness is also partially in these people, because God is the only one that is good and all good things can only come from Him. Most people reflect the world they live in, where there is good and evil. God has created an environment in this world where there is both good and evil. He did this so we could all have a choice between the good and evil. Most people pick both. But for the ones that choose only good, they search out God to receive a full filling of His love, which in turn produces only good fruit out of a pure love.
Now, getting back to how God's love is transferred to other people, including our children. God's love is transferred to others by sharing God's truth and living His truth. What a person believes will determine what love a person will live by. If a person is truly living by God's love, that love of God will be transferred to others that they have a relationship with.
When we believe God's truth, we will then live by that truth. When we live by God's truth, it will produce only pure love. Belief in God's truth will bring a person to a point of being totally free of their self love and empowered to live by God's love alone. Anyone that totally believes in God's truth will live by that truth and can only act in God's love.
God's love and God's truth are one and cannot be separated. When we share God's love with people, we are sharing God's truth. When we take the time to share God's truth with people, we are showing God's love to them. God's love is actually God's truth in action. This is why the first and second greatest commandment is:
Matt 22:37-40 - Jesus replied: "'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments." NIV
God's commandments are to "LOVE" - To have and share God's love. All the Law (all of God's Truth) and the Prophets hang on these two commandments (to have and share God's love). If we go and share God's truth, but do not have the action of showing God's love, the truth we share is empty and possibly damaging. This is why God primarily calls us to have the action of His love, because then we are also showing others the real truth. We must show others the truth by the way we love. Then they will believe in God's truth, because they see it in action through His love flowing through us. In this way the lost can experience God's love and in turn believe God's truth and be found by God.
So, what comes first, God's love or God's truth? It is very important that we first believe in God's truth, otherwise we can't come to know the true love of God. Belief in God's truth will produce obedience to God, which will produce God's love in us. It is very important that we get "whole" ourselves in God's love before we try to help others. If we aren't fully believing in God's truth, then we will not be able to witness to others with the love of God. Anyone that is not believing in God's truth will not be obedient to God, and will not be able to have the full love of God to share with others. It is only through faith in God's truth that we are led into God's love. Once we have become obedient to His truth (commandments), God comes to live with us in the form of pure love and truth (the Holy Spirit). It is then that God empowers us to witness to others in His love.
As parents, if we are full of God's love, we will then transfer God's love into our children. The children will see and experience God's truth and love in action by the parents and then the children will believe in God's truth also, which will produce obedience in the children and result in receiving God's love for themselves.
Blessings,
Michael W Reid
Friday, June 3, 2011
The Beast and the Harlot
I was listening to the news this morning (6/3/2011). They were discussing why our country is going down the drain. Our schools are turning out less educated kids and our country's financial system seems to be tumbling into another recession or maybe a depression. They are looking at what we have to do to make our country great again.
The truth is, they don't have a clue why the world seems to be falling apart. Almost no one is recognizing that we have lost our love for God and have thrown Him, His truth, and His morals under the bus for our own personal gains.
It is the "Beast and Harlot" story all over again. The human nature of people never changes and they keep being blind to their own selfishness and greed. They don't learn from the past, so they end up being fooled by their own human reasoning into do the same foolish mistakes again.
Rev 17:8 - The beast, which you saw, once was, now is not, and will come up out of the Abyss and go to his destruction. The inhabitants of the earth whose names have not been written in the book of life from the creation of the world will be astonished when they see the beast , because he once was, now is not, and yet will come. NIV
This has happened before and it is happening again. We have turned materialism and money into a beast, so that mankind can prosper and the ones enjoying and riding this beast of materialism and money is the harlot. The beast is the worldly materialism and money that almost everyone has given their life to acquire. The harlot/woman/prostitute riding the beast represents Babylon.
Babylon is happening all over again because people have turned from loving God to loving money and things. This time around the harlot or woman riding this beast is the United States. We once were a God fearing and God loving country, but have turned our love over to another and committed adultery against God.
The love of the people of this once God fearing country has now grown cold. We have removed ourselves so far away from God that most in the United States don't have a clue of why the blessings of this country are disappearing. Not only that, but we have gotten a lot of the world to commit adultery with us. Almost every nation in the world wants to have the life that the Americans have, while at the same time they are jealous of the United States and want to tear us down and take our riches away from us. Our love of money and materialism has spread through out the world.
Rev 17:15-18 - Then the angel said to me, "The waters you saw, where the prostitute sits, are peoples, multitudes, nations and languages. The beast and the ten horns you saw will hate the prostitute. They will bring her to ruin and leave her naked; they will eat her flesh and burn her with fire. For God has put it into their hearts to accomplish his purpose by agreeing to give the beast their power to rule, until God's words are fulfilled. The woman you saw is the great city that rules over the kings of the earth." NIV
Babylon has risen again, and it will also fall again. We are the Babylon this time; as a nation we have turned our love to money and things, and far away from God. But be assured God's plan is right on track.
Isa 1:21-27 - See how the faithful city has become a harlot! She once was full of justice; righteousness used to dwell in her — but now murderers! Your silver has become dross, your choice wine is diluted with water. Your rulers are rebels, companions of thieves; they all love bribes and chase after gifts. They do not defend the cause of the fatherless; the widow's case does not come before them. Therefore the Lord, the Lord Almighty, the Mighty One of Israel, declares: "Ah, I will get relief from my foes and avenge myself on my enemies. I will turn my hand against you; I will thoroughly purge away your dross and remove all your impurities. I will restore your judges as in days of old, your counselors as at the beginning. Afterward you will be called the City of Righteousness, the Faithful City." NIV
Now, whether this is the last Babylon time, or it will happen again before the very end is up to God’s timing. But woe to the inhabitance of Babylon.
Blessings,
Michael
The truth is, they don't have a clue why the world seems to be falling apart. Almost no one is recognizing that we have lost our love for God and have thrown Him, His truth, and His morals under the bus for our own personal gains.
It is the "Beast and Harlot" story all over again. The human nature of people never changes and they keep being blind to their own selfishness and greed. They don't learn from the past, so they end up being fooled by their own human reasoning into do the same foolish mistakes again.
Rev 17:8 - The beast, which you saw, once was, now is not, and will come up out of the Abyss and go to his destruction. The inhabitants of the earth whose names have not been written in the book of life from the creation of the world will be astonished when they see the beast , because he once was, now is not, and yet will come. NIV
This has happened before and it is happening again. We have turned materialism and money into a beast, so that mankind can prosper and the ones enjoying and riding this beast of materialism and money is the harlot. The beast is the worldly materialism and money that almost everyone has given their life to acquire. The harlot/woman/prostitute riding the beast represents Babylon.
Babylon is happening all over again because people have turned from loving God to loving money and things. This time around the harlot or woman riding this beast is the United States. We once were a God fearing and God loving country, but have turned our love over to another and committed adultery against God.
The love of the people of this once God fearing country has now grown cold. We have removed ourselves so far away from God that most in the United States don't have a clue of why the blessings of this country are disappearing. Not only that, but we have gotten a lot of the world to commit adultery with us. Almost every nation in the world wants to have the life that the Americans have, while at the same time they are jealous of the United States and want to tear us down and take our riches away from us. Our love of money and materialism has spread through out the world.
Rev 17:15-18 - Then the angel said to me, "The waters you saw, where the prostitute sits, are peoples, multitudes, nations and languages. The beast and the ten horns you saw will hate the prostitute. They will bring her to ruin and leave her naked; they will eat her flesh and burn her with fire. For God has put it into their hearts to accomplish his purpose by agreeing to give the beast their power to rule, until God's words are fulfilled. The woman you saw is the great city that rules over the kings of the earth." NIV
Babylon has risen again, and it will also fall again. We are the Babylon this time; as a nation we have turned our love to money and things, and far away from God. But be assured God's plan is right on track.
Isa 1:21-27 - See how the faithful city has become a harlot! She once was full of justice; righteousness used to dwell in her — but now murderers! Your silver has become dross, your choice wine is diluted with water. Your rulers are rebels, companions of thieves; they all love bribes and chase after gifts. They do not defend the cause of the fatherless; the widow's case does not come before them. Therefore the Lord, the Lord Almighty, the Mighty One of Israel, declares: "Ah, I will get relief from my foes and avenge myself on my enemies. I will turn my hand against you; I will thoroughly purge away your dross and remove all your impurities. I will restore your judges as in days of old, your counselors as at the beginning. Afterward you will be called the City of Righteousness, the Faithful City." NIV
Now, whether this is the last Babylon time, or it will happen again before the very end is up to God’s timing. But woe to the inhabitance of Babylon.
Blessings,
Michael
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