The Scriptures are spiritually discerned and cannot be grasped with a natural, carnal mind.

All teachings comes out of love

Love, Free Will and the Power of Choice

On the board this time:

To love is a choice – does it come out of your nature?

When love is your nature you stay in the chaos, the difficulty, the trial, the test – You do not avoid it, do not run from it and do not hide from it.

Matt 22:36-40: The law summed up:

To love Yah, to love you, to love your neighbor

To love me is an instruction: Don’t feel sorry for me when I disobey it.

1 Cor 12:12, Rom 12:5 One body many members

Rom 12:5

Pro 12:25

Pro 19:8

John 15:9

Rom 5:8 Sinners G264 Root1: One part of a whole Root2: G1 as a negative article.

2 Tim 1:7

John 17:11-26

Keep G5083: to guard, meta. to keep one in the state in which he is, hold fast, keep

Evil G4190: 2) bad, of a bad nature or condition

World G2889:

5) the inhabitants of the earth, men, the human family

6) the ungodly multitude; the whole mass of men alienated from god, and therefore hostile to the cause of Christ

Pro 31:12

1 Pet 1:13

Hos 4:6

Heb 5:14

WILL

– G2309 will – verb

To determine (as an active voice option from subjective impulse), that is, choose or prefer (lit. or fig.); by impl. to wish, that is, be inclined to

Fr. G138 vb.

1. To take for oneself, prefer, choose

Fr. G148 prim. vb.

To lift; by impl. to take up or away; fig. to raise (the voice); keep in suspense (the mind); spec. to sail away (that is, weigh anchor)

FREE WILL

– unconstrained and voluntary choice

– control over one’s actions

– ability characterizing man in the voluntary activity of choosing or not choosing a limited good when this is presented to him.

– ability to make decisions freely, unconstrained by external factors or determinism. Power to choose their actions independently of any pre-determined causal chain, divine, intervention, or external coercion.

POWER OF CHOICE

– G1849 – noun fem.

1. Power of choice, liberty of doing what one pleases

2. Physical and mental power

a) the ability or strength with which one is endued, which he either possesses or exercises

3. the power of authority (influence) and of right (privilege)

4. The power of rule, or government (the power of him whose will and commands must be submitted to by others and obeyed)

Fr. G1832 (in the sense of ability)

Dict. The prim. sense of the verb is to strain, to exert force