Some quotes by Creflo Dollar with commentary…

If you were to ask someone if they loved God, they’d almost automatically reply, “Of course. I love the Lord with all my heart.” Every day in churches and all around the world, people say, “Lord, I love you. Oh, Jesus, I love you.” However, loving God is not just a religious quote you say to make people think you love God.

(hmmmmm)

In order to love God, you must first renew your mind where love is concerned.

(Oh, Really??)

When many people think of love, they think of human, emotional love, which is basically selfish (???) because it has conditions—it loves when the conditions are right, or when it feels like loving. This is the type of love many people try to love God with…

(Dr. Dollar, read Matthew 7:5 ; Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye.)

…however, God is not interested in you loving Him with your feelings. Contrary to what most people think, love is not a feeling. Your feelings, like your emotions, can be unstable.

(Dr. Dollar here is the Definition of Love: A strong positive emotion of regard and affection)

For example, as soon as somebody dies that you didn’t think should have died, your feelings toward God might change. This is why love is a choice—it’s a decision demonstrated by action. Jesus said, “If ye love me, keep my commandments” (John 14:15). To love God means to choose to obey His Word, trust His power, and worship Him. It is impossible to say you love God if these things are not in place.

(Dr. Dollar, READ Galatians 5:14; For the whole Law is fulfilled in one word, in the statement, “YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.)

Your love for God is demonstrated by the decisions you make. When you choose what you want or desire over God’s Word, you demonstrate that you love yourself more than God.

(Dr. Dollar, that’s one thing you’ve demonstrated without a flaw. You certainly led by example on that one)

So one of the first things you must do to love God is get rid of self, or your own desires. Doing this will help you love God, and others, the way you have been commanded in Matthew 22:34—40.

When you put self first, everything you do will be to please yourself, because that’s what human, selfish love does—it seeks to satisfy self first.

(Dr. Dollar, can we say that again but this time we’ll make it sound as if you’re talking to yourself. OK??? Lets try it: So one of the first things I, Dr. Dollar, must do to love God is get rid of MYSELF, or MY own desires. Doing this will help ME love God, and others, the way I have been commanded in Matthew 22:34—40. When I put MYSELF first, everything I do will be to please MYSELF, because that’s what human, selfish love does—it seeks to satisfy self first. )

However, according to Romans 5:5, the Holy Spirit has poured the love of God in our hearts; and that love gives us the ability to love with the God—kind of love, or agapé love. Agapé love is unconditional, unselfish love. Unlike selfish, human love, agapé love puts the needs of others above its own needs. This is the love God wants us to demonstrate.

(Dr. Dollar, I’m assuming that you don’t smoke like I do, so why don’t you try having your pilot fly your personal jet a few thousand feet lower so your brain won’t be deprived of oxygen. Your statement about how to love is just as ridiculus as me trying to sell you a map to help you find your way back to your own house)

To love God means to lose self. Everyday you have to make a decision to demonstrate the agape love of God by dying to the selfish desires that try to rule your life.

(Dr. Dollar, can we say that again, but this time,the way YOU really want it to be? Let’s try it: To love Creflo Dollar means to lose self. Everyday WE have to make a decision to demonstrate the agape love for Creflo Dollar by dying to the selfish desires that try to rule OUR life.)

Second Corinthians 4:11 in The Amplified Bible says, “For we who live are constantly [experiencing] being handed over to death for Jesus’ sake, that the [resurrection] life of Jesus also may be evidenced through our flesh which is liable to death.” That means in order for the love of God to be evident in your life, you have to make a quality decision to allow your thoughts, desires, emotions, and feelings to die daily. It’s impossible to love God, or others, when you have plans, purposes, and desires that are contrary to the Word of God.

(Dr. Dollar, if we’re to have NO thoughts, desires, emotions, or feelings, then what is the purpose of the YOUR Prosperity Gospel? If you’ve achieved YOUR goal of implanting this message into your members that we’re to become zombie like, then exactly who is it that your message of prosperity is being preached to? Human “Feelings”, Human “Emotions”, Human “Desires” are what causes a person to WANT to prosper JUST LIKE YOU!!! Dr. Dollar, Tell your pilot to fly a little closer to the ground.)

When self is the most important thing to you, you will choose self over God’s Word. God’s Word is His will; get to the point where you choose the will of God above everything. You must desire His will, even above your own happiness. That’s what it means to love God—to obey His will, not your own.

(Dr. Dollar, Do you really Love God? Do YOU really believe in God? Don’t you think it would be a good idea if YOU could meet God and get some Clarification. Why don’t you direct your pilot to aim the nose of your private jet plane STRAIGHT UP towards space. As Hebrews 4:16 tells us, “Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace. Tell your pilot that he can bail out with a parachute after he puts the plane on autopilot. Then, IF IT BE HIS WILL, God will allow you to come back and give us another message.)

Posted by Dimitri Lawrence December 19th, 2007

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