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Since when is the love of God, merely, tolerance? The love of our Father is everything! Our Father, Himself, is Love; not some angry pharaoh in heaven, not some great fiery dragon in heaven, who rewards “good” and punishes “evil”! In the four gospels, Jesus did not walk around, merely tolerating people; but lived His life in continual, unbroken awareness of, and communion with His Father’s Presence in His spirit, and His physical life became the manifestation of it. “What I see the Father do, is what I do; and what I hear the Father say, is what I say…” Jesus was never marking off some mental or cerebral “messianic checklist” from the old testament, as He went along! Our scriptural head-knowledge is nothing, and our “supernatural experiences” and “God-encounters” are nothing; unless they have moved us unto this end: our being the habitation of the very love of God, through the Spirit. If the love of God has not found a place to tabernacle within our hearts, toward all men and women, especially toward one another; then not only do we have nothing… we are nothing… but a sack of our own self-righteous shit, future worm-food with big old pie-holes in our heads, and full of our own “principles,” “goodness,” “morality,” “ethics,” “integrity,” “reputation,” “character”…
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