(Om Orientation) Our Motive Love - Part 1 — George Verwer

Love as the Motive for Christian Warfare

Orientation session number five, the motive for our warfare. Without any doubt, we can say that this is probably the most important message, the emphasis, and the basic principle of this message. Everything else will be as Corinthians said, sounding brass and clanging cymbals.

God has told us in his word quite clearly. This is what we want to consider in this orientation session. Without any doubt, it's probably as we go into Mexico, as we go into the Middle East, or as we go into Europe.

The New Testament’s Teaching on Love

We look through the New Testament. We see so many verses on the subject of love, we hardly know where to begin. Concerning love and how we're to love God and love one another. Short orientation session, even to begin to discuss a small part of them.

The synonyms of love, such as patience, meekness, love, can shine into a crystal and come out many different colors. So the love of God in the many different stages, joy, peace, etc. And as I look through the New Testament on the subject of love, Jesus Christ is more than anything else.

Love as the Defining Mark of Christian Faith

The message of the New Testament, we can be orthodox, we can be fundamental, we can be evangelistic, we can be studious in the word of God. As we think in terms of this tremendous warfare that we have entered into, as we think in terms of moving into Mexico to evangelize, as we think in terms of moving into Europe to evangelize, in terms of love, what is love?

And we cannot separate one from the other. You cannot have God without having love and having God. He who does not love, how specific could he possibly be that to call those who have not love for the brethren, God meant what he said.

Obedience to the Commandment of Love

When God said we were to love one another, he meant it. When God said we were to love our neighbor as ourselves, he meant it. When God said we were to lay down our lives as an offering of love, he meant this subject of love.

Realizing that as we go into the warfare, this must be the compelling thing, this must be the constraining thing, this must be the thing that leads us. And as we look at communists in society, societies moving out actively, working, struggling, fighting, witnessing for their faith, seeking honor of men, seek not the honor of men.

Rejecting the Honor of Men

Jesus saw that these men could not believe, they could not enter into this revolutionary life, they could not enter into this dynamic life, because they sought the honor of men. What is our motivation?

Seeking the honor of men, seeking the back-pattings and the hand-shakings, seeking the well-dones of men, is the thing that's going to motivate us. When Jesus said, I seek not, think in terms of this tremendous warfare, as we think in terms of this tremendous crusade that lies ahead, we must come and ask God to purge our moods, we must ask God to take away all this, that we might not go to Mexico or to Europe or any other place.

Compassion in Evangelistic Mission

One of the major themes, or one of the major themes, your verse on love, and the people who said, well we better not do it, Christ in the ninth chapter of Matthew, Deuteronomy 9 .35, and Jesus went about all the cities and villages, Jesus Christ, doing basically what God has put on our hearts, seeking a status, was he adventured, was he going, so it is in our love for God.

Love of the World and Direction of Life

As long as there's one little bit of love for this world, as long as there's one little bit of love, to take on a new form, our feet will begin to go in a new direction, making ourselves come, of gentleness, fairly rough, seeking their benefits, and you shall not be, running over, shall men give unto your burden.