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Love to Be Fulfilled in Our Lives, February 12
Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling
of the law.
Romans 13:10
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How many are deficient in love! O, that love might eradicate from
the heart hatred, emulation, and strife, and the root of bitterness, whereby
many are defiled. Never can the love of Jesus be received and shed abroad
in the heart until envious feelings, hatred, jealousies, and evil surmisings
are put away....
Many are deceiving themselves; for the principle of love does not
dwell in their hearts. They may close their eyes to their own errors and
defects; but they cannot deceive God. There must be a reformation. The
plowshare of truth must plow deep furrows in our proud hearts, and tear
up the sod of our unsanctified natures, that the Spirit and love of Jesus
may be planted in our hearts. Time is fast hastening on, and every work
will soon be brought into judgment, and either our sins or our names will
be blotted out of the Book of Life....
Pure love is simple in its operations, and separate from every other
principle of action. When combined with earthly motives and selfish
interests, it ceases to be pure. God considers more with how much love
we work, than the amount we do. Love is a heavenly attribute. The natural
heart cannot originate it. This heavenly plant only flourishes where Christ
reigns supreme. Where love exists, there is power and truth in the life.
Love does good, and nothing but good. Those who have love bear fruit
unto holiness, and in the end everlasting life
It was the same Jesus who commanded that love should be the ruling
principle in the old dispensation, that commanded that love should be the
ruling principle in the hearts of His followers in the New Testament. The
working out of the principle of love is true sanctification
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The Youth’s Instructor, January 13, 1898
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The Youth’s Instructor, November 8, 1894
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