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Now, enjoy this message. He is so good.
And so faithful. Isn't he?
Come on it and he's so good. So faithful because nobody can
love us. Like, Jesus can come on nobody.
Nobody can Love Me. Like, Jesus can love me.
Come on, Hallelujah. There was a void in every human
heart. That was always meant for his
love to feel glory to God. And it's only his Is love that
can completely satisfy. Completely satisfied.
Hallelujah. No man.
Come on, no woman. I don't care how good they are,
they can't satisfy that place that only God can satisfy.
No Mama no Daddy. Come on.
No child. No child.
Nothing can satisfy that human heart.
That only God was supposed to feel.
Hallelujah, with complete love, pure love himself.
That's all. He created us to encounter and
to experience is the pure love of God.
Hallelujah. It's all we ever wanted us to
know from the very beginning. He created man in the garden.
He created him to have that love relationship with him.
Amen. And man was never to encounter
any other type of love, but because of the Fall, come on,
imitation had to come into play of what this world could try to
feel of what everything else in the world, could try to satisfy
because we were living by our senses and how we fell.
Because of the sin nature because of the Fall, amen.
Hallelujah. But he never his original intent
was never for us to have to encounter any other type of
love, but just pure Agape, which is God himself.
A gossip, a that's all we were ever intended to encounter.
Hallelujah. And it's the very thing that
every human heart is still searching for that.
Doesn't know him. Amen.
And you know, Ephesians talks about the fact Of how he wants
us to know, deaths, and widths and lengths, and Heights of his
love. So, you know what that tells me,
we can encounter more and more and more, and more, and more and
more and more of his love. We've not exhausted his love.
Come on, come on. There's so much more to
encounter with his love. It wasn't just too.
Come on, just be there to love us enough to save us and to, you
know, fill that heart. But know, his love was there to
continually bring a supply. Every day as we grow in him to
where we could grow in him and in his love in depth and width
and length and height that no man can do outside of him, he
can take you to places. Come on, everybody talks about
in the natural, how, you know, man, and woman they can take you
places. No, nobody can take you to a
place but my God, come on. No matter how good it is in the
natural, his is even better. Hallelujah.
And so we need.
If we don't have that relationship with him that we
are growing in these depths of love with him on a continual
basis. They're still going to be lack
and they're still going to be things that you're not satisfied
with. Come on, but it's up to you to
grow in this love a men to grow in the love of God and to
continue to be motivated by his love.
Everything we do in the kingdom of God should be motivated by
his love. If his love is not the
motivation. For why you come to church?
Why you serve? Why you help the poor.
Come on, it's nothing. See your motive is wrong.
The motivation for why we do what we do is because we want to
love him, come on and serve him. And it's because I love him that
I'm doing the things that I'm doing.
Hallelujah. It has to be the motivation of
our heart glory to God. Well I'm preaching tonight.
If y'all have figured that out you know and Pastor did a
wonderful job on the route of love right in his teaching, to
get some things Back in Balance that the world always tries to
get out of balance and for some reason, it always gets up in the
church. Right.
You know and I don't remember, I believe he said this you know
with everything in the word of God there is always and has
always been a god side and a man side and that's the thing that
it seems people always get confused.
Because it was always God working with man.
So there is a God side and things that he has done and has
established. And God, I've said this before
has already done everything. He's gonna do Jesus has
fulfilled his purpose and has already done everything he's
gonna do. Right?
And now it's the holy ghost at work in our lives and through
our lives to continue to allow Allow us to hear from God to
grow in God, to do the things necessary that we need to do for
God and operating in his kingdom.
Amen. And we have a responsibility now
that God has done everything for us.
We have the responsibility now that we have to work this thing.
Now, we're not working that in the flesh to be born again.
No, we are working under his Come on and by faith.
To see the purpose and the plan that God has for each and every
one of our Lives to come to pass and there's a Grace upon our
life to be able to accomplish that whatever it is, right?
There's a Grace to be able to do that and we do it by faith.
We do it by faith but he ministered on you know, the
route of love and we saw that, you know, there has always been
and will always continue. Continue to be conditions to his
love. Amen.
I don't have a problem with that, it's set boundaries for my
life when I needed to be reined in.
Come on, set. Boundaries, is it that what we
are as parents supposed to do for our children?
Set boundaries why? So they don't get out of
control. And run wild because no human
person was ever supposed to be self-governed.
We were always supposed to be governed by God, come on by him.
And there was always boundaries set, right?
Because love has boundaries, amen.
So, you know, in him teaching on love.
We also remember him talking about, the fact that God is love
God does not feel loved, right? God is love.
He is the essence of love. It is his nature.
It's who he is. He is love, right?
We just have to have a proper definition of what his love
produces right and how his love operates for us to continue to
make sure that we're walking in alignment with what he says love
is and not what the world says love is right and And so you
know with love we know that he said that God is love it's the
very essence of who he is. It's his nature.
Some people say it's his character.
Love is his character. It's who he is right?
We can say this. He is the source of pure love.
He's the source of Love of Holy, Love of pure love.
Amen, of undefiled love. Come on of undefiled, love the
world has defiled. What God created.
And turned it into lust, right? Okay, so we have to recognize
that he is love. He is pure love and not only
that, that the foundation of his kingdom and how he operates is
through. Love the foundation, of the
kingdom of God, is love, right? Why is this important?
You remember Pastor ministered on the floor?
Forest and he always talked about, you can't see the, what
the the trees for through the forest, right?
Because so many people get focused on different parts of
God that they miss the whole picture, the big picture of the
Kingdom, but he and talking about the forest when he
preached and Minister on that I'll never forget.
He talked about how that before Forest bed is love.
Everything up comes up out of love, every tree in.
The kingdom of God, comes up and grows from what love.
It's the forest bad. What does that saying?
It's the foundation. It's the foundation of the
Kingdom, which is love because God is love.
So everything that he has to offer us as being his children.
Right is He's always motivated. His motivation is love and life
everything. He brings brings life to it,
right? His motivation is love.
So when he talks about healing what is that?
Tree of healing growing up out of love.
When we talk teach on faith, what is Faith growing out of
actually we know and Galatians 5 Faith Works through love and if
we don't operate in love, our faith is not Going to work
bottom line, so you can sit in church and have aught with your
brother and at like your faith is working, but you're a liar.
That's just I mean he called you a liar and his word is can say
it, right. Right, you can't do it.
It won't work, his scripture. Says it won't.
Right? So everything every subject, you
know, our confession, the sanctification, the blood, all
of these subjects that we learn about the Holy Spirit, none of
these things can operate properly if we don't understand
that it has to be funneled through.
Our heart of love. The motivation has to be through
the heart of love, because that's his heart.
That's who he is. That's how his kingdom functions
and operates, right? So it's very important that we
recognize that as well, right. Now I want to say this God's
love in definition, and who he is, is agape, Agape.
Is the Greek word for the love of God, okay.
And that is a pure type of love. It is God himself.
And the thing about it is, is we must be allowing love to be the
driving force behind our daily life in Christ.
It must be the driving force. It must be the thing that pushes
us that propels us. That drives us to live this
Kingdom Life his love, okay? And so we're going to talk about
his love and talk about agape. Love a little bit for the next
few Wednesday nights. We'll see where we go, right.
You know how? That's how I flow will see.
We may not do. Love the whole time.
There may be something, the Lord a direct me to through the
process, but we're going to start with love.
Okay, let me say this. That love God's love has to flow
through you. God's love was never meant to
just be, and we're going to get to these scriptures in a minute.
I'm just laying a foundation shed abroad in your heart to
just remain in your heart. His love must flow through you.
It must flow through you and we're going to see the
connection there. His love is always connected to
others. We're going to see this
everywhere. He talks about his love in
Scripture. It always has a reference to
others. Okay, we're going to see this in
scripture. Why is this important?
Because it wasn't just about Jesus loved you.
And it's about your little personal relationship with Jesus
and nothing else matters. No everywhere.
You see he talks about love. It is connected to someone else.
Always and we're going to see why.
Because this type of love, the love of the father cannot be
contained. It cannot be contained because
his love is not selfish. His love is pure, his love is
selfless. He is love and love has to give
of itself and that's why he created man because he needed
another, come on object to be able to shed his love on to pour
his love out on because love can't be contained.
It has to be given out his love, his love has to be given out, it
has to flow to others because that's who he is.
Who he is, okay. Love his life, was always
supposed to be reciprocal, right?
Of reciprocal thing. Always that it would just flow
and continue to go into other another individual into another
individual into another individual.
It was always supposed to flow, never to be contained, just so
you can enjoy his love because, you know, it's he loved me.
You have to say these things because this world is so wrapped
up in itself. That we've bought that lie even
in the church. Come on.
That even the people in the church, don't want to share his
love. How in the world can you not
share about his love? How in the world?
Can you be so selfish to keep it all to yourself?
Come on. No no, no.
His love was supposed to flow. It was supposed to flow, and
that's how we end up getting selfish.
Christians is, when we don't let it flow, it actually will become
stagnant within your own heart. Clogged up, come on.
So let's go to a few scriptures so y'all won't keep looking at
me like that. First John Chapter 4 verses 7
through 21. it says this beloved let us love o one another For
love is what so his love that's from him.
It's supposed to be what? For a one another, not just you
come on, not just you. But for one another and everyone
who loves is born of God and knows God the one who does not
love, does not know. God for God Is Love by this.
The love of God was manifested in.
In us that God sent his only begotten son into the world, so
that we might live through him in this love.
Not that, we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his son to
be a perpetuation for our sins. Beloved, if God, so loved us, we
also ought to love one another. Again, no one has seen God at
any time and if we love one another, oh, this is
interesting. and if we love one another, God abides in US, And
his love is perfected in US. That word perfected means
mature. It's matured.
So you can have the love of God in your heart that has not
matured and is still selfish and still wrapped up in what God's
done for you. If you've not allowed this love
to flourish and grow within your heart that he shed abroad and
we're going to read that scripture in a minute.
So he says this by this. We know that we abide in him and
he in us because he has given us of his Spirit.
We have seen and testified that the father has sent the son to
be the savior of the world. Whoever confesses that Jesus is
the son of God, God abides in him and he in God God, we have
come to know and believe the love, which God has for us.
God is love and the one who abides in love abides, in God,
and God abides in him. By this love is perfected with
us by what? How is love perfected in us?
If we abide in his love, that word abide.
Stay put in his love and I'm going to tell you in the world.
We're living. We better abide and stay put
because there's some unlovely things happening in the world
and we must be abiding in this love on a continual basis.
Dwelling in this love staying put in this love right?
Sitting in a posture of love. Then he says, then he says, this
is love is perfected with us, if we are continually what abiding,
so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment because
as he is. So, are we in the world?
There is no fear in love, but perfect love.
What cast out fear? His perfect love cast out fear.
His perfect love again that word means matured love.
His perfect love has his love matured within you.
It should be so matured within you that covid doesn't fear
bring fear to you. Because perfect love cast out,
fear. Perfect.
Love mature. Love within your heart.
Come on will not fear when you get the diagnosis of cancer.
Come on, perfect. Love dwelling in.
You abiding in you and you've matured in this love.
You've gone to death and widths and Heights.
And length of his love continually year after year
growing in the knowledge of his love.
Come on, that thing's listen. That the world is fearful of you
don't have to fear you don't even have to fear, man.
That can take your life. The Bible says, come on, we
don't have to fear because we've allowed his Love to mature
within us grow within us to perfect us to a place that I
know. I'm encapsulated in his love, no
matter what from day-to-day his love.
Come on, just it's all around me within me.
Soak it out of me. When things come up throughout
the day that want to get me out of a place of love with
somebody. It don't even happened.
You know, why? Because it's oozing out of me.
That's how we should live. So full of his love, I said this
year, I'm living in the Overflow.
Y'all can stay shallow if you want but I'm going to live in
the Overflow of all that God has come on.
So it's very important that we recognize that.
If we've allowed God's love to perfect us, we don't have to
fear anything. What can man do to US?
Economic collapse, who cares? I'm not going to worry about it.
A day in my life. Right, who cares?
Time and time again, you can see through scripture, if you've
read your Bible from Genesis to Revelation year after year,
after year, after year, come on, 32 years of reading the word and
acting on the word. You ought to have something in
your heart. You don't have to fear verse 19.
It said we love because he first loved us.
We can't love right outside of God.
We cannot love outside of him. We'll have a disordered view of
love outside of him because everything that this world has
is nothing. But Distortion verse 20 says
this. If someone says I love God but
hates his brother. I don't even know how half of
these Christians can act a fool the way they do.
Hating on people and talk about people, slander people and say
they are believers and Ron people to the ground.
Talk about them. Slander them.
Actin crazy. And have and thinking, they're
there, right with God, that that ain't even right, that ain't
even right. Christians have racist problems.
Come on, I ain't even right. So he says I love God or he says
if you say you love God but hate your brother, what does he call
you? He said it for the one who does
not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God.
Whom he has not seen. Now, who is he talking to here?
In this book of First, John, he is talking to believers.
You ain't talking to the world. He's talking to believers. so he
says this verse 21 and this commandment we have from him
that the one who loves God should also what Love his
brother, always. His love has always been
connected to one another. To someone else wasn't just
about you. It was about others and I think
in the church we forgotten that We forgotten because we've we've
watered down Christianity so much and have taught that this
is all just about you and Jesus, come on that we become so
selfish with it that we don't do anything.
We don't do anything with this. Love that we've encountered.
You ought to be so jacked, excited to go share and pour out
his love on somebody else. That everybody you encounter,
they ought to see, wow, there's something about you, what is it?
And it they should be able to recognize your love just flowing
out of you. Hallelujah.
It says verse 21. This is very important when he's
talking to Believers here and he says this commandment we have
from him that the one who loves God should love his brother.
You know what he tells us? It's a commandment, it's not a
choice. Whether we could sit in service
and and have aught with somebody have something against somebody.
Not forgive somebody, come on, not be walking in love with
somebody. We don't have that Liberty and
we don't Have that choice? That is not a choice.
You have as a Believer. He says it's a command that we
are to love. So command that we're to love.
We're to love. No matter what.
And that's pure love.
That's pure love. That's his love when we can love
no matter what. no matter what someone said about us, no matter
what someone has done to us, no matter what When we can still
love them. Come on.
So I want to title this message. The Royal law of love.
Yes, I'm using the word law. Because his Commandments were
simply what I don't have a problem with it.
I don't know why people get so uptight about legalistic law,
all this stuff, because the word of God is legal and binding.
It is his law. It's his law.
I didn't. I never had a problem with it.
I mean I never did I didn't know anything about the word of God
and I started reading it and just decided Well he said it, I
better do it and nobody had to tell me.
And I didn't feel bound. Right.
No, I felt liberated and free. Because I knew he loved me and
what he said was best for me. So James chapter 2 verse 8, this
is why I'm calling it. The Royal law of love because
James 2:8 calls it that and the new King James version, it says
if you really fulfill the Royal law.
According to scripture, you will love your neighbor as yourself
and you will do well. some of us aren't doing well, because we're
not loving one another We're not loving one another.
We have a fences with one another.
We have issues with one another and it usually starts, even if
you're married, usually you have in the marriage.
And that's something you got to really watch out with that.
You don't have fought with your sibling, not your sibling,
sorry, your spouse. You could have fought with your
sibling as well, right? So he says, if you really
fulfilled the Royal law, why am I calling it?
The Royal law? Because when you look up that
word, Royal it is literally basilic, which is the keep do.
The kingdom law of love. It's Royal.
It's the kingdom law of love. Amen.
And he says that if we are to operate in it, fully than we're
going to be ones that are going to love our neighbors as
ourselves. Okay, now I want to get into a
few. I want to have, I'm going to
have two points about this tonight, but I just want to
continue to read some scripture here.
Matthew 22, 36 through 40. It says this teacher, which is
the great commandment I am at and the law that Jesus said to
him this was them asking him. You shall love the Lord, your
God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your
mind, this is the first and great commandment.
And the second is like it. You shall love your neighbor as
yourself on these two Commandments, hang all the law
and the prophets. Okay.
All the these two Commandments hang on all All the laws and the
prophets, but then we see in John chapter 13 verses 34
through 35. It says, a nude, this is Jesus
speaking here. He says a new commandment.
I give to you again. He called it a commandment
because he knew people human nature.
He said, he knew the hearts of, man.
He knew human nature. He knew the hearts of man, that
they wouldn't just automatically love.
That they needed to be commanded to love and you still see people
have a hard time. Loving one another today.
Come on. So he commanded it to it and he
said, listen, he said a new commandment.
I give to you that you love one. Another as I have loved you that
you also love one another. Again, you are you're seeing
every one of these scriptures connected to other people.
To one another, to your neighbor, right?
And he said this, by this, all will know that you are my
disciples if you have love for one another.
So how is God, how are people going to know?
You're truly his disciples because you lay hands on people
and cast out demons and can prophesy and pray in tongues and
and you know all these things. because you can go out into the
streets and, you know, know The World's Gonna know, people are
going to know that, we're truly his disciples because we have
love for one. Another, we actually operate in
love people actually see us have things going on in our lives
that we have to deal with and forgive one another for And they
see. Wow, you were able to forgive
them, your marriage was able to be restored after your husband,
cheated on you, with five women, come on.
I bet somebody would take notice of that, kind of love.
What night? Wow, you were able to walk in
love with them and forgive them because they abused your child.
Wow, they stole your money and you're able to forgive them for
still in your whole bank account.
Not because you cast out a demon.
Because you were able to love and forgive somebody for
something they did to you. Right.
This is real. We are quiet it.
I know it's spring break. I'm thankful you're even here
you see see where everybody's at on spring break.
Hallelujah. So but Jesus said this is a new
commandment see. Jesus came and fulfilled the law
of love. He came and fulfilled it.
So now we aren't just supposed to love because y'all love
yourself hard sometimes. So thank God.
He came and fulfilled it and now we have a new commandment to
love as he loved because we don't love ourselves very well
sometimes. So how are we going to love our
neighbor? Like we love ourselves when a we
ain't doing too good with ourselves.
But see Jesus came and wrapped it all up.
Come on and fulfilled it. All he was the essence Jesus
brought Agape into the Earth. He brought it into the Earth.
He brought his love, the Father's Love.
He was the Manifest presence of Agape to the world.
He brought him into the world. And he said, I fulfilled it all
and now you can love like I loved.
That means when they beat me in the face, and, and plucked my
beard out and put thousands of stripes on my back and threw me
to the Wolves. So to speak.
Come on. That means I could still stand
up and say, father, what forgive them for, they know not what
they do, because I'm loving them and forgiving them.
So now, he lets us know that you now have a commandment to love
like him. And this is a higher form of
love. It's a higher standard of love.
Amen. And we can't do it outside of
him. We must have his love.
Because we can't do it outside of him.
We can't do it in and of ourselves.
We can't do it not being tapped into his love in our daily life
and abiding in this love, right? We know.
And this is how we know that we have his love in our hearts is
because he tells us in Romans 5 verse 5.
It says this hope does not disappoint because the love of
God has been poured out one translation shed shed abroad.
What in our hearts by the holy, Spirit who was given to us.
So the minute you got born again, guess what was the first
thing that showed up? And why you encountered him like
and had this piece in your life and that hole in your heart
filled and all the sin and all the guilt and all the
condemnation and everything you felt before he swooped in and
filled that Heart full of his love.
It was the first fruit. It was his love.
It was a god Bay, that was poured out in your heart and now
you can love like he loves you can forgive like he forgives,
come on. You can encounter any situation
and not fail. If you apply his love to your
life, if you apply his love. Of to your life outside of it.
We can't do it. First John, 3 1, through 3, says
this behold? What manner of love?
The father has bestowed upon us. That we should be called
children of God. Therefore, the world does not
know us, because it did not know him.
Beloved now, we are children of God and it has not yet been
revealed what we shall be. But we know that when he is
revealed we shall be like him for.
We shall see him as he is and everyone who has this hope in
him purifies himself just, as he is pure.
Now, I don't want to get over into that, but let's I want to
drop down to verse 16. Yeah, we have a responsibility
to keep our self purified. From the contaminations of this
world. It's our responsibility not
gods. Anyway, verse 16 of that First,
John 3 says this by this, we know, love because he laid down
his life for us. We also, what ought to lay down
our lives for our Brethren. How many of us?
Believers are laying down our lives.
Meaning sacrificing a little to go serve some, but one of our
brother, maybe you see somebody that needs help with something.
And instead of skew sitting there watching your Netflix show
you decide hey I'm going to go help them because they needed
help moving this or they needed help doing this and they ask for
help. So I'm going to go help him
instead of being selfish come on, right?
So this is what he's talking about.
Laying down your life, not dying for them, but self-sacrifice for
them, sacrificing yourself to be able to help some Someone else
in the kingdom of God. So it says, but whoever has the
world's good, see, he's letting us know and sees his brother in
need and shuts up his heart from him.
How does the love of God even abide in him?
Wow. How does the love of God abide
in him? My little children, let us not
love in word or in tongue, but in deed and truth.
That means we're going to have to do something to demonstrate,
love always demonstrated. He was a demonstration of his
love to humanity that he decided, you know what?
I'm going to send my son, come on.
I'm going to send my son wrapped in flesh to redeem mankind.
And then he goes on to say and by this we know that we are of
the truth and shall assure our hearts before him for if our
heart does not condemn us. God is greater than our heart
and knows all things beloved. If our heart does not condemn
us, we have confidence towards God and whatever we ask we
receive from him because we keep his Commandments.
What is this commandment talking about his love and to do those
things that are pleasing in his sight and this is his
Commandment that we should believe on the name of the son
of Jesus Christ and love what one another, there it is again,
and he gave Gave us. This commandment he gave us this
commandment. So his love was always bent to
affect someone else's life that you're around.
That you're around. Who is it that you're connected
with and his love ought to be affecting your world.
Your world, your your workplace, your job, the people you're
investing it all of these things, the love of God should
be flowing from you and everything that you're doing.
And the only thing you're motivated by is that love, would
be seen. Through your life.
So that they could be drawn and receive and be a reciprocal
precipitant of the love of God. Amen.
That's why we're doing it because we should be loving
people to do the things that we are doing.
Now, let me give you two points. The only way that we're going to
be able to walk in this love and keep ourselves.
This love growing in our hearts and keeping this love fresh in
our minds and in our hearts and in our daily lives is, we're
going to have to abide in his word.
If you have an issue with somebody, if you have something
going on in your heart, if you know, you need to forgive if,
you know, you still are not a person that's fully
understanding and recognizing the depths of what his love can
do in your life. You need to read first, John,
you need the, the book you need to read John the book.
You need to focus on those. Books because it's all about his
love and others until you get it so saturated with in your life.
Come on that. It becomes the reality of you,
walking it out. If there's people, you need to
forgive if their situations that took place in your past, if
there's things that happened in your life, whatever.
If you're still struggling with, you know, a spouse or a sibling
or a parent, you should be focused on this book John and
first John you should that should be something that your
daily meditating on. Listen, it don't just happen
just because you come to church guys.
It doesn't say active and Alive, unless it's daily, you making an
effort to put it in your heart. It won't happen, it won't
happen. So, outside of the word, it will
not produce anything in your life, but actually religiosity
and deception. Deception.
Being a hearer of the word but not deceiving yourselves,
deceiving yourselves, that, you're good with God.
Come on, when you're not, Okay, so we don't want deception to be
a part of our lives. So the only way we're going to
be able to walk in the god Kind of Love is if we continually
abide in his word. First John 5 1 through 4 says
this whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God,
and everyone who loves him, who begat also loves him, who is
begotten of him by this. We know that we love the
children of God when We love God and keep his Commandments for
this love. The love of God, that we keep
his Commandments and his Commandments are what not
burdensome. so he's letting us know that his Commandments don't
burden you down Like everybody thinks when they hear legalism
and and all, you know, you're preaching, the law and you're
talking about command. He just said his Commandments
are burdensome. Know, you have a wrong
perspective. He said, they wouldn't burden
you down, right? No.
It actually liberates and brings Freedom.
The Devil Wants. You bound and wants to lie to,
you. Keep you in religion, or keep
you bound to unforgiveness and not walking in love because he
can have a field day with your life and you'll never walk in
the purpose and plan. And fullness of God, so verse 4
says this, for whatever is born of God, overcomes the world and
this is the victory that overcomes the world.
Our faith. Amen.
Verse John first. John 2536 says this.
But whoever what keeps his word? Truly, the love of God is
perfected in him. Whoever keeps his word.
The love of God is perfected in. You the love of God is perfected
again. That word means matured.
The love of God. When you keep his word, the love
of God is being perfected in you.
It's maturing within you because you're keeping his word, you're
doing? What his word says your, you
need to his word, your daily meditating and his word, you're
living every day out his word in your life.
Come on, when I didn't know anything.
You know, the first thing I did know to do whatever the word
said. When I didn't know how to be led
by the spirit when I didn't, when I wasn't filled with the
Holy Ghost, come on, when I didn't know how Faith worked
when I didn't know all these things.
But what I did know is he said it, I believed it and just did
it because I know what I was doing before, what working.
So I was saying, well this must work So let me do it.
Didn't have a pastor, didn't have a mentor come on.
I said this before. I didn't have nobody taking me
along the side and having to have meetings with me on a daily
basis and all these things. No, I picked up the word and I
read the word that I've gotta forgive, and I've got a walk in
love and I've got us. Come on exercise by faith and
whatever the word said to do, if he says not drink because he
said no, drunker would inherit the kingdom of God guess what?
What I didn't do. If he said this wouldn't inherit
the kingdom of God, guess what? I decided, I, well, I don't want
to do that because I surely want to be inheriting the kingdom of
God. I mean, it doesn't take a brain
surgeon. It doesn't take a degree.
It doesn't take a doctorate. Come on.
No he said it's childlike Faith. Just simply believing what his
words said that's the first step and how many Christians don't
even do that. The first step of you growing
and maturing and learning who he is and walking and letting love
be developed in your life and letting the fruits of the spirit
operate in your life and, and doing all the things that the
word says to do, before we even knew who we are, come on, just
do the word because when you read the word, it's a mirror.
This is what you're becoming. This is what is a come on.
You are transforming into the image.
The washing of the watering of the word.
Hallelujah, that we need. And we're so, deficient of
reading the word, and I'm going to tell you two minutes on a
clip is not enough. You still need to pick up the
written word of God and open up your Bible and sit there and
read it. So that you're not distracted by
all the things that come through on your phone.
Or your iPad nothing will ever. You know, this is still the
number one selling book in the world.
Nothing will ever replace this? Nothing.
Hallelujah. So we need the word down in our
hearts, so that when things happen, man, it's easy for for
love to just flow. That's all right.
We're just going to love them and go on, forgive them, forgive
them. Father, they don't know what
they do, we need to have that heart and let it just roll off.
Just forgive them, they don't know what they do, even if they
do know what they're doing, God bless them.
Because then he Kohl's will be heaped upon their head.
I don't want coals on your head but you going to get them on
your head if you don't repent. Right.
You know, so we need to realize that we must be people of the
word and abiding in his word is. So he says, but whoever keeps
his word. Truly, the love of God is
perfected in him. Truly the love of God is
perfected in him by this. We know that we are in him, he
says he abides in him, ought himself also to walk just as he
walked. What how did he walk?
Forgive them for? Gave them.
Sorry, you don't have to be a doctorate to know what the word
says. Right, forgive them, let it go
just like he did. He forgave him and Let It Go.
Hallelujah. And went to the Cross because he
was on a mission to fulfill his purpose that the father had for
him. Amen.
So don't let things get you off your purpose and the plan that
God has for your life because it's all these little things
that are trying to destroy what God actually wants to do in your
life, all the little things that will cause you to get distracted
and to get off if you don't stay focused on the word John 15:9
through 17 says this as the father loved me I also loved you
abide. Died in my love.
Abide in my love. How do you abide in his love?
You abide in the word? You stay in as word, you allow
the holy spirit in his presence. Come on to minister to you.
As you're reading the word staying in a constant fellowship
with him. Staying in a position of your
heart, open to receive as you're sitting up under the word as
you're hearing the word always, your heart should be open to
want to receive what God is saying.
Right. So he says, I also loved you
abide in my love. If you have keep my
Commandments, you will abide in my love.
Just as I have kept my father's Commandments and abide in his
love, these things I have spoken to you that my joy would remain
in you and that your joy may be full.
Some people's Joy is just a lack of them abiding in the word and
spending time in their love relationship with the Lord.
You know, he warns us in Revelations, right?
That in the last days, you could what lose your first?
That you could walk away from your first.
You can, you can lose your first love.
I remember years ago, when pastor and I got married, this
September will be 32 years and you know, one thing his mother
said to us or to him. Earl Wayne, you're going to have
to just fall in, love with Marcy over and over, and over again.
That's what we should be doing with Jesus falling in love with
him over and over and over again.
That means when you don't feel nothing, you better get stirred
back up to fall back in love with him.
Remember what he's done for you. Remember where you got got?
Brought out of. Remember, come on.
All the things he's done for you don't ever forget it, keep it
stirred up in your heart. Same thing you need to do when
you're married, you better because those days that you
don't feel, Like love, and when they say something wrong, or
they act of crazy way and you want to knock their head off or
whatever the case may be, what are you going to have to do stir
up that love and remember, oh yeah, I love him.
Let me fall back in love, right? You gotta do it.
It's the same thing with our
relationship with the Lord but how much how many of us, you
know, get so focused on doing that in the natural that we
aren't even taken time to do that.
Spiritually with the father. It's almost like that takes pre.
Eminent what's that word precedent?
Over your relationship with the father and I can tell you one
thing that ain't never going to work.
If that ain't right. Never going to work.
If this isn't right and your love relationship with the
father isn't, right? Then this is going to be
mediocre and even at the expense of could fail, Because God
should be the core in the center of your relationship, your
marriage. Amen.
So, we've got to keep ourselves stirred up in the love of God.
And the way we do that is staying in his word Abiding.
And his word continually feeding on his word.
Amen. Now what scripture did.
I was I own Nine. Yeah, okay.
Verse 11. I guess these things I have
spoken to you, that your joy May remain in you and that your joy
would be full. This is my commandment that you
love one. Another as I have loved you do
you see every one of these scriptures that I have read to
you tonight have are in direct connection with others.
It was always about others. It was is not just about you.
And your love towards the father.
He always wanted this love because again, love cannot be
contained. And if his love is really in
your heart and is really full that you will have no problem
pouring that love out onto other people, you will have no problem
allowing his love to flow through your life, to be able to
demonstrate it in serving one another and sharing with one
another in giving to one another.
And helping one another. It's all part of that love at
work within a Believers life. And connecting with one another,
how many people don't even have a good relationship with anybody
else? You got to be around people for
eternity and if you can't hobnob with people in your own body or
spend time with other believers or spend time with somebody
else. Come on, there is a problem
because we were never meant to be isolated.
We were never meant to be people.
On an island, just you and God, God was always intentional.
That we were to be a family that he wanted a family that we were
be. We were to be a community that
we were to be connected to other people.
Amen. And it's not just about you and
your little household us for, and no more.
Right. No, it was always about you,
pouring out your life into other people and connecting to other
people. It wasn't about isolation.
Oh well I'm just an introvert and I don't like all these
things you know fellowships and listen to me.
I didn't like it. I didn't want anything to do
with women because they're nasty.
Just tell the truth. All the drama, all the cat
fighting all the backbiting. All the gossip.
You know, he directly talks to women about gossip in the word,
he don't talk to the men now. They, I know a few but but he
don't, he don't, he don't come make the gossip connection to
men in the scripture. He makes the gossip connection
to women being idle. Busybodies.
Gossips. Right.
So I didn't want nothing to do with y'all.
Just joking. Not y'all.
Y'all are awesome. but, But his love compels me.
I must be connected. Two others.
Right? So I have to get over myself.
That's all. That's about.
Just get over yourself. Say get over yourself.
Just get over yourself. Come on.
SO and in these days with everything going on in the
world, this is very important and because of covid, a lot of
people got, shut up, come on in their homes, and now don't even
come back to church to fellowship or to be around
people that are like-minded. I mean I had we've had several
of them said we never going back to church, be around people.
That's a problem because you think you a Believer and going
to be like what you going to be somewhere on the sweet.
Bye and bye. On the back of the back, 40 up
in heaven, or on the New Jerusalem with nobody around.
I mean, it's not going to happen, we're always going to
have people around us. We're always going to have
people around us. So we need to learn how to have
healthy connections and relationships with people.
We were meant to be a part of one.
Another, the Bible tells us in Corinthians, the hand, can't
tell the foot. I don't need you.
He said, the body is all connected.
I placed you in the body, where it pleases me, you know, we all
are to be connected and bring a joint Supply and bring an
Nourishment to one another. Now, you know some of us has got
to get more nourishing than others.
Right. But we're all to be connected,
we're all to be a part of one another.
We're all to be person that's going to allow God's love to
flow out of us and function and the way we're going to do that.
Now, number two, I've been going on enough.
Number two, we're going to have to walk by the spirit.
We're going to have to walk by the spirit.
If we're going to allow God's love to grow within our hearts
and mature within our hearts and we're going to, you know, walk
out this love and and demonstrate it to the world.
And to Believers then we're going to have to walk by the
spirit because again outside of the word, we can't do it outside
of God, we can't do it because we needed his love shed abroad
in our heart. But outside of walking in the
spirit, we're not going to be able to do it because if We try
to walk by the flesh, then we're just going to get hurt.
We're going to get hurt if we try to walk by the flesh.
And it's easy for believers to do things in the flesh.
Do you know, Pete Believers have been hurt thinking?
They were walking and love with people.
That actually they should have cut off because they didn't have
a right definition of love and they wouldn't have been hurt.
They wouldn't have been hurt if they actually wasn't doing that
in the flesh, and they were being led by the spirit because
when you're hurt, come on. You can see that there's times
that you've done thing in the flesh.
But now, I understand, there are times you get hurt and
devastated when you do things by the spirit and you are being led
by the spirit, there are ways you can get hurt but you know
what that hurt? Does it hurt like the other
hurt? Because that hurt you are
wrapped up in the love of God with and it easily just to the
Forgiveness can be easily there to flow.
When you've done it by the spirit.
Right? When you've done it by the
spirit. So, there's devastations that
happen in our lives. When we think we're walking in
love, or doing things, and we end up doing it in the flesh.
So it's very important that we walk by the spirit.
Let's look at this in Galatians. Chapter 5 actually.
I wanted to read the whole book of Galatians but I refrained
because I saw something in the book of Galatians chapter 5 that
I had not seen before it, that something 32 years, reading the
word, but here's another, another layer that you can see I
always focused on Galatians chapter 5 about the fruits of
the spirit. But actually, the whole context
of Galatians chapter 5 is talking about the love of God.
Because Galatians chapter 5 begins to talk about faith.
Don't work outside of love. And the only way you can do it
is walking by the spirit. So then he goes on and lets us
know. Let's look at a few scriptures
though. It says, in Galatians chapter 5,
I want to read 13 through 26. So I saved you a little.
It says for we were called to Freedom.
Brethren. Only do not turn your freedom
into an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve.
For the whole law is fulfilled. See this whole book is talking
about love. And I never saw it in this
context before so the whole law is fulfilled in one word.
In this statement you shall love your neighbor as your self.
Okay. I got one scripture to that came
to me as I was driving here tonight so I don't have it on my
notes but I'm going to pull it up and read.
But if you bite and devour one another look at this, this is
what the context he's talking about.
If you buy and devour one, another take care that you are
not consumed by one another, but I say walk by the spirit and you
will not carry out the desires of the flesh.
What's the desire of the flesh that you're going to bite and
devour somebody? For something, they did.
And they need to hear a piece of your mind.
Right. So that's the desire of your
flesh to want to do that. To want to go punch somebody in
the face. To want to go beat the fire out
of somebody to want to go pull somebody's hair out, right?
That's what girls do. They get the hair?
Oh, I know. I was in a few cat fights in
school. I can't remember that.
Girl, I got in a fight with what her name was.
I was trying to think of it. I think it was Rolanda.
It was right here at Murray middle.
Y'all don't know. I have, I have a past here.
Cuz I had a mouth on me and my mama always said my mouth was
going to get me in trouble but you know I have these Rolanda
that was her name, she popped off and was being smart mouth to
me and I popped off back in the teacher, had stepped out of the
room and she came over there and hauled off and slap me right
across the face. So we got in a little tussle So
I was really just shocked that she went slap me, you know.
Anyway we got in a fight but it wasn't very much because the
teacher walked right back in the room, right, as she went out the
door, you know, but it was enough to happen, right?
Then anyway. And then I got in another fight
in the third grade. I don't think I've ever shared
this with y'all. Learn something new about me all
the time. so, in the third grade, At Lodi Elementary lawdy
lawdy, lawdy Elementary. It was right near Lodi was where
the Florida is still there. Florida State Penitentiary,
right. Anyway, so I went to lawdy
Elementary School, I was in the third grade and you know, some
boy some kid. I was sitting there minding my
own business and got up. Well, he walked by and like, you
know, touch my butt, you know how them boys do, try to rub my
butt and I hauled off and turn around and not you'll he hauled
off and turn around and not me straight in the face, busted my
lip. I got a little scar here.
Well, my stepdad wasn't real happy about that.
He knew whose Daddy he has, who his daddy was and went to his
house showed up, I thought, oh Lord, there's going to be a
murderer, I don't know. Because he was that kind of set
bad anyway. Yeah, that's my fight stories.
Had two of them. Flesh.
Yes, Nothing But The Flash. So help us God.
Oh I crack myself up. The things I have to say.
I don't look like the fighting time.
Do I? Oh hallelujah.
Thank the Lord! I told y'all thank the Lord.
I'm Sanctified. Thank you.
Jesus. So he says don't carry out, the
desires of the flesh for the flesh sets itself.
What flesh sets its desires against the spirit and the
spirit against the flesh, for those who are in opposition to
one another so that you may not do the things that you please,
but if you are led by the spirit, you are not under the
law. Now, the Deeds of the flesh are
evident which are immorality impurity.
Sensuality. See you read all these things
and just simply read the word and say, I don't want nothing to
do with this. Impurity sensuality adultery
idolatry, sorcery enmity, Strife jealousy, outbursts of anger
disputes dissensions factions envying, drunkenness, carousing,
and these, and then he goes on to say and things like these,
just things like these. There's more way more than just
these things listed, right? All the ways that the enemy has
created sin today, things like these tick-tock Snapchat
texting, all these things, like these things like these you get
it okay because I want to say just because it doesn't list, it
doesn't mean it's not implied. I've had people say oh it's
never said anything about not drinking it.
Oh yeah has multiple scriptures and hard liquor in Proverbs but
you still got people walking around acting like they.
Going to do it and inherit some things that just that messes me
up. I don't want to be anything
near. What won't inherit, right?
So, he says, things like these of which I forewarn you just, as
I have formed, warned you that those who practice, such things
will not inherit the kingdom of God, but verse 22.
So this is where I've always gone to Galatians about walking
by the spirit and talking about the fruits of the spirit that's
been put in our life. So we already recognize that
Romans 5:5, said that the first fruit that shows up in our
hearts is love and it's the first thing he list here.
The fruits of the spirit. So the fruits of the spirit is,
what? Love, joy, peace patience,
kindness goodness, faithfulness, gentleness self-control and
against such things. There is no law.
Now, those who belong to Christ, Jesus, our to crucify, the flesh
with its desires and passions. But if we live by the spirit,
let us also walk by the spirit. Let us not become boastful,
challenging one, another and envying, one another Oh,
Hallelujah. So if we are going to allow
God's word love to operate in our life, we must tap into the
fruits that's been giving us, right.
So when you want to punch somebody in the face you have a
fruit that's called not just love.
But what self-control when you want to have an outburst of
anger? You have a fruit now, that's
called what Self-control and peace.
Peace, patience, instead of responding quickly with an
outburst. Why don't you take a step back
and say no, I've got patients, I'm not gonna respond.
And then the Holy Ghost can actually start talking to you to
lead you and how you can respond by the spirit and not by the
flesh. Amen.
Hallelujah. So it's very important that we
recognize and I'm closing now. Oh, I said I was going to read
this other scripture. I wanted to read it.
In Romans 13, Romans 13. Verse is 8 through 10.
Says this. Oh, nothing to anyone except to
love one another. For he who loves his neighbor,
has fulfilled the law. For this shall not.
You should not commit adultery. You should not murder.
You shall not steal, you shall not covet.
And if there is any other commandment, it will be summed
up. In this saying, you shall love
your neighbor as yourself. Love does no wrong to your
neighbor. Therefore, love is the
Fulfillment of the law. Hallelujah!
Love is the Fulfillment of the law.
So, as we allow a god, A to operate in our life every day on
a daily basis thinking about what am I motivated by what what
is it that compelling me to do the things?
I'm doing to say the things, I'm saying to operate the way that
I'm operating, you must say, you know what, I must ask myself, is
this a posture of love? Is this coming from love?
Or is this coming from a, a fleshly desire, even right?
What is this coming from? And we have to recognize,
listen, guys, that in the day that we're living.
We've, we really need to get serious.
About the love of God. We really need to get serious
about it. Loving him and loving others and
walking in a god, Baal of walking by the spirit, walking
by the word and not fulfilling the desires of the Flesh and
loving one, another So that the world truly can't see, man.
This group of people really love each other man, they're always
helping each other out whenever something's going on in
somebody's life they're always there to help.
This is how the world's going to see the true love of God.
The true essence of who he is that we can forgive people that,
we don't Harbor ill feelings, that we let things go easily
people, people will see this and they'll recognize that, you know
what, they really love one another.
They really function like God, wouldn't that be something if we
could see everybody rising up into The agape love and walking
it out every day and knowing that this is my motivation, the
love of God is what motivates me.
This is why I do what I do. Right.
And you know what the Bible says that love never fails.
So we could be assured that if we are applying his love to our
life and it's being seen and demonstrated to others, then,
you know what, whatever it is whatever's going on.
It's not going to fail because his love doesn't fail when I
apply it to the situation that it needed.
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