Things I knew about Love

I knew that God loves all of us. I had heard Christians tell people that "Jesus loves you." I knew God wanted to save my soul. But I didn't feel loved. People just talked about it sometimes without understanding God's love. It felt hollow and not real to me.

The "love" of the Friends and Workers

When the "workers" and "friends" told me that they loved me and were trying to help me (as I was asking questions etc), their actions contradicted the word of God. I knew this was wrong. I knew deep inside that this was not love. I felt their words were just a cover up for their real intents and beliefs. They just wanted me to shut up and to get me to obey the workers without questioning. I didn't feel loved. I didn't see evidence of their love. I didn't enjoy being around them. I became dissatisfied with the meetings when I realized that the workers were not teaching me things I needed to know. The meetings became hollow and their "spirit" did not lead me into any understanding of God.

I read the words of Jesus

After reading through the teachings of Jesus, I realized that the workers and friends did not love me. They just wanted to control me. They were breaking the commandments of God and of Jesus. I began to realize that they were not of God, because they were teaching me to disobey God, . They were just trying to manipulate me for their own pleasure to maintain their illusion about the workers. I searched the Bible and found answers to my questions. I found answers to questions I didn't even have yet.

I read the Biblical Definition of Love

There is no greater love than Jesus Christ.

Joh 15:13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

2Jn 1:5+ And now I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment unto thee, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another. And this is love, that we walk after his commandments. This is the commandment, That, as ye have heard from the beginning, ye should walk in it.

1Jn 5:3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.

Joh 14:21 He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.

1Jn 4:19+ We love him, because he first loved us. If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen? And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.