{"id":11081,"date":"2024-04-12T05:01:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-12T10:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/servias.org\/?p=11081"},"modified":"2024-04-10T06:13:02","modified_gmt":"2024-04-10T11:13:02","slug":"the-incorruptible-seed-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/servias.org\/?p=11081","title":{"rendered":"The Incorruptible Seed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a><em>Agape Love acts and does not seek its own!<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Peter wrote by The Holy Spirit in 1<sup>st<\/sup> Peter chapter 1:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">22&nbsp; Since you have purified your souls in obeying the Truth through the Spirit in sincere Love of the brethren, Love one another fervently with a pure heart,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">23 <strong>having been born again, not of corruptible seed but of <u>incorruptible Seed<\/u>, through the Word of God which lives and abides forever<\/strong>,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>We have within us, the Life of GOD, the Character of GOD, the behavior of GOD, the power of GOD, and most of all, the Love of GOD!<\/em>&nbsp; When we walk in THE SPIRIT, we are submitting to those attributes of GOD within us.&nbsp; An incorruptible Seed produces an incorruptible Life.&nbsp; We are meant to produce the Life of GOD in our life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Paul wrote by The Holy Spirit in Galatians chapter 5:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">16 Let me emphasize: <strong>Walk in the Spirit<\/strong>, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh (the carnal man).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">22&nbsp; But the fruit of the Spirit is <strong><u>Love (Agape)<\/u><\/strong>, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">23 gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">24 And those who are Christ&#8217;s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are four words in Scripture for Love:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Eros- sexual love, at its root, it means to demand, beg, or request; a carnal kind of love that is thinking of oneself.&nbsp; It is a \u201ctaking\u201d kind of love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Stergo- love for family, limited restricted kind of love between parents and children or between members of a family\u2026 even the love of a dog for its master.&nbsp; It reflects devotion and loyalty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Phileo-&nbsp; love based on mutual satisfaction, it describes affection between two or more people who feel compatible, well matched, well suited friendship.&nbsp; If one no longer feels satisfied with this relationship, this love can be lost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Agape- &nbsp;the Love with no strings attached, unconditional, the highest kind of Love.&nbsp; It is a giving kind of Love.&nbsp; Agape always focuses on someone else.&nbsp; Agape always describes the Love of GOD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Agape occurs when an individual sees, recognizes, understands, or appreciates the value of an object or a person, causing the viewer to behold an object or a person in great esteem, awe, admiration, wonder, and sincere appreciation.&nbsp; Such great respect is awakened in the heart of the observer for the object or person he is beholding that he is compelled to Love it.&nbsp; In fact, his Love for that person or object is so strong that it is irresistible<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I cannot begin to describe all the facets of Agape Love!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With this understanding, we can better appreciate the Words Jesus spoke in John chapter 3:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">16&nbsp; <strong><u>For God so Loved the world<\/u><\/strong> that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting Life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Agape always drives one to action!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Agape is a Love that Loves so profoundly that it knows no limits or boundaries in how far, wide, high, and deep it will go to show that Love to its recipient.&nbsp; If necessary, Agape Love will even sacrifice itself for the sake of that object or person it so deeply cherishes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Beloved Disciple wrote by The Holy Spirit in 1<sup>st<\/sup> John chapter 3:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">16&nbsp; 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">17 <strong>But whoever has this world&#8217;s goods, and sees his brother in need, and shuts up his heart from him, how does the love of God abide in him?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">18 My little children, let us not Love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in Truth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">19 And by this we know that we are of the Truth, and shall assure our hearts before Him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our <em>Kids In Need<\/em> program reflects this kind of Love in action.  We are not looking for what we can get, we are looking for what we can give to these kids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agape Love acts and does not seek its own! Peter wrote by The Holy Spirit in 1st Peter chapter 1: 22&nbsp; Since you have purified your souls in obeying the Truth through the Spirit in sincere Love of the brethren, Love one another fervently with a pure heart, 23 having been born again, not of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-love"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/servias.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/servias.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/servias.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/servias.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/servias.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11081"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/servias.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11083,"href":"https:\/\/servias.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11081\/revisions\/11083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/servias.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/servias.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/servias.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}