"If you Love me..."

2 Timothy 2:15 - (KJV)

¹⁵ Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

Galatians 5:22-23

King James Version 

22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,

23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

For just a little while, I decided to study the Fruits of the Spirit. Something so very popular, so often spoke about but a topic I never really broke down for myself. 

I started with Love. 

Something I have decided may be the very most important of them all. 

The verb definition of Love is to need or require, benefit greatly from. 

We benefit from - Love. 

Love is without compensation. 

Love is God's benevolent attitude towards us. 

The fruits of the spirit are a representation of the holy ghost - and if the holy ghost is from God, then the love that we show forth, must also be, from God. 

- God's love isn't conditional to our success's or our failures meaning he doesn't love you LESS because you sin. He is disappointed in you and your relationship can be tainted but he doesn't LOVE you less. 

We must  try our thoughts with the Love of God, thinking how would Jesus love this person. 

God is simple Love. Sin robbed the world of Love, Jesus died on a cross for Love. 

John 21:16, 17 

“He saith to him again the second time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thous knowest that I love thee, He saith unto him, Feed my sheep”

“He saith unto him the third time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved because he said unto him the third time, Lovest thou me? And he said unto him, Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee, Jesus saith unto him, Feed my sheep”

"Then Feed my Sheep"

If you love me, when you start a church? Will you preach to the rich and the poor? 

If you love me will you FEED my people, with my word? 

“It is only when God's people stand as one body, one before God in the fellowship of love, one toward another in deep affection, one before the world in a love that the world can see—it is only then that they will have power to secure the blessing which they ask of God” - Andrew Murray

A Vessel that is Cracked into many pieces cannot be filled. 

When our churches our cracked by our flesh, we cannot be filled to the uttermost. 

I may only be speaking to myself, but I know I am convicted by the power of Love. Love can bring a church together so very much that they would be filled but when the vessel is cracked and broken and torn by word and actions, it can not be filled. 

I don't want to crack a Vessel. 

I want to feed the Sheep.