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# Do You Love Love?
- URL: https://amemamem.com.br/en/do-you-love-love/
- Published: 2025-07-14T13:10:58.000Z
- Updated: 2026-11-09T01:04:21.000Z
- Description: The whole world is under the control of the Evil One.” (1 John 5:19)
- Author: Airton Humber
- Tags: #en, #de-voce-ama-o-amor

## **The world is dark. But do you see it?**

The Bible is direct:

> “The whole world is under the control of the Evil One.”(1 John 5:19)

And more:

> “Our struggle is not against human beings, but against the powers and authorities… against the rulers of this dark world.”(Ephesians 6:12)

We live surrounded by an invisible, seductive and destructive system.

But, strangely, we do not see it that way.

A dark world, under the control of the Evil One… what does that mean to you? What image does it bring to your mind?

We have become so adapted to this reality that it has become normal.

We find it normal, even beautiful, what the Bible says is dark. And we call it life, even when it makes us sick.

This is the first evidence of deception.

## **Deception perpetuates itself, even through the hands of religion**

Part of the religious tradition reinforced this deception, not out of bad intention, but because it did not see fully.

It taught that true life will come after death, in “heaven.”

A kind of escapism disguised as faith was created, one that postpones everything to some future day.

As a result, many people resigned themselves to merely surviving in this dark world, waiting for the end with a certain passivity.

**But eternity does not begin after death.**  
It begins **when our eyes are opened to what cannot be seen.**

> “What is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.”(2 Corinthians 4:18)

Eternity is not a long time  
**it is another kind of time**:  
The time that God breathes into us.  
And this time **begins now.**

That is why Jesus did not point to the future.

## **Jesus pointed to today**

> “Today this Scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.”(Luke 4:21)

Jesus had just read Isaiah 61, the promise of liberation, of inner healing, of transformation through the presence of the Spirit.

And He declares: “**Today**.”

It is not about some distant day. It is not about when we die. It is now.

> “Now is the favorable time, now is the day of salvation.”(2 Corinthians 6:2)

The Kingdom of God came with Jesus, and remains among us through the Spirit.

## **Peter's call: Save yourselves!**

After the resurrection of Jesus and the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, Peter does not invite anyone to wait for death.

He cries out:

> “Save yourselves from this corrupt generation!”(Acts 2:40)

It is an appeal for a change of mind, for a conversion of the way we see, for repentance.

Not a religious repentance, but what Paul describes:

> Therefore, brothers, I urge you, by the mercies of God, to offer yourselves as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God; this is your reasonable worship. Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may be able to test and prove what is the good, pleasing and perfect will of God. (Romans 12:1-2)

## **Not everyone is a child: only those who have the Spirit**

> “We know that we are of God… but the whole world is under the control of the evil one.”(1 John 5:19)

Explaining:

> “If anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ.”(Romans 8:9)

Because:

> “He rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love.”(Colossians 1:13)

It is not about attending a church or declaring a belief.

The true sign of who belongs to God is having the Spirit of God.

Without the Spirit, we remain in the dominion of darkness, even if we are inside a temple.

## **What does this Kingdom offer?**

Paul sums it up with one of the most beautiful sentences in the Bible:

> “The Kingdom of God is not food or drink, but righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.”(Romans 14:17)

This Kingdom is invisible to natural eyes, but fully real to those who believe.

It is a Kingdom where life is governed by another principle: love.

## **A still more excellent way**

After teaching about gifts and ministries, Paul closes with a turn:

> **“And now I will show you a still more excellent way.”**(1 Corinthians 12:31)

This way is not that of knowledge, nor of works, nor of status.

It is the way of love.

Not romantic love or love by affinity, but the love that is the fruit of the Spirit.

## **The summit: the fruit of the Spirit**

> “But the fruit of the Spirit is…”(Galatians 5:22-23)

**Love**, the essence and the beginning of everything.  
**Joy**, even in the midst of pain.  
**Peace**, which surpasses all understanding.  
**Patience**, with others, with time, with yourself.  
**Kindness**, gentleness in dealing with people.  
**Goodness**, which chooses the good.  
**Faithfulness**, firmness of character and of commitment.  
**Gentleness**, strength without harshness.  
**Self-control**, freedom over oneself.

This fruit does not come from effort. It comes from the living presence of the Spirit in us.

Can you imagine what the world would be like with this prevailing?  
This is the proposal of Jesus, and it can begin in you too.

## **Faith: the proof of the invisible**

> “Now faith is the assurance of what we hope for and the proof of things we do not see.”(Hebrews 11:1)

The Kingdom of God, the love that transforms, the new life in the Spirit, all of this is invisible to the eyes of the world, but absolutely real.

When Paul had his encounter with Christ, something physical symbolized this spiritual transition:

> “Immediately something like scales fell from Saul's eyes, and he could see again.”(Acts 9:18)

Faith opened his eyes. The Spirit would guide him from then on.

And Paul himself explains this process with words that need to be engraved on the heart:

> “Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. \[…\] We are being transformed with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.”(2 Corinthians 3:17-18)

## **If your eyes have not yet seen…**

> “What no eye has seen, nor ear has heard, nor has ever entered the human heart… God has prepared for those who love him.”(1 Corinthians 2:9)

This promise is not for after death. It is for today.

That is why the warning remains valid:

> “**Today**, if you hear the voice of the Lord, do not harden your hearts.”(Hebrews 3:7-8)

With a reinforcement:

> “**God is love**.”(1 John 4:8)

This seems obvious. But if it were lived, the world would be different.

John goes further and confronts us with a revelation that is simple, direct and inescapable:

> “Anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen.”(1 John 4:20)

Love for the invisible is proven in the visible. A faith that says it loves God but ignores the other is a comfortable lie.

## **🧩 A truth that seems obvious, but is not**

### **✨ Do you love love?**

This is the invitation:

Not to religion. Not to passive waiting.

But to living love as the way, the Spirit as the guide, the Kingdom as reality.

Because **the Lord is the Spirit.**

And where He is… there is freedom, transformation and rejoicing.

**And that day… is called today.**

### **✍️ Personal note**

If this really is the last text of this blog, I want it to end with love and peace.

I wrote nothing here with condemnation in my heart. On the contrary: I wrote with pain, with hope and with joy.

Pain for the deception that still holds us. Hope in the liberating power of the Spirit. And joy in knowing that the truth is already available, today.

I know that many still cannot see.

Those who do evil do not know what they are doing. And those who have come to see do good, because they were reached by the goodness of God.

> “Or do you despise the riches of his kindness, tolerance and patience, not realizing that God's kindness leads you to repentance?”(Romans 2:4)

The change of mind, true repentance, is not born of fear, but of a living experience with the love of God.

That is why Jesus, even facing the cross, prayed:

> “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.”(Luke 23:34)

This sentence is still alive. It still holds. For me, for you, for everyone. Because those who know are already doing good.

That is why I wrote. Out of love. **Because God is love**.

And if you love Love… You are free from the darkness of this dark world. The Kingdom has already begun in you.