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War in the heart

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The War on Love

By Pastor DanVutha

Khmer families usually they teach their friends and neighbor that:

If you love your children don’t tell them.  The culture does not understand what it is doing to the children!  In order to teach or discipline your children, they must first know that you love them.  If you do not install your love in them, then you they will not listen to you (Heb. 13:3).  You will become as a sounding brass or a clanging cymbal (1 Cor. 13:1)).  It does not matter how well we know the Bible, how great of a preacher we may be, or if we win thousands to Jesus, if we are not letting our children know that we love them and are involved in their lives.  

The greatest of these is love (1 Corinthians 13:13): 

When people or children do not have anyone proclaiming and showing them love, then they become hopeless and can be driven to suicide.  Satan makes war in Cambodia by keeping people from expressing their love for one another; he keeps people selfish, hating, and angry.

In contrast, God shows us His love through His Son, Jesus Christ (John3:16).  I pray that all parents would know God’s love, express it to their children, and became a peace maker (Matthew 5:9) in their own homes.  Jesus is the King of peace and love, He died on the cross because our sin, and He is the first of victory.   Praise the Lord!  It is should not be difficult to express our love to our family.   We know them and know that they love us as well.  Even though it can be difficult at times, we need to press in and daily show them our love.

Loving Others:

Many times it is difficult to love the people that we do not know because of the sin in their lives.  The Bible talks about the sins that we see in other lives daily:  “adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like” (Galatians 5:18-19).  The truth is that Jesus loves those people as well.  If we do not love them, we are disobeying God.  Many times we are following Satan’s way by being unloving and selfish.  Many times we yell or sin by being angry because we don’t have love.

Love’s Command:

I remember the important command from Jesus: “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.”Luke 10:27  Rom12:15, James 2:8,Matthew 22:38-40, Deuteronomy 6:5.”  If you don’t love the bad people or neighbors, the Bible to tells us we that we could not love God (1 John4:20).  Since God loves us; we also should walk in newness of life (Rom6:4).  To be successful in the war against love, we need to live by example of Jesus.  By His example, we are to lay down our lives for the brethren (1John 3:16).

God bless you for reader! 

This article was tanslated into Englishby Pastor Dan Vutha

and edited by Lewis S. Burke III from Pastor Vutha's Khmer blogspot.

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