“Love Eachother As I Have Loved” and the True Definition

Love def. by the same Apostle John

“Love Eachother As I Have Loved” and the True Definition of Love by the Same Author

Firstly I agree this concept is a real good one for fellow believers. “Love eachother as I have loved”. Notice it was just the closest Apostles who were given this advice. St Paul clarified these concepts with “do good firstly to those of the household of faith” and how "work of the ministry" is "for the perfecting of the saints", not for coodling and increasing sins and destroying the fabric of Christian nations. Anyhow, they often misunderstood the words of Christ too. We who reflect are learning as Christ said “you will do greater works than I’ve done”.

However, today this passage is greatly taken of of context and mis-used to tell people to "love satan" lately. Only recently in the communist takeover, the concept is greatly abused and mis-used, since Rockefeller, with the enemy nations buying-out our Western Bible Seminaries. They then mis-appropriated the “love everything” concept as a guilt weapon to trick the sheep to protect the most evil wolves that are doing the worst destruction of the Christian Nations.

Only if someone is saved, received Christ and is born again, they will be able to process His word, which is spiritually discerned. As we know it's not talking about carnal fleshly love, but the higher spiritual and true love: ). Anyone when they get converted and say the sinners prayer in any church, turn from the bondage of sin and find the new life in Christ. These then learn to live in liberty, apart from any of their past sins. Many of these sins Christ had cataloged are sins that will damn them if they don't repent. So depending what level of sin, it may require them to measure their weakness and ensure they truly do repent and not continue in the path of destruction.

We can help the ones not yet converted as well. Often they need to find new friends. Like a drunkard has to not stay around drunks if he wants to be in the path of life.

These words of Christ, regarding this new commandment (although is a copy of the old testament commandment) mostly this is for edification of already converted fellow believers. Non-converted, non-believers weren’t part of the twelve Apostles which He was telling to love eachother (in Christ).

Will texting etc be good in this age? What about memes? Social media can be tricky and often will only ban believers, and so you will only make a bad witness if you’re confronted by believers. We can’t say a word about it, and can only see our social media accounts get blocked if we speak any of the mainstream truths of our faith regarding such worst sins of history which we are told to “celebrate” or be cancelled etc.

For the rest we know they were converted not by the letter, but by the spoken word. It's hopefully we can get chances to let people hear the good news who are not converted too.

Amen, let us abide in His love as this author John also told us in his later epistle. His later Epistle from 1John give us the “definition of Love” several times. I will quote it below.

That definition of true love came out so clearly only after the other 11 Apostles were dead, mostly crucified and martyred for their faith. This was the “love as I loved you” kind of love, where Christ paid the ultimate price. They too suffered the same love and actually it says they all were crucified for their faith. John alone survived after all the Apostles were killed. He was also called the Apostle that Christ loved, and protected a bit more than the rest supposedly. If anyone can tell you the definition of love, it would be him. Read on to find the answer to this mystery.

They tried to pressure Christ to break the law many times, but He showed us the example. The infiltrators into the priesthood were mostly not even related to Judah, Christ even said they weren’t descendants of Abraham either. History agrees, telling us they were Israel's mortal enemies, and were of the Biblical House of Esau. They were Herod’s own sons who were Edomite murderers who killed John the Baptist’s family and most of the priests. They were put in control of the Sanhedrin, and corruption was at it's maximum in Christ's day.

He mainly told them their legal tricks and "their traditions of men reject the law of Moses"(Mark 7: vs9, vs13) They tried to entrap Him to agree with sinful practices, each time He kept the law while showing the true love of the law, and the fake people ran away. As only His law is love, He refused to break it, but He went to the death to keep righteousness examples, which His word says is the only definition of love (will quote that definition after this).

What a lovely reminder of His amazing example of how to treat our fellow Saints, "love as I have loved". The way He loved, which we're to follow is to not surrender to the enemy any of the universal truths, He even went so far as to still keep the law perfectly in that "example of love". He fulfilled the laws all perfectly as originally intended without any pharisaical traditions of men not found in the law.

One corrupt leader accused Christ of being a wine bibber, but He rebuked the same one, as they also accused John the Baptist of having a devil, and so that could not be taken seriously.

He always said "go and sin no more" and in each case He healed He preached full repentance of sin. You will find that declaring their sins forgiven was typically when the healing occurred. However the message of the kingdom laws was always an element. As it says for both his and John the Baptist's ministries they were proclaiming, "repent ye for the kingdom is at hand". Repent means to totally change the thinking, not just try and do it, but learn to hate the sin.

His example of true love is key, and it was in doing what's in His word-law, never violating any of it. Otherwise He couldn't have been our perfect Passover Lamb and without sin. So this concept “love as I have loved” is for sure a rich passage for those truly converted in the heart.

Christ never watered down the word, and was crucified for His example of true love and never promoting anyone to violate even 1 of the smallest commandments, and warned that if anyone did they would not enter the Kingdom (Matt 5:19) if they did teach sins are OK to continue in. Nicely He wasn't so hard to expect all the masses to follow it, He said He only wanted His Apostles to hear it (see Mat 13:13-15, Mar 4:11-12, Mar 4:34), in case the others would only halfway believe in their heart ( Not everyone could swallow it even if they did hear, it says any time He did speak deeply they would all walk off, again that's love).

This commandment "love as I loved", was as He was just explaining that He was about to lay down His life to be put to death in that passage. Staying loyal to the end, not being moved by evil doers etc, stand your ground etc. It was really a closed conversation explaining that was His love. Sure anyone seeing the words may get a stirring of the heart to find what this could be, but some run with it to apply to love anything. These day’s it’s mis-used to say “love the devil”. and “love evil”. However the Bible always says hate all sin, hate all evil etc.

He sent away the masses and said it's not for them to know these things that He teaches to His Apostles alone. Each one of those "disciples" in that closed conversation where only the 12 were present obeyed that part of "love their fellow Disciples in the way He loved us". They maintained their witness and didn't water it down, they each were crucified for their faith, except for John who lived longer after being boiled in oil etc, where later in life he got more books of the Bible on the next steps on what this meant.

So lets get to John’s Definition:

LOVE DEFINITION: 2John 1:6 “And this is love, that we walk after His commandments. This is the commandment, That, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it.”

LOVE DEFINITION: 1John 5:2 “By this we know that we love the children of THE LORD, when we love THE LORD, and keep His commandments.”

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We know that Christ kept all of God’s commandments as we’re told to also take up our crosses and follow those same commandments (love as He loved):

John 15:10 “If ye keep My commandments, ye shall abide in My love; even as I have kept My Father’s commandments, and abide in his love.”

LOVE DEFINITION: 1John 5:3 “For this is the love of THE LORD, that we keep His commandments: and His commandments are not grievous.”

(all His laws are freedom and liberty, and only sin is bondage. That's the only message in His word. May we all get that good news, many called, few chosen) l

So let us “pray continually for the Saints” as Paul said. And to pray for the "perfecting of the saints, and edifying His body of Christ" which is the main mission of any Ministry listed in Ephesians 4:12.

Part of anyone getting converted must know that it's a totally new life in Him, empowered to every good thing. None of it is negative, the negative is sin, the bondage is sin, the liberty is His law, which is all empowered by His grace, being one with Him etc.

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