FOUNDATION STATEMENT: God’s commandments where given to us because of God’s
overwhelming love for us and because of His great desire to see us live and
experience THE abundant life.
I. The purpose for the commandment of love is not to keep
you from having fun, but is to keep you from activating that death force and
experiencing hell on the Earth.
A. Religion
has given us the idea that God gives us commandments to usurp authority over us
and let us know who’s in charge
1. Love
commanded this; Compassion Himself commanded this
2. This
commandment is not for God’s benefit, it’s for ours
a. Why
do you give your kids instructions? For their benefit
3. God’s
commandments are not grievous (1 John 5:3)
a. There’s
no loss associated with keeping this commandment of love
B. God
is the creator of life and he knows how to get the most out of life
1. His
commandments are love letters from Heaven, telling us what to do so that we can
enjoy life on the Highest level
a. EXAMPLE:
The manufacture of a product always prints up a manual instructing the buyer to
do things so that the buyer can get the most out of that product.
i. The
manual was not created to benefit the manufacturer. When you do what the manual
says the only benefit that manufacturer gets is you will absolutely get the
highest performance out of that product, and others might see it and buy it
2. God gave
us commandments because inside the boundaries of those commandments we are able
to experience life on the Highest level the way that He intended for us to
a. Outside
that boundary is where that force of death works
i. God’s
not against you having a good time, He’s against you activating that death
force and living in oppression
3. It
wasn’t the Lord cursing the children of Israel
because they didn’t do what He said; it was the children of Israel walking
outside of that boundary of obedience where the curse was and of course it came
on them
a. The
was no permissive word in the Hebrew; God allowed them to do what they wanted
(Deuteronomy 30:19 – It was their choice)
i. God
will protect your decision to go to hell, if that’s what you want to do
C. The
whole idea of the commandment of love is to keep zoe manifesting in your life
so that you don’t have to live in darkness and in bondage to the curse
1. God
gave us this commandment to lead us back to the Garden
of Eden
2. We
have the purpose now of this commandment
a. It’s
not so that God can be loved by you or so that God can have love robots; it’s
so that you won’t turn that death force on and have to live in hell
3. God’s
commanding you to walk back into the garden
a. He
gave you this commandment in His desire to see abundance in
your life
b. This
commandment is literally in way is the same thing He said to Adam in Genesis 1
– He’s commanding you to walk love, be fruitful, multiply increase and flourish
II. When you get in disobedience to the commandment of
love there is a resistance to the abundant life that comes out of you
A. Violation
of the commandment of love puts you in a place of resistance to the abundant
life (healing, prosperity, victory)
1. Sin
in your life puts you out of line with the law of abundance and resists it
2. Mark
10:17 – The rich young ruler got in disobedience to the commandment of love and
resisted the very thing that he fell on his knees telling Jesus he wanted so
badly.
a. Because
he was in violation of the commandment of love he was in a place of resistance
to the thing he desired
b. He
was in resistance to the thing that he was on his knees begging for, because he
was in resistance to the law that would produce it
3. How
many believers are out there resisting the very thing that they are on the
knees praying to God for?
B. When
you resist the commandment of love you resist everything that hangs off of it
1. You
begin to resist faith, peace, joy, prosperity, healing, the anointing, the
blessing, victory
a. Love
is connected to your healing, your prosperity, the anointing, the blessing,
joy, peace, zoe, victory and when you rejected love you rejected and resisted
all of these things
2. In
General the Body of Christ has resisted the love and then wondered why they
can’t get healed, prosper, or be victorious
C. When
you resist the commandment of love, you resist healing and receive sickness,
resist prosperity and receive poverty, resist victory and receive defeat (James
3:16)
1. In
reality you’re resisting God and submitting to and receiving the devil (James
4:7)
When
you resist that commandment of love and get over into an area of unrepented
sin, that death force is working
a. The
law of strife produces every evil work – Hell on the Earth
D. If
God is love and he is (1 John 4:8,16), and if we are born of love and we are (1
John 5:1), and if we sprung off of God and we did (Acts 17:29), then our
recreated spirit is love
1. So to
walk in violation to the commandment of love and oppose it is to oppose
yourself and sow towards your own destruction
a. When
you oppose love you oppose yourself(2
Timothy 2:25)
III. Choosing the zoe abundant life by choosing the
commandment of love (Deut 30:19)
A. You
can’t chose life without choosing love
1. You
choose life, and you choose blessing by choosing the commandment of love
