Keeping Love Part Three - with Pastor Marci Glisson

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Now enjoy this message and we've been talking about him.

Being the lover of our soul. That was great.

Pastor Marcus. He was totally being led by the

spirit because he didn't know I was Ministering and again

tonight, Pastor actually was going to minister but then he

said you just go ahead and keep on.

I think you've got some more in there.

So we going to dig out some more amen.

And and so, how many of you love the word?

Amen. We need to be people.

That love the word of God. Amen.

Because it's his word that's going to remain forever, heaven

and earth going to pass away, but it's his word that will

remain through it all through it.

All, it's his word that's going to remain.

So we must be people that are full of his word that love his

word, amen. So that we can continue to

remain until the very end because we've been talking about

the fact that talking concerning Scripture and the fact of what

he said, it's going to be like, in the last days.

Do you know? We don't have to be ignorant

about what's going on in the Earth today.

He didn't leave us here so that we did would not understand or

be able to discern properly what is happening in the earth and

what he said, it's going to look like in the last days and I

believe we're in the last of the last days.

Amen. Hallelujah.

According to prophecy. I see according to the greatest

prophecy that there ever is been spoken or written.

This is the greatest prophecy ever.

Written. Amen.

And it is being fulfilled every single day, every single day.

And so the closer we get to the end, we have to recognize, we

cannot be a church. That is illiterate of what is

happening. In the earth.

Amen we have to Lies. What's going on.

And so we began talking about what he said concerning the last

days and we were coming out of the scripture of Jude.

And how many of you went home and did your homework?

Thank you. Alex, come up here.

I think he needs to get a reward.

I don't have any money in my pocket but Pastor might so we'll

get his money because he's always getting mine.

So, I think you need a reward. Thank you for being diligent.

Amen. And so you can be seated.

He's just the first hand I saw go up so I like to pick on

people. But anyway, I encouraged you to

go back and read the only chapter that's in the book of

Jude, which is Jude chapter 1, a very easy read.

Jude 1 · chapter mention

And he begins to talk about some things in the last days.

But this stuck out to me out of Jude 1 20 and 25, it says, but

you beloved building yourself up on your Most Holy Faith.

Praying in the Holy Spirit and verse 21 is what I really began

to key in on is keep yourselves. In the love of God, waiting

anxiously for the mercy of the Lord Jesus Christ to eternal

life and have mercy on some who are doubting save, other

snatching them out of the fire and on some have mercy with fear

hating, even the Garment polluted by the flesh.

Now to him, who is able to keep you from stumbling Do you know

the Lord can keep you from stumbling?

We do not have to be Christians that fall.

Or fail. Amen.

And he says that if we do fall of a righteous man might fall

what 7 times but he what gets back up.

He gets back up. Amen, he's going to help you get

back up. He doesn't want you to be in a

fallen State. Amen.

He never wanted man to be in a fallen State.

Actually, you can go back to Genesis and see that when man

fell come on from Dominion, God Made A Plan of Redemption.

N to get him back up. Amen.

And so, we need to be people that recognize that we shouldn't

be people that are in a fallen State.

No matter what situations going on, we can get back up as long

as there's another day and as long as there's mercy and it all

is, there's Grace, we can get back up.

If we go to the one that can help us.

Amen. Anyway, that's a side note.

And he goes on to say and to make you stand in the presence

of his glory blameless with great joy to Only God our savior

through Jesus Christ. Our Lord be glory Majesty

dominion and Authority before all time and now forevermore.

Amen. But we keyed on the scripture in

Twin verse 21 where it says to keep yourselves in the love of

God. And the thing that we began to

discuss is that He said that in the last days, there's going to

be a lot of things going on. He actually said, there's gonna

be lawlessness, right? He actually said, there's going

to be mockers and scoffers and all kinds of people.

And so, the first time we talked about this, we really focused in

on the fact that there's going to be all kinds of stuff

happening with people, but our battle is not against the

people, it's not against flesh and blood but against what

principalities and Powers these things that are operating in

those of darkness and those that are not of Christ, right?

And so we need to realize that we can't get caught up and what

they're saying, we have to understand what the spirit is

being motivated behind them, right?

And not take it personal. You don't have to take it

personal when you understand where it's coming from, but if

you're in, Cure, and you're still have an inferiority

complex, you will take it personal, but he's looking for

people that know who they are in Christ.

Come on and know what the enemy and the strategies and the plans

of the devil is in the last days so that we don't have to take a

tax personal. We don't have to look at what's

going on and take it personal and get caught up in opinions

and pop. Politics and, and spewing hatred

about people because they're not of the spirit of God.

And so, when we recognize that, then whatever people say don't

have to offend us, right? It doesn't have to offend us

because we actually understand where it's coming from and

that's very important. But he said, listen that they're

all these things were happening in Jude and he said there's

mockers scoffers there's going to be all kinds of things going

on, but also Actually, I never read the verse before 20.

So I want to go up there tonight.

Verses 18 and 19. It says they told you beforehand

that in the last days in the end times there will be scoffers who

seek to gratify their own Unholy desires following after their

own ungodly passions. It is these who are agitators.

You see that, I'm reading out of the Amplified, classic setting

up distinctions and causing division.

See when, you know, the spirit, see anything that causes

division even among people groups is not of the spirit of

God. And the spirit of love because

love will always unite to the best of its ability and will

always bring peace with all men to the best of its ability.

So anything that's causing divisiveness strife division,

it's from a wrong spirit and we need to wake up.

And realize that right agitator setting up distinctions and

causing divisions merely sensual creatures, carnal worldly minded

people, devoid of the spirit and destitute of any higher

spiritual life. So he let us know that this is

how some of these people are in the last days.

And, you know, we talked about We are responsible to keep

ourselves in the love of God, that we must go back to our

first love. We registered several

scriptures, concerning that same passionate about our love

relationship with the Lord. That's where it starts.

Because if you're not passionate about your relationship and how

much you love the Lord, then there is no way.

You're going to be able to continue to keep yourself in the

love of God in these last days when there will be nothing, but

hatred and lies, Lies and manipulation and all kinds of

things happening in the world. And we talked about how

important it is that he said in Revelations, what happened to

the church? That was busy doing but they

lost what their first love. So we talked about that, I don't

have time to go back, but we are responsible in the last days to

keep ourselves in a position of love, and it is.

So vitally important. That we recognize that, this

must be our number one priority, that our love relationship with

the Lord, is on fire and that our love relationship with one

another, the Brethren is there that we cannot have offense with

one another that we can't have anything because we're going to

read the scripture in a minute. That lets us know how we truly

the world will truly know that we are truly his disciples.

Right. And so anyway, I quoted a lot of

scriptures about the last days but I want to actually read the

scripture because as again, I told you that Jesus did not

leave us in the world for such a time as this for.

We are those that are right here.

Ready to brusher in, come on, the second coming of Christ, he

left the best. For last, he left the best for

last. Amen.

So what he is not going to leave us ignorant, he's not going to

leave us in a place that we would be, you know, taken back.

Know if we are people of the word and studiers of the word

every day, not just the pastors. But, you know, we in this

church, we have our Bible reading plan and we read our

Bible through from Genesis to Revelations.

Every year. And this is why you need to be

full of the word of God. Because if you're not full of

the word, you'll be full of the world.

And it's philosophies, it's agendas its opinions and none of

them matter to me. The only opinion that matters to

me is the word of God. Amen.

No matter what. So it's very tidily important

that we recognize. Anyway so I quoted a lot and I

ran out of Matthew 24 37 through 39, because this is another

scripture that Pastor touched on a couple of Sundays ago and it

stood out to Me and he started talking.

Remember about that in the last days, it's going to look like

the days of Noah. Right?

And so I quoted it, but I didn't really read it.

So I want to read it because I want your eyes on it.

I want you to not be ignorant. What scripture says that it will

look like in the last days. It says this, it says as were

the days of Noah so will be the coming of the son of man for

just, as in those days before the flood, they were eating

drinking men marrying women being given into marriage until

the very day when Noah went into the ark and they did not know or

understand. They didn't know or understand

what was getting ready to happen.

He did warn them, there is no way that Noah did not warn them

of what was to come, but they did not want to understand.

And they did not want to know anything about what was getting

ready to happen. And we talked about this, the

second Wednesday that I ministered is what will happen

is, We get so caught up in the things of this world, that it

begins to choke us out. And so, that's, what was

happening in the days of Noah. They were given to marriage.

They were doing Mary, drinking doing all these things.

Having their parties doing, whatever living life, fully

distracted, with the things of the world that they did.

Not discern and understand or know what was getting ready to

happen, but not this Church. We are not going to be ignorant

about what is getting ready to happen.

Amen. So, he lets us know.

But we can see this all the way, this is actually the scripture

that Pastor read a few weeks ago.

Concerning this in Genesis chapter 6, 5 & 6, it says, then

Genesis 6 · chapter mention

the Lord saw, this is what it was like in the days of Noah,

the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the Earth.

and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only

evil, what continually there are some evil thoughts continually

happening in our Earth right now.

There are agendas of wickedness and evil being pushed in our

society right now. Continually.

Continually and he says this and the Lord was what sorry that he

had made man on the earth and it grieved and he was grieved in

his heart. So this is what the picture

looked like that men were just so he's wicked and evil

continually with all kinds of thoughts of evil.

And we see that happening today when they're wanting little

children to be able to pick their identity, giving them

drugs and In surgeries at a little age, all of the

homosexual perversion. That's happening, continual evil

and wickedness, being spewed in our Earth today and other

things, greed, manipulation and politics.

I mean, it's just evil Right, evil is prevailing right.

If you don't see that, you need to wake up.

You need to wake up, we're not going to have a church.

That's asleep. I'll go by every chair in wake

you up. Hallelujah, somebody asked me

Pastor Marcy. Do you know, remember you used

to could name every person? It was Mr. Mackey, years ago

when I would get up on a Wednesday night and preach and I

could name every person in the sanctuary and he said do you

think you could still do that? I said no I said no there's too

many for me to remember you only have one person to remember.

Anyway, I don't know why I thought about that.

But anyway, Let me read at a second, Timothy chapter 3 1

through 5. Timothy also gives us a good

picture of what it will look like.

In the last days he says understand this I love the way

he says that understand it. Remember because he said, in the

days of Noah they didn't understand.

But here, he lets us know, listen, understand this, that in

the last days will come and will set in, it will be set in

perilous times. Let me tell you.

It is set in perilous times, right?

Of great stress and trouble. I mean, you know, at people are

so stressed out about gas prices and food shortages and, you

know, all of these things, great stressed.

Level hard to deal with and hard to bear for people will be

lovers of self and utterly self-centered.

And I'm going to tell you, there's a generation that is so

self-centered right now that we have self-care self-help, self

fees, self everything. Everything everything is about

self and the comfort of self, right?

And what makes them feel good about them self.

And it all started with years ago, probably 10-15 years ago

when everybody had to get a trophy for playing a game.

Because nobody wanted to feel bad for them self.

It's just real. Lovers of money.

Oh man, corrupt. I mean are we not seeing this

greed? Aroused by greedy desires for

wealth proud. Arrogant content.

I mean so arrogant that you're going to act like you can change

the DNA of a man that was created by God.

That's arrogance to the highest level, right?

And pride to the highest level, that man thinks that they can

change the very image of what God created man and woman to be

the highest level of Pride. And so he goes on to say they

will be abusive have oh man Blasphemous here.

It is scoffing disobedient to parents.

Oh my Work in the preschool for one day.

I want to go whip some little high knees.

In our preschool. But DCF would lock me up.

What anybody pale me out. Would you come bust down the

jail cell or do I just need to pray like Paul and Silas and the

Midnight Hour and call my own angels to get Unholy profane

ungrateful. They'll be without natural

human, affection callous callous to be able to sit and watch a

human baby being a boarded Callous.

Hard-hearted I ain't this is callousness of your heart.

See, what's happening? So he goes on to say, Relentless

admitting of no truce or appeasement, they will be

slanderers, false accusers troublemakers.

There are paid people, literally, that go out and calls

all of this trouble and riots, and all of this chaos, Come on,

we do not have to be ignorant about these things guys.

For real. And then he goes on to say.

In temperament, with loose morals, conduct uncontrolled,

fears haters of good, haters of good, they will be treacherous

betrayers rash inflated with self-conceit, they will be

lovers of sensual pleasures and vein of amusements, more than

rather than lovers of God for, although Hold a form of

religion. What do they do?

They deny and reject and are strangers. ^.

It their conduct beliles belies, the genuineness of their

profession. This is talking about Believers.

This is not talking about the Lost Sinner's in the world.

This is written to the church who have as a form of God.

Godliness. And we wonder why we see all of

these things. Even in the church, when we see

people in the church, that will vote for abortion, I'm calling

it out. This is what we're talking

about. Denying the power of God that

actually can transform their life.

They want to be religious and yet we see him saying avoid

listen to what he says. Avoid such people turn away from

them, avoid these people when you recognize it your to avoid

them. Amen.

Hallelujah. So here we have seen full.

Oh, let me read this when I didn't read this.

Second Peter 3, 3, 3 4. You just let the word speak for

itself. You don't have to have a

doctorate to figure it out. Amen.

He says this know, you can have the wisdom of God, you can have

the mind of Christ and you can see clearly through scripture

what he's talking about. It says, in second Peter 3, 3, 3

4, it says, no, this first of all, that, in the last days

mockers will come with their mocking following after their

own lusts and saying, where is the promise of his coming?

There are people today that once believed in the return of Christ

that were Believers, that no longer believe that he's going

to return. This is a thing across the

church world. This is this is happening guys.

Alright we're seeing it unfold. He I didn't even read the

scripture where he says, many will fall away from the faith in

the last days. Will he even find faith in the

earth? He says many are going to fall

away and we are seeing that on an everyday basis people that

once served the Lord wants were in church.

Once said they love, God are no longer serving Him and actually

deny him now. We're seeing this happen, right?

So, he's letting us know that we must be people that are aware

and awake of what is happening. See what the signs of the times

are saying and recognize that we and the last day because all of

this is going to be happening in the world.

And in the church that we must be people that keep ourselves in

the love of God so that we can continue to keep our hearts,

right? People that we see in the church

that fall away and not take it personal and not get mad at

them, right? I mean, we don't have to agree

with what they're doing but we must be people that are grieved

in our hearts of what we're seeing and keep our hearts in a

place that we are making sure that we are loving and not

hating and that we are in a place of Of keeping our hearts

often not callous, when we see these things happen on a day in

and day, in basis, day in and day out basis, because we can

become callous. Right.

So he lets us know, listen, we're going to have to be people

that are going to keep ourselves in the love of God.

Now let me go back up to verse 20.

There it says, but you beloved building yourself up on your

Most. Holy Faith.

This is what I want to talk about tonight that they're all

the way that we are going to keep ourselves in the love of

God. We talked about one way was not

getting distracted with the things of this world but this is

a must that if we Going to keep ourselves in love that we must

be people that build ourselves up in our faith in our faith.

Now, he said that when we are born again, right Romans, 5:5

says this now, hope does not disappoint because the love of

God has been poured out in our hearts, by make the connection.

By the Holy Spirit, right? Who is given to us.

So, the minute we got born again, the love of God.

One translation says, was shed abroad in our hearts.

It was poured out or shed abroad.

King James says, it was shed abroad in our hearts.

What does that mean? So the love of God, we're

talking about Agape, the very nature of God who he is, was

poured out. His Spirit was poured out in our

heart, his lungs. Of was poured out in our heart

that day we got born again. So every single one of us that's

called on the name of the Lord, has the love of God in their

hearts. God is not going to make you

love because he says you are to keep yourselves in love, he's

not going to make you do it. He actually commands you to do

it because he knows that man has a choice.

To choose whether or not because we're free will moral agents,

even though we're born again, he's put his love in us.

He's not gonna make us love. Anybody, we have to choose to

love. We have to choose to keep this

love in our hearts and keep ourselves in a place that we

are. Keeping love activated in our

lives, right? We are the ones responsible for

that but You see here, he says that love was poured out in our

hearts, by the holy spirit. So back again, in verse 20, it

says building yourself up on your Most.

Holy Faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, building yourself up on

your Most, Holy Faith, and praying in.

The Holy Spirit is the key to keeping yourselves in the love

of God. It's the key to keeping

yourselves in. The love of God because Romans

Romans 10:17

10:17 says this. Let's go there.

So then faith comes by what hearing.

So, if we're going to keep ourselves in faith, if we're

going to build ourselves up in faith here, he's letting us

know. Faith comes from what hearing

and hearing from the word of God.

So, if we're going to build ourselves up on our Most, Holy

Faith, Then we're going to have to be people that are

continually in the word of God hearing it and hearing it and

hearing it. A lot of people have heard the

word but he doesn't say, faith comes by what you've heard.

He said, faith comes by what you hear, what you are hearing.

So are you putting yourself in a position every day where he says

man should not live on bread alone but what Every word that

proceeds out of the mouth of God.

Amen. So daily, we are to what

meditate in his word take his word so that Faith Can arise for

the day. Not that we don't have faith as

foundation and Lane. I'm not saying that, but I'm

going to tell you, you can be a forgetful hearer.

The Bible talks about that, you can forget what you've heard and

many people do. Many people do you can forget

what you've heard. How many of you even remember

what you heard on Sunday? See.

So every day we need to be people as he said that we are to

live by his word every day daily bread, right?

Daily Bread is his word so that then faith can be built up in

our lives. So that faith can be built up by

the word of God. It says, faith comes by hearing

and hearing by the word of God. Where it says to build yourself

up up on your Most. Holy Faith.

It means this to build yourself up up on the foundation of the

word, when you look it up in the Greek up on the foundation of

the word. So you need to make sure that

you are in a place that you're keeping your foundation in a

place that it doesn't get cracks.

How many of, you know, after a year you're fat, after years,

your foundation Saddles, and sometimes can get What cracks in

it. Start seeing a little crack in

the wall or whatever. What do you know that can happen

in your life if you just settle and get comfortable when the

winds and the waves and things of Life come and you're just

settled, you're comfortable. You think you've heard the word,

but you're not in the word on a daily basis.

Guess what? Can happen because of the

settlement? You can start getting cracks in

your foundation. So that's why we must be people

that are continually building ourselves up on the foundation

of the word and when it says to build up it means to make

progress. This is why we say in the Bible.

He says that we must be people that are continually in a

process of growing. He desires that we were to grow,

right? We shouldn't be babes on the

Milk of the word, but we ought to grow there by the word.

So that You can start ingesting some of the meat of the word at,

right? So he's showing us here that we

should be continually building ourselves up growing and making

progress in our faith. In our faith.

Can you believe God better today than you've ever believed him

before? You ought to be progressing in

your growth, in your relationship with the Lord.

Progressing in the word of God, come on, knowing the word more

today than you've ever known before, believing the word

because not knowing it is just good enough.

You must believe that and what be doers of it, I don't care how

much knowledge you have of the word but if you are not applying

it to your everyday life, Guess what?

It's inactive. So he tells us in James that we

must be doers of the word, not hearers only deceiving ourselves

right. Going back to the hearing

process. So you can be a person that

hears the word, but if you are not actually applying it and

doing it in your everyday life, come on, then you're deceived

that you're in faith, when you're really not, You see that?

So that's what he's talking about here that we must be

making progress. It means to rise like an edifice

higher and higher. Building ourselves up on our

Most Holy Faith. It means to rise like an edifice

Higher and Higher. And to be honest, I didn't know

what edifice meant. So I had to go to good old

Webster's Dictionary. How many you may know what

edifice meant? But I didn't.

It is a large substantial building.

How about like that? The towers.

The Twin Towers. It's the stanshall you could

recognize it anywhere and that's what this means.

An edifice, a large building that stands out anywhere because

you've made, you've built yourself up.

Come on and yours in such progress and you are so large

and capacity. Come on with the knowledge of

God's word and faith, and who he is.

And who You are that everybody can recognize how much and how

large you are. How much, you know, concerning

his word? How much you live at out every

day you are to rise like an F Ascent, edifice, Higher, and

Higher. And I thought it interesting

that when I looked up the Webster dictionary, they

actually used, you know, how they'll give a sentence

structure of the word being used in a sentence and it literally

meant a complex system of beliefs.

A complex system of beliefs are your beliefs come on in the word

of God. Come on your belief system.

We've talked about this years ago, your belief system ought to

be so strong. So builds up come on.

So much full of progress in your relationship with the Lord

growing and Faith. Amen.

Hallelujah. 1st Corinthians, 14 4 says this.

One, who speaks? Now, we're going to go back to

the second point. The first point is, we have to

be built up in our Most. Holy Faith, right?

Faith comes from hearing and hearing from the word of God.

The second point was, is that it's in correlation and

connection with the Holy Spirit, right?

Because he begins to say what praying in the Holy Spirit, keep

yourselves in the love of God. So First Corinthians 14, Or says

this, the one who speaks in a tongue edifies himself.

There's that word. Edified, edified means to build

up to strengthen. So you see the connection, we

need the word and we need the spirit, and we need them

operating and flowing together. So that when you not only have

the word of God as your foundation, you now are praying

in the Holy Spirit. And when you're praying in the

Holy Spirit, you're at, Defying yourself, you're building

yourself up here in strength. It means to strengthen.

It says, so one who speaks in tongues edifies himself but the

one who prophesies edifies the church, you see that one

translation does said one who speaks in a tongue builds

himself up. And then also one who speaks in

a tongue strengthens himself. So the only outcome of you being

in the word, hearing the word and praying in the Holy Spirit.

The only outcome can be what that you're built up that your

strengthened. That's the only outcome.

So why are we not doing it more? Why are we not taking advantage

of what he says? We must do to keep ourselves in

a position of love. Right?

Why are we not in the word? Why are we not praying in the

Holy Ghost because I'm tired of seeing worn-out.

Come on, broke down, barely getting along Christians that

are spirit filled when the spirit, is there to build you up

to edify you to strengthen you. What is he going to edify you?

He's going to edify you. According to what the word is,

that has been being put in your heart because the Holy Spirit

and the word are inseparable. They can't speak separate

things. There one, right?

So when you begin to read the word, it's going to strengthen

you. It's going to encourage you.

But then when you begin to pray in the holy spirit it's going to

begin to strengthen you and encourage you, with the word

that's been put in you, how many have you ever been praying in

the Holy Ghost? And all of a sudden scriptures

are starting to come up scriptures, right?

He's calling to your remembrance those things.

That you've put in your heart. Amen.

And that encourages you write it.

Strengthens you. It edifies you.

So, if we're going to keep ourselves in the love of God, we

have to make that connection that we must be built up in the

word and be people that are hearing the word continually,

but not hearing it and not doing it, but doing it and hearing it.

And then we also must be people that are praying in the spirit.

Rohit. Hallelujah Colossians. 27 says

this that we are to be rooted and built up in him and

established in the faith. Right?

As you have been taught abounding in it with

Thanksgiving, beware, lest anyone cheat you through

philosophy and empty, deceit. According to the traditions of

men and according to the basic principles of the world and not

according to Christ, This is why it's so important that we know

what we believe that we know what the word says from Genesis

to Revelations because he said in the last day, they Is going

to be what false prophets, there's going to be false

teachers. There's going to be people that

are set by the enemy, to get you off and deceive you.

And he says, listen that if we are people of the word and we

are built up in the spirit than we will be able to rightly

discern what is happening. And we won't have to get caught

up in philosophies and opinions of this world and what they

think. Come on we don't have to get

caught up into that and by the lies, I mean, all these people

that are listening to tick tock and Twitter and and people on

Instagram for one minute and they have all this knowledge yet

how and they say they're Christians but half of them

don't go to church and you listen to their crap.

You listen to it. You believe what they say and

you don't even know what you don't even know how they live

half of them. You don't even know if they're

born again or not. So many Christians are getting

caught up in all of these things.

Pie little Snippets of what people put out.

And I've seen a mini, a good Christians in solid churches

being swayed away. So it's important what we're

hearing. It's important what we're

hearing because what you put in is going to come out.

And if you put more time on Tick, Tock Twitter, Instagram,

listening to their opinions, and all this kind of stuff, you're

putting it in and guess, what's going to come out?

Because the Bible says, and I said this last week that we were

what to guard. Our hearts Proverbs says, with

all diligence because out of it flows, the issues of life.

We are to guard our hearts and one way, we guard our hearts is

to not let everything opinion everything said go through our

ears especially if you are not solid on a foundation.

I love what brother Hagin used to say about books.

You know everybody. I mean you don't even know how

many books people, you know, want to read and and and give to

you about. I mean, you don't even know who

these people are and I don't read just anything.

If I don't know him, I don't read it.

Why am I saying that brother? Hagin said this.

Well you can read it right? And Pastor said this before,

just what is that saying? Eat the hay and throw out the

sticks. But then I heard dr.

Bill Winston said this well what happens if a stick gets lodged

in your throat? Because when donkeys go to eat

the hay, sometimes they're eating away eating away because

they just eating the hey and then all of a sudden, something

begins to be wrong with them, then they don't want to eat

anymore. They don't want to eat anymore.

So you know one guys like well why my donkey eating anymore?

He's shriveling up. Not eating.

He got a stick lodged in his throat. and if you don't have a

complex belief system, This build upon the unadulterated

word of God for yourself. I've seen a mini a good

Christians, get sticks lodged in their throat, And have fallen

off. So I'm just saying, I don't

listen to everybody, I don't read everything.

I am led by the spirit of God, on the inside.

To what I need to be reading who I need to be listening to

because I will not get a stick lodged in my throat.

It's Not Innocent, especially in these last days when he says

many are going to be carried away.

By what deceitful men? False prophets and false

teachers. Amen.

So we don't have to be ignorant. This is so that, you know, what

you believe, according to the word of God, you've read it for

yourself. You know what the scripture

says, amen. And you can stand in this last

days because you have a pastor that actually feeding you come

on, and you don't have to be a dumb sheep.

Yeah, yeah, that you know that's what they call sheep.

They say they're so dumb. That's why they just fall off in

the thing. And you know, they have to have

a Shepherd to lead them and guide them.

And give them what they need to feed on, right?

So he says this that we need to be rooted and built up in him

and established in faith as you have been taught abounding and

Thanksgiving. We already said that so that

you're not called away through philosophy and empty, deceit.

And according to traditions of men, right?

Because many churches are caught up in Traditions of man.

Instead of the word of God, right?

Now, let's look at Ephesians chapter 3 verse 16 through 21.

Ephesians 3:16–21

It says this and I pray that we he would unveil within you the

unlimited Riches of his glory and favor until Supernatural

strength flood. Your innermost being with his

Divine might and explosive power, then by constantly using

your faith, I'm reading out of the pant, passion translation,

The Life of Christ will be Lise deep inside of you and the

resting place of his love will become the very source and root

of your life. Then you will be empowered to

discover what every holy what every holy one experiences, the

great magnitude of his astonishing Love Of Christ and

all of its Dimensions, How Deeply intimate and far-reaching

is his love, how enduring and inclusive.

It is Endless, Love beyond measurement, that transcends our

understanding. Are standing this extravagant

love pours into you until you are filled to overflowing with

the fullness of God. Never doubt, God's Mighty power

to work in, you and accomplish all of this.

He will achieve infinitely more than your greatest request.

Your most unbelievable dreams and exceed your wildest

imaginations. He will outdo them all for his

miraculous power. Instantly energizes you.

Now we offer up to God. All the Glorious, praise that

rises from every Church in every generation through Jesus Christ

and all that will yet be manifested through Time.

And Eternity Ephesians 3 obviously is talking about his

love but then you see that it's connected with the Inner Man and

the Spirit strengthening you and he says that we have to be what

rooted and grounded in it. One translation says in his

love, so I love to say this when I teach my love class in Kingdom

Institute that love is the floor.

Bed of the forest of the Kingdom.

Write everything out of it. Grows everything in the kingdom

of God. God is to grow up out of love.

Okay. Everything is to grow up out of

love in your life. That should be your number one

motivation. Is the love of God flowing and

operating in your life, the love of God flowing and operating in

your life. Amen.

And the love of God, that God has shed abroad in your heart.

We ought to get to a place to where what God has done in you

through his love through Deliverance.

Through, you know, you finding out who you are in Christ

through Redemption, through hit healing.

All of the things that belong To you that are promises.

That God says, in his word, everything that he's done in you

through his love should be the thing that's flowing out of you

to reach other people, and that's why he says, listen,

you've got to keep yourself in that love because in the last

days, there's going to be unlovable people.

But when you recognize, what Spirit thereof, you don't have

to take it personal. Right, that you can still be

people that are walking in. Love guarding your heart.

Not allowing yourself to get in a position that you are out of

love. Right?

So he tells us that if we are going to be people, we must be

built up in the word of God and the spirit of God, Romans, we

know says this 12:1 and 2. It says, I appeal to you,

therefore, Brethren and beg. You I'm reading out the

Amplified in view of all of his mercies of God to make a

decisive dedication of your body's presenting, all your

members and Pat faculties as a Living Sacrifice.

Wholly devoted consecrated and well pleasing to God, which is

your reasonable one translation says Service.

Rational intelligence, service and spiritual worship, do not be

what conformed to this world fashioned after an adapted to

its external superficial Customs, but be what transformed

Changed by your the entire renewal of your mind.

And by its new Diaz and it new attitude so that you'll prove

yourselves that which is good and acceptable and the perfect

will of God. Even the thing, which is good

and acceptable and perfect in his sight.

So, we must not just recognize that we're in.

We've been had the love of God shed abroad in our heart.

When were born again. Now, he's letting us know that

we must be people that transform our mind by the renewing of the

word of God. God.

And that we are responsible to renew our minds to the word so

that we don't think like this world.

We don't behave like this world. We don't act like this world.

We don't respond to people, like, people in the world.

We have to respond with the love of God, we have to respond as

people, that know. The word says, and what the word

can do. Amen.

And when we recognize that, because we've allowed the word

of God, to transform Our Minds. Come on.

Then we he says then we'll know what is the perfect will of God.

What is good and what is acceptable?

Not what the world has called Good and Evil and evil?

Good. No will know what is good?

Will know what his will is will know what his word says.

Because we've actually allowed our minds to be transformed by

the renewing of the word, not the things of this world.

Right. Not CNN Fox News and all these

news channels that just want to feed you a bunch of garbage.

Our mind should not be renewed by that stuff.

Our mind must be renewed by the word of God.

Amen. And these last days, it must be.

Joshua 1:8 says this. It says, I'm going to read it

Joshua 1:8

out of the message and don't for a minute, let this book.

Of the Revelation, be out of mind, out of the mind, don't for

one minute. Let this book.

Be out of mind, Ponder, and meditate on it.

What day and night. Making sure you practice not

just meditate on it day and night but make sure you practice

everything written in it. Then you'll what get where

you're going and be successful. We know what that other The

translation we've read it before your ways will be prosperous.

Right? And all that Proverbs 4:23 24,

Proverbs 4:23

says this, my son give attention to my words.

How much attention are we given to Instagram, influencers, come

on, Tik toks. Twitter's how much attention are

we giving to these things? You know, you can actually know

how much attention you're given to it.

Just Pop your phone and find out.

How many hours you're sitting on each app?

And I want to know. Are you putting that much time

in the word of God? Amen.

Because he lets us know that we are to give attention to his

words incline. Your ear back to hearing

inclined your ears, to my sayings.

Do not let them depart from your eyes, right?

Keep them in the midst where of thine heart.

Keep them in the midst of thine heart for, they are life to

those who find them and health to all of their flesh.

Keep your heart with all diligence for out of it Springs.

What the issues of life out of it Springs, the issues of life.

It's a clear evidence sign. What people are feeding on?

Because their life will be a reflection of it.

Always, always. So what you're feeding on, there

will be a reflection of that in your life.

So he lets us know that the word should be the number one thing

that we should feed on Amen. Now, I just have three

scriptures and will close. I'm just reading it John, 15:7

through 12 if you abide in me and my what words abide in you,

you will ask, whatever you desire and it shall be done for

you. By this, my father is glorified

that you bear much fruit. What fruit is he wanting you to

Bear? Love It's the first fruit that

shed abroad in your heart. We know the fruits of the

spirit. Love, patience.

What? Joy, peace, gentleness,

goodness, kindness, self-control Galatians, right?

Is the fruits of the spirit. But love was the first fruit

that was shed abroad in your heart.

And he says, listen, if my words abide in you and you abide in

me, ask whatever you desire, and it shall be done for you by

this. My father is glorified that.

Bear much fruit. So you will be my disciples as

the father loved me. I also have loved you abide in

my love. The only way that we are going

to keep love. The only way that we are going

to be able to do walk in the love of God a god Baal of the

only way we're going to be able to demonstrate those fruits in

the last days is that we must be people abiding in the vine

abiding in the vine right? He says if you keep my

Commandments, you will abide in my love just as I I have kept my

father's Commandments and abide in his love.

These things I have spoken to you, that your joy May remain in

you and that your joy would be full.

This is my commandment that you love one.

Another what as I have loved you.

As I have loved you. How did he love us, man?

He forgave us, didn't he? He redeemed us.

Hallelujah. So we're going to be have to be

people that are abiding in him on a continual basis.

And one way we abide in him, is in his word and praying in the

spirit to be able to keep this love.

In a place that we're not allowing these things of this

world, Shake us are get us off or Harden our hearts or become

callous. To what we see are going is

going on, right first. Our four seven and eight says

this, the end of all things is near therefore be of sound,

judgment, and sober spirit for the purpose of prayer.

Verse 8 above all, keep fervent in your love for one another

because love covers a multitude of sin.

We must keep fervent in the love of God for one another, We must

fight for one another. We must stay in a position that

we're not going to get offended with one another, that we're not

going to get upset with one another that they're not going

to bite back B against one another that we're not going to,

you know, talk and gossip about one another.

No, we're going to fight for love.

We're going to keep and be fervent in love, and he actually

says the love of God. Well, what keep you in?

Perfect Unity. And the love of God is there to

perfect the Saints. Amen.

To keep us in. Perfect actually, Unity.

I'll read it Colossians 3:14. It says bubble, beyond all

Colossians 3:14

things, what put on love. Well, I mean God can't make me

laugh. I mean, God's love is in me

know. Once again, you're responsible

to keep yourself in love and you see another scripture that says

you're responsible to put it on, even though it's in you, you

have to put it on. You have to choose every day to

pick up love, that's on the inside of you and took one

translation in. The, NIV says to clothe yourself

in it, because there's going to be people every day that You

come in contact with that. You're not going to want.

Come on to respond in Love. No.

But if you put on your clothes everyday and please do it

reminds you every day that I have to put on the love of God,

even though it's in me, I'm responsible to put it on and I'm

a responsible to keep it active and to activate it.

Amen. And to put Put it on it says

which is the perfect Bond of unity when we all decide that

we're going to put on love that, we're going to keep ourselves in

the love of God. Come on then.

Guess what? We are going to protect the bond

of unity. Unity in the house of the Lord.

We're not going to be upset with people.

Right? Or what they say, or what they

don't say, or how they respond or how they don't respond.

No, we're going to love them. Right to what.

Protect the bond of unity First Corinthians 14:1 says this

1 Corinthians 14:1

pursue love Pursue love. So not only do you have to keep

your own self in love? You have to close yourself and

put on love. He lets us know that we must

pursue it. We must pursue the love of God.

Do you know what? Pursue means?

When you actually look it up in the Greek, it means to proceed

along the course of So if we want to protect the bond of

unity among the Brethren, because I'm going to read our

last scripture in a minute. Then we must be people that

recognize we must put on the love of God, but not only that

we must pursue it. Meaning, I'm gonna pursue the

course of love in every situation when I encounter an

individual or circumstance in my marriage with my children, with

my employer, With my spouse, whatever, with my friend, my

number one motivation, if I'm truly one, that's in the kingdom

of God, allowing the love of God, to be a part of my life.

And I must recognize that I am responsible to pursue along the

course of love in every situation with anyone.

I come in contact with pursue along, that course I'm pursuing.

What does that That mean I am gonna what does love do in this

situation? Remember the old watches are not

watches the little bracelets. I think my grandkids still have

them. Wwjd what would Jesus do?

To pursue along the course of love means what would Jesus do

in every situation that I encounter, that must be our

number one motivation and goal. Wait a minute, it's not about

how I feel. I don't care how they did me

wrong. The Bible says to turn the other

cheek if I actually get slapped. The Bible says, I must forgive.

Right. So whatever the scenario is and

we all probably have scenarios popping up in our head with

people. Whatever that scenario is my

number one goal and motivation. If I'm truly going to be a

person that's walking out this Kingdom Life That's motivated by

love is I am going to pursue along the course of Love which

means there's should be unity and Relation in every situation.

No matter what it is. So, and so, ripped me off, I had

this Christian. Listen, you hear, I hear it all

the time. Pastor, I tried to get so-and-so

to do my lawn, because they were in the church, and they ripped

me off. What you going to do?

I choose to so that money I choose to proceed along the

course of love to forgive them and to so it that was seed that

I just sewed. You see what I'm saying?

That's what we're talking about here.

Truly being a disciple of Christ.

Is we are responsible for pursuing along the course of

love at all cost. Even when you have to, it's not

about me because love his love is not selfish.

It's not about me. John.

Last scripture, 13. 34 35 says this, a new commandment.

I give to you that you love one another even as I have loved you

that you also love one another. By this all men will know that

you're truly what my disciples if you have love for one another

the world is not going to care. A bit, if you can go up and cast

out a devil. Know what will really prove that

you're truly a disciple of Christ is the love that you have

for one another. Not that you can raise the dead,

not that you can cast out demons, which we all can not

that you can speak in new tongues.

Because he actually tells us, you can speak with tongues of

angels and have not and be a what gonging?

Clanging cymbal. You just full of a lot of noise.

And nobody's listening. But when you start out operating

in the true love of God, that's loving one another and pursuing

on all levels that love would abound still more and more that

we would grow to the depths and Heights and widths and lengths

of his love. More and more with one another

then you'll prove that you're truly his disciples because

listen nothing anyone does too, You can affect you.

Can't offend you to get you off. I mean, do you know how many

Christians have left churches because of nitpicky things?

When he actually tells us we must pursue love that there

ought to be nothing that can get you off of pursuing love with

people with his people with his people.

I could write you a list of people that's done me wrong.

But you know what? I counted as Dung.

Nothing because I choose to allow my heart to stay in a

position of Love of loving people.

God's people honoring God's people honoring God's people,

loving, God's people, no matter what they say, no matter what

they do. Cuz no one can affect your

heart. Unless you let them.

He lets us know that we must be people that are loving one.

Another forgiving one, another, letting things go.

Walking towards the pursuit of forgiveness and love with the

Brethren. And this is how the world's

actually, truly going to see that he's got a group of

disciples That know how to love one.

Another forgive one. Another aren't Petty with one

another, don't get upset with one another, just let things go.

Let the, why let it just roll off your back like the water on

a duck's back. You just don't take anything

personal. Amen.

You just let it go. Let It Go.

Right? I'm going to tell you this is

where he wants his church to be until we all attain into the

fullness of God, the fullness of God, we're all flowing and

operating and pursuing the love of God with everything that is

within us. And we're not letting any petty

little thing hinder us or stop us, right?

We're not letting anything. Our hearts hinder us from

walking in love with our spouses, with our children, with

our families, come on, with our feet, you have to forgive,

listen, you have to forgive your parents, they only were doing

what they thought they knew to do.

You have to let those things go. You have to forgive them even if

they're dead. You have to forgive them.

You have the responsibility to do that?

No matter what has happened in your life, you have the

responsibility to put on the love of God, and walk according

to his love. And he clearly defines what his

love looks like in his scripture.

Amen. No matter what we have to be

people that pursue love. I'm not going to let anything

hinder relationships with one another.

Right? We're just going to love, give

people time. Let it go.

That. Don't mean, you have to, you

know, do any. You just don't worry about it.

Just go on about your business and love them.

Anyway, no matter what they've said, what they've done, you

just do it. Amen.

Pursue it, put it on, keep yourself in the love of God.

Keep yourself in the love of God.

And I'm going to tell you every day is a must Because every day

you could have something arise that you have to make a decision

and a choice. You know what, I'm just going to

put on love there, you know? I'm just going to forgive him,

they're just must be having a bad day.

You know what, I'm just not even going to believe they really

meant what they said. Even though they chewed me out,

spit me out whatever. They just having a bad.

I don't even believe a word that's coming out of their

mouths because actually I know who I am and I'm not that

person. They just said You see what I'm

saying? I know who I am.

According to scripture, right? And so when you know who you are

in Christ, it doesn't matter what anybody says or what

anybody does. You can keep yourself in a place

of Love. Hallelujah.

And this is how the world is truly going to know that.

We're heads disciples, not how well we can preach not how well

we can teach not how well we can sing.

A worship team not how well come on we can cast out a demon know

how well can we love one another how well can we love one another

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