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To: ottbmare; Dutchboy88; Salvation
ottbmare, do you not know that "our love for one another" is about loving others enough to tell them the TRUTH? ANd it's not always lovey-dovey. Sometimes it's painful and hurts to the core. That's the point. Hurting to the CORE, and letting the Holy Spirit guide that person into the TRUTH. That he is a sinner, in need of salvation, and that God provided that sacrifice in the name of His Son, Jesus, who died for our sins. So that we, who could NEVER measure up, could be justified and saved by the FINISHED WORK of Jesus Christ in our stead. That news represents the whole of the truth of God, and trust me, not all think it's "love" when they are wailing and gnashing when told there is NOTHING they can do to win their own salvation and reconciliation with God. Apart from the free gift of grace through faith in His shed blood.

To not tell anyone of this amazing grace is to do the OPPOSITE of love them. A person is doing nothing more than smiling while their friend goes to hell, it is NOT being loving. Read 2 Cor. 5:14-21 if you want to know what TRUE love is toward your neighbor.

27 posted on 08/28/2013 6:44:56 AM PDT by smvoice (Better Buck up, Buttercup. The wailing and gnashing are for an eternity..)
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To: smvoice

There is a difference between “telling the truth in love” and being full of insult and hostility.


28 posted on 08/28/2013 6:57:37 AM PDT by ottbmare (the OTTB mare, now a proud Marine Mom)
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