Of course an appropriate penance will be required.
I was asking God, if He wanted me to post the conclusion, to move on Larry's heart to show me favor. He did and Larry allowed it; thank you both.
Since I last posted God has helped me interest others, SDA & Non SDA & non Christian in obtaining the compassion that moved Jesus. It is written that in the last days "primitive godliness' will be revived. It is probably a safe estimate that being filled with agape, agapous, philio - will be part of that godliness. It might be a topic worth examining from Scripture & Jesus's testifying about it.
Ed, in your conquest of doing the work that God is wanting of you to interest others, of all creeds,to learn of the compassion of Jesus, have you been able to interest and include your wife and children in the efforts that you make? Have they decided to help you in your work for the Lord? How nice it is, as a family, to work to save souls for the kingdom of God. I have found that to have Agape love for those closest to me gives me a closer walk with Jesus.
Christian workers who succeed in their efforts must know Christ; and in order to know Him, they must know His love. In heaven their fitness as workers is measured by their ability to love as Christ loved and to work as He worked. {AA 550.3} "Let us not love in word," the apostle writes, "but in deed and in truth." The completeness of Christian character is attained when the impulse to help and bless others springs constantly from within. It is the atmosphere of this love surrounding the soul of the believer that makes him a savor of life unto life and enables God to bless his work. {AA 551.1} Supreme love for God and unselfish love for one another --this is the best gift that our heavenly Father can bestow. This love is not an impulse, but a divine principle, a permanent power. The unconsecrated heart cannot originate or produce it. Only in the heart where Jesus reigns is it found. "We love Him, because He first loved us." In the heart renewed by divine grace, love is the ruling principle of action. It modifies the character, governs the impulses, controls the passions, and ennobles the affections. This love, cherished in the soul, sweetens the life and sheds a refining influence on all around. {AA 551.2} John strove to lead the believers to understand the exalted privileges that would come to them through the exercise of the spirit of love. This redeeming power, filling the heart, would control every other motive and raise its possessors above the corrupting influences of the world. And as this love was allowed full sway and became the motive power in the life, their trust and confidence in God and His dealing with them would be complete. They could then come to Him in full confidence of faith, knowing that they would receive from Him everything needful for their present and eternal good. "Herein is our love made perfect," he wrote, "that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as He is, so are we in this world. There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear." "And this is the confidence that we have in Him, that, if we ask anything according to His will, He heareth us: and if we know that He hear us, . . . we know that we have the petitions that we desired of Him." {AA 551.3}