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         How are you to judge matters of the spirit? Judge them with the scale of love. Is the fruit loving? Is the spirit loving? Does it show love to Me and love to each other?
         You shall know them by their fruits. Do their words of love and actions of love bring forth love in their hearts and lives, and minister love one to another? How else can you judge? For when one seems to do that which is right, but brings not forth the fruits of love, then you can know. One cannot simply judge by the words or by the actions, but by the spirit, by the fruit, by the love.
         So judge righteous judgment--the righteous judgment of love. Judge the fruit righteously on the scale of love. When you find those who act not in love, or bring not forth the fruit of love, speak to them and show them the error of their ways and the unloving fruit so that they may understand; for they do not know that what they do is unseemly, or unloving, or that it brings not forth the fruit of love. For some do that which seems to them to be right, and seems to be following that which they have read, but they know not that it brings not forth the fruit of love to others. So help them to see. Judge according to the spirit of love. (ML #3033)



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