I cannot get enough of the Bible now that you've made alive/relevant to me and others. God has really blessed you with preaching the Word. Thank you again, Tim......
@Valensky - Surprisingly, his theological understanding is VERY parallel in many ways to that of the Eastern Orthodox Church! The Orthodox Church has taught the same message since the days of the Apostles and early Church Fathers. If you haven't found a church yet (I know it's been 3 years already), you might consider visiting an Orthodox Church.
@@artdanks4846 its crazy, because i actually just discovered the orthodox faith as of late and realized it is totally up my alley! Your comment is just confirmation! Thank you my brother.
@@GV_777YT WOW!!! That is absolutely AMAZING!!! I am so very thrilled to hear this! I have been so excited for the last week, ever since discovering Tim and the Bible Project, because it is SOOO close to Orthodoxy, in a way that clarifies it even more for me! But now, hearing your news, I can't even tell you how that has made my day!!! GOD BLESS YOU!!! May your journey ever bring you closer each day to Jesus Christ, our God!!! 🙏😀
I am reading the Bible on a yearly reading plan and the details, the honesty, the consistency, the wisdom and insight is mind- blowing! 40 authors over 6000 years across three continent and yet it cannot be faulted. Why? God is the true author!
Imitate our brother-Tim…the wisdom and insight that he shares comes from HIS deep commitment to tend his garden and deal with the predators! He is preaching what he obviously practices. The biggest issue with the church in the Western Hemisphere is low Biblical Literacy. I am going to imitate him as he imitates Christ … then I can do better to imitate Christ and bring others along. I’m enrolling in Bible Project Classroom Today. Changing the music I listen to, reading more and watching less and taking intentional notes 📝 when I listen to his sermons. 😊❤❤❤❤🎉
Just made a reminder to start memorizing galatians 2:20. :) i love the idea of preaching the good news to myself. Just another way to tend to my garden. Thank you!!
Thanks for this teaching and illustrations from your gardening experience. I have been a christian for longer than you have been alive. There have been times in my life when I have seen a lot of the fruit of the spirit and other times not so much. This fact really disturbs me and makes me question my relationship with God. I have been praying about it and trying to understand what makes the difference. This teaching helped me understand better. Thank you!
In order for the branches to produce fruit faithfully, it has to abide or stay connected to the vine. The gardener will prune the branches and they will produce much fruit. Gospel of John chapter 15.
My first 2 years as a Christian were a mountain top experience. God made it so easy by His Spirit and power… then the honeymoon was over , I was back in the valley and had to cultivate the garden. Not always easy, and it has been 40 years since I was knocked off my horse on the road to Damascus one morning. Walking the narrow way can just be hard. Read Pilgrim’s Progress. Bunyan wrote it from debtors prison, lol.
@@janicecovell4426 I very much relate to your testimony. Hearing this teaching & Bible Project has opened my eyes & heart like they were 30 yrs ago. We live in a very exciting time-period for believers & the Gospel! The best is yet to come! Thank You Jesus. Precious Savior.
Dude..... This one lesson (along with the others about the Spirit) is what I've been looking for my whole Christian life. Talking about the Bible being a movie in my head, I can see it much more clearly now. Talking about who the Spirit is, how the Spirit works, what the Spirit does, the concept of the Trinity... Thank you Tim, and thank you Jesus for opening up my mind to a greater understanding I am truly greatful beyond words
Thank you Tim, that was really deep. I wish we could hear your prayers at the end. I don’t feel like I’m a good prayer and I just would like to hear how people pray. Thanks again
If Jesus was in front of you, what are the things in your heart you would want to share with him. What help would you ask him for or concern. That will be a prayer.
You definitely have a God given gift and it really is a shame that we cant clone you a million times lol, I have never ever in my 49 years of life heard anyone speak with such, I dont even know I cant find the words analogy that's it, I love it love you thank you
Tim, I've never heard any Protestant Teacher that theologically comes so very close to the Theology of the Eastern Orthodox Church. You are amazing! I've been a Christian for 40 years. The last 17 years I have been Eastern Orthodox (formerly Baptist), and have found the Church to be the purest form of Biblical understanding. But your teaching is almost identical, and also adds so much clarity and understanding. THANK YOU! AND THANK YOU FOR THE BIBLE PROJECT!!!!
I struggled with doubt for over a decade, and though I've come out the other side as of a few months ago, the message about fruit of the spirit was very timely. I've had more of the slow burn. I notice just a little more patience, just a little more self control, just a little less uncontrollable anger day by day, sometimes week by week or even month by month. The holy spirit isn't a genie that instantly turned me into a saint, but he's there working and I can tell.
No one but Tim he’s the best I rely on him so much for clarity. The heart of the Bible is hard to get to. Only Tim makes sense to get beyond just a simple reading. God bless you!
Beautiful teaching that has blessed me this morning. May this teaching glorify the Lord to many and sanctify the hearts of many believers. Thank you for your wisdom and knowledge of the word, and using it to endify others with grace!
It's beautiful how Tim empowers people and his disciples to be so immersed, thrilled and excited enough about the Bible, that they would want to really go pick the book and study it themselves to confirm, if the book is really this beautiful, than all the not so attractive way they've told or had it projected to them growing up. It's just a priceless experience.
So helpful!! Simple & practical, though it is challenging to really walk this out. The devil will lie & say God is not for us. But Jesus has given us His word that He is with us & for us, and the Spirit is the deposit guaranteeing our inheritance. Praise be to God!
This is awesome. I do find the things I tend toward being a source of extreme frustration and this really opened my eyes to a better way of seeing why that happens and what I can practically do about it. I’ve never heard it taught quite like this. Thank you.
So 'm doing the reading plan and then I get one of these lessons in and review the videos and whatever else these people have. I'm like what am I missing all the time. But Im glad Tim said its good that you fear because its a good thing.
For the branches to produce good fruit, they have to abide with the vine constantly. The gardener will prune the branches so they can produce much fruit. Gospel of John chapter 15
With great respect teacher, it's not gas, it's plasma. Crushing together so close they become one which blasts energy off energizing photons that move throughout the layers of the plasma until there is enough energy to escape which takes 8 minutes to get to earth from our sun. Again great respect teacher, thank you for helping me with my journey in the spirit.
Oh gee, speaking of groundhogs, remember the ‘little foxes in the vineyard’ in the Song of Solomon.? Being a real life gardener is such a good metaphor for our Christian growth. It can feel so backbreaking to cultivate our Christian lives.
it is the FRUIT of the SPIRIT- not my fruit- but the spirit living in me= not me- just as Paul says, I die daily - i decrease and Christ increases. this is not about us doing - but allowing God to do which means laying ourselves aside and that is a process we need to lay our ego aside- and that comes with renewing our mind. and as Paul also said- I do what I don't want to do- but I do what i don't want to do - if we are grafted in- then we have to stop drawing on our own - and learn to draw from Christ.
Found them! For anyone else who's looking for them, just look up Door of Hope Southeast here on TH-cam. The full series is available as a playlist there. Stay blessed and peace be with you 💙
Just wondering if some weeks are missing?? Only 3 weeks ?Not a month worth lol and then it seems like in the spirit section video played says 5 th week or whatever of this section but it is only number 2?? Just not sure if only 12 videos or where we can find missing ones?. :) enjoyed this break down so I hope to see any others?! Thank you for sharing your time and knowledge !! Glory to GOD✝️
So, based on comments made about sex, can someone be gay and Christian? Also, are gay people who are in lovingly committed monogamous relationships not growing in the Spirit?
God made man, and God made woman. It is the DNA / chromosomes of this combination that create children..... Same-sex marriages cannot procreate in this way and thus the Bible calls them an Abomination... Hope this helps...
I would say a person who has those sexual inclinations can be most certainly be a Christian, so long as they are actively working toward not acting on them (I.e self control). But if they are in a relationship with someone of the same sex, are they not putting that person/their sexual preference before the wishes of God? If they are, then I might think they’d need to ask themselves where their allegiances truly lie
As a former homosexual and person who struggled with my sexuality. I can attest that if you make room for the spirit to work in your sexuality, he will change you. I surrender my sexuality to God, and I can attest that he does regenerate and make it knew. Its tough and its a little painful, but God's plan for my life was so much bigger than my own.
23:14 Ephesians 1:13 reminds me of the mark of the beast. I imagine either you have the mark of the Spirit or the mark of the beast. There is no in between.
I LOoOoOovvee Tim Mackie's teaching, BUT I finally found a serious problem with something he said. Guess it had to happen eventually. Goodness, I don't agree with myself all the time! But, sinful nature? Nope, a no go for me.
It's more than a little dubious that the number of followers and comments are so low on this series. Hmmmm..🙄🙄🙄 Tim's videos are so well known, and these messages are so enlightening, it just doesn't fit.
"Science" (a ball of gas, the clouds, photosynthesis...) grows the fruit. No mention of God. God made the worlds. Satan calls it science. This is sad, because I was anticipating a good message here, but I have to wade through too many misconceptions to get to it. Then how good is the message really?
If sexual desire is the thing that takes a person furthest from the Divine, (and not killing people, or cruelty say), why did Jesus go out of his way to speak to the woman at the well who had had 5 husbands, and was living with another man who she wasn't married to? I know he told her to stop, and that it is potentially damaging, but it's hardly the worst thing a person can be guilty of! It appears to me that making a biological drive into the crime of the century, has just created hypocrites within the church, and beyond it. It's easy for me to not be tempted because I'm 61, and no longer have the hormones running through my body and mind, that is the craving of life's longing for, and perpetuation of life. Also, some people who have little or no sex drive don't appear any closer to Christ than a person who does. I don't feel like I'm a better human now that I'm not that interested in sex than I when I was. (Although life is a lot easier!) :)
Love is not an action nor is it a decision, love is spirit, for God is spirit, God is love, the actions of love come forth out of the spirit of love, otherwise you are simply just under the law, meaning, if I do not have love in my heart, yet I act lovingly or speak lovingly, then the law of love has come into being, I am subject to the law, so when it says I should have mercy yet I have hate but I show mercy, then I am under the law of love to produce it, yet this is not true love, this is Faith in Love, this is why Faith In God is salvation, because God's love causes you to produce what is loving at very lease in action and word by the power of faith in love, knowing what you should be doing in a situation if you do not love, but true love is when it lives in the heart so you do this apart from the law, the law disappears and you do it out of the spirit itself, it simply produces it's fruit, this is why those who hate yet produce what is love in action and word, produce it by the power of the Holy Spirit which clothes them, however, if one does not recognise one is not loving then they do not see the truth, because full circumcision of the heart is to be transformed into the Christ, and this image is spirit and it is found within you, I recognised the power of God on my life to simply produce righteousness, whether I love or whether I do not it has nothing to do with my decision, it has everything to do with the power of the holy spirit in my life, the gospel is the power of God unto Salvation, this is what the scripture means, when the Christ said, the spirit will be with you and then within you, otherwise all your living in within yourself is simply the spiritual heart of a man or woman, you are living in the human spirit, this is why you suffer all these things you suffer within yourself, because they belong to the human spirit, this does not belong to the Holy Spirit, and it is this spirit that should be within you, and those who walk by Faith see this happening in their lives, from glory to glory from light to light, as it is written, the seed grows into a great tree within you, or like yeast in dough it works it's way through the whole body, as it is written, you will not get out until you pay the last Penny, because the walk of the Christ is perfection to produce perfect Sons and Daughters of God, that they shine with the light of God, they shine with a godly holiness, this is the power of God, which so many Preacher Man fail to understand or Produce.
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I cannot get enough of the Bible now that you've made alive/relevant to me and others. God has really blessed you with preaching the Word. Thank you again, Tim......
I recently found Pastor Tim's teachings and feel the same
I wish there was a church and a pastor with such deep insight and beautiful way of teaching as Tim has. He has helped me so much.
Make your wish a prayer, Valnsky and then watch and see. :)
@Valensky - Surprisingly, his theological understanding is VERY parallel in many ways to that of the Eastern Orthodox Church! The Orthodox Church has taught the same message since the days of the Apostles and early Church Fathers. If you haven't found a church yet (I know it's been 3 years already), you might consider visiting an Orthodox Church.
@@kristaharmon7584 thank you!
@@artdanks4846 its crazy, because i actually just discovered the orthodox faith as of late and realized it is totally up my alley! Your comment is just confirmation! Thank you my brother.
@@GV_777YT WOW!!! That is absolutely AMAZING!!! I am so very thrilled to hear this! I have been so excited for the last week, ever since discovering Tim and the Bible Project, because it is SOOO close to Orthodoxy, in a way that clarifies it even more for me! But now, hearing your news, I can't even tell you how that has made my day!!! GOD BLESS YOU!!! May your journey ever bring you closer each day to Jesus Christ, our God!!! 🙏😀
I am reading the Bible on a yearly reading plan and the details, the honesty, the consistency, the wisdom and insight is mind- blowing! 40 authors over 6000 years across three continent and yet it cannot be faulted. Why? God is the true author!
Imitate our brother-Tim…the wisdom and insight that he shares comes from HIS deep commitment to tend his garden and deal with the predators!
He is preaching what he obviously practices.
The biggest issue with the church in the Western Hemisphere is low Biblical Literacy. I am going to imitate him as he imitates Christ … then I can do better to imitate Christ and bring others along.
I’m enrolling in Bible Project Classroom Today. Changing the music I listen to, reading more and watching less and taking intentional notes 📝 when I listen to his sermons. 😊❤❤❤❤🎉
Genius represantation and the illustrations make it so much more conceviable to my thinking. Thank you Lord Jesus Christ for this gift.
U don’t get this teaching in a conventional church.
You are the first person that explained the Holy Spirit fruits so well! God bless you, amazing!
Tim God bless and multiply the clarity He brings to his followers through you
Just made a reminder to start memorizing galatians 2:20. :) i love the idea of preaching the good news to myself. Just another way to tend to my garden. Thank you!!
Thanks for this teaching and illustrations from your gardening experience. I have been a christian for longer than you have been alive. There have been times in my life when I have seen a lot of the fruit of the spirit and other times not so much. This fact really disturbs me and makes me question my relationship with God. I have been praying about it and trying to understand what makes the difference. This teaching helped me understand better. Thank you!
In order for the branches to produce fruit faithfully, it has to abide or stay connected to the vine. The gardener will prune the branches and they will produce much fruit. Gospel of John chapter 15.
My first 2 years as a Christian were a mountain top experience. God made it so easy by His Spirit and power… then the honeymoon was over , I was back in the valley and had to cultivate the garden. Not always easy, and it has been 40 years since I was knocked off my horse on the road to Damascus one morning.
Walking the narrow way can just be hard. Read Pilgrim’s Progress. Bunyan wrote it from debtors prison, lol.
@@janicecovell4426
I very much relate to your testimony. Hearing this teaching & Bible Project has opened my eyes & heart like they were 30 yrs ago. We live in a very exciting time-period for believers & the Gospel! The best is yet to come! Thank You Jesus. Precious Savior.
Learning so much. Your work is a blessing to me. Thank you.
Thank you so much Tim. This have given me a new filled revelation of the fruit of the spirit.
Dude.....
This one lesson (along with the others about the Spirit) is what I've been looking for my whole Christian life.
Talking about the Bible being a movie in my head, I can see it much more clearly now.
Talking about who the Spirit is, how the Spirit works, what the Spirit does, the concept of the Trinity...
Thank you Tim, and thank you Jesus for opening up my mind to a greater understanding
I am truly greatful beyond words
Thank you brother this is what I needed !!!
This is so helpful. Thank you so much. 🙏
Thank you Tim, that was really deep. I wish we could hear your prayers at the end. I don’t feel like I’m a good prayer and I just would like to hear how people pray. Thanks again
If Jesus was in front of you, what are the things in your heart you would want to share with him. What help would you ask him for or concern. That will be a prayer.
Even in 2020, still watching.
You definitely have a God given gift and it really is a shame that we cant clone you a million times lol, I have never ever in my 49 years of life heard anyone speak with such, I dont even know I cant find the words analogy that's it, I love it love you thank you
Tim, I've never heard any Protestant Teacher that theologically comes so very close to the Theology of the Eastern Orthodox Church. You are amazing! I've been a Christian for 40 years. The last 17 years I have been Eastern Orthodox (formerly Baptist), and have found the Church to be the purest form of Biblical understanding. But your teaching is almost identical, and also adds so much clarity and understanding. THANK YOU! AND THANK YOU FOR THE BIBLE PROJECT!!!!
What's wrong with simply calling it "Catholic?"
@@La.Summer The Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church have been 2 separate churches since 1054 AD.
I struggled with doubt for over a decade, and though I've come out the other side as of a few months ago, the message about fruit of the spirit was very timely. I've had more of the slow burn. I notice just a little more patience, just a little more self control, just a little less uncontrollable anger day by day, sometimes week by week or even month by month. The holy spirit isn't a genie that instantly turned me into a saint, but he's there working and I can tell.
Jars of clay, so much treasure, Glory and Praise to our God of Justice, Love and Transformation!
Thank you for this sharing. I am so blessed. May Yahweh salvation blessed you Pastor Tim, from Indonesia.
be blessed bro thank you for you`er teaching tim love you bro
No one but Tim he’s the best I rely on him so much for clarity. The heart of the Bible is hard to get to. Only Tim makes sense to get beyond just a simple reading. God bless you!
This was absolutely amazing. I was able to understand all that you said. Thank you for sharing the Good News to help people like me.
This is amazing, your words have touched me deeply, through Jesus, I have been asking him to help me, and he brought me to this.
Best and clearest message on Galations 5:16-25 I've heard. Sent it to 3 of my pastors, as I know they would enjoy it as well. It's spot on!
Beautiful teaching that has blessed me this morning. May this teaching glorify the Lord to many and sanctify the hearts of many believers.
Thank you for your wisdom and knowledge of the word, and using it to endify others with grace!
It's beautiful how Tim empowers people and his disciples to be so immersed, thrilled and excited enough about the Bible, that they would want to really go pick the book and study it themselves to confirm, if the book is really this beautiful, than all the not so attractive way they've told or had it projected to them growing up. It's just a priceless experience.
So helpful!! Simple & practical, though it is challenging to really walk this out. The devil will lie & say God is not for us. But Jesus has given us His word that He is with us & for us, and the Spirit is the deposit guaranteeing our inheritance. Praise be to God!
Thank you for explaining this concept so clearly! 🙏
Man when he preach the gospel to yourself in those times, it really works
Much love for the word and teaching brother man
Tim u r God sent .Im so grateful hearing n learning from u .I'm sharing u with my brother n daughter.thank u for ur great teaching.God bless u
Fantastic teacher and pastor! Thank you so much for making this available to us and for sharing dr. Mackie. God bless 🙏
Tim Mackie, thank you so much gor all your insights and wisdom!!! I love listening to the truth through you
He is amazing! If only there weren’t so many miles between the possibility of an awesome fellowship!
Truly amazing explanation Tim thank you from Australia
Thank you,thank you, thank you!
Amazing !!! Thank you Tim 🙏 (delia)
This is awesome. I do find the things I tend toward being a source of extreme frustration and this really opened my eyes to a better way of seeing why that happens and what I can practically do about it. I’ve never heard it taught quite like this. Thank you.
Thank you, Tim. This has blessed me. Glory to our Savior Jesus Christ.
So 'm doing the reading plan and then I get one of these lessons in and review the videos and whatever else these people have. I'm like what am I missing all the time. But Im glad Tim said its good that you fear because its a good thing.
Beautiful 💗
God bless you Tim
So impactful!! Wow
Wonderful word! Thank you for the challenge and the encouragement
Thank you. God bless and protect you.
This ties so much together. Very good.
For the branches to produce good fruit, they have to abide with the vine constantly. The gardener will prune the branches so they can produce much fruit. Gospel of John chapter 15
Jesus is the vine, we are the branches, and the Father is the gardener who prunes us to produce more fruit 😻
With great respect teacher, it's not gas, it's plasma. Crushing together so close they become one which blasts energy off energizing photons that move throughout the layers of the plasma until there is enough energy to escape which takes 8 minutes to get to earth from our sun.
Again great respect teacher, thank you for helping me with my journey in the spirit.
Wow wow wow. Amazing stuff
Thanks so much enjoyed this as many of your video s have those woodchuck things are mentioned in groundhog Day 🥰
Thank you
"get gnarly" I love it!
Wow! Thank you!
Love this❣️
Oh gee, speaking of groundhogs, remember the ‘little foxes in the vineyard’ in the Song of Solomon.?
Being a real life gardener is such a good metaphor for our Christian growth. It can feel so backbreaking to cultivate our Christian lives.
It’s our daily struggle
Totally so good.
And that woodchuck is now famous.
someone give Tim Mackie more money
it is the FRUIT of the SPIRIT- not my fruit- but the spirit living in me= not me- just as Paul says, I die daily - i decrease and Christ increases. this is not about us doing - but allowing God to do which means laying ourselves aside and that is a process we need to lay our ego aside- and that comes with renewing our mind. and as Paul also said- I do what I don't want to do- but I do what i don't want to do - if we are grafted in- then we have to stop drawing on our own - and learn to draw from Christ.
Yep, groundhog… woodchuck, they always move in on your garden.
Are the other videos that are in the series but not available on the channel uploaded elsewhere? I really want to watch them.
Found them! For anyone else who's looking for them, just look up Door of Hope Southeast here on TH-cam. The full series is available as a playlist there.
Stay blessed and peace be with you 💙
Just wondering if some weeks are missing?? Only 3 weeks ?Not a month worth lol and then it seems like in the spirit section video played says 5 th week or whatever of this section but it is only number 2?? Just not sure if only 12 videos or where we can find missing ones?. :) enjoyed this break down so I hope to see any others?!
Thank you for sharing your time and knowledge !! Glory to GOD✝️
He is cute. Leave the critter alone! God made the food for him too
How much wood did he chuck
Thanks Tim
The word apothecary can also be interpreted as kind of a drugs/potions dealer. What are your thoughts on this?
Why were some of the sermons left out!?☹
15:25 why would a Christian teacher call it a "zen moment?"
That's your takeaway? Big shame
So, based on comments made about sex, can someone be gay and Christian? Also, are gay people who are in lovingly committed monogamous relationships not growing in the Spirit?
God made man, and God made woman. It is the DNA / chromosomes of this combination that create children..... Same-sex marriages cannot procreate in this way and thus the Bible calls them an Abomination... Hope this helps...
I would say a person who has those sexual inclinations can be most certainly be a Christian, so long as they are actively working toward not acting on them (I.e self control). But if they are in a relationship with someone of the same sex, are they not putting that person/their sexual preference before the wishes of God? If they are, then I might think they’d need to ask themselves where their allegiances truly lie
As a former homosexual and person who struggled with my sexuality. I can attest that if you make room for the spirit to work in your sexuality, he will change you. I surrender my sexuality to God, and I can attest that he does regenerate and make it knew. Its tough and its a little painful, but God's plan for my life was so much bigger than my own.
You must be gay I think 🤔
@@patriciadamons6791 How’d you guess?! What do you mean with that retort? Am I supposed to feel ashamed or something?
23:14 Ephesians 1:13 reminds me of the mark of the beast. I imagine either you have the mark of the Spirit or the mark of the beast. There is no in between.
35:40
I LOoOoOovvee Tim Mackie's teaching, BUT I finally found a serious problem with something he said. Guess it had to happen eventually.
Goodness, I don't agree with myself all the time!
But, sinful nature? Nope, a no go for me.
It's more than a little dubious that the number of followers and comments are so low on this series. Hmmmm..🙄🙄🙄 Tim's videos are so well known, and these messages are so enlightening, it just doesn't fit.
We like your Bible study in most of your subjects, but on Marriage and Divorce you failed us...pls. put emphasis on the precious Word of GOD.
He did. Just have to listen and pay attention.
"Science" (a ball of gas, the clouds, photosynthesis...) grows the fruit. No mention of God. God made the worlds. Satan calls it science. This is sad, because I was anticipating a good message here, but I have to wade through too many misconceptions to get to it. Then how good is the message really?
No cats in wisconsin? They don't want Bidens free lunch for children either. Sounds like a not very inviting state.
If sexual desire is the thing that takes a person furthest from the Divine, (and not killing people, or cruelty say), why did Jesus go out of his way to speak to the woman at the well who had had 5 husbands, and was living with another man who she wasn't married to? I know he told her to stop, and that it is potentially damaging, but it's hardly the worst thing a person can be guilty of! It appears to me that making a biological drive into the crime of the century, has just created hypocrites within the church, and beyond it. It's easy for me to not be tempted because I'm 61, and no longer have the hormones running through my body and mind, that is the craving of life's longing for, and perpetuation of life. Also, some people who have little or no sex drive don't appear any closer to Christ than a person who does. I don't feel like I'm a better human now that I'm not that interested in sex than I when I was. (Although life is a lot easier!) :)
Love is not an action nor is it a decision, love is spirit, for God is spirit, God is love, the actions of love come forth out of the spirit of love, otherwise you are simply just under the law, meaning, if I do not have love in my heart, yet I act lovingly or speak lovingly, then the law of love has come into being, I am subject to the law, so when it says I should have mercy yet I have hate but I show mercy, then I am under the law of love to produce it, yet this is not true love, this is Faith in Love, this is why Faith In God is salvation, because God's love causes you to produce what is loving at very lease in action and word by the power of faith in love, knowing what you should be doing in a situation if you do not love,
but true love is when it lives in the heart so you do this apart from the law, the law disappears and you do it out of the spirit itself, it simply produces it's fruit, this is why those who hate yet produce what is love in action and word, produce it by the power of the Holy Spirit which clothes them, however,
if one does not recognise one is not loving then they do not see the truth, because full circumcision of the heart is to be transformed into the Christ, and this image is spirit and it is found within you,
I recognised the power of God on my life to simply produce righteousness, whether I love or whether I do not it has nothing to do with my decision, it has everything to do with the power of the holy spirit in my life, the gospel is the power of God unto Salvation, this is what the scripture means, when the Christ said, the spirit will be with you and then within you, otherwise all your living in within yourself is simply the spiritual heart of a man or woman, you are living in the human spirit, this is why you suffer all these things you suffer within yourself, because they belong to the human spirit, this does not belong to the Holy Spirit, and it is this spirit that should be within you, and those who walk by Faith see this happening in their lives, from glory to glory from light to light,
as it is written, the seed grows into a great tree within you, or like yeast in dough it works it's way through the whole body, as it is written, you will not get out until you pay the last Penny, because the walk of the Christ is perfection to produce perfect Sons and Daughters of God, that they shine with the light of God, they shine with a godly holiness, this is the power of God, which so many Preacher Man fail to understand or Produce.
This guy feeds junk food to the poor woodchuck for a week and is surprised if crapped all over his car.
Long winded