Do You Have " Love Out Of A Clean Heart"? (1)
 

Do you teach men different doctrines, after paying
attention to false stories?
Or ask questions about genealogies instead of
dispensing by faith toward His heavenly glories?

Do you think yourself to be a teacher of Christ's law,
but make strong assertions out of an untrained mind?
Or have you attained to a loyal love out of a clean heart?
-- A faith without hypocrisy, without the arrogant kind.

Many deviate by mentally absorbing idle talk,
but it is persecution that tests the faith of men.
Most hearts tire, with excuses. The Lord tests
our endurance; when fragile love is easily broken.

Christians, when accused as dropouts should be happy.
For "friendship with the world is enmity with God". (2)
Ostracism begins when we're separated from worldly "goats";
from their darkness into the heartfelt joy and light of God.

Freedom, is one's knowledgeable subjection to The Word,
Sacrificing superfluous things of one's spirit has proved.
Freedom, is an inner peace with our life-giving Creator,
But without, the "veil" (3) has not been removed.

                                       Written: 28/11/01.

SOURCE:

(1) "…that you might command certain ones not to teach different doctrine, nor to pay attention to false stories and to genealogies, which end up in nothing, but which furnish questions for research rather than a dispensing of anything by God in connection with faith. Really the objective of this mandate is love out of a clean heart and out of a good conscience and out of faith without hypocrisy. By deviating from these things certain ones have been turned aside into idle talk, wanting to be teachers of law, but not perceiving either the things they are saying or the things about which they are making strong assertions". (1 Tim 1:3-7 NWT).

(2) James 4:4 NWT.                                       (3) The "veil": 2 Cor 3:16-18.

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