THE LAW OF LOVE!         21/3/74          DO 302C

         1. WE ARE THE LAST CHURCH! We are God's last Church, the last step in God's progress toward TOTAL FREEDOM for His church & the LAST CHANCE to PROVE that the ULTIMATE CHURCH can be trusted with TOTAL FREEDOM in this LAST GENERATION!
         2. EACH AGE OR GENERATION OF THE CHURCH HAS TAKEN ANOTHER STEP OR SOME NEW STEP TOWARD SUCH FREEDOM from the harsh restrictions of the LAW to the total freedom of LOVE through the GRACE of GOD; from MATERIAL SYMBOLISMS & MECHANISED CEREMONIALISM to SPIRITUAL REALITIES & TOTAL SPIRITUAL LIBERTY--"the spirits of just men set free"!
         3. "FOR WHERE THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD IS THERE IS LIBERTY" (2COR.3:17)--TOTAL & COMPLETE FREEDOM from the BONDAGE of the LAW into total & complete FREEDOM of LIFE & LIBERTY through LOVE!--It's the liberating LAW OF LOVE that gives LIFE--not the enslaving "LETTER of the LAW that KILLETH".
         4. CAN YOU BE TRUSTED WITH IT, OR WILL YOU ABUSE IT & use your liberty as license to do WRONGFULLY & LUSTFULLY instead of RIGHTFULLY & LOVINGLY? Will you use it to HEAL & HELP, or HARM & HINDER? The answer is up to YOU: Are you so RULED by His LOVE that He can LIBERATE you from the RULES, or do you have to be kept under the LAW of WORK because you cannot be trusted with the LIBERTY of His GRACE? The answer is up to YOU!
         5. IF YOU ARE STRONG ENOUGH IN SPIRIT & FILLED WITH HIS LOVE, YOU CAN BE TRUSTED WITH HIS LIBERTY as a useful tool to help others. But if you are WEAK in the FLESH, full of SELFISH LUST & play with it FOOLISHLY like a DANGEROUS toy, it will only harm yourself & others & hinder the work of God.
         6. WHO HAS THE MOST LOVE?--TO WHOM CAN WE GIVE THE MOST LIBERTY?--THE LION OR THE LAMB? ARE YOU A LION OR A LAMB, a wolf or one of the flock? Will you FEED & follow & love & lamb together with the Shepherd, or will you rage & devour & tear & destroy & scatter the flock & drive them from the Shepherd's fold?
         7. THE ANSWER IS UP TO YOU.--CAN YOU BE TRUSTED WITH TOTAL LIFE, LOVE, LIBERTY & THE FREEDOM OF THE SPIRIT, or do you have to be kept in the cage of the law for the transgressors who are ruled only by their own carnal lusts & lack of love? (See 1Tim.1:9.)
         8. "LOVE DOETH THY NEIGHBOUR NO HARM", FOR "THOU SHALT LOVE THY NEIGHBOUR AS THYSELF": THIS IS GOD'S LAW OF LOVE! "Do unto OTHERS as you would have them do unto YOU." "Against such LOVE there is no LAW." This is the LORD'S LAW OF LOVE. OBEY it & you can have TOTAL LOVE, LIFE & LIBERTY in the Lord. These are God's conditions. (Rom.13:10; Mat.22:39; 7:12; Gal.5:22,23.)
         9. THIS IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LUST & LOVE: LUST is merely to gratify your OWN greedy selfish appetite, like eating a meal. You may need it, but if you're STEALING it from someone ELSE & taking the food out of THEIR mouth to stuff your OWN, this is selfish LUST, not LOVE! But if you are taking the food out of your OWN mouth & GIVING YOUR own meal to satisfy & feed ANOTHER who is hungry & starving for love & needs it desperately & might not survive without it, then THIS is REAL LOVE.
         10. "GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS: that a man lay down his life for his friends." "Therefore we ought to lay down OUR lives for the brethren." (Jn.15:13; 1Jn.3:16) Are you willing to lay down YOUR LIFE--or even your WIFE--for a starving brother or a sister?
         11. ARE YOU WILLING TO GIVE TILL IT HURTS, even until it hurts YOU?--JESUS did: He gave His LIFE! GOD did: He gave His Son! DAVID did: He said, "I will NOT give unto the Lord of that which hath COST me NOTHING"!--HE gave until it HURT! GOD gives His WIFE, the Church, continually in loving service to others! She is constantly engaged in trying to WOO & WIN the WORLD.
         12. ARE YOU WILLING TO GIVE THAT MUCH IF NEEDED? Are YOU willing to SUFFER to save OTHERS?--To offer your LIFE or your WIFE or be offered as GOD'S WIFE or BOTH? They said of Jesus: "He saved OTHERS, but HIMSELF He could NOT save!" This is true: "Except a grain of wheat fall into the ground & DIE, it abideth alone: but if it DIE it bringeth forth MUCH FRUIT."
         13. "ALL THAT BELIEVED WERE TOGETHER & HAD ALL THINGS COMMON!" Neither called ANY man ANYTHING his OWN, but they had ALL THINGS COMMON"! That is the ULTIMATE IDEAL in TOTAL sharing, TOTAL giving, TOTAL forsaking all, TOTAL freedom, TOTAL living, TOTAL loving & TOTAL liberty in the TOTAL LOVE of GOD! (See Mat.27:42; Jn.12:24; Act.2:44; 4:32.)

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