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Now enjoy this message. Hallelujah.
He is good and his Mercy endures for how long say it again.
Forever. Aren't you thankful?
Hallelujah. Glory to God.
Well, last week we talked about the love of God, Amen.
How about how many of you been applying though?
That love all week long. Amen.
Hallelujah. Well, we actually read out of
James chapter 2, right? well, we read out of a lot, but
I'm trying to find my scripture from last week, but the main
text that we started with was James chapter 2 verse 8 And it
said this, if you really fulfill the Royal law.
According to scripture, you shall love your neighbor as
yourself and you do well, amen. The Royal law, which actually
means the law of the Kingdom. The kingdom, law.
Its Royal amen. Hallelujah.
Because we're royalty. A men were royalty and so we
started out of that text and Looked at so many scriptures
concerning the love of God and how the love of God was always
connected to one another because his love was not just about us,
but in every context of every scripture that we talked about
last week, it always made reference to his love and loving
one another amen. And and so I feel that that's
very important. It that we recognize that this
love that we have was not just for us or about us only.
It was also about us making sure that we're demonstrating his
love to others. Amen.
And especially to Brothers and Sisters in Christ, right?
And so, it's very important, you know, I said last week, I said I
crack myself up when I get up here.
And Minister, you know, Pastor he's saying when he's always fun
and exciting and has all these wonderful stories.
But really, when I get up to minister, like the Holy Ghost
just brings to my remembrance things that I have not thought
about in all my life like, you know.
So that's why I say I crack myself up because I'm like, oh
yeah, that did happen, you know, because it's just so Buddy, how
he will bring up scenarios or situations in my life that I
never really even thought about and you know getting into fights
you never want to think about again the rest of your life you
know. So anyway he's good and he'll
use whatever he needs to demonstrate right or to
communicate things. And so anyway, so we'll see what
he has to say tonight. It's like what's gonna pop out
tonight? Right?
Hallelujah. But so, I do want to finish in
going in the vein of love, and talking about the love of God
because we made it. So, so real last week concerning
us and the love that we have and that we should have for one
another. And so you know the question is
well how then do we? Love one another.
How do we what does Scripture say and how we are to
demonstrate this love to others and to other believers, you
know, the scripture tells us what we ought to do and how we
ought to do it, right? So there's nothing, no scenario,
no circumstance, anything from from the beginning of time until
we're all this thing is, All over in eternity.
That there is not an answer for in scripture.
If he tells us that we are to do something and we recognize that
he commanded us to love that, it wasn't a choice and it's not an
option. Then he's going to let us know
through scripture how we can actually apply this to our
everyday life. Right?
How we can actually Walk This Love out every day in our life.
Fry according to scripture. And I want to say this as we
said last week as a reminder that the love of God that we're
talking about is a gossip. A this is the Greek word agape
love. And we talked about the fact
that we would not ever be able to walk out the god Kind of Love
without him in our lives, right? Because once we get born again,
the love of God Romans 5:5 says, has been now Ow poured out in
our hearts or shed abroad in our hearts.
And I like to call that the first fruit that showed up in
your life is love, right? The first fruit right is love.
And so we we talked about Galatians 5 last week at the end
of the message, concerning the fruits of the spirit and love
was the first one. He mentions love, peace
patience, kindness. Goodness gentleness right
self-control. All of these things are then now
fruits in our life that we have the responsibility to keep
growing and producing in our life.
I love what brother Hagin said, love is always the way to
Victory. Love is always the way to
Victory and, you know, Galatians also said that Faith worketh by
love. So if we are not motivated by
the love of God, in all that we do then, guess what's going to
be hindered? Our faith.
So we know First Corinthians 13 says, you know, you can have
faith to move mountains. But not.
And we'll read that in a little bit so we have to recognize that
our love walk in. This is why brother Hagin says
that is this the way to Victory because outside of the love of
God, nothing else is going to work to its fullness or operate
in the Kingdom properly in our life.
So we can come to church until you know Kingdom.
Come all day long. Come to church go.
Through the Motions. But if we have a problem with
love, then nothing's going to work in our life.
And so, we said this to that pastors book on the forest and
the way he demonstrates the kingdom of God, is that the
forest bed is nothing, but love. So every subject that we teach
on, on the kingdom of God is growing up out of love in the
Kingdom, right? Everything.
So healing it's going to operate through.
Love Faith. It's Going to operate through
love confession, it's going to operate anything that God's
promise says that we can obtain in this life, as a Believer.
It's all going to be obtained. Making sure that the motivation
and the core in the root of everything that's going on is
motivated by love. Right?
It's the root of Love. Okay, and it's so important that
we recognize that because love has to be the driving force.
We said this in all that we do, why do we serve God?
Because we loving he loved us but now that he loved us, we
love him. So this is why we serve right?
You know you might question whether or not you truly love
him if you don't even serve him in any capacity, Right.
So it's very important that we look at these things and you
know, examine our hearts because, you know, to see all
that God wants to do in our lives where and even as the day
draws near and all the things that we see going on in the
world, we are going to have to take a position of love.
Period. We're going to have to take a
position of Love, okay? Meaning everything that we say,
everything that we do, we need to ask ourselves.
What is motivating the words that are coming out of my mouth,
what is motivating the action, that's getting ready to happen
in my life, okay? First Corinthians I want to
start here. First Corinthians, So the first
point that I want to recognize is that again, love, must be the
motive and everything that we do in the Kingdom.
So First Corinthians 16:14, says this, let everything you do be
done in love. This wasn't my opinion.
Scripture literally says it. Let everything you do is that
just everything you do. When you come through the church
building know everything, you do everything you do in every
sphere that you are a participant in if you're
married, if you're single, if you go to work, if you are a
student in school, right? If you're a nurse, if you're a
doctor, if you're whatever you do, let everything you do be
done in love. The Amplified says this true.
Love to God and man as inspired by God's love, right for us.
So what's your motivation and what's your inspiration and why
you do what you do every day in whatever you're doing?
Whatever you're doing, okay? Colossians 3:17 says this and
whatever you do, no matter what it is, in word or deed.
So he's letting us know. Now the word that's coming out
of our mouths and the Deeds that we are doing, do everything in
the name of the Lord, Jesus Christ and Independence upon his
person, giving praise to God the Father through him a Amen.
So in whatever we do in word and deed, we are to do it through
the Lord Jesus Christ. As again, I said we cannot love
the way God loves separated from his love We can't do it.
We can't love properly. So we must know his love,
understand his love. And the way we do that is to we
talked about last week, we must be people that meditate on his
word abide in his word, right outside of it.
We're not going to do anything. We're going to listen to the
world's opinions about how we ought to love somebody.
Or whatever the case may be. Okay, well if you can have it
recognized by now, the world has no clue.
I'm on it does not take a you know scholar rochard science.
Thank you. To recognize the world, has no
clue how to love. Okay.
Or what love is. And so we cannot take our cues
from anything they say. Okay first Peter 1:22 says this
since by your obedience to the truth, through the Holy Spirit,
you have purified your hearts for the sincere affection of the
Brethren. See that you love one?
Another fervently here it is here's again motive from a pure
heart. From a pure heart.
So again we must recognize that if we are going to apply the
love of God, the way that he desires for us to do it, then
that has to be with a purity of heart concerning his love,
right? And that has to be the motive
and everything that we are doing throughout the day and
throughout the week throughout every the rest today.
Observer your life, right? A pure heart.
What does that mean? A pure heart means.
There's no selfish motive in it. His heart has no selfishness in
it. No manipulation in it.
No control in it. Come on.
No selfishness, no manipulation. No, you know, controlling
Spirit. No, it's pure.
It's pure. And the only way we're going to
see the purity of Love is if we abide in his love, right?
And recognize how his love functions and operates, okay,
Colossians 3:12 Through 14. I want to say this.
God is not going to help you love somebody.
He's not going to help you, you know, so don't pray.
Oh, please help me love this person.
I mean he's not going to help you.
Why do I say that? Because he's already put hit the
helper on the inside. He's already put helping you.
He's already put love in you. And now Colossians lets us know
in chapter 3 verses 12 through 14 that we have to do something.
He says now close yourself. Put your Clubs closed on it.
One translation says, put it On this one, says closed yourself.
Put your love jacket on, right? Put your love clothes on.
I like to say, pull up your big boy pants or big girl pants.
Because remember, we talked about last week, that walking
and his love will have to do with someone who has been
perfected or maturing. Maturing in the love of God,
allowing the fruit of love to constantly be growing within
your life. We should be able to love people
more today than we ever loved them.
Come on today, my word, if we could just get love, right, what
we could be doing, Instead of sitting in church for 10 years
and you still you know, would just you know slander.
Somebody gossip about somebody want to slap somebody's face.
Want to talk about people, what have we been doing?
You know, when we went to Bible School, one of our instructors,
I believe it was Doug Jones. He let us know that.
Really a person who gets born again.
Gets filled with the Holy Ghost and has set up underneath the
undefiled, preaching of God's word ought to have grown and
matured in three to five years. And three to five years yet,
we've got people that's been here with us over 10 15 years
and still act in a full. Yeah.
Right. What is this saying?
You have not applied the principles.
You've not abided in his word. You've not allowed forgiveness
to be a part of your life. Every day you've not done the
word, you've heard what you need to do and maybe you do a little
sprinkle of it. Listen, this is fully mershon.
This is not a Catholic church. We don't sprinkle Cole anything
around here. We fully immerse you in the
power of the Living God. To be able to grow up and to be
able to mature in the things of God, to be able to walk in
Victory. Come on every day, every season,
anything that comes up, you're able to walk in love.
You're able to apply it to your life.
Hallelujah. Wow.
Glory to God. So he says you better put your
love clothes on On we don't have the option to not walk in love.
Not act like you're walking in love, but to actually walk in
love, not act like it. Not fake it.
No, actually do it, right? So he says close yourself.
Therefore as God's Own chosen ones, his own picked
Representatives who are purified and holy and well beloved by God
himself, by putting on Behavior marked by tender-hearted pity
and mercy kind of feeling a lowly opinion of yourself,
gentle ways and patience which is 2 tireless and long-suffering
and has the power to endure. Whatever comes with a good
Tipper, be gentle and for bearing with one another and F
is. And if one has a difference, a
grievance, a complaint against another readily pardoning each
other? Pardon one, another.
Even as the Lord has freely forgiven you.
So must you also forgive and above all these, what are you to
do? Put on love enfold yourselves
with the bond of perfectness, which binds everything together
completely and I deal Harmony. The scripture lets us know how
we are to love one another. He lets us know how we're too
close ourselves in the love of God.
He lets us know that it's our responsibility.
I've given you the fruit now. You produce it.
You close yourself in it. You put it on in whatever
circumstance Comes Your Way. Say all right, I've got the love
of God. I know this.
I know that. I know what they're saying.
I know what they've done, but I've got love, but I've got love
right? And I'm going to put it on and
I'm gonna pardon their mess. I'm going to Pardon it.
Hallelujah. That don't mean, I'm going to be
their best friend. That don't mean.
I'm even going to engage with them, but that is going to be
pardoned. And if I ever speak to him
again, I'll have no ought in my heart because he actually tells
us in Mark 11:23 through 25 that if we have any ought against
anyone, anyone, we ought to go the them before.
We even think we're going to come up to this Altar and pray
and ask him for anything. He lets us know how we are to
walk in love and it's not natural.
It don't come natural but it will come naturally
Supernatural. But you got to be tapped into
the supernatural. Hallelujah.
So the next thing we recognize is that obviously our motive has
to be pure. We have to be the ones
responsible to clothe ourselves everyday and the love of God.
But you see here and that last statement that was made in verse
14. It said this and above all of
these put on love enfold yourselves.
You know, when I hear the word enfold, I'm thinking of baking.
You know how you it tells you to fold this in?
Right and fold yourself. So this is the picture that I
got with baking with certain items your to fold it in.
You're not mixing it in, right? You're not taking a blender and
did it at it. Uh, no, you're taking that spoon
or that spatula and you're slowly just folding it in.
Just fold it in and letting it take its time to wear what then
it's all mixed in gently and evenly, right?
It's gentle. It's even everything's perfect.
Why is this? Because when we fold in love,
this is a process. It's a slower process.
Is what I'm saying. We not just going to get the
mixer and the beaters, and just put a little and be done.
In three seconds, right? And we're not going to get the
Whisk and be done. No, Finn folding is a process.
A process of allowing love to just wrap itself within you and
whatever situation or circumstances you're going in,
you're just going to slowly let the process happen and work it
in and work it in those areas in your heart that you're dealing
with. You see what I'm saying?
But then, if you go on further, it says which binds everything
together. So this infolding.
What is it saying? It's a bond of perfection,
right? And it's binding.
Everything together completely in ideal Harmony because I'm
going to tell you what God wants Harmony among his people.
He does not want Strife. He does not want division.
He does not want God. He doesn't want any that of
that. Among his people.
He wants Harmony. What is another word?
We use? Unity.
He wants Unity among the body of
Christ. Among the Church of God.
He wants unity. And not only that he wants.
This is the second Point, unity and Reconciliation.
Must be. Part of the motivation of why we
are walking in love that we are going to guard, the body of
Christ. We are going to bring unity and
Harmony and Reconciliation among the body of Christ.
It is a shame when people try to tear down other people in the
body of Christ, It's terrible. Terrible.
It's a terrible thing. He said he actually hates those
that Bring what Discord? Because he wants unity and
harmony. He doesn't want Discord some.
He hates it. Okay, what does that mean to
bring to have a motive to bring unity and Reconciliation?
In the body of Christ. Another way we want to say it is
we should be protecting and guarding the body of Christ.
I don't ever want to bring disdain upon the body of Christ.
I don't ever want to be somebody that would rip down the body of
Christ. When I hear things that are said
on Facebook and Instagram about churches or other pastors, I
mean I don't care if they were the the most messed up Pastor on
the face of the planet. You have no right to make a
comment concerning. In him as a True Believer.
Because you are causing Discord in the body of Christ.
I would want to love and protect.
Does it mean I agree with? Does it mean that he was right?
But I would never slander a person or even give my opinion
or talk to anyone in a public forum to bring Discord to the
body of Christ or to bring slander among the body of
Christ. There's enough mess going on
without the people that are Supposed to be Christians.
Even ministers that fight one another and and and talk about
one another. I mean, there's a whole
situation I could talk about right here around our own, you
know, Sphere not going to say where, but it's a huge Ministry
that you know, that something happened.
And instead of just letting it play out, it's like they have to
get up and defend themselves and, you know, all these other
things, you know what, you don't have to defend your character,
God will avenge because it brings dis more damage to the
body of Christ. When they see all of this
publicly unfolding and this back and forth.
Fourth row, the board did me wrong, so I'm going to go and
I'm going to pick up and do it and do it all on everything and
show all the legal paperwork. And for everybody to read, you
don't have to vindicate yourself, no matter what has
happened, because that is bringing more damage to the body
of Christ than anything else. You're not covering, you're not
protecting, no matter what happens, our motive should be.
I'm going Protect the body of Christ at all cost.
Right. It's so important that we
recognize that, that he hates that he hates Discord.
And, and to say anything publicly about another member in
the body of Christ, no matter who they are, publicly is wrong
because you're not covering and you're not protecting, and have
of us, have no clue what's really going on and it's just an
opinion. Right?
So this should be our motive that we are going to protect.
We're going to cover at all costs and let God render what
needs to be rendered. Right?
Ephesians 4:2 through 3 says, this living as becomes you with
complete lowliness of Mind, humility and meekness,
unselfishness gentleness, mildness with patience bearing
with one another and making. This is because you love one,
another be eager and strive earnestly to guard, and keep the
Harmony and Oneness of, and produced by the spirit and
binding, the power of peace. So we ought to be guarding and
protecting right? One another.
And that should be the thing that drives Us in whatever it is
that we encounter. How can I make sure that I'm
going to bring Unity to this situation reconciliation to this
road situation? And it's not my business to let
anybody else know what's going on?
Right? Because love is going to cover.
It's going to protect that. Don't mean as again that I agree
or disagree, it just means no, it's nobody else's business
because what happens is if, if reconciliation comes forgiveness
is applied and now we all go on with our life, but if you go
around talking to people about it, you've sewn a bad sour.
Our seed of something. About somebody and you may have
forgiven them. God may have forgiven them but
now that seed is sown into somebody else and they may not
be able to forgive them so you've actually became a
stumbling block to someone else because now they're stumbling
over what they found out about somebody because you didn't love
you didn't guard and you didn't protect The unity of the harmony
of Oneness by the spirit because he goes on to talk about.
We are one, we are the body of Christ, we are all a part of
him, we are all one. We are all jointed and fitted
together as the body of Christ. That's where he says.
If one hurts you ought to hurt so you shouldn't be going around
talking to everybody about this person hurting Right.
But why? Because we feel of one another.
We are of God, we are one, we are one body.
We Are One spirit in the body of Christ, and we ought to guard
that Philippians 2:58, says this Philip and complete my Joy by
living in Harmony and being of the same mind here.
It is the same mind. What is that?
The mind of Christ. How he thinks?
And he thinks unity, and he thinks Harmony So, being of the
same mind one purpose, having the same love.
This is not the way you define, how you are to Love by the by
God. No, this is defined by his love
and how he says, through scripture, we are to love and
what we ought to do, right? So, one purpose, having the
same, love being in full Accord and of one harmonious.
Mind and intention, you see that?
And then he goes on to say, do nothing from factual motives
through contentiousness, Strife, selfishness, or for unworthy
ends or prompted by conceit and empty arrogance.
Instead in the true Spirit of humility, lowliness of Mind, Let
each regard the other as better than and Superior to himself.
Thinking more highly of your of one another than you do of
yourselves. So we ought to think more
importantly, about how this is going to affect the other person
than my own self meaning. I don't care what they say, it
doesn't give me a right to go out and just Because I care more
about them than what they're demonstrating.
They care about me at the moment because if their motive was
truly God's love. It was of a pure heart, then
they would have the same mind as him.
But it's obvious that they don't because of the things they say,
you see what I'm saying? So, it's very important that we
recognize that. And that goes back to the
scripture do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
It now goes right back to that if you don't want your business
thrown out there for everybody then guess what?
See so what we know that's the principle of sowing and reaping
Right. First, Peter 4 and 8, says this
above, all things have intense and unfailing love for one
another. I ought to be so intense, in an
unfailing love towards one another wow, it's not have an
intense unfailing, love towards him.
But how about an intense and unfailing love towards you?
And you and you and you and one another right, not towards him
but towards one another for love covers, a multitude of sin
forgives disregards, the offenses of others.
Now let me say this. Love covers a multitude of sin.
Love can only be applied if repentance happens.
This is not a cop-out. Well, they did this to me and
now there's no accountability for beaten me as, you know, say
a husband beat a wife. Well, love covers a multitude of
sin so I forgive him. So he can just keep on beating
me know, because love can only be applied if forgiveness has
been released and repentance. Repentance.
Right. So, it's not a cop-out, it's not
a cover-up. We don't sweep things under the
rug, so to speak. We don't just sweep it under the
rug and act like it didn't happen.
No, love his love covers. Through repentance.
Amen. Hallelujah.
So it forgives it. Lets the offenses go right after
there's been repentance. Proverbs 10 verse 12, hatred,
stirs up contentions, but love covers all transgressions, see
that? So, we're here to make sure that
we are motivated to at all times.
X. Apply the love of God.
I always like to say this, that bracelet, what would Jesus do?
We need to be saying, what would love do?
Which we know he is love but what would love do in every
situation? Right?
What would he do? So this is so important because
I believe that for us to walk in the fullness of what God needs
to do in these last days. Is that people are going to see
a purity of God's love like never before.
They're going to have to see because you can see the
counterfeit of love and what love is being talked about today
which is unconditional. It doesn't matter what you do,
who you love, you know, who you can be, whoever you want to be
all of those things. And so the counterfeit of that
is they've got to see pure love and where are they going to see
it? Among the brethren.
Among the Brethren true love the love of God.
What are we saying? John 13:35 says this.
I'm reading this one out of the New Living Translation.
It says your love for one. Another will prove to the world
that you are my disciples. Your love for one.
Another is going to prove to the world that you're truly my
disciples. So they've got to see the
unadulterated the pure love of God, the agape love of God,
flowing and operating among the Brethren among disciples so that
we can be the counterfeit to what's being spoken today.
We need to see the proof is in the pudding.
And the bottom line is, you can see the result of Love, Actually
working, and flowing, and operating and people's lives,
and they need to see it. They need to see it.
Demonstrated. All right, let me read verse 34,
through 35 of John 13. It says a new commandment.
I give to you that you love one. Another as I have loved you that
you also love one another. By this all will know that you
are my disciples. If you have love for one another
Amen. Not how much you come to church
and say you love God. Pastor said that, right?
It's not, you know how much you serve in the children's ministry
yet, you talk about the other person serving Right.
Come on. SO in talking about the love of
God, the next point is, is that the word Love and as we see it
through scripture and I want to read 1st Corinthians 13.
Now, let me find that one First Corinthians 13. 1 through 8,
says this, if I speak with tongues of men and of angels,
but do not have love. I have become a noisy gong or a
clanging cymbal. You're just making a lot of
noise and it's very obvious. Very obvious, a clanging noisy
gong is very obvious. It's not in harmony with the
rest of the band, so to speak. Right.
It's very obvious so you can tell.
And it says this in verse 2, if I have the gift of Prophecy and
I know all Mysteries and all knowledge and if I have all
Faith so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am
nothing. If I give all my possessions to
feed the poro, I'm feeding those poor down at dining, with
dignity all the time. But yet coming in, you know, act
in a full every other time. No.
If I Surrender my body to be burned but do not have love it.
Profits me. Nothing love is patient.
Love is kind, this is what love looks like and operates how it
operates in an individual's life.
Love is patient. Love is kind, it's not jealous.
It's not jealous. Most of the time.
One of the, you know, prevalent things in people's lives is they
just are jealous. Of somebody else's even walk in
Christ. Come on.
Because they're actually winning and they're actually having
victory in their life and then they get jealous and they just
want to tear that person down to make them look better in
themselves. Right, so he said it does not
brag, it's not arrogant does not act Unbecoming.
It does not seek its own, which is meaning.
It's not about me, I'm not being selfish here, it's not provoked.
It means you don't provoke someone to not walk in love or
to not bring Unity or to not bring reconciliation.
You don't provoke them. You should be bringing peace in.
The situation does not take into account of suffered wrong.
This is the big one. This is the big one.
Do you know what they've done to me?
Do you know how many times they've done this?
Well, Seventy Times Seven is what I hear.
The scripture says Right. Does not rejoice in
unrighteousness. But rejoices with the truth
Bears, all things believes all things, hopes all things,
endures, all things, Love, Never Fails.
Hallelujah, love never fails. His love will never fail.
When you choose to apply it to your life, because that's why
another reason brother Hagin said love is The way to Victory
because you can never fail when you apply his love in.
Every situation, you will have Victory.
You will have victory in that situation when you choose to
apply the love of God, according to wet, the way he says, it is
to be applied to your life, and to others.
Amen. So it's very important that we
recognize and looking at love. I've said this love is Verb.
There used to be old. Was it?
DC Talk? Or I've said this before Audio
Adrenaline one of them. Love is a verb.
Love Is A Verb. It is an action word.
So there is always action behind you operating and love and
working love in your life. Is there is action behind it.
It's not just talking about oh I love them but there's no action
behind it. Anything God does, he always
follows through with it? There's always action behind
love first. John 3:14 says this.
It says, we know that we have passed from Death to life
because we love the brethren. He who does not love his brother
abides in death, whoever hates his brother is a murderer and
know that no murderer has eternal life abiding.
In him by this. We know love Because he laid
down his life for us and we also ought to what lay down our lives
for our Brethren. And I said this last week as we
were quoting, the scripture that that means, we're going too
late. We're going to sacrifice the way
we feel. In the situation.
We're going to sacrifice how it feels to us.
What they've done to us. We're going to sacrifice it on
love on the altar of love. I'm going to sacrifice it right
there. I'm going to lay it down and I'm
going to pick up his love and say yeah they did this to me but
the love of God is going to let me now what forgive them?
Do whatever I need to do in the situation to promote Unity
Harmony and be the bond of peace.
No matter what happened. So we're going to sacrifice the
way I feel because God's love is not selfish.
It is self less. It's not about us. but how many
people still, you know what they did to me, they don't Everybody
has a story. And really, that's victim.
Mentality. You're still a victim and not a
Victor. So he says this nobody's, I'm
not getting a happy story. Maybe we'll laugh before it's
over. It says, and we also ought to
lay down our lives for over other verse 17.
But whoever has this world's goods and see his brother in
need and shuts up his heart from him.
How does the love of God abide in him?
Verse 18, my little children, let us not love in word, this is
a ghave. The word agape love in word or
in tongue, but in deed and Truth.
With action in deed and Truth. Why is that?
What is the word say? Is the action that needs to take
place for this situation and he said, he said, don't just love
in word or in just saying, but in deed and Truth, Okay.
And by this, we know that we are of the truth.
Oh By what, by the deed. We know that we're in the truth
because we're actually going to do what we know the word says to
do. So we're applying truth to our
life and shall assure our hearts before him.
For if our hearts do 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 and do the things that are
pleasing in his sight. So when we don't walk in love,
we are not pleasing to the father.
We are not pleasing to him. I don't care what song you sing
that says, you're he's out your all.
He's always pleased with you. And that he's never against you.
Actually he says he's against the proud in noose to Testament
and the proud is, those who want to do it their way instead of
God's way, he resists the proud. so, verse 23.
It says, and this is his Commandment that we should
believe on the name of the son of Jesus Christ and love one
another, as he gave us a commandment, now, he who keeps
his Commandments abides in him, and he in him.
And by this, we know that he abides, in Us by the spirit,
whom he has given us. Amen.
So this has to be applied in, not just word, but in action and
deeds, second John. 1536 says this and now I beg you lady,
lady lady who don't know how to pronounce her name.
Not as if I were issuing a new charge injection or command but
simply recalling to your mind, the one we have had from the
beginning that we love one another.
This is all, I'm doing is simply recalling to you.
His scripture actually says love looks like and how we are to
apply it to our life. It says the one who you heard
from the beginning that we love one another and what this love
consists in is this that we live and walk in accordance with and
are Guided by his Commandments, his orders, his ordinances, his
precepts and teaching this is the Commandment as you have
heard from the The beginning that you continue to walk in
love, Guided by it, and following it.
One translation says pursuing it, we should be pursuing.
Love along this journey being motivated, only to be a
demonstration of truly how to apply the love of God in our
lives, in our situations, in our circumstances that are coming up
every day. But the only way that's going to
happen is by the spirit and the word That's a body than the word
and us being led by the spirit. Amen.
And us not just talking about it hearing it but actually doing it
actually doing it actually applying the love of God, Amen.
Now let's look at what Luke the New Testament shows us.
Concerning a situation here that he says, what love looks like.
Luke chapter 6 and I'm going to read basically just for
scriptures but it's going to be in contacts from verses. 27 to
35. Okay.
So Luke 6:27 says this but I say to you who hear love your
enemies and do good to those who hate you Love your enemies and
do good to those who hate you. See what I'm saying.
It doesn't just come natural. That's not our first natural
response, but this is how the kingdom operates.
This is the Royal law, amen. This is how we are to love.
We are to love our enemies and do good to those who hate us.
There have been many people that have done us wrong and one way
we do good to them is send them. Some, some money.
Because Money Talks. Doesn't it Money Talks?
Just do to them. Right.
Did you want to in the natural? No.
But do you do it? Yes, as the Holy Spirit leads
and guides you. Right, somebody might do you
wrong, what about your neighbor that called called you in from
your HOA, about your whatever, you know, your grass, being one
inch above the normal protocol, or whatever?
And you know that neighbor, you know who it is.
And you want to go over there and say, what's your problem?
But instead go bake some cookies and take it to him.
Being nice goes a long way. Be nice goes a long way, no
matter what they do to, you just being nice, I'm just not going
to let them get up underneath my skin, right?
Just be nice. Just go do something the
unexpectedly go over there and ask them.
Hey, I know you called into the HOA about my grass.
So I'm out here. Mowing my grass.
Can I borrow yours too? Right.
Boy, that really get them. Hallelujah.
Just being nice. Just thought I would do unto my
neighbor as I'm due unto myself right Loop 632.
If you love those who love you, this is the point if you love
those who love you and tell you how awesome you are, and you
can't ever take a Critic. Woo.
You got problems. Big ones.
You're a people pleaser and you need their attention and
affirmation. So if you love those who love
you, what credit is to you for even Sinners, love those who
love them. And then verse 35, it says, but
love your enemies and do good and lend expecting, nothing in
return, and your reward will be great and you will be the sons
of the most high. For he himself is kind to
ungrateful and evil men. Wow.
You know how he's so kind to
ungrateful and evil men because he still sent his son to redeem.
To redeem. Hallelujah.
So the next point is is if we're going to walk in the god, kind
of love the way. The Bible says, we are going to
have to not take our own Revenge.
I tapped into a little bit that earlier but we don't have to
defend ourselves and we don't have to take revenge no matter
what happens, no matter what people say, no matter what comes
our way, whatever the situation is, you don't have to be one
trying to defend yourself if you know, Your heart doesn't condemn
you and your motives have been pure, right?
So this is old cut, old, Covenant, and the Old Testament.
Leviticus 19:18 says this, you shall not take revenge or bear,
any grudge against the sons of your people, but you shall love
your neighbor as yourself. I am the Lord.
You should not have a great. You don't have a right as a
Child of God to have a grudge against anyone.
But I know there's some grudges. You don't have a right to hold
that Grudge. You are to apply the love of
God. The way that God says, we are to
apply it and Let It Go and Let It Go Romans 12. 9, through 10,
says this. Let Your Love be sincere.
A real thing hate, what is evil? Loathe all ungodliness turn in
horror from wickedness, but hold fast to that which is good, love
one another with brotherly affection.
As as members of One family, given precedence and showing
honor to one. Another bless those who
persecute you who are cruel in their attitude towards you bless
and do not curse them Rejoice with those who Rejoice sharing
and others Joy, weep with those who weep sharing others grief
live in harmony with one another.
Do not be haughty. Snobbish, high-minded exclusive,
but But readily adjust yourself. Make an adjustment.
Make an adjustment, adjust yourself to people, things and
give yourselves to Humble tasks and never overestimate yourself
or be wise in your own conceits repay.
No one evil for evil but take thought for what is honest and
proper and Noble aiming to be above reproach in the sight of
everyone. That is bringing peace Harmony,
and Silly ation to the body of Christ.
We are going to make sure that we aim and are above reproach
righteous in these situations. If possible, as far as it
depends on you live at peace with everyone.
Live at peace with everyone. Doesn't matter what anybody's
done you can be at peace, if your heart is pure, you forgive
and you've let things go, you can be at perfect peace, knowing
that you've applied the love of God, the way that he's shown you
to do. No matter how other individuals
are reacting or responding or what they continue to do.
Amen. Beloved here it is.
Never avenge yourselves. But leave the way open.
This is very important because if you try to avenge yourself,
defend yourself, all these other things, you just going to
continue to make a mess of the situation instead of leaving
room and a way open for God's Wrath for it is rigid.
Written vengeance is mine? I will repay says the Lord, but
if your enemy is hungry. Grief Edom.
If he's thirsty, give him a drink for by doing.
So you will Heap burning coals upon his head.
Do not. Let yourself be overcome by evil
but overcome evil with good. If you don't allow God to avenge
you and you try to bring your own defense and Vengeance than
guess. What's going to happen?
You're going to be overcome with the evil, you're going to be
playing. Right in the devil's territory.
That's the Trap that he wants set for you to get you out of
love. Instead of trusting him and
doing it his way. But he'll have you in a trap
then because the very thing is going to come back upon you that
evil. So we must recognize that, the
next thing is is we must forgive, we must forgive, we
must have in our hearts that when things and situations take
place. The first thing we think of as I
forgive them, I forgive them. If God forgave them, I can
forgive them, right? If he put his love in me I can
forgive them. I can let it go.
I can just let it just roll right off my back.
Like a duck in the water, right? Just let it roll off.
Nothing has to stick on you. No matter what has ever happened
to you your whole entire life. No matter who's done you wrong,
no matter what happened to you in your life, no matter Matter
who's disappointed, you no matter who's talked about about
you no matter what has ever happened in your life.
You can forgive, you can forgive, you must forgive, you
must forgive, or you will be trapped in that forever as a
victim to the enemy and never walk in the fullness of what God
has for you. It will never it will destroy
your life. Unforgiveness will destroy your
life. So we must be people that
forgive Ephesians 5:1 through to says there's therefore be
imitators of. God copy him.
Follow his example as well. Beloved children imitate their
father and walk in love is steaming and delighting in one.
Another as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us.
A slain offering and sacrifice to God for you.
So that you became a sweet fragrance to The father, we have
to imitate him in the way that he was able to forgive.
And the way he said his scripture forgives people.
Right? Ephesians 4:22 through 232 strip
yourselves of your former nature.
Put off, disregard your old unrenewed self, which
characterized your previous manner of life and becomes
corrupt, through lust and desires, that spring forth from
Delusion and constantly be renewed in the spirit of your
mind, having a fresh mental and spiritual attitude put on the
new nature, the regenerated self created in God's image, Godlike.
And true righteousness and Holiness there for rejecting,
all falsity, and being done. Now with it, let everyone
expressed the truth with his neighbor for We Are all parts of
one body and members of one another.
When angry Do not sit in sin, do not ever.
Let your wrath your Fury indignation.
Last until the sun goes down We must be quick to forgive before
the end of the night, it ought to be settled and resolved and
forgiveness must be applied. Forgiveness must be applied when
okay, where am I at leave. No such room.
Why? Because if you let
unforgiveness, you keep that sin a part of your life.
What does he's let? You know, you're going to open a
door, you're going to leave room for the devil.
It says leave no such room or foothold for the devil, give no
opportunity to him if you don't choose.
Choose to forgive. If you stay in anger, if you
stay in sin about a situation. Listen, you are only given a
foothold for the enemy to continue to beat you down.
And that's what he does. He beats you down.
Get that image. He beats you, you do become the
devil's whipping boy or girl. He's whipping you all the time.
In everything. Because you let him have the
opportunity because you didn't deal with your anger, let the
thief steal. No more.
He's letting you know, that's why things keep getting
everything. Just keeps getting stuck stole
from you. Your joy, come on your piece,
everything your finances, everything, your health gets get
stole from you because he's got a foothold.
Hallelujah, but rather let him Be injurious industrious.
Making an honest living with his own hand so that he may be able
to give to those in need, let no foul or polluting language
meaning you don't have a right to cuss somebody out when you
get angry. As a Believer, using foul
polluted. You know, I had to always bring
the scripture to teenagers because they are.
That's a notic Us in the Bible. Yes, it does.
Right foul polluting language, that's what that is nor evil
word nor unwholesome or worthless talk ever come out of
your mouth. Wow.
Worthless talk man. There's so much worthless talk
flying everywhere today, worthless.
So he goes on to say, but only such speech as is too good and
beneficial to the spiritual progress as of others as is
fitting to the need and the occasion that it may be a
blessing and give Grace God's favor to those who hear it.
Again here's the connection. Make the connection is embedded,
right? In between, do not grieve.
The Holy Spirit. When you do these actions, you
are grieving the Holy Spirit on the inside of you, you're
grieving the spirit. When you're doing all of these
actions, don't grieve the spirit of God.
Do not offend or vax or satin him.
Did you know that the Holy Spirit could be offended?
Yes, and it had to do right off coming of a polluted mouth.
By whom you were sealed Mark branded as God's Own secured for
the day of redemption of final Deliverance, through Christ from
the evil and consequences of sin.
Let all here it is bitterness and diggnation and wrath
passion, rage bad temper resentment anger and animosity
quarreling brawling clamor contention slander.
Evil speaking abusive or Blasphemous language, be
banished. Shhhhht from you with all malice
Spike ill will or baseness of any kind and become useful and
helpful and kind to one another tender-hearted compassionate
understanding loving hearted, here it is forgiving one another
readily and freely that means you're ready to forgive in the
midst of these situations is that your motive of your heart?
Art that in every situation, blow up argument circumstance
that anger or whatever could be a part of that.
Is your motive? I'm ready to forgive I'm ready
and freely to forgive as God in Christ.
What forgave you is that our motive?
That is a pure heart of someone who wants to actually walk out,
everyday, applying God's love according to what scripture
says, how we are to apply it not to holding our opinion about how
God is okay? With me?
Even if I am acting like this, Or even if I'm in this
situation, our number one goal, as a Believer with the love of
God, put in our heart, is that we ought to be pressing towards
forgiveness, reconciliation, doing whatever it takes to bring
Harmony to bring peace. In those scenarios that we
encounter with our spouses with him, with our co-workers with,
especially the body of Christ, this ought to not even be a
problem in the household of God. It ought to not even be a
problem. We ought to be loving each
other. So well and only encountering
these issues. When We are encountering the
world, we ought to be people that are so full because we've
stayed in a place of loughing. The fruit of the love of God to
just grow so much within our hearts that actually Where We
Said Today the debts and the links and the heights Of his
love is so apart of my being that it is only naturally
Supernatural for me to respond in love.
Is that our first response that we're going to walk in love,
we're going to whatever it takes, I'm going to forgive, I'm
gonna do whatever it takes. I'm not going to be concerned
about how this made me feel and all these other things.
Know, my first response is I really don't care how I feel.
I'm just going to walk in love. Ed you know you can get there,
you can live in that. That's what I call living in the
Overflow of his love living in the Overflow of how he tells us,
we ought to be living and walking and Abiding and
operating every day in our life. Amen.
Hallelujah. Because love, never fails.
And if we choose to actually walk according to scripture and
applying the word of God in our lives, you can be assured that
you will have Victory. You will walk in Victory and and
I'm going to tell you he will prove.
There will be proof in the pudding that you walk in love.
People won't have to guess. They won't have to guess whether
or not when you encountered a situation.
How you responded, they'll know how you responded.
They'll know it, because they'll see the evidence of your life
unfolding before their eyes that in every circumstance.
In every situation, you just apply, love you, forgive you.
No matter what. Amen.
Hallelujah glory to God. So let that be let that be our
desire, our intense desire Amen. That we look at what God says
love is and then every from here, on out when we encounter a
situation we're going to think back to how he says love should
be operating and flowing in the situation.
Amen. Thank you so much.
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