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IS THE LOVE OF GOD IN US

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  1. Saint John, chapter three and verse sixteen. Amen, chapter three

  2. and verse sixteen. When you get there, say man, Amen,

  3. the word of God this morning for the people of God.

  4. In the Book of Saint John, chapter three and verse sixteen,

  5. it says, for God soul loved the world that he

  6. gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in him

  7. should not perish, but have everlasting in life. For God

  8. sent not his son into the world to condemn the world,

  9. but that the world through him might be saved. Can

  10. you say, man, you may be seated in the House

  11. of the Lord. We're gonna talk today about is God

  12. love in us? Is God's love in us? And I

  13. know that the love of God is in us? But

  14. is it in us all the time? I should the

  15. better question be, although the love of God is in us,

  16. are we using it at all times? Because sometimes we

  17. may choose to use it when it's applicable, when it's easy,

  18. when it's a casual, when it's again, I say, when

  19. it's easy to use, But do we use it when

  20. it's hard? Because when it's hard is when it really

  21. tells the love of God in you? Amen? Because in

  22. this dispensation of time. I don't have to tell nobody

  23. in here, nobody just listening that the problem in the

  24. world today and yesterday is the love of God is

  25. not in the world, and it's hard even to find

  26. it in the believer because the believer has not perfected

  27. it like they should, because they don't practice it on

  28. a daily basis, so that it becomes a part of them.

  29. You say you got Jesus, you saying you got love.

  30. But love comes with practice, and believe you me, you

  31. gonna get some tests you can practice on you, right, Amen,

  32. somebody you see, God's character through his spirit comes to

  33. sharpen us and progressively dominate us. Amen. If you don't

  34. let the spirit of God dominate you, then that's where

  35. you're gonna be found fallible in your love. Amen. So

  36. it's got to sharpen you and dominate you. Amen. The

  37. character of the believer, This is the character of the believer. Amen,

  38. So that the character of God imparts in us the

  39. will to love, because a whole lot of people have

  40. a desire to love, but it don't connect to the will. Amen.

  41. Until that desire becomes a will. It's just something that

  42. you was going to do but never got around to doing.

  43. Jesus is the only begotten son of God, and the

  44. uniqueness of this relationship is that we became the children

  45. of God. We became the children of God, whereas Jesus

  46. always was the son of God. Hey man, there's a

  47. song I'm pretty sure you'all familiar with it says it's

  48. like a sweet perfume. I pulled my love all over

  49. you at least looking at me with her hand. I

  50. know you know the song. You don't know that song

  51. like a sweet perfume, I pulled my love all over you.

  52. How many y'all know their song? Well, that's one of

  53. the verses. I know what that song been sung in

  54. this ministry before. Where I got it from? Like a

  55. sweet perfume. I that's not the title. That's one of

  56. the verses. Let's talk about love. Love was one of

  57. the things that attacked me viciously when I got saved,

  58. and continues to attack me. As a matter of fact,

  59. most of the things that I ministered on Wait before

  60. this ministry were things concerning the love of God. As

  61. a matter of fact, this sermon I ministered at least

  62. three times in this ministry. But every time God gives

  63. me something different in it to give to you, Amen.

  64. But when we come to understand love God, we quote

  65. this little brief saying God is love without understanding, like

  66. a lot of scriptures we without understanding. But when we

  67. think about love, love is Love is both an attribute

  68. of God and a description of God. It's not just

  69. an attribute of God, it is who he is. It's

  70. his very description. You can't even say love without saying Jesus,

  71. because you don't even say Jesus. But when you say love,

  72. you're saying Jesus. And when you say Jesus, you're saying love. Now,

  73. this is the number one love, not of the five loves.

  74. Is the O God they love. When you say Jesus,

  75. you're saying the O God they love of God, not

  76. that stingy love, and not the mariagal love, and not

  77. the little lust for love. But I'm talking about the

  78. gop they love. When you say Jesus, it's an attribute

  79. of God as well as a description of who God is.

  80. Hey man, and God alone is the epitome of the

  81. value and love alone. He is, Amen. I want to

  82. hit you in in your heart today. He's not only

  83. the epitome of it, he is the very source of

  84. all true love. Love comes and He's the source of it,

  85. That's where it comes from. His love is unconditional. His

  86. love is consistently seeking the highest good of the one

  87. who is loved by him. It seeks the highest God's

  88. love to all of us that know and understand. Was

  89. clearly shown, amen, clearly shown, clearly demonstrated at Calvary when

  90. Jesus died for all our sins. Jesus died because he

  91. felt like it was something he just wanted to do. No,

  92. Jesus died because of what he knew, and what he

  93. knew was that he loved us so much. If he

  94. didn't die for us, we would all die and go

  95. to Hell. And he just didn't die for you and me.

  96. But the saved because he died for us before we

  97. even got saved. And the reason why he died was

  98. because we were not saved. It's so many things. Jesus

  99. died because he loved us so much and he wanted

  100. us to get back in the right relationship with God.

  101. And in the status that we were in, we could

  102. not God couldn't even look at us. But when Jesus

  103. took sin up on him on the cross, laid his

  104. head in the locks of his chest and gave up

  105. the ghost. It was finished. Sin was finished. This was

  106. the true sign of how much God loves us. This

  107. was the true sign of how much God loved us.

  108. In the book the First John, round about the fourth chapter,

  109. it tells us First John, chapter four and verse eleven

  110. tells us beloved. If God so loved us, we are

  111. there also to love one another. See it's not an

  112. if to it. God loves us. And since God loves us,

  113. he says we are to also to love one another.

  114. No man had seen God. If we love one another,

  115. God dwell in us. I'm gonna read that again because

  116. some people believe the kind of love they got is

  117. the God love. No man has seen God at any time.

  118. If we love one another, God dwelt in us, and

  119. His love is perfected in us. Hereby know we that

  120. we dwell in Him and he in us, because He

  121. had given us of his spirit. And we have seen

  122. and do testify that the Father sent the Son to

  123. be the savior of the world. Whoever shall confess that

  124. Jesus is the son of God, God dwelleth in him

  125. and he in God. And we have known and believe

  126. the love that God had to us. See, it ain't

  127. like we don't know it. It ain't like we don't

  128. believe it. I know sometime when things happen, the tragedy

  129. come upon us, we may try to have a pity party, say,

  130. God must don't love me, he allowed this to happen

  131. to me. Well, you got to think about this. If

  132. that tragedy came upon it and you live through it,

  133. God must love you. Hey man, God is love, and

  134. he that dwelleth in love. Dwelleth in God and God

  135. in Him. Wherein is our love made perfect? That we

  136. may have boldness in the day of judgment, Because as

  137. He is, so are we in this world. See, if

  138. the love of God is dwelling in us and the

  139. love in God, if the love of God is dwelling

  140. in us, that's dwelling in him. We do have the

  141. boldness at the end of time to know we know,

  142. ain't no doubt of matter. We can run, jump, scream

  143. in how I'm going to be with the Father. We

  144. can say it with the boldness because God, because of

  145. the love that dwells in, because of the love that

  146. dwells in us, dwells in God. Hey man, we will

  147. have the boldness on judgment and the fact that the

  148. fact that the love of God dwells in us, and

  149. we know that God loves us. Verse eighteen says there

  150. is no fear in love, but perfect love casts it

  151. our fear perfect love, because fear hath torment. He that

  152. fear is not made perfect in love. See, when you

  153. know God loves you and you love God, you know

  154. the love of God is gonna protect you no matter

  155. what happens. God gonna bring you through it. We love

  156. him because he first love us. If a man say

  157. I love God, won't y'all listen real good now? If

  158. a man say I love God. If a man saved

  159. I love God and hated his brother, he is a liar.

  160. For he that loveth not his brother, whom he had seen.

  161. How can he love God whom he had not seen.

  162. And this commandment have we from him, that he who

  163. loveth God love his brother. Also this commandment we have

  164. from him him who God, that who loved God, I

  165. love his brother love God. Also, So all the scriptures

  166. really saying there's no way you can love God if

  167. you don't love your brother. I don't care what your mouth,

  168. say head, tell your brain, tell you God said, you

  169. ain't no way you can love me. If you hate

  170. your brother, you can tell me you love me all day.

  171. But if you hate your brother, I you just sound

  172. like Charlie what's his name A Charlie Brown's teacher for

  173. a wapp. That's what you sound like to God talking

  174. about you love him, but you hate your brother. You

  175. sound like Charlie Brown's teacher. Because the love of God

  176. is what cause him to do what he did. That

  177. he gave his only begotten son. That whosoever believeth in him,

  178. whosoever believeth in him, it don't make no different what

  179. color you are. It's whosoever believeth in him. It don't

  180. make no different what size you are. It don't make

  181. no difference how much money you got, how smart you

  182. think you are, how less money you may have. It's

  183. that whosoever hey man believe it on him should not perish,

  184. but have everlasting life. You see, I was prejudice, and

  185. I was privy to be in this situation. Prejudice. When

  186. we think about prejudice, we think about white people being

  187. prejudiced towards Negroes are Negroes being prejudiced towards white people,

  188. are towards Japanese or Chinese, what other other race? There

  189. is a man somebody, but there are people of the

  190. same race that are prejudice of one another. And I'm

  191. saying that to say this, they're prejudice because of the

  192. skin color of an individual, because you got some light

  193. skinned Negroes, prejudice against dark skinned brethren, and dark skinned brethren,

  194. prejudice against light skinned brothers and sisters. Now I was

  195. in counters because I'm not gonna even tell you what

  196. that man called me. Yeah, I'm gonna tell you what

  197. he called me because of his ignorance, which he thought

  198. he had wisdom and history behind what he was talking about.

  199. But man's wisdom. Of of course, God says his foolishness to him.

  200. But anyway, after this conversation, God began to deal with

  201. me in the spirit, and it says, hmm, that's pretty powerful.

  202. Not that I doubt, not that I've never known that,

  203. because I have. But the thing that God was showing

  204. me was again God was showing me, is that God

  205. don't see color. God sees souls see God don't see color.

  206. He sees souls, and what God loves is the soul.

  207. So God loves everybody. That's why he says that whosoever

  208. loved him should love his brother. And his brother ain't

  209. just somebody of the same color of you. I know

  210. that the negroes walking around and call what's up? Brother?

  211. As soon as you hear somebody of the Caucasian persuasion

  212. said you looking at him like that's something you ain't

  213. supposed to be saved or don't sound right, come out

  214. your mind. That's because what society has taught you. But

  215. if you listen to what God says, everybody that saves

  216. sanctified and filled with the Holy ghost, white, green, purple

  217. red a brother. And because of society thinking you have

  218. a problem loving other races, but that's something wrong with

  219. the love of God in your heart if you do.

  220. Because he's said so. He said, how you can you

  221. say you love me that you've never seen, but hate

  222. your brother, who you see every day. God said, that's impossible.

  223. No matter what your mind tell you, it's impossible for

  224. you to love God God and you don't love your brother.

  225. It's impossible. See, we got to understand. The entire gospel

  226. comes to a focus. In this verse, God's love is

  227. not just to a certain group of people. It's not.

  228. It is offered to the whole world. If they think

  229. people live on Mars, it's offer to them too, because

  230. he's a god of all, He's a god of all creation.

  231. See and see, we gotta kind of love that sometime

  232. can be stagnated. You instead, I'm saying, list you know,

  233. sometimes sometimes that kind of that love we got it

  234. takes a little push to move it. But see that

  235. ain't how God's love is his love. See, the love

  236. of God is not motionless, our self centered. It's always moving,

  237. never stopping. And it and as it moves forth and

  238. flow through the earth, it reaches out and draws others in.

  239. God has a drawing love. It does not push people

  240. away because here in his verse, God's actions define the

  241. pattern of true love. In John three sixteen, it's the

  242. pattern of true love that God gave his own living.

  243. See Insteed, I had to make it. See see it

  244. had to be written like that because we might have,

  245. in our little minds be able to understand that He

  246. had twelve sons and gave one up for us. But

  247. it says his only forgotten sons the only one that

  248. came from him, the only one he had in the

  249. whole world. He gave him up for us. See, he

  250. had to put it like that because we went and

  251. not thought it was so great where he had to

  252. get eleven mo sons. I mean a big deal. But

  253. even with eleven most sons it's still a big deal.

  254. But we had He had to put it like that

  255. for our little little you know, our little minds to

  256. try to figure things out and try to make satisfied

  257. a thing, you know, like you know, like the scientists

  258. always trying to prove the miracles of God can be explained.

  259. They come up with all this stuff. Oh, the only

  260. reason that they could walk across the Red Sea because

  261. that particular time of the year, the particular place in

  262. the Red Sea is only three feet tall. Well, you

  263. just made God even greater because he drowned horses and

  264. the army men and three feet of water. You ain't prove,

  265. you ain't proved not, but made him even more greater

  266. and even more of a miracle. Mm hmm. John three sixteen.

  267. The actions of God in that verse defines the pattern

  268. of true love. It is the basis for all love relationships.

  269. For all love relationships. You know how that you call

  270. that person your friend, that's a relationship. You know how

  271. you know you you call that person that worked for you,

  272. that's a relationship. You know how you call that person

  273. you work for that's a relationship. Mm hm. When you

  274. love someone, you are willing to sacrifice. Because God loved us,

  275. he was willing to sacrifice. We are to do the

  276. same thing because of the same love that He had

  277. when he did it. We should have the same love

  278. to do it sacrificial love. Also, it's practical in seeking

  279. ways to meet the needs of those who I loved.

  280. It's not selfish trying to help the out today because

  281. the love of God has dwindled in the house of God. See,

  282. because when you love God, you won't be putting up

  283. with all this foolishness in his house. When you love God,

  284. you won't be trying to rob the people of God.

  285. And when you love God, you will have the deserning wisdom.

  286. Of God not to be robbed, because the love of

  287. God drives the descernment of God and wisdom of God.

  288. Amen. Somebody well. In God's case, that love was to

  289. set out to rescue those who had no hope of

  290. being rescued or rescuing themselves. That's what God love does.

  291. It goes out, it's not motionless. It continues to move

  292. when it comes to bid it or he's there, and

  293. move around him and going around to Johnny. Oh he

  294. needs me, Bam, hitting Johnny is it's hitting Johnny is

  295. still moving. I don't stay with Johnny. It keeps rolling. Amen.

  296. Because his love is seeking them to rescue who can't

  297. rescue themselves and can't nobody else rescue you but God.

  298. Because God is the only one that paid Dilly to

  299. save us. He gave his only son. The highest price

  300. he could pay was nothing higher. And this payment is

  301. offered to everyone who believes. Amen. And to believe is

  302. more than just intellectual Amen. It's just it's more than

  303. an intellectual belief like people say, I believe in Jesus Christ.

  304. It's more than an intellectual belief that the belief is

  305. a motivating motion belief. Amen. It's more than just an

  306. intellectual agreement that Jesus is God. It means putting our

  307. trust and confidence. When you believe, you'll put your trust

  308. and your confidence in it, Amen, that he alone can

  309. save us. It is also putting Jesus in charge of

  310. our plans and our destiny. Believing is trusting his word

  311. as reliable and relying on him for power to change. Amen.

  312. We want to believe some of his word, but not

  313. all of his word. That's not belief. Amen. With God,

  314. you either believe all of it or you don't believe

  315. none of it. There's no halfway belief with God. Halfway

  316. means you don't believe it. Bottom line, you can't be

  317. a little pregnant. You can't be a little pregnant. Nick.

  318. You either pregnant, I here not pregnant. You either believe

  319. God or you don't believe God. You either trust God

  320. or you don't trust God. Hey man, somebody, you either

  321. rely on the world or you don't rely on the word.

  322. I heard a preacher said, we can leave all that

  323. out of there. He was talking about holy community and

  324. or we don't have to read that part. We can

  325. leave all that out. I was dealing with a brother

  326. from out of town who called me and said, let

  327. me ask you something. I said, you can't leave nothing

  328. now concerning God if it concerns God, I said, why

  329. would your pastor say something like that? You can't leave

  330. nothing out There's another brother I talked to in another

  331. state that said, well, he starts talking. He said, well,

  332. hold on, let's just leave God out of this and

  333. look at it like this. And then I would say,

  334. and he's a pastor, and I said, well, I can't

  335. leave God out of nothing. Well, let's just leave God

  336. out of this and look at it this way. I

  337. can only look at things the way God look at things,

  338. because I've always got to look through the eyes of Jesus,

  339. because I got the mind of Christ. How can I

  340. look at it any other way? Brother, I gotta look

  341. at it God's way, because the love of God in

  342. me is going to cause me to do so dangerous

  343. words speaking to me. Jesus accepted our punishment and paid

  344. the price for our sins so that we would not perish,

  345. so that we would not spend eternity apart from God,

  346. because sin separates you from God. And because he loved

  347. us so much, he came so he would give us

  348. the power to change our sin nature, because we all

  349. had that sin nature before Jesus went to the cross,

  350. hey man, So he came to change that nature so

  351. that we would not spend eternity apart from God. Those

  352. who received the eternal life with God are those who believe.

  353. So you see, if it were not for the love

  354. of God, we would not make it into heaven. It's

  355. the love of God the reason why we have the

  356. chance and opportunity to make it into heaven. But somebody say, but,

  357. somebody say, but, but God's love alone is not enough.

  358. Somebody say that's not enough. We too have to show

  359. our love for him, because without his love in us,

  360. we still won't make it. And how do we show

  361. him the love that he's imparted in us. I'm so

  362. glad you asked. I just can't tell it to you.

  363. I got to tell you how God say he has

  364. to be shown to him. So God talks to us

  365. and tells us. In the book of First John and

  366. chapter three, he tells us, this is how you show him.

  367. He says here in John First John, chapter three, verse eleven.

  368. For this is the message that you heard from the beginning.

  369. This is how you heard this from the beginning, that

  370. we should love one another, not as Cain, who was

  371. of the wicked one and slew his brother, and the

  372. workforce slew he him because his own works were evil

  373. and his brother's righteous but God says, mather or not,

  374. my brethren, if the world hate you, we know that

  375. we have passed from death unto light because we love

  376. the brethren. You don't pass from death to light when

  377. you come, continue and become a lover of the brethren.

  378. He that loveth not his brother, abided in death and darkness.

  379. Hey man, who's whoever hated his brother is a murderer

  380. as well, That's what the Bible said. You don't just

  381. have to shoot and staff and beat somebody to death.

  382. The Bible said, whoever hate his brother is a murderer.

  383. And you know that no murderer, You know it hath

  384. ended life abiding in him, eternal life, abiding in him.

  385. Whereby perceive we the love of God, because He laid

  386. down his life for us, and we ought to lay

  387. down our lives for the brethren. It didn't say we

  388. gotta lay down our life for God said, we are

  389. lay down our life for the brother. Because when we

  390. lay down our life for the brother, and we are

  391. laying our life down for God. Hey man, but whoso

  392. had this world's good m it's for the greedy people

  393. claiming they love and see it's his brother. Have need

  394. and shut up his bowels of compassion from his brother.

  395. How dwell it the love of God in him? How,

  396. my little children, let us not love in word, neither

  397. in tongue, just run in your mouth. But let us

  398. do it indeed and in truth. And hereby we know

  399. that we are of the truth, and shall assure our

  400. hearts before him. For if our heart condemn us, God

  401. is greater than our heart, and know it all things,

  402. which means God knows it's your heart is trying to

  403. condemn you. He knows the intent of your heart. He

  404. knows the intent of what you were doing. Even if

  405. your own heart tries to condemn you, He knows the

  406. content of your heart. He knows the purity of your heart.

  407. Because some people are trying to make you feel guilty,

  408. and you begin to condemn yourself. But God knows the

  409. intent of your heart. Beloved, If our heart condemns us not,

  410. then we have then we confidence towards God. Then we

  411. have confidence towards God. And whatsoever we ask, we receive

  412. of him because we keep his commandments and do these

  413. things that are pleasing in his sight. And why do

  414. we do these things that are pleasing in his sight?

  415. Because we love him? That's the only reason. But Cain,

  416. the Bible says, who was of the wicked one? That

  417. wicked one is the Bible's talking about. Refers to the

  418. child of the devil. You see, Cain was of the

  419. devil's child. How do you how can you say that?

  420. People tell me, all the time passed, we all cha

  421. God's children. Well, let's look at verse nine in one

  422. John and three. Whosoever is born of God, do it

  423. not commit sin? For his seed remaineth in him, as

  424. God sees, and he cannot sin because he is born

  425. of God. But in this the children of God, I'm manifested,

  426. and the children of the devil. So the children of

  427. the devil, I'm manifested. In verse nine. Also the children

  428. of God are manifested. In what ch Verse nine says

  429. and says, whosoever do it not the righteousness? It's not

  430. of God, neither he that loveth not his brother. So

  431. in this the children of God are manifested. And the

  432. ch of the who of who? Well, that kind of

  433. tells me. I don't know about you. My understanding was

  434. God's wisdom that we ain't all God's children. Because this

  435. Bible just said and and the children which means somebody else,

  436. the children of the devil. Amen. So Cain killed Abel

  437. because uh, the conflict of the loyalty, and the conflict

  438. of the loyalty was the Kings was to the Satan,

  439. and Abel's was to God. Cain's loyalty was to the devil,

  440. and Abel's loydy was to God. And it was it

  441. was seen by the respective actions that both of them

  442. had Amen. You see, John was saying, if hear me, good, Now,

  443. if Cain could see that a man's character is revealed ultimately,

  444. not in what he says he believes, but but in

  445. what he does. So should not Christians be able to

  446. see this as well? Are we blind to this? Kingsart

  447. As God's children, we must must be loving. Yet many

  448. fail to love as God's children. Too often in the

  449. ministry of the Gospel of Jesus Christ today there is

  450. a deep dislike among the Christians. Look. I take Melvin's

  451. South for instance. He got on he was in a convocation,

  452. and he was stood behind the poor pit and begin

  453. to walk back and forth and said, I said, shut

  454. the doors, Christians, my little thing up here, you understand,

  455. trying to you execute that man? All over social media,

  456. Why would you do that? And then some of them

  457. were lying on the man, if not all of them.

  458. I was supposed to persecute one another. The Bible said,

  459. We're supposed to go to them in secret and take

  460. a witness to try to gain our brother. But now

  461. these soul called Christians, they must have already had a

  462. dislike for Melvin SOPs of Marvin Sobs. Because many churches

  463. synagongues today are the people in their struggle with issues

  464. that divide the members. And I'm gonna tell you some

  465. Christ is not divided. The love of Jesus Christ was

  466. so intense going in the going to the cross, because

  467. there was gonna be a turning away. There was gonna

  468. be for h a for a micro second that the

  469. Father was gonna turn away. See that love of God

  470. was so powerful. He had to do what he had

  471. to do. But Jesus understood they meant somebody. He knew

  472. that the Father still loved him, but he had to

  473. do what he had to do for us. And because

  474. what he had to take home. Hey man, all ministries,

  475. somebody say, all need to work on love and harmony.

  476. Because Jesus wanted his followers to be unified as a

  477. powerful witness to the reality of God's love, a powerful

  478. witness to the reality, cause it's already there, but as

  479. a if we become a unified group. See, it's when

  480. we come to the temple that we're really called the

  481. church and men somebody because it's a gathering of all

  482. of the saints. And then we'll call the church. And

  483. when we come together in unity, just like they did

  484. when they were praying in the temple, praying, and they

  485. had one mind, one prayer, one heart to do, and

  486. they prayed so loud that those posts of the temple

  487. shook because of the unity they had and the prayer

  488. they were praying. One mind. You get people up here praying,

  489. it happens. Trust me, I'm trying to pray for somebody,

  490. and they looking at it and hanging on work. They

  491. stand up a wait for prayer, they sell. They may

  492. be sitting back there. I don't know what they going

  493. up there for. You got to have here. When you

  494. see somebody coming up herayer, you gotta be praising God,

  495. not thinking about some negative crop. That was a young

  496. man where I was away. Every time they had ought

  497. to call in the chapel, he would run up to

  498. the altar, had time every time this listen every time.

  499. And then there was a brother who thought more of

  500. hisself than he ought to. That's that same brother calling

  501. you caut clinic to real Christian. And I heard him

  502. say it. Man. As a matter of fact, I think

  503. he kind of reached for him when he was coming

  504. up to the to the altar. That that once. That once,

  505. that one day, I don't know, it was sunny, because

  506. they have a minute they have uh, they have meeting

  507. every day. He say, there's a difference between being there

  508. and being out here. They have it on Sunday and

  509. maybe one day through the week, and there seven days

  510. a week. So he running coming up there and he

  511. tried to almost grab me then, but I heard him say,

  512. cut running up there, man. Every time we have all

  513. the car And when I had a chance, I pulled

  514. him to the side and I said to him, I said,

  515. let me tell you something. I said, every time you

  516. feel you need to go up here, you better get

  517. up earn on that art. Don't listen to him, and

  518. then I can have some words for him. I said,

  519. every time you he can't tell you where you were at.

  520. And God, every time you believe you need to get

  521. to that altar. You better get the truck in like

  522. you've been doing well. Let nobody stop you from that

  523. altar death, because the love of God is compelling you

  524. to get up there and get it right, whatever it is. See,

  525. that wasn't the love of God compelling him, and that

  526. wasn't a love for your brother either. Jesus wants the unity.

  527. It gives us power, and it gives us witness to

  528. the reality of God's love in all Christians, not some.

  529. All Christians should help to unify their ministry, how pastor okay,

  530. in case you don't know, by praying for the ministry. No, yeah,

  531. they pray for the ministry, but for praying for one another.

  532. Because this building can't do nothing but house us, and

  533. it can't even house us unless we come in it.

  534. So it's by praying for one another and not talking

  535. about each other, avoiding gossip, building one building one another up,

  536. working together instead of against each other. Work together. We

  537. don't work against each other, We work together. Some people

  538. can do things better than you can do accept it.

  539. And you can do things better than some other people.

  540. Accept that. But that's the way God made it. Why

  541. so that we can learn from one another. That's how

  542. we become helpless one to another. Okay, we shall work

  543. together instead of against each other. And that's what's going

  544. on in a lot of ministons. It's a lot of

  545. working against one another. While you always let them sing,

  546. He always singing, while you always getting up there trying

  547. to sing a song, while you always holler up in

  548. the past. Why are you worried about all that? Your

  549. focus is off. Your love has diminished if it was

  550. ever there. All that there mean some wrong with your love.

  551. That's not your concern. We should always build one another

  552. up and work together instead of against each other. And

  553. by giving our time, okay, y'all, this is gonna hurt

  554. you and money. And by exalting Christ and refusing to

  555. get involved in foolishness. See we read in our Lesson

  556. and Proverbs, which is a book of wisdom. We read

  557. that a child of God avoids foolishness because why because

  558. of the wisdom of God in them. Amen. So we

  559. ought to avoid foolishness at all costs. Jesus paid an

  560. awesome price for our sins. We ought to be able

  561. to avoid foolishness, and we could at least appreciate him

  562. by showing O B to him and loving one another

  563. as he loves us. What you gonna at least appreciate

  564. Jesus by loving one another as He loves us. See,

  565. even though you might hate a person, guess what, Jesus

  566. loves him. Are you hearing me? Just because you will

  567. hate him? You know how you got your partner with you?

  568. When you hate somebody, you want your patterner to hate

  569. him too. Some's wrong with you? Oh yeah, y'all know

  570. I'm telling the truth. Why you talking to her? You

  571. know I can't stand at Heffel You all up in

  572. her faith? Now you're mad that you cotty. But that

  573. same person you hate God loves And how can you

  574. say you love God if you hate him and God

  575. love him? Some wrong? Are y'all hearing the bells ringing?

  576. Jesus holding across for you and me out of love,

  577. and not just out of love, but out of obedience,

  578. because obe out of obedience to God. But the love

  579. is what drew all, what drove the obedience of him

  580. to do it? See, the love drove the obedience. It

  581. was out of love, but obedience the obedience was there.

  582. But the love is what drove it, ay man. He

  583. took a beating that we should have. He took a

  584. beating that we should have. So I have to say this, y'all.

  585. I got to say, how dare we not love one another?

  586. After all he did for us? How dare us not

  587. love one another? I say this again, Just because you

  588. hate him don't mean God hate him. He love him.

  589. And I say this again, if God love him the

  590. one you hate, then how is the love of God

  591. in you? So if you hate him but God love him,

  592. then you don't love God. I don't care what your

  593. mind tell you. This was the book tell me and

  594. this book is the truth. Hey man, So how in

  595. the world can we dare not love one another? After

  596. all Jesus Christ did for us. We didn't even know him,

  597. but he still loved us. We didn't even love him,

  598. we didn't even consider him, but he still took our

  599. beating and hung on that cross so that we could

  600. live and not die. If it was not for the

  601. love of God, where would we be? Everybody know that answer?

  602. That no truth that knows truth. Because the nails didn't

  603. keep him on the cross. Love did amen. So if

  604. we love him, we will keep his commandments. Amen. See

  605. I'm keeping saying amen, because when you say it too,

  606. that means you agreeing with what I'm saying. Y'A. Don't

  607. want a trick. Y'all want you to know what you're saying.

  608. So if we love him, we will keep his commandments. Amen.

  609. And love is the commandment that helps us keep them all. Amen. Amen,

  610. give God a hand, clapp and praise. Amen. Amen. Without love,

  611. it's impossible for us to please God. Without love. It's impossible,

  612. you know what I love is even impossible for you

  613. to even love yourself. Yeah, I'm talking about true love.

  614. Cause see in some people that say they love they self,

  615. but yet they smoking all this dope that could kill 'em.

  616. There's people to say they love themself drinking all this alcohol.

  617. They could take them out and kill the living everything else.

  618. But they say they love they self and they in

  619. rotten relationships, but they love theyself. Hey, man, they say

  620. they love theyself, but they put theyself in danger. I'd

  621. have to ask, that must be foolish love. I should

  622. I say, I'd have to say, not ask, that's foolish love.

  623. How can you say you love me, God says, and

  624. hate your brother? How can he said, how. He wanna

  625. know how. See, he knows how. He just wants you

  626. to try to understand how you can do it. How

  627. can you say you love me, who you've never seen,

  628. and hate your brother, who you see every day? He said,

  629. how the how is for you? Amen? Amen, let us

  630. stand