Do everything in Love

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Text 1 Corinthians 16:13-14 ASV

Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong. Let all that ye do be done in love.
1 Corinthians 16:13-14 AMP

Be alert and on your guard; stand firm in your faith (your conviction respecting man's relationship to God and divine things, keeping the trust and holy fervor born of faith and a part of it). Act like men and be courageous; grow in strength! [Ps. 31:24.] Let everything you do be done in love (true love to God and man as inspired by God's love for us).

Love defined ; strong positive emotion of regards and affection. Our daily life constitute of various activities. Major part of those activities are relationship based. we related with other people at home , work, neighbors, church, Market place etc .

God use people in our life to measure our love gauge. when God want to teach you how to love he will place people difficult to love or unlovable people around you. a difficult boss, nagging wife, uncaring neighbors, trouble some friend,

1. He placed Judas by Jesus, imagine having a treasurer who you know will betray you.

Matthew 26:14-16 AMP

Then one of the Twelve [apostles], who was called Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests And said, What are you willing to give me if I hand Him over to you? And they weighed out for and paid to him thirty pieces of silver [about twenty-one dollars and sixty cents]. And from that moment he sought a fitting opportunity to betray Him.

Matthew 26:25 AMP

Judas, the betrayer, said, Surely it is not I, is it, Master? He said to him, You have stated [the fact].

2. David have to minister to a difficult boss who sought to kill him. 1 Samuel 26:1-2, 4, 6, 8-9, 11-12 AMP

THE ZIPHITES came to Saul at Gibeah, saying, Does not David hide himself on the hill of Hachilah, east of Jeshimon? So Saul arose and went down to the Wilderness of Ziph, with 3,000 chosen men of Israel, to seek David [there]. David sent out spies and learned that Saul had actually come. Then David said to Ahimelech the Hittite and to Abishai son of Zeruiah, brother of Joab, Who will go down with me into the camp of Saul? And Abishai said, I will go down with you. Then said Abishai to David, God has given your enemy into your hands this day. Now therefore let me smite him to the earth at once with one stroke of the spear, and I will not strike him twice. David said to Abishai, Do not destroy him; for who can raise his hand against the Lord's anointed and be guiltless? The Lord forbid that I should raise my hand against the Lord's anointed; but take now the spear that is at his head and the bottle of water, and let us go. So David took the spear and the bottle of water from Saul's head, and they got away. And no man saw or knew or wakened, for they were all asleep, because a deep sleep from the Lord had fallen upon them.

3. Joseph's brothers were unloving.

Genesis 37:27-28, 32 AMP

Come, let us sell him to the Ishmaelites [and Midianites, these mixed Arabians who are approaching], and let not our hand be upon him, for he is our brother and our flesh. And his brothers consented. Then as the Midianite [and Ishmaelite] merchants were passing by, the brothers pulled Joseph up and lifted him out of the well. And they sold him for twenty pieces of silver to the Ishmaelites, who took Joseph [captive] into Egypt. And they sent the garment to their father, saying, We have found this! Examine and decide whether it is your son's tunic or not.

Genesis 42:7-8 AMP

Joseph saw his brethren and he recognized them, but he treated them as if he were a stranger to them and spoke roughly to them. He said, Where do you come from? And they replied, From the land of Canaan to buy food. Joseph knew his brethren, but they did not know him.

Genesis 45:1-4 AMP

THEN JOSEPH could not restrain himself [any longer] before all those who stood by him, and he called out, Cause every man to go out from me! So no one stood there with Joseph while he made himself known to his brothers. And he wept and sobbed aloud, and the Egyptians [who had just left him] heard it, and the household of Pharaoh heard about it. And Joseph said to his brothers, I am Joseph! Is my father still alive? And his brothers could not reply, for they were distressingly disturbed and dismayed at [the startling realization that they were in] his presence. And Joseph said to his brothers, Come near to me, I pray you. And they did so. And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom you sold into Egypt!

4. Abraham and Lot.

5, A child like Cain, a Absalom like son. 1 John 3:11-12 KJV

For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.  Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous.

Loving difficult people.

1. Expect to be persecuted, see persecution as a stepping stone.
John 15:20 KJV

Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.

1 John 3:13-14 KJV

Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you.  We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death.

2. Walk in Love. Ephesians 5:2 KJV

And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.

3. Ask for the help of the Holy Spirit, the Love of God is shed abroad in our heart. Romans 5:5 KJV
And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.

4. Love the Lord

1 Kings 3:3aKJV And Solomon loved the Lord , walking in the statutes of David his father:

2 John 1:6 KJV 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.

5. Pray for people in your life.

6. Forgive. Matthew 6:12, 14-15 KJV

And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.    For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:    But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

7. Don't be fault finder love covers multitude of sins.

8.Be a loving person, practise love. sow the Seed of Love. Jude 1:21 ASV keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.

1 John 3:17 KJV

But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?

There are good and great people around, pray for more of them, people around you determine what happens next , including if you will make heaven or not.