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Post by Deleted on Jul 19, 2014 2:38:29 GMT -5
WHAT IS CHARITY
It's silence when your words would hurt.
It's patience, when your neighbour's curt.
It's deafness when the scandal flows.
It's thoughtfulness for another's woes.
It's promptness when stern duty calls.
It's courage when misfortune falls.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 19, 2014 3:04:45 GMT -5
In the Greek Charity is the 3rd kind of love the bible speaks about. According to the Greek there are 3 separate kinds of love. 1) Eros - sensual intimate love. 2) Friendship love 3) Charity-(Agape) supernatural love (God-given love) When we read in 1 Corinthians 13 about what people are willing to do for love, but if there is not the God-given love, all the kindness and great things they do in Gods name is all in vain. When you try and love others with your "friendship love" thats okay, but what happens when that person says something you dont like.... then your friendship love stops (like a rev counter.. in the red, had enough) Jesus brought a different kind of love, love one another as I have loved you,... in other words, only the love that comes from above will endure all. Its when we are lacking in this God-given love that we have a struggle with forgiveness. When we love others with God-given love, we overlook others faults. Jesus God-given love was put to the test after they spat in his face, whipped him, mocked him, placed the crown of thorns on his head, nailed him to the cross .... he could then say: Father forgive them for they know not what they do. That is the test. Can it be humanly possible? The word Charity is seen when we read THE LOVE OF GOD. It is OF him, part of him, no man or woman can explain it, but only feel it and share it. This love is a conditional love, its only when we are willing to share it, God is willing to give it, and he gives us peace with it. The Greek dictionary comes up with words like care, affection, tender solitude, concern but the Latin (amour) explains it even better Felt sorrow. This love feels the pain our neighbours often know, it helps us feel a deep deep empathy down inside while others are suffering when the human love would change over to judgement and criticism. It is true that when God explains himself as I Am That (what) I Am we understand his a God whose yes is his yes, he is today the same tomorrow and keeps his word as a result and so has the glory to be called the GOD OF LOVE. So this CHARITY is OF God and not of man or in man. Maybe someone else has done some study on this. I enjoy word studies in other languages, gives me insight to help my little mind get the bigger picture.
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Post by emy on Jul 19, 2014 19:33:57 GMT -5
In the Greek Charity is the 3rd kind of love the bible speaks about. According to the Greek there are 3 separate kinds of love. 1) Eros - sensual intimate love. 2) Friendship love 3) Charity-(Agape) supernatural love (God-given love) When we read in 1 Corinthians 13 about what people are willing to do for love, but if there is not the God-given love, all the kindness and great things they do in Gods name is all in vain. When you try and love others with your "friendship love" thats okay, but what happens when that person says something you dont like.... then your friendship love stops (like a rev counter.. in the red, had enough) Jesus brought a different kind of love, love one another as I have loved you,... in other words, only the love that comes from above will endure all. Its when we are lacking in this God-given love that we have a struggle with forgiveness. When we love others with God-given love, we overlook others faults. Jesus God-given love was put to the test after they spat in his face, whipped him, mocked him, placed the crown of thorns on his head, nailed him to the cross .... he could then say: Father forgive them for they know not what they do. That is the test. Can it be humanly possible? The word Charity is seen when we read THE LOVE OF GOD. It is OF him, part of him, no man or woman can explain it, but only feel it and share it. This love is a conditional love, its only when we are willing to share it, God is willing to give it, and he gives us peace with it. The Greek dictionary comes up with words like care, affection, tender solitude, concern but the Latin (amour) explains it even better Felt sorrow. This love feels the pain our neighbours often know, it helps us feel a deep deep empathy down inside while others are suffering when the human love would change over to judgement and criticism. It is true that when God explains himself as I Am That (what) I Am we understand his a God whose yes is his yes, he is today the same tomorrow and keeps his word as a result and so has the glory to be called the GOD OF LOVE. So this CHARITY is OF God and not of man or in man. Maybe someone else has done some study on this. I enjoy word studies in other languages, gives me insight to help my little mind get the bigger picture. Not written by me Interesting. It's not a love that is possible without getting a new nature.. the divine nature. I have noticed in the "love" chapter (I Cor. 13) that at the beginning, where it tells what is of no use without charity, it's mostly the "doing" things we might think are extraordinarily great, but when it says what charity is, it's the "being" things.
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Post by kencoolidge on Jul 31, 2014 20:13:04 GMT -5
You might find an answer in some of these verses: "charity" occurs 28 times in 24 verses in the KJV. 1Co 8:1 Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth.
1Co 13:1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
1Co 13:2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.
1Co 13:3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
1Co 13:4 Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
1Co 13:8 Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
1Co 13:13 And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
1Co 14:1 Follow after charity, and desire spiritual gifts, but rather that ye may prophesy.
1Co 16:14 Let all your things be done with charity.
Col 3:14 And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.
1Th 3:6 But now when Timotheus came from you unto us, and brought us good tidings of your faith and charity, and that ye have good remembrance of us always, desiring greatly to see us, as we also to see you:
2Th 1:3 We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity of every one of you all toward each other aboundeth;
1Ti 1:5 Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned:
1Ti 2:15 Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety.
1Ti 4:12 Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.
2Ti 2:22 Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
2Ti 3:10 But thou hast fully known my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, charity, patience,
Tit 2:2 That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience.
1Pe 4:8 And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.
1Pe 5:14 Greet ye one another with a kiss of charity. Peace be with you all that are in Christ Jesus. Amen.
2Pe 1:7 And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.
3Jo 1:6 Which have borne witness of thy charity before the church: whom if thou bring forward on their journey after a godly sort, thou shalt do well:
Jde 1:12 These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
Rev 2:19 I know thy works, and charity, and service, and faith, and thy patience, and thy works; and the last to be more than the first.
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