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Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":

It’s impossible for a man and woman who are in love to break the seventh commandment of God’s holy law. And yet conventional wisdom says the opposite, that their being in love propels them, drives them, virtually forces them, into fornication or adultery. Their sexual passion can know of no restraint, is the common idea.

 

But such passion is not love; love is eternal. But passion is transitory, like the so-called love that Amnon said he had for the beautiful Tamar when he raped her (2 Sam. 13:2-14). Then, with all the turbulent passion wherewith he had “loved” her, he now “hated her exceedingly; so that the hatred wherewith he hated her was greater than the love wherewith he had loved her.” He threw her out, literally (vs. 15).

 

Sexual love is included in the holy agape that is the love of Christ (see Eph. 5:25, 28). It will not, cannot, “touch” the object of its agape until God gives her/him (Prov. 6:29). Then the love binds the two forever, not in a legalistic union motivated by fear but in a love-oneness inspired by the nature of God Himself. Such true love is described: “Close your heart to every love but mine; hold no one in your arms but me. Love is as powerful as death; passion is as strong as death itself. It bursts into flame and burns like a raging fire. Water cannot put it out; no flood can drown it. But if anyone tried to buy love with his wealth, contempt is all he would get” (S. S. 8:6, 7, GNB).

 

Why is such love forever? Why is it so powerful?

 

Because it is the gift of Jesus Christ whom the Father “gave” to us because He “so loved the world” (John 3:16), and the Son loved us more than He loved His own life. His love is the powerful force that is transmitted by the “preaching of the gospel,” the pure one, the true one that is based on truth.

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