How Antichrist of them to sing about l-u-v

The worldwide televised Ariana Grande show Sunday night, given to a live crowd of 50,000-plus, was called the “One Love Manchester Concert.”

Singer Katy Perry, a self-proclaimed witch, asked attendees “to reach out and touch the person next to them,” reports theatlantic.com. She assures, “It’s not easy to always choose love, is it? Especially in moments like these, right? It can be the most difficult thing to do. But love conquers fear and love conquers hate. And this love that you choose will give you strength, and it’s our greatest power.”

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The Bible tells us the Antichrist will use music to rally the masses and you know the core theme of the concert is going to be love.

“All You Need Is Love” was a popular saying in the '60s anti-war movement and the Beatles song was released in the middle of the Summer of Love (1967). It was the basis for "the vibe."

“John Lennon wrote this (tune) as a continuation of the idea he was trying to express in his 1965 song "The Word," reports a website. “John was fascinated by how slogans effect the masses and was trying to capture the same essence as songs like ‘We Shall Overcome.’

“Lennon once stated, ‘I like slogans. I like advertising. I love the telly.’ In a 1971 interview about his song ‘Power To The People,’ he was asked if that song was propaganda. He said, ‘Sure. So was ‘All You Need Is Love.' I'm a revolutionary artist. My art is dedicated to change."

The website goes on to inform that George Harrison referenced the song in his lyrics to the 1981 song "All Those Years Ago" with the line, "But you point the way to the truth when you say 'All you need is love.'" The song was a tribute to John Lennon following his murder in 1980.

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While New Agers borrow Eastern religions’ belief that "all is One" and that love is just a different form of the One essence in the universe that everyone and everything, including God, is a part of, the Bible makes it clear that “God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.” (I John 4:16)

Jordan relays, “I recently heard a popular preacher-personality incorrectly tell his audience, ‘God is love, so where love is, God is.’

“Listen, the verse doesn’t say love is God; it says, ‘God is love.’ Just because somebody loves somebody doesn’t make them God and doesn’t mean God is there. God is only where His people are.”

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“Now, the uniqueness of the God of the Bible is that ‘God is love’ and that’s not true of ANY other religion on the face of the earth. If you look at other religions, almost all of their gods are angry. If you ask a Muslim about their god, they’ll tell you he’s merciful, but they’ll never tell you he’s a loving god.

“Only the God of the Bible can identify Himself as a God who is a God of love, and the reason for that has to do with the godhead in the Bible being described as a trinity, meaning one god in three persons. That means there’s one essence and being of humanity and yet different individuals who possess humanity.

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“If you wanted to know how to love your fellow man, the Scripture tells you. But you have to be willing to believe what God says about it.

“I John 4:7 says, ‘Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.’ You see, to love people you have to have something that comes from God in you.

“In your natural life, in your natural self, you’re born to love yourself. Verse 8 says, [8] He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. Does that help you understand what’s going on?

“When you don’t love other people, it’s because you don’t have a thinking process that matches God’s thinking process. So what is that? Verses 9-10 says, [9] In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. [10] Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

“That great Bible word ‘propitiation’ just means a fully satisfying payment. Paid in full. Here’s the payment that takes the debt and clears it away.

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“By the way, the first time the word ‘love’ occurs in the Bible is in Genesis 22:2. First occurrences of terms in the Bible are very important. They set the tone and definition of a word.

“The first time you read about somebody loving someone is Abraham being told by God to ‘take his son, his only son whom he loved.’ The first time it occurs it’s defined as the love a father has for his only son.

“Abraham already had Ismael, but Isaac was the ‘promised son.’ He was the only son he and Sarah had and he was the one God had promised to him. He was the one produced by the miraculous birth of Abraham and Sarah’s when they couldn’t normally have children.

“Verse 9 says ‘God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.’ So the connection between the first time ‘love’ occurs is connected right with God’s love at Calvary, when He, too, sent His only begotten Son through a miraculous birth, to be a sacrifice.

“Abraham’s given that information back in the Genesis 22 and one of the most wonderful pictures of the sacrifice of Christ at Calvary is found when Abraham is told to take his son up on that mountain in Moriah that God would show him, to that place that later became Golgotha, and sacrifice him.

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“You see the definition of ‘love’ in the Bible is the love the Creator had for you and for me. A love that would make Him step out of heaven, come down into our reality, into our flesh, into our humanity, and go to the Cross and die to pay for all of our sins. To give Himself completely for us.

“God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son. God commended His love toward us that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us. Having said all that, look at what it says in I John 4:11-12: [11] Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
[12] No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.

“You see, we ought to love one another, but you can’t love one another until you’ve got the right motivation behind it. Trying to be good and love other people to get a big paycheck doesn’t do it. You get the world we live in with that kind of love. Trying to be good and love other people just for the fact that it makes you feel good and it’s something you ought to do, won’t get it either.

“Notice that the required motivation for producing love for others in the verse is, ‘If God so loved us.’ If you understand how God loved you, you ought also to love one another.

“The required motivation for producing love for your brothers and sisters, for your fellow man, is your knowledge that the Creator came down to this planet as a man and died to put away our sin by the sacrifice of Himself.

“That is a truth--that is information that is rejected by every hell-bound sinner on the planet. It’s rejected by the atheists, by the evolutionists, by the academics, by the humanists, by the religionists, by the whole culture out there today.

“In fact, what God would say on the topic is so foreign to the world we live in that just basic definitions founded on the Scripture are considered hate mail and hate speech today.

“If you stand in our culture today and just say that marriage is designed by its Creator to be ‘one man, one woman for one lifetime,’ you’re guilty of hate speech. Just simply reading Matthew 19 and the words of Jesus Christ on the radio can get you charged with hate speech.

“The foundation’s been destroyed simply because God’s Word has been rejected, and if you want to do something to help people, go out there motivated by an understanding of how much your Creator loves you and loves them, and share with them the truth of His love and His grace. That’s the key.

“If the whole beach falls away and you’re still left, you’re still there and you’ve got the whole terrain to yourself. This is a great day for people who know truth and are willing to stand on it, because you’ll become a leader in a way you probably otherwise never could have become.”

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