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The Man In Love
that we should believe on the name of His Son Jesus Christ and love one another, as He gave us commandment.
1 John 3:20-23
There is an important caveat that must be stated here. The signal of the heart will only be a reliable indicator in the child of God or husband who is walking in the Spirit and feeding regularly on the word of God. Without these vital components, the signal from the heart about our status of love will prove to be fatally unreliable. When the husband, though a child of God, has starved himself of the word of God and does not exhibit a strong relationship with the Spirit of God, his heart could be likened to one ‘seared with hot iron’ according to 1 Timothy 4:1-3,
Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons, speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their own conscience seared with a hot iron, forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.
1 Timothy 4:1-3
This kind of heart will no longer exhibit the sensitivity to distinguish ‘right’ from ‘wrong.’ Such a heart will not know what true love is anymore and will not condemn us when we stray from
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