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PSD 6: Personal love for God
PERSONAL LOVE FOR GOD (PHILEO): PSD #6
6. Personal Love for God
A. Definition: Personal love for God is the factor that motivates the believer to function through three categories of suffering for blessing, namely, providential preventive suffering, momentum testing and evidence testing in the protocol plan of God.
B. Documentation: 1 John 4:19; Romans 8:28
- 1 John 4:19 - We love Him, because He first loved us. (KJV)
- Romans 8:28 - And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to His purpose. (KJV)
C. Problem solved: Personal love for God solves the problem of no motivation to continue advancing in the Christian way of life while suffering anyone of three categories of suffering for blessing, namely, providential preventive suffering, momentum testing and evidence testing.
D. How does personal love for God solve the problem of no motivation while suffering for blessing?
1) Personal love for God motivates the advancing believer to continue advancing while suffering under providential preventive suffering. Providential preventive suffering is your thorn in the flesh that prevents you from becoming arrogant because of the amount of doctrine you have learned since you became positive toward doctrine.
2) Personal love for God also motivates the advancing believer to continue advancing while suffering under 'momentum testing. The four kinds of momentum tests are:
a. People tests - When your life is being tested by people, personal love for God motivates the advancing believer to maintain a Christ-like attitude toward the person who is your test.
b. Thought tests - When your life is being tested to think improperly, personal love for God motivates the advancing believer to think like Christ while being tested to think improperly.
c. Systems tests - When your life is being tested by bad policies within an organization, personal love for God motivates the advancing believer to maintain a Christ-like attitude while being tested to function under bad policy.
d. Disaster tests - When your life is being tested by a disaster, personal love for God motivates the advancing believer to maintain a Christ-like attitude while enduring the disaster test. Examples of disaster tests:
- Injury, disease, handicap, genetic weakness.
- Loss of any of the following: a loved one, reputation, success, employment, money, property.
- Disdain for authority.
- Blizzards, hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, earthquakes, tidal waves, volcanic eruptions, crop failures, epidemics.
- Cycles of a free market economy; adjustments in government policy.