{"id":256,"date":"2008-12-13T09:41:48","date_gmt":"2008-12-13T14:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidcprice.wordpress.com\/?p=256"},"modified":"2008-12-13T09:41:48","modified_gmt":"2008-12-13T14:41:48","slug":"when-love-isnt-love-1-john-47-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/davidcprice.com\/when-love-isnt-love-1-john-47-12\/","title":{"rendered":"When Love Isn’t Love – 1 John 4:7-12"},"content":{"rendered":"

You know what I get tired of?\u00a0 Religious people who go to church and do all the stuff they’re supposed to, but give them half a chance and they rail on somebody.\u00a0 I get tired of people who talk about the love of God, but never seem to show it; never seem to demonstrate grace and unconditional acceptance.<\/p>\n

On the one hand, I think it could have something to do with that last statement I made.\u00a0 We sometimes fall victim to thinking that unconditional acceptance means of all a person does: their actions, choices, ideologies, etc.\u00a0 Instead, I’m talking about unconditional acceptance of the person<\/em>.\u00a0 Then, of course, it’s easy to say that we love people unconditionally, but fail to realize that if our actions don’t back that up, we’re just offering religious platitudes.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, it is too often that people are simply being religious, and not transformed.<\/em> In verse 8, John says, “Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love<\/span>.”\u00a0 The translation is simple, isn’t it?\u00a0 If your life is not characterized by the kind of unconditional, active love that God is, then we are not saved because we do not know Him.\u00a0 That is a very serious indictment that we had better not dismiss.\u00a0 Eternity rests on it.<\/p>\n

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You know what I get tired of?\u00a0 Religious people who go to church and do all the stuff they’re supposed to, but give them half a chance and they rail on somebody.\u00a0 I get tired of people who talk about the love of God, but never seem to show it; never seem to demonstrate grace…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[20],"tags":[53,683,684,138,266,693],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3jKZO-48","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":208,"url":"http:\/\/davidcprice.com\/be-encouraged-1-john-212-14\/","url_meta":{"origin":256,"position":0},"title":"Be Encouraged! 1 John 2:12-14","date":"November 29, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Sometimes we just need encouragement, don't we?\u00a0 It can seem like the whole world is on our shoulder and if one more thing happens, we're going to snap.\u00a0 I love this little section where John just pours out encouragement on his readers.\u00a0 In essence, he simply says, \"I'm writing to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "PSI (Personal Spiritual Insight)"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":267,"url":"http:\/\/davidcprice.com\/fear-itself-1-john-418-21\/","url_meta":{"origin":256,"position":1},"title":"Fear, Itself. – 1 John 4:18-21","date":"December 16, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I've really had to chew on this passage and, to some degree, am continuing to chew as I write to see if what I'm thinking makes sense.\u00a0 John says in 1 John 4:18 that, \"there is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear.\"\u00a0 Honestly, I think that\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "PSI (Personal Spiritual Insight)"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":189,"url":"http:\/\/davidcprice.com\/psi-renewal-to-transformation\/","url_meta":{"origin":256,"position":2},"title":"PSI – Renewal to Transformation","date":"November 21, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Over this past week I've been meditating on and dealing a lot with the implications of Romans 12:2: Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Christian Living"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":283,"url":"http:\/\/davidcprice.com\/the-testimony-of-god-1-john-56-10\/","url_meta":{"origin":256,"position":3},"title":"The Testimony of God – 1 John 5:6-10","date":"December 18, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"It has always been said that actions speak louder than words.\u00a0 It's one thing to make a claim, it's another to back it up.\u00a0 In 1 John 5:6-10, the apostle tells us that Jesus did both.\u00a0 He not only claimed to be the Son of God and savior to the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "PSI (Personal Spiritual Insight)"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":233,"url":"http:\/\/davidcprice.com\/tough-love-1-john-311-15\/","url_meta":{"origin":256,"position":4},"title":"Tough Love – 1 John 3:11-15","date":"December 9, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Man, John just pulls no punches, does he?\u00a0 Listen to some of this: \"Whoever does not love abides in death.\" \"Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.\"\u00a0 Tough stuff, but I read it very appreciatively. 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