IS LOVE AGAINST THE LAW?         GP 648   Jan. '78

         1. WHATSOEVER WE DO IN WORD OR IN DEED WE'RE TO DO ALL TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND WE'RE TO DO IT ALL IN LOVE. (1Cor.10:31) If we're keeping God's law of Love then we'll try not to hurt or offend anybody, we'll do our best to try to live in love, to help people without offending anyone. But we can't very well help offending the church, especially the false church, because of its false lies and false doctrines and false laws which are contrary to the law of God.
         2. Jesus Himself couldn't please the Scribes and the Pharisees no matter what He did.--And they finally hung Him! He offended them no matter what He did, because he preached exactly what I'm preaching right now--that you don't have to keep the so-called Mosaic Law, all you have to do is love.

         3. Our whole doctrine of love is contrary to their doctrine of law, their doctrine of hate, their doctrine of enforcement and their doctrine of fear and terror.--It's totally contrary to their whole way. Therefore of course we lovers of love and the Lord are going to run afoul of the lovers of the law and legalism, and we cannot possibly please them because love is love and law is law and never the twain shall meet!

         4. GOD'S ONLY LAW IS LOVE, and if what you're doing you're doing in love and you're not hurting any innocent party, then it is perfectly legal for you according to God's Law of Love.

         5. Jesus said the law of love is all the law, as well as all the prophets! (Matthew 22:37-40) That's pretty broad coverage! That takes in the entire Old Testament, the law and the prophets. ... So Jesus said that's the whole works, the whole Bible, that's all the law--love.

         6. LOVE IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING.--The love of God, unselfish, pure, sacrificial love, not matter how it's manifested. Whether it's in sex or otherwise, and it's manifested otherwise much more than it is just in sex.

         7. There are many more ways you can show love besides sex. But we live in a very sexy generation where sex is exaggerated completely out of all proportion to what it should be. People today are terrificly desirous of sex and in need of sex, therefore if you don't satisfy their sexual appetite they have a hard time believing that you really love them.
         8. So sometimes we have to satisfy that appetite to prove to them that we really care and we're concerned and we love them. And there's no law of God against it, for the plain and simple reason that if we do it in love and to show God's Love to them, then it's according to God's law of love.--We're loving our neighbour as ourselves.
         9. If you love your neighbour as yourself, you'll put yourself in his place, and wonder how you would feel if you were there, and wonder what you would want and need to have fulfilled...Against such love there is no law!--SO LOVE!


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