1 John 4:12. No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.
1 John 4:7-21
“7. Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
8. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
9. In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.
10. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
11. Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
12. No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.
13. Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit.
14. And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.
15. Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.
16. And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.
17. Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.
18. There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.
19. We love him, because he first loved us.
20. If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?
21. And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.”
― Jesus, The Word Of God
Solidarity March is a message to relay to the body of Christ the greatness of the love of God toward us, and how this great love has been placed in our hearts by the Holy Ghost.
This love of God, being placed in the hearts of Christians, brings with it a great responsibility to love God and our fellow man in the same measure that God has loved us.
Romans 5:8
“But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”
― Jesus, The Word Of God
Do you exercise enough of this Love that God has given us, enough that you are willing to love those sinners enough to preach the Gospel to them? Or have you become so callus that you have now justified being a judge rather than a laborer in the harvest?
Are we willing to die to the wants and desires of the fallen flesh, to sacrifice our flesh on the altar of God that we might bear the spiritual fruit of his spirit?
The Love of God is a powerful thing, the Love of God has the power to transform mankind from living a life of sin, to a life of righteousness. This righteousness is accomplished every time we choose to love. With such a great Love available to us it would be a shame to refuse to partake of it and to share it with all the people we come in contact with.
Love & Faith
The following Scriptures reveal something about love and faith at the time of the Tribulation.
Matthew 24:12-13
“12 And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.
13. But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.”
― Jesus, The Word Of God
Luke 18:7-8
“7. And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them?
8. I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?”
― Jesus, The Word Of God
Love and faith, without these two ingredients there will be no unity in the body of Christ, instead there will be separation, division, sects.
The root of Christian Solidarity is Love, when divisions abound you can be sure that love has been cast aside by the carnal minds of men. The carnal minds of men have been a threat to Christian unity from the very beginning of the early Church.
Never forget that the very same Love that God exercised when He gave His only begotten Son, is the very same Love that we have received from the presence of the Holy Spirit which has been given unto us. We must never fall into the trap where we use the Love God has for us as an excuse to sin against God or man.
The Lord’s Supper, Agape Feast, Communion
I have never heard a Pastor, nor any minister, teach the full truth of the Communion as contained in 1 Corinthians 11:17-34. When speaking before the taking of Communion we are told to examine our lives and repent of any sin that may be present.
But in this passage of scripture it points out a very specific sin, doctrinal differences caused by carnal envying, strife, and divisions. Once you understand this, you may understand a little more of why this sin is never mentioned during a Communion Service. The very existence of the many denominations depends on doctrinal divisions to support their separation from the body of Christ into their sects. Read 1 Corinthians Chapter 3 for more on this great sin.
The greatest mockery against the body of Jesus that was broken for all, is the brokenness in the living body of Jesus the church.
How can it be Brothers and Sisters in Christ, we who are commanded to be one, we who should be the greatest example of unity and marriage, live in separate houses that we call churches? Even the unsaved put the church to shame when they marry, when the unsaved Marry, they do not move into separate homes, they live as one in love in the same abode.
It may be acceptable to the carnal minds of men to be content living in separate abodes with a particular denomination or even non-denomination, but it is in no way acceptable to our Lord and savior Jesus the word of God.
When men walk in their carnal minds they walk in doctrines and commandments given by men that separate them from the body of Jesus Christ. I say again, how is it Brothers and Sisters in Christ that there does not dwell among us even one who has the knowledge wisdom and understanding from the Spirit of God who can bring light to those who are so easily deceived into believing it is the will of God for the body of Jesus to live in separate abodes we call churches?
1 Corinthians 11:17-34
“17. Now in this that I declare unto you I praise you not, that ye come together not for the better, but for the worse.
18. For first of all, when ye come together in the church, I hear that there be divisions among you; and I partly believe it.
19. For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you.
20. When ye come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord’s supper.
21. For in eating every one taketh before other his own supper: and one is hungry, and another is drunken.
22. What? have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or despise ye the church of God, and shame them that have not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I praise you not.
23. For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread:
24. And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.
25. After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me.
26. For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord’s death till he come.
27. Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.
28. But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup.
29. For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord’s body.
30. For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.
31. For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.
32. But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.
33. Wherefore, my brethren, when ye come together to eat, tarry one for another.
34. And if any man hunger, let him eat at home; that ye come not together unto condemnation. And the rest will I set in order when I come.”
― Jesus, The Word Of God
Unworthily
Partaking of the Lord’s supper is a special time in which we reverence the Lord’s death until he returns. But here we have the Corinthians partaking of the Lord’s supper while at the same time walking in division, and filling their stomachs while others among them remained hungry.
Division in the body of Christ caused by man’s arrogance, thinking that their great knowledge gives them the right to divide the body of Christ into sects, or somehow that this knowledge gives them the right to see themselves as better than others in the body of Christ, is great wickedness.
This carnal minded way of thinking is leading many to an early grave, rather than being a time to reverence our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, the Corinthians were using this time to divide Christians into groups and to fill their fat stomachs with no regard to the hungry among them.
The job of every minister, through humility teach the body of Christ to be one in the faith through love
Ephesians 4:1-32
“1. I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called,
2. With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;
3. Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
4. There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling;
5. One Lord, one faith, one baptism,
6. One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.
7. But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ.
8. Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men.
9. (Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth?
10. He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things.)
11. And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;
12. For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:
13. Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:
14. That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;
15. But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:
16. From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.
17. This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,
18. Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:
19. Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
20. But ye have not so learned Christ;
21. If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus:
22. That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
23. And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;
24. And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
25. Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.
26. Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:
27. Neither give place to the devil.
28. Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.
29. Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
30. And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.
31. Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
32. And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.”― Jesus, The Word Of God