The beginning of disunion
Love does not seek own advantage.Love is not selfish, it is the driving force of kindness and consideration for others.
God is said to be love.
Because God is love itself, it is full of kindness and consideration for His children and creations.
God's love, compassion, and kindness will not run out.
Love comes out of God and satisfies us and returns to God.
We children who receive God's endless love will respond to God's love with the same kind of love. Love is the perfect bond of union for God's family.
Although God's pure love will not change or cease, it will be up to us whether to respond to God with the same kind of love that God's demonstrating.
Since we have the built-in image of God, we have the potential to cultivate the same kind of love as God shows, but it depends on us whether to grow up in love imitating loving Father.
To imitate God as a child is very natural, but because of the gifts such as beauty and wisdom that God has given to us, some may become over self-conscious than necessary for wanting more glory from others.
To specialize ownself means to isolate from others in a sense.
It becomes an obstacle in developing unselfish love and then invites problems.
Pr 18: 1
1 One isolating himself will seek [his own] selfish longing; against all practical wisdom he will break forth.
If we cultivate love imitating God, we will not take advantage of the relationship we have with God and with others, but if we seek out our own glory excessively, we will damage the loving relationship we have with God and with others.
Satan loves lie.
A spirit son of God who became self-centered cracked the loving relationship of God's family, and he later came to be known as Satan (a resister).This spirit son of God was given beauty and wisdom and enjoyed life and activities among the loving family of God, but he turned out to be self-centered because of focusing his mind on an opportunity to use others for his aim.
He thought of using others to accomplish his purpose.
God's sons both in heaves and on earth who are ethical beings serve God and each other with motivation of unselfish love, but Satan reasoned that God and his all sons are living for own profit just like Satan himself.
Love is the motivating force of unselfishly serving other's needs, on the contrary selfishness is self-centered spirit.
Satan who placed a distance to God (which began to depart from God) doubted the purity of the love of God's family, and he conveniently reasoned for himself that everyone including God ultimately acts for his own profit just like himself.
This Satan's reasoning is a groundless lie, but he loved the lie.
Then, in seeking his own glory, he built a system based on lies and became a false god who opposes the true God who is the Creator.
Our first parents, Adam and Eve left the God of love due to the lie of Satan and became subjected to the rule of this false god.
The principle or driving force behind the lies of Satan's false world is selfishness rather than love.
Satan states that everyone acts selfishly to protect themselves.
Pure love is an illusion for Satan, it is a troublesome force for him if it exists .
Because the love like God reveals Satan's falsehood thus condemns Satan.
Acts of love which condemn Satan.
In 6,000 years of human history, there are many people who showed self-sacrificing pure love for their neighbors, so that Satan's lie has been already revealed by such an act of unselfish love and he has been condemned.We always hear the news about self-sacrificing people who lost their life for trying to help the elderly at the railroad crossing or those who are drowning and the like.
The most prominent example of unselfish love is the ransom sacrifice of Jesus Christ.
In the life of Christ the selfishness insisted by Satan did not exist.
So the sinless sacrificial death of Christ condemned Satan beyond any doubt and determined Satan's execution.
As Jesus proved the purity of the love of God's family in his way of life, he stated that "Satan has no power against him."
Joh 14:30
30 I shall not speak much with YOU anymore, for the ruler of the world is coming. And he has no hold on me,
So, if we cultivate genuine love like God and Jesus, we will condemn Satan, and Satan has no power over us, either.
Those who show genuine love for God and for their neighbors by imitating God and Christ will become the target of Satan's hostility, and will be killed like Jesus was, then they will have a part in the first resurrection as a conqueror of the world so as to crush the head of Satan as a part of the seed of the woman in Genesis 3:15.
Joh 16:33
33 I have said these things to YOU that by means of me YOU may have peace. In the world YOU are having tribulation, but take courage! I have conquered the world."
Lu 12:4
4 Moreover, I say to YOU, my friends, Do not fear those who kill the body and after this are not able to do anything more.
Heb 2:14-15
14 Therefore, since the "young children" are sharers of blood and flesh, he also similarly partook of the same things, that through his death he might bring to nothing the one having the means to cause death, that is, the Devil; 15 and [that] he might emancipate all those who for fear of death were subject to slavery all through their lives.
Re 12:11
11 And they conquered him because of the blood of the Lamb and because of the word of their witnessing, and they did not love their souls even in the face of death.
Re 2:25-29
25 Just the same, hold fast what YOU have until I come. 26 And to him that conquers and observes my deeds down to the end I will give authority over the nations, 27 and he shall shepherd the people with an iron rod so that they will be broken to pieces like clay vessels, the same as I have received from my Father, 28 and I will give him the morning star. 29 Let the one who has an ear hear what the spirit says to the congregations.'
Ro 16:20
20 For his part, the God who gives peace will crush Satan under YOUR feet shortly. May the undeserved kindness of our Lord Jesus be with YOU.
Satan, the selfish liar was conquered by the pure love of God and Christ.
True Christians imitating God and Christ will eventually join their Lord Christ to bruise the head of Satan and his seeds.
self-glory based on lie
What did Satan gain from his selfish craving for glory from others?What satisfies Satan's vanity can not be true love from others.
Because he denies the unselfish genuine love as an illusion. He rather likes selfishness and acts on it, and only selfish gain or profit is real to him.
The glory that Satan, the father of lie can obtain is also just a false glory based on lie.
The false god can only receive the false worship.
Satan, the god of hype deceives others to receive the bogus worship and glory from the deceived people.
Such bogus worship and glory by lie ends when the lie comes out.
So he built a world believing his lies.
This world is a bogus world by the lies of Satan and for the lies of Satan.
Satan who hijacked the true worship of the loving God by lie can exist only by spreading and keeping the lie.
Once the lie comes to light (be proven) the existence of this liar is over with his bogus world.
falsehoods Satan spread
What are some falsehoods that deceive people in the Satan's bogus world which denies the true God, the creator of all things and the source of life?I will give you some examples of Satan's bogus philosophy.
- Everything happens with an accidental explosion, the globe earth rotates, and revolves around the sun, and aimlessly is flying away from the explosion point at ultra-speed with galaxies in endless space.
- The natural world is products of coincidences, and the time of foreverness is the cause of intelligence and beauty.
- Creatures evolved themselves and became human beings with intelligence.
- The soul continues to live even after death.
- The soul fuses with the innermost universe and repeats incarnation infinitely.
- The law of jungle, natural selection, survival of fittest, dominance and recessive are always working.
- Creatures live for their own lives.
- People are bribed with desire for such as wealth, sex, appetite, honor, power, etc and subjugated with threats also.
Although there are many people who demonstrate unselfish love like God in Satan's bogus world, Satan is successful in deceiving many people and dominates people's lives and thoughts by false religions, bogus governments, injustice justice system, bogus educational institution, bogus medical system, and other bogus organizations which have been created and used by him.
People are glorifying Satan without recognizing him, because they obey falsehood created by Satan without noticing it, just like Eve.
The god of hype Satan is an isolated solitary fool who has no close relationship with anyone, because he hides himself and obtains fake glory he wants by cheating people who have the built-in image of God.
No one will keep in mind the existence of Satan who hides himself, and no one can feel affinity for this "glory otaku (maniac)" who is obsessed with self-glorification.
Due to his own bogus idea (lie), this "glory otaku" or "glory maniac" has come to be known as "the father of the lie."
There are a lot of people who go along with this "glory geek."
To those who accept Satan's lies, Satan gives the power and uses them to shape his bogus world behind the seen.
So this world is a bogus world where the true God the creator and the souse of life is denied and people live according to Satan's lies without noticing Satan's existence.
People are not conscious of Satan, the father of the lie, so they don't directly praise Satan nor perform an act of worship to him, while they live according to Satan's lies.
This lonely "glory otaku (geek)" that hides himself uses the political wild beast to cheat and threaten people so as to gain the worship from them.
Satan will use an impressive huge organization that works with lies of his own, and will impress people with its magnificent power and appearance, and will compel obedience and will force people to fall down and do an act of worship to the image of the wild beast.
It is "mechanical impersonal worship" due to lies and threats.
It is not genuine worship by love and faith.
The god of hype can only receive forced worship by fraud and intimidation, which is not the true worship.
Once the lie comes to light, Satan will be the object of people's anger.
Difference between true God and fake God.
The real God tells the truth and does not force worship.People voluntarily worship God with gratitude for life and everything created by Him.
The fake God cheats people with a lie and forces worship.
People are forced to bow down to the idols (huge organization) out of fear.
Re 13: 1-4, 11-16
1 And it stood still upon the sand of the sea.
And I saw a wild beast ascending out of the sea, with ten horns and seven heads, and upon its horns ten diadems, but upon its heads blasphemous names. 2 Now the wild beast that I saw was like a leopard, but its feet were as those of a bear, and its mouth was as a lion's mouth. And the dragon gave to [the beast] its power and its throne and great authority.
3 And I saw one of its heads as though slaughtered to death, but its death-stroke got healed, and all the earth followed the wild beast with admiration. 4 And they worshiped the dragon because it gave the authority to the wild beast, and they worshiped the wild beast with the words: "Who is like the wild beast, and who can do battle with it?"
11 And I saw another wild beast ascending out of the earth, and it had two horns like a lamb, but it began speaking as a dragon. 12 And it exercises all the authority of the first wild beast in its sight. And it makes the earth and those who dwell in it worship the first wild beast, whose death-stroke got healed. 13 And it performs great signs, so that it should even make fire come down out of heaven to the earth in the sight of mankind.
14 And it misleads those who dwell on the earth, because of the signs that were granted it to perform in the sight of the wild beast, while it tells those who dwell on the earth to make an image to the wild beast that had the sword-stroke and yet revived. 15 And there was granted it to give breath to the image of the wild beast, so that the image of the wild beast should both speak and cause to be killed all those who would not in any way worship the image of the wild beast.
16 And it puts under compulsion all persons, the small and the great, and the rich and the poor, and the free and the slaves, that they should give these a mark in their right hand or upon their forehead,
The worldwide bogus worship by the political power will soon to be carried out in this bogus world which denies the true God YHWH, the creator of heavens and earth and everything in them.
The bogus worship that this "glory otaku (maniac)" receives will become a just a performance of bowing down from ignorant people without any sentiment of love and appreciation.
Satan, "glory otaku" receives an act of worship by the method of lying and threatening. He is never happy, because he is a self-centered isolated dictator who can not establish a close relationship with others.
Satan's domination is bound by fear, not by love, and it binds people by a variety of rituals and regulations.
Illuminati and Freemasons who are dealing with Satan and becoming the owner of this world must carefully observe various kinds of rituals and numerology and take care not to make mistakes in procedures or numbers while fulfilling Satan's worthless and meaningless demand. They must do the ceremonies with extreme caution out of fear of punishment.
Satan's worshipers are not allowed individual freedom and conscience.
Only robotic obedience that fulfills the demand accurately is required.
Therefore, Satan's worshipers are not happy either even if they are given power, money and pleasures.
The vast majority of Satan's worshipers are sexually abused and inflicted at early childhood, so they are under mind control and have personality disorders.
This is the feature of Satan worship.
Satan's worshiper can be said to be the direct victims of Satan, the elite psychopath, "glory otaku."
Liberation and restoration from God will be brought to those Satan's worshipers who have been forced to be as such.
Biblical records of Satan
Ez 28:12-1912 . . . You are sealing up a pattern, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty. 13 In Eden, the garden of God, you proved to be. Every precious stone was your covering, ruby, topaz and jasper; chryso·lite, onyx and jade; sapphire, turquoise and emerald; and of gold was the workmanship of your settings and your sockets in you. In the day of your being created they were made ready. 14 You are the anointed cherub that is covering, and I have set you. On the holy mountain of God you proved to be. In the midst of fiery stones you walked about. 15 You were faultless in your ways from the day of your being created until unrighteousness was found in you.
16 Because of the abundance of your sales goods they filled the midst of you with violence, and you began to sin. And I shall put you as profane out of the mountain of God, and I shall destroy you, O cherub that is covering, from the midst of the fiery stones.
17 Your heart became haughty because of your beauty. You brought your wisdom to ruin on account of your beaming splendor. Onto the earth I will throw you. Before kings I will set you, [for them] to look upon you.
18 Owing to the abundance of your errors, because of the injustice of your sales goods, you have profaned your sanctuaries. And I shall bring forth a fire from the midst of you. It is what must devour you. And I shall make you ashes upon the earth before the eyes of all those seeing you. 19 As for all those knowing you among the peoples, they will certainly stare in amazement at you. Sudden terrors are what you must become, and you will be no more to time indefinite.
A spirit son of God who was given the gift of beauty and wisdom began to use others for excessive glory of himself.
He loved lie that is convenient for himself rather than developing unselfish love imitating God, and he started to act to prove his lie and to take advantage of others for his aim.
Satan's lies (faulty reasoning)
Satan insists that men and angels are calculative being in favoring their own interests, and they do not act for no profit.Job 1:6-12
6 Now it came to be the day when the sons of the [true] God entered to take their station before YHWH, and even Satan proceeded to enter right among them.
7 Then YHWH said to Satan: "Where do you come from?" At that Satan answered YHWH and said: "From roving about in the earth and from walking about in it." 8 And YHWH went on to say to Satan: "Have you set your heart upon my servant Job, that there is no one like him in the earth, a man blameless and upright, fearing God and turning aside from bad?" 9 At that Satan answered YHWH and said: "Is it for nothing that Job has feared God? 10 Have not you yourself put up a hedge about him and about his house and about everything that he has all around? The work of his hands you have blessed, and his livestock itself has spread abroad in the earth. 11 But, for a change, thrust out your hand, please, and touch everything he has [and see] whether he will not curse you to your very face." 12 Accordingly YHWH said to Satan: "Look! Everything that he has is in your hand. Only against him himself do not thrust out your hand!" So Satan went out away from the person of YHWH.
Satan still insists that man will do anything for life.
Job 2:1-5
1 Afterward it came to be the day when the sons of the [true] God entered to take their station before YHWH, and Satan also proceeded to enter right among them to take his station before YHWH.
2 Then YHWH said to Satan: "Just where do you come from?" At that Satan answered YHWH and said: "From roving about in the earth and from walking about in it." 3 And YHWH went on to say to Satan: "Have you set your heart upon my servant Job, that there is no one like him in the earth, a man blameless and upright, fearing God and turning aside from bad? Even yet he is holding fast his integrity, although you incite me against him to swallow him up without cause." 4 But Satan answered YHWH and said: "Skin in behalf of skin, and everything that a man has he will give in behalf of his soul. 5 For a change, thrust out your hand, please, and touch as far as his bone and his flesh [and see] whether he will not curse you to your very face."
Consider Satan's faulty reasoning shown when he tempted Jesus.
He tried to prove that people give priority to desires, and people bow down for the power.
Mt 4:1-4, 8-9
1 Then Jesus was led by the spirit up into the wilderness to be tempted by the Devil. 2 After he had fasted forty days and forty nights, then he felt hungry. 3 Also, the Tempter came and said to him: "If you are a son of God, tell these stones to become loaves of bread." 4 But in reply he said: "It is written, 'Man must live, not on bread alone, but on every utterance coming forth through YHWH's mouth.'"
8 Again the Devil took him along to an unusually high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory, 9 and he said to him: "All these things I will give you if you fall down and do an act of worship to me."
As evident from the Bible, Satan doubts about integrity of God's children.
How to condemn Satan's lie?
Satan is claiming that every relationship is for own benefit and the unselfish love is an illusion. He deceived Eve to act for her own benefit, and then he caused Adam to act for his own benefit by using Eve, so that Satan proved his lie, thus he started to take advantage of human families.With this, Satan's self-made lie was verified by Satan's surprise attack. The first round resulted in Satan's big victory. It is about 6,000 years ago from now.
But the story is not over here.
There is the second round.
Loving God knew that Satan's lie is proved by those who demonstrate unselfish love like God and then the execution of the instigator of the lie is finalized.
So right after the bogus world by and for lie began, God promised the rescue of mankind from the domination of falsehood.
Ge 3:15
15 And I shall put enmity between you and the woman and between your seed and her seed. He will bruise you in the head and you will bruise him in the heel."
Satan will be bruised in the head for the execution by the woman's seed.
The woman's seed will be broken heels from Satan.
The woman's seed represents Jesus Christ.
Bruising the heel of Jesus means that Jesus will be tried by Satan's false accusation. Satan argues that man does everything for his life, so Satan was allowed to take Jesus' life for the purpose of breaking Jesus' love and faith in God.
Jesus kept love and faith in God, not becoming self-centered until his brutal death by Satan, so he conquered the false god Satan by his sinless death.
After that, Jesus was resurrected and returned to heaven and became the executioner of Satan at God's due time. Soon the woman's seed will crush the head of the serpent, and the false god and his falsehood will be wiped out forever.
The 6,000 years of human history in this bogus world is full of victims of falsehood. Billions of people who lived and died in the deceptive Satan's world will be resurrected and be informed of the truth and will be benefited from the salvation of the loving God.
What do the people think about their God, the Savior after knowing the truth?
All living things will acknowledge the Creator, the source of life, the Savior YHWH God and Christ, and will thank them and bow down to them and worship them willingly.
Re 5:11-14
11 And I saw, and I heard a voice of many angels around the throne and the living creatures and the elders, and the number of them was myriads of myriads and thousands of thousands, 12 saying with a loud voice: "The Lamb that was slaughtered is worthy to receive the power and riches and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and blessing."
13 And every creature that is in heaven and on earth and underneath the earth and on the sea, and all the things in them, I heard saying: "To the One sitting on the throne and to the Lamb be the blessing and the honor and the glory and the might forever and ever." 14 And the four living creatures went saying: "Amen!" and the elders fell down and worshiped.
People will recognize object of their faith, love and gratitude, and will voluntarily worship the true God.
This is the true worship received by the true God YHWH, creator of all things, the source of life, and the Savior.
It is impossible for the god of hype, Satan to receive such true worship.
Satan's worship is only meaningless and worthless formal "imitation acts" by lies and threats.
The idol worship used by this fool who sacrificed the loving relationship and glorious freedom that he used to have as a child loved by God is a worthless imitation worship (an evil worship game by lie).
Besides, in order to prove his lie Satan threatened and tormented the people. His wickedness is worthy of punishment.
Satan and demons will be captured in the abyss during the Christ's 1,000 years reign soon to begin, so that they can't prevent billions of people who come back to life by the resurrection from knowing the truth. People will throw away Satan's lie and begin to worship the true God YHWH, the creator, the source of life, the Savior.
Is 2:2-4
2 And it must occur in the final part of the days [that] the mountain of the house of YHWH will become firmly established above the top of the mountains, and it will certainly be lifted up above the hills; and to it all the nations must stream. 3 And many peoples will certainly go and say: "Come, YOU people, and let us go up to the mountain of YHWH, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will instruct us about his ways, and we will walk in his paths." For out of Zion law will go forth, and the word of YHWH out of Jerusalem. 4 And he will certainly render judgment among the nations and set matters straight respecting many peoples. And they will have to beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning shears. Nation will not lift up sword against nation, neither will they learn war anymore.
Mi 4:1-4
1 And it must occur in the final part of the days [that] the mountain of the house of YHWH will become firmly established above the top of the mountains, and it will certainly be lifted up above the hills; and to it peoples must stream. 2 And many nations will certainly go and say: "Come, YOU people, and let us go up to the mountain of YHWH and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will instruct us about his ways, and we will walk in his paths." For out of Zion law will go forth, and the word of YHWH out of Jerusalem. 3 And he will certainly render judgment among many peoples, and set matters straight respecting mighty nations far away. And they will have to beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning shears. They will not lift up sword, nation against nation, neither will they learn war anymore. 4 And they will actually sit, each one under his vine and under his fig tree, and there will be no one making [them] tremble; for the very mouth of YHWH of armies has spoken [it].
The execution of Satan in front of restored Adam's family
Right after the end of the 1,000 year reign of Christ, Satan and demons are released from captivity, they will be executed in front of all the creatures that know the truth.At that time, no one doubts about the fairness of the Judgment of God, nor protests against it.
The execution of Satan and his seeds who took advantage of others for their bogus worship will be carried out in front of the eyes of all who well know the things happened.
Re 20:7-10
7 Now as soon as the thousand years have been ended, Satan will be let loose out of his prison, 8 and he will go out to mislead those nations in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Ma′gog, to gather them together for the war. The number of these is as the sand of the sea. 9 And they advanced over the breadth of the earth and encircled the camp of the holy ones and the beloved city. But fire came down out of heaven and devoured them. 10 And the Devil who was misleading them was hurled into the lake of fire and sulphur, where both the wild beast and the false prophet [already were]; and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.
Release of Satan and demons will not be a threat to those who dwell on the earth. It is a procedure for the execution, Satan and his seeds will be destroyed by fire from heaven without even touching the recovered Adam's family just like the induced Pharaoh and his army who were drowned in the Red Sea in front of the eyes of rescued Israelites.
Those who are the witness of the execution of the serpent and its seeds will sing a victory song to God just like Israelites who did the same at the Red Sea.
God knows how to reserve wicked ones for the judgment, and people will praise God with thanks when they see the execution of evildoers.
Ex 9:15-16
15 For by now I could have thrust my hand out that I might strike you and your people with pestilence and that you might be effaced from the earth. 16 But, in fact, for this cause I have kept you in existence, for the sake of showing you my power and in order to have my name declared in all the earth.
Ro 9:17
17 For the Scripture says to Phar′aoh: "For this very cause I have let you remain, that in connection with you I may show my power, and that my name may be declared in all the earth."
About 6,000 years ago, a god of hype who took advantage of our first parents Adam and Eve by using lie was not executed at the time on the spot.
It is because Satan's lie and wickedness has not been proven.
Cunning Satan started the crime tying the hands and feet of God, so to speak.
God has used His only begotten Son in order to solve the seemingly successful perfect crime.
Jesus is the beloved only begotten Son of God, so it is a proof of the depth of God's love for Adam's family, and it is also a proof of Satan's lie who says God is also selfish.
God did not spare the greatest sacrifice in order to rescue Adam's family, and also to solve the ethical problem that is based on falsehood.
Immediate reaction of God that promises the rescue of the human family falling into Satan's hands bear witness that God is just love.
God's only begotten Son Jesus also demonstrated unselfish genuine love for God and Adam's family.
Loving act of God and Jesus condemned Satan, and enabled the rescue of the human family that has been exploited by Satan.
When the execution of Satan and his seeds is carried out right after the Christ's 1,000 years reign, there is no one who doubt the validity of the execution among the rescued human family and the spirit sons of God in heavens who observe everything from the beginning of Satan's bogus world to its end.
God executes adverse judgment upon those who are self-centered wicked who love the lie and exploit others, in sufficiently convincing manner for everybody, by proceeding the matter according to his children's pace, so to speak.
After that, selfishly taking advantage of others (which is evil and harmful) will no longer be tolerated.
Na 1:9
9 What will YOU men think up against YHWH? He is causing an outright extermination.
Distress will not rise up a second time.
From that time on, those who become self-centered, exploit others, harm others, and become like Satan apart from the God of love, will no longer be given a chance.
Satan's future seeds who would become evil like Satan will be executed on the spot because the judgment upon Satan and his seeds is the eternal judicial precedent, as implied in Revelation 20:10.
Re 20:10
10 And the Devil who was misleading them was hurled into the lake of fire and sulphur, where both the wild beast and the false prophet [already were]; and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.
Lessons for Christians
Eph 5:1-21 Therefore, become imitators of God, as beloved children, 2 and go on walking in love, just as the Christ also loved YOU and delivered himself up for YOU as an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling odor.
1 Joh 4:7-10, 19
7 Beloved ones, let us continue loving one another, because love is from God, and everyone who loves has been born from God and gains the knowledge of God. 8 He that does not love has not come to know God, because God is love. 9 By this the love of God was made manifest in our case, because God sent forth his only-begotten Son into the world that we might gain life through him. 10 The love is in this respect, not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent forth his Son as a propitiatory sacrifice for our sins.
19 As for us, we love, because he first loved us.
Ro 13:9-10
9 For the [law code], "You must not commit adultery, You must not murder, You must not steal, You must not covet," and whatever other commandment there is, is summed up in this word, namely, "You must love your neighbor as yourself." 10 Love does not work evil to one's neighbor; therefore love is the law's fulfillment.
■ Love does not take advantage of the others for own glory and desires and gain.
■ Love is compassionately considering others' needs and voluntarily help.
Ph 2:4
4 keeping an eye, not in personal interest upon just YOUR own matters, but also in personal interest upon those of the others.
Mt 5:43-48
43 "YOU heard that it was said, 'You must love your neighbor and hate your enemy.' 44 However, I say to YOU: Continue to love YOUR enemies and to pray for those persecuting YOU; 45 that YOU may prove yourselves sons of YOUR Father who is in the heavens, since he makes his sun rise upon wicked people and good and makes it rain upon righteous people and unrighteous. 46 For if YOU love those loving YOU, what reward do YOU have? Are not also the tax collectors doing the same thing? 47 And if YOU greet YOUR brothers only, what extraordinary thing are YOU doing? Are not also the people of the nations doing the same thing? 48 YOU must accordingly be perfect, as YOUR heavenly Father is perfect.
Mt 7:12
12 "All things, therefore, that YOU want men to do to YOU, YOU also must likewise do to them; this, in fact, is what the Law and the Prophets mean.
1 Co 13:1-8
1 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels but do not have love, I have become a sounding [piece of] brass or a clashing cymbal. 2 And if I have the gift of prophesying and am acquainted with all the sacred secrets and all knowledge, and if I have all the faith so as to transplant mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 And if I give all my belongings to feed others, and if I hand over my body, that I may boast, but do not have love, I am not profited at all.
4 Love is long-suffering and kind. Love is not jealous, it does not brag, does not get puffed up, 5 does not behave indecently, does not look for its own interests, does not become provoked. It does not keep account of the injury. 6 It does not rejoice over unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth. 7 It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 Love never fails.
Ro 12:3
3 For through the undeserved kindness given to me I tell everyone there among YOU not to think more of himself than it is necessary to think; but to think so as to have a sound mind, each one as God has distributed to him a measure of faith.
Col 3:12-14
12 Accordingly, as God’s chosen ones, holy and loved, clothe yourselves with the tender affections of compassion, kindness, lowliness of mind, mildness, and long-suffering. 13 Continue putting up with one another and forgiving one another freely if anyone has a cause for complaint against another. Even as YHWH freely forgave YOU, so do YOU also. 14 But, besides all these things, [clothe yourselves with] love, for it is a perfect bond of union.
2Ti 1:7
7 For God gave us not a spirit of cowardice, but that of power and of love and of soundness of mind.
Tit 2:11-14
11 For the undeserved kindness of God which brings salvation to all sorts of men has been manifested, 12 instructing us to repudiate ungodliness and worldly desires and to live with soundness of mind and righteousness and godly devotion amid this present system of things, 13 while we wait for the happy hope and glorious manifestation of the great God and of [the] Savior of us, Christ Jesus, 14 who gave himself for us that he might deliver us from every sort of lawlessness and cleanse for himself a people peculiarly his own, zealous for fine works.
Christians who cultivate unselfish love imitating God will become people who are zealous for fine works serving others' needs.
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