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All right. Well, we're in that.
We're in love a men. Are you in love?
But you never said I love you. Amen, we are in love tonight.
We're going to talk about loves proof.
Let me define proof real quick. In the Webster, dictionary
Merriam-Webster Dictionary. It's the cogency of evidence
that compels acceptance by the mind of a truth or a fact.
All right? It's something that induces
certainty and or establishes validity, it's evidence
operating to determine the finding our judgment and so it's
it's is this is this evidence that comes at people like that's
it and soul of proves itself in the world it gives proof of
itself and so we're going to discover that tonight.
Because you know, we are taking the time to understand the love
of God. So tonight is a place that I
wanted to bring us two in this series.
There's another place but we'll just have to wait till 2021.
But we're going to get to this place and I want us to deal with
this place. So we're going to go ahead and
kind of open it up tonight. You know, among those that what
we would consider in acre-feet church those that are solid And
committed because to come to a midweek service.
You know you're doing more than just coming to Sunday alone and
so, it really kind of starts with what you what you know your
midweek service is kind of like your core members, right?
And so if it doesn't start with us, then guessing ever going to
get it in fact, guess won't get it.
And the world's not going to get it, the world is only going to
accept, you know, the traditional thought process
which is a truth but it can't It didn't bring you all the way
through. Where are all the benefits of
God's love, which is really just as nature.
And that we have. As children of God, we get to
experience because you know, basically is a ticket out of
condemnation and death and he'll and it'll say ticket straight to
heaven one side. I, you know, God love me.
So I don't have to die and be in the Lake of Fire and that's the
scope of his love, right? But as loves way bigger than
that and he wants to demonstrate it.
So let's go to our calculator. He texts, right?
Matthew chapter 15, verse 3 when I say key text on love.
But where we start out at it says and he answered and said to
them, why do you yourselves transgress the Commandment of
God for the sake of your tradition?
So a lot of times we have traditions in our mom, what we
think is God or how God is and come to find out, maybe he's
not. Hmm, Brian.
Do me a favor, look up in Acts and give me the reference where
it is. Priscilla and Aquila dealt with
a Polish, right? And he said, they showed him a
more clear way, right? I know it's in the book of Acts
because it was just before he went to the church in Ephesus.
When you get it, raise your hand.
So I can see it. Then I can tell them back there.
I want us to see it. You know, we know things
concerning God, aren't you? Glad we know things, and let me
just say it this way, the revelation of God is
Progressive. Meaning God starts us with
Truth. But it's not exhaustive.
So you know, we continue to gleam and grow about it and you
have to understand that when we were born again, our spirit man
Was Made Alive unto God, right? We became a new creature in
Christ. Then the Holy Spirit came to
live on the inside of us for the express purpose to train us.
Not just to Bear witness with our spirit world.
John of God that is one aspect. But also to teach us to goddess
and the truth, to disclose things to come to cause things
to come to our remembrance because, you know, we gonna get
in some situations that we need to know.
Like, well, what's God saying about this?
Remind me, what I'm supposed to do in this situation, right?
And so once our spirit man is Made Alive, we bring into the
life of God, our own thinking, and that has to be renewed to
the word of God. So that's why Peter Says, you
know, we need to receive the engrafted word of God which is
able to save our soul and then it's the since desire, the
sincere milk of the word so that we may walk grow by, what is it?
Acts 18. 26. Pull that up to see if they're
correct, acts 18 verse 26 because I want us to see here
that you know, we speak on a lot of different levels here and you
know, we can't cover everything specifically.
So here it is. And he says he began to speak
out boldly in the synagogue. When Priscilla and Aquila heard
him, they took him aside and explained to him the way of God
more accurately, which says this Apollo's, who was at eloquent
speaker. Okay, and they asked him, they
said now, you know, who you sent her ways, John the Baptist so
that was repentance. Okay, they're like this is
great. But now, these two people sent
under Paul and Paul preached on the kingdom of God and things
concerning Jesus, all right? This is clearly communicate in
Acts chapter 28 and Acts chapter.
Another chapter 20, I can't remember his 21:22, he Glick.
Clearly says, this is how I came and preached the kingdom of God.
And things concerning Jesus and he says it twice in the 28th
chapter. So we know Paul's message was
the same message, Jesus. He was preaching the kingdom of
God. Okay, well, Apollo has preached
repentance, but a Priscilla and Aquila and if you take this to
the next chapter 19, you'll see that policy is going to show up
and he's going to start preaching on the kingdom.
If you read the scripture so that means there's something
that Priscilla and Aquila were able to show him.
Contextually about scripture that he's like that makes even
more sense. That's even clearer.
And I've done this in the past my mom's down here.
So I'll pick on her. Mom, give me your glasses real
quick, so I've said it in the past and the past that, you
know, when we put our glasses on, right?
It is to correct a lens. You hear what I'm saying?
So again you, we put this on so we can see things clearer.
Now, my eyes aren't like my mom's.
I can't see anything right now so I'm sure you're seeing
exactly what I'm saying right now with your glasses on but
It's there. It's not that I could, I could
see with her glasses on everything was really blurry, so
I could move or I needed to but the men I took them off.
I could see clear same thing. Now, the middle I gave Mom her
glasses back. She can see, I'm assuming what I
can see now. And prior to that, she saw what
I saw in her glasses, so it's not that she couldn't see me if
she took them off right now, it's not like she couldn't shake
your hand but it's pretty. It's unclear, right?
And so you can move through life.
Life with things of God's word to navigate and not die.
But you could get it clearer. And we've seen this with TVs,
have we not? I mean, you know, you know TVs
do you know, they were tubes and it was black and white had all
the snow but now hasn't that picture become more clear.
I mean, it's just amazing and some movies that I used to watch
on one TV when you put them on one of those 1080s or 4K ones.
Now, it's almost like it don't even look the same.
It looks odd because it's so So clear.
I feel like I'm actually watching a live stage
performance of some of it sometimes and it's just weird to
my mind because it's so crystal, clear, right?
And so, this is what we should Endeavor to do.
Anytime we come together in the body is not sit back and say, I
know. But say what?
I know, Lord continue to make things even more clear, because
the clear things are the easier it is for you.
To see and navigate in life, okay?
I don't want to go through, you know blurry.
You know, I want to be able to go through with more than
perfect vision. You know, I mean I want to be
able to see beyond what I can see now which is what the Holy
Ghost to do. He'll move you in the things
that haven't even happened yet. Okay, so we recognize that there
are Traditions, that men have. They may have come out of some
type of Truth, and then they got kind of modified in one sense to
kind of accommodate our living prior to Christ.
This happens around every holiday season, right?
People come up, start talking to me about, you know, the origin
of Christmas. I don't want, I don't want to
hear about it. I don't see what I want to hear
about it, because they don't mean nothing to me, you know?
Don't that. Don't mean nothing to me.
I celebrate Jesus. Okay, that's what I do.
All right. Thanksgiving, I celebrate
Thanksgiving without things, giving right man, needs these
things. I never celebrate Halloween
because I don't celebrate the dead.
Okay, that's me. All right, that's just where I'm
at. I never told my kids about You
know, who? Never did because they couldn't
see. And I didn't want to put an
impression in them. That someone's watching.
Could do these things on it. Let them know that it was just
pretend because they can't see Jesus.
Now, mom had me believe that there was Santa Claus and it did
not corrupt me. Okay, so don't get over there
and think, oh my god, what have I done to my kids?
The word set? You free from everything's what
I'm saying, okay? So I went trick-or-treating.
L've never took my kids triggered I but I did and I
turned out, okay. Cause the word works, right?
I'm just saying, I choose to live to where I tame to and
that's becomes my conviction. I have such as Paul said, I've
arrived at this juncture and I can't go back somewhere else, so
I stay where I'm at. Okay, now, what we do is we
Inspire for clarity, okay, so when we go through this passes
tonight, I cannot exhaust it all.
All right, because the minute you get in this into this thing
called love of God. Grace is multifaceted.
Okay, there's Saving Grace. There's empowering Grace,
there's giving Grace. Okay, they're serving Grace.
All right, so there's different Graces.
All right, there's not just one which we typically quote the
most Grace, meaning on merited favor.
We receive something. We did not deserve well Jesus
never Had that Grace although the Bible clearly says that he
grew and Grace that the grace of God was upon him.
Well what in the world did Jesus ever do wrong?
That he deserves something didn't deserve it.
I mean he was without sin but he did have empowering Grace and he
grew in that empowering Grace and that strengthening Grace,
that allowed him to overcome every obstacle, Temptation
anything that took place so that he never did Sin and became the
perfect lamb without spot or blemish.
We are introduced to God through the unmerited favor Grace but
the minute we receive Christ as our Lord and savior.
He wants to start putting on serving Grace.
He wants to start. Strengthening gray.
He definitely it's also a great dose of empowering Grace because
now you're a new creature in Christ and you don't have to sin
anymore and start keep receiving stuff that you don't deserve.
Okay. But we want to sometimes apply
one definition across the board, and the same thing is with God's
love. Although you can't read 1st
Corinthians chapter 13, verses 4 through 8 and see that love
responds. Exactly the same way, in every
situation. Ation.
So, the application of God's love.
Our nature is predicated on the condition by which is having to
have a conversation, or intervene or do something right.
The Lord will speak to those that are outside of his kingdom
one way. And then he speaking to those
inside his kingdom, some other way, case in point the Bible
says, no man goes after God. No, not one unless the spirit
drawl him. But now once you're In the
kingdom of God, he says that we are to go after him draw near to
God, and He will draw near to you.
So as a Believer you can actually have access whereas an
unbeliever, you did not but you've got to make the change
and yet change only comes through your mind being renewed
to the word. So my I say all that because
when we begin to start talking about God's love, You can't just
take one thought. There's so many aspects of God's
love that can be applied, determining the situation.
Because I'm gonna make a couple statements today that are going
to State, basically General. And again, if you have this, you
know, we should just accept everybody.
Well, does God except everybody? You know, I mean if he did then
nobody's going to the Lake of Fire.
Nobody. Not happening.
If God accepted everybody, that was believer.
Well then you could blaspheme the Holy Ghost and be okay.
But Jesus said that sin is not forgivable now or forever.
It's important to boil and it doesn't matter, the blood scum.
Okay, I'll go over here. I mean there's aspects in the
word that we see it and a lot of times we just disregard sections
of the word because it doesn't necessarily align up with how we
are personally perceiving. We think it should be.
So we avoid now me I'm an I don't I don't not avoid I'm like
I'm gonna have to figure out why that says that because I got all
these other scriptures that say these inks, but then this shows
up So where's that at? I mean, I'm like ask that
question. What gets Paul that he takes
this praying, where he's praying for the church's, he's like
laboring for them, so that they will, but be in Christ.
And he's not laboring in vain, he's praying that the eyes are
their understanding would be enlightened that, you know, the,
that they would understand the hope of their calling.
He says, you know, I pray and travail in tears till Christ, be
formed in you, but did he gets this other prayer?
You deliver him over to Satan for the destruction of their
flesh. What now, what in the world
happened that? That took place That all of a
sudden is God, as like standing in the Gap, praying, all the
sudden, say Satan, just go ahead and take them out so that they
might not blaspheme. Where'd that prayer come from
but you know what? Typically we do as Believers.
We gloss over that. Well, I understand that and then
we just kind of maintain the site.
Well let's just pray for everybody's gonna get it.
Well, Paul's like this guy might not get it unless we do
something drastic. Because they keep this course,
something's worse. And he said that they wouldn't
blaspheme which means they fixing to get into a place that
the Bloods not touching. But again, we met most of the
times we as Believers, love, certain messages, only or we as
Believers assembled together in places where we're not even, you
know, willing to go down these roads, right?
You know, when I test things, I have a staff I can get up in an
upper room and throw out a thought process and see if they
go, you know, okay? We ain't ready to talk about
that yet. Right?
Is sometimes I need to throw things out.
I got one Minister friend of mine.
Reverend Gary Crowell, I will talk about stuff because
sometimes I just need to get things out so an anointing can
show up to bring clarity. Because I'm growing like you, I
want to be able to apply God's love right every situation.
And that's really important, right?
So when we begin to deal with this tonight, you know, we in
turn, then need to say okay, we're going to take some time to
dissect. Some elements of God's love here
in the next few Services. Now, after we kind of
communicate some things, look at John Chapter 13.
Are you ready loves proof? John Chapter 13, start in verse
34. John 13:34 and we'll reverse 35.
Now, Jesus says this a new Commandment, I give to you now.
There is a commandment already out there.
The greatest commandment is what?
To love your neighbor as yourself.
That's the greatest, you know, command love the Lord your God
and love your neighbor as yourself, right?
That's been a established standard commandment of God and
what's he saying you? If you love God, with all your
heart, with all your mind soul, and might write a power, you
know, everything and then if you love your neighbor as yourself,
you can keep the whole law. Well, what's it mean?
Loving your neighbor well person Whether in the kingdom are in
Coven or not, if I will treat you in a way that I would want
to be treated. Then most likely I'm not going
to try to Swindle you manipulate you rob from you kit try to, you
know, kill you still, you know, covet, your spouse all those
things. If I because I wouldn't want you
to do that to me. Well, jesus takes it up another
notch. And he says a new commandment is
a new commandment. Okay.
A new commandment I give to you. So this isn't an old
commandment. This is a new one.
He said a new commandment I give to you that you love one.
Another how even as I have loved you that you also love one
another. Now what's really interesting
about verse 34 is that he has to command it.
So You know, so a lot of times we tend to think.
Well, well surely we would do that the Lord's like yeah you
know we asked Jesus to be Lord of our life, we're in the
kingdom of God. Surely the church is going to
love each other. The Believers in it.
Well, first of all, you came out of a world, they don't even
know. Love And they've indoctrinated
you with their love. Indoctrinated it.
Indoctrinated you and you'll come into the church with your
definition of love and how you supposed to treat people, right?
And then all of a sudden, a Believer doesn't treat you the
way you thought. And then we got conflict.
But Jesus, like I'm going to set the standard.
So I'm going to I command you to love one.
Another how As I loved you now it's gonna be very easy for us
to see tonight, how Jesus loved us.
Because again you got asked that question, right?
Are y'all with me tonight? You got to ask that question.
Well, if God is commanding me to love one.
Another as I loved as he loved us, then that must mean we can
love one another like Christ loved.
So for you to say you can't says, God's Jesus is a liar.
Well, is Jesus a liar or are we Liars?
We're going to be a liar long before Jesus is liar.
I said, we are so, you know what?
I just can't love them. Now, you just don't know you
calling Jesus, a liar. I said you calling Jesus a liar.
So he says that, you also love one another and then look at
verse 35. Now, you ready for a 35 by this
Bob what? By loving one another.
By this by what by loving one. Another as I loved you buy this.
How many all how many all men? Will know that you are my
disciples. So how does the world know about
Jesus? So what we've done in the church
are in them as Believers, we've accepted this idea alone that in
order to win the world are the loss are people?
We need to tell them about Jesus.
We need to go evangelize. And so we're asking them to make
someone Lord that is on kids. Are having a problem
demonstrating something that's been shed abroad in their heart.
This is why it was easier to take a step back, as a Believer
with an unrenewed mind and say, let's just present it this way.
Jesus Christ came and died on the cross and was raised from
the dead, ask him to come into your heart and save you.
So that when you die, you'll go to heaven because we obviously
are going to love each other down here, right?
So the wood to get it all together up in heaven.
Now Jesus says love one another as I loved you.
And he ain't talking about the way I loved you.
When I was in heaven before I came, he saw my I was here on
the earth, I gave a great demonstration.
And this is how I expected to be done and it isn't a suggestion
actually because if you'll actually do it all men, well all
men will want know that you are my disciples.
If if if conditional statement, if you have love for one
another. So we put all these investments
in Outreach Instead of doing the greatest investment that has no
cost of a Associated to it, that is the cost of, renewing, our
minds through studying and then applying the love of God that's
been shed abroad in our heart and growing in US towards one
another that we operate in such a love as Believers to each
other. Not what we perceive is love now
because I see you clicking. I see people clicking.
Like, that's what I'm talking about pastors about time
somebody say this. The prom.
Miss most of those are most of the time when we say that, we
know, it's right. But we don't even know what that
means, and but we're going to help you.
We don't break it down for the next few Services because they
gonna take time, all right? I'll give you.
Let me just give you a few little highlights real quick.
Okay. Few highlights, you know, just
because it should have ran through your mind.
Least it does might even while preaching here, examples of how
God, loves, Right? Howdy love his disciples, they
got hungry, he fed them. He did send them home, hungry.
He is say, well, we bless you. We bless you.
Right now, he did something. They were sick what he do.
He healed them. Right.
Are you hearing what I'm saying? Right there was a need and he
met it provision needed to show up provision.
Was there and we love that, right?
All of us. Say that's why I use that first,
right? Because then guess what else
love did love looked at Peter says get thee behind me, Satan
for you, set your interest on the mint mind of man, and not on
the interests of God. He corrected him.
Love stand-up in a boat. And says, why don't you handle
Faith? Why don't you have faith now
brother? You got to look brother.
I love you and you are not in faith right now.
I'm just getting a couple examples, but again, what we
like the love that does it correct?
Or instruct us? We like the love.
That brings blessing and provision to us and love brings
blessing and provision belove. Also, when you look at the life
of Jesus, Instructs and corrects.
Right. I mean, it's a man with you say
it or not Alleluia. So let's read this again for, I
can go on a new commandment. I give to you that you love one
another. And, you know, I am not a two or
three verse preacher. We gonna tie this up, nice,
we're going to put it under the tree tonight.
We got a present, right? I got a present, okay, I'm gonna
be honest with you right now. Church would be way different.
If we get this new commandment why I can tell you one thing
that would seriously stop Brian Atkins, our Chancellor.
We've had some great conversations about all the
problems in our natural world that if the whole natural would
just follow the principles of Jesus, without being born again,
I'm just saying the prince. Would we would eliminate
poverty? We would eliminate a sexually
transmitted disease, we would eliminate all disease, the
majority of diseases period because stress is associated
with it. We would eliminate a lot of
suicides. A lot of people in jail, Because
we would restore family. I mean, all we can take care all
the world's problems. All of them.
And if we would here to this as the church, we would eliminate
Church hopping we eliminate back backsliding.
You hear what I'm saying? We eliminated wheel emanate.
The the fruit of Gossip backbiting covetousness.
Now you won't stop it from coming but you can stop it.
Right, amen, and let me tell you something.
I'm telling you right now, I'm telling you right now, there is
a culture here. That is passionate in the press
in. And I believe we're ripe to get
to a moment. Now again, loving your brother
is solely dependent on you. Doing your part.
Because Jesus did his part. Of love.
And anyone who doesn't accept that, is it because he didn't do
his part. All right, so John first, John
3:23 says is this is his Commandment that we believe in
the name of the son of Jesus Christ.
And And love one another. Just as he commanded Us in that
amazing. Know what?
He didn't die. He said, this is the commit that
we believe in the, in the name of the son of Jesus Christ and
we stopped there and when we die, we go to heaven.
Jesus. Never stop it.
It's a personal relationship with me.
Religion has done that. Tradition has done that.
Now, is there a personal aspect that you have with your king?
Yes. But Jesus Christ was not just
for you to have a personal one-on-one and never connect
with your family while you're in the earth.
Love in fact, if you operate in the love, he gave you, your you
will be compelled to be around your brothers and sisters.
I just don't like church. Well, then you having a hard
time with Jesus, because Jesus is the head of well, then eat,
jeez. I have problem with this all the
other people, Well do you have a problem?
I mean you're right. You have a problem with them
because they really ain't the people problem because you got a
command that when the problem comes, you can still respond.
Because the Bible says, while we were yet, sinners Christ died.
He don't need you to do something for him to do what he
has to do. Because it's the only way it can
be done. And he's going to do it.
Because he's gonna walk in the highest love.
I'm going to obey dad, dad sent me that said, I gonna have to go
to La Crosse. Dad told me that I needed a
walk, you know, and Obey him. And every way and I'm doing that
and I got the power of the Holy Ghost and all these things I'm
doing now in front of everybody because Dad's talking to me
about it. And you know what, I'ma do this
all the way to the cross. And I believe that dad's gonna
get me on the third day and did that get him.
Sure did sent the Holy Ghost. Raising from the dead.
Hallelujah. He said it is finished.
Right. Okay, so this is, this is his
Commandment that we believe in the name of the son of Jesus
Christ. Because again, if you don't do
that, you can't go to the next. It's impossible for you to love
one another. Without actually having Love In
You. Because if you again, we've
already said this. In the very first sermon we ever
preached. If you don't have God in you,
you don't have love period. You can call it that.
You can say it all day long, but it doesn't wash in God's Court.
It's not. He knows what's his love.
He defines it and he knows how its expressed, and he has the
right to that, because he is God.
All right, first John four, 21 verse John 421 and this
commandment we have from him. That the one who loves God
should love his brother. Also, now notice in all of these
statements, Nowhere, does it say that we are to love our brother
based on the color of their skin?
So racism can exist in the world.
But if you're loving like God loves, it does not exist in his
family. So for me to love my brother, I
have to first, not regard him in the flesh.
Cause I don't live my site in the first place.
Hallelujah. So here we have three
scriptures. That is very clear.
Jesus commanded us to love one another as he loved us and that
we are commanded not on to accept Jesus as Lord or named
him as will believe in him. But we are to love one another.
And here again, we should love our brothers.
Also, are you hearing what I'm saying, saying, John chapter 1
verses which is only one chapter.
Okay. Second John verses 5 and 6.
It says this. Now I ask you ladies talking to
a lady elect he says not as though I were writing to you a
new commandment. But But the one which you have
heard from the beginning that we love one another, right, what do
we do? We love one another and this is
love, here we go, that we walk according to his Commandments.
This is the Commandment just as you've heard from the beginning
that you should walk in it, right?
So again, we've sorry, seen that the highest layer of God's love
is that we obey and when we got born again, he gave us capacity
to actually obey matters. Word.
Willfully, wanting to, I mean, we have the, we have the ability
to willfully, obey him with a desire from our own nature.
That's like his and the Holy Ghost and actually gives us
instruction and talks to us on how to actually do that.
No problem at all. This is amazing stuff because
he's like, man, you are going to keep his command with this is
his love. We are to walk according to his
command. And you know what, one of his
commands, this one of them is to love one another.
In fact, if will love one another, the world is safe.
Say now Jesus is there. Because again if we only do what
the world is doing to identify love because again, no problem.
When having a food drive But people who aren't in the love of
God can have a food drive what literally will set us apart from
the rest of the world. I mean we go and down on Monday
and feed the Homeless. What good is it if we're
bickering over how to set out the food?
Not that didn't happen. I'm just using that as an
example, right? What, what, what is that, right?
I mean people don't want to go to work as it is but they go
anyway. Yet, then all of a sudden, you
know, God asked you to serve in a capacity and we're like I
don't want to be there and take that attitude in instead of
like, I'm called of God. And this is my brother and
sister and I need to do for them.
I need to serve them. I need to be how come you there
all the time. And we just love God in the
brethren. The passive translation reads it
this way. Dearest woman, I have a request
to make of you. It's not a new commandment, but
a repetition of the one we've heard have heard from the
beginning. That we constantly love one
another. This love means living in
obedience to whatever God commands us for to walk in love
towards one. Another is the unifying
commandment. We've heard from the beginning.
I, you know, a lot of times like where's the Harvest that?
Is it a congregation away? way from really loving one,
another I mean, if we put all of our effort in each other, loving
each other, People come up on the campus walk in and be like,
and they're already doing it because, you know, we got a
perfect just let you know, at all, you know, and will never
have it perfect because we should be adding people who
don't have this Revelation yet, right?
But if enough of us get the Revelation and begin to walk in
loving one another correctly, As Jesus loved them and we're going
to break down what that look like we can just look at his
life and say that's love. There's a lot of times like you
don't love me. Oh, I don't love you because I
said you're not doing right? No.
Actually, I love you because you're not doing, right?
And I'm saying something. You know, I love you because
identify you're actually not in faith.
And God doesn't want you to see. But again, if we take our
definitions, then this is why we struggled.
And if we have Hazard come to church.
Anyway, we're have a hard time understanding all of God's
truths to be able to apply in the first place.
And then if you bring your own baggage, which all of you have
including myself, if we don't deal with that baggage and get
it under the blood and they learn how to manage it.
So every time the devil tries to pull it back out and say yeah I
remember you were like this. I remember how someone so talk
to you. Remember how your like that if
we don't learn to manage that baggage then we start responding
like an old man or old. Man are dead man.
Instead of our new man, the new man.
The new man, John chapter 15 verses 7 to 13.
Says it. This way, if you abide in me and
my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish and it will be
done for you. My father is glorified by this
that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples.
So again God's more concerned about proving that he has a Race
of beings in the Earth. to the world more so than just us
saying to the world about him, but not living who we say they
should live for He goes on and says it this way just as the
father has loved me. I also loved you abide in my
love. That means you got to make a
conscious choice to stay there. The Bible talks about put on
love, just because the love of God has been shed abroad in your
heart, that mean you put it on, in your mind you put it on over
your emotions. You put it on over, your will We
have to choose to do that. Alright, so he goes on and Jesus
did this. He said verse 10, if you keep my
Commandments, you will abide in my love.
Okay, verse 10, if conditional statement if you continue keep
my Commandments and that baby, listen, that just means when the
Holy Ghost is talking to you saying, hey, do this?
That's called, living the life of faith.
Being led by the spirit. It's not you doing something by
yourself. It's you doing what the spirit
of God is leading you to do. So you have to keep yourself in
the commands. You will abide in my love.
Just as I have kept, my father's command.
Notice. Jesus, didn't say I came and did
whatever I wanted to and it was amazing.
I had no accountability here. God loved me, he put me down
here. He loved me.
I mean, dad loves me man. I am Jesus, the son of God, born
of the Virgin Mary. There's no question about that.
So man, I just had a great time here.
All I have to do is make sure I got to a cross at the end.
His life never was evidence of that.
His life was always evidence of what are you saying, dad?
I want to do what you say, because that's where loves that
and it's not burdensome for me to do it, because life's there
is amazing. In fact, that's where anything
happens, right? So he said, now listen, if
you're doing that, then you're abiding in my love just as I did
it. What that means is the world is
showing all kind of counterfeit stuff that if you don't say.
I know what that looks like, but I'm not going to go there again.
Hi, I'll give you a case in point.
You know, a lots happening in our nation this year, right?
I know when I'm not, I'm about to not abide.
Meaning, my flesh is starting to be like, I'm hearing stuff on
the news. I'm seeing the way people are
responding about things, the way people are talking, I'm lining
it up with scripture and there's a part of me be like, I'm about
to go crazy right here. I want to give you a piece of my
mind. But my mind means nothing, even
if it has scripture with it, if it doesn't have love.
So if I realize that I'm starting to I in my spirit,
right in my inner man, I'm getting calluses.
Then I have to keep I cut it off, I'll cut it off.
And my wife and testify, I'm like, I'm not watching that,
what's wrong? I can't watch it because I gotta
keep calls, Moses. Lets me know what happens when
you don't keep and I ain't going right.
Hit no Rock twice, man, I'm walking away from the rock.
I'm putting down the staff. I got to get myself together, so
I can come back and have a conversation with the rock.
Like, I'm supposed to all of us deal with these things, but
notice it, it it God doesn't Force.
Be there but he sure will lead me.
He'll say son you going to disconnect from that.
I'll send you better discount. I know.
Now when I say son you're gonna it's not like I hear him in an
audible voice. I just have this like
impression. I know that is kind.
That's what I'm feeling right now is not motivated by the
spirit. I'm going to take a step back,
I'm about to take a step back, you hear what I'm saying?
Okay, so we have to keep these things verse 11, these things I
have spoken to you. So So that my joy may be in you,
and that your joy may be made full verse 12.
Now, again, we're getting context.
This is my commandment that you love one.
Another what just as I have loved you.
Then he gets to verse 13. Greater love has no one than
this. Than one who lays down his life
for his friends. And we said this in another
service that the context of verse 13 is not that we die for
somebody else. Is that we die to our way of
handling, a situation or doing something and we do it God's
way. I mean, Jesus in the garden
Peter cuts off the guy's ear, he said Peter, you'll about it for
a sword. You're gonna die by the sword
heels the guy. He's now listen.
Don't you know that I could call a legion of angels down right
now. Now he wouldn't say that unless
he could do that, but why doesn't he?
He laid his life down. Meaning I'm not gonna do what I
couldn't do. No, I'm gonna do what Dad said.
and so he says, when you love one another, when we start
living your life, you know what, I'm gonna love some of you.
One of the greatest Faith moves for you ever is just to go talk
to somebody else in the church. It's one of the greatest faith
move and I know God talks to you about it will go say, hey.
And he coming and yet God saying he's trying to help you Love the
One. You're supposed to love the
most. The church has abandoned love in
each other and wants to love the world.
Because again what have we done? We've reduced this whole thing
to all that God cares about is the Lost Does he care about the
world or those that are outside his kingdom?
Yes. But do you think he loves them
more than you? He does not.
He always starts with his house. He always tell takes care of his
house first. Always.
Amen. He takes care of the house.
First. And we, you know, whether you're
here or not doesn't matter. I don't really want to get to
know you because, you know, I'm right with God, I don't want to
be committed to you. And we want the world to embrace
our Jesus. I mean, many pastors today are
like, you know what? We understand, you're busy.
We don't want to take too much of your time away from your
family. So we don't do a whole lot come
and say a few little scriptures and go home.
Why? Because it's about personal is
about you telling it and you yourself can't even live the
full of walk. Number one, not even in your own
house. A lot of times with your own
family but you definitely aren't doing it with one another yet.
It is the way by this, all men will know.
It's the greatest witnessing tool we have, and I've proved it
out, honestly. I throwed it out.
The greatest Outreach to date. Four anchor, Faith Church.
In 16 years, the greatest Outreach today has been
treasure. Harbor preschool, Where these
people come in that, don't know Jesus for nothing but they meet
the staff and we make a demand that the staff actually love one
another. Because if you don't, we'll let
you go. Sad member going to love one
another and we know when you ain't loving, I know it ain't
Lovin. Cause ain't looking at me.
They won't engage me. You can't talk to me.
I am your brother. Right?
I mean I'm the best thing going next to sliced, bread and so are
you. This is why I've been in places
where people that used to be here.
That left here I'll show up in a restaurant.
I'll be at a grocery store and that brother will
And I'm just that got to be won't write up and go.
Hey man. I was looking at the same thing.
Why are you avoiding me brothers and sister?
Don't avoid each other. That are commanded to love one
another. We only avoid one another
because somebody doing something supposed to do and you had a
fellowship with your father. Ojala.
I fired a guy for cheating on his wife.
Cheated on her sexual immorality.
But he repented came home, restored him and his wife.
And rehire them to the church. Because Dad said, give me
another shot. It's not, my church is his and I
looked at that individuals if they never blew it.
Yeah, no problem. Cause I'm commanded.
See, I'm commanded. There's nothing you can do to
me. That's going to get me to a
place that I can't stay in my love.
What with you even if you leave, it's not going to happen.
It's not gonna happen. Anybody want to come and tell me
anchor of a church and friendly. I'll show you someone who can't
who is not friendly. I you show me somebody that
says, there's clicks, we only reason it seems like a click to
you is because you're not trying to engage those individuals.
Hallelujah. Amen.
So this is his Commandment that we love one another.
Just as he loved us and he's saying, listen, I laid down my
way handling every situation to do it.
Exactly the way Dad said to do it.
And so he's saying for us to greater love that we have for
one another. Is that, you know what?
It's nothing personal. I understand that.
You said that, I understand it, went there.
I got it. The Lord's already.
Let me know if you repent. Seventy Times Seven.
I'm going to forgive you. There it is done.
It's done. Got to do it, but also know this
if you refuse to repent. Then I got to respond to way too
because that's what Dad says. And we'll see, we'll look at
some of those will do a case study on loving one.
Another, I said on loving one another.
Hey men, when they don't love me, I love you with the word.
Come on, anybody ever met with me about anything.
What do I typically say? What's worse?
A I'd opinion on this matter. That one guy come to me.
One time years ago, he says, what's your track record in
restore? Marriages.
I said, 100%, if you listen to what I say, I'm going to the
word. I mean, how's the word fell?
If the husband will love his wife, as the Bible says to and
the wife will love her husband. Like the Bible says, and they'll
love God, then it can't, it can't help.
But work, which means whatever they did to hurt you.
They truly repented, you're going to be at a, forgive it and
I like, it never happened. We gonna drive on But it takes
two. It always takes two.
Even with Jesus, Jesus is got it available, but are you doing
what you need to do to continue to walk in it to continue First
Peter, chapter 1, verse 18 to 25.
It says this knowing that you were not redeemed from
perishable things like silver and gold from your futile way of
life inherited from your forefathers, but with the
precious blood, as a lamb on blemish and spotless the blood
of Christ for he was for naught for he was foreknown before the
foundation of the world. But as has appeared in these
last times, for the sake of you, who threw him are believers in
God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that
your Faith and Hope are in God, verse 22 cents.
We have in obedience to the church, to the truth.
What have we done? Since you have in obedience to
the truth purified, your souls for a sincere love of the
brethren. And fervently love one another
from the heart. Now, that tells me how I am to
let I say fake love. Which is very difficult because
sometimes dad says, you're gonna have to go talk to them about
that. I'm like, did you talk to him?
I have, you talked to him again and I listening But can we do
it? I mean, you're like, man.
But gotta do it. They gotta do it half the time
when I'm talking with people anyway, it's like, I know, like
God's already said it, you know, they already said it.
We're just like, yep. There, it was.
Yeah, but what's happened? The devil's always outside the
door. I've restored a mini a person,
but they fail to understand that I can operate in the love that.
God says to operate in and that is love does not taken a kind of
suffered wrong. The minute I found out about
something you've done. This isn't is heinous as you
think that is as horrible as that is.
The devil says he'll never look at you the same way and
everybody uses same way. You'll never be able to do
anything in this church. You'll never be able you need
moms are just go. Every time you see me in the
hallway, see he thinks sure that I didn't say that.
I think you're that. Hey, how you doing?
Great seeing you. He doesn't mean it.
I mean, the devil talks like that, right?
You said it's about your own spouse.
Uh-huh. I love you too, right?
I feel I failed it, I get it, but that's a quality of God's
love that. We as Brethren cannot take an
account of suffered wrong. Wow.
This is such a high level. I mean, the world is trying to
just get along yet. We can do more than get along.
We can genuinely love each other.
We God's love I tell you I just can't hardly handle people.
Well, uh, you're not operating the love of God, because the
love of God can handle anyone and he, especially loves being
around his own family, think about it now, you're like your
lord Jesus. Oh, I just want to sit at his
feet and worship him. Get out of here.
I mean, we're treating our siblings this way.
And we are thinking, we are the apple of his eye.
They got now. Come on.
Let's just parents. How many parents I got here?
Parents, right. How many sons and daughters?
I have here. All right.
That's all of you, right? Okay.
How many are just only children. Okay.
Your only child, okay? That cause that's important.
How many being an only child around your cousins.
Okay, how many have been with friends at school?
All right. Go, I just want to get
everybody, okay? You as a parent, you got more
than one child, all of a sudden you see one of your kids picking
on the other kid. How's that make you feel?
What I mean, you first start with the lecture?
Right. What are you doing?
Don't treat them like that. Yet, we got the love of God
knows us and if we don't what and then we want the world to
come worship, our King, Oh, you need Jesus.
Let's talk about you, Jesus. But let me tell you, the world
does a great job of loving their own.
According to their definition, which is ungodly and
unrighteous, and wicked and evil.
Wicked and evil. It's the what good is it for you
to love someone? Right, because the world does
that. Yeah, here's Born Again.
Believers that are lusting after the acceptance that is up.
Seems to be happening among worldly people. the only reason
we're not loving each other is because we all know we got
baggage and we don't want nobody, nobody Because seeing
the world you can bear your flesh.
Oh, I'm having a hard day child. I know I am too.
But once believers do, well, praise the Lord.
This is day that the Lord has made.
I will rejoice and be glad in it.
What your different nature see? Well the world, they just accept
all their junk. So it was like this big Love
Fest because again, the most people in the church are the
baz. Believers have carried into this
walk with God. That love is accept me exactly
as I am. But did Jesus do that?
And we act like that's way better.
We actually get prideful about it.
It's just so easy to talk with you.
Plus, it's easier to talk to them.
Let me tell you, I have man, I have some of the best
conversations. I mean, there's people, I love
to hang out with and they ain't even blood natural.
You understand? Because Jesus already defined to
me, who my family was? Those who do the will of the
father is very simple. And you know, when you're around
people who are doing the will of the father all the time, it is
like is like the greatest thing on face of planet.
You know, what's so crazy? You'll never see it to this
capacity. But man, when you get around
those who do the will of Father, there's like this, this light
almost like Godly competition of, who can give more, who can
do more, who can provide more, who can open up their resources
more. Some states.
I don't have to. Get a hotel because their home
is open. They said, well, the world does
that, I understand cause the world always copies.
Without real love. We have to do it from the heart,
we've learned to have this sincere truth, but again, if you
don't deal with your own flesh, then there becomes a conflict in
the family. And love always has to dress
flesh. Right.
So let's jump on down memory. You've been bought and paid for
guys. Been bought and paid for and the
love of God in you is enough for you to really Embrace people.
So awesome. This is why I love it when
people come to the church and join and you do as much as I can
to connect with you as best that I can write.
So that we can do, we can be together.
We can grow, we can know each other, right?
Take care of each other. But some of that's, you know,
trying to take care of the flesh that you got that, we need to
trim off. So you can really see the real
you. Because the world is trying to
pull you back. And give you counterfeit.
And it feels good to you flesh. Make no mistake about it because
Moses. Did not.
Enjoy a season of the pleasures of sin, but rather suffered with
his own people because it better to be with God.
Than to serve self. Alright, first John chapter 3.
Start verse 7 says, little children, make sure no one
deceives. You the one who practices
righteousness is righteous. Just as he is righteous, the one
who practices sin is. Of the devil for the devil has
sinned from the beginning, the Son of God appeared for this
purpose, destroy the works of the devil, no one, who is born
of God practices sin, because his seed abides in him, and he
cannot sin, because he is born of God in that.
Awesome, you're not subject that stuff anymore.
Verse 10 by this, the children of God, and the children of the
devil are obvious There are obvious.
All right, anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of
God. So, again, you should already
know that. God is saying, I've called you
into the family. I've made you righteous in
Christ. Now, I want you to practice
righteousness and righteousness is Right standing with the
governing Authority doing it. God's way.
Jesus was perfect and righteous because he always obeyed.
Dad. He operate in the highest love
of God. He always did that and he's
saying if I can love you. Bye.
Always obey and dad for the purpose.
He sent me and take care of you exactly as dad says to and
minister to you the same way. Dad said to Then you can do it
for each other as well. Amen.
Because if there was aspects of God's love, we would keep in the
Forefront. Then we would very rarely get
into the corrective side. We would never get into, you got
to go side. Because again, love told Adam to
leave the garden. Love did that and it was
righteous. And it was perfect.
And it was what was needed. All right.
He says, by this, the children of God, the children of the
other obvious. Anyone who practices
righteousness is not of God or does not practice.
Righteousness, is not of God, nor the one who does not love
his. Wow.
Isn't that interesting? So the practicing of
righteousness alone is not enough.
Well, I'm just righteous by myself.
Yeah, but you do not love the church and the body of Believers
there. You stay on the fridge.
I mean, we all have different personalities, thank God.
We're all have different gifts and talents.
Praise the Lord. Let me rejoice in how you're
different according to Creative Design.
Not according to how you want to be different because you just
want to stand up. There's a difference.
But God made you a certain way, and that's awesome.
And we celebrate that It's awesome.
I don't want you to add like me. I'll be me.
You be you and we'll do something great.
I'm glad God is not boring and made us all.
Look the same way. Right.
But he gave us life that we can follow the same way.
It's awesome for verse 11. This is the message that you
have heard from the beginning. That you should love one another
now. Here, he brings it into context,
not as Cain, who was evil, who was the evil one, and slew his
brother? For what reason did he slaying
because his deeds were evil and his brothers were.
So if you out talking about your brother, you might not be able.
Let me tell you about them. Let me tell you what they do.
Let me tell you about this. You might not be able.
I'm either God, may all kind of pre.
If if you're offended with your brother go to him in private,
right? You know, if you take an
offense, go deal with that, right?
If you sin, go ask for forgiveness, if you sin against
someone ask them to forgive you. I miss for a simple process.
So if I do my part then you do your part, it's done the Paul
reprimanded, the church and says, you are going to court.
To settle a case Between Brothers.
You will go to a person in the world to tell you how to handle
a cake. Don't, you know, that we will
judge the angel He's like, all right this is it blows my mind
that you don't go get somebody outside the church to try to
handle the dispute. Between Two Brothers and Sisters
in Christ. You've got to be kidding me.
You know, I says it that way is because his life because the
love in you I said the love in you I said the loving you He's
powerful, we just got to let love love, we got it.
We got and love and let love love means blah who I did that
wrong. Okay, let me, let me get that,
right? That's what love to do it in.
Like, okay, let me get now prize and the Flesh.
And, you know, you defending yourself and, you know, trying
to save face will do all kinds of other stuff.
But love it, just say, go ahead and humble yourself.
Now, child, humble yourself. It's all right, because you No
media people besides you blown it in this capacity as well.
They made mistakes to just go ahead and ask for forgiveness.
Let's get it behind us and drive on.
And when a thought comes and tries to condemn, you remind
them, it's under the blood. There's no condemnation for
those who are in Christ Jesus. Okay.
And so man, I'm guilty, I don't have no guilt about me, I don't
feel no condemnation called the Holy Ghost ain't talking to me
about some, I didn't do right but then when someone's done you
wrong and they come to you, you're like, hmm, really?
You did that, you know what, cause you're asking for
forgiveness, we put it on. Right?
And if, you know they're doing wrong, you can be like me and
let me pray for them. Because while we were yet,
sinners Christ died for us, which means he's interceding.
He's doing that right now. Not.
He's interesting for in the Saints.
No wonder. He's praying so much for us.
He's seated at the right hand of the father interceding, for the
Saints, not for the world. His whole prayer life is about.
You living love to one another so the world can see.
Jesus think about it now, the only Jesus, they see, All right,
let me break it down here where we will follow will finish out.
He goes and says, do not be surprised Brethren if the world
hates you. We know that we have passed out
of death into life because we love the brethren.
Notice what it's saying here? How do we know?
I mean when that statement comes and makes me think if you don't
want to be in church, I'm having to ask the question.
Are you even in the Bots? Are you even born again?
Don't tell me. I ain't asked Jesus to be Lord
of my life. I'm a friend that I'm going
somewhere. Well, and here we go.
I'll find someone who looks at me.
You need more than acceptance. You need the blood.
You need forgiveness. You need a new nature.
So don't be surprised brother. If the world hates you, we know
that we passed out of death into life how because we love the
Brethren he who does not love abides in death, everyone who
hates his brother is a murderer and you know that no murderer
has eternal life abiding in him. Yogi quiet, man, this is core.
This is life. Amen, that's it.
Pass our own. You looking at you neighbor
going. Ah, I love you.
You know how much I love you. I didn't love you much as much
as I love you right now. I mean, I loved you when we
first came in but my love for you, just went through the roof.
I mean it should go through the roof because the last thing is
and I really hate it when they do that.
I mean, I'm reading the Bible. This is not Pastor URLs
translation, first, 16. We know love by this again.
How do we know love by this? How do we know love by this?
That he lay down his life for us?
We ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
We saw context. What did he say?
No greater love than this, than when he lay down his life.
For his friend, the context is, if you abide in my word and my
word abides in you, if you do, what Dad says, if you love each
other, like I Loved You by loving the father and only doing
what he says because I lay down my will and I reach to the
highest layer of love and that's yes, Lord.
Whatever you say I do. Cuz I want a body in your love,
right? So we're never gonna have any
murderers in here because they're like, just tell me how
to handle the situation dead and I'll do it prior to the side.
Saying about me. Yeah, that hurts.
That hurts, bad, that that happened.
But you know what? Project aside, you know what,
how can I hold that account? You forgave me so much?
Right, he says verse 17. Both Whoever has the world's
goods and sees his brother in need and closes his heart
against him. How does the love of God abideth
in him? Now we're going to break that
scripture down because the many you read it like we gotta do
every if you don't do it. There are cases where love
doesn't give Of some resources. And that's an act of loving the
brethren. There are cases.
All right. But what do people do the
minute? Something doesn't happen.
What one scripture says, they don't search another scripture
and they accuse you of not walking in love.
Alright, Verse 18 little children, we ought to love, not
love with word, or with tongue, but in deed and Truth.
So again how does the world really want to run to Jesus?
Because his whole body is loving one.
Another We don't II text this statement to someone today.
I said, I would love for people to believe the word of God as
quick as they believe a word of gossip.
I'm talking to monks the brethren.
Why is there among the church that we, you know, have this
like idea that we want to see someone fail.
Well see they on all that weight.
None of us all that. I mean I'm putting this thing on
just like you every day so don't be jealous of me if I'm really
working it. Well, But it's work.
Because I gave to my flesh over to congregation.
I'll be gone. And I'll let you know about it
for I left. Right.
But you know I don't have a list about your life because I don't
take any kind of suffering wrong.
The only time anything's repeating about me and you is
because you never really repented and never actually got
it off. Why are you bringing up my past?
Well you actually got to do something different for your
past, not to be there. I mean it keeps recurring calls,
you you Are y'all with me? They'll doing all right.
So anchor, Faith Church. As your pastor.
Seriously needs to move us into a Higher Love.
And it's work. Now, what do I mean by that?
You really got to crucify yourself.
Because we're not perfect people.
Your bad mood. And my last counseling situation
that was garbage meet in a hallway.
Do you hear what I'm saying? Your fight with your spouse
shows up in the parking lot and encounters a brother who has
been dealing with symptoms for days and they're aggravated that
they're still feeling that way. And we'll let one of those
little moments. Stop us from loving one.
Another The lust of the eyes, the pride of life, right?
The lust of the flesh, they get in the way of things, you know,
all of a sudden, we want to get into a position somewhere.
So we'll begin to covet. Someone else's stuff.
We know, that's not right, and it doesn't matter.
Got nobody can stop you from being Who You Are.
Whole churches, split over all kind of crazy.
Little silly stuff. And the world is like, and I'm
supposed to accept who because I ain't seen him yet.
But when we allow God to deal with us and then we respond and
love towards one another. All of a sudden the world to
say, let me tell you something, there's something of different
about that church right there. I walked in the building and
some happen, I mean, I got around them.
Now again with those individuals come in they may be a little
more in a corner. They may be a little less
talkative, they may be a little less but that shouldn't stop
you. Because again if you're loving
your brother and they say they're born again, will then go
after him go talk to him. I mean every time I try to go up
today, just ignore me. Well let's pray for them then
they would get that ripped off then we break something off
from. Then obviously something's got
them bound that they ain't operate.
Like the nature that's within them.
Instead of you. Well I tried man, let's put on a
little bit long-suffering little bit patients you know some of
you need say thank you Lord for patients.
I don't ever pray for patience. Pastor of see that's a
tradition. I don't have to pray for and I
have it. It's a fruit of the spirit.
And let the devil show up. I saw.
All right, I worked a patient's wear him out with my patients
but love operates in patients, as long as patients is needed
because in all of a sudden some other fruit starts showing up
about love. And it is show up hallelujah.
It's go ahead and Smile everybody smile.
Amen, go ahead. Just tap your neighbor and say,
man. I love you so much and see me
all sitting with family. All right, so we're going to do
this Sunday. I don't want you to sit with
your family, seriously. I'm serious on Sunday.
Go find somebody else in the family that you don't go home
with. I mean, I spent a lot of time,
my wife, I don't sit with her ever in service.
In fact, we come to church. We already see each other.
Why? Because I see her a lot, and you
mean a lot to me. I'm not going to make you do it
forever. Just one service.
All right, I really want to sit by my wife.
She's gonna be there when we leave.
You might appreciate her more. Find somebody and say, man, I'm
so glad you're here today, boy, I believe we're going to get a
great word today. You ain't sitting with your
spouse, you know what happens in something wrong.
But if you're all split up then they won't think that they'd be
like he nobody sent with her spouse.
What's going on here, man? I say my wife all the time, I
just want to come see another brother and sister in Christ to
hang out for a little bit. I wanted to worship with you
today. It takes effort, though.
Right? Because the love of God, is it
just natural? It's Supernatural.
We have to put stuff down, just like I have to put down stuff
with my wife and she has to put down stuff with me. .
It happens. You put it down and you say, you
know what, I'm just not gonna do that.
I'm gonna put on God. I don't care how I feel right
now and then love of God prevails.
Then I like, I'm so glad I did that.
This is my life is so much better.
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