Charity or Agape?

"I say not, charity your God and charity your neighbor; but love your God and love your neighbor."

This is when one ought to use Agape.  It's a kind of all cleansing, all enveloping love that is pure God.

One says have charity towards your neighbor because God is gracious and gives to all who love Him abundantly. So we ought to be like God and be charitable. Thus a mature love for one another as God loves us.

Agape, to me, is more self-fulfilling and less of an interrelational love. It's the kind of love God gives and receives in return, it's personal and heartfelt and works miracles but does no deed in a way that we are blessed to be able to in our bodies sharing with one another of our holiness and agape. The end result is total dependence upon God but no real interaction with fellows. You can definitely feel this love, especially when it works a miracle such as a healing, but there's no physical interaction between God's created beings...

Because we are separate, unique organisms we need to have our own personal relationship with God and a relationship with each other that reflects our relationship and love for Our Creator, and this involves charity and understanding and mutal respect. It's similar to that of the agape love we experience with God and feel within ourselves but it's fleshed out in work and good deeds that we are blessed with the priveledge of being able to act out in our mortal bodies...Charity.

This is also why I know the KJV Holy Bible to be a deified work of God's inspiration, because it never fails to use charity and love in separate and correct fashion.

 

Leave it to humanity to screw up and pervert each word so that neither eventually possesses any meaning whatsoever.

Greek does not translate Hebrew sufficiently for me. Why? I don't know.
Hebrew has a unique humility and love for God that Greek, Latin, or any other language does not possess. Hebrew was created by God. The whole language is God, not that God cannot use any language, but that is His Tongue. Tongue of Yahweh, Elohiym. "Flame language." The language feels as though it were created for the sole purpose of doing God's Will and for worshipping God. Like without God, it would not exist. While other languages seem more about understanding and even manipulating God. But God could take a broken language of a completely lost and forsaken tribe and perfect it overnight.

Greeks love a good feast, and the meaning of Agape is "lovefeast."
But Greeks don't love the Way Jews/Hebrews do until they receive Him. True Jews love the Heart of Jesus, merciful, kind, benevolent, righteous, charitable, all giving, pitiable never wanting anything for Itself, for It is always Full. Gentiles usually screw it up with a pride that is foreign to God. Even when Jesus emptied Himself to the last, He was Full. Jews love this about God but don't know how to deal in a barbaric world of selfish ignoramuses and they didn't know how to share God with others, so they tried to protect Him and eventually had to kill Him to share Him.

What Greeks or Gentiles tend not to love is obedience to the Word, they love the "love," as much as anybody but not so much the action or duty in obedience.

Jews love the Law and obedience to It and the miracles and righteousness that proceeds forth from obedience to Him.

That's why they got caught up in legalism and lost the blessing and why they were so jealous when those who were not so obedient minded received the blessing while they were rejected. All part of God's Plan...Jews forsook the Passion of Christ and the Gentiles took it gave It their own unique traditions and peculiarities...So that when it came time for the Jew to be grafted back in, Judaism was no longer the same, nor did God ever intend for Judaism to remain unchangable. God alone never changes, and His Religion, which I will not label, is Pure and Unchangable/Immutable as well.

The Jew saw and more importantly, felt his error and lamented at the loss of a pure relationship with God and the blessing.

But that is precisely how God intended to bring in His People scattered amongst every nation. "Other sheep have I..." Now we know that ALL peoples and nations and tongues belong to God and that anybody can claim Him and receive the blessing. But such a blessing cannot be received with national, racial, or religious pride. Nor can the blessing be received by unrepentant sinners.

So God remains on the outside of our relationships with one another, looking on, maybe a little sad, but patiently enduring until people are willing for their own sake as well as His to become Godly once more that He might come and dwell in their midst and love them as they will love one another with the pure"Agape" love of a newly created Child of God. As the Scriptures saith, He has "withheld His Spirit."

People don't think God listens to them and hears their individuality and need to be separate and self-sufficient. But God hears everyone with an ear that none possess and understands so much more than we are willing to. The fact is, we have never heard Him as we ought to and need to. God doesn't want your world. Your world is His whether you like it or not, and you ought to love it and Him for sharing with you without reservation His All, and that Spirit ought to be sacred not every spirit and way But His Spirit alone and His Way solely. You'll retain your individuality, and uniqueness, He made you the way you are and loves you uniquely and wants you to be part of His Plan and His Love and His Happiness. The irony is, you will surely loose who you are on a fundamental, essential level of your own understanding by rebeling against your God who is your neighbor's God and your enemy's God and God! Obedience to God's Law is the Way to self-realization and fulfilment. Keep buying the worldly version of self-fulfillment and you will lose this Gift.

It's the simplicity of the Plan that makes people scoff at It. But that is what caused everyone to Fall in the first place...

1 Nephi 13:28-29 Wherefore, thou seest that after the book hath gone forth through the hands of the great and abominable church, that there are many plain and precious things taken away from the book, which is the book of the Lamb of God.

And after these plain and precious things were taken away it goeth forth unto all the nations of the Gentiles; and after it goeth forth unto all the nations of the Gentiles, yea, even across the many waters which thou hast seen with the Gentiles which have gone forth out of captivity, thou seest?because of the many plain and precious things which have been taken out of the book, which were plain unto the understanding of the children of men, according to the plainness which is in the Lamb of God?because of these things which are taken away out of the gospel of the Lamb, an exceedingly great many do stumble, yea, insomuch that Satan hath great power over them.

Gentiles have a tendancy to think that because Jews lost the blessing, there is no need to obey the commandments or be obedient to the Word.

But they will find out differently when they watch themselves say "Thank you God for the good times." And their Jewish Brethren say "Thank you God for the honor of suffering for your sake and the sake of the Gospel."

True Israelites are Spiritual Brethren.

 

1Cr 1:21 For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.

Jesus chose the Jews and Salvation is of the Jews because they love God for who He really is not what He can do for them or what they can do thanks to Him but purely for who He is and that Spirit which He gave to them and desires to give to all.
But care for that Spirit takes a little bit of obedience, minimal really if you can become like a child. A child can run wild and keep the law, because a child doesn't have to know the Law or be told the Law, an innocent child Is the Law, just as Jesus Is.
What this Law, this God, this People, and these children have to contend with is that which would deny the Holy Spirit and curse God and die and exist only to drag others down with it, the Antichrist. This is "Agape hatred" of the Grave, that indeed needs a good "lovefeast." You may have seen it in the eyes of a "devil," and it is horrible to behold. But this lovefeast is not the love of God that produces real charity in its disciple. This agape produces a different kind of disciple, one that does not care about God, the Holy Spirit or Christ, and can barely be said to care for itself. It is duty bound, hardened by eons of cold unrelenting murder and iniquity, it knows nothing but obedience to the word kill, feed and hate. And it cannot change anymore than Jesus can.
It too has a vested interest in Jesus Christ and will protect that interest with a ferocity that Jews do not possess, nor does Christ. For this is whom Jesus warned we are to fear.
This force also wants people to believe it loves God and is loving. But 1 John tells us more about this spirit.
"There is no fear in love but perfect love drives out fear, for fear has a torment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love."
(1 John 4:18)
This spirit is so cunning it has the entire world believing in its "holidays" and that it loves God, but it does not, cannot and will not. And so many are its servants and in its awful grasp.
And what do they, must they do for relief from this beast? Crucify the Christ. They try to be "kind" about it but this is worse, as it damns and does not crucify and save...But it cannot let be, although its adherents love the song "Let It Be" they can't live what they preach, they must crucify...And just as John Lennon sang, "...there will be an answer..." Here it is, "You're wrong." Now repent and humble yourselves and it may be that that God of miracles will come home to this land and these people, and fill it with His Righteousness, that has nothing to do with how much we will ever praise Him or do good deeds or agape one another, but with the sole fact that He does what He wills and for His own Namesake, forgives His people's iniquities and cleanses their vessels, temples, hearts and souls.

Isa 58:8-14 Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the LORD shall be thy rereward.
Then shalt thou call, and the LORD shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I [am]. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity;
And [if] thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness [be] as the noonday:
And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.
And [they that shall be] of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.
If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, [from] doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking [thine own] words:
Then shalt thou delight thyself in the LORD; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken [it].