Yeshua immediately answered with the words of the Song of Songs 7:10 "May your mouth be like the best wine, flowing smoothly for my beloved, gliding gently over our lips as we sleep together." I testified to him with the words given by the Holy Spirit, which were right for that moment, and the effect was wonderful! He said as we parted: "It was amazing and encouraging to listen you!"
Love is the fruit of the Spirit
We read the list of the fruits of the Spirit and the first one is love, and it is the greatest, most desirable and eternal of these fruits Gal. 5:22-23
>>22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.<<
Paul's writing about love is one of the best teachings in the NT: 1 Cor. 13:1-13
>>1 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but I do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so that I can remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give away everything I own, and if I give over my body in order to boast, but do not have love, I receive no benefit.
4 Love is patient, love is kind, it is not envious. Love does not brag, it is not puffed up. 5 It is not rude, it is not self-serving, it is not easily angered or resentful. 6 It is not glad about injustice, but rejoices in the truth. 7 It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 Love never ends. But if there are prophecies, they will be set aside; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be set aside. 9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part, 10 but when what is perfect comes, the partial will be set aside.
11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. But when I became an adult, I set aside childish ways. 12 For now we see in a mirror indirectly, but then we will see face to face.
Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, just as I have been fully known. 13 And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love.<<
All the Law and the Prophets in a nutshell
Our Savior summed up the entire Law of Moses and the teachings of the Prophets in just two commandments, both of which are about unconditional love: Matt. 22:36-40
>>36 "Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?"
37 Yeshua said to him, "'Love Yehowah your Elohim with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.'38 This is the first and greatest commandment.
39 The second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'
40 All the law and the prophets depend on these two commandments."<<Based on acts of love towards their fellow man, people will at the last judgment either be admitted to heaven for eternal life or condemned to eternal damnation, depending on whether they have done Adonai Yeshua's in the verses Matt. 25:35-36 listed acts of love of neighbor or not.
YHWH Elohim is perfect love
Our Creator, our heavenly Father YHWH Elohim, is love at its core and he proved this to us by giving his only begotten beloved Son to suffer and die as a sin offering for us on the cross of Calvary almost 2000 years ago, and by raising him from the dead on the 3rd day and giving him all authority in heaven and on earth.
Songs suitable for the topic
Amazing Grace
Sing of Him
Make Me A Servant
I Love You Lord
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