“Experiencing Genuine Affection”

 “Experiencing Genuine Affection”

 

Don’t just pretend to love others.  Really love them.  Hate what is wrong.  Hold tightly to what is good.  Love each other with GENUINE affection and take delight in honoring each other.  Romans 12:9-10

 

The first thing I want to do is give you a, picture of sorts, to EXPLAIN what LOVE REALLY IS.  Love is PATIENT and KIND. Love is NOT JEALOUS or BOASTFUL or PROUD or RUDE.  It does NOT DEMAND its OWN WAY.  It is NOT IRRITABLE, and it KEEPS NO RECORD of being wronged.  It does NOT REJOICE about INJUSTICE but REJOICES whenever the TRUTH wins out.  LOVE NEVER GIVES UP, NEVER LOSES FAITH, is ALWAYS HOPEFUL, and ENDURES through EVERY CIRCUMSTANCE.  (1 Corin. 13:4-7). And that is GENUINE AFFECTION or LOVE. 

The Apostle Paul is ENCOURAGING the BELIEVERS in ROME, to have a GENUINE AFFECTION for EACH OTHER. Because a GENUINE LOVE is of GOD, and it produces a GENUINE AFFECTION.   This is what Father God wants His Children to POSSESS and to SHARE it with OTHER BELIEVERS. Notice, Paul tells us to NOT PRETEND to LOVE OTHERS, but we are to REALLY LOVE each other. 

This DISPLAY of GODLY LOVE will SHOW this SINFUL WORLD that we GENUINELY LOVE each each other and that WE have a GENUINE AFFECTION for EACH OTHER.  And this is POSSIBLE, because GOD LOVES MANKIND, so MUCH, that He GAVE His ONLY SON, the LORD JESUS CHRIST to SUFFER, BLEED and DIE, in order to PAY the PRICE of REDEMPTION, for MANKIND and to GIVE US an ETERNITY in HEAVEN, with ALL its BLESSINGS.  And to be ABLE to ESCAPE HELL with ALL its HORRORS, and NO WAY to ESCAPE once you are there. 

In order to be ABLE to have this scenario, and to be ABLE to EXPERIENCE GOD’S GENUINE AFFECTION, and to be ABLE to SHARE it with OTHERS.  You MUST BECOME a CHILD of the LIVING GOD.  To do that YOU MUST ADMIT that YOU are a SINNER, in NEED of the SAVIOR, JESUS CHRIST.  You MUST BELIEVE, with ALL your HEART that JESUS DIED for YOU, and that He is ALIVE in Heaven, making intercession for you, before God.  You MUST CONFESS your SINS to Him, and ask Him for His FORGIVENESS.  You MUST be WILLING to TURN AWAY FROM your SINFUL LIFESTYLE and TURN TO GOD with a TRUE REPENTANT HEART.  You MUST ACCEPT God’s Gift of SALVATION and EXPERIENCE a GENUINE AFFECTION from the ALMIGHTY GOD, HIMSELF.  Do this NOW, while you STILL can.  He’s WAITING and COMING VERY SOON!!!  Don’t Be LEFT BEHIND!!!