LOVE vs. LOVE.
A few months ago The Ruach HaKodesh revealed a
massively important Spiritual key to me and HE has been building on this
revelation ever since. I have shared this revelation with a few fellow
believers and now I believe it is time to share it with The Body for their
inspection and hopefully for personal application and edification.
This key is in my opinion one of the most important
that I have been shown in years and in accordance with my calling to prepare
the way for those to come it, this key, is thus absolutely paramount in our
walk with YHWH and especially in these end days, in fact I would go so far as
to say that if we are not given this key we will not survive what is coming!
This key dear reader is about the very essence
of WHO YHWH our Elohim, our Abba, King, Shepherd and Saviour is (Is. 9:1-7 as fulfilled in Mat.
4:12-17) – this key is LOVE!
1 John 4:8 “The one who does not love (G25 – Agapaō) does not know Elohim, for Elohim is love (G26 – Agapé).
Just to fill in a few
blanks gaps as to how this revelation was reached I need firstly to sketch the
back ground:
For a few years now
The Ruach has been drawing my attention to Scriptures such as Ex. 3:7-8; Deut. 6:4-6; Jer. 29:11-14; Matt.
22:36-40 which all lay
emphasis on a total commitment to seeking, serving, praying, obeying YHWH. As
much as I was trying to apply these values to the best of my understanding but
at the same time incorporating my understandings to my dealings with both YHWH
and my fellow man I was continually being told that I was not sensitive enough
towards people.
In defence to these statements I was doing the best
that I could but it was just not possible for me to “evoke” or “inspire” these
feelings and sensitivities. The more I tried the more I floundered, the more I
floundered the more direct and insensitive I seemed to become.
This came to a head about 4 or so months ago so I
isolated myself and sought YHWH with all my heart, soul and might – I could
just not be what most people expected me to be – it seemed I was woefully lacking
in the application of the “weightier matters of The Torah”! Matt. 23:23.
It was at this time that I was told by The Ruach to go
and study the LOVE spoken of in 1 Cor. 13 and Eph. 5 regarding the marriage.
My initial entry into the Scriptures showed me that
the LOVE spoken of in 1 Cor. 13 (Charity
in the 1611 KJV) was the Greek word listed in the Strongs as G26 – Agapé whereas the
LOVE spoken of in Eph. 5:22-33 came from the
Strongs G25 – Agapaō.
There are three primary
Greek words used to denote love, loved, brotherly love, kiss, affection,
friends and so forth in the Brit Chadasah and these words are:
G25 – Agapaō – used 36 times and
is primarily used to show LOVE in a social or moral way in other words it
can be devoid of all emotions – it is an application of what is socially or
morally correct in regards the recipient.
G26 – Agapé – used 77 times and
is derived from G25 – Agapaō and incorporates LOVE that is balanced
between both affection and benevolence towards the recipient.
G5368 - Phileō - used 26 times and
is used to show LOVE that is based on affection, feelings for somebody or
something because of a personal attachment to the “recipient” of this LOVE. The
difference between G25 – Agapaō & G5368 – Phileō can then be
described as such: An Agapaō action towards a recipient is governed by
the “head” – Legal framework, whereas a Phileō action towards a
recipient is governed by the “heart” – emotional/sentimental.
Taking the above explanations
into consideration we are now able to see that the G26 – Agapé action
when directed towards a recipient is governed by both the “head”
and the “heart”.
From these words
there are other Greek derivatives such as G5367 – Phylautos (lovers); G5359 – Philadelpheia (brotherly love) and
others, but for this discussion we shall stick to the three listed above.
If we now go back to 1 John 4:8 quoted above we see
that the LOVE expected from YHWH regarding us is G25 – Agapaō (the
more legal and socially moral application of an action described as LOVE) whereas
the LOVE WHICH IS YHWH is described as is G26
– Agapé (the more balanced legal as well as emotional and
sentimental LOVE).
Thus as stated in
the Strongs – The G26 AGAPĒ LOVE
attributed to YHWH’s very being and essence FLOWS OUT OF AN INITIAL APPLICATION
OF G25 AGAPAŌ LOVE!
Do we understand what that implies then?
WE CANNOT
HAVE AGAPĒ LOVE WITHOUT FIRST APPLYING AGAPAŌ THROUGH REBIRTH IN MESSIAH!
If the statement directly above is correct then when
turning to the promises of Scripture, Scriptures such as John 14:15-17 which states that if we LOVE (G25 – Agapaō) YESHUA
WE WILL KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS – then HE, Yeshua will ask the Father to give us
HIS Ruach of Truth – thus in the light of the above statement we see the promise of the very presence of The Father
Himself enabling and empowering us to walk in His Ruach, His Love, His Truth must
begin with a conscious decision on our behalf to OBEY HIS TORAH!
I would suggest that
for a human, without Divine intervention, to be able to perfectly balance both
the legal and emotional to the satisfaction of our Elohim would be impossible;
in fact we are told in Rom. 8:1ff that works
done in the FLESH cannot please our Elohim; so if we could apply G26 – Agapé
LOVE, the LOVE of the Father HIMSELF without HIM then we would
achieve His perfect LOVE in AND THROUGH the flesh by our own application and
balancing of emotions and legalism!! In other words by our own self-induced and
ordered works (Eph. 2:8-10).
To prove that we cannot please YHWH by balancing His Legalism and His Compassion to us we can turn to Eph. 5:1-2 when as Elohim’s Children we are to be followers
of Elohim – HOW? BY WALKING IN LOVE (G25 – OBEDIENCE TO LEGAL AND MORAL PRECEPTS)
as MESSIAH DID when HE, in LOVE (G26 – THE PERFECT BALANCING OF LOVE) HAD HIS
SACRIFICE MADE PERFECT AND ACCEPTABLE TO YHWH OUR ELOHIM through his
application of the Torah throughout His life on earth and then submitting to
the perfect will of His Father.
We are all created equal but yet we are all unique –
we will have left brained people, we will have right brained and all those in-between
BUT the perfect balance can only be achieved by Divine intervention of The
Ruach of YHWH. We have all been equipped by YHWH to complete our individual
tasks on His Temple (His Living Temple made of Living stones – that would be us) here on
earth in and through Covenant with Him through Yeshua – each has a unique and
different task in His Body and thus we are all different as well!
I am hoping to get more out on this most important
subject later, but for now I will leave things here, as we have preparations to
make for our Shabbat, BUT please just have a look at Col. 1:4 & 8 when we read of the perfect love that the Colossians have portrayed for the Body in this portion of Scripture we should note that G26 (the perfect Divine Love Of YHWH, is the LOVE presented - NOT G25 OR G 5368 - the emotional almost effeminate love we see portrayed in the professing Body of Messiah today.
It is my hope that you may find time this Shabbat to do a
study on this fascinating revelation and if you do you may want to have a look
for example at examples of G25 in Scriptures such as Eph. 5:2; Eph. 5:25, 28, 33; Eph.
6:4.
Or the use of G26 as used in Eph. 4:15 and
2 Thes. 2:10 (a very important Scripture which
illustrates why people who refuse to accept this LOVE – G26 – from YHWH will
perish – in other words it (G26) is there for the taking if we will just
accept it –BUT remember you cannot get G26 LOVE
without first applying G25!)
Finally we may want to pray and ask Yeshua in accordance
with John 14:15-30 to please pray to Abba to
give us His RUACH OF TRUTH IF WE ARE OBEYING HIS COMMANDMENTS TO THE BEST OF
OUR ABILITIES!
As things start to really
hot up here in Southern Africa and we see the demise of the worldly systems as we have know them until now happening around us: As we watch the advance of the Chinese and much more I am starting to understand
what Abba told Zanja and I when we last came back from Zambia – “We
have seen the beginning of the Tribulation and none of us will make it!"
I am only now starting to see the significance of that Word, and indeed unknown to us we may very well have seen something in Zambia and not recognised it for what it was because it is now reported that
Zambia has now been taken over almost entirely by China!
Using our own strength and knowledge to try and with stand these coming trials will results in us not making it - WE NEED THE G26 LOVE OF YHWH, THE VERY ESSENCE OF YHWH OUR ELOHIM HIMSELF TO STRENGTHEN AND EMBOLDEN US TO COMPLETE THE TASK AT HAND!
Brothers and Sisters we will need to learn how to walk by FAITH (Obedience to His Revealed Word) in these
times, our own knowledge has been so tainted by what we have lived in in the world that we cannot even recognise His Kingdom if it stood before us. Please accept that we will lose pensions, salaries, medical aids, home etc. Our loved ones will turn against us - so if we attempt by our own design and desires to keep these "comforts/idols" we will become complete and total slaves to the Beast's System of
authority and loose everything. Mark 8:31-38.
Persecution is coming, in fact it may have already arrived we just may not recognise it yet!
Once again please read and
check out what I have said with the Word and in prayer because I too am trying
to just find my way home.
Shabbat shalom
Bo’az
Bondservant of Messiah
Yeshua and our Elohim.
