Love in Action: Sincerity or Hypocrisy

By Jesus (AJ Miller)

Jesus describes how we can only grow spiritually if we are sincere, that we are hypocritical if we live in our façade, and how to sincerely address unloving issues in society and ourselves.
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This ebook is a transcript of a seminar delivered by Jesus (AJ Miller) on 17th July 2012 in London, England, as part of the Love in Action series.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Divine Truth Pty Ltd
• Release date: Dec 27, 2012
• ISBN: 9781301890637

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Love In Action:

Sincerity Or Hypocrisy

By

Jesus (AJ Miller)

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This ebook is a transcript of a seminar delivered on 17th July 2012 in London, England by Jesus (also known as AJ Miller) from the Love in Action series, focusing on sincerity or hypocrisy. In this talk he describes how we can only grow spiritually if we are sincere, we are hypocritical if we live in our façade, and how to sincerely address unloving issues in society and ourselves.

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Table of Contents

1. Introduction

2. Growing spiritually means to grow in love

2.1. When we are spiritual we grow in love in many different areas

2.2. Different approaches to growing in love - thinking, talking and action

2.3. Hypocrisy means to put on a façade on purpose

2.4. We need to embrace internal as well as external truth to change

3. Unloving issues in English society

3.1. Societal problems are the effects of deeper real causes

3.2. The true causes of unloving behaviour in society

3.2.1. Not taking personal responsibility

3.2.2. Fear of others’ opinion of us

3.2.3. Fear of pain

3.2.4. Arrogance

3.2.5. Feeling disillusioned

4. Sincerely addressing causal unloving issues

4.1. Prioritising changing unloving behaviour - an illustration of changing diet

4.2. Taking personal responsibility for our creations in society

4.3. Taking responsibility for our emotions in a relationship

4.3.1. Unloving actions in ourselves increase the chance that others will be unloving to us

4.4. To become at-one with God requires complete sincerity

4.5. To become happy, to know ourselves and to know our partner requires sincerity

4.6. Being sincere reduces our fear of other’s opinions

4.6.1. Spirits can create fear in us by projecting at us

4.6.2. The emotional causes of being afraid of others’ opinions

5. Being sincere about spiritual growth

5.1. Hypocrisy in English society

5.2. Always tell the truth - an example of a relationship

5.2.1. If we are not automatically acting lovingly, we are still in facade

5.3. If our actions do not change it is a measure of insincerity

5.4. Only growing in love and truth constitutes spiritual growth

5.5. It is loving to treat others as we would like to be treated - an example of vaccinations

5.5.1. Being sincere and ethical involves feeling fear and not justifying fear

5.6. Being honest about how much we want to change

6. With sincerity; change, pain and joy are certain

6.1. If we are sincere we take action

6.2. An example of a couple in a relationship being honest about their fears

6.2.1. We choose our façade to avoid the truth

6.2.2. If we are sincere we will address the real issues

6.2.3. Addressing the real issues will lead us to grief and then to joy

6.2.4. To resolve issues in a relationship sincere communication as well as humility is required

6.2.5. Addressing causal pain automatically creates forgiveness and joy

7. Closing Words

1. Introduction

What I would like to talk about today with you is about God's Love in Action. So Love In Action is a part of a series that I've been starting to talk to people about and in this particular discussion I'd like us to centre around the issues of sincerity or hypocrisy, which are two very different states.

And the main reason why I wanted to talk about this with you is because what I'm finding, particularly in the Western World, is that there is often an appearance of outward sincerity but when you start discussing detailed information with people individually, they go from outward sincerity into hypocrisy, quite rapidly. And for you to progress towards God, you must at some point come to terms with the fact that God doesn't accept hypocrisy.

Now in the first century I used to say to people things like ‘Woe to the scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because they strained out the gnat and gulped down the camel". Have you ever heard of that saying? some of you who are religious might have heard it. They make big mountains out of little things, ‘mountains out of mole hills’ as the saying goes, and at the same time, they allowed the really big things to go un-noticed.

2. Growing spiritually means to grow in love

If you look at the words ‘love in action’ and we look at the word spirituality. Now what does the word spirituality mean to you? When I asked that question the last time we were here at Forest Row, spirituality meant a lot of things for people but not many people actually talked about love with regard to what it meant to them. To me true spirituality is all about love. It's all about the development of the individual in love and it's all about growing in the capacity to love.

Now there are two forms of love, as we've talked about before. One is God's Love entering you and obviously if you grow in your capacity to receive God's Love, then your soul has the ability to change and transform and once you've changed and transformed, you now have grown in your capacity to express your love to others automatically. So, true spirituality is all about growing in love. Unless love is growing, then really it means nothing. Unless love is growing we are not being spiritual at all, that's the underlying thing to keep in mind.

What I notice people doing though is they have this facade of love where they use the words of love. But when you feel what they are feeling or what they are expressing towards you in terms of their feelings, often it just feels like quite nasty and there are terrible emotions coming out of them. Now if you think historically, many religions do this. So while they use the words of love, they then express at the same time judgement towards people who are not of their religious faith, for example. In that moment they are being unloving, and therefore it doesn't matter what words they're using, the fact is that they are being completely unloving in that particular space. [00:05:30.01]

This brings me to the point of what is real spirituality. Real spirituality is about growth in love, actually growing in your ability to express love to others, and also your ability to love yourself, and your ability to love the environment. So it means growing in the ability to love in all of these different areas.

2.1. When