70. LAW OF LOVE
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Love is the fulfilling of the law (Rom.13:10).
[HomeARC note (11/98): The Charter and subsequent GNs state the specific guidelines for living the Law of Love.]
1. Jesus said you only need two laws now: Love God & love others!--God's only law is Love! (Mat.22:37-39)
2. Everything must be judged from the standpoint of love.
3. The Lord often gives room for exceptional cases & makes exceptions to His Own rules, in love & mercy & forgiveness.
4. The law is the standard, but there are always exceptions to the rules, particularly if God's the One Who makes the exceptions!
5. Love is more than righteousness, & mercy is greater than justice!
6. We believe in doing more than keeping the 10 Commandments: Jesus' Law of Love is much stricter & much more difficult!
7. When people are not willing to receive the revelations grace gives, the freedom that grace gives & the new wine that grace gives, they always turn back to their legalism & the law to prove their points, that it is not according to the law, the Bible, not according to Moses, or according to Paul!
8. The Lord is writing a New Testament for a new day & a new age, & we don't have to go by Paul any more!
9. You've either got to go all the way by grace or you've got to go all the way by law!
10. Whatever is done in love is right!
11. God now only judges us according to whether we have love or we don't have love!
12. We are free from Moses' Law because we have learned Jesus' love, which is greater than the Laws of Moses!
13. We believe that anything that is done in love & not strictly forbidden in the Scriptures is perfectly legitimate.
14. God's only law is love! As long as whatever you're doing is in love & not hurting anybody, how can you go wrong?
15. God makes the rules & He can make exceptions to them if He wants to, & do some very unusual things.
16. Apparently you can get away with anything if the Lord decides it's OK! But you'd better make sure He decides.
17. It's the liberating law of love that gives life!--Not the enslaving "letter of the law that killeth." (2Cor.3:6)
18. What's done in love is not unlawful, according to the Word.--"Against such there is no law." (Gal.4:23)
19. There are always exceptions to every rule.
20. There's no law but Love in the Kingdom of Love, & there are no citizens but lovers! So whatsoever you do in word or in deed, do all to the glory of Love!
21. For those who are really in the Spirit, love is the only rule!
22. God makes the rules, but He also can break them if He wants to.
23. God Himself is violating His Own laws in saving us! He is declaring mercy instead of sacrifice, love instead of justice!
24. Here is the truth in a little creed.
Enough for all the road we go:
In love is all the law we need,
In Christ is all the God we know.
25. God's only law is love & His only Kingdom is Heavenly!
26. If you don't respond to God's new law of Love, He has to enforce His old law of justice.
27. Love is now the law!--God's only law is Love.
28. The Millennium is going to prove that you cannot legislate righteousness, even with the iron rule of Love!
29. It can be sin for others, but it can be righteousness for you! It's all really judged by the motive of your heart.
30. We are free from Moses' law because we have learned God's love.
31. If you go back to the law even on one point, you are obligated to keep the whole law! (Ja.2:10)
32. God's Law is love, not cold, rigid, traditional, self-righteous service.
33. The Love of God is greater than His Laws!--His mercy supersedes His justice!
34. Jesus just preached Love & He was trying not to hurt anybody.--But His very life & His Message exposed the hypocrites & the guilty ones, because it showed them up like black against white or light against darkness for what they really were.
35. 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?
36. Is it good for God's work? Is it good for His Body? Is it good for you? Does it glorify God, His Body, & edify your own soul? Does it help you or someone else to do a better job for the Lord? Do you even need it for your own good?
37. Nothing that is done in love is wrong!--Whatever is done in love is right!
38. I don't believe in the Ten Commandments, I believe in Jesus' Law of Love! This is far greater & more difficult, & in fact you can't keep either the Ten Commandments or Jesus' Law of Love unless you have Jesus in you, the Spirit of God in you to give you the power & the strength to love others more than you love yourself.
39. By the Old Law, God showed man he couldn't do it by himself. By His new law of Love He showed even more that God was even more righteous than the Old Law, He had even more love & more mercy & it was even more impossible for man to be that good.
40. We have been freed from the bondage of the condemnation of sin by the Law of Love in Christ Jesus. So if it is in love, then it is lawful as far as God is concerned.
41. You've either got to go all the way by grace or you've got to go all the way by law. (Ro.11:6)
42. When it comes to the point that you even have to forego witnessing lest you cause some weak narrow-minded Christian to stumble, then that's where you have to draw the line & go ahead. If it means that you are going to be hampered & all kinds of obstacles put in your way to keep you from doing God's will just because of the petty peeves of some persnickety narrow-minded self-righteous Christian, then forget it! You cannot stop saving souls just because some people condemn your method. You cannot stop your ministry, you cannot stop the message just because some people condemn your methods. If God has blessed the message with good fruit then the method is good.
43. Love is more than righteousness & mercy is greater than justice.
44. 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 works because you cannot be trusted with the liberty of His grace?--The answer is up to you!
45. Have you got enough love to be trusted with enough liberty to live life to the full?
46. It's impossible for anyone to be good according to the Mosaic Law!
47. There is now no other law but love. If it's done in love & all parties concerned are agreed because they love each other, then there is no sin.--It is love!
48. The law of Love supersedes all other laws! Jesus was trying to show how the law of Love was even more strict than the Mosaic Law. The law of Love supersedes the law of Jewish justice without mercy!
49. Church laws & some men's laws make of none effect the law of God, the law of Love.
50. If you know you're acting in love, then you can go ahead by faith according to God's Word & you don't need anything else.
51. You're not guilty of disobeying God's laws as long as whatever you're doing you're doing in love.
52. Man's laws don't always jive with God's laws, especially His Law of Love.
53. Whatsoever we do in word or in deed, we're to do all to the glory of God & we're to do it all in Love. (1Cor.10:31)
54. 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.
55. Our whole doctrine of Love is contrary to the churches' doctrine of law, hate & enforcement of their doctrine of fear & terror.
56. We lovers of love and the Lord are bound to run afoul of the lovers of the Law & legalism & we cannot possibly please them.
57. Love is Love & law is law, & never the twain shall meet!
58. As far as we're concerned & as far as the New Testament says, for us there is no such thing anymore as adultery if all our sex is in His Love!
59. The only rule we can go by in every case is, is it Love?
60. Jesus said His Law of Love is now all the law, as well as all the prophets. (Mt.22:37-40)
61. Jesus said that the whole works, the whole Bible, is now all fulfilled in the Law of Love!
62. God's only Law is Love!--There is now no other law, no Mosaic Law, no church law, no law against sex. Those old laws don't exist as far as we're concerned. They are only to regulate the ungodly, as He says in 1Tim.1:9.
63. You have to judge every single case on its own merits & its own conditions, as to whether whatever is being done is done in love.
64. We who are Christians, who have God, who have His Love, are no longer under the law. But the sinner who is unsaved, who has rejected Jesus Christ, who does not have God & hasn't got God's Love in his heart, is still under that law. That's the difference.
65. The unsaved are still subject to the laws of the Old Testament, because the laws are for the ungodly & the unrighteous & for the lawbreaker! (1Tim.1:9)
66. We are free from the Law of Moses because we have learned love, which is greater than the Mosaic Law.
67. If we have love, God's Love, & we do everything we do in love, that's better than the Mosaic Law.
68. God's only law is Love, & as long as something is done in love, with real unselfish, even sacrificial love, God's Love, then it is absolutely lawful in God's eyes.
69. The Mosaic Law still exists for others who are still under it, because they don't have love.
70. The Love of God is greater than His laws. (Ro.13:10)
71. If you go back to the law even on one point, you are obligated to keep the whole law. (Ja.2:10)
72. The Lord really preferred the whole thing by grace & faith to begin with, that was His original plan, but He had to crack down with the rules because they didn't follow grace & faith & love. But keeping the rules didn't save them, they only showed them where they were wrong.
73. People who worship marriage are making it a god, & are worshipping the law & a form of legalism. It's a worship of law more than Love, forgiveness or mercy.
74. The worship of marriage laws is a legalism--it's saying that the law is inviolable! The legalists say that nothing can supersede it--not even the love, mercy or the grace of God!--And that if a person violates the law, he cannot be forgiven.
75. The Scribes & Pharisees worship the law more than love! They worship their own self-righteousness more than the righteousness of God! They worship judgement more than mercy, & when it comes right down to it, they worship vengeance more than love!
76. You cannot join the Family of Love without love, no matter who or what you are or what you have.
77. The law came by Moses, but grace, mercy, forgiveness, love & truth came through Jesus Christ, our Salvation. (Jn.1:17)
78. Jesus brought a new law of Love, God's only Law for the lovers of Jesus! Now God's only Law for us is Love, which more than fulfills the Mosaic law.
79. Jesus did not destroy the law, but He fulfilled it & He was the end of it! (Mat.5:17) Therefore, it passed away & is no more. We now only have to keep God's law of Love, His only law--Love!--A stronger law than Moses' law.
80. It all boils down to whether you're going to believe more in Moses or Jesus!
81. Jesus' Law of Love is greater & stricter even than the old Mosaic Law, because now everything you do must be done in His Love! You must have more mercy & more love than the law.
82. God, Who made the laws & the rules, wants you to have mercy & forgiveness & salvation!
83. We do not believe in keeping Moses' Ten Commandments!--We believe in keeping Jesus' Law of Love!
84. We believe in Christ's Law of Love: Love ye one another, & so fulfill ye the law of Christ. (Gal.5:14; 6:2)
85. There's no amount of love that could possibly be illegitimate to try to win a soul to Christ!
86. God's only Law is Love, & if what you're doing you're doing in love & you're not hurting any innocent party, then it is perfectly legal for you, according to God's Law of Love.
87. If a woman withholds herself from her husband, she is the guilty one for not giving that man his due, not the one who helps him in his need. The scripture explicitly forbids mates to withhold themselves from each other, so any woman withholding herself from her husband is breaking the Law of Love & the laws of the New Testament. (1Cor.7:3-5)
88. In sharing, if all parties are not agreed & consenting, then it's wrong. But if any part disagrees who is a guilty party themselves & part of the cause, then that's a very different story. You have to go entirely by love. You say, "But it's hurting the wife." Maybe she deserves to be hurt, maybe she needs it, maybe she denied him! Why is a man out seeking love somewhere else unless his wife is not giving him the kind of love he needs?
89. Any woman who withholds herself from her husband does not love her husband, so if he doesn't get love from his wife, he is free to find it somewhere else according to God's Law of Love! That's God's Word & that's the truth!
90. What difference does it make if a woman pretends openly that she's still a man's wife, if she is denying her husband sexually & is refusing him the rights of a husband. If she is refusing to be wife to him in bed, she is no wife!
91. If the wife herself is denying her husband his due, then it's her own fault if he looks for it somewhere else.
92. How can a woman give her husband unselfish love if she doesn't have the Love of God? And if she doesn't have that love, then it's all right if he gets it somewhere else, & it's her own fault & she's the guilty party.
93. If a woman really loves her husband & she can't give him what he needs, then she should want him to go someplace else where he can get it, if she really loves him.
(See also No.302A, 302C, 531, 576, 591, 592, 594, 635, 647, 648, 719, 1253.)
(See Verses on Law vs. Grace.)
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