Love alone carries from this life into the next. Filled with the fruit of the Spirit in love, peace and mercy we live our lives praising God for His mercy and the peace he has given in Christ Jesus. Giving that love and the knowledge of Christ back into the families and communities where we live fulfills the command of Jesus to love God and everyone else as much as we love ourselves. We may be the only hands of the compassion or the voice of God that a person experiences.
The love that Paul sought for the believers is the highest form of Christian love, based on a lasting, unconditional commitment, not on an unstable emotion. The purpose of increasing in love, controlled by knowledge, is to be able to evaluate people and situations correctly. The goal ahead for the believer is the day of Christ in which the believer will stand for evaluation before the Savior, who is the faithful and true witness. Christ died to free the church from every blemish.
Philippians 1:9-11
9 And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in knowledge and all discernment, 10 that you may approve the things that are excellent, that you may be sincere and without offense till the day of Christ, 11 being filled with the fruits of righteousness which are by Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
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