"Love in the Truth"

From: The Remembrancer: 1907

2 John 6; 1 John 5:2‑3; 3 John 1 • 1 min. read • grade level: 9

The semblance of love which does not maintain the truth, but accommodates itself to that which is not the truth, is not love according to God; it is taking advantage of the name of love in order to help on the seductions of Satan. In the last days the test of true love is the maintenance of the truth. God would have us love one another; but the Holy Ghost, by whose power we receive the divine nature, and who pours the love of God into our hearts, is the Spirit of truth, and His office is to glorify Christ. Therefore it is impassible that a love which can put up with a doctrine that falsifies Christ, or which is indifferent to anything that concerns Hisglory, can be of the Holy Ghost-still less so, if such indifference be set up as the proof of that love. Compare also 1 John 5:2, 3²By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments. ³For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous. (1 John 5:2‑3), and 2 John 6⁶And 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. (2 John 6).