{"id":4709,"date":"2015-06-05T08:21:55","date_gmt":"2015-06-05T07:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.42ndgenerationfoundation.com\/achieversfaithdigest\/?p=4709"},"modified":"2020-12-09T12:47:50","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T12:47:50","slug":"june-2015-living-walking-in-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.42ndgenerationfoundation.com\/achieversfaithdigest\/june-2015-living-walking-in-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Living & Walking In Love!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

JUNE 2015 – Living & Walking In Love! <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Talking about LOVE! Here is a didactic sense of\nmeasure, such that we don’t just say we have love, but we do live and walk in love,\nknowing that love is of God; and it’s the lubricant for our life in Christ\nJesus and for all mankind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Love is an attitude, a deliberate choice, an\nexercise of the will, a choice of life and is not just a feeling, it is an\nexpression of the nature of God. It is spiritual, divinely inspired and\nimbedded in the very hearts of all God’s human creation, and more importantly\nin the very nature of the redeemed child of God. Hence it’s not a doctrine,\ncreed and dogmas. It outlived generation because it’s timeless and of God’s.\nGod is love \u2013 1 John 4:7\u201310.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Love is a fruit and not a gift. Fruits are grown while gifts are imparted. Genuine Bible love \u2013 Agape \u2013 is born and is a product of the Spirit. (Galatians 5:22-23; Ephesians 5:9).<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let\u2019s consider love in diversity for a clearer\nunderstanding of the kind of love being implied in this context.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Three main kinds of love:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. Phileo: Grk (of the soul) \u2013 Love relationship in family \u2013 between parent and child. The Family kind of love. It means to be fond of; it is based on feelings and not on principle. It\u2019s never used of man\u2019s love to or for God. This is human or natural kind of love. (Deuteronomy 6:4-9; Genesis 8:19; Ephesians 6:4; Colossians 3:21). <\/strong>This kind of love is however essential and crucial for a family wellbeing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. Eros: Grk (of the Physical body) \u2013 Sexual love; purely reserved for the married \u2013 within the bond of marriage. It\u2019s neither for fornication nor adultery. Lust and immoral desires have gotten some into it, hence there’s a great act of perversion in our societies today. (Hebrews 13:4; 1 Corinthians 7:1-9; 1 Corinthians 6:15-20).<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

3. Agape: Grk (of the spirit) \u2013 God kind of love; unconditional, limitless, divine, spiritual. It transcends race, gender, generation, culture, family, physical, personal (self) etc. 1 Corinthians 13.<\/strong> Agape love even helps to ensure, strengthen and maintain the Phileo and Eros kind of love in all life endeavours. Agape love is based on principle \u2013 be it towards things or people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Phileo or Eros kinds of Love need to be controlled by Agape kind of love or else it will hinder our fellowship with God and leads to sin. (E.g. Eros \u2013 1 Corinthians 7:5; Phileo \u2013 1 Samuel 2:22-36.)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let’s not just say we have love, lets live and walk\nin love, for love is of the Spirit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Galatians 5:25.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rev Chukie MORSI<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

JUNE 2015 – Living & Walking In Love! Talking about LOVE! Here is a didactic sense of measure, such that we don’t just say we have love, but we do live and walk in love, knowing that love is of God; and it’s the lubricant for our life in Christ Jesus and for all mankind. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1780],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-social-media-wisdom-nugget-publication","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.42ndgenerationfoundation.com\/achieversfaithdigest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.42ndgenerationfoundation.com\/achieversfaithdigest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.42ndgenerationfoundation.com\/achieversfaithdigest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.42ndgenerationfoundation.com\/achieversfaithdigest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.42ndgenerationfoundation.com\/achieversfaithdigest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.42ndgenerationfoundation.com\/achieversfaithdigest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.42ndgenerationfoundation.com\/achieversfaithdigest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.42ndgenerationfoundation.com\/achieversfaithdigest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.42ndgenerationfoundation.com\/achieversfaithdigest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}