Agape Love is expressed in deed and Truth!
FATHER wants us to walk in this highest form of Love on a consistent basis.
Jesus did and so can we. We need to become reliable in this walk and as we do, people will ultimately be drawn to us as they were to Jesus in His earthly walk.
The Beloved Disciple wrote by The Holy Spirit in 1st John chapter 3:
16 By this we know Love, because He laid down His life for us. And we also ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
17 But whoever has this world’s goods, and sees his brother in need, and shuts up his heart from him, how does the love of God abide in him?
18 My little children, let us not Love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in Truth.
19 And by this we know that we are of the Truth, and shall assure our hearts before Him.
The Truth is harder to find in the media. Why? It is because of the love of money. The media has succumbed to the lure of revenue by those corporations who are more concerned about profits than they are the welfare of the people. Half truths are actually “full lies” for Truth is pure by nature, it is not tainted with lies. The pharmaceutical industry has effectively taken over the major networks’ advertising revenue. In response, the news reporting favors their narrative. Jesus didn’t need a pharmaceutical to heal the sick or raise the dead.
Paul wrote by The Holy Spirit in 1st Corinthians chapter 14:
1 Pursue [this] Agape Love [with eagerness, make it your goal], yet earnestly desire and cultivate the Spiritual gifts [to be used by believers for the benefit of the church], but especially that you may prophesy [to foretell the future, to speak a new message from God to the people].
My goal is to consistently walk in Agape Love, in all its facets: grace, mercy, and righteous judgment. This requires being able to hear The Holy Spirit, so we know what facet of Love to administer. Sometimes, correction is necessary as Paul writes in 1st Corinthians chapter 11:
29 For continually eating and drinking with a wrong spirit will bring judgment upon yourself by not recognizing the body.
30 This insensitivity is why many of you are weak, chronically ill, and some even dying.
31 If we have examined ourselves, we should not be judged.
32 But when we are judged, it is the Lord’s training so that we will not be condemned along with the world.
Righteous judgment is meant for correction, not destruction. However, it is the decision of the recipient to respond positively to the judgment.
Paul also wrote by The Holy Spirit in 2nd Thessalonians chapter 2:
9 The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders,
10 and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the Love of the Truth, that they might be saved.
11 And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie,
12 that they all may be condemned who did not believe the Truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
We are not to be silent concerning the Truth of The Gospel. Those walking in unrighteousness must be exposed to the Truth in Love, whether by grace and mercy or by corrective judgment. Jesus did not appease Peter when He said, “Get behind me satan!” This is why we must be extremely sensitive to The Holy Spirit Who only speaks from Agape Love, even if it challenges a relationship.