In this introduction I will give a short summary of what this book on love is all about. It is obviously about love but it is love as you may never have seen it before. We will begin by going back to the old Law worship and look at God's earthly dwelling place. You may wonder what the tabernacle and temple have to do with Christian love but it will soon become apparent.
Under the old covenant and its Law, God had Moses build the tabernacle as His dwelling place among His people. They were to offer their sacrifices and worship Him at that place. God gave Moses the plan for that dwelling while He was on the mountain. It was to have two holy rooms. Those rooms were separated by an inner veil of many colors. The inner room was called the Holy of Holies. The outer room was called the holy place. God sat enthroned within the inner room as the priesthood served (daily) in the outer room. One day each year, the high priest was to enter through the veil into the inner room to present atonement blood for God's people. The other priests could only serve in the outer room holy place. They were to tend the lamps and the table of unleavened bread and offer incense before the inner veil.
The tabernacle would later be replaced with the temple in Jerusalem but its basic design and worship requirements were unchanged from what God had commanded for the tabernacle. Worship at either location was to comply with what the Law of Moses specified. God's house was the place selected by God for His name to dwell and sacrifices were only to be offered where His name dwelled. They were to honor that holy place.
The Hebrew writer tells us that the Law was weak and useless (Hebrews 7:18). In chapter 10, he tells us that the Law had only a shadow of the good things that were coming and those sacrifices could never make the ones who drew near (to God), perfect. He says that "it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins" (verse 4). Later, he will say that the offering by Jesus has perfected for all time those who are sanctified.
If the old Law sacrifices could never remove the sins of God’s people but the sacrifice that Jesus made did accomplish that, why did God ever require those old sacrifices? What reason would God have had for that old worship with their sacrifices? Was it given for our instruction?
Was not the old shadow copy telling me that I must do what Moses was commanded when God said His people were to seek Him at the place where He would choose "to establish His name there for His dwelling" (Deuteronomy 12:5)? God told them that was where they were to bring their burnt offerings and sacrifices.
Is the Hebrew writer telling us that old worship was an earthly copy of our spiritual worship? After telling how Jesus has become our perfect High Priest (chapter 7) he tells us that Jesus has taken His seat by the Father in the true tabernacle pitched by the Lord (Hebrews 8:1-2). He then tells how those priests served a copy and shadow of heavenly things (verse 5).
In chapter 9, the Hebrew writer tells us about the old tabernacle design and worship and he ties it to our worship. In verse 8, he tells us that the Holy Spirit is telling how the way in (into the holy place) was not made known while the old still stood. He says that it "is a symbol for the present time". The present time is the Christian age. Is the old earthly way showing us the shadow of our spiritual worship under our new covenant?
He then says that “when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things to come, He entered through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation” (verse 11). He says that “Christ did not enter a holy place made with hands, a mere copy of the true one, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us” (verse 24). Jesus entered through the true holy place. If He has taken His seat in the true tabernacle, the old tabernacle was not the true one; it was “a mere copy of the true one”.
The old priesthood served in a holy place that was a "mere copy" of the true holy place. Jesus has not entered through the copy. If He is now seated by the Father in the true tabernacle, He is in the true Holy of Holies. The true Holy of Holies is in heaven. He is in the presence of the Father serving as our mediator. That old priesthood was serving a copy and shadow of heavenly things. Jesus did the real thing. He has entered through the veil into the Father’s presence and we have “a hope both sure and steadfast and one which enters within the veil, where Jesus has entered as a forerunner for us” (Hebrews 6:19-20).
If Jesus is serving in the Holy of Holies of the true tabernacle, where is the outer room and who is serving there? The old copy tells us that God's priests are to serve daily in that room. Peter tells us that we are living stones in a spiritual house and a holy priesthood offering spiritual sacrifices (1 Peter 2:5) and he says that we are, "A royal PRIESTHOOD" (1 Peter 2:9).
Is not the church on earth the outer room holy place of God's house and are we not the priesthood serving in that outer room? We serve before the veil of the flesh of Jesus leading to the inner room where we hope to go some day ("we have confidence to enter the holy place by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way which He inaugurated for us through the veil, that is, His flesh" - Hebrews 10:19-20).
As we serve in that outer room we are tending the lights (Is that not our brethren - "You are the light of the world" - Matthew 5:14?) and tending the spiritual bread of the body of Christ (Again, our brethren - 1 Corinthians 5:7) and offering spiritual incense (our prayers - Revelation 5:8). We are to offer our spiritual incense and pray for all people including our enemies but we are especially to pray for the saints ("be on the alert with all perseverance and petition for all the saints" - Ephesians 6:18).
Paul tells us more about the true spiritual house of God of the new covenant. He said that, "you are a temple of God" and "the Spirit of God dwells in you" and "the temple of God is holy, and that is what you are" (1 Corinthians 3:16-17). The Holy Spirit is given to those who obey God (Acts 5:32). God's Spirit dwells in His temple. It dwells in the bodies of the saints. He has placed His name in that holy place.
Just as that old priesthood served in the outer room tending the lamps and table of bread and the incense altar, we are to serve daily in the true outer room of the body of Christ (the church) serving one another. The outer room is holy and we must care for God's holy place. We must serve in the outer room but we must also offer our sacrifices before the new house of God. Paul tells us to "present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship" (Romans 12:1). We are members, one of another, and we must give up self to serve as a part of the body. We must "Be devoted to one another in brotherly love; give preference to one another in honor" (verse 10). I must respect and honor the holy place where God's Spirit dwells and lay down my life for the brethren.
God gave that old earthly worship to Moses as a copy of the coming spiritual worship. The old worship copy did not just happen. Jesus made it happen. Jesus was the one who spoke through Moses. John tells us that the Word was in the beginning and He (the Word) was with God and He was God (John 1:1-3). Through Him (Jesus) all things came into being. Jesus is the Word of God from the beginning and He was and is the creator of all things. The inspired word that gave Moses instructions for the old worship came from Jesus. Peter tells us it was the Spirit of Jesus that spoke through the prophets to tell of His sufferings and the glories to follow (1 Peter 1:11). Jesus spoke through Moses to create that old worship as a shadow of what was to come.
Jesus spoke of His body being a temple that, if destroyed, He would raise it up in three days (John 2:19-21). His body has been raised up. The church has been brought into His temple body. Jesus laid down His life to create that new house of God. The Master carpenter built God's house with the wood and the nails of the cross.
It sounds like God brought about that old worship as an earthly copy of what is spiritual for us. That almost sounds like Jesus is speaking to us in a parable. We heard the Hebrew writer tell us that the old way of how the high priest entered into the inner room "is a symbol for the present time". The Greek wording says it is a "parable" for the present time. Does God have a different definition of what a parable is? That old Hebrew worship was not a fictional story. It really happened. Did He make that old worship happen as an earthly copy of what applies to us, spiritually?
Was Jesus telling us about that when He spoke to the woman at the well? She asked about worship and about the Jews requiring that worship be done in Jerusalem (the temple). Jesus told her that the time had come to worship the Father in spirit and truth (John 4:23), not at some earthly location. Jesus said those words while the old was still in effect. He is the creator and He had put that old worship into effect some fifteen hundred years earlier. He knew when He put it into effect that it would be replaced with a spiritual worship.
Remember, Peter tells us that the Spirit of Jesus spoke through the prophets to tell of Christ's sufferings and the glories to follow. When He spoke through Moses, He made that old worship happen as a copy and shadow of what was to come with the reality. The reality is a God of love that was willing to accept the cross and sacrifice Him-Self for the house where God has placed His name. He tells us to take up our cross and follow Him. We will give account for how we treat His holy place.
Paul once spoke of our being set free from the old Law commandments and said, "do not turn your freedom into an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another" (Galatians 5:13). If my brother is in need of anything, I am to serve him and minister to him. Jesus will remember those who love His dwelling place. Is that what Jesus is telling us when He describes judgment?
Have you ever looked closely at how Jesus described judgment in Matthew, chapter 25? He speaks of how He will come in glory and sit on His throne to judge the nations. He will separate those before Him to the right and to the left, putting the righteous ones on the right and the evil ones on the left. Notice what Jesus will say to the righteous with regard to the reason they are blessed of the Father and will be given eternal life. Jesus will say, "Come, you who are blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. For I was hungry, and you gave Me something to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave Me something to drink; I was a stranger, and you invited Me in - - -". He will continue to speak of those works of love that they had done for Him and when they question having done those things for Him He will tell them, "Truly I say to you, to the extent that you did it to one of these brothers of Mine, even the least of them, you did it to Me". Those on the left will be damned for not having done those works of love for Him because they did not do them for His brothers.
The scriptures repeatedly tell us we are justified by faith in Jesus and not by works. Why does Jesus tell us that He will pass judgment on those before Him based on the works of love done for His brothers if we are not justified by works?
Paul helps answer that question when he writes about love and faith and spiritual gifts. He said that if he had them all (including faith) "but do not have love, I am nothing" (1 Corinthians 13:1-13). He tells us that love, "does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered". He ends with, "But now faith, hope, love, abide these three; but the greatest of these is love". Love is greater than faith so true faith must believe in love. Faith without love is nothing.
Can we see more about our obedience requirements when we hear Paul describe judgment in 2 Thessalonians, chapter 1? Paul spoke of the day "when the Lord Jesus will be revealed from heaven with His mighty angels in flaming fire, dealing out retribution to those who do not know God and to those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus". Paul says that Jesus will pass judgment based on knowing God and gospel obedience. It appears that, somehow, knowing God and obeying the gospel includes doing works of love for the brothers of Jesus. How can that be?
Knowing God means we must listen to His word and love one another:
1 John 4
6 We are from God ; he who knows God listens to us ; he who is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error. 7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. 8 The one who does not love does not know God, for God is love.
Knowing God means that we must know love because God is love. Knowing Him also requires that we listen to His word as it tells us about our requirement to love one another. God is love and we must believe in love to become a son of our God of love. God's sons listen to Him and obey Him and they know Him because they are born of Him.
In the verses that follow, John will write that love is seen in God sending His Son and "if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another" and "if we love one another, God abides in us, and His love is perfected in us". We can see love when we see the cross of Jesus. Because He loved us that much, we "ought" to love one another also.
The word "ought" comes from the Greek word "opheilo". When we look up that word in Strongs Definitions, we see that it means to "be in debt for". Is Jesus telling us (through John) that gospel obedience requires that we pay our new debt of love? Jesus paid our old debt for sin and He has forgiven us of that great debt (if we have made Him LORD) but we now owe the debt of love to our brothers. That sounds like Paul telling us to, "Owe nothing to anyone except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law" (Romans 13:8). We must pay our debt of love to fulfill the Law.
The Law demanded that they offer their sacrifices at God’s house, the place that God chose for His name to dwell. I am to fulfill the Law and bring my sacrifices of love to that holy place. I must hear Moses say, “But you shall seek the LORD at the place which the LORD your God will choose from all your tribes, to establish His name there for His dwelling, and there you shall come” (Deuteronomy 12:5). God has established His name at His dwelling place, the church. That is where I am to bring my sacrifices.
Is that why He will tell those on the right that they will have eternal life because of their works of love for His brothers? Will they have obeyed the gospel of love? The ones who do not listen to His voice and love others do not know God. They will see His vengeance when He comes in flaming fire.
When Paul spoke of our gospel obedience and said that "if we have become united with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection", he included our being crucified with Him (Romans 6:4-6). We can't be raised up as a new body in Christ if the old body of sin was not put to death. We must die to self and live for Him. We do that by living for His brothers.
If we obey Him and pay our debt, God abides in us and His love is perfected in us. The one who does not listen to His voice and love others does not know God. The ones who do not know God are the ones that Paul said will see His vengeance when He comes in flaming fire.
The gospel means "good news". The gospel is the news of the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus (1 Corinthians 15:1-6). It is the good news that Jesus gave us when He said, "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life" (John 3:16). Our good news is that He died for us. My response is that I must believe in Him.
In another John 3:16, John says that we know love by this, "that He laid down His life for us; and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. But whoever has the world's goods, and sees his brother in need and closes his heart against him, how does the love of God abide in him? Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue, but in deed and truth" (1 John 3:16-18). This is a different response to the same gospel message. Or is it the same response? If we really believe in Jesus, we will believe that He will keep His promises. He promises to reward those who will have obeyed Him and offered their sacrifices of love at the place where His name dwells. The name of God dwells in His holy place. It dwells in my brother in Christ. I "ought" to pay my debt and lay down my life at the holy place where God's name dwells.
I must love and serve at the place where His name dwells:
Hebrews 6
10 For God is not unjust so as to forget your work and the love which you have shown toward His name, in having ministered and in still ministering to the saints.
We show love toward His name by ministering to the saints. I am to carry my cross and offer my sacrifices before the house where God has chosen for His name to dwell and serve my brother in Christ. If my brother is in need of anything I am to serve him. Jesus will remember those who love His dwelling place. Will He not mention it in judgment?
That old worship was never intended as the true worship. It was only the earthly copy that God caused to happen for our instruction. The old covenant had a Law and worship that could never bring the perfection necessary for man to be able to draw near to God but it does show us the true way home. Remember, it was a "symbol" for the present time. We must go by way of the cross, the way of love. We are to serve Him daily in the true holy place. The outer room is holy and we must love and honor His holy place.
We asked that question, previously. How can it be that knowing God and obeying the gospel relate to our doing works of love for the brothers of Jesus? We have seen how the gospel message is the good news of how Jesus carried a cross for His brothers. Obedience to that gospel requires one to also carry a cross. We must carry a spiritual cross and lay down our life for those same brothers. Is that not why John wrote about how God's love was shown when He laid down His for us and we "ought" to lay down our lives for the brethren? Must we do it by loving them "in deed and truth"? If we give them food when they are hungry and water when they are thirsty and do anything else for them in their time of need, will we not be obeying the gospel of love?
If we obey the gospel of love and pay our debt by helping those who are in need, God promises to reward us. We must pay our debt of love so as to please the Father and not man. Jesus tells us that when we give to the poor, we must do it in secrete so that our reward will come from the Father and not from men (Matthew 6:1-4). If we have been obedient to the Father, Jesus tells us that “I am coming quickly, and My reward is with Me, to render to every man according to what he has done” (Revelation 22:12).
Paul received support from the Philippians (Philippians 4:15 -19) and he told them that he did not seek that gift itself, “but I seek for the profit which increases to your account”. They were laying up treasure in heaven. Their gifts were “increasing” profit to their account. Jesus said that we will be rewarded according to what we have done. He said that it will come to those who are not seeking glory by being seen of men but by God. Paul told them that what they had given to him was “a fragrant aroma, an acceptable sacrifice , well-pleasing to God”.
When Paul spoke of the day when Jesus will be revealed in flaming fire, he spoke of the affliction they were enduring and said how “it is only just for God to repay with affliction those who afflict you”. The ones on the left will include some who will have afflicted His brothers. Some of them will have afflicted His brothers and others will have just ignored them.
Remember, the rich man ignored Lazarus and let him starve at his gate (Luke, chapter 16). He later found himself in torment. In the same way, Jesus will tell those on the left that they are condemned for not having done those works of love for Him when they did not do them for His brothers. They will not have known God or obeyed the gospel of love because God is Love and they will not have known love. Our first love must be for the Lord. We must show our love with our obedience. We must obey Him and love all people so that we may be God’s sons but we must especially love His brothers, His holy dwelling place.
Paul tells us that “while we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, and especially to those who are of the household of the faith” (Galatians 6:10). We must love the brethren if we are to have eternal life. We can know who the brethren are because it is those who are of faith in Jesus who have been clothed in the Firstborn Son that are the sons of God and that includes both male and female (Galatians 3:26-29). It includes Christian wives and husbands.
Christian husbands and wives, when you look at one another, you are beholding God’s holy place. When two young single Christians are dating one another, they must show respect for each other because each is in the presence of God’s holy place. We will give account for how we have honored and served at God’s holy place.
Jesus once said, “A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you, that you also love one another” (John 13:34). He loved us enough to die for us. We are to take up our cross and follow Him. As we heard John say, “We know love by this, that He laid down His life for us; and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren”.
That commandment is new because it is the command to love the body of Christ upon which the Spirit of God has been poured out. Under the old covenant, God’s Spirit was not present in the outer room, except when it was dedicated and His glory cloud filled that room. The priests could not serve in that room until the cloud was lifted. His Spirit has now been poured out in the true outer room. It dwells in the room where the priesthood now serves daily.
We must love His brothers like Jesus loved them and lay down our lives for them. When He said that we were to take up our cross and follow Him, was He not telling us to follow Him in laying down our life for the brethren? We "ought" to lay down our lives for the brethren and love them "in deed and truth" (with our works of love). As John said (in 1 John 3:17) if we see a brother in need and have the means to help but refuse, "how does the love of God abide in him"? Love is the way home to the Father of love. If His love does not abide in us, we will not enter.
Paul tells us that we are saved by grace, through faith and not by works but he then added that we have been created "in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them" (Ephesians 2:8-10). We have been created in Him to do His works of love. The price of that creation work was the cross of Jesus. If I fail to do the works that He created me for, will He have done His creation work for me in vain?
We heard Paul say that love is greater than faith and that if I have all faith without love, I am nothing. We also heard John say that we "ought" to show love for our brothers by loving them "in deed and truth". We must love them with our works of love. James said something like that in chapter 2, of his letter. He tells us that if we see a brother or sister in need and do not give them "what is necessary for their body" what good will it be (verses 15-16). He says that, "Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead, being by itself". He says that "faith without works is useless". He had previously said that "Pure and undefiled religion in the sight of our God and Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world" (James 1:27). We need to practice pure religion.
We can see an example of pure religion when we look back at the first century church in Jerusalem. Christians that had possessions of lands were willing to sell them so that the money could be given to brothers and sisters who were less fortunate. Acts 4:32, says, “And the congregation of those who believed were of one heart and soul; and not one of them claimed that anything belonging to him was his own, but all things were common property to them”. We then read where there were no needy ones among them because all who had land or houses sold them and gave the money to the apostles so that it could be distributed to those who were in need.
In the years that followed, the saints in Jerusalem sank into poverty and needed assistance from their Gentile brethren. Paul wrote to the church in Corinth and spoke of their giving for those poor saints. He told them “Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I directed the churches of Galatia, so do you also. On the first day of every week each one of you is to put aside and save, as he may prosper, so that no collections be made when I come” (1 Corinthians 16:1-2). He was speaking of their contribution to the poor saints in the church in Jerusalem.
We are seeing what is necessary for maintaining God’s house. God’s house is not made of bricks and mortar. It is made up of those people who are “in Christ”. Should we not consider that maintenance of God's house be near the top of our priority list when we put together our church budget? That means giving food, clothing and shelter to those less fortunate saints who have very little. While we have brothers and sisters in South America and Africa (and here at home) who are living in poverty we should be more concerned about them rather than about earthly structures (like grand meeting halls and fellowship buildings). We need to be considering using a greater portion of our church funds for supporting gospel outreach missionaries (like the early churches that supported Paul’s work) and for maintaining the true house of God.
When we read what James said about the necessity of our works of love, Jesus is speaking through James just as He speaks through Paul and John. We can't ignore what James says because we think he is in conflict with what Paul wrote. There is no conflict. We are truly saved by grace, through faith and not by works but our faith must be in Jesus. We must believe Jesus when He speaks. We must believe Him when He tells us that we will be judged based on how we have loved and served His brothers. We must love them in deed and truth.
John said that "We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brethren. He who does not love abides in death" (1 John 3:14). Those on the left will be dead and it will include those who had some belief but who did not know love. Doing things required to become a son of God means nothing without love. True faith must believe in love. Our gospel obedience requirement is to believe in Jesus and Jesus is love. We must know Him and believe in Him to have life. We must believe Him when He tells us to offer our sacrifices of love to Him at the house where His name dwells.
If death was the penalty for defiling or irreverently coming near the old holy place that was a "mere copy", what does that say to us if we do not love and honor God's true holy place? We are to worship God, but we must do that at His holy place. When we serve the brothers of Jesus, we are serving Him ("to the extent that you did it to one of these brothers of Mine, even the least of them, you did it to Me"). I must respect the holy place where God's Spirit dwells and lay down my life for the brethren.
Jesus is love, and Gospel obedience requires that we believe in Jesus. We must believe Him when He tells us how He will pass judgment on those before Him. Read Matthew, chapter 25, again. He really will say those words on that last day. We must believe Him when He tells us that He will pass judgment based on works of love having been done for His brothers. If our brother is hungry or if he has any other need, we must help him. If we fail to do those things, then we are dead.
We can't work our way to heaven. Love is the only way to His home of love. We must know love and, “We know love by this, that He laid down His life for us; and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren”. Remember, true faith must believe in love. Remember, also, “The one who does not love does not know God, for God is love”. We must know God if we are to become heirs with Jesus.
We must do the works of love that we have been created to do because Jesus will come and deal out vengeance to those who do not know God and who have not obeyed the gospel (2 Thessalonians 1:8). He, "WILL THEN REPAY EVERY MAN ACCORDING TO HIS DEEDS" (Matthew 16:27).
We can’t draw near to the Father unless we serve in His holy place. We can’t enter through the veil if we have not been serving before the veil. If we have not been offering our sacrifices of love at His holy place, then our faith means nothing. If we obey Him and love one another as He has loved us, then we will be more considerate and tolerant of our brother and there will be less dissention and division in His holy place. We must treat Him as holy in His holy place. I "ought" to stoop to wash my brother's feet (spiritually).
Remember, we must believe in Jesus to have eternal life. We must believe His covenant promise to reward those who have obeyed His gospel and offered their sacrifices of love to Him at the house where He made His sacrifice, the house where His name dwells. If we fail to do our works of love then our faith is dead and we have not passed out of death into life. If we are dead then God is not our God. He is not the God of the dead, He is the God of the living (Matthew 22:32).
I had seen the new commandment for me to love my brother and I tried to obey it. It was only recently, however, that I have begun to see just how very important it is to Him when I see that old copy and shadow worship. They only served a copy and shadow of the heavenly things. They did the copy for fifteen hundred years to give us the earthly lesson. We are the true priesthood and we serve in the true holy place. We will give account for how we have treated His holy place. As God told Moses, "By those who come near Me I will be treated as holy" (Leviticus 10:3).
Seeing that old covenant worship lesson applied to our love for the brethren was not important if we have heard Jesus as He speaks clearly from His new covenant word. More than twenty different times the New Testament scriptures tell us how we are to love one another. We are to show our love in deed and truth. If we have been hearing and obeying that word we have passed out of death into life. If, however, we have not seen the spiritual lesson previously, then the earthly copy may help us see the truth. Jesus is giving us the lesson in the Old Testament earthly copy and He is explaining it clearly in the New Testament. One way or another we need to hear the message. Having eternal life depends on how we worship at His holy place. We must worship God and not man but we must worship Him at the place where He has placed His name and serve at His holy dwelling place.
I am not from one of the schools of theology. I am a retired engineer and have been a Christian for over fifty years. For fifty years I had seen what Jesus said about judgment and what He will say regarding the reason that some will receive eternal life and some eternal damnation but it never really registered. I did not understand how it could fit with other scripture so I just ignored what He was saying. We can't ignore what Jesus says. We need to keep reading until we get the message. Sometimes that can take many years.
You will notice that I have used the New American Standard translation for the copied scriptures in this book. You may wish to also read the same scriptures from the translation that you normally use.
Johnny Rogers 7-26-06
Revised 10-30-07
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