When a Cult Leader is Deprogrammed (recorded 9th September 2024)

An Antidote to Legalism and Whatever else binds you. (16th February 2003)

Romans 13:8-10

Love is the fulfilment of the law. All the commands are summed up in that one command. I have at certain times believed that if I did this and didn’t do that, that was love. I do not  believe that to be the case. Though if you love you will carry out the commands, the converse is not true. What I mean is you can carry out the commands but not have love. Witness:

1 Corinthians 13:1-3

You can even sacrifice your life but if you have not love you gain nothing. Love is greater than the sum total of the commands. We could baptise the whole world but if we have not love we  are nothing. Even the qualities of love that this passage describes are not love but rather attributes of love.

John 13:34-35

Jesus clearly states how men will know we are his disciples, it is not our righteousness, nor our zeal, nor our “fruit”. But it is by our love for each other. Would men know that we are disciples by our love for each other?

John 15:9-17

Do you want to remain in Jesus’s Love ? Then we must love one another.
Do you want Jesus’s joy to be  made complete in you?  Then we must love one another.

1 John 4:7-12

In order to know God, to be born of God, to have God live in us, and for God’s love to be made complete in us we must love one another. God is love.

Acts 20:36 – 21:1

An Example of the depth of relationship we can have is Paul leaving the Ephesians Elders. They wept  and grieved to see him go, he had to tear himself away.

Romans 12:9 and 1 Peter 1:22

Love must be sincere.

1 Timothy 1:5

The goal is love, it is not a means to an end, it is the end.

1 Peter 4:8

Love covers over a multitude of sins

Galatians 5:2-6

Though talking about circumcision, this passage, I believe, could refer to any form of legalism. It is clear the only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love. The only thing that counts.

My plea, before we do anything, we have to love one another, I have not been doing this, I am now beginning to as much as I am able and I believe God’s Spirit is pleased. Love Matthew Wolpert

And Finally
1 Thessalonians 3:12

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