Love Fulfilled Ministry

Exists no fear in love, rather perfect love drives out fear because fear has torment. Now, the one who fears is not fulfilled in agape love . * Think of what torments a person. Webster dictionary defines torment as to cause severe usually persistent or recurrent distress of body or mind. Worry is defined as to torment oneself with or suffer from disturbing thoughts. *  It also defines worry as strangle, choke? In the parable of weeds, Jesus tells us the devil plants weeds to choke us out.   Fear, worry, anxiety, the devil uses to torment. Agape love drives out this fear and torment so that the goal of Perfect Love is accomplished, Fulfilled , which means to finish, bring to an end, complete, perfect. Paul writes agape love is above all the other virtues (kindness, humility, compassion, gentleness, patience) because love leads to  perfectness  (completeness, maturity, ripeness of knowledge or practice). * Paul also writes we should set our hearts on the greater gifts but there i

and being fearful I went and hid your talent in the ground, behold, you have what is yours !" * The Master gave talents to three men, two earned more talents but this man did not. The parable says the master gave according to their ability, so the man with one talent had the ability. What ability did he have? How did the other two men earn more talents in such a day? It mentions the master was gone for a long time so possibly, they bought seed, planted vineyards, and reaped a harvest. The ability of the man with one talent to do so is known in his excuse, he said he knew the master was a stern hard, unscrupulous man, "reaping where you have not sown and gathered where you have scattered no seed." *  It would seem he knew how to farm and it wasn't laziness as the master said if he had put the money in the bank to earn interest this would have been ok. His motivation to do nothing was fear, "being fearful I went and hid your talent in the ground." * Hi