Now we might seek to define divine love.

What is God's kind of love? How can we understand what it is or what it does?

How is it different from some other kind of love?

Truly the actions motivated by divine love can be seen as we observe the actions God did, since He is divine-love.
This is what He did: its from John 3:16 chapter 3 and verse 16,

For God so loved the world	that word loved is AGAPE in the Greek
that He gave	gave, means we didn't earn the gift
His	referring to a possession of His , not someone else's, Self-Sacrificially, at His own cost
only	not many, just one, only
begotten	direct offspring born of His Spirit ;    the Spirit of God gave conception to the virgin Mary
Son	Jesus the Son of God born of the virgin Mary and the Spirit of Almighty God
that whosoever	whosoever means anyone, including you.
believes	accepts the historical event as true
in Him	in Jesus, who He is and what He did
	that He lived and was crucified and rose from the dead for you

He willingly went to the cross for us.

Isaiah 53 is the chapter of God saving His people. Read it slowly, especially twice on the last half, and slower as you approach the finish of the chapter.

It is so powerful. Read it aloud so you can hear what it says.

For the joy set before Him, of seeing our SALVATION, He did it.

So what is divine-love? What is the operational-definition?

Love is the eagle that flies and it has two wings required to hold it up and fly
one required wing is self-sacrificially
and the other is seeking the other's good

Well, what is salvation? What did He save us from? Why did we need salvation?

John 3:17 For God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through Him might be saved.

It is like a man who has fallen off a cliff, and is about to die on the rocks when he hits the bottom,
but is met by God saying "Take my hand, and I will save you." while he is in free-fall.

God didn't throw him off the cliff. God didn't say "Take my hand or I will throw you on the rocks." NO, it's more like this, "Because you have fallen, you are about to hit the rocks; but only take MY HAND, and you shall be saved."

So what is this sin? What is it that puts us in the position of falling into hell?
I don't know every example of sin, and no book could hold all the examples;
so accept this broad category that sin is anything outside of God's righteousness.

If you will bear with me while I offer an incomplete and imperfect example
then I believe some of the significance will become clear to you.

Visualize that you were counting on a rope to hold you up out of the fire of hell
and even climb that rope up to heaven.

That rope would be the law.
And some people say they figure they'll get to heaven if anyone else does
because they figure themselves to be pretty good people who try to do the right things. OK. They are expecting to get to heaven by their own deeds, climbing that rope of the law.

Let's take a look at the law.
Jesus explained that if you've ever hated anyone, you've broken the spiritual law that says Thou shalt not kill.

If you've ever lusted after a woman in your heart,
then you've committed adultery.

If you've ever coveted what belongs to someone else,
then you're guilty of stealing in your heart.

And we further read that if we are to make it to heaven by the law then we have to keep the whole law. We have to climb the whole rope, the whole ladder.

For if we break any part of it, the whole of it is broken, and the penalty is like the man suspended above the fiery pit
by that rope of the law which totally disintegrates if any part of it is broken.

If a man break any part, transgress any part of the law, he is guilty of it all.

That is part of the law. It's all or none. To break one part, is to be totally guilty.

That's why God had to make a way for us, ... that's why He sent Jesus to keep the law for us all.
And all who believe in Him, they are those who receive the benefit.
Those who deny Him, they deny the benefit along with Him.

A man must see the quicksand before he can know to avoid it.
A man must know the poison so he can choose the antidote.
John 3:14 and Numbers 21:6-10

You have to know you've been bitten by the serpent before you can choose the antidote.

You have to recognize the serpent bite for what it is before you can choose the right antidote.

References: history of the 1611 KJV   http://www.av1611.org/kjv/kjvhist.html

Simultaneous Equations of Words I learned a huge thing about reasoning from Jack Bryant, a man who became a Ph.D. in Math, teaching at Rice University and TAMU. He taught me the main idea of a course he was doing at A&M. He had to write a math book whereby everything in it was contrary to normal math. And then write problems which could only be solved through using the definitions of that abstract math book. The point was, to solve the problems you had to forget everything you had learned about math, and just go by that one book and the definitions in it. That hit me like a ton of bricks later when seeking to grasp the Holy Scriptures.  By solving the simultaneous equations of the scripture using words in the context of scripture and their actions and effects we can see a clear solution for the agape kind of love. That term, agape, is assigned in scripture to reference the kind of love God showed to us, divine love, God's love; which is seeking our good and doing it self-sacrificially or to say it another way at His own expense. When the Jewish mathematicians found the mathematical patterns of words in Holy Scripture, they were using the Jewish Hebrew texts. The Masoretic texts are 99.99% the exact same. 1. the story of the Indian mystic, concluded God is greater and more able to preserve His own. 2. the story of the Bible being preserved in the Masoretic, the Greek, and Textus Receptus, and the KJV.