Hidden Lovers

Hidden Lovers 

By Joe Pinto

The Church today preaches love, love, love! And God is all about love. Though the question is what does real love that is of God look like? The Church today will tell you that they love God and God this, God that. God said there are two commandments.

Love God first with all your heart, mind and soul. Then second: Love your neighbor as yourself. These two commandments fulfill all the law and all the prophets. Walking in these two commandments are our only commandments today. They fulfill the whole law. On these two commands lies our whole walk. 

In this day, we have become obsessed with one of those laws, so much that we are completely missing it and making ourselves deniers of God. The Bible says we are to love God first, but today we want to love our neighbor first and only. Meanwhile, we still want to say that we love God first, but most are just lip lovers. They give him love with their lips, but their hearts are far from Him. The Church is mixing up the orders of the two laws. 

No longer is loving God the first command; it has now become second. Many people have become deceived, and they think if they just love their neighbor, they have done their service to God. They think now God is pleased with them if they do this. You can never love your neighbor rightly without the love of God, but if you don’t love God first and give your life to Him overall, you can never truly carry the love of God! Love without God in the equation is no love at all. 

God IS love, so if He IS love, and we try to love without Him, we are now in false love. The love that the world carries is a man pleasing spirit, and all it does is operate in kindness. It carries no power! We think if we just be nice to people, if we just put on a smile, don’t get into fights, don’t be bitter, don’t walk in unforgiveness that God will say, “Well done, good and faithful servant.” Those things are good but God will say to these people turn away from me because I did not know you. 

Yes, you were nice to people. Yes, you did good things, but you didn’t do the most important thing which was to know me! If you would have known me, you would have been able to love everybody for real. The love you are walking in is just to protect yourself, to make sure your soul by itself is clean. It’s a selfish love that washes itself but not its brother. Love lays down its life! This is the best kind of love! Jesus said to be the greatest in the Kingdom is to become a slave of all! To serve the kingdom to all! 

You cannot separate God and love. People say, “Yea, he obeys God, but he’s not loving. Let’s use scripture to knock that out of the way.

1 John 4:20-21

“If anyone says, ‘I love God,’ and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen. And this commandment we have from him: whoever loves God must also love his brother.”

Right there shows you that when we obey the one commandment to love God, we are obeying both. Why? Because there’s no way you can love God and not love your brother, and there’s no way you can love your brother and not love God. And if you have one without the other, you’re a liar. One cannot be without the other. To love God, you have to be in love with what He loves. "Love is not just “play nice.” 

Love is: I will put my life, my reputation, my pride on the line to bring salvation to my neighbor, to those that I love, in the Spirit and Truth. That’s what real love looks like, but we can never do this without having a covenant with God. Remember, He himself is the definition of love. He’s the only one that loves! And when we are one with Him, we can take part in His love and truly love people with Him.

You either love people with Him, or you don’t love people at all. Truly, I mean for real! Real love, not your definition! The Bible says lean not on your own understanding, but the church wants to understand in their own way, either out of ignorance or out of lust of the world. 

Ignorance is not bliss! God may have mercy on your ignorance, but you are not going to experience the real glory and power until you step into real love! Until you walk like those who walk in real love, who walk in both commandments in Spirit and in Truth, not in the flesh. 

Those who obey His commandments love Him, and those who love Him will love others because they obey the one that does love others. These shall be rejected by religion and the world and shall be hated and counted as hateful. They will be told that they are not loving. They will be scoffed at, persecuted. Yet they are the real lovers! 

The real lovers are hidden, and not seen by the world, but they are seen by God. On the outside, they don’t look so loving, but their heart is full of pure golden love. John the Baptist seemed like a pretty hateful man; Jesus looked pretty ruthless; Elijah looked pretty intimidating. Though their hearts were filled with the love of God because they obeyed God, and God showed His true love through them. 

Sometimes, God’s love looked like a man flipping tables over in a temple. If that happened in today’s church, that man would be condemned, though heaven was rejoicing when Jesus flipped those tables. Finally, someone is confronting the deceiving religious system, the system that’s sending people to hell, making them think they are going to Heaven. Finally, someone is confronting the beast that is deceiving many children of God. Finally, someone is making straight the way of the Lord. Who will FINALLY step up today and walk in real love that is hated by all? 

People say, “We have to walk in love,” but they don’t understand that most of the love we have to walk in is to be in love with Him! Yes, we must love people, with the Truth. Although, if we are deeply in love with Him, we’re going to be deeply in love with the people, and so deep that we burn for them to go to the fullest in Christ. And if we’re doing things by the Spirit, we are submitting to love. 

There are times when you may want to shake people, and the Holy Spirit has you do nothing instead. There are times where you may want to do nothing, and He wants you to flip tables and rebuke! If He knows how to do this love thing, His ways are higher than mine. I better submit to Him.

To walk in love is to submit to the Spirit when dealing with every person. The Spirit of God IS love, and when I submit to Him, I’m walking in love, no matter what it looks like, because God knows what He’s doing with every person. How dare I try to walk in love myself when I cannot love myself alone? There’s nothing good in me except Him! 

If I try to love with any other part of me that’s not Him, I’m basically putting my ways over His. Everybody tries to walk in love, but what they don’t understand is that only He can. We need to walk with Him, and He will love through our obedience. And whether the person(s) sees it as love or not, it doesn’t matter! God does!  

We want people to see how much we walk in love, but we’re missing the point! It is God we’re trying to please, not man! So if God’s pleased, why do you care so much about what man is seeing and saying? If we keep that focus on Him, people will start seeing love. And the right people, the ones that really want Him and are not just playing church, the ones that God plucks out of the world, they are the only ones that will see it anyway. And it will help them give their life to God even more!

The religious church is so worried about how the world sees them and if the world will see love in them. They don’t understand that it’s the Spirit of God that will draw them, not their marvelous appearance of character! And the problem is, the church is so focused on getting the people to see them a certain way, that they start catering to the people. Though they don’t understand that we are called to be hated! 

Real love is hated! The World is going to hate those that are anointed because the world has antichrist spirits. Antichrist is anti-anointing. Jesus is the anointing! The only ones that will love you are those that seek truth because you’re in the Truth and you’re in the Spirit. And they were drawn by the Spirit and now everyone is one in the Spirit. 

Religious false love people are loved so much. Why? Because those that are worldly Christians love them because they show them how to be more worldly and still feel pleasing to God, how to be on the fence and still feel on fire. Those people will never love the real deal Christians because they were never converted. They hate you just like the world does because they are a part of the World and have never left. The only thing that changed is what box they fill in when they are asked what religion they are.

How you love yourself is how you will love others. Though if you don’t love yourself with the love of God, you won’t love others with His Love either! How do we let Him love on us? By obeying Him and letting Him take control of our lives. And when we help people based on what God is doing for their specific life, we are loving them rightly. How are we supposed to know how to spiritually serve our neighbor according to their SPECIFIC life? We must follow the Holy Spirit! He’s the spirit that knows all things! He’s the spirit that knows how to further help every individual, specific person! You don’t! You can’t just preach John 3:16 to every single person. That scripture is dead if it does not have His Spirit on it! We need to live by the source of love, and that source of love is a person, is a spirit, that is moving every second. If you don’t move with Him, you don’t move in love! 

Where’s he going? West? That’s where love is going today. Is He going east? That’s where love is going! Love is a person! Love is a Spirit! And the only way to abide in love is to abide in Him! 

Everybody says, “Oh, you’re not loving. This one doesn’t love this one.” Well, put it this way: you’re loving anybody if you’re not obeying God in Spirit and in Truth!

“No longer, Father, will I love on my own, because I can’t love on my own. I’m incapable, because without you there, there is no love. And when I follow you, I’m following love and walking in it. No matter what it looks like to the world or religion, I will know it’s love because it’s you! And when I abide in you, I will fulfill the 2 once and for all commandments, and I will fulfill them both by fulfilling the one as I’m loving you first with all my heart, mind and soul, truly. Love for others will pour out of me because you’re pouring out of me. Today, I will no longer let the false church tell me it’s not love because if it’s you, it’s liquid love from Heaven. There’s no greater love than for one to lay His life down for His friends. And I tell you this, my friend. When you lay your life down for Him, you are laying your life down for your neighbor!