Love versus Judgment

God has opened up so many doors for me to visit with all kinds of people from all sorts of life. Bottom line I am seeing is this... we are all in transition, we are all so human and we all think so differently. Whose opinions are correct?

Only God's opinions are correct and it takes time to sort out His will for our lives. The Bible is so open to so many interpretations.... but I think the bottom line about that is... we are called to LOVE.

We are living under this new covenant that is described in Hebrews 8 and 10.

Hebrews 8:8-12 “Behold, the days come… for this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord, ‘I will put My laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts; and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to Me a people. And they shall not teach every man his neighbor, and every man his brother saying, ‘Know the Lord; for all shall know Me, from the least to the greatest. For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.”

Hebrews 10:16 “This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord: I will put My laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them.”

This New Covenant was ushered in 70 AD.

How then shall we live? The Law on our hearts. What is this law?

Romans 13:8 – 10 “Owe no man anything, but to love one another; for he that loves another has fulfilled the Law. For this, you shall not commit adultery, you shall not kill, you shall not steal, you shall not bear false witness, you shall not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying; namely, you shall love your neighbor as yourself. Love works no ill to his neighbor, therefore love is the fulfilling of the Law.”

I Corinthians 13 “And now abides faith, hope and love (agape), these three, but the greatest of these is love (agape).” Without this agape love, we are a sounding brass or tinkling cymbal, we are nothing, it profits nothing. Love never fails.

Colossians 3:12-14 “Put on therefore (as the elect of God, holy and beloved) bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, long suffering, forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any; even as Christ forgave you, so also do you. And above all these things put on love (agape), which is the bond of perfectness.”

I John 4:10-12 “Herein in love, no that we loved God, but that He loved us, and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another. No man has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwells in us, and His love is perfected in us.

I John 3:23 “And this is His commandment, that we should believe on the name of His Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as He gave us commandment.”

John 13:35 “By this shall all men know that you are My disciples, if you have love one to another.”

Romans 14:10-13
In regards to eating and keeping a day – “let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.”
“But why do you judge your brother? Or why do you set at naught your brother? So then everyone of us shall give account of himself to God. Let us not therefore judge one another ANY MORE; but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block, or an occasion to fall in his brother’s way.”

Romans 2:1-3 “Therefore, you are inexcuseable, O man, whosoever you are that judges; for wherein you judge another, you condemn yourself, for you that judge do the same things. But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth, against them which commit such things. And think, O man, that judges them which do such things, and do the same, that you shall escape the judgment of God?”

It is clear to me that it is by love that we are known as followers of Jesus. It is the evidence of His Spirit within us (I John 4:12 & 13). Those who are in His word are declared His disciples (John 8:31). But it is the truth that sets us free (John 8:32). Jesus is that truth (John 14:6). We are sanctified by His word, which is truth (John 17:17).

So we have to know Him and what He says to know truth and to be set free. If someone doesn’t know the Word, do they know truth?

There is a difference in (1) knowing the Word and having the mind (humbleness - Colossians 3:12) and heart of Christ and (2) having a non-loving hypocritical judgmental heart, thinking to know truth by what religion has taught, yet not understanding the hidden manna of Scripture at all.