----- Original Message -----
Sent: December 10, 2004 19:04
Subject: Re: [TruthTalk] Love - hot or
cold
> So then, Pete (?), what of the numerous
Newer Testament references to
> squabbles that took place between fellow
believers? Was their 'love' toward
> one another 'hot or
cold'?
Hey Lance.
I am not sure which particular instance you are
talking about, but many squabbles were because:
A) They were babes in Christ. Age has
nothing to do with being a babe in Christ. If a person has been
born again for 20 years, they can still be a babe in Christ.
Squabbles occur because they are still carnally minded.
| 1Cr 3:3 | For ye are yet carnal: for whereas [there
is] among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk
as men? |
B) Walking in the flesh and not the
spirit.
| Gal 5:19 | Now the works of the flesh are manifest,
which are [these]; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness,
lasciviousness, |
| Gal 5:20 | Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance,
emulations, wrath, strife, seditions,
heresies,
| Gal 5:21 | Envyings, murders, drunkenness,
revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told
[you] in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the
kingdom of God. |
Pete
