God is love | Pr Alvin Keng

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God is Love. God is Love. Okay, and we're gonna.

Do a bit of a Bible study, and I hope

you will follow me because the more I read about

this thing about God is Love, the more it makes

sense to me. I'm very very interesting. Okay, So turn

your bibles to first John chapter four, and we're going

to be reading the whole chapter, but I will start

with John Tree sixteen. How many of you don't know

John Tree sixteen? Raise up your hand, don't know John

Tree sixteen? If you believer, you should no, no, no, because

that's a cough of your faith, right John three sixteen?

What does it say? Let's recite it together, and I

think xd we have it. Yeah, okay, let's decide together.

For God so loved the world that he gave his

only Begoden son, so whoever believes in him should not

perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send

his son into the world to condemn the world, but

that the world true him might be safe.

Friends, I just.

Spoke to you about participation, and I only hear some

of you recite this in me?

Friends, can I encourage you?

Don't stay on the sidelines even with small things like

this because it starts small. I'm checking something here. I

hope you guys will follow me. You guys, okay?

Yeah? So God loved the world, right, that's why we're

celebrating Christmas, friends, Because God.

Loved the world. He gave his only son, Jesus to us.

Amen. Praise God. A lot of us here. We are

here because of that. If not, we won't be here.

Why why do we come?

Why do we There's no reason you think about it,

thinking about it, really, think about it.

Maybe someone ust care. Good reason.

Now you're related to each other, actually you think about it.

Even someone us here who are married, you will not

be married if you didn't meet each other in church, Coryan, Coraan.

Even if you say online day, think if you didn't

go coffee and bagel and put your prophet Christian, you

probably wouldn't mean that a person, cory On, think about it.

Think about it.

So if Jesus didn't know what he did, you probably

wouldn't get married to that person. And so you're probably saying,

thank God, no, I'm your king. Right, So Christ came

because God gave his son. That's why we started in Christmas. Okay,

and whoever that believes in him should not perish but

have everlasting life. It's a big deal to.

Us, right amen, you guys get the call of it. Okay.

So God loved the world. That's my focus today. God

loved the world that he gave his son. So let's

talk about God's love this morning, right in life with

the Christmas. If we're going to read First John chapter four,

First John chapter four, let me read and then we'll

do be a Bible study you guys, okay, bybele studies morning.

Okay.

I hope you will get something out of because when

I read this I really caught quite a lot. It

says here, belive it, do not believe every spirit, but

test the spirits whether they are from God, because many

false prophets have gone out into the world.

Okay. Wow, it starts with us being discerning. Okay.

You know, when when the Bible tells us something, we

got to take note of it, don't just ignore it.

You know, sometimes we like to focus on the nine

beautiful scripture, like God is Love, but.

We forget everything after that.

Or a lot of husbands here like to focus on

you know, husband, submit to your wife, but kind of

forget the part where you know what, because we have

to love their wife like Christ love the church. And

Christ gave his life for the church. That's like a

big call. No, it's very Hey, we okay, we were

convenient thing about the things that benefit us, but we

don't think about the other stuff.

Right.

No, we got to remember it asks us to do

not believe every spirit, but test the spirits whether they

are of God, because many false profits have gone out

into the world.

Did you realize or know that there are many false

profits in the world. Do you know? Do you know

that everything you read online is not true? Do you

know that.

Just because the person I don't know, I'm just gonna

throw some thought. You know, sometime we say judge by

the fruit, right, and then we see a person who's successful,

and then we think that when we follow the advice,

we will be successful. That's not entirely true or no,

because you might be talking to a false profit.

You get I mean, profit.

Doesn't always have to mean religious when it talks about information,

and we get online and the Bible here is asking

us to test the spirit.

How do you know it's true?

You tested lot, you buy a cleaning item, nowaday, I

buy cleaning items on shoppy and then we cheap man right,

and then you have to look at the review start

right or good review, good review? And then but you

realize a lot of reviews, right, they never tested on it.

They just put there a five star reading because they

want the coin so they can get cheaper. But they

didn't actually test it, although so many people bought it.

And then when you buy it and then you.

Test it and rest don't work, that's okay, the guy

made the money.

Really.

The Bible asks us to test and see, okay, test

the spirits, and he says in verse two, by this,

you know that the spirit of God, every spirit that

confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh and

is of God. The Bible is very clear, every spirit

that confesses that Jesus Christ is of flesh. You get

what is the significance of that note? Bible study, Go deeper,

Go deeper. Some people say Jesus is a good teacher.

Some people say Jesus is this guy that you know,

But what do you say Christ is? We believe that

Christ came to become men flesh. He's not just a deity.

Do you know that there are some people who believe

that Jesus didn't come men, and Jesus didn't really die. No,

we believe that he died because there is the significance

of redemption. So we have to believe that he died.

We have to believe that he came from flesh. We

have to believe that he was born of a virgin birth.

And all the doctors say it will be like, can

all be la? No, it's true. Think about it. Think

about it? What are we proclaiming? So it says the

Bible says, but you know, the spirit of God. Every

spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the

flesh is of God, clear cut. Bible doesn't means's word

maybe unsure, it's clear. Every spirit that confesses that Jesus

Christ is off the flesh is from God. Your cash

there not. So which spirit are you listening to?

Bible? Lah? And every spirit.

That does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in

the flesh is not of God. Just in case we

are confused, the Bible make it even clearer. And this

is the spirit of the Antiquechrist which you have heard

was coming and is now already in the world. I

remember Pastor met once shed a little bit about what's happening,

and he gave a very good example of the different

things that are happening in the world right now, the

different things that believing in the world right now, the

different things that we're living about love. They talk about

love and love. That's the argument out there, and you

know that the argument is about love. What is true love?

What is real love? Or you hate people? You know

that's not love. No, we are saying God is love.

So today we learn a little bit about what is

love to us as believer us, No, what the world

thinks is love, It has very clear for us, because

if not.

We are going to be believing in false prophets, and

then we'll be confused.

The question I have for you is you tested it

ready and on sony thing cannot test long, You can't

can case study on right.

Okay, let me try and bring it home. Okay.

I wanted to say, do you realize, going back to

a person mentioned that actually a lot of things out

there that is against your faith. It's not against your faith,

it's just against Jesus. Think about it. It is against Christ.

A lot of things we see it is against Christ.

We might not say it might not, but think about it.

Compare it. Use Christ as a yard sick and you

will notice that a lot of things, practice, a lot

of things said, a lot of things acceptable is outright

against Christ, against his teaching, against belief, against him as

a person. They will accept different things, but a lot

of things they won't accept. They can accept that he's

a good teacher, they can accept that a lot of things,

but they don't accept his God. They don't accept that

he died on the cross. Let's not be deceived. Friends.

You want to go deeper, are guys okay? So what

are you listening to outside? That's my question? And are

you reading your Bible? Let's read the Bible.

Let's make it very clear because if not, you are

going to be like a man.

The Bible says, toss true and fro. One minute is

one minute, that one minute agree is one minia. Agree that, friends,

be very careful what you read on the news. Discern

for yourself, Test for yourself and see. Because God has

a banner life.

Do you know that?

Do you know that if you reject all these things,

and you believe in him, you will have a banner life.

Why yet, why do someone suffer? What have we been

putting in our spirit? Have we putting the right thing

in our spirit? Because when we put the right thing

in our spirit, the right thing will come out. When

we put the wrong thing in our spirit, thing is right.

That's where all the pain, suffering, fear, all the nonsense comes.

I will go deeper into it. Okay, come, let's go deeper.

Are you guys? Okay?

You have got little children and have overcome them because

He who is in you is greater than he is

in who is in the world. Friends, this is a

This is a consolation for us because Jesus in you

accept that you have accepted Christ. Jesus You is greater

than whatever that is happening on right now. So the

testing should happen with Christ in you. Amen, you have

the power. Don't have to come to the bustel. I

know you can pray and ask God, God, is this

real or not?

God?

Leave me to the scripture. God, show me, Holy Spirit,

show me. Because he who is in you is greater.

Than he who is in the world. Do you believe it?

Do you believe it. They are of the world.

Therefore they speak as of the world, and the world

hears them. We are of God. He who knows God

hears us. He who is not of God does not

hear us. By this, we know the spirit of truth

and the spirit of error. The Bible is very clear

on discernments. You know the true friends, You know the truth.

If you're sure, means something's wrong, catch you or not?

Why?

Because Jesus in Yuma. Unless there's another spirit la, then

it's different. Readly, but if Christ is truly in you,

you will know. You will know when it feels weird

run we call that descentment. The only way you will

not know is because you've not been testing it. You've

been listening to a nonsense and you'll be accepting kind spirit.

Then you will get confused. Have you met people like

that before? I have tossed to and fro win blow

here go here, win blow there go there one minute,

this country one minute, that country one minute. This person

say this, one minute that person say this? Very dangerous?

Is Comperson right? The Bible's clear. We know the spirit

of truth and the spirit of error. Why, just by

knowing Christ, you know beloved, Let us love one another,

for love is of God. And everyone who loves is

born of God and knows God. Wow, that one scripture

is very heavy. We'll unpeculator. He who does not love

does not know God. For God is love. In this

the love of God was manifested towards us. That God

has sent his only begotten son into the world that

we might live through him.

In this is love.

Not that we love God, but that He loved us

and send his son to be the proprietation of our

sins for our sins, beloved.

If God so loved us, we also ought to love

one another. Okay, I'm gonna unpack it.

So the Bible says, first test the spirits if they

are from God. Ask us to check first write check

test the spirit.

So what should we do?

Be wise and practice wisdom? And the Bible says that

the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.

So let me ask you a question and think about it.

Are you afraid of God? The last time I preached,

I shed before. We are actually afraid of a lot

of things more than God. That's why we're willing to

do a lot of other things. But when it comes

to things of God, we are not afraid because God

loves us, Ma, so we're not afraid.

He understands Ma.

No, that's not wise, because the Bible says the beginning

of fear is the beginning of wisdom is the.

Fear of God. Do you fear God? I fear God.

I fear God.

I feel got so much. I won't do a lot

of things though, prettyicular walks. Why I won't even ask

my wife because I feel God.

She's not God.

There a lot of things I could do, but I

don't because I fear God. But a lot of times

we fear other things more. We fear our face, we

feel our pride, we feel a lot of other things.

That's not wisdom. We get into foolishness. No, the beginning

of wisdom and fear of God. Friends, So we've got

to test the spirit. We got to know how to

be wise.

Right.

That's why sometimes people get in trouble because you don't

fear God, and.

Then we start blaming a lot of other things.

First point, be wise, friends, Tell a neighbor, be wise,

tell other neighbor.

Can you be afraid of God a little bit or not?

Just a little bit? Someonere scared of a mother's model.

We scared God, you know it's true. Check our hands.

The Bible says, every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ

has come in the flesh is of God, and vice versa.

So how do you check the spirit? Use this as

your sick sling? So low told no, check it. Don't

believe every fact? Check it, bib shready, use this as

your sick, Use Christ as your your sick?

Should I do? Should I not do? What would Jesus say?

That's like we have a band. What would Jesus do?

Check it?

Then you will know whether you will get in trouble

or not? Right, and the ever gives us assurance. You

are of God, little children? Why did the Bible say

to the children, because we are lidulet children? We are

we are small kids. We don't know right. I've got

a you all and tell you all. They don't know.

I know more than them, but I know less than

another person. I'm like a kid when it comes to

someone who knows more than me. To God, I'm like

a kid. So I have to be we here full.

I cannot have the pride thinking that I know everything

in my life right. But we are of God because

Christ withed ness is greater than he.

Who is in the world.

Do you believe that or do we believe that other

things are greater? You know, if you believe that Christ

in you is greater, your prayers will be different. Correct

your prayers we were different? Now if you really believe it.

Who is he in the world?

The question, because we say Christ is he who is

greater in the will? Who is he in the world?

Can I use this word influence? We talk about antique Christ? Right,

anything that is against Christ Christ. I'm not just saying

Church Christ. Anything that is against Christ is in the world.

Is your friend against Christ? Is your parents against Christ?

Are you against Christ? Automatically in the world. We got

to get out of the world. Right, So the Bible

teaches us how to discern what you're going so deep

and we're talking about love. Yes, you're talking about love

because we got to discern love. Now, something so simple,

something always love. We don't understand. And it ends with this,

how do we know?

Well?

It says loving one another is a sign of knowing

God because God is love.

It's so profound, this scripture. Do you love one another?

We love on another?

Is this just an organization, a religious organization that we

take attendance on a Sunday because the CPC or US homesteader.

Where is your homies? Why they're not here? Or do

we love for another? You'll understand why this love for

another is not? Let's go people, Okay, first John for it.

He who does not love does not know God. For

God is love. If I, as the church from cordinator,

am more concerned about the attendance of the church and

don't really care for my people that don't love your

because as long as you meet the requirement, then okay,

I did my job.

But what is love?

First contains the team that's love will study it. So

first start that I want your us to catch God

is love something we cannot dispute, something we accept. God

is love, Okay, but it's not something he does. It's

his fundamental being. He is love, right, That's what the

Bible says, and the Bible also says, you cannot truly

know God if you don't love. How many of you

hear love before love only one or two people. The

rest of you don't love anyone in there?

Come on, come on, let's get some might say participation.

Can you participate please. Right. If you're married here, I

hope you will love the person next to you. Right right.

You can't truly know God if you don't love, as

love is the defining characteristic of his nature. You know,

we all define love as a feeling inside a warm,

fuzzy feeling. Right. Another statement is, since God first loved

us by sending Jesus, believers are also called to love

one another as a reflection of God's presence in them.

Is that correct?

Because God loves us by sending Christ to us, we

are called to love one another as a reflection of

God's presence in them. Okay, come, let's go on. Course,

we're doing by, we'll study, right. I hope you guys

don't fall say on me. You guys say okay, yeah,

first John four twelve, Let's go on. No one has

seen God at any time? Have you all seen God?

No one I have seen God. If we love one another,

God abides in us, and his love has been perfected

in us. By this, we know that we are abide

in Him and he in us, because He has given

us his spirit, and we have seen and testified that

the Father has sent his son as savior of the world.

Whoever confesses that Jesus is the son of God, God

abides in him and he in God, and we have

known and believed him, believe the love that God has

for us.

God is love, and he who abides in love abides

in God and God in him.

Okay, going to explain this tongue twister, Well, it's not

very heart, it's just an expounding of what we're read

just now that God abides in earth and his love

has been perfected in us. So how can you love people?

Because Christ is in your heart? That's how you can

love true what Christ Jesus. So if you cannot love, wow,

this is going to be a strong and Christ is

not in you yet. Okay, I have to define love

later before you agree here because I know something was

thinking about the era's love or the filial love. No,

the Bible is talking about the agape love. The first

corinthens that in love, how do you love someone unconditionally?

Think about it? A lot of us we love conditionally?

Why you like her cause she pretty? It's conditional?

And then why so us? When I grow fed? Will

you still love me? And husbands?

The right answer is yes. The right answer is no,

you can exercise. What that's not the right answer. He

who abides in love. So see we say that God

is love and He abides in love. Right, so he

is the definition of love. Right, He who abides in

love abides in God. So if we abid in love,

we abiding God because God is love and God abides

in him. So the only way we know where God

is with us. It is not the goosebumps we feel.

It's not the old worship Lord worship you know, yes,

all these things are good by it's love. It's the action,

it's the mindset, is the heart, right Okay, Now let's

go into the definition of love the way the Bible

defines it first quarantains their teen verse one to thirteen.

Let us understand and fully, what is love? What is

this love you're talking about? What is this love that

when we accept Christ we have it? What is this

love that when we practice it, you know, we abide

in God and God abides in us, and we are

able to do it because God is in us. What

love are you talking about? Usselving what love is the

Bible talking about? Let's read first contents the team. I'm

so sorry this is not wedding. We love these in weddings.

We love, But I wonder whether we fully understand the

depth of this love. It's says, hey, do I speak

with tongues of men and of angels, but I have

not love? I become sounding brass or a clean symbol.

We can all agree with this. Well, so poetic? You

got no love in your life? Oh it's poiless, it's meaningless.

And do I have the gift of prophecy and understand

all mysteries and all knowledge? And do I have all

faith so that I could remove mountains? W Hight I

not love? I'm not saying, yeah, you know you can prophesy,

you can heal the sick, but you don't love anybody.

It is no point.

So Biber saying, right, let's go the power, and do

I be store all my goods to feed the poor?

And do I give my body to be burned and

have not love? It profits me nothing Until you sacrifice

your life, you get, but you don't love, don't mean anything.

It's getting serious. Now.

See when the Bible says things I didn't means you

can actually do it? Or no, you can actually burn

your body out of anger, give your your goods to

the poor.

Looks good right in the external right, but you have

no love.

You can actually be very annointed, most anointed person in

this world and help everybody and give to everybody and know,

but you've got no love in your life?

Can one?

It's possible. So the Bible is saying love suffers long

and is kind. Love does not envy. How many of

your wives have you been? Jealous?

Husbands? Jealous? Your couple? You're jealous? Love does not envy?

Do you really love the person? Love does not parade

yourself while.

Look at my trophy, wife, Look at how many people

love me? So many people love me. It's not pathed up,

does not behave rudely, does not speak its own, it's

not provoked things.

No evil? Why cannot think it? Man?

How can she do that to me? I know she

don't like my socks on the floor, but can she

burned my favorite socks? Do you really love each other if.

You do things like that? We love this scripture in

weddings now, but do we fully get it? There? Does

not rejoice in.

Iniquity Sila cela after diversity, Sila sila yella yea you sufferer,

but rejoices in truth bears all things, believes all things,

hopes all things, end us all things, and all the

ladies here say, Lord, please send me a guy like that.

He bears all things, he believes everything I say. He

has so much hope in his life, and he endors

all things. Jesus he did that one you need Jesus.

Love never fails. This is why we don't believe in divorce,

because love never fails. Your catch that or not, I

will say, you know, love never fails. But whether they

are prophecies, they will fail. Whether they are tongues, they

will cease. Whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away.

For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.

But that which is perfect has come, and that which

is in part will be done away. When I was

a child, as focus as a child, understood as a child,

I thought as a child. But when I became a man,

I put away childish things. For now we see in

a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I

know in part, but then I shall know just as

I also am known. And now by faith hope love

these three. But the greatest of this is love. Okay,

don't you think so? I use corangenstatin now we always

see it as like a eros love scripture, right, but

didn't whatever I just read just now in Congens the

sound like God. Because if we say that God is

love and we read first Congenes the ten, didn't we

just read about God? Let me change a I know

someone did this before they put the guy named there.

I'm like, well, very hot one, if we really truly

understand the truth, But let me change. Though I speak

with tongues of men and angels, but have not God,

I have become sounding brass or claiming symbol. And though

I have the gift of prophecy and understand all mysteries

and all knowledge, and though I have all faith so

that I could remove mountains, but have not God, I

am nothing. And though I be so all my goods

to feed the poor, and do I give my body

to be burnt, but have not God. It profits me.

Nothing brings more meaning to the scripture. God suffers long

e is that true? And it's kind? It's got kind

to you. God does not envy, He want to envy

you for what God does not parate itself. God is

not path that God does not behavior, really does not

speak its own. God is not provoked and God thinks

no evil.

Is that true?

Think about it, friends, You're going deeper. God does not

irrigal inequity. Ah, yeah, I see Evans suffering again. God

is having a party in heaven. But God rejoices in truth.

God bears all things, He believes all things, he hopes

all things, He endures all things. Don't you think God

is enduring your disobedience? Don't you think God is enduring

men's evil? If you cannot hundred you know, but now

he got Christ. He's like, guys, I'm gonna give you

one chance. God never fails. Amen, God ever fails. But

whether their prophecies they will fail, whether they are they

will seize, whether there is knowledge, it will all vanish away.

Friends, do you like this love? I like this love?

Do you like it? Can you express it?

Because if we are of God and God is love,

then we should also love on another. Do you see

the love on another as a different perspective now or not?

It's not just an emotional thing in all, friends, Yes,

your heart was broken, Yes things happened, but that was

not true love. It was just emotions. Friends, you want

to know true love? They all say, true love is

like my father giving me pockup money, even though he's

never said I love you. True love is when my mom,

my mom in law, comes to my house right now

to take care of my kids. You're no true love.

She helps us fall our clothes, she doesn't need to.

She loves us as she does it. What's true love?

She didn't ask for anything, and me and my wife thinking, hey, mom,

travel a lot, la, maybe you should help a little

bit with the bills.

What's true love? Friends? God is love? What are we

looking looking for? Friends? What are you looking for?

What am I looking for? What have we all been

looking for? Let's carry on? First John four seventeen nineteen.

First John four seventeen nineteen. Are you guys okay? Love

has been perfected among us in this way? Okay, Let's

learn from the Bible that we may have bondness in

the day of judgment because as he is, so are

we in this world. There is no fear in love,

but perfect love casts out all fear because fear involves torment.

But he who fears has not been made perfect in love.

We love him because he first loved us.

Amen. And he says if someone says I love God

and hates his brother, he's a liar.

For he who does not love his brother whom he

has seen, how can he love God whom he has

not seen? And this commandment we have from him, that

he who loves God must love his brother. Also, let

me unpack this a little bit with us. Why has

love been perfected with us? Why is so this love

so important well so that we can have boness in

the day of judgment. Let me ask us this question.

When is the day of judgment? When we all when

jeers come back, there's the judgment, say of Christ? How

is the significans love?

Say? I thought?

Love is all about emotion, and we love each other,

we care for each other. It's all about we being

nice to each other. No, because when you have love

in your life, see I remember, for God so love

the world. He gave his only big godon son right.

Whoever received him will have eternal life. So the love

that we're talking about is not just the emotional love. No,

it is a plan of God for us. No, he

cares not so much. Think about it. When you stand

at the judgment seat and you're looking at the judge

and you know the judge loves you.

Are you going to be afraid. You're not going to

be afraid, are you catching that? Not?

If you know the judge loves you and you met

all this messed up, all these things are You're not

gonna be afraid. You're not gonna be afraid of the

judgment seat anymore already because you know the judge loves you.

The only question is do you love the judge. That's

the kicker. The judge loves you, it is you shouldn't

be afraid. But you will only be afraid if you

didn't love the judge back. You will only be afraid

if you don't know who the judge is. You only

be afraid. But perfect love casts out all fear. Do

you know that this also applies in our daily lives.

That's how when someone comes to me and say, I've

been praying Passe Alvin for this thing by fear, I say,

please don't do it, because if God loves you and

he wants you to do it, he will give you peace,

not fear, because fear is never from the Lord.

Because we just read incorring this The thing God is love?

What is God?

Long suffering? Friends? He bests all things, all those things

want you to do good. But when we're here, we

do a lot of funny stuff. We get involved in love,

funny stuff, and then we consult him Lord, how should

I do this? It looks good God, but I fear

in my heart. Then don't do it. No, Peace, don't

do it, but still choose, still do because I want

that thing. Then you get in trouble. How then you

get further away from Gadla. Then you get further away

from Gadla. That's what happens. So perfect love casts out

off here. There's something I check in my heart. God,

Why am I feeling afraid? Something is wrong? Because fear

is not from you. And just because I cannect with

this perspective, this fear emotion, right like I said, you

should only fear Godlah, Okay, okay, you should only fear God.

But this fear emotion in our life, right when we

have it, we really got to check it. Because the

wonderful thing about perfect love is that when you have

God in your life, when you know your God and

you know that he who is in the world is greater,

and he who no matter where your place, friends, you

will not be afraid even though you might be staring

at Pharaoh's armire and behind you is like you know

the race is from your pharaohs.

You're not gonna be afraid. This is why, friends Christians,

you might be.

Stuck in a difficult place, you still have God's peace

in your heart because It's love is with you, because

you are confident at the pathway that He has set

for you.

Because you're confident with God.

Not with the circumstance, not with your bank account, not

with everything, but you're confident with God.

Your catch there not. So where should your faith lie

in God?

Where should your love lie in God? Perfect love cuts

out all fear. He who has fears has not been

made perfect in love. I would just wrecked. I would

just say it this way. If you say her fear

in your life, you haven't fully trust Jesus yet. If

you're still afrair about something, you haven't given up that

part of your life to God yet.

Do you ever fully trusted Him yet? Let me use my.

Relationship my wife. I fully trust my wife, fully trust.

She can go out with anybody, go out with anyone,

go anywhere. I fully trust her. She can take my keys,

she has my she knows the access to my phone.

She can't have access to my bad accounts. I fully

trust her because I love her and I know she

means no harm to me. That's love. But you know

what the world teaches you. Hey, guys, don't let the

girl know your phone number or your log cote right,

and then women, you must you want to find out

or test his loyalty, take the phone when he's sleeping,

scan his face, and then check his messages.

That's what the world is just you. Is that love?

No believe this, ding friends, I'm not saying you allah.

Don't you see a direct correlation with antiq Christ? I

guess catching something and not. When I learned this, I'm like, wow, lord,

this is like mind blowing. You know, are you acting

on fear or are you acting on love? Friends with

one another? Well, another way to say is are you

acting on fear? Are you acting on faith?

The faith knowing that Christ has died for your since

and that you are redeemed. It's not live service nor

our faith. It cannot be.

We spend too much time and effort and were soon

and you know, wake up early and come and you know,

I don't know. It can't just believe serving his friends.

It has to be something more, Amen, let's bring it home.

Okay. First, John says, he who does not love his brother,

who he has seen, does.

Not love God. It's a very strong statement. But I

think the more I think about this way, it's very

true statement. If we're here and we don't love on another, friends,

how are we going to say?

We love God? Very hard? Very hard? You know? And

he who loves God must love his brother also? Wow?

So I must love my brother or my sister whoever

you mean. I must love the person that hurt me. Yes,

you can love, doesn't mean you must trustfer two different things.

God say practices them. He didn't say, be foolish?

Right? On which tender? Do we said it? Right?

Can I give us something else that would bring everything together? Matthew,

Chapter twenty two, verse fifty seven. First, for anything wrong

with Day thirty seven to forty says Jesus said to him,

you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart,

with all your soul, with all your mind sounds good.

This is the first and great commandment, and the second

is like it. You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

You shall love your brother as yourself. On these two

commandments hang all the Lord and the prophets one full circle.

God is love. What does he require of us? What

has he given us? How should you respond? Are we

still being perfected? I'm not saying just because you're fear

in your life you're horrible? No, no, no, no, you

are still being perfected. Then you've got to trust God more.

Then you've got to grow in your faith more. And

you got to grow in your love more. Then you

got to understand. See, if you fully understand this kind

of love, you will have an awesome marriage. If you

fully understand this can't of love, you have an awesome

family in life.

Friends.

Is true because God is in you. No, you're not

doing this alone. No, but it's still your choice. You

still have the choice. The door is open, the invitation

is open.

But what is your choice?

God even give us a commandment because you know we

will stray away?

Right?

Can I just drop one more last took process to you.

You look at the world today, The world is all

about me and myself, and I look, just go ahead,

read lie, I go back to the spirits part. You know,

discern the spirit, but you look at the Bible. The

Bible never once asks you right to love yourself more?

Ask you to love God more and love people. Well,

you know why, because that's fulfillment in life. That's how

you become fruitful when you love other people. I still

remember when I was a young person and I was

going through my own problems. You know, when you're teen

and then you're thinking a lot of things about I

mean a lot of us, things about yourself, like, okay,

even right now, everybody's thinking about yourself. Okay, right, So

when natural is human thing, God knows right, the way

out for us are is to stop thinking about yourself

and just start caring, caring about other people. Because when

that happens, this happened. When it happens, we understand who

God is. We understand God's heart because he's the one

I love others. He's the one that cares for others.

And yes, when we are younger, we don't understand we

are children, but friends. When we grow up, when we

are more mature, you make difficult decisions parents, You understand

what I mean. You make difficult decisions for yourself. You

rather spend on your kids are frivolous things are more

than yourself. When they want to buy something very easy,

half fifty has no problem, you know, one, it is

no problem because I never had it when I was young,

you know, in that kind of perspective. But that's I mean,

that's part true. I think the other part, Troy, is

because you love them and then you'd rather cook may

give me an eat yourself and you're fine with it.

Isn't that love? Isn't that a love that best all things?

Aren't you portraying something that God is portraying when he

looks at us as his children. We understand all these things.

But when you're younger, you're self exhorbted. Then you have

to learn all these things. Right, Okay, how am I

gonna end? Friends? I've got an imitation for us, and

I hope that we can participate. Can we come to Christ?

Can we understand that God is love? And actually what

we need to do is not really hard. We just

need to love one another. Here this is the testing girl,

and it's easier because every do you understand no love?

When here first sad and then see how it can

go beyond because you start thinking about other people, You

start thinking about other things, you know, you start doing

stuff for people, You start being kind to people, kind

kind you know, Yes, are there things that we have

to set are there stuff we have to do, But

you start thinking of others. I came here this morning

and the place was a little bit in the mess,

can't I mean, I was a little bit upset. And

of course I can just complain to the management and

and wait for them to do something. But this God's house,

and I'm concerned about the kids because you know they're

gonna roll around the floor and I don't know whether

they or not.

I'm mop la. I went and fine for the mob.

I cannot singing ohaa do I mob? Do I get

the why? Go through going by where?

Why? And wipe the thing so that it's a little

bit clean? Am I doing that just because I'm a pastor?

Am I doing that just because?

Friends?

I can be not past but I can still do

it your honor because I care for the children.

I'm concerned. I'm thinking beyond.

See, if you love someone, you love people, you would

think beyond your own convenience. It was not convenient, but

you would think beyond your own convenience. You put yourself

out there because you love people.

It's the action.

No, sometimes we think that it's just the smiles, And

I mean, yeah, I can no, Sola, I'm not the

most smiley person. I mean, you know, I won't remember

your birthdays easily. It's the way I love Fla right,

So how do we love one another in this space?

Are we thinking for one another? Or are we selling

fish that Jesus say I will make you fishes of men?

Stop selling fish, start selling Jesus.

Well.

I pray that you will catch something from this. I

don't know, and I know it's quite it's quite deep.

It's simple, but it's quite deep. I think if you

will remember everything, just remember that God is love and

you just need to come to him and we just

need to follow his word.

And we have discernment.

Twenty six. How is that you're going to be for us?

Are we still just going to think about ourselves? Are

we going to participate in life? Are we going to

think about others? A we're going to care for others?

Are we're going to do things differently? Are we going

to introduce Christ to people? How it's going to look like?

I don't know.

Only God knows. Only you know, because it is up

to us to do something about it. It is up

to us whether we want to partner with God.

And I tell you.

The moment you do, it's going to be very exciting

because God will lead you in places where you will

never imagine. God will put you in places because you're

no longer saying Lord, I don't want to be a

sideline observer anymore.

I want to participate. I want you to use me. Lord.

I take a lot of testimonies that I've experienced in

my life dealing with people.

It is just so it's just so crazy how God

accoustraights things.

And going back to my first point where if Jesus

didn't know what he did, we wouldn't be here. If

Christ didn't know what he did, I wouldn't be here.

If Christ didn't know what he did, I wouldn't be

married to my beautiful wife. I wouldn't have my kids.

Let's bring some of these things to context. Sometimes we

can be so selfish that we well, we don't think

about things like this. One of the things that I

try to do now is I try to appreciate people more.

Comes doesn't come naturally for me, but I try to.

I try to think of saying things to people now

before we die. Lah, because after that I did no

point of day. Okay, so maybe you can start that.

I don't know, how can you love another person? It

doesn't have to be here, it can be outside. But

how can you love?

Because God is love, He loves us, and we need

to love one another a man.

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