The living God looks into your heart, church, and finds that you don't love Him. You don't care about Him.

You say that you love Jesus. You do your duties in the church. You also say, "Look at all the good things that we do." What are they to Him? He looks in your heart and sees that these works are without love.

God is love. God is passionate love. Works mean nothing to Him. They mean nothing, even if done unto death. Without Jesus and His love in us, pouring out from us, all works are meaningless.

The living God says, "The church is religious and full of works and has failed in love." How the Father views the church and how the church views itself, are two very different things. How much you pray, how many Scriptures you've memorized, how much you tithe, are nothing to Him.

Why is Jesus not willing for any to perish, even though it is what we all deserve? It is because of the greatness of His love. What do you know of that love?

The Scriptures say, "Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your strength." Where is the strength of your love for Jesus?

Jesus said, "This is My commandment that you love each other, even as I have loved you." The cross shows how He loves you. But you, if you see a man lying in the street, turn away, saying, "Our church already has a program for the poor." Disobedient church, the parables of the lost coin and the lost lamb show how He values each person, saved or sinner. And what do you value? You value your appearance of having love. You do your alms before men. You love your new church buildings, and big parking lots. What is in those beautiful buildings? Strangers sitting next to strangers, religious and dead in spirit.

Woe to you, church without love. Barren church. You want to be loved by Him, and never chastised or judged, even though you reject His commands.

You are selfish, greedy children. You want Him to prosper you, to rain down blessings on you, to revive you, and to rapture you. He says, "Freely you have received, freely give." But you will not give, you will not love, with all your strength. If you do not repent, you will wish, with all your strength, you were not in hell.

"Be not deceived, God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that shall he reap." The church without love will reap his wrath.

"If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor, and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing."

I Corinthians 13:1-3