Evangelist R.B.T Masango

What is LOVE?

This doctrine has been misintepreted by many preachers out of ignorance. We want to see what Love is. For you will hear some saying, " i have love because i give to the poor, clothe them, feed them, etc. Some say they have love because they share with their neighbours. According to the Scriptures, the Holy Spirit will reveal to us, the meaning of Love and how it works and the testament in which it began to operate.
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Many people associate Love with the Old Testament, put simply, that Love was present in the Old Testament 😅. However if we are to read the scriptures soberly we shall understand that Love was absent in the O/t and was soon to be Revealed in the fulness of times. The Love that we hear of in the Old Testament, was just a shadow of the Real love to be manifested by the Lamb of God!
🆚️Hosea 3:1
[1]Then said the LORD unto me, Go yet, love a woman beloved of her friend, yet an adulteress, according to the love of the LORD toward the children of Israel, who look to other gods, and love flagons of wine.
The Drama that was played between Hosea and Adulteress is shadow of Christ and the Church. So we shall see that the Drama there was revealing how Christ should suffer in the flesh and hence purchase the Church from the prison of Death in the fulness of times. So the Love prescribed in the Old testament is not the Real love but a shadow of the Real love to be manifested in due course! Saka tingati paiva neRudo here muO/t??? The answer is no.
Let us read the following scriptures John 1 vs 45, John 5 vs 45, Acts 26 vs 22, Luke 24 vs 44, Romans 1 vs 1 to 2, We shall see that The Old testament is a shadow of the New Testament and thus it was written concerning Jesus Christ who is the True and Everlasting God. Saka Love iye yatinoverenga yanga iripo between Elkanah and Hannah, Isaac and Rebbeca, Abraham and Sarah, etc it was not the true love. The True and Real love was to manifest in the fulness of times when the process of the Cross is effected. So before the Cross no one had the love of God in him! For all had sinned and were disconnected from Christ, thus Divorce! - so as a result of sin, the Church was divorced by Christ and thus kept and shut under the Husband law which was a school master to bring the CHURCH TO GOD( Galations 3 vs 21 to 25). Therefore due to Spiritual death, the Love of God did not have anywhere to lay its head, therefore there was need for the Godliness mystery to be fulfilled where the Word of God becomes flesh and dwells among men and not in men ( 1 Timothy 3 vs 16)😅.
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Romans 5:12
[12]Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:👇👇👇
Therefore no one was righteous, and thus no man had the LOVE of GOD in him. Therefore the only way that could Reconcile the Church to its Husband was through the Laying down of the lamb's life according to the scripture. Without the Ultimate sacrifice, haa it mearnt that no one would receive the Love of Jesus Christ.
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1 John 3:16
[16]Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

John 3 vs 16 sayeth that God loved the World and he gave his only begotten son! Mm so this is how the Love of God was manifested 👉 he gave his only Son to be offered as the ULTIMATE offering once and for all( Hebrews 10 vs 10), that the sin of the World may be taken away. So the love of God was seen through the lamb laying down its life and this mearnt that through this Sacrifice, the Love of God would be shed abroad in our hearts as the Word of God is preached unto us( Romans 10 vs 13 to 17).
So before the Cross there is no love yet. Love is a New Testament DOCTRINE that came through Jesus Christ.
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So what is love?
Is it to feed the poor? Is it to provide shelter to the homeless? Is it to cook food for neighbours? K*k let us see what love is 👇👇👇

1 Corinthians 13:1-3
[1]Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
[2]And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.
[3]And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.

According to the scriptures, it is now revealed that Love is not sharing with the poor or giving to the needy k*k. It is not giving clothes to the naked. But the Love of God is beyond that! It is far greater than what people think Love is. feeding the poor etc is not love but are called WORKS OF FAITH( GALATIONS 2 VS 20ff). Saka unogona kutofunga kuti Urikuita rudo yet usina kana Rudo wena.

So what/ WHO IS LOVE?
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1 Corinthians 13:8
[8]Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.

The term charity there means Love if read from a KJV version. Love never fails! So it means Love is Everlasting and it lives forever!
If love lives forever, then it means we would then behold on that which endureth forever. All things on earth will perish, but we hear of the Endurance of Love as being everlasting( never fail)!
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1 Peter 1:25
[25]But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.

Do we see now who love is? Love is JESUS CHRIST, the Word of GOD personified. When we are talking about Love, we are talking about Christ. LOVE is God himself and no man has the love of God if the process of the preaching of the Gospel of Christ has not yet been done. The Love of God is the Gospel and hakuna anoti aneRudo iye asina kutenda muEvhangeri yaKristo Jeso. And RUDO rwacho runoitwa zvekuparidzwa. Kureva kuti kana uchiti ndinoda hama yangu, zvinofanira kuperera mukushumirwa kweEvhangeri. Hama yako inogona kutodya magwinya, asi kana isina kuparidzirwa vhangeri haa hapana zvaitwa. Bestowing your goods to feed the poor and not preaching the Gospel to that man, is pure hatred. Rudo haruwoneki nekupa varombo, kana kuvaka zvikoro, haa kana kutaura in tongues or kufambira vamwe mujere or hospital! This is not love.
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1 John 4:8-12
[8]He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
[9]In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.
[10]Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
[11]Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
[12]No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.

love is God. The Word of God is love and we are saved through this LOVE.

GLORY TO JESUS CHRIST

Evangelist Masango