If it is true as has been asserted in past BLOGS that there are only two kinds of people in the world, then the inferences from this are unpleasant to our way of thinking. If it is true that the division between human beings is really between those that hate God and those that love God, then we have to look at the world and all things differently. It is easy to divide the world into nations, races, economic classes, religions, denominations, and so on. However, that which really divides people is whether they love or hate God. Those that hate God will divide over any and all things. Those that love God will unite together as brothers and sisters despite all the other so-called divisions. Yet the world seems to desire to unite in many ways and the professing Church divides in many ways.
What we must see is the reality that goes on underneath the appearances. There is no problem in understanding that the world can unite in its hatred of God as it tries to gather humanity into one. The professing Church is full of unbelievers and so it is no problem to see how it would seem to divide. But it is also true that the true Church is not unified in all things and so it is understandable how people that consider themselves brothers and sisters in Christ would worship and work together in different ways. The world wants to unite humanity in its opposition to God and so it sets out to do so. It is not surprising that those that hate God would want to unite together to suppress the truth of God together. It is not surprising that those that hate God would want to help each other cast out the knowledge of God that He put there. It is not surprising that the world would want to set itself forth as righteous and as loving since they have the knowledge of those things built in and they want to find a way to think of themselves as righteous. So the world comes up with a pseudo-love and thinks of it as love. That pseudo-love has now entered the professing Church and passes as true love.
The Bible sets out the truth of love, yet as the Pharisees that did not like the standards of Scripture and so changed them, so many if not virtually all do the same thing today to love. We imagine that God would not command us to do what we cannot do, so the thought of love is that it is something that the human being can do of his or her own power. However, Scripture does not command us to do what a human can do of self but what humans can only do in the strength of grace and the power of God. A meditation on John 13:34-35; 15:1-11; 17:26, and I John 4:6-21 will show this without any real question. True love is not within the capacity of human beings, but a human being can only show love when that human is born of God and knows God (I John 4:7-8). The nature of the triune God is love and one will only truly love if one is in communion with the God of love. There is only one source of love in the universe and that is God. Human beings must learn that what is not true love for God is hatred of God, yet true love for God can only come from God. So when God is rejected true love is also truly rejected. When Christ came to this planet He was love incarnate and the very display of Divine love. Yet He was hated and killed. That is what the world thinks of true love and that is how the world would treat God if they could. But for the moment they hate Him and do all they can to cast Him out of their minds and hearts. Religious people do that too. Reformed people do that as well. Hatred for God is what all have that do not have the love of God dwelling in their hearts.
1 Corinthians 13:4 – Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, 5 does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, 6 does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;
Love is kind and does not seek its own. The world has bumper stickers that tell us that “mean people suck.” For the most part they know that being mean is not moral or good, though many practice that. The world, however, has come up with its own brand of kindness and its own way to seek self while appearing not to seek self. For the most part it is still thought to be wrong to exclusively seek self. What the world has done, however, is replace true kindness with acts that at least seem to help others. True love in the Bible has to do with a true love for God and so kindness is always related to that. It is not kind to others to do things for them and have no concern for their love to God which is their Greatest Commandment. True kindness can only be practiced when a true love for God is in the soul. True kindness can only be practiced where there is concern for the person’s soul. True kindness can only be practiced when there is no seeking of self involved. The seeking of self can be a person that wants to think of self as loving or perhaps as trying to please God by doing things it thinks is kind. But when a person is trying to be kind in order to obtain honor for self or to think highly of self, it is not love because it is not true kindness and it is a form of self-seeking. It is an awful delusion when all that a person does is hatred of God and yet that person thinks it is love. The same thing is true of worship and religion. Hatred of God is practiced under the guise of love.
God Loves... Himself 
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