5th February 2023 - Communion Service - Simon Chaffer - Love, the ultimate force

Love is the ultimate force. I guess that's creatures the foundational scripture of what

love is. If you don't know Jesus today, he came and died that

you can live. So listen on and listen more about who Jesus is,

what God love is, but fundamentally that God so love does. God is

love. Jesus is love. Jesus said in John thirteen thirty four. And

you commandment I give you that you love one another as I have loved you,

that you also love another. And you commandment I give you that you,

speaking to the believers at the time, love them as I have loved

you, that you also love another. Notice this is a command, it's

not an optional extra as believed me to love as Jesus loved does as the

Father answers. Again, these was found angels scriptures to bring your mind to

a place where the host but they can speak to us. So you're not

going who what's for dinner? What's for this? It's a praise to bring

your mind to focus on the word of God. Apostle John was called the

Apostle of Love, wrote in one John four seven, beloved, let us

love one another, for love is of God. And everyone who is born

of God, whether that's everyone who loves it is born of God and knows

God. For loved, let us love one another, for love is of

God. And everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. And

said in verse eight, he who does not love does not know God.

For God is love. God is Love. So the a possible John built

on what Jesus said. That's what it was supposed to. Was supposed to

build on the revelation that somebody else gives us. You don't just stay where

you are. You stretched to what God is saying. God is infinite.

So it's a case of building on that love. Said John took what Jesus

gave him and new commandment, I give you that you love as I have

loved you, that you're also loving that, and built on that revelation over

time, and he wrote that one joint of a note, Chap wasn't a

young boy. He's been through of some things. And you're built on that

revelation. And today God wants us to look at love in a different way.

I'm sure I've asked the question. You could walk off a few scriptures

about love and God. There go and arrived and everything. Guess what we've

done everything, We have a revelation of where we are. But gone on

to stretchers today to take in the greater revelation of what love is to ARUs

personally and to us as a body. We never arrive, we just develop.

That's how it is in reality. If that's a revelation to your other.

But that's the truth of the matter. One John four eighteen says there's

no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear because fear involves torments.

For you'd hear your fears has not been made perfect in love. Love

is the ultimate force. Love can rate the bond of fear. That's the

fact. That's the truth. Actually, seasons and foundationial scriptures which talk about

how God loves us, which talks about God is love, which talks about

what we should do. We should love one another very So let's move on

to the first point, which is God's love never fails. God's love never

fails, whatever circumstance, whatever situation we come across in life as a believer,

God's love never fails. About talks about the under of reaching arms of

God. Remember being given a scripture. That scripture actually a little card years

ago. The footprints thing. I think I shouldn't say a thing, the

foot prints poet whatever, and it said that you should picture of the footprints

on the sound, isn't it? And they said, whore's only one foot

set footprints on that point. That's when I carried you. So the under

aching arms of God in the hard times, his love carries us. His

love carries us. His love never fails apart it this day in one Crinthians

thirteen. Love never fails. Whether a prophecies, they will fail, where

there are terms, they will cease, whether it is knowledge, it will

vanish away. But God's love never fails. Wherever you are today, wherever

circumstance you're in, proseeative, come through. God's love never fails. That's

the first point. The second point is God's love works from the inside out.

God's love works from the inside out. It's not an external force for

the believer. God is in us and it works through us. We are

God's agents. John fourteen sixteen to seventeen Amplified Bible says Jesus speaking, I

ask the Father, and I give him other comforter, counselor helper, intercessor

art forgate standby friend, that he may remain with you forever. The spirit

of truth, whom the world cannot receive, welcome, take to his heart

because it does not see him or know him and recognize him. But you

know him and recognize him. Or he live is with you constantly and will

be in you. Or the King James says he is in you. He

is for he is with you, and he will be in youse is with

us, and he's inners. God himself lives in us and withers through a

holy spirit. You know, remember somebody saying to me sometimes I go,

oh, yeah, we've got to love people. We've got to love people.

And I said, no, God's got to love people through us.

We might have to make the first step, but it's the release of God's

love through us that makes the difference. We've got to love the unlovable,

but we have to try to do something our own strength. It is what

the person was talking about. It's about surrendering to the Holy Spirit and naming

God love, which is depositive in our hearts, flowing into people's lives.

Remember, it's not the work of a man. It's the work of the

Holy Spirit. It's not about us. We're all different shapes sizes, because

that's what people are like, isn't it. But it's the same spirit of

God that dwells in me, that dwells in you if you know him.

So go want to release that love. What have been in a position where

we walk in the love of God, so to touch people's lives around us.

One work from God from us can change in his life forever. One

smile, one one kindness, And God wants us to release that ultimate force

in our daily lives. God wants to take a different perspective about what love

is. You know, there's when I was a child, the thoughts of

a child. I did things a child. I'm no longer a child,

You've grown up. It's about connecting with God in a mature way out walking

in that ultimate force, releasing that ultimate force into people's lives around us.

There's in that's some discovery where we learn the principles. It's about walking in

the fullness of God, releasing that ultimate force, the force of love,

which mays we need to touch on forgiveness because to walk in that ultimate love,

we need to walk in forgiveness. If something says to me or somebody

cuts you up. That's tough, isn't it. It definitely happens to me.

You've got to you gotta get over it. You've got to deal with

it. We've got to surrender it. You've got to forgive, you've got

to move on. But someway work in that, within that position of forgiveness,

that love flowers. M hm m hmmm. Luke seven eleven to sixteen

says for the fruit, the work which apprins the Holy spirits of compasses.

That's not a large transcripture going wrong around. That's a German, that's relatious

fat. But the fruit of the Holy Spirit, the work which is his

presence accomplishes within us, is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness,

goodness. The fruit of the Holy Spirit. The work which is pressured

within us accomplishes. The work which is presence within us accomplishers is love.

Is the first fruit of the spirit. It's the Holy Spirit's presence which accompanises

something in our lives. We are an empty vessel. About talks about as

being a clay pot where the treasure is inside in these earthan vessels were just

flesh and bone. He's only God's and the next the difference. But notice

is the presence of the Holy spray. He brings God's love into our lives.

We've got to learn to walk in that love. Ephesians three. It's

quite a megascripture. I've got time to talk about all tonight. Turn to

date this morning. It's poor talking to the church in Ephesus about how love

and the Body of Christ should work together, and the revelation of God's love

that the individual gets and that the body gets. In essence, I need

you and you need me to get a full revelation of the love of God.

So the amplified version says a division three seventeen to nineteen. May Christ,

through your faith, actually dwell, settle down, abide, make his

permanent home in your hearts. May you be rooted deep in love and founded

securely on love, that you may have the power and be strong to apprehend

and grasp with all the saints God devote to people the experience of that love.

What is the breadth and length and height and depth of it? That

you may really come to know practically through experience for yourselves the love of Christ

or the knowingted which faster passes mere knowledge without experience, That you may be

filled through all your being to all the fullness of God, may have the

richest measure of the divine presence and become a body all fulfilled and flooded with

God himself. He start thinking about when you read that scripture and start meditating

that scriptures a lot in that scripture, which I've got time to talk about

this morning. But the root is they're going to get over that. It's

together walking in love that we get a greater revelation of His love. It's

together as we press in that we have a greater understanding with the breadth and

length and depth of it. There's so much division in the church over this

way and that way, other things, which particularly something's mattered with the matter,

something's DoD doesn't matter than that He wants us to be united. Mhm.

What's that? What's that scripture? P. One hundred and thirty three?

Is it? What is it? How blessed in unity? Thank you?

That's where there wants us to be because when we do that, that's

where the love of God flows. He's bigger than you, and he's bigger

than me. We haven't understanding where we are, but there's a corporate understanding.

There's a corporate or at least of God's love. It wants to see

in the body, this body here, but the wider boy, and we

have the part. I've got time to go on that for this morning.

That's some things we can pick up later. May you have the richest measure

of a design presence and become a body wholly filled and flooded with Love himself.

May you have the richest measure of the divine presence and become the body

wholly filled and flooded with Love himself. Because God is love. So that's

a stretcher, isn't it. How do we get from where we are to

that scripture where we're flooded with God? The God love floods this place.

The people of even want to come in here because of God's love floods this

place. We all have a God shaped home. Believe it or not.

You've always searched for something built in many things. But we does that have

a relationship with God. We design to have a relationship with Love, that

ultimate course. When we ever encountered with God or the ultimate force Love,

everything changes. Everything changes. When you have encounter with Jesus, your life

is never the same again, excuse me, h, John eights one to

ten. In the amplified version says this, But Jesus went to the Mount

of Olives early in the morning at dawn. When he came back into the

temple court, people came to him in crowds. He sat down and was

teaching them when the scribes and parrasies brought a woman for being caught in adultery.

They made a stand in middle of the court and put the case before

him, teacher. They said, this woman has been caught in a very

active adultery. Now moseses law commanded as that such women offenders shall be stolen

to death. But what do you say to do with her? What is

your sentence? And we won't go into the det jo only twenty two right

now, we're just talking about this picture here, Jesus preaching and his teaching,

and they just rock up with his lady. Not the man, fully

enough, just the lady. The script continues this. They set to try

and test him, hoping they might find a charge on which to accuse him.

But Jesus, stooping down, wrote on the ground with his finger.

However, when they persisted with their questions, he raised himself up and said,

let him who without sin among you. With the first throw a stone

at her, and he bent down and went on writing on the ground with

his finger. They listened to him, and then they began going out,

conscience stricken, one by one, from the oldest to the last one among

them. Tuchies was left alone with the woman stand before him in the center

of the court. When she just raised himself up, He said to her,

woman, where are your accusers? Has no man condemned you? And

she said no one knowed. I said, go and see no more if

you go. When we were counted with Jesus, his love spoke into that

situation. She's did in the answer. Immediately, he took time as to

the Holy Spirit and got up when he got a revelation of what to say,

and he made the statement, God's love commit to those people. I'm

from the oldest to the youngest. They left. Yes, that was wrong

what lady did, but we need to see things from God's perspective and operate

in the red relation of God's love. Beligies and didn't know what concert there.

Out of that time. He took time to listen to the Holy Spirit

and then time to respond. I think they need to do likewise, need

the center to the Holy Spirit leading. Sometimes you don't have the answer straight

away. Something to take time to listen and give God's answer, give Love's

answer. Love that day change that lady's life. Don't recall what happened to

her, but we know this can get stone. Wherever Jesus went, wherever

cheessers did, wherever Love went, whatever Love did, people's lives were impacted.

People's lives were changed, Luke seven eleven to sixteen says in the Amphibi

version. Soon afterwards, Jesus went to the town called Name and the disciples,

and his disciples and a great flown accompanied him. Just as he drew

near the gate of the town, behold a man who had died was being

carried out, the only son of his mother. She was a widow,

and a large gathering from the town to accompanied her. When the Lord saw

her, he had compassion on her and said to her, do not keep

And he went forward and touched the funeral briar, and the pole Us stood

still, and he said to the young man, I say to you,

arise from death. And the man who was dead sat up and began to

speak, and Jesus gave him back to his mother profoundly, profound and reverent

fears seized them all, and they began to recognize God and praise and give

thanks, saying the great Prophe's appeared fromongers, and God has visited his people

in order to help and care and provide for them. Noticed Jesus in the

scripture had compassion on that situation. In other words, love manifested himself himself

in compassion the ultimate force, and got turned that situation around. Do you

know the same spirit that raised rash on the dead twelves in you and me

rose eight eleven. What Jesus did were called and great things. We have

the same spirit that Jesus have. Matthew ten and verse eight says heal the

sick claims a leper raised the dead, cast out demons freely. You have

received freely. Give. So we have received God's love freely into our hearts

the ultimate force. It's time to walk in the spirit and free the give

what God has given us. Listen to the Holy Spirit and give what he

asks us to give. An expression of God's love through our life may take

many forms. It's not our responsibility to decide what form might takes. It's

our responsibility to listen to what the spirit says and release what God has through

our spirits into the people's lives around us. I accept before one work from

God can change in his life forever. The lady at the mountain, the

lady at the temple, court man who was dead in the funeral buyer,

their lives would changed by Jesus, I said before the same spirit that raise

our cheers from the twelves in us. We are His hands, we are

his feet. We are the hands and feet of the ultimate force. With

the hands and feet of love live in the world, which is quite frankly

a bit of a mess. Yeah, people need to receive His love.

We are as agents of that role. It's about it's about positioning ourselves with

the Holy Spirit to make those right choices, to be in the right place

at the right time, not those things that are flaky, but for leading

the Holy Spirit hot. But it's not flay. Care does it his way

and we've got to make sure we align with him. So next time God

nudges you, ilbow you, I speaks to you while leading the Holy Spirit.

God's love changes everything. So last point is God's love is eternal,

God's love is eternal, like six says I am the Lord, I do

not change, or if I am love, I did not change. People

are fickle, might love a one minute and then they put the built in

the next minute. God's not like that. God is consistent and he wants

us to be consistent. Hm Inconsistency is where we see the manifestation of the

person and presence of God. We have a consistent life. Some Christians live

a life which we all call the roader costs of life or woman that they're

here, then they here, then the here, and the here, and

the here and the here, then there here, then there here, then

the here then here. God arts live a consistent life. There are always

ups and downs in life. But we speak to the mountain. We don't

climb it and go down it, and climb it and go down it.

We speak to the mountain and we walk in faith. That's a maturity thing.

And God wants us to be consistent and not change in our love work.

The scripture, which again reflects that team the New Testament, is to

Hebrews thirteen eight, Jesus Christ the same yesterday today and forever Love the same

yesterday, today and forever John one, John four seven to eight says,

beloved, let us love one another for lovers of God. And everyone who

loves is born of God and knows God. He does not love does not

know God. For God is love. We know God. We know God.

If you're born of the spirit, you know God. So we're asked

to love one another through the Holy Spirit. He does not love, does

not know God. So where are we today on our journey? Where are

we today in our relationship with God? Where are today? Where are we

today with walking in that love that willed him? Of course, that's bring

it down to ourselves in the room. And as I was online, as

I was listening later, where are we today? If we just reflect for

a couple of minutes, where we are I would truly walk in, Oh

God, the where that God wants us to walk. Do we need to

make some changes in the way we're are in this way we do things?

Do we need to line ourselves with We've got a little lot is saying to

us, you know, I'm just a blow giving giving you a word.

We've God speaking to your eye as a maid. That's him. Where are

we it? It's time to take some time over the next few days were

to reflect and what God's saying to about our love walk. You might go,

that's good, well good, I might say, we need to make

adjust for here. I didn't make adjustment there. You know, we've got

to be constantly up in our game. We got to this constantly surrendering,

listen to the Holy Spirit. We are a work in progress, so we

know, we know we've got certain things after changing our lives to make us

more like Him. It's not a bad thing to ask that question, you

know. It's not like, oh, deea, what we're done wrong?

It's no, that's not the approach. It approaches one needs to change for

the better. We are his hands and we're his feet. We need to

be effective witnesses. We need to be effective conduits of that love. I

holped him, of course, So I think it's upon the question to ask

ourselves. And the next question would be why where as we are as we

have the body? When look at Ephesians three talks about what can your unity?

Talk about the modification of God's love? Where where are here's a body?

What do we need to do differently? You see how I can be

impacted with a love of God? I've got the answer. There's a question

we need to consider. Yeah, so let's perhaps up and pray, and

I think I'm doing m kah h. Lord, your love never fails.

Your love works from the inside out. Your love changes everything. Your love

is eternal. Prestate the words that I said, Lord, the scriptures and

through the Holy Spit touch people's lives on the on the recording, in the

in the policing, now online for people in this room are injured name,

because I have to understand where we are, where you want us to be,

because I have to stretch to that next place in our lives. Well,

it can be conduitous a battle t my pause, which is loved in

Jesus' name.