Love for God | Pastor Sandra

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Tea love for God. We want to love God. That's

all I want to say to you. Just love God,

and how do we And of course I will talk

about how to love God. Love God. We want to

love God, simply put. Deuteronomy chapter six, verse four to

five says it says here the verse if you want

to turn to it, Deuteronomy chapter six and verse four

to five. Here, oh Israel, the Lord our God, the

Lord is one. You shall love the Lord your God

with all your heart, with all your soul, and with

all your strength. Amen. This is God speaking to us, saying, hey,

he here, o Israel. Yes, you were speaking then to

the children of Israel. But when we got saved and

born again, we become God's children and we get to

hear this as well. To love the Lord our God

with all of our heart, with all of our soul,

with all of our strength.

Jesus brings it back again.

He quotes it in Mark chapter twelve, verse thirty as

well as in Matthew twenty two thirty seven, and Jesus

quotes back this scripture and he says and you shall

love the Lord our God with all your heart, with

all your soul, with all your mind, and with all

your strength. This is the first commandment. Amen. Hallelujah. This

is a verse we we all you know, know of

and hear of. Some of us memorize it. Sometimes it's

hard to say we churned first heart or soul or strength.

Okay, but this is.

The call for us here, oh ex partners, Love the

Lord your God. Sandra, love the Lord your God. Hey, Terrence,

love the Lord your God with all of your heart,

with all of your soul, with all of your mind,

with all of your strength. I just want to say

to us, love the Lord. Amen. Okay. Now, loving the

Lord is simply I'm not and I'm only gonna talk

about love God because I won't tell you how much

God loves you. Because you know how much God loves you.

The fact that you're here, you're blessed. Hey, His goodness

follows after you every day of your lives. He loved

us so much that he himself gave his life for us.

Jesus is God's Son, and Jesus, you know, took our

place at the cross to pay the debt that we

could never have paid, and you and I will never

know how much it costs Jesus to be on the

cross and to take the shame, to take our pain,

to take our sin. And so God already loves us,

and the moment you come into him, you believe him,

you trust him. He just clothes you with his robe

of righteousness, and he loves you and gives you a

hope and a future and not you know, living eternity

now and not later, but even now. Amen.

So when we say.

Love God, and the word love from the Greek is everybody.

I got Pey, I go pey right, And no time

to study so much, but just to say God, God

pays you. God loves the world that.

He gave his only son.

The love that God loves us with is our gape,

which is the God kind of love unconditional takes you

as you takes me as I am. Yaga pays us.

And you know I cannot got Pey Ellie and take

her as she is unconditional lover. But I can also

filayo her as in I love her as a friend.

But to love God as a friend pi lao. Well

that's what Peter said when when Jesus said hey, Peter,

you know you love me. And Peter was so broken

because he had fled when deny Jesus, and all he

could come at was with I just PRAYD love you.

I just PRAYD love you.

Phi are you?

And you know asked him three times.

There was a healing happening, the restoration, and he couldn't

even say, God, I love you, agapey you, I reverence you,

I honor you. He couldn't because he was so saddened

that he had failed God. Right, but Jesus restored him.

And so you and I can have different levels of love.

But when we love God, it is our gapey to God,

meaning we reverence him, we honor him, We love him

with all of our hearts, we give our lives to him,

and we just you know, look to him. And he's

also like our father God, like a father on earth.

He's also father God, but he's the Father in heaven,

and we reverence we love him in that way. But

he doesn't want to be a God that's so far.

He wants to be a God that's near. And that's

why Jesus came to bring God nearer to us. So

this morning, when I speak about love God. We want

to grow in our agape for the Lord to continue

to pursue our love for the Lord. Amen.

And so.

When you know there's a verse, there's a verse in

First John. I think it's First John four nineteen, First

John four nineteen.

If you turn to your bibles, first John.

Four nineteen, that says we love him first because he

first loved us.

Amen, We loved.

Him first, because he first loved us. I didn't know

Jesus loved me.

I did not come from a Christian family.

I came from a Buddhist background, and then you know,

never really knew much except that that we I would

go and stay with my grandaunt who would take me

to the church, the Catholic church, and then that that

was my exposure. But I didn't know that Jesus loves me.

And he says here that we love him because he

first loved us.

Amen. Hey, when any of you.

Single girls or guys know somebody likes you? Baby, are

a fun you work?

Yeah?

Oh you're it works going everywhere. Oh, somebody likes me.

Don't look like you've never fallen in love before. Don't

give me the look like what are you talking about?

Where Holy really holy people fall in love. We first

love God because he got first Lovedlesess who were able

to respond anyone here knows you fall in love or

when you meet someone, and when someone loves you, you

go like, whoa you like me? Oh?

And we can't.

We could be so and go like yeah, like you do,

even though you don't know that person. All right, you

know when we're young and old as we've fall in

the same trip without asking the Lord whether this is

the person or not, just go for it. Yeah, baby,

come on, all right, But God, we love him because

he first loved us. You're just responding back to someone

who loves you, who gives his life for you, who knows.

You by name.

By the way, you may call yourself apple, Sunshine, Cherry,

by God really knows your name? Is what soon afast

love Kim saying okay, because he knows who you are.

Our names we like to change and have all kinds

of names. But who named Mandarin service? Just call me mailing?

Just now? I'm like, so.

Money, what young mailing?

I'm like because nobody calls me trying to all right,

So I have more Chinese name than my husband has.

He's not Chinese. Okay, all right.

Ah.

So God knows us, he loves us, and we are

able to love him because he first loved us. I

want all of us, if you are believing Christ, he

first loved you. There for you, and I respond to him.

We respond to love. Sammy responded to love, and that's

how he restored I responded, or God touched my life

and I responded, and my life turned around from what

I would have been.

Lost, aimless.

Cannot do anything to someone who found a voice, found

the confidence. That's what Jesus does when he comes into

your life. He first loves you, and you respond, and

just a little bit of love can transform your life,

just like Sammy. I wish we could bring you a

photo of Sammy and show you how he was before

and after. Wow. Big change, big change. Yeah. And so

this is how we love him. We love God because

he first loved us. Secondly, First John for sixteen says,

So how do you love God? He say? Well, for

sixteen says, if you turn to First John for sixteen,

look at your bibles, he says, and we have known

and believed the love that God has for us. We

have known and believed the love that God has for

us how, because God is love, and he who abides

in love abides in God and God in him. So

we love God because God's love is living in us.

When we receive Christ, his love abides in us, and

we abide in him. Hey, guys, God never moves if

we who's the one who moves his earth? So are

you abiding? Are you staying? Because He's abiding in us

and that's why we can love him. Because He's loved

abides in us days us. He never moves, He doesn't, Okay,

So that's why we're saying we love God. Come on,

fellow believers, brother sisters, let us love God and continue

to love Him with all of our heart's minds, our soul,

and our strength. Amen. We can love a lot of things,

but I want to encourage us to love God, especially

those who come and know Him and worship Him. We

can weak out. We do so many things. Most importantly,

do we love God? And how do we love him?

Amen?

So three thoughts for us? Before that, I wanted to

say that love Loving God is a decision. Loving God

is a decision. We choose to love God next night,

and not by how we feel. There are days you

feel like I tabla you, I feel like he let

me down? Oh why? This is why that? But we

have to choose a decision to say, I choose to

love God regardless what has happened. And I've gone through

that own cycle of ups and downs, of failed exams

or a relationship that didn't work out, or this didn't

go someone you know really troubled you, whatever, But no

matter what happens, that is your anchor. That is, I

choose to love God and not how I feel, or

who let me down, or who took my dog or whatever,

who stole my boyfriend. I don't move because of that.

I look at the Christ that hasn't moved, and I

love him regardless how I feel.

Do I get an amen?

Oh? Church, you are too quiet.

And on these here, come on, hold this.

I'm golling it. At least gonna slap me, all right,

the parent's gonna no.

Come on, the church.

You cannot receive God's word if you sit there and

keep quiet. You should be celebrating God's word. Come on, Nicle,

celebrate God's word. Amen? All right? When I know you're name,

it's dangerous, dangerous, amen. But God knows your name, and

I don't know everybody's name, but you are special to him.

He loves you. Amen. So how do we love God? Amen?

Because I say, we choose to love God right, not

about how we feel, but we choose to love you.

I pray that we will be like what Sammis wrote

as the deer pans for the water some forty two,

verse one and two, As the deer pans for the

water so much soul longs after him?

Do we long after God?

Do?

I ask myself? So as I speak, I'm.

Speaking to myself. I ask myself, do I long after God? There?

Do I actually long to sit in His presence? And

I many times I do? I really just sit and

just sit. And other times I'm just adhd cannot sit still? Ayah,

that's my problem, right, I gotta move around and then

cannot sit down and listen for a while. But can

I can do? I thirst for God's presence? Do I

thirst and hunger for His presence, his person? Just being

with the Lord his goodness? Am I first thing after

the Lord? Can you and I say that? Or are

we thirsting for other things to fill the void? The

void that's in our lives? Hey? Man, you think about

a void in your life. You want a better job.

I'm sorry you cannot have a better husband because you're

married already, or better wife you're already married. Love them

and work through the differences. You know, we want this

and want that, but the one person that could actually

fill that void is the Lord himself. But we are

so FIDGETI we have to run here, we have to

run there, We have to do this. We have to

help ourselves. Some of us even give birth to ishmaels

and and have big regrets. But yet God says, don't

live with regrets. What is done is forgiven. Startup brash right. So, hey,

we want to be able to love God. I encourage

us that you might be thinking past of why you're.

Asking me to love God? Aren't I Christian and love God?

Yes? But what's the dosage to give a little bit

like and then expect a lot? A relationship? A relationship.

We all want relationship. Everybody's talking about relationship. But no

relationship happens without the connection. No relationship happens without the Hello,

is it me? You're looking for whatever? All right? You

need to have that connection, and so we've got It's

the same thing. It's parallel in the natural human, human, natural,

and it's parallel in the spiritual. What is spiritual, It's

parallel with the natural. Natural, also parallel with the spiritual.

We need to make the action, we need to have

that relationship. So how do we love God? Number one?

Spend time with him? Not like God is some like,

please spend time with me. No, he's not the you know, like,

please spend time with me, please please joh't soon please, No,

he's not like he's lacking. But he loves your face.

I might not like your face, but he loves your face.

Thank God that he loves you. Might not like my face,

but I know the one person I can run to

and hide and cry is Jesus.

So spending time with him is how you love.

God? Natural or all? Right? How many wives are in

the house? Come on? How many unteasy house? Come on?

Every day?

They'll ask the.

Husband, do you love me? Tell me?

Tell me how much you love me?

My husband say, I told you twenty nine years ago.

Now I forgot it.

No, no, no, to day to day baby, I love you,

thank you, and she's happy. Right. The spending time, the

telling you how much you love that person brings an assurance,

an affirmation. I know it's difficult for any husband every

day tell them wife, yes, baby, I love you, and

you keep telling someone to got you go blah. I

will say to go and thank you. I know, go

go to your right. But but but we want to

hear that, and that's natural to be loved. Okay, to

spend time at least spend time, spend time talking, spend

time sharing your day. But that's the case, like the

women will come home and tell the whole story and

then when I aspect doesn't, so how was your day? Okay?

And okay, more okay, ah, So men have normal words

at the end of the day. Women can still carry on.

She is the energetic bunny. Bunny, the bunny, the energetic buddy, energy,

energized buddy. But the husband say, I finish it on.

My word's gone ready. So so women be assured your

husband loves you. I hope he'll do other things to

show you that he loves you. Right, husband's okay okay,

Dan said, yes, he'd better be doing something for elder

mable Okay, all right, So spending time and we know

that any relationship, Hey, boyfriend, girlfriend, want to spend time

because that's how you feel.

I remember calling my boyfriend.

You know who my boyfriend is? Yeah? Yeah, that time,

no handphone, the dial up phone, didn't call, No I call.

I'm looking back now I feel I'm this desperate woman

looking for husband? Are you? I don't want to call

because he never calls me, and how can Right until

today he never calls me and we're married for.

Twenty nine years.

Recall because once you talk, my finished work? Right?

So nine thirty then he's part picks out the phone.

Uncle, Yes, kenathen sleeping nine thirty, nine thirty pm, he's sleeping.

How do you get to know y?

Not like I can go to day thing.

I'm working, But you want to spend time today? You

go a handphone? Handphone relationship a bit hardler. You're just texting? Right?

Can I malwak and parassa aunts? Right? But you want

to meet? So so I have to wait another day

and try and call mister Chain. Yes, but mister Chain

likes to meet more than talk on the phone. That

habit has not changed. You thought he has a phone,

don't be fooled. It is not a phone. It's a camera.

And mind you, he did not buy it.

The church elders gave him a phone to say, we

want to contact you. So he said, okay, you contact Mila.

Uh my, meanwhile, I take photo then, so rajin to

update the IgA. Why because it's a camera. Yeah, he's

not talking to me. So building relationships, spend time.

Spend time with the Lord.

How talk to him? Talk to him like how you

and I would talk? Really, hold that that one I

do not to see it? Gave you by thank you? Yeah?

I love it? No, I love it. Yeah. We talked

to him like how we would talk to our friends.

But sometimes we feel like this is God. It's so

difficult to talk. But actually Father God wants us to

just talk because he wants to talk. However, when we talk,

we talk so much he couldn't bring a word in. Yeah,

we're talking, talk and talk. So like that I met someone,

I said, so, how you met her?

And then did you talk?

I tried, but the lady didn't let me in, so

I couldn't talk. Say I love my Okay, so we

must talk and also listen, right, A conversation is about

listening and speaking. So would you take some time with

the Lord by talking to him, telling him how you

feel or what you're going through the other way, of

course I have to say. You read this where he

reveals himself. We want to know more about who God is.

Read here and learn about him how he thinks. Did

you know he whistles? Yeah?

Sometimes we didn't know he was.

So do you know that he can laugh? He laughs?

You know he wins? Okay? Find out if he wins?

All right, ask him for guidance, tell him your preferences,

and let him tell you whether it's okay. All right,

But if you talk to men and not to God,

the man cannot give you an eternal answer. But in

the Lord, when you give enough time and you keep,

when you keep consistently meeting up with him, then you

get You get to hear and get recognized. The voice

I couldn't recognize was Kenneth's voice because he and his

father sound the same. Mike Burnie Chin sounded the same,

like an a chin obviously, because there's a son. So

every time I call him, thinking is that uncle or

is it can uncle? No, Kenneth Alama, So it happen

they woth sound they both sound alike. Ah and and

and so the more I call, or the more we meet,

and so I get used to the voice. And so

we talk, and honestly, Church, I might be saying this

to you and it's such a simple thing, but I

think we need it. I think we need to spend

time with God. I'm not saying give up everything. I'm

just saying, you need to spend a good time with

the Lord. Whatever time you choose, spend it with him

just a little bit. Spend it with the Lord. Go

to your room, go to somewhere, go to the park,

garden or whatever, and just shut out for a while,

but be with the Lord, talking to him, reading his word,

asking him for guidance, maybe surrendering something that has been

bothering you, and let God's peace wash over you, let

God's peace direct your path. The only way I find

many times when I'm trouble is to just shut out

the voices and be still and just be with the Lord,

to thirst after him like the deer pans for water.

And I just have to do that, and I realize

I just need it sometimes when I'm a bit lost,

I'm a bit messed up, and you know, days get

so busy, I just feel like I just need time out.

Just nobody talk to me, please, nobody talk to me.

And I just got to go away and be in

a room quiet and just listen to the Lord. Or

I open the word of God and I read it

so that God's word can read me as I read

the word and speak to my circumstances. And many times

God has done that for me. I'm in a learning

journey as well. I can't say I'm there yet, but

I know it really is really beautiful when we get

to spend time with God and let his word restore us.

Number One, spending time with him, Amen, I mean, there's

no better person to spend it with. First God, Loud,

after that, whoever else you like. All Right, spend time

with God. Next one, Obey his word and be a

doer of his word. Amen, obey his word and be

a doer of his word. It's hard sometimes how you obey. Okay,

When you read God's word, he will speak to you.

And many times some of the areas of our lives.

And I find a lot of people suffer and struggle

with forgiveness.

They cannot forgive. But the word of God tells us,

so when you read it, you need to act on it.

If the Lord says give to something, give to somebody,

you read it, you gotta act on it. If the

Lord says go and you act on it, you go go.

Is it to visit someone at the hospital. Is it

make a trip mission trip? Is it to go and

encourage your pastor? Nobody here wants to encouraged pasta. Okay,

come all right, encourage my pastor? Why all right? So

when you obey God's word and you do it, that's

where that's how.

You are loving God. You're obeying love God, right you?

I mean you just God is always going to be

stable there. He never walks out on us. He will hear,

he will speak. We just need to do that word, amen.

I don't know how to explain moms and dads in

the house. Moms and dads. You know your kids sometimes

stare your hair out. Okay, kids, your parents stare your

hair out? All right, never mind, but we don't walk out.

There's still my kid, and I look at you every day.

But you're my child and I still love you, and

we don't walk out. Generally, the general rule. So God

won't even have a general rule. He is there, He

never changes, He has no exceptions. Only for human beings

there will be exceptions, but for God, it's stable.

You read his word.

He speaks to you. Work on it. Is it about forgiveness?

Is it about loving somebody? Is it about being patient

with somebody? Is it about being kind to somebody? Even

God saying, come on, you know my joy is in you.

Stop going looking so down. The joy of the Lord

is your strength. You act on it and say, okay, Lord,

the joy of the Lord, and stop praising you the

obedience and act on it. Man, I've not seen no

results when we've obeyed God and do his word.

I've only seen good results.

You know.

When you love God, it results in you loving people.

That's what the obedience is because you obey his word.

At the end, it has something to do with somebody

and you love God and end up loving people. Want

I just want to encourage you in one spot of

scripture Matthew chapter twenty five, the whole portion. Do you

remember the story about Matthew twenty five? Remember the king

said to the righteous, come and inherit the kingdom, and

the righteous and the rights are sitting there listening. Yes,

come in inherit kingdom. Because every time someone was hungry,

you fed that person. When that person was naked, you

cloth when that person was in prison, You visited him.

When that person was sick. You went to care for

that person. And this righteous said Matthew twenty five says,

since when did I see you, Lord? When did I

see you naked? When did I see you hungry? When

did I see you in need of cloth? And the

Lord said, when you've done it to the least of them,

you have done it to me.

I'll encourage us.

Church. Sometimes we represent you as a whole church. We've

done stuff for the refugees, the families, the individuals. They're

the least sometimes because they cannot help themselves, and so

we take the funds that we have from your giving

and we bless them. Maybe one day you will meet

somebody in heaven will say thank you so much for

giving to the Lord, because we gave to the least.

You didn't even know that you gave that person an

opportunity to have an education. You didn't know your prayer

when further than when you started. All Jesus is saying you,

when you did it to that person, you didn't even know.

But you did it unto me everything.

Every time we do something unto the Lord, you did

it out of Sometimes obedience, you hurt the word and

you just do it. Other times out of just that

the fruit of the spirit, kindness, and you do it.

Sometimes you don't know why you're doing it, but you

do it. Why, you know, some of you nobody say

thank you to you. We've gotta stop living for thank

yous from people. Come on ten thirty, anybody in the house.

Oh man, when you come to church, you should be happy. Jason,

give me a smile. Jason soon, Yeah, missus soon or

so yeah? All right? Yeah.

You know, God just says to us, the least you've

done it.

So the action that you've done, you obey, you do it,

a result will come love God, love people. That's the obedience.

I don't know what we are going through, but I know,

having served so long that many believers, many good Christians,

suffer with unforgiveness. We cannot forgive, we cannot forgive. We

cannot forgive our father, we cannot forgive our dog, we

cannot forgive our friend, we cannot forgive our boss because

they hurt me. And it's very real, it's very very real.

But yet every time the Bible teaches us, tells us,

as I forgive, you, forgive this person, it's Okay, you

forgive us. God will take you the next step and

he will open other doors for you. You don't have

to be BFF with that person forever. Best friends forever. Yes,

that's what BFF means. Be best friends for ever. No no, no,

just be friend. Forgive. You need space, you need to grow,

you need to deal with differentlys. But as God speaks,

you obey. That's how you love God. That's how we

love God. When God tells us, we do it, we

love him. When I do something, I because I love God.

That's why I do it. Why do I go out

for missions? Because I love God? And I do it

because I hurt the heart that he says there's a

group of people who need to be encouraged, and we go. Amen.

Why do we do so many things that our church

gets opportunity to do, and though don't feel like it's

too much, because there will be a day when there's

nothing else to do, then we can't do it anymore.

Do what we can well, while there's day, do what

we can to obey Him, to love him so that

others may see the love of God through your life. Amen.

So it's so true. I just I could only see

God's love through God and Doris. I couldn't. I told Doris, Doris,

I do not have the grace to take care of

a Okay, you child, I don't know how. I don't

even have the ability, but you do. I don't know how.

I just don't know. But she did it out of love.

Sometimes there's some things you would just do it without

nobody's gonna thank you, nobody's gonna remember your name. Sometimes

we help people we don't even remember our names. They

don't know who we are, but we just do it.

When God says, give give that amount, give that table,

give that back, give that bud you, or give yourself whatever,

and you just give because you heard the Lord say

that to you. When whenever it involves nothing about yourself

and it goes to somebody else, that's a good thing.

But when every time you're fighting for yourself, that may

not always be a good thing, because then we're just

thinking about ourselves. The Lord always leads us like himself.

He first gave, he first loved, and we learned giving

from the Lord. We love God as he loves us. Amen.

Thirdly, how do we love God?

The third point is be thankful and serve him. My judge,

be thankful and love God. I think complaining is not

loving God. Complaining he's telling God about another brother or

sister who was made the image of God. How useless

that person is. I tell you what the arena complainer

you're saying. I'm thankful for it. Brother, I'm thankful. And

even though I'm upset because you didn't count all the sticks,

it's okay. Don't you don't complain, be thankful for what

you see, and serve the lot because if you are not,

if you you you don't have to put your energy

somewhere to serve, then you will continue to be very

unhappy about everything because there's no energy to do something,

because then your mind will no longer be thinking about that.

I'm unhappy. I'm happy. Then you think, oh I got

to you know, go and teach English to refuge kids.

Oh I'm going to clean up the.

Church today, yole the church. Yes, we do that and

got the communing. We have to clean the church, not

the judge. When we clean, so the homes will take

turns to clean the church. Or today I've gotta, you know,

go and play guitar for the worship band. Today, I've

gotta go for Taylor's apple, or I'm gonna visit someone

in the hospital. I'm gonna go, you know, do something tonight.

Maybe there's that what meat autumn? Somebody happening. Ok but

if you speak anto, you can come. La ya la

yah layah. Got moon cake to eat? Okay, all right,

so be thankful. How do you love God? And she

God does not like complaining. He really despises. Read it

in the Book of Exodus. I don't know if I've

preached that word. Do you hear? But I've done in

other services, got that bolt to hunt people complaining. He

will listen. He will listen. Fair enough, you are being

you know, mistreated. He will here and you will deliver.

But after he used delivers and then everything, and you

still complain. I asked for meat, God give you meat,

and you're like, but I did not ask for quail.

I want the key. Then there's God ungrateful?

Ready? Right?

Your parent will know? Right the charldis I want handphone?

What if I is a hendphone and the child is dead?

I give you the headphone. No, I didn't want to

stand song. I wanted in apple. Maybe we were still like, hello,

that's a phone smack him, right, am, I should we

smack him? Not sure?

Okay?

All right, so we asked a younger person to ask

you we smacked the person. Okay, No, be thankful and

serve the Lord. Don't complain because we will spew negativity

and that will hurt us more. It will not help

the environment that we're in. Amen. Love God, love him more.

It's a privilege to love the Lord. I ask yourself,

answer seriously. One day we're all going to have to

meet Jesus. I'm just preparing you and me for that.

If you love the Lord, you will do what he's

asking you to do. If you are not sure, if

you love the Lord, now it's a good day today

to say, Lord, have I really been loving you? Or

have I been loving me? Because I just want you

to do what I see. Then that's not loving God,

that's loving me. We all get there. We all get there.

Nobody's perfect. We're learning. Amen. So three points again, spend

three points spending time with the Lord, talking with him,

reading his word, praying like, bringing needs to him, asking

him for direction, you know, listening to the Lord as

you'll be still and know that he's God, receiving God's

word divine word for you for every different circumstance. That's

one way. Obey his word and be a doer of

that word. Don't just listen and go away, but listen, obey,

and do it. Then it will bear fruit.

And thirdly, be.

Thankful and serve the Lord. Guys, don't stop serving the

law wherever you are served the Lord. And then serving

the Lord doesn't only mean in these four walls. But

whenever the Lord asks you to do something you know,

serve him. Do it for the Lord, don't do it

for anybody else. Serve the Lord. But the Lord does

give you the church in which you can start to serve.

That's how he works. Don't hate the church. Church is

a good place. Jesus walked to the Synegogue. First thing

he comes into any town. He loves the church. He

started the church, not me. He love the church and

love God to work through you and be a blessing.

Remember love God first, and then love your neighbor. But

we cannot love our neighbor if we didn't know God's

love and how much he loves us, so that we

can outflow his love to our neighbor. That's the second commandment. Now,

question for you. What could hinder you do not love God?

Easy light, I think you're no answer.

What could hinder you by?

I don't have postcod to give you anyway?

What could hinder you do not love God?

What would be? What? I came out with three thoughts?

First John two fifteen. First John two fifteen Love for

the world? Wow, it says John to fifteen. Do not

love the world or the things in the world. If

anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is

not in him. Amen. Okay again, if you have your Bibles,

turn to the scripture verse fifteen, chapter two of First John.

Do not love the world all the things in the world.

If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father

is not in him. Now, the world is a good world.

It's a good God created the world. But to love

the things of this world, to love the world? I

think it was the James Bond movid that says the

world is not enough? Was it oldies? Sorry, more mature

people here? That was born after? Okay, all right, before

nineteen ninety all right, do not love the world but

to love God. Do not love the world and the

things of the world. Then we get so distracted by

what the world dictates. Then we forgot God's love in

us already because we're just chasing after what it is

in the ways of the world. And many of us

have grown up in the ways of this world before

we knew Christ. But once we know Christ, we begin

to learn, Oh, there's a better way to do something,

There's a better way to forgive somebody. It's a bad

you know, how do I bridge the gap? So God

is saying, if the love for this world is in us,

then the love for the Father is not in us.

So we have to watch our heart. What are we loving?

All right?

Secondly, Matthew six twenty four says, if there's two masters,

we cannot serve two masters.

You can't.

No in nothing can you do that? You have to

be split right, So in Mark six twenty four, Mark

six twenty four says, no one can serve two masters.

Either you'll hate one and love the other, or you'll

be loyal to the one and then despise the other,

And you can't serve God and Mammon, So who is

your master? Church? Who is our master? We have to

honestly answer ourselves. Is sometimes I have to ask myself

when I had a pet dog, my Golden retriever? Where

do she was my master? Oh? God? Because I wake

up early in the morning.

What I do? Go and look for my.

Doggy first to make sure she's okay? And then I

have one pastor. One pastor said to me, when you

have a pet, dot, God will become second. No, la

are you but true? Of course I wake up the

morning I didn't see morning.

She's like, was it good morning?

Spring? Yeah? You know you want you spend on time

on her, make sure everything's okay. Then go and do

quiet time. Runther than do quiet time for just saying

this is yoke? All right, all right? I mean I

really will give my attention to my dog for sticket.

It's so cute, right, the dog, Golden Retriever, beautiful dog.

So I can't sup the masters?

Who's my master?

At the end? How do I prioritize more priority? Not

that money is bad or evil, it's our priority. What

are we what are we making as our master? What

makes us take the Lord or Mammon or the world?

The love for the things of this world? These are

things that can hinder us from loving God fullheartedly. Thirdly,

our first love. If we lose our first love is

God our first Love's very fine line.

Right, If my husband asked me you love me?

Yes, am I number one? No, Jesus is my number one,

he has to be okay with that, right, But who

is my first love? My ministry can be my first love.

I'm involving ministry, I mean full time ministry. Ministry can

even take that attention away from actually me spending time

with God. And I'll say, no, no, I got to

go and minister to repers. No, no, no, I gotta do. This

is ministry. Then I put the concern and love for

God second, without knowing because perhaps I defined myself by

what I do, but actually my definition comes from the

very image of God who made me. So I've got

to go back to the maker, my creator, and walk

with Jesus first before I do the work that I do. Amen,

the loss of our first love Revelations two and verse four.

You know the apostle John spoke these words from the Lord. Actually,

the Lord spoke to the church in Ephesus and reminded

the church that you do not lose your first love.

The church in Ephesus lost their first love for the Lord.

I yeah, Amen, I may have got the wrong verse step.

But Ephesus, oh, I'm not looking at revelations all right,

Revelations two for it says, nevertheless, I have this against you,

that you have left your first love. They did everything,

they were busy, they were serving, they were doing all

things they despise evil, but their first love the end.

Were they coming to spend time with God? Were they

putting in first in their private lives when nobody sees?

Was He first in their lives? Or was something else

taking that place?

Amen?

And that is a good reminder to check ourselves. Firstly,

is the love for this world greater than the love

of God. We are living in planet Earth life. We

have the world, God love, soul, love the world, God

agape the world. The world is not bad, but the

things of this world what represents the world the systems,

And we are so used to following the systems that

we're not aware that this is only partial. The real

things of God matter more, and we need to be

able to discern and so partly of that. That's why

we gather as a fellowship of believers to learn what

is important and what isn't to be aware, Yes we can,

we can. We are in the world system the financial

world system. But we got to be aware when the

time will come, we can't just go with the system.

We know what God's worth is saying right.

So firstly check our hearts on that number two.

Who is our master? Is it Jesus or my job

or memon or the things that represent money? Are we

chasing after money? And I know a lot of well

meaning people who say no, I need to work wherever heart.

And not only do you lose sight of God, you

lose sight of your family. You lose of spending time

with your children, or you lose of spending time with

Mom and Dad, your own parents, because we just chasing

after something else. Is it fame? Is it whatever that is?

You can't have two masters. You must decide who is

your master. If we are to love God, then he

has to be the master. Jesus is our master, Amen,

and thirdly, God our hearts.

From losing our first love, anyone will know that.

Anyone will know that if my husband forgets me, I

will be very upset. If he celebrates another one of

my friend's birthday or our somebody and he forgets mine,

I think I'm not his first love anymore, not his

first love, but you know, the one that he loves

because your attention is somewhere else. Again, I say, all

truth is parallel between the spiritual and a natural, natural

and the spiritual. It happens, it's parallel. So we have

to be aware. Have we lost our first love? Do

we drag our feet for the things of God? Like church,

like prayer, like homes, like Bible reading, like visiting someone

who's not well our home meet, like doing the good

works that He asks us to do. Are we dragging

our feet to even wake up? Or maybe we're more

happier to say, oh, there's a picnic and we're going

hiking and picnic.

That that is our love.

I mean, it's natural and I got to watch that.

I even have to watch it. I'm so excitedly we're

gonna do this. I'm so excited about a mission trip.

But not the God who gave me the opportunity to

go for the mission trip, the God who gave me

the friends that I could go hiking with. But I

would still making my first attention and priority. Where's my

first love? My first love? There was a song along

that I watch, a Christian song.

You know first love? Where my heart?

What does my heart long for Does my heart long

for the Lord or does it long for something else?

What is your heart pining for? These are? These are

things that you know inmbascination with pangelny basic Bisic KHANHATI.

What stirs in your heart? What is it that's speaking

to you in your heart? Only you know? But I'm

only bringing this across because we are here to build

the church, to encourage the saints to get ready for

the coming of the Lord, and to finish the work

that God has started to win the loss. We're only

doing church planting only because God told us to go

to that place and do that country or whatever. Not

doing because we want to be famous. We're not famous

or nothing else better to do. What's God saying to

your heart as the individual? What's God saying to you

saying to us as a church? And I'm scared, I'm

I'm When I say scared, I'm concerned. Why do I

come up with the speaking to the church about reading

the Bible Because there is a drop, there is a

dis engagement with reading the Word of God, because if

people read the word of God, we would live how

God wants us to live. Instead, we are facing a

lot more challenges when we could have found our answers

through the Lord's ministry. So I am speaking to us

not because I'm better, I myself am learning and seeing

how God wants to work in our lives. And so

I ask you, implore you church, love God. If you

if you never got a chance to love Jesus, I

invite you to come and walk with Him, let Him

come into your life and do amazing restoration in your life.

Amazing you know, stirring of your heart to just cause

you to wow. Wake up every day. I wake up

every day with the yay, all right, I'm tired. I'm

literally I've got jet leg I'm tired. But I do

wake up every day. Yay. There's laundry to do, right,

I mean, but there's this expectation that tomorrow is something else.

But today I must do what I have to do today.

So I live my life twenty four hours full one

full one sleep, sleep full, eat, eat ful, do, do

work full, love, fool, forgive fool. When you have struggles,

sit at the feet of the Lord and let him

bring peace into that struggle. Things may not go our way.

And I want to say this to us, believe us

be loved of the Lord.

If we want to truly love.

God, Okay, hear me out, don't throw stones at me.

If we want to truly love God and trust him,

listen to the voice, my voice. We must stop insisting

that God explains himself to us until we are satisfied.

In our secret heart.

That's what we want. You tell me, Jesus, why there

is femine in the lend you No, I cannot believe you.

You tell me, Jesus, why why marriage to this? Come back?

Some we were saying dead.

If you don't answer me, I cannot believe.

You and I cannot trust you.

That's what we're saying. You tell me first, Jesus, why

I'm in this lend I want to migrate Love, tell

me firs before I will trust you. Believe us and

beloved of the Lord. If we truly want to love God,

if you truly want to trust Him, then we must

abandon this. Prove yourself to me. Because I realized as

I read this.

Statement, it's true.

That's what we're saying to God. Tell me before, I

trust you. And we demanded of God unknowingly at the back,

and that's why we get stuck and not growing, tell

me first, show me the money of us that I'll go.

But God doesn't work that way.

We trust him, we trust it.

If he said this is the way to go, we go.

If he said, forgive your mom, who has done this

to you, you don't say no, you prove it to

me first. Now why I should forgive her? You do

know what you're talking about. God's saying, would you trust me?

We must come to that place of abandonment, abandon ourselves

to love God for who he is? Can you imagine

I would say to the Lord and you would say,

can you love me for who I am? Right? I

see all these young lovers you know, Oh yo, he

loves me for who I am. He accepts me. How

about accepting God for who he is? Because he's God.

He's not your friend like from the Bronx. No, he's

gone and he chose to be your friend. He came

from heaven to earth. He came to walk as a

man to be our friend. To feel the pain that

we would go, the lag, the challenge, the temptation, everything.

Can we accept God as he is and stop putting

the challenge?

I know so many people say, explain to me these

Dad is there.

I'm not a deef. No, I want to those what's

that word collar apologetics? I don't apologize for Jesus.

He's Jesus, He's God.

Why should I apologize for him? You cannot accept him

too bad? Speak to him when you meet him in heaven.

Let's me like course, I'm simple minded, right. I cannot

talk big Wordsir. He can heal you in Jesus name

out you go, your unclean spirit done? But if you

cannot accept that, something I can do.

Oh.

I'm saying if in human sense you ask me, Master,

can you accept me as fam Yes? I do really

accept it? You are you tell your lover? Can you

accept me as I am? I'm so tall, six foot

three you are only five foot three? Okay, I accept you?

Can you accept me?

This? This is what I'm doing. This is my job

and you are CEO. I'm just oh our God, frand sisters.

Have we accepted God for who he is? He is God?

Full stop? If he wants to rain, his heaven is

crying so that the earth can have water to water

the plants. And then you say, lousy God, why you

make it rain? I have an appointment? You know my

dress now wet. Really, he's God. He wants to water

the earth.

Give water to the plants.

This is business. Why do we keep asking God to

explain himself? I think we do that all the time.

You and I are not ready to abandon ourselves and

accept that He will take care of us and that

his choices for us are perfect, and we have to

trust him. We have to crucify our rights and our

pride because we keep wanting to approve God first. But

if we are willing to surrender that and to recognize

that God alone is worthy of our praise, of our worship,

our glory belongs to him, never to us. That's how

you love God. When you give God back the glory.

You just you give him back the glory all the time.

That's how you love God. When you surrender and say

I don't understand Lord. I won't ask you why. I'll

just say thank you, Lord, teach me, lead me, show

me your ways, and teach me. Amen. You know I

counted a privilege to know God and to love him

and to serve him. Do you counted a privilege that

God knows your name? Sometimes you and I are so

star struck by the big time names. They don't even

know your name, but we like dressed up all dancree. Oh,

I don't know whatever names you Arena Billie Eilishua.

I went for a concert.

Like we we we think the whole deck wasn't hand

and get touched by the Pope. Sorry if you went

and I missed it, he wasn't sinkapore. But we seldom

come and say, Lord, the King of Kings, the Lord

above our Lord, the master of the universe, thank you.

I can shake your handy and I come under your

wing of protection. Thank you for just loving me with

all my nonsense, for giving me when I failed a

hundred times. Do we counted the privilege that were even

called a son of God, a daughter of God, that

he's my heavenly father. Do we wait to hold God's

hand and ask him to bless us? But he says

so many times we catch ourselves wanting recognition from someone else,

recognition and being thanked and appreciated, when we actually already

serve the most high God. What a privilege to know God?

To all believe us in the house or follow us

of Christ or disciples of Christ, if you choose to

be a disciple of Christ. What a privilege to love him,

What a privilege to serve God. What a joy. We

want all to touch everybody else, But do we touch God?

And He is made real to us through Christ Jesus,

Amen and all. I want to say those fine ways

that you can love God and experience his love for yourself.

He first loved us, He first gave his son for us.

He first reached out and called my name, that I

could reach and take hold of his hand to have

a new life. I am grateful. I don't always show

it to God. I don't always say thank you Jesus.

But I'm awakened within me to thirst after the Lord,

to thirst for him and to love him. By what

represents church. We are all looking people who have no faith.

Why do they like the Eastern religions? Because it's touch,

it's routine, it's put the jawstick, it's going home somewhere.

You know you want that. Yet God gives us the

freedom to come to him, and the only you know that.

He just says, come early morning, seek me, or at

night or in the afternoon, Come any time, but come

in reverence to our God, pay him revery and reverential love, honor,

and just awe loving him, and I feel we forget that.

So I'm bringing this as a voice from God's heart

to remind us. As much as you know how much

God loves you, you also have the opportunity to love God,

to serve him, to obey him, to make him your master.

I don't just call him lord, I call him master.

He's my master. I am the one who serves him.

And yet he doesn't call me servant. He calls me friend. Wow,

friend Wall, you won't call me friendly? Am I my

your friend? Or she dares say, ah, am I your friend?

I don't know, right, Am I your friend?

But God calls me friend Wall.

That's the privilege, Amen, That's the privilege. Time up and overrun, Hallelujah.

Fall in love with Jesus Church. We can fall in

love with any guy, girls or guys any girl, but

keep in mind you can fall in love with Jesus.

Privilege to be loved by him and to love him,

Privilege to serve him. Privilege to we call the child

of God just so privilege. Don't ever look down on

who you are as a child of God and what

impact you can make on this side of heaven doing

everything you can't make an impact whatever you're doing right

now in your marketplace, in your.

Family, in your church.

I tell you, on this side of heaven, because you're

a child of God and you love God, we can

make impact positively to encourage somebody else and to really

just love God and bring something from that loving Him

to bless somebody. Amen. And so I'm going to ask

us to stand, and as we close today, I don't

think anyone should have their hands hung down, but you

should be so lifted up to the Lord and say God,

I want to love you. And if you think you

still have time and you still want to mess around

with your life and hide and just do things, don't

want to account for it. I just want to speak

the truth. God is still knocking at the door of

your heart, both to believe us and if you're not

yet known Christ, He's still knocking at the door of

our hearts. Because God loves you with an eternal love,

and He accepts you as you are, more than anyone

on deserve. He accepts me more as I am than

my husband will ever accept me.

I tell you that your parents.

Will not accept you as you as much as God

God will accept you for who you are, because there

will always be expectations that I can never meet. Before man,

before you, I will never meet that expectation. I can

never meet the expectations of my mom. But God takes

me as I am. He takes you as you are,

how you feel, how you look, how you do life.

He takes you as you are. Would you take God

as he is? He is God who reigns over the

heavens and the earth. Yet he would come down to

you you. He knows your name, He knows your secrets,

whether it be the heart cry or whether it be

a sin. Please, Church, bring it before the Lord before

you don't have an opportunity to do it, do it now.

Do it in this ability to reflect, to give thanks

to God. Find your own faith if you haven't found

your faith because nobody is a Christian just by birth.

You are Christian because you follow Christ. And it's powerful

when you know Christ for yourself, not because of your

grandfather the Bishop. No, you you make Christ the Lord

the master. You can't serve two masters. You can only

serve one fellow, belivered of the Lord. If we lost

our first love, today's a great day to come home

to Jesus. He's our first love. You've been struggling with

different things, which you let it down and just look

to Jesus. Talk to him. Say Lord, teach me, how

teach me? Lord, show me your ways, because your ways

are higher, your thoughts are higher, and I want to

follow your way. Thank you Jesus. Come on, let's look

to Jesus this morning. Hallelujah. We're loving God. We just

want to love God. Amen, Hellelujah, Thank you Lord, Thank

you Jesus.

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