OPC'n
Puritan Board Doctor
Even Satan believes Jesus is Lord and that He was raised from the dead which if we believe these things we will be saved (Rom 10:9). Satan knows the whole of the Bible is God's truth. The rich man who died and went to hell and begged to be brought back to earth to warn his family knew all of God's truths were true, yet he was denied this bc he was told they wouldn't believe anyway.
It's not enough to believe God's truths are true. One has to love them.....Love Him with all their hearts or they are a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal, they are nothing, and they gain nothing (1 Cor 13).
I know so many who know Rom 10:9 is true (anyway they say they know it's true), but they find nothing wrong with sexual immorality etc. True salvation given to us as a gift is love for God and His commandments, the putting off of sinful living, fighting the good fight, hating sin bc it's opposite of what God is. Loving the fact that He is just and righteous and holy which shows us how precious His grace and mercy is.
Satan hates these things and everything else about God as do unbelievers who still profess Christ.
"When they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I love you.” He said to him, “Feed my lambs.” 16 He said to him a second time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I love you.” He said to him, “Tend my sheep.” 17 He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time, “Do you love me?” and he said to him, “Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you.” Jesus said to him, “Feed my sheep."
Psalms 119:97 "Oh how I love your law! It is my meditation all the day."
Psalms 119:165 "Great peace have those who love your law; nothing can make them stumble."
1Cor 13:1 "If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.
4 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant 5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. 7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. 11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. 12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known."
13 So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
Matt 22:37 “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. 38 This is the great and first commandment. 39 And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. 40 On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”
This is what I've been thinking about tonight. It's something we all know to be true, and tonight I just wanted to write it out loud bc I love this truth about our God.
It's not enough to believe God's truths are true. One has to love them.....Love Him with all their hearts or they are a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal, they are nothing, and they gain nothing (1 Cor 13).
I know so many who know Rom 10:9 is true (anyway they say they know it's true), but they find nothing wrong with sexual immorality etc. True salvation given to us as a gift is love for God and His commandments, the putting off of sinful living, fighting the good fight, hating sin bc it's opposite of what God is. Loving the fact that He is just and righteous and holy which shows us how precious His grace and mercy is.
Satan hates these things and everything else about God as do unbelievers who still profess Christ.
"When they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I love you.” He said to him, “Feed my lambs.” 16 He said to him a second time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I love you.” He said to him, “Tend my sheep.” 17 He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time, “Do you love me?” and he said to him, “Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you.” Jesus said to him, “Feed my sheep."
Psalms 119:97 "Oh how I love your law! It is my meditation all the day."
Psalms 119:165 "Great peace have those who love your law; nothing can make them stumble."
1Cor 13:1 "If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.
4 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant 5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. 7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. 11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. 12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known."
13 So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
Matt 22:37 “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. 38 This is the great and first commandment. 39 And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. 40 On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”
This is what I've been thinking about tonight. It's something we all know to be true, and tonight I just wanted to write it out loud bc I love this truth about our God.
