True Love never fails

God is good. God is good, not just sometime, but

all the time. We thank God for another day. Man,

I'm like David. God is just so wonderful. His wisdom

is just far beyond I don't understand, and thankful for

all that he does. Amen, It's a wonderful Savior. I

was saying, I don't I was saying, I don't know

about some folks. But he's my savior. He is my savior.

He's everything to me. Amen. He should be everything to

you because we think and praise God today for our

existence today, for our presence, even being here in this

house today, in the House of God. He's a thoughtful God.

I just praise his holy name. I give honor to

God this morning. Who is my Lord and my Savior.

He's not just my savior, he's also my Lord, which

means he's in control. Hey, man, and I try to

always give him the control. You know, sometimes we try

to take over. But God is a boy man. He's

able to do exceedingly, far above and beyond we could

ever ask. I think he's just that great. Let us

go before the Lord, Father. We just want to thank

you today, truly, God for being just God.

Oh by yourself. There is no other God but you.

There are some claiming to be a God, but they're

false gods. They're not even false gods. They're not even gods.

But we thank you for being the only true in

living God. We thank you God for a mind to

even know that you are the only true, in living God.

We thank you God that we don't bow to statues

with fat bellies and bald heads. We don't bow to

men or who try to put us in coats. But

you've given us a sound mind, a sober mind to

know that you are God, that you came here to

save our souls, and you left us with a holy

spirit to keep us that we may enter end to

the gates as we travel along this journey on this earth,

a strange place. God, it's not our home. But we

thank you God for that which you give us as

we walk this journey on this earth. In the name

of Jesus, we bless your name today. God, pray that

your word goes forth today and touch every heart that's

out there listening on the airways and those that are

in the house today. Touch on God in a mighty way.

And God as gracious and merciful as you are. We

ask that you forgive anything we may have said or done,

any way we may have acted.

And he thought in our mind that was not like you.

God, touch with your mighty right hand, God, your hand

of power in the precious name of Jesus, were here

to give your glory.

We're here to draw closer. We here to learn of

your God.

We hear God, to be filled up God and running

over us, because you give more than we could ever handle,

but you help us with it by your Holy Spirit.

In the name of Jesus Christ.

We pray and thank your Lord, that you God rebuke

the devour for our sake. We speak the directly tell

you hear Satan, the Lord rebuke you. In the name

of Jesus Christ, the Lord rebuke you. You have no place here,

are in the people of God. And your world will

go forth today. And I pray God that is a

touch the center and break up that stony heart, and

that he'll come running to youth. I pray God that

will unlock that one that was once with you, that

has been van boozel to leave you.

God, that he backsleed and will come back to you.

God, in the name of Jesus and for those that

are holding on today, God give them a grip God

like never before, in the name of Jesus, because we

needed God in these last and evil times. Look upon

our government.

God, it's ugone, completely wicked. God.

You turn the head of the wicked one. You do

what you do, God, have your way with that wicked one.

Bind them up, God, and listen back to the dry places.

In the name of Jesus.

I pray God, it's in your hands. God, It's in

your hands.

This government is a God's case and only God can deliver.

And we put it in your hands. God.

Nothing we can do or even worry about. God, because

it's in your hands and you are in control.

We believe in you for it. God. In Jesus' holy name.

Now, thank you Lord for this privileged opportunity to come

into your presence at this time. So holy is thy

presence that you desire God for us to be in

your presence and care so much about us. Thank you

for loving us. God, help us to love you like

you love us. In Jesus name, I pray Thank God,

Amen and Amen, Amen, Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallylujah.

Oh he's worried are praise. Aymen, He's worthy of praise.

Hallelujah, Thank you Jesus, Thank.

You Lord, Thank you Jesus God.

We thank you today. Let's get into this word.

Chare with me. In the Book of.

Saint John, chapter twenty one. I say this because I

believe it with everything in me.

Amen.

I truly believe what God gives me to give to

his people. I believe that what God gives me to

give to his people. I believe what he gives me.

I give to you exactly what He gives me to

give to you.

But it but it's not just to give.

To you, It's to me first, hey man, And I

must obey no matter what the people believe what God

has said. Some folks want you to preach what they

want to hear. I'm gonna preach to you what God

tells me to tell you. If you don't want to

hear it, don't listen. You have a choice. But I

must obey God and tell you what the Lord has said.

Although sometimes I don't want you at times because I

know that it's gonna touch you in a way, and

I don't want to be offensive.

But I've come to learn that the Lord.

Let me in on this that the truth will offend many.

So I got to tell you the truth, no matter

how I feel about it. It's not about how I

feel about it. It's what God knows about it. So

I must obey God.

Amen.

So let us look here in the Book of Saint John,

chapter twenty one and verse fifteen, it's asking just how

much do you love me? That's what it's asking. God's

asking all of us this. But this particular time he's

speaking to Peter. That song sister Ford just sung. What

was the name of that song?

I love you? Say it again? Say it again? Say

it again? Can everybody help her say that? Say it again? Now?

I heard what she said, but I wanted to hear

everybody say it. The song said, I love you Jesus. Look,

I love you Jesus more than anything. And then somebody,

I love you Jesus. See that song was right on time.

And I heard us saying that. When I was in

the back, I was like, Oh, that's right on time.

That's connected to the message.

I always like to see a connection.

I love you Jesus more than anything. That's what Peter said.

But when anything came up, he realized it was something

he loved more than Jesus his whole life. See, see

we have that same problem. We love you Jesus more

than anything, but when that man show up, you know

that ain't your husband, or that woman that ain't your wife.

All that money that.

You're supposed to part with are that thing that's.

In your life?

Do you really love him more than anything?

Peter found out that it was something in him keeping

him from loving him more than anything.

He believed.

I truly believe, I truly believe.

With everything in me that Peter.

Believed he loved Jesus more than anything, But he ain't

never had no pressure come.

Against his love of anything.

See that pressure will let you know if you really

love him more than anything. So, after they had finished

eating a meal a man, Jesus and Peter had a talk,

and during their conversation, Jesus led Peter through an experience

that would remove the cloud of guilt that came from

Peter's denial.

Jesus conveyed to.

Peter both forgiveness and usefulness. Because a lot of time

we do stuff we don't think God don't forgive us,

so we feel useless. This sin, right err, is just

too much God ain't gonna forgive me for this, so

now you feel useless.

So so what Jesus did he conveyed to.

Peter both forgiveness and usefulness, because he must have concluded

in his mind that he was beyond being useful to

Jesus after his denial, because he took off and wept

like a pound puppy, was down in his soul and

in his spirit a man somebody. So this conversation was

probably I'm pretty sure it was conducted with Peter within

the hearing of the other disciples. Because why I believe

that Jesus had this conversation in front of the other disciples, because.

What Peter did was in front of the other disciples. Amen.

So Peter had publicly professed his loyalty before the crucifixion

to all. So Jesus wants the other disciples to understand

Peter's restoration.

So I believe he had this.

In front of them. Amen. Somebody, So Jesus uses his

old name Simon instead of Peter.

He didn't call him the Rock at that time, amen,

because he wasn't the Rock at that time.

The Rock fell apart.

See, the Rock was his new spiritual name and He

also said to Peter more.

He said to Peter.

More than these, more than Peter money loved more than these,

as to refer to what Peter claimed about.

The other disciples, because he told him I love you

more than these. I love you more than my other my.

Brother in here. That's what he professed. That was the

lawyer that he professed to Jesus. And then he said

to Jesus theirs would fail. So Jesus repeats the question

three times, no doubt, to remove Peter of his three denials,

to remind him rather of his three denials of his

Lord and savior. So he repeated to him, what did

he repeat to Peter? So if we look at here

in the Saint John, chapter twenty one, the Lord says,

it says so when they had so, when they had dined,

like I said, they had just eaten, Jesus said to

Simon Peter. Simon said to Simon, Peter, Simon, son of

Judah Jonah lovers.

Die me more than these.

He said, un to him, yay, Lord that knows.

That I love thee. He said, unto him, feed my

lamb m.

He said to him again the second time, Simon, you

understood Peter heard him the first time because he answered them.

So he said to him again, son of Jonah, love

is thy me? He said, unto him, Lord, yay, Lord,

thy knowest that I love thee. He said, unto him,

feed my sheep. Notice, he said, feed my lambs. And

now he's telling Peter after the second time, saying that

to feed my sheep, hey man. He said unto him

the third time, Simon, son of Jonah, loved thy me.

Peter was grieved.

Now at this third time Jesus asking him. Peter was

grieved because he said unto him the third time, love

thy me, and he said unto him. Now he done

got frustrated. Lord, thy knowest all things. Come on, father,

Lord Jesus, you know all things. Thou knowest that I

love thee. Jesus said, unto him, feed my sheep, ay man.

So today we're talking about true love never fails. True

love never fails, ay man. Maybe seed.

True love never fails.

So Jesus approached him and he said to him, he

asked Peter by saying Simon, not Peter, but Simon, because

he had denied his lord thrice and now Christ Is

given him an opportunity in some measure to repair his

sin by a triple confession.

He says to him, do you love me more than these?

Because Peter confessed amongst the brethren that he loved them

more than them, and their love would fail and Peters

would hold.

Up a man somebody.

So the question is is to everyone here today true

love never fails. So how do you love him? Do

you love him enough to be obedient to his every word?

Because the song says, I love you Jesus more than

any thing. So God is saying to us, our Lord

and savior, Jesus Christ says to us, I love you

more than any thing. And the thing about when he

says it, he means it. The thing about he says

it is nothing in this whole world, in the galaxy

above beneath the earth, above the earth.

That can change the love of God for you and me.

Nothing. It don't make no difference what you say about him,

what you.

Do in disobedience towards him. He's still gonna love you

more than anything.

Are you with me?

This third time.

Was a reproach to Peter because he had professed.

A more affectionate attachment to Jesus than the rest. Peter

had been more forward, outspoken about how he felt about Jesus.

He professed his friendship and loved more than any of

the others. Peter was always outspoken. Even when Jesus was

gonna go into Jerusalem. He know, he said he had

to die, Jesus and all don't go.

He didn't know.

And then Jesus turned to him and said, get thee

behind me, Satan, because Peter didn't know he had been

and captive by the devil. And Jesus Christ was looking

at Peter, but he was talking to the devil in Peter,

because Peter was always more outspoken, more than the others,

because before he had, before this time, Peter had already

had thrown them under the bus. In Matthews twenty six

and twenty three, he said, he said, in this instance,

though all be offended, the disciples anybody else because of thy,

yet will I never be offindished?

But he was.

But when Jesus asked a question, at the time, Peter

no longer dwelled on the strength of his love, nor

did he compare himself to the other brother anymore.

See, first Peter was Peter.

Was reling on what he believed, how much he loved

Jesus ay man, and and that he compared hisself to

the disciples, that he was more loyal and loving, and

more closer to Jesus. But Pressia showed him where he

really stood. We need pressure. We need pressure to show

us what we really are. We need pressure to show

us how strong we really are.

Amen.

So at this time Peter no longer dwelled on his

strength of his own love, nor did he compare himself

to their other brethren.

But he had now learned by the pressures of life

that he was, that he.

Who trusted in his own heart is a fool, and

that a man's sufficiency for God are for good is

of God, our Lord and Savior alone.

It's all in him, it ain't in us. Amen.

So Jesus goes about knowing y'all watch what Jesus is

doing here, because you know, some might get the wrong

idea about how Jesus approached how Jesus approached the situation.

So Jesus says to him, feed my lambs. In other words,

he's telling them my young The lambs are the young converts.

Amen.

The lambs are the tender children of God. A man,

those that are easily persuaded. He telling Peter, feed my children.

And there are certain times when we won't to show

our love, like during these man made holidays.

You notice people get.

All all humble and loving around the holidays. But what

do they get after the holidays is over? Even we

don't have to wait on the holidays, folks coming, folks

on Sunday, come up in God's house. They got on

their loving character for the most part. Oh how you

doing such ting? Oh God, it's so good. See since

da Ama, Oh hey you're looking good.

Today's sugar? Yeah, they looking good.

Catch them at the grocery stuff and say, hey, sus Barbara,

sus Barbara. Hey putting on this loving facade during holidays.

And when you come up in God's house, see that

all says to me one thing. Even when the heathen

comes up in the house of God, he puts on

a certain character. That means that you know what's right.

That means you don't got no, you don't have no excuse.

Even if you come uprom there's a heathen, you have

no excuse not to obey God. When you know, even

though I know what you're really doing, you're really making

the building an idol because you know, when you come

into the house of God, there's certain.

Things, you know, even that he that knows they shouldn't

be doing in God's house, ain't man somebody. They may leave.

Here and go out there and smoke on the parking lot,

not really.

Knowing that's a part of God's holy grounds. But they

ain't gonna smoke it up in the building because they

know they ain't supposed to do that, because it ain't

right before God. They know that, So their love only

exists inside the building.

When they get out there ain't nothing fun. Because see,

God said, if you love me, you'll keep my commandments.

That's what he said. I'm just telling you what he said.

So Jesus says to him again, lovers, do in me

feed my sheep. See I'd asked you first time to

feed my lamb, but I'm saying.

So, lovers, do in me feed my sheep.

My In other words, he was saying, feed my experienced children.

She feed the lambs, my tender children, my young new converts.

But now I'm asking you to feed my sheep, my

experienced children. And I'm asking you to guide them and

regulate them and govern over them.

If thy loved me.

And exteem me feed my sheep, already saying Peter, if

you love me, keep my commandments and feed my sheep.

But here comes another one.

And by this time Peter was messed up about this,

because Jesus, you got to ask yourself.

If I asked you, do you love me? Ten and

you said, oh, yes, sir, yes, sir pastor.

And I paused for a minute, do you love And

then I paused a little bit longer, and then.

I said, can you sure you love me?

By this time it could be irritated.

I told you the first time, passer, I told you.

You know how y'all do I told you the first time?

I love you?

What's the problem? The country thing? What the problem is? Well,

the problem wasn't that Jesus didn't hear Peter. The problem

is that Jesus was trying to work something out of him.

That's why he asked him.

Because by this third time Peter was grieved to hear

this the third time.

This was the third time became.

A deep I shall say the deepest, because the first

two was deep. Now this is the deepest incision into

the wound of Peter's guilt, because this is after the

so now he'd ask them the third time because you

already boasted how.

Much you loved me.

And then when this thing came upon me and I

was dragged out of God that consented me, and they

was in there clowning me, and you was out there

denying me three times because you had already told him

before all this incident happened that you loved me more

than these. But apparently Prussia had to come and teach

you a lesson about really how much you loved me.

So it wasn't until the.

Third time that Peter deserned Jesus objective of this question, Peter,

do you love me? The third time revealed it all

to Peter hey Man. The third time it revealed it

all to Peter of his thrice denying that he knew

Jesus and he was in pain. Now, Jesus wasn't throwing

us any faith, you know, like you know most folks,

do you know?

Why can't you help me?

I gave you faed out why you can't get an

fired out?

Did like throw stuff in folk faith? He wasn't throwing

us in his faith.

Jesus had purpose for why he questioned him three times

after the denial. He had a purpose, and Peter began

to come into a fluition of why he asked him

three times.

But it still brought pain to him, and that was

what God.

Was trying to accomplish in him, pain, pain of what

he had done. And that's what Jesus meant to accomplish

in Peter, to know and feel a godly Oh, that

was the pain. See a whole lot of folk run

around talking about I'm sorry, Jesus. They ain't got no

godly sorrow. They just don't say the rest of the

I'm sorry, Jesus, you caught me, I'm sorry I got caught.

I'm sorry sister Ford that I lied on my application.

Now you ain't sorry, such Ford, You sorry because sus

Ford paid very good attention to the application that she

saw where you lied. So now you're sorry you got

caught because sus Ford hadn't found it. You'd gone on

about your business. But that ain't what Jesus was trying

to accomplish in Peter. He was trying to inflict this

pain of godly sorrow to come out of Peter. So

Peter knew and that Peter would know and feel a

godly sorrow of his sin.

Mother, folks ain't sorry. They don't sin. They lied about

it because they ain't sorry. You remember when you told

me such and such, I ain't they know I ain't.

I don't remember telling you that you're lying because you

done got caught.

You're lying. But Jesus was trying.

To accomplish in Peter, godly sorrow, not sorry, I got caught,

because godly sorrow leads to what repentance. Godly sorrow leads

to real repentance, and real repentance leads to God forgiveness.

Without real repentance, there's no real God forgiveness.

Most folks think they say Lord, I'm sorry and go

on about their business, but they have not been forgiven

because God knows their heart and they didn't mean it

when they said it.

But Peter was distir about this.

Third do you love me?

Peter?

And Peter had to remember what Jesus told him he

wouldn't do, and he denied that he wouldn't do. And

for Jesus, this is the greatest sin you can ever.

Sin against Jesus.

Peter sin the greatest sin of all all sining. Way

of say, don't get it twisted, but this is the greatest.

This sin here will absolutely send you to hell with

sin was that sin of denying Jesus Christ as Lord

and savior.

That's the only thing go send folks to hell.

Denials of Jesus Christ is Lord and saving.

That's it.

Now you rober store and smoke weed and drink all

you want, kick those habits, but deny and all that

is denying Jesus as well, by the way, but denial.

He blatantly denied Jesus Christ.

See, most folks smoking, we don't know. They denying Christ

a drink and they don't know. They come into the

knowledge of the truth, then they're gonna be held accounted

before They're gonna be held accounta before it anyway, For

the Bible said, he's gonna be whooped when you don't know,

and you're gonna whoop when you do know. And the

reason why you're gonna be whooped when you don't know,

because you're suposed to know.

I ain't no wo wow, Why I didn't know?

Well, last time you picked up a Bible, I ain't

never picked man up.

The whole time you're getting whooped.

Where the Bible says that is show yourself approved under God.

Every man's been called to Christ, whether they accept it

or not.

You've been called. And if you don't come, you're gonna

get whooped. And if you come and you leave, you're

gonna get whooped even worse. So Peter was producing godly

sorrow of his sin.

But somebody said, Lord, I thank you, say Jesus, we

love you. Now, let me tell you why you're saying that,

because Jesus never leaves us hanging in sorrow. He never

leaves us hanging in sorrow. Peter was in sorrow, but

he ain't gonna leave him there. So Jesus concludes with

a command of Peter to feed my sheep. That means

he put his trust. He's letting Peter know I trust you.

He ain't gonna tell you to feed his sheep if

he don't trust you. Because the sheep are the souls

of God, and souls are the most precious thing that

God has. Your soul is more precious. There's nothing on

this earth not that. If somebody could buy the moon

and sell it for an unnumber amount of money, it

still ain't worth your soul. So for him to trust

him with his sheep, he's bringing Peter back around. He's

saying to Peter, all has been for because he told

him to.

Feed my sheep.

So he's literally telling Peter all that has been forgiven.

Why because of the godly sorrow that was produced out

of Peter for his denial of Jesus Christ. You see,

love never failed, and the love of Christ did not

fail Jesus, I mean did not fail Peter because he

denied Jesus. So he tells him three times to feed

my sheep, as to say to him, all has been forgiven.

Now Peter, that all has been forgiven, go go to

work in my gospel and preach the word, and teach

the word, and draw me and by my word unto me.

He put him on his mission once, once he.

Had repented with a godly sorrow, he empowered him again

to minister the word to the people of God. You see,

Peter's mission was different than Paul. See Peter had to

preach to the Jews, but Paul had to preach to

the gentiles.

Of course, they both had to preach.

To him more both but Peter's mission was more to

the Jews and Paul's was more to the gentile.

Hey Man and those who claimed the norm.

But didn't really know him, like the Pharisees and Saturs season,

which was Peter's also goal. That's the reason why there's

verse in that it says, when Peter was being hypocritical

and Paul rebuked him, why do you tried to have

them to become a Jew when you your self, he

is acting like a gentile.

You're being a hypocrite, Peter. He had to be rebuked.

By Paul. But God is saying to us today. He's

saying to us today that true love never fails. And

only only you, yourself know if your love is true to God.

Is your love true to your Lord and savior, Jesus Christ.

Only you know, because you are not without knowing what

it means to loving it, because.

He showed us. Paul said, I didn't.

Come to show you how to love. You've already been

shown that. Because by this time Jesus had been crucified

for the whole world, which means he went to the cross,

and he hung on the cross, the nails in his

hands and in his feet.

It was love that held him on the cross.

He was God. He could have got off the cross

if he wanted to do.

He could have not even went to the cross if

he didn't want to, but love held him on the cross.

So Postil I had to come again to show you

how to love. You've already been shown how to love.

So we're all without excuse if we claim we don't

know how to love, especially those of us that claim

to know him. Now I can understand those that the

world they don't know. They don't know nothing about a

filial love and a sensuous love.

That's all that, and then the other love. They don't

know nothing about a God, thea.

But the people of God must show true love, which

never fails. That means, no matter what happens, you have

to continue to love the individual.

Amen. Somebody I didn't know, Oh, I didn't know.

I got saved, and I was going on for a

little while, and just hit.

Me one day and I said.

God, after reading the Bible, studying the Bible, the Bible

getting in me, me getting in it. I began to

ask after reading what they did to Jesus.

That's when it came up.

I said, oh my God, how in the world did

you keep loving them after all they did to you.

I put myself in that place, I said, I couldn't

do it.

They even monked you after they got you up there

and spit on you and gambled your clothes.

Oh no, I would have been hollering gainnum angels.

But God said to me when I was asking, I said,

I had to go and ask somebody.

I got on the phone. I called the bishop.

I wanted to know, how does Jesus love like that?

And the Bishop did announcer I had to hang the

phone up. But I had to hang the phone up

before he answer, because I had to be somewhere. And

I went to where I had to be, and I

sat down, and God spoke to me. And God said

to me, because God wanted me to know.

From him, not somebody telling me.

He wanted me to know from him, So I said,

And so the Lord spoke. After I sat down to

the Lord said, son, I remember like it was yesterday,

and it was in nineteen ninety eight.

I might have been nineteen ninety nine. But the Lord

spoke to me when I sat down. He said, Son,

this is how I love.

I hate the offense and continue to love the.

Person said, is it like that?

Then you gotta understand it don't matter what nobody do

to you, you can hate it.

But you can't hate the person.

You got to continue to love the person.

Don't finish. You can hate, but continue to love the person.

That's how love never fails.

Amen. Amen, give God a hand clup of peries in

his house. Amen.

He's worthy, he's worthy if you love him, keep his commandments.

Do what he asks you to do. And he ain't

even asking, He's telling us