LOVE GODS LOVE… LAW OF LOVE
THE LAW OF LOVE, WHAT EVER YOU DO IT IN LOVE.
The Children of God started during the Jesus movement. The core elements in the beginning was Jesus and giving people the message of Salvation. My parents for example joined because they found Jesus and he changed them, they couldn’t return to life as they knew it so they left their homes in order to follow Jesus, and this lead them into the communes of the ones that introduced them to Jesus. . A lot of people joined because they saw and felt the love of God in the people that were in the group, they were in a sense, ‘love bombed”. And this is what attracted them and kept them through the years.
So the Family was founded on Jesus and telling others, we lived by the verse go into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature.
As our communes developed and people started marrying and having kids. This principle of the Law of Love from Jesus’ words.. became a corner stone for survival. We shared everything and learned to trust and work with one another.
Verses..
John 13:34 King James Version (KJV)
34 A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
12 This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.
13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
14 Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.
Through the years The Family evolved into a very work oriented group. Whether it was in witnessing, soul winning, teaching kids, fundraising, cleaning our large homes, provisioning, we lived off of a lot of donated goods.
We had fun for the most part growing up surrounded by kids our own age, being home schooled and going out together in large groups. We were taught to be kind and loving from an early age, to share what we own with others kids. To consider each other first, Jesus, others, then you… We were also taught that Jesus could be coming back soon so that also pushed us to witness and bring as many as we could to an understanding of His love for them get them saved etc.
But,,, mingled in the purity of bringing people to Christ, within the confines of our communities came then the sexual,.. how far can we take this love and to what extreme. And since it was a work oriented group that love merged into the physical playground to an excessive degree in some places.
The sexual aspect of the LOL was introduced as just 1% of it. But it also went a bit far over the deep end.
Yes, there was a lot of sleeping around going on and this resulted also in babies being born out of wedlock or people ending up together that should have never been together put together. term ‘Jesus babies’ developed. The ‘Jesus baby’ term was more for babies that were born to mothers from fathers that were outside of the group and this was at a rise during the time of FFing. This also was under the ‘Law of Love’ a wonderful thing.
One thing I have noticed after leaving the group and talking with others who also were born and grew up is that we missed something very valuable growing up and this the core of this message.. Gods deep eternal Love, the Love of the Father, Who He is personally to us and how valuable you are as a human being. We were introduced more to an idea of a fragment of love and fed off of each others love. When you don’t know who you are in the core of your being and not taught right in the ways of truth, you experience do a lot of weird stuff. You also rely on others for moral support, and your physical needs being met and satisfied. We feed off of the inspiration and acknowledgement of others and when we loose that we experience depression which then leads us to addictions etc.
I believe it takes an encounter to know this love for the first time, this changes everything. Suddenly you are awakened, you know how valuable you are as a human creation. That its not about what you do that makes Him love you, it’s the you that he...