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I'm Looking For A Real Love - Overseer Chris Moore

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  1. The Book of Ephesians, if you will stand on your

  2. feet for the reading of God's words, chapter number five,

  3. Chapter number five, And let me tell you that we'll

  4. continue to walk in what we call expository study and

  5. preaching as we have some upcoming preachers to understanding that

  6. we're living in the generation now that people will have

  7. itching ears hallelujah and being tossed to and fro with

  8. every sound of doctrine. The only doctrine that's true. It's

  9. not the Baptist doctrine. It's not the Pentecostal doctrine. It's

  10. not the Presbyterian doctrine. It's not the Catholic doctrine. It's

  11. the Bible doctrine. Be a logic. Hey man, I don't

  12. need to hear another man's opinion on that doctrine. I

  13. need to hear from God. Hallelujah. So we've been walking

  14. through the Book of Ephesians, if you will, and so

  15. we've dealt with the theology that Paul takes our time.

  16. Thank you, elders. Paul takes our time to first teach

  17. the people of God because he understands that if if

  18. we are taught, and if we know better, and we

  19. can do better. He's dealing with a people that do

  20. not know him, and it is necessarily that the principles

  21. of the Oracles, first of all, is to be taught.

  22. We have to know something before we can teach something.

  23. Were really gonna know God, We need to know the

  24. theology of God, and our theology needs to be based

  25. on truth.

  26. Hallelujah.

  27. If it's not based on truth, then I thinking is

  28. not right. If I thinking it's not right, then our

  29. talking is not right. If I talking is not right,

  30. then our teaching is not right. And people are being

  31. taught to and fro. But we begin now, and we

  32. started in the Ephesian chapter number four that Paul says,

  33. after you have been taught, you so learned. So there's

  34. a certain way, brothers and sisters that we just don't

  35. claim to be saved, but we look like we're saved, Okay, hallelujah,

  36. Because a lot of folks that believe in Christ, they

  37. just don't walk like Christ, they don't look like Christ,

  38. and they don't talk like Christ. If you have had

  39. an experience with God, let me tell you that the

  40. dead man, that old man of you is dead, and

  41. now you're walking in the new man created in righteousness

  42. and in true holiness. So in Ephesian chapter four he

  43. gets to the point. He says, then walk worthy of

  44. the vocation and which you will call and the first

  45. walk A life a lifestyle, the kingdom lifestyle of the

  46. rich and famous, is that we live up to what

  47. God has inherited in us.

  48. Tell you, nab, but that's a different lifestyle. We live.

  49. The things I used to do. Are y'all quit playing now?

  50. Don't don't testify if you ain't, I don't want no line.

  51. Church have been here now, don't be saying that with

  52. me if you if you still smoking it joking, come

  53. on now, come on now, I'm talking folks said have

  54. had some real experience with God. There's a lot of

  55. folks that hang around God and get a contact.

  56. Hallelujah.

  57. You come to church to get a contact, you feel good,

  58. but it ain't nothing really in you for change and transformation.

  59. I wish I had a neighbor in here, hallelujah. If

  60. you had a real experience with God, everything about you

  61. change and testimony. He pick you up, turns you around

  62. and place your feet on solid ground. That means you

  63. run in a whole different direction. Hallelujah. You ain't doing

  64. the things you used to do. Ain't that right to me?

  65. And you ain't going.

  66. Is that right?

  67. And you ain't acting okay, I'm checking you now, I'm checking.

  68. I'm checking your post. You know you used to didn't

  69. like people, you haley lujah.

  70. So you got that.

  71. You don't like being around to listen, you don't like folk, hallelujah.

  72. You gotta love everybody. Eve.

  73. I hear you, I hear it, even your enemy. I'm

  74. I'm messing with you today. I'm messing with you real

  75. good today, hallelujah, because something about to change and transform

  76. in your life. You getting ready to have a deeper

  77. walk with God in twenty twenty six. I ain't prophit

  78. sign over you over money and cause and how go

  79. get a job, get a career, live the American dream.

  80. But out of all of that, you need to be holy,

  81. Oh God, I wish ah boy, y'all out.

  82. God, hallelujah. What is it for you to gain? The

  83. whole world?

  84. Come on, you've been praying for husband, that man you can't.

  85. He can't handle you, man boy, why he can't?

  86. You ain't ready?

  87. Hallelujah, hallelujah. You need something to look like God. So

  88. we walked worthy and humility, and then secondly we dealt

  89. with walking and righteousness and true holiness, and we use it.

  90. Old song, Old Boy, came out of my spirit. Trade

  91. in my life for you. I've traded y'all would play

  92. that song right there. Helped me when I was going

  93. through my dilemma. Helped me when I was out there

  94. in the world. But when I was going through a dilemma,

  95. that song helped me to trade in my old thoughts.

  96. I was trying to come back. Have anybody had some

  97. old thoughts trying to creep back on you?

  98. Uh?

  99. Yeah, you gotta call him down, bro Bright, calling the devil.

  100. I thought it was my flesh. He does deal with

  101. my flesh. Amen. Have you ever had some old mates

  102. come up to you when you're just about to get

  103. right and do right, and all of a sudden, them

  104. folks that was gone long time ago show up at

  105. the door. That's the devil. But I thank God that

  106. we traded in the old life. Tell your neighbor, neighbor,

  107. I've exchanged my old life for a new life. Is

  108. a better life, and I'm glad about it. I ain't

  109. heard no shouts. S here, I ain't hurt, no shouts.

  110. I'm glad I ain't on my way to hell. Let

  111. me say that one more time. If y'all don't think

  112. of anything. I'm glad I was on my way to hell.

  113. I said. I'm glad that I'm not on my way

  114. to hell. Whoop you turn, baby, I'm going the other way.

  115. I'm going to heaven. Hallelujahs any are they glad about

  116. trading in your life for Christ? And the next week

  117. series we'll talk about walking in love. We'll talk about

  118. walking in the light, we'll talk about walking in wisdom,

  119. and then we'll talk about walking in spiritual warfare as

  120. we conclude this book. But today we're gonna talk about love.

  121. Tell your name, We're gonna talk about love. Holly, do

  122. you the loook of Ephesians, Chapter number five, verse number

  123. one through verse number six, Be you, therefore followers of

  124. God as their children you. That word as is used

  125. at least three times, So that shows that there's some

  126. sense of an imitation that we are to imitate. What

  127. follows after that, So as their children or like their children,

  128. he says, now in verse number two, and walk in

  129. as Christ also had loved us and had given himself

  130. of us and offering in a sacrifice to God for

  131. a sweet smelling saber. He said, But check this out

  132. before on occasion, in all uncleanliness or coveteousness, let it

  133. not be once say there's no time named among you,

  134. somebody shout ask becoming saints, neither filterness nor a foolish talking,

  135. nor jesting, which are not convenient, but rather giving thanks

  136. for this. You know that none of these folks, because

  137. everybody ain't going to heaven. Can I say that again

  138. that even in the church, you know everybody ain't going,

  139. he said, For we know that no hormonger, no unclean person,

  140. nor a covetous man, who else and a dollar too

  141. had any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and of God.

  142. So letting no man deceive me with vain words because

  143. of these things coming the wrapped up God upon the

  144. children of disobedience, so he says again in verse number two,

  145. and walk in love as Christ also loved us and

  146. had given himself for us an offering and the sacrifice

  147. to God for a sweet smelling saber. In other words,

  148. we gotta walk in love. My thought today is I'm

  149. looking for a real love. Let me say that again.

  150. What my ninety baby said? It like Mary J. Blige

  151. kind of situation. Hallelujah. Somebody said I'm looking for real love. Yeah,

  152. I'm looking for somebody that can search my heart find me,

  153. she says. She said, I'm looking for a real love.

  154. I need somebody to search me and set my heart free.

  155. I may you know that some of us are captive

  156. to some toxic kind of love, toxic kind of relationship,

  157. toxic kind of partnership or connection. But God said, listen,

  158. I'm getting ready to give you a new heart so

  159. that you can love with a real love. I may

  160. one of love with that real love. Hallelujah. I'm looking

  161. for a real love. So, Father, God, we thank you today.

  162. We thank you for our life of health and stress,

  163. and thank you for the praise and the worship. Thank

  164. you for your presence being prevalent in this place. We

  165. thank you for the words God that you have given

  166. us to share with your people. And then we thank

  167. you for the sweet communion of the Holy Ghost that

  168. makes the change. So God, I'm just a messenger of us.

  169. It's the Holy Spirit that is the message. And I

  170. pray even now, by the power the Holy Spirit, that

  171. you convict, convince, and persuade those to come closer to you.

  172. In Jesus' name, you pray. Amen.

  173. I five of these seven people to tell them I'm

  174. looking for a real love. Come on, seven people, Come on,

  175. seven people. Y'all help me preach now, y'all help me,

  176. y'all help me get excited. Y'all help me now, help me,

  177. help me, help me. Let me see that fan right there,

  178. say I'm looking. I'm looking for a real love. Hallelujah.

  179. Come on, y'all, touch everybody, Touch everybody that you possibly

  180. can touch. Iselujah. Amen, I'm looking for a love, real love.

  181. It is important that we understand as we look at

  182. the text today, and I do want to thank God

  183. for all of you that make up the household of Fate.

  184. Thank God for all of the ministers, the elders, our

  185. co Pastor Paster Johnson, Eld Johnson in his absence on today,

  186. and thank God for our First Lady, all of the deacons,

  187. and all of the saints that make up the household

  188. of faith. We do give God praise and glory. But

  189. when I thought about this particular subject on the day.

  190. I guess I'm having some flashbacks of the nineties, and so,

  191. you know, I'm kind of like nineties baby. You know,

  192. I like the nineties music. I think it's better than

  193. the seventies. I think it's better than the eighties. I

  194. do you know polka dot shirts, Paisley, You know we

  195. had the gummy cuts.

  196. I mean, I'm like nineties baby, you know.

  197. And so here lately, these last two Sundays, I'm using

  198. these artists that I admired in the world, and I

  199. do admire the words of their songs when I can.

  200. Relate those songs to my relationship with God.

  201. So as we think about mayby J Blige and her

  202. nineteen ninety two debute her album Looking for Real Love

  203. or Real Love, she said I need a real love

  204. she is she said, I'm searching for or real love?

  205. Did she say that? She said I.

  206. Need something that set my heart free another word that

  207. meant be some other kind of love that have caused

  208. her to be captive, bound and non set free.

  209. Amen.

  210. It is interesting to me, then, as I looked at

  211. and discovered here and search real love, that there must

  212. be a possibility that if there's a real love, there

  213. also must be a fake love. Oh okay, can I

  214. talk to y'all today?

  215. I mean, if she says I'm searching.

  216. For a real love, then there is the possibility that

  217. there may be a vein or a fake kind of love.

  218. Not only in the world, there's also some fake love

  219. in churches. Uh huh. In my assessment of the word real,

  220. I concluded that the word real is something that is genuine.

  221. Would you agree? Genuine?

  222. And the synonym for genuine is something that is authentic.

  223. Is that right? It's authentic? It is, it is real.

  224. In other words, it.

  225. It only comes from uh, the manufacturer. That's some other

  226. people making products. But the products is not real. They're fake.

  227. They look like the real, but they're not the original

  228. make from the maker. Somebody asked me on yesterday I

  229. had on the prayer of Jordan's and uh, I had

  230. those Jordans owned. And I don't know how people you know,

  231. want to get in your business, because, yeah, add me

  232. with them Jordan's real. I said, well, I paid a

  233. good penny for him. He said, well, people pray good

  234. pennies for fake Jordan's too. I say, whatever they are,

  235. they on my feet, I'm gonna make them real hallelujah.

  236. Sometimes listen, that's the possibility that you may have some

  237. fake stuff going on in your life and you just

  238. make it real. But if it's gonna be real, it

  239. has to be genuine. It has to be authentic.

  240. Man. It has to be facts.

  241. It have to be something that exists, something that's currying

  242. right now, like real time. Right now, we're having real

  243. time church. This is real church that looking on Facebook.

  244. This is real time. You ain't got to go back

  245. and look at it because this is the original cut.

  246. Oh I wish I had somebody hallelujah, hallelujah. Yeah.

  247. Yeah.

  248. So real as a fact, it's not something that we imagine.

  249. It's not about our imagination because we can imagine some

  250. things that's set up in our hearts. When we talk

  251. about something real, if it's real, then it has to

  252. be something that we can touch. Oh come on, somebody,

  253. let me get it, Let me get it close to you.

  254. It's not just in your mind. Some of us can

  255. be delusional and we can think of something that is real,

  256. but it's not a reality. Okay, hallelujah, Uh huh yeah, yeah,

  257. it's something if it's real.

  258. A breath chritzy it has to be something that.

  259. You can touch, It has to be something you can taste,

  260. It has to be something that you can see, smell,

  261. or feel. But the truth of the matter is that

  262. it's not an ideal, it's not a hope, it's not

  263. anything that is fake. Tell your neighbor is real, it's genuine.

  264. Tell them it's authentic. It's authentic. You can't pay for it,

  265. not for love. You can pray for a whole bunch

  266. of stuff. You can pay for relationships. You can pray

  267. for a prayer, pardon if you want to. You can

  268. pay for a church. You can that folks in the

  269. world today, that's paying people to come to church. When

  270. God want their heart, You paying for them. They coming

  271. because they want your money. Oh come on now, somebody,

  272. Oh my God. Or when it come down to the

  273. fact that if it's if something can be real, then

  274. on the other hand, then there has to be a

  275. fake love.

  276. That exerts or exerts that something is not genuine.

  277. And if it's not genuine, can I talk to you

  278. for a moment, then it's counterfeit. Some of us are

  279. dealing with counterfeit love. We have declared that it's real

  280. because we got them on our feet, but they did

  281. they did it really come from the originator of what

  282. love is.

  283. We can fit.

  284. We get certain things that look real, but we shop

  285. at black markets.

  286. Yeah we look uh you know.

  287. In other words, when we get something that's counterfeit, it

  288. looks the part, but it doesn't have the same quality.

  289. Let me say that again.

  290. I say it looks the part, but it does not

  291. have the same quality.

  292. M hm.

  293. So when I pick up a prairl Jeordan, I gotta

  294. see how much they wait because I've done been to

  295. the bazaar s Shir and I picked up the Jordans.

  296. And when I compare the counterfeit, oh God, y'all ain't

  297. talking to me to the genuine pair. The weight is

  298. not the same. I got a proud Jordan right now

  299. I've been having for twelve years. They ain't got a

  300. terror in the soul. That's because that genuine. But as

  301. soon as you get some fake shoes of fake Jordan's,

  302. guess what they gonna tear up like pro wings. Y'all

  303. understand that we got that been Levenie, you gotta be

  304. in Levine's, but that you gotta know what Levieni's is.

  305. Come on. You gotta know what the three for twenty years.

  306. Come on, somebody, I have melp pro Wen and you

  307. know pro we ain't make your feast stink. The inside

  308. of the shooting it isn't do right, you know, And

  309. I mean the quality is that. I mean, listen, they

  310. got some shoes that looked like Jay. But man, listen,

  311. on the inside of it, it ain't running right. The

  312. souls ain't staying together. Come on, somebody, hallylujah. It's counterfit.

  313. You got it, black market? You know you got it

  314. black market.

  315. Come on. I've been high sight with my wife the

  316. last couple of days.

  317. Now the men around these these bracelet necklaces with these this, this,

  318. these diamonds. I mean, like everywhere. You know, it's like

  319. the fat now right, all of this. Look at the

  320. football player they all dimn niggas. Some one too.

  321. I said that ain't real.

  322. She said, yeah it is. She said they got money.

  323. I say, rappers got money too, And it's fake.

  324. Thank you.

  325. Listen. It can look real. But if you test it,

  326. come on, somebody. And the way you test gold is

  327. you take a magnet to it and if the magnet

  328. causes that chain to link to the magnet. Then it's

  329. not real gold. Oh yeah, I ain't heard, but I

  330. said in other words, it's a metal and it's not gold,

  331. it's iron or something. Hallelujah. Again, this counterfeit another word.

  332. Some of the fake is fake, is not real. It

  333. is forged. Not only is it forged, but the truth

  334. of the matter is is that some of us have

  335. committed forgery about love. What do you mean by forgery

  336. is that you endorse yourself to something that you ain't

  337. supposed to put your name on. Oh God, they don't

  338. want to talk to me in here, hallelujah. You probably

  339. don't need to be in that relationship because you ain't married,

  340. but you're forging the marriage certificate. You may not need

  341. to be in that place. Come on, y'all, don't know.

  342. I know, I know. I'm just in the text. It's

  343. gonna get to the text real good. Hallelujah. Listen, some

  344. of us have committed forgery by endorsing our names the

  345. things that we should not be attached to. And the

  346. reason we're going through what we're going through because there's

  347. a lawsuit against you for committing the act of forgery.

  348. You might not ever go to the courts, but life

  349. would never treat you the same as long as you've

  350. committed forgery and you're living on a hot check. Oh God,

  351. I wish I had somebody to talk to me. Hallelujah.

  352. You may got it, but you don't feel comfortable with it. Hallelujah.

  353. You might have the spouse, you might have the man,

  354. you may have the relationship, you may have the job.

  355. But guess what, you ain't comfortable with it. Why because

  356. you forged your name. Hallelujah. Now, some things that you

  357. thought God gave to you, really God didn't give them

  358. to you. Forged you and you would and got him.

  359. That's why you got two or three. Oh card, they

  360. don't want to talk to me today. That's why you

  361. got two or three job trying to keep up, come

  362. on with the joneses and you know you can't afford it,

  363. but you want to look good and you're broke.

  364. Oh, y'all don't want to say hallelujah today. Hallelujah.

  365. Oh God, let me talk to some folks from the street.

  366. Y'all look like church folks. Church. Oh don't like God, No,

  367. because y'all have like you ain't never done nothing like that.

  368. I know you gonna have floating some checks. Hallelujah. I'm

  369. just gonna float this one. Hallelujah. Pay the thirty three

  370. dollars charge. Yes, I mean you donna pay come ocause

  371. what you do that ain't right, y gotta pay for it,

  372. and it's gonna keep you in debt because you afford

  373. something that you should not have ever endorsed your name on.

  374. Hallelujah.

  375. Tell your neighbors, say, neighbor, don't endorse your name on

  376. something that don't belong to you. Don't come it after

  377. something that doesn't.

  378. Belong to you.

  379. Even though they got it, you don't know what it

  380. took for them to get it. Whatever you need to

  381. get it, make sure that you get it done and

  382. you get it right. Hallelujah. Tell your neighbors and neighbor,

  383. please don't forard your name. You trying to make the

  384. relationship work. It ain't gonna work. It ain't worked for

  385. the last thirty years. Come on, somebody, you forging the relationship. Hallelujah.

  386. You forging for people to like you. They ain't gonna

  387. nothing like you. You can't buy no friends. I dare

  388. not to buy a friend. Baby, everybody can hate me

  389. if they want too, Why because I like myself? I

  390. ain't for Oh Gord, hallelujah, I ain't doing that. I

  391. ain't buying no friends, no relationship, no partners. I ain't

  392. doing no sellout. I ain't selling out for you. I

  393. ain't gonna catch up, but for you to like me

  394. and smile at me. Baby, Bye bye, see your later.

  395. Holly nuja.

  396. You know churchfolk. Church folk talk a lot. You think

  397. the world talk about you go to church. They got

  398. clicks and cluks and ducks. Am I telling the truth?

  399. Right after I get through preaching for good sce you

  400. see our pasts will looking at such and such and

  401. such as. I ain't worry, man, I'm preaching the gospel.

  402. What you talk about looking at such and such as

  403. such as?

  404. Something? Come on? You fake and you act.

  405. Like you love you say you love me, but you

  406. talk about me behind my pack. If you love me,

  407. you wanna come tell me to my face with your

  408. scared recept.

  409. You scared?

  410. Uh you got something saying? Maybe they got said that

  411. my wife won't eat no mediator. The only thing between

  412. me and God is Jesus. Okay, Oh y'all, don't got

  413. y'alldn't get that. Hallelujah, Glory to God. Even in church,

  414. we got folks that smile in your face. I don't

  415. I'm gonna take you. I mean right here in the church.

  416. Come on, somebody, hallelujah. I'm talking about right here in

  417. the church, right here, right now, hallelujah. Yeah, why you can't?

  418. You can't counsel a married woman when you single. How

  419. you gonna be trying to counsel a marriage? Have you

  420. ever been married? And if you've been married, how many

  421. time you been divorced? What kind of counseling you trying

  422. to give somebody when you know you ain't went the

  423. school and got no PhD or nothing. Come on, somebody, hallelujah.

  424. You gotta just keep your mouth shut and see how

  425. it work out. You ain't got no influence on it.

  426. Shut your mouth and let it go on. Oh you,

  427. I ain't got that many clap up today. Don't worry abody.

  428. I know y'all listening, y'all, don't clap I know y'all listening. Yeah,

  429. they smile in your faith. I don't know why not

  430. trying to take me? Since you got backstabbers in the church.

  431. Some of us are backslaughters because we don't know no better.

  432. You ain't been talk yet.

  433. You know, you've been a back stable all your life.

  434. It ain't just started.

  435. You think that people in prison are bumping their head

  436. on the wall. They just started doing that. They were

  437. doing that, but they was three.

  438. That old nature.

  439. That old man is still doing what the old man

  440. was doing because it han't identified that you a new

  441. creature in Christ.

  442. Oh, I wish I had a neighbor here. Hallelujah.

  443. Tell your neighbors and neighbor quit it, man, quit it,

  444. quit it, hallelujah. Yeah, tell him you you got a

  445. new man on you now, tell him put on the

  446. new man and shame for the old.

  447. Yeah.

  448. He said, Now I like this because they said it's

  449. in the book, and I feed and they say, now

  450. I want you.

  451. You got the new man. Put on the new man. Watchit.

  452. That's created. Watch this after God. The new man does

  453. not look like your old man. You are a new creation.

  454. You are made new. Old things have passed away, and behold,

  455. all things have become new. Hey, man, tell your neighbor,

  456. I'm brand new. Somebody just snipping and say, that's mall new, right,

  457. now come on, come on this new it's new, because

  458. that's some new things about to happen in your life.

  459. Twenty twenty six.

  460. Hallelujah, some new things about to happen in your life

  461. right now. Hallelujah, Glory the card. You ain't gonna hold

  462. on to them old behaviors because you are a new man.

  463. Tell your neighbor, I can't hold on to that. I

  464. gotta pull out off. Oh my God, we put a

  465. new man that's created that to God, watch this. I

  466. like this in righteousness. And then he says, in true holiness.

  467. Why you just didn't say holiness? Why say true holiness?

  468. Because that's some folks as in church that act holy,

  469. but they're not.

  470. Can I get a witness?

  471. You sing like you holy, you walk like your holy,

  472. but behind closed doors? Come on, somebody, you're not holy? Hallelujah.

  473. You're nice publicly, but what does your life look privately? Ah,

  474. Come on somebody, hallelujah, because your private life actually should

  475. reflect your public life rather than your public life. High

  476. siding about what you look like and going in because

  477. your faith out here and then you reel in there?

  478. Real what real boog a wolf?

  479. H a real brawler, a real fighter. Can I talk

  480. to you today? Hallelujah? In other words, he said, listen,

  481. it's time for us to put on the new man.

  482. And sometimes we have a difficult time having good relationship

  483. with the father because we've had toxic relationships. If you

  484. had a good relationship with your mom and dad, you

  485. know what the father is like as far as being

  486. a good father, a good mother. If you had wonderful siblings,

  487. you know how he is to be a good brother.

  488. You know, if you had good relationships her spouse relationship,

  489. you know what it's like to be a good husband

  490. or a good wife. But some of us haven't had

  491. the luxury. Can I say that we haven't had the

  492. luxury have good, healthy relationships. In other words, we grew

  493. up in toxic communications. And that's why the world of

  494. Pastor Jade loved toxic songs. You know, I got you

  495. your man and I send him back home. But of

  496. God what I needed to get. I'm cool with that,

  497. you my side piece. Come on, somebody tell your naghbor

  498. that's toxic man. Uhuh, that's toxic.

  499. That was one. I know. I haven't heard him, but

  500. I did the research, and don't get to day.

  501. Britney Spears wrote a song called Toxic and Tried Perfectly.

  502. What it says is that love is like a drug.

  503. Even though it's damaging you, you can't stop doing it.

  504. That's some forging that's going on in the church.

  505. Come on, somebody, you know you want to stop because

  506. when you thought to do good even as always present,

  507. which I got to move out the hallelujah, and yet

  508. you still in.

  509. That same relationship.

  510. Another person, Amy wine House, said, back to Back Back

  511. to Back says deeply emotional song delivertyes for themes of addiction, betrayal,

  512. and emotional numbness. Falls back into the old habits and

  513. despair after the end of a toxic love affair. You

  514. know he wasn't right. You can't make him rite either.

  515. Have you all been a relationship? You try to fix

  516. them to be how you want them to be. Tell

  517. your neighbors, say, neighbor, that's a toxic relationship. Another one

  518. was take a Bow by another lady. And so in

  519. beside the idea that partners deceitfully behavior, what's all just

  520. an act? And so she says, take a bow, it's

  521. a bold declaration of self respect, making a strong anthem

  522. for anyone breaking free from a toxic relationship.

  523. Well, why did I bring that up today?

  524. Because when we're dealing with this particular church and these

  525. particular people in this text, we're dealing with the gentiles

  526. who have lived in the culture of toxic relationships, and

  527. so it becomes that when you are relationship in toxic

  528. relationships to have a good, healthy relationship with God, some

  529. of us are challenged because we're trying to figure out

  530. why is it that I really can't love God like

  531. I really want to. Why I can't praise God like

  532. I really want to. Why I can't be devoted to

  533. God like I really want to. I really want to,

  534. but I just can't do it. The reason being that

  535. some of us have been in toxic relationships that relate

  536. to our relationship with God. That's hindering us from having

  537. a closer walk with God. And God told me to

  538. tell you today that he's about to break you loose. Hallelujah.

  539. He's about your free your heart so that you can

  540. love Him with everything you got in your mind, your soul,

  541. as well as your spirit. I need somebody to hear

  542. the shout I love God, man, I love God. Hallelujah.

  543. Your neighbors and neighbor you don't love God? What's wrong

  544. with you?

  545. God? Th lujah?

  546. Have you been in a toxic relationship, in the toss

  547. of relationship, going into a toss of relationship that's causing

  548. you not to get close to God? Come on, somebody, hallelujah. Now,

  549. God loves you, but he hates the seing that we do. Hallelujah.

  550. And so he'll lay down his life just to get you.

  551. But he don't like the seeing that's in you. And

  552. sometimes when you cheating on God, you can't have a

  553. closer relationship with God because he don't share you with

  554. nobody else. Oh, I wish I had somebody. I'm trying

  555. to just come it down just a little bit. In

  556. other words, you can't catch God and you and somebody

  557. else in the same bed. I'll put it that way. Hallelujah.

  558. Can y'all say it like that? Hallelujah? God, you can't

  559. love God and love somebody else. Come on, somebody. You

  560. got to put God first. I said, you gotta put

  561. God first. And God don't leave no confusion about how

  562. you ought to love him. He said, you ought to

  563. love me with all of your heart, all of your mind,

  564. all of your shit, all of your power.

  565. In other words, all of you. Hallelujah.

  566. He's not looking for a corner, he's not looking for

  567. a side piece. He's not looking for somebody that needs

  568. a sugarnad. And he needs somebody that don't gonna love

  569. him for his sacrifice for you. Come on, somebody, hallelujah,

  570. because most of us come to church because we looking

  571. for a blessing for God.

  572. But concept I just want you to love him me

  573. for who I am.

  574. And if I don't do enough, I wish I had

  575. a few folk up in here. Gord. If you don't

  576. do another finger in my life, hallelujah, you have turn

  577. enough and.

  578. I'm gonna praise you for who you are.

  579. Oh you are to give God praise right there. Hallelujah.

  580. I'm gonna praise you for who you are. Hallelujah. He

  581. said to understand that what is real love a copy

  582. love which is a selfless in other words, is a

  583. love that gilds and not just take. It seeks after

  584. the well being of others. It's not vain, but it

  585. deals with this acronym of joy. Somebody shall joy. What

  586. is real love. Real love is the love Jesus first, hallelujah,

  587. and make him the center of your life. And then

  588. cycle into love others, hallelujah. And then lastly to love yourself. So,

  589. when we were talking about this particular church living in

  590. the toxic relationship, Paul has to come back and teach

  591. them what real love is. And so he says now

  592. that in his first statement, writing this down, real love

  593. imitate the love of God. Write that down, real love

  594. imitates the love of God. As we looking at the

  595. scripture Ephesian fave and one say, be you there for

  596. followers of God as dear children. When you talking about followers,

  597. that mean that you want to imitate your daddy. In

  598. other words, you have by house some characteristics and some

  599. attributes that look just like your far. You ought to

  600. have his characterisms, in his traits of love, of giving

  601. them sacrifice of all the things that he carries, the

  602. show that he heals God. In other words, that talks

  603. about now back that you are to follow him as

  604. their children. In other words, as if you are somebody

  605. who is dearly loved, And he says, because you are

  606. dearly loved, then you ought to have my characteristics in

  607. you and some of the characteristics that we find in

  608. the Bible. That God is a giver hallelujah. Tell your

  609. neighbors and neighbor. Love is an action word, hallylujah. In

  610. other words, you got to do something to show an

  611. expression of love. And so God said, listen, I'm not

  612. gonna only tell you that I love you.

  613. I'm not gonna just speak it out of my mouth,

  614. but I'm gonna show you that I love you.

  615. And we find then in the textis John three and sixteen.

  616. For God so loved the world. I wish I had somebody.

  617. For God so loved the world that he he gave,

  618. He's an action to your neighbor. It's an action word.

  619. You you got to show love. You can't love what

  620. you don't show action too. You may say you love them,

  621. but you got to show them that you loved him.

  622. Hallelujah.

  623. So the Bible of the class God so loved the

  624. world that he gave his only begotten shuned that whosoever

  625. believed in him should not paris, but have what ever

  626. last in life. Tell your neighbors and neighbor a. We

  627. ought to imitate God's love. We ought to be give

  628. us and not take us hallelujah. We gotta look for

  629. the moments and opportunities that we're not looking for a blessing.

  630. But now it's time for us to pass how to

  631. bless it.

  632. I'm trying to tell you today, as you express God

  633. loves on today, the more you give, God said, I'm

  634. gonna give it back to you.

  635. Hallelujah. I'm gonna give it to your good measure.

  636. Press chund shaking together and running over were men pouring

  637. to your bosoms.

  638. Listen.

  639. The reason we give God praise and glory because he

  640. gave the greatest gift that keep on giving. And his

  641. name is Jesus. And that's why we can't stop giving

  642. them praise. Come on, we can't stop giving them glory

  643. because of the gift that he can't And as long

  644. as you give Card's gifts out to other people, they

  645. can't help but to give God pray. I see something

  646. that's going on in your community. I see something that's

  647. about the shake in your house. God, people all around

  648. the world is about the praise card because you are

  649. an imitation of who God is. In other words, they

  650. don't have to look toward Heaven to seek God. They

  651. can see Card in you. Tell your neighbor, I imitate him.

  652. Hallelujah. It's about an action word.

  653. Even when we was with our strength according to Romans

  654. five to six, say with our strength, this is love

  655. and more than just words. Hallelu somebody shall real love.

  656. Tell your neighbors and neighbor, I'm looking for real love,

  657. Oh Card, Come on, somebody. You ain't got to look

  658. very far, because in this book, that sixty six books,

  659. Card shows us his love from Genesis to Revelation. And

  660. he didn't have to wait for us to be complete

  661. in order to show us his love. See you trying

  662. to wait for people to get together first before I

  663. can show him love.

  664. I ain't gonna love him.

  665. They don't tell me that the Bible, the class love

  666. your enemy, Oh Gord, hallelujah.

  667. I wish I had somebody, hallelujah. Somebody, y'all real love.

  668. That's real love when you can love your enemy and

  669. you can pray for them. That what despitefully use you.

  670. I wish I had somebody in here, hallelujah. That was

  671. a man one time put a knife.

  672. In my back.

  673. I probably never knew business with him again, but I

  674. love him, hallelujah. I ain't got nothing against him, hallelujah.

  675. Why that's real love. I can't do that by myself.

  676. The only way you can forgive certain things that have

  677. happening in your life. That's some trauma that you've been through,

  678. that change and confused your life. But God have put

  679. in your heart to love and to forgive. And the

  680. only the way you can do that is because you

  681. got cards love in your heart. I wish I had

  682. somebody that would fake God for his love, because you

  683. can't do this by yourself without the love of God. Said,

  684. when you was here with our strength due season, he

  685. sent Christ for the ungodly. He said, for specially with

  686. a man, send one would die for one who is righteous.

  687. I ain't gonna send somebody for us who are wrong,

  688. who are unrighteous. And if he did it while we

  689. was without strength, if he did it while we was

  690. in sin, will he not do much more?

  691. Come on, will you not do much more?

  692. See you trying to you trying to love the greatest

  693. of them, But you got to love the least of them.

  694. Oh, card, come on, somebody, hallelujah.

  695. You you're trying to you trying to love people that

  696. you think you can get a favor from hallelujah. If

  697. you're trying to love somebody that if you give to them,

  698. they can give it back to your Now nothing, listen,

  699. listen to the Bible of class. You're gonna start lending

  700. the folks that can't even give back to you, and

  701. you gonna show expressions of love. Come on, somebody that

  702. when they come to your door and ask for a

  703. piece of bread, you ain't gonna tell them I'm gonna

  704. pray for you, but you're gonna feed them out card.

  705. Come on, somebody tell your laghbor say, neighbor. Love is

  706. an action word. Hallelujah. So he sitting the son Jesus Christ, hallelujah.

  707. That real love imitates the love of God. We think

  708. about love the Bible of class. What is love? Love

  709. suffer alone? Love is kind, love envy not love vaunted,

  710. not itself. Love is not puffed up. Does not say

  711. behave itself unseemly. It seeking not her own. It's not

  712. easily provoked. It thinketh no evil. I wish I had somebody. Hallelujah.

  713. It joins not in iniquity, but rejoiced in truth. I

  714. wish I had somebody right there. Hallelujah. Yeah, love bearing

  715. all things it believe it all things, and hoping all

  716. things as matter of fact, get in dur it.

  717. Oh God, thank you. I got some preachers now and.

  718. Now by the faith, Hope, charity, but these three the

  719. greatest of these. It's love. Tell your neighbors and neighbor.

  720. Real love imitates the love of God. In other words,

  721. I'm gonna give a man and not a stealer.

  722. Hallelujah.

  723. I ain't trying to rob you for nothing, Oh God, hallelujah.

  724. I ain't trying to get nothing out of you. I

  725. was riding with Pops on the other day. He said, Man,

  726. I got a big heart. Thank you for what you

  727. did today. He said, I have a big heart that

  728. when I give, I'm not looking for anything back, which

  729. I had somebody.

  730. Hallelujah.

  731. Sometimes listen, I know they say they gonna borrow from you,

  732. but they said that twenty times more so, whatever they

  733. borrowed this time, they probably.

  734. Give it back. Probably aint gonna give it back to you.

  735. Hey, man, don't hold him hostage. Come on, God, come on,

  736. I say, don't hold him. How you know they ain't

  737. gonna pay you back, But don't worry about it. If

  738. you give, I'm telling you again, it's gonna be giving

  739. back to you. Hallelujah. That even when you lend to

  740. the poort, it's like lending to God. Tell your neighbor,

  741. I'm an imitator of cards love. Hallelujah.

  742. I show Card's love.

  743. I'm not looking Oh God, you ain't gonna help me

  744. preach up in here. I ain't looking for nothing back. Hallelujah.

  745. You ain't gotta pay me a penchion. I ain't got

  746. the have insurance. Come on, I'm doing an online class.

  747. It takes a lot of work, that's all right. I

  748. sacrifice for whatever Card woman to do, for people to

  749. get better in that life. Tell your neighbor, you ain't

  750. got to look for nothing back. Card will pay you back.

  751. He's got a record in heaven and also in earth.

  752. He know what you have done. He have counted your

  753. love of compassion to the saints. And guess what his

  754. purposes and his promises. It's not in vain. If he

  755. said he's gonna do it, he's gonna do it. He

  756. did it for Abraham, he did it for Jacob, he

  757. did it for Isaac and He's gonna do it for you.

  758. Not only do it do that for them, he also

  759. did it for me. I wish I had somebody in

  760. here that was shot card. Thank you for doing it

  761. for me. Whoa Hallenjah, hallelujah. Tell your name was a

  762. neighbor ah. Tell him that's real. That's real love. The

  763. second thing, real love imitates the love of Christ for others.

  764. He's saying, walk in love.

  765. As Christ also had loved us and had given himself

  766. for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for

  767. a sweet smelling sorver. In other words, God said to Jesus,

  768. he does the things that pleases Me. And when you

  769. do the things that pleases God by helping your brother

  770. or sister out, he said, put a smile on his face.

  771. And you got to understand that we.

  772. Reflect the loving, sacrificial nature of Jesus Christ. And so

  773. the Bible concern repel and says, if there be any

  774. consolation in Christ, and if there be any comfort of love,

  775. and if any fellowship of the spirit and it bowls

  776. and mercies, He said, fulfilled he my joy that you

  777. may be like minded, having that same love, being on

  778. one accord, being of one mind. And then he said,

  779. letting nothing be done through strife and vain glory, but

  780. in loneliness of mind, let each other esteem each other

  781. better than themselves.

  782. Tell your neighbors and neighbor. That kills my.

  783. Life's joy when I can put others before myself because

  784. they put a smile on God's face. I'm so glad

  785. that he called me, not only just to be called

  786. for a position or a title of a pastor, but

  787. what I am. I am a servant, and I don't

  788. mind serving you. I don't mind washing your feet like

  789. Jesus watch the feet of his disciples. Because when I

  790. serve others, I put a smile on God's face. And

  791. I don't know I'm about you, but I'm about to

  792. put a smile on God's face. That every time I

  793. speak a word, I put a smile on his face,

  794. And every time I pray for somebody else, I put

  795. a smile on his face. And every time I'm a

  796. blessing to somebody else, I said, somebody else. Come on,

  797. I know you looking for a blessing with you, you're

  798. foid and no more. But God say you got to

  799. look out for others, because I'm getting ready to bless

  800. you in twenty twenty six, that the blessing is gonna

  801. be so abundant that it's gonna spill out on somebody else.

  802. I come to tell you that God is getting ready

  803. to bless you to be a blessing to somebody else.

  804. That you don't have to wait in the food line,

  805. that you don't have to wait in the world for

  806. a line. But God tell you gonna start pulling out

  807. money and giving out kills and sharing his son Jesus Christ.

  808. I wish I.

  809. Had somebody in here that would shout joy. Somebody shout joy.

  810. I'm gonna give God the praise, but I'm gonna bend

  811. my bending knees to be a help to my brother.

  812. The Bible says, let the weak say that I'm strown.

  813. It also says let the strong birth the infirmities up

  814. the week. Don't look down on him to put him

  815. down on the ground. But when you look down on somebody,

  816. shut forth your hand and pick him up. In the

  817. name of Jesus, I thank God for those that is

  818. in the house, because I come here to pick you up.

  819. You may have been down in your spirit, but He's

  820. a cleaner. Picker up God is picking you up to

  821. lift up your hung down heads to when his carriage

  822. of responded heart. Look to the heels from which come

  823. at your help, all of your help coming from the Lord.

  824. I amnna take Christ. So follow me as I follow Christ.

  825. Somebody ain't giving praise. Somebody ain't giving praise. So when

  826. we talk about love, love is a sacripe. May not

  827. want to do it, but I love you. May not

  828. want to forgive, but I love you. Might want to

  829. turn the up way, but I love you. It's a

  830. sacrificial appeal that even when you don't want to do it,

  831. I'll go down there, will let anybody go.

  832. He looked in the heavens, and looked in the earth,

  833. and looked under the earth, and couldn't find nobody.

  834. But if there was a little lamb, you ain't got

  835. to be big, Just be a little lamb ready for

  836. the sacrifice. I'm just a little lamb ready for the sacrifice.

  837. He saw a little lamb that had been shrinking blood

  838. from the foundations of the earth, and that little lamb said,

  839. if you can't find nobody, you can send me.

  840. Who am I working with?

  841. Off? Say, Lord, you can send me. You can send

  842. me if you can't find nobody, somebody shout out coat,

  843. I'll go if I got to go all by myself,

  844. but I will go. And my third one is real

  845. love chans the very present of evil. For the Bible,

  846. sex as becoming children, as walking in love.

  847. Now become it saint.

  848. Put away for nicasion, all uncleanliness comforciousness. Let it not

  849. be once more named among you as become its saints.

  850. He say, neither filterness nor foolish talking, a foolish jesting

  851. your neighbor, your neighbor, split it away because it's not convenient,

  852. it's not productive, rather than talk about people.

  853. Kill card praise rather than criticize him.

  854. Kill Cad praise rather than the panddem kim cad praise.

  855. Because we know that no hormonger, that, no unclean person,

  856. no uncovetous man who is in the knowledgship shout inherit

  857. the Kingdom of God. If we don't do and.

  858. L walk like God want us to walk in real love.

  859. Tell your neighbor, say, neighbor, I'm loving for real love.

  860. I'm looking for.

  861. God's love because God is help me. Shout cards help

  862. his head again.

  863. Cardians. Card is love hallelujah.

  864. He's a light that's shining my life.

  865. Shall yes, shall yes, shout yes.

  866. So I'm walking in love for the glory of Card

  867. to me is pounding in the earth.

  868. I'm walking in real love.

  869. Thank God that I can look at his example and

  870. his sacrifice to see what real love is. I don't

  871. have to count on you, and you ain't got to

  872. count on me. But I count on Card to show.

  873. Me real love.

  874. Because when I can love God, I can love my wife. Oh,

  875. when I can love God, I can love my enemies

  876. when I love Card God, I can love my church.

  877. When I love God, I can love my children. When

  878. I love God, I can love Donald Trump. When I

  879. love God. I appreciate the devil because if I had

  880. not been afflicted, I wouldn't have never came to this

  881. point of glory.

  882. Tell your neighbor, say neighbor, it's time to go higher.

  883. Somebody shot higher, somebody shot higher, somebody shot higher than

  884. God's Lord. Time to go hire, time to go higher.

  885. For the gentiles, they wouldn't say they didn't grow up

  886. in the church. They may be familiar with the church,

  887. but they ended up either being in the world. Are

  888. going back to the world, and Paul wanted them to

  889. know where it's new creatures putting on the new man.

  890. You cannot do that's a new man what the old

  891. man used to do. But this new man we imitate

  892. who God is. We imitate the love of God. And

  893. that's becoming saints. We shone all the very appearance the

  894. garments of evil.

  895. Hallelujah.

  896. Tell your neighbor said, nahbor, that's holy, man, that's holy.

  897. Holy is a product of righteousness. Hallelujah. The righteousness of

  898. God means bringing it back to original intent. Holyness is

  899. a product of bringing things to his original intent.

  900. What does that mean? God says, Listen, I'm gonna give

  901. your dominion. I'm gonna multiply you. I'm gonna give you

  902. the power to subdue. You're gonna be fruitful.

  903. If you want twenty twenty sixty to see be what

  904. God wanted to be, you gotta walk in