7/25/2019 Kenneth E Hagin - Leaflet - The God Kind of Love

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"THE GODKIND OF LOVE"by KENNETH HAGIN

I f you are a born again Christian the kind oflove whichwill solve all your problems is withinyour heart.

No Christian can say he does not have it .Everyone in the family has it, or else they'renot in the family.

They may not be exercising it or using it.They could belikethe one-talentguywhowrapped

his talent in a napkin and buried it, but the Bibledeclares:

ROMANS 5:5

And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of

God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost

which is given unto us.

This is a love family. The God kind oflove has been shed abroad in our hearts.

JOHN 13:35

35 Bythis shall all menknowthat ye are my discip les,

if ye love one another.

How are they goingto know us? "i f ye have loveone to another." And the love law ofthis lovefamily is:

JOHN 13:34

34 A new commandment I give unto you, That ye

love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also

love one another.

Andhow did Heloveus? Becausewedeserved it?No, He loved us while we were yet sinners.

JOHN14:21,23

21 He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them,

he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me sha ll

be loved of my Father , and I wi ll love him, and wi ll

manifest myself to him.

23 ... If a man love me, he wil l keep mywords:and

my Father wil l love him, and we wil l come unto him,

and make our abode with him.

These verses point out that the one who keepsHiscommandments...(RememberHis commandments are thatwelove one another as He lovedus)..."shall be loved of my Father."

Whenyou walk in love, you walk in the realmwhereGod is. Because God is love. You walk infellowship with God.

The love shed abroad in your heart is divinelove; not naturalhuman love. Divine love is notselfish. "God so loved thatHe gave..." Naturalhuman love is selfish. Itwill eventurnto hatredwhen it doesn't get its own way.

Ifwe would learn to letthatloveof God whichis in our hearts dominate, itwouldmake a diffe-rence in our l ives. It would cure the ills of ourhomes.

This kind of love has never been to a divorcecourt, and will never go. It was natural humanlove that went there. Now I didn't say thatChristians haven't been there, because they have.

But they weren't letting the loveofGoddominatethem.

TheGod kind ofloveis not interested in 'whatI can get.' but in 'what I can give. '

To o many are selfish. And even though theyare Christians they let the natural dominatethem.

It happens in churches. "I 'v e got my say-soand I'm goingto have i t." "I 'm a member ofthischurch just as much as anyone else is and I'mgoing to have my say-so."

Thank God, He is my Father! Thank God, He isa love God! Thank God, I am a lovechild of aloveGod!

I am born of God, and God is love, so I amborn of love.

The nature of God is in you if you are Hischild. And the nature of God is love. So it isnatural for you, spiritually, to love.

But if you let your outward man and yourmind dominate, even though that love-natureis within your heartit is kept pri soner . Releasethe loveof God which is within you!

What about the God-kind of love? What are itscharacteristics? They are givento us inICorinthians 13. We' l l examine them from the KingJames and the Amplified translations.

Love suffereth long, and is kind (KJ)...A lot ofpeople suffer long, but they aren't kind whilethey do it. TheAmplified reads, "Love endureslong and is patient and kind..."

Love envieth not ( KJ ). .The Amplified says,"Love never is envious nor boils over withjealousy." It is the natural human love whichboils over with jealousynot thiskind of love.

Love vaunteth not itself, it not puffed up(KJ)...Or, as the Amplified reads, "is not boastful orvainglorious, does not display itself haughtily."

Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not herown (KJ)...This loveisn'tseeking "what's mine."

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it is not conceitedarrogant and inflated withpride: it is not rude (unmannerly), and does notact unbecomingly. Love (God's love in us) doesnot insist on its own rights or its own way, forit is not self-seeking (Verse 5 Amplified.)

Now I wish you would take time to let thatsoak in on you.

"Well, I know what's mine though." "I 'vegot my say-so and I'm goingto have it." "I'vegot my rights and I'm goingto have them."Nomatter how much they mayhurt someone else.

This verse says that love doesn't insist onits own rights.

Can't you see how the loveof God practiced

in the home would straighten things out. Andhow the love of God practiced in the churchwould do the same?

...it is not touchy or fretful or resentful; it takesno accountoftheevildone to itpays no attentionto a suffered wrong.(Verse 5Amp.)

Here is the thermometer of love.This is thelove gauge. It's very easy to find out whetheror not you're walking in love. When you beginto take account oftheevilthatis done to you, youare not walking in love.

Thingshave happened to me through the years

as they have to you. Other ministers and evensome of my relatives have told me, "I wouldn'ttake that if I were you. I wouldn't put up withthat.Not me." But Ijustkept my mouth shut andnever said a wordjust smiled and stayed happy.I wouldn't take the time to deny it if they toldon me that I'd killed my grandma. I'd justkeepshouting, "Hallelujah!Glory to God!"

We were enemies of God and He didn't takeaccount of the evil we had done to Him. Hewas love and He sent Jesus to redeem us. Heloved us while we were yet sinners. And didyou know that He loves us even more nowthat

we are His chldren?

TheGod-kind of love takes no account of theevil done to itpays no attention to a sufferedwrong. Here is God's cure for every divisionin the church, the home, or wherever it is . Thiskind of love "pays no attention to a sufferedwrong."

There aren't too many people walking inGod's loveeven though they have it. They arewalking innaturalhuman love and they surepayattention to a suffered wrong.

It does not rejoice at injustice and unrighteou-ness, but rejoices when right and truthprevail .Love bears upunderanything andeverythingthatcomes.. .(Verses 6, 7a, Amplified.)

Someone says, "I just can't take it anylonger!"

Love can!

"I just can't put up with him any longer."

Think about God. He's putting up with us.

Love...is ever ready tobelieve the bestof everyperson...(7a Amp.)

Natural human love is ready to believe theworst. But this kind of love is ever ready to

believe the best of every person:husband, wife,brother or sister in the church, children, neighbor, etc.

Ihave travelled across the country preachingand teaching, and it is amazing whatyouwillhearon this preacher, thisperson, this deacon, thisSunday School teacher, this singer, etc. I didn'tpay the least bit of attention to any of them. Idon't believe a word of it . Ibelieve the best ofevery person.

Though someone has missed it, whenyouseethe best in them and love them rightly, it willbring out the best in them.

Its hopes are fadeless under all circumstancesand it endures everything (without weakening).Love never failsnever fades out or becomesobsolete or comes to an end. (7b, 8a Amp.)

This kind of love works in the home, orchurch, or whereverbecause thiskind of lovenever fails!

Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shallfail;whether there be tongues,they shall cease; whether there be knowledge,it shall vanish away. (Vs. 8 KJ)

We are interested in spiritual gifts, and thatis right. Butweshouldbeinterested inlove first.

Yes, I believe in prophecy and prophesying,in tongues and the interpretation of tongues.Thank God for them! But you can exercise thesethings without love and they become as soundingbrass and tinkling cymbal.

Let 's have prophecy. Let's have tongues.Let 's have faith. Let's have knowledge. But,let's have lovewith them!

Let 's put love first because we are in thefamily of love.

K E N N E T H HAGIN EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATION

P.O. BOX 50126 TULSA. OKLAHOMA 74150