Eternity Daily Bible StudyThe Importance Of LoveNumber:05er!e!:" The!!alonian! #$"%& ':($% The!!alonian! ":#Topic: )od *er!onally Teache! +! ,o- To Love One .notherDate:%%nd /uly %0""If loving one another is absolutely essential to our spiritual growth (as we have seen in the prior bible studies) and yet such love is so other-centered and sacrificial that it is totally impossible for the natural man then how do we acquire it? You cannot go and buy two gallons of love at Costco and you do not get love through bible study plus self-effort (many have tried and failed) !nd you don"t become loving by being #e$tra good%& for the wor's of the (aw do not create unselfish love)he correct answer is that*a) (ove comes from +od who is love andb) )he +od who is love& teaches those who are born of +od how to love" /ohn ':0Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God, and everyone who loves has been born of God, and knows God.)his is well illustrated by the spiritual growth in the lives of the )hessalonian Christians*1" The!!alonian! #:"%2And may the Lord make you to increase and abound in love toward one another and toward all men, as indeed we also do toward you,1% The!!alonian! ":#2We are obligated to give thanks to God always for you,brothers, and rightfully so, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of every one of you all increases towards one another,1" The!!alonian! ':(2Now concerning brotherly love you have no need for me to write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another.In , )hessalonians -*,. /aul prays that their love may increase and abound& in . )hessalonians ,*- we find this has happened and their love is increasing& both individually and as a whole group0)he #secret sauce% is revealed in , )hessalonians 1*2 -+od 3imself was personally teaching them to love one another& and to such and e$tent that /aul had no need to write any instructions to them about loving one another0+od the 3oly 4pirit is your personal anointing& the instructor 5ho abides deep in your conscience& who reveals to you the paths of righteousness and love and the things accompanying Christ Indeed the 3oly 4pirit reveals the things #that eyes has not seen%*" 3orinthian! %:(4"%But as it is written, !ye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor has itentered into the heart of man, the things which God has "re"ared for those who love #im.$%&'But God has revealed them to us by #is ("irit) ...$%*' . ...so that we mightknow the things that are freely given to us by God.Indeed the things of the 6ld Covenant were written in a boo' but the things pertaining to the 7ew Covenant are written on our hearts by the 3oly 4pirit*,ebre-! 5:"04""+or this is the covenant that , will make with the house of ,sraelafter those days, says the Lord- , will "ut .y Laws into their mind and write them in their hearts, and , will be their God, and they shall be .y "eo"le.$%%'And they shallnot each man teach his neighbor, and each man his brother, saying, /now the Lord, forall shall know .e, from the least to the greatest.+od is our personal spiritual coach& who guides us into all truth0/ohn "6:"#4"5#owever, when #e, the ("irit of 0ruth, has come, #e will guide you into all truth. +or #e shall not s"eak of #imself, but whatever #e hears, #e shall s"eak. And #e will announce to you things to come.$%1'#e will glorify .e, for #e will receive of.ine and will announce it to you.$%2'All things that the +ather has are .ine. 0herefore , said that #e will take of .ine and will announce it to you.)he 4pirit of )ruth will ta'e the things of Christ and spea' and announce them to us )he 3oly 4pirit will do this in order to glorify 8esus Christ0 !ll the things of the 9ather are Christ"s and they are& in turn & revealed to us personally through the 3oly 4pirit 3ere are some more verses along the same line* " /ohn %:%0But you have an anointing from the #oly 3ne, and you know all things." /ohn %:%0But the anointing which you received from #im abides in you, and you do not need anyone to teach you. But as #is anointing teaches you concerning all things,and is true and no lie, and as #e has taught you, abide in #im./ohn 6:'5,t is written in the 4ro"hets, And they shall all be taught of God. 0herefore everyone who hears and learns from the +ather comes to .e.I!aiah %5:%6+or his God instructs him to do right) his God teaches him.7ow the 3oly 4pirit is given tofill each of us with the love of +od (:phesians -*,2)& pouring it out into our hearts (;omans