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“Overcoming the Temptation to be Selfish”

Posted by mcoxbmi on March 16, 2023
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We must learn how to love God so that we can love others and be more effective in the kingdom of God.

If God’s agape love is not working in our life, then the Kingdom of God will be limited in its ability to produce or manifest in our life.

Two of the greatest forces in life that effect everyone one of us are Love and selfishness.  These two forces are involved in everything we do.  They are involved in every decision that we make.

Everything we do and every decision that we make are related to one or the other of these two forces, Love or selfishness.  One or the other is always present, but they cannot work together.

Mankind is born with a selfish nature. Selfishness is the reciprocal of love.

Agape love is not a human form of love.  It is unconditional, limitless, selfless, and is not based on emotions.  It tolerates anything. It is always others centered.

Hebrews 2: 14 – 15 (Amplified Classic) Since, therefore, [these His] children share in flesh and blood [in the physical nature of human beings], He [Himself] in a similar manner partook of the same [nature], that by [going through] death He might bring to nought and make of no effect him who had the power of death–that is, the devil– (15) And also that He might deliver and completely set free all those who through the [haunting] fear of death were held in bondage throughout the whole course of their lives.

Hebrews 4: 15 – 16 (NKJV) For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin. (16) Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

Jesus was also tempted with selfishness.  Jesus used the Word to defeat selfishness. He anchored His choice in the Word.  We should do the same.

 

“The Difference Between Human Love and Agape Love” – “An In-Depth Study on Love Part 19”

Posted by mcoxbmi on February 17, 2022
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What is the difference between human love and agape love? Agape Love vs Human love is like looking at the difference between the wheat and the tares.  Wheat gives life, the tares are weeds and hinders, takes, or steals life.

Human love is conditional and needs reciprocal action. – self-centered

Human love always wants the things that are good and lovely – self-centered

Human love always wants to be pleased. – self-centered

Agape love is not dependent on understanding, or what you think or feel.

Agape Love is more interested in pleasing others than it is in pleasing self.

Agape does not care how you respond. When you love someone the way that God loves, you do so regardless of his or her actions.  You love him or her through good times and rough times.  That is agape love.

What hinders or chokes the Word will also hinder or choke our Love walk.

Mark 4: 18 – 19 (Amplified Classic) And the ones sown among the thorns are others who hear the Word; (19) Then the cares and anxieties of the world and distractions of the age, and the pleasure and delight and false glamour and deceitfulness of riches, and the craving and passionate desire for other things creep in and choke and suffocate the Word, and it becomes fruitless.

Luke 21: 34 (Amplified Classic)  But take heed to yourselves and be on your guard, lest your hearts be overburdened and depressed (weighed down) with the giddiness and headache and nausea of self-indulgence, drunkenness, and worldly worries and cares pertaining to [the business of] this life, and [lest] that day come upon you suddenly like a trap or a noose;