The Royal Law of Love
“A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples if ye have love one to another." John 13:34-35
“This is my commandment, that ye love one as I have loved you" John 15:12
If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well: James 2:8
There is no love greater than God’s love! Love is the law that governs the operation of blessings; therefore, love is the commandment of God. In order to experience God’s love for us, we must get to know God and build a relationship with God. Stay faithful and trust God. We are always wanting and needing something from God without really knowing who God is.
Once you learn to walk in love and continue walking in love, you will also have faith, righteousness, healing, prosperity, and gifts of the Holy Spirit. When we walk outside of love, we began to walk into darkness. Darkness is cursed, as believers, we belong to the light. We are born of light because we are born of God, and just as God is light, God is love. Pursue God, build a relationship, and walk in love. Your life will be blessed beyond your imagination.
I believe the message of God’s Love is one of the most important massages of the Bible. Many times when a person is a born-again they try to live the Christian life based on the love that the world has to offer. In the Kingdom of God, there is a new type of love “Agape” that has been placed in our hearts when we are born again, (Romans 5:5).
I heard this statement and I believe it is true “What you do not understand you will misuse and abuse!“
To walk in THE BLESSING, everything must hang the rod on love. The faith that connects us to it "worketh by love.” The fear that disconnects us from it is cast out by love. Walking in love keeps us flowing in THE BLESSING and out of the darkness of the curse. For "He that loveth, abideth in the light, and there is no occasion of stumbling."
I heard a Pastor tell the story of a man who had a vision from the Lord. In the vision, the man was attempting to hang big and beautiful curtains but the curtain rod kept falling down. After a few tries he realized that each of the curtains had meaningful words on them. The words were faith, righteousness, healing, prosperity and gifts of the Holy Spirit.
The man in the vision became frustrated because no matter how hard he tried the curtains would not stay in place. While he worked on one curtain, another curtain would fall. The man finally cried out to the Lord in desperation, and the Lord responded, “Hang the rod!” He looked over and saw a huge golden rod. The rod was big enough to hold all the curtains in place. The rod also had words on it that read, “The Love of God.”
I may not have told the story exactly the way that Pastor Winston told it, but the essence is there. In the Kingdom of God, everything hangs on the rod of love or the love of God.
Once you get the rod of love in place along with the curtains of faith, righteousness, healing, prosperity and the gifts of the spirit, everything will hang in place as it should.
Trying to receive the blessings of God without the love of God can be a frustrating experience. Too many people are trying to get things from God without really knowing God at all. Don’t pursue things, pursue God. If you pursue God and walk in love of God, blessings will come to you. Nothing else really works without the love of God operating in your life. Jesus simplified the message of the Bible for us in two commandments: love God and love for mankind. If you can do these two things, then you are giving God His proper place in your life, and you are, in effect, hanging the rod of love.
Once you have love in place, everything else will stay in place. Love is not just a good idea or a suggestion. Love is THE commandment of God because love is THE law that governs the operation of THE BLESSING.
To fully understand what that means, you must remember that the word law can be defined in two ways. First, there are irrefutable laws such as the laws of nature. Those laws are truth. They cannot be changed, and they always work. The law of physics and mathematics fall into that category. It doesn't matter what form government is in power or what kind of rules men might come up with, irrefutable laws can't be altered. Congress could pass a law declaring two plus two is five but that wouldn't make it so. The Supreme Court could declare that the law of gravity has been cancelled, but it wouldn't matter. Things will still hit the floor when you drop them because gravity always works, and no government on earth can change that.
Although most people think irrefutable laws apply only to the natural realm. The realm of the spirit is also governed by such laws. The spiritual world is not a place where just anything goes. Its laws are even more exact than natural, physical laws. That's not surprising because of God, who is a Spirit, created all earthly matter. He patterned the physical world after the spiritual world.
"Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by The WORD of God” Romans 3:27 calls that "the law of faith.” It goes into operation when two elements come together with a hearing "The WORD of God" always produces the same thing: faith.
It doesn't matter who you are, who your parents are, whether you are a man or woman, or what colour your skin is, the law of faith works the same way for everyone, all the time. A law that works right alongside the law of faith is found in Galatians 5:6; "faith... worketh by love.” That is a practical, unalterable truth. There's nothing religious or abstract about it. Faith works by love like a car works by gasoline. No gas, no go. No love, no faith. No faith, no receiving. Like the law of gravity, faith worketh by love is an irrefutable, spiritual law.
The second type of law that exists both in the natural and the spiritual realms is governmental laws. Governmental laws are commands put into effect and enforced by the legal authorities of the land. It is possible to break them, but you will experience consequences. If you run a red light, you'll get a ticket. Steal a car and you'll go to jail.
God's governmental laws are called commandments. People can and do break them; and when they do, it's called sin. As I've said before, there have been great and absurd debates about what is and is not sin. But the real definition is simple. Sin is violating the established laws of God.
The devil tries to sell the idea that God established those laws because He is mad at us and doesn't want us to have any fun. But, that's a lie. God gave them to us to keep us from killing ourselves. He put them in place to protect us because He knows, even if we don't, that "the wages of sin is death."
People can argue about it all they want to. They can mock the dangers of sin and say there's nothing wrong with it. But that won't change the consequences. Sin always does just what God said it will do. It sets in motion "the law of sin and death." Sin always leads to death because death is what it produces in the spirit. Adultery, for example, kills. It works death in a family.
There's something that happens in the human spirit, soul and body when a person honours satan by giving him reign in that area. People convince themselves they can contain the damage caused by it. But in reality, opening the door to that one sin gives the devil access to their entire life. He'll take advantage of that access, too. That's just the way he is.
Every fish in the sea and the sea itself all were made by Love's WORD. Love created you. Love breathed life into you. Therefore, everything that is contrary to Love goes against your very substance. Every word of disharmony violates the way you were made. Unloving words, thoughts and actions do violence to the very nerves and cells in your physical body.
(That's why Proverbs 14:13; describes envy as "the rottenness of the bones") No wonder Jesus said that love is the greatest commandment! No wonder He made it a command to love The LORD thy God with all your heart, all your soul, your entire mind and all your strength, and also to love your neighbour as yourself!
When we strive and fuss with others, we become our own worst enemy. We actually begin to self-destruct. When we walk in love, however, we not only BLESS others, we edify ourselves.
In Ephesians 6:8; says, "Whatsoever good thing any man doeth, the same shall he receive of The LORD."
In other words, every act of love, every word of kindness, every loving gesture, enlivens us. The cells in our bodies respond to it. Our minds respond to it. Our spirits expand on the inside of us, strengthening and preparing us to walk in the anointing we were born to carry.
When we take a step outside of love, we step into darkness. That's where the curse is, and it's not where we, as believers, belong. We belong in the light. We are born of light because we are born of God; and just as God is Love, God is Light.'" For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in The LORD: walk as children of light (Ephesians 5:8). The first thing God said at Creation was, "Light be!"
That's why your physical body is electrically operated, and its battery runs on light. Light is the source of our physical power and light is the source of every act of The Royal Law of the Kingdom.
As you have taken Step one in Yoke Up with Jesus and Kingdom of God Government by being born-again. Step two is being filled with of the Holy Spirit or receiving the Baptism of the Holy Spirit.
Now you have been exposed to steps of learning about the highest type of Love, Agape, the love of God that has been shed aboard and poured into your heart by the Holy Spirit; Romans 5:5.
It is very important that you grow and walk in the love of God because if you fail in this area the other laws will not work because they are all tied to the Royal law of the kingdom which is love. As I mentioned earlier, everything hangs on the Rod of love.
In the English language, we use the one-word “love” to express different levels of affection. For example, you might hear someone say, “I love my brother,” “I love my mother,” I love my wife,” “I love candy,” I love cars,” “I love this,” “I love that,” and so forth. In each instance, they use the same word: love.
You have to look at the context of what the person is saying to understand the kind of love that they are talking about. The Greek language has four different words that are used to express or define the different kinds of “love.”
The first is “Storge,” which is an affectionate love that exists between parent and child, loyal citizens and rulers, and so forth. The second is “Eros,” which refers to physical love arising out of passion. The third Greek word for love is “Phileo,” which is a love that cherishes. An example of this is the love for a brother or a friend. All of these loves – Storge, Eros, and Phileo – should be based on the fourth Greek word for love – “Agape,”
The highest kind of love, is God’s kind of love, a love that is not based on feeling or performances, but a decision. Agape is a selfless, sacrificial love that goes far beyond anything that most people can even come close to understanding.
When some people are asked to do something for someone else, the first thing they want to know is what I will get in return for doing it. But God’s kind of love gives. True love – Agape love does not concern itself with, “What am I going to get out of it?” No, it concerns itself with, “What will this other person gain by me loving them?”
In Ephesians 5:25, Paul tells the husband to love their wives as Christ loved the church. Well, how did Christ love the church? He gave Himself for it, and that’s the way we are to love we are to give. In John 3:16, we have a great example of Agape love.
It says, “For God so LOVED the world, that HE GAVE his only begot Son (JESUS), that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” God’s kind of love will love a person even if that person does not want to be loved.
Agape love, or God’s kind of love, even loves a person who doesn’t seem to deserve love because of what that person does or says. God’s kind of love loves people regardless of their actions. Agape love, it doesn’t matter who you are or what you do or what you have done. You can still be loved by the power of God and receive Jesus as your Savior.
Summary
The Royal Law of the Kingdom is love. As God’s children, we must grow and walk in the love of God. As humans, we experience different types of love. We experience the love that shows affection between parents and their children, physical love that’s filled with passion, a love that cherishes a brother or a friend, and then God’s love. There is no greater love! God loves us unconditionally. He loves us even when we don’t deserve to be loved. In order to be in a position to Yoke up with Jesus and the Kingdom of God Government, we must walk and continue to walk in the love of God.
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