“He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.” – 1 John 4:8 (KJV)

If we have come to understand that love is what we need to make heaven, then what is it that we do that is not classified as love?

1. Self-glory : We have treated more than once that you should not seek glory for yourself, see all that you do as a gift to the soul that receives it. If you seek glory,
desiring to be patted on the back for the great job that you have done, then don’t expect that a
record or reward of what you have done is being recorded in heaven.

Matthew 6:1 “Take care!
Don’t do your good deeds publicly, to be admired, because then you will lose the reward from your Father in heaven.” (NLT)

It may be hard to understand what has been said here because we as humans want to receive glory, but let me tell you, if you go on a soul
winning trip so as to get a reward in church, then you will lose your crowns in heaven. If you give
financially so that you can get noticed in church, you will lose your reward in heaven.

1. Impatience and full of oneself: “Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. Love does not demand its own way. Love is not irritable, and it keeps no record of when it has been wronged.”
   2 Corinthians 13:4 – 5 (NLT)

We need to love correctly, not the false adulterated love that the world gives for its glory, but the one that seeks the glory of the one and only creator.

Prayer: Lord, I ask again let me love like You,
work on me from now on to be more like Christ.

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We shall continue, on who God is and what He expects from us.

To love is more than mere talk, James 2: 14 –17 “What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him? If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, and one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit? Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.”

Acts of faith, no matter how it comes out, if it is without love, then it is as good as dead. Yesterday we saw that even Christ rejected people who did acts of faith in the area of doing miracles, all because something was missing, here is what Christ is looking out for:

Matthew 25:32 – 45
All the nations will be gathered in his presence, and he will separate them as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats… Then the
King will say to those on the right ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you… For I was hungry, and you fed me. I was thirsty, and you gave me a drink. I was a stranger, and you invited me into your home. I was naked, and you gave me clothing. I was sick, and you cared for me. I was in prison, and you visited me.’…And the King will tell them, ‘I assure you, when you did it to one of the least of these my brothers and
sisters, you were doing it to me!’

“Then the King will turn to those on the left and say, ‘Away with you, you cursed ones, into the eternal fire prepared for the Devil and his
demons! For I was hungry, and you didn’t feed me. I was thirsty, and you didn’t give me anything to drink. I was a stranger, and you
didn’t invite me into your home. I was naked, and you gave me no clothing. I was sick and in prison, and you didn’t visit me.’

“Then they will reply, ‘Lord, when did we ever see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and not help you?’ And he will answer, ‘I assure you, when you refused to help the least of these my brothers and sisters,
you were refusing to help me.’

Note, the criteria that Christ used to separate these people, is not the amount they have given, or the miracles that they have done, it is the love that they have shown. These people cared for the people of God, they won souls, not winning them so as to get a reward here on earth, but winning them because they don’t want them to perish. They also visited them, clothed them and fed them.
That is what Christ is looking out for. The miracles that you are able to perform are secondary to the love you are expected to show.

Prayer: Jesus, all I want is to be more like You.

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“He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is
love.” – 1 John 4:8 (KJV)

At the very end it is love that counts. I want to redirect your mind to who God is. God is love
and in the end what will be the final determining factor between a real Christian and a false one will be love.

Christ said in Matthew 24:10 – 12 (NLT), “And
many will turn away from me and betray and
hate each other. And many false prophets will
appear and will lead many people astray. Sin will
be rampant everywhere, and the love of many
will grow cold.”

It is not the amount that you have given, or the miracles you have done, or the people that you have raised from death or the sick that you have healed or the fact that you can speak in tongues “Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I am become as sounding brass“   (1 Corinthians 13:1) . The factor
that will separate the sheep form the goats is love.

Christ said , “Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy
name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.”
– Matthew 7: 21 – 23 (KJV)

Prayer: Lord, fill me with love, let me love like
You and fill my heart with the knowledge that
acts of faith (miracles) without love will not lead
me to heaven.

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