[SPEAKER_01]: But you might be asking yourself, question, why is the pastor wearing five ties?
[SPEAKER_01]: Well I'm wearing five ties because I didn't know which one to wear.
[SPEAKER_01]: But no actually, I'm wearing five ties.
[SPEAKER_01]: It'll go into the sermon, which you'll see here before too long.
[SPEAKER_01]: John chapter 3 verse 16 says, For God's so love the world that He gave is only begotten son, that whosoever believes in
[SPEAKER_01]: but have everlasting life.
[SPEAKER_01]: You may be seated.
[SPEAKER_01]: God's love is so big.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's hard to fathom.
[SPEAKER_01]: It really is.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's so so big.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's so big that we only know how it is how big it could possibly be through a song that I was taught.
[SPEAKER_01]: when I was a little boy.
[SPEAKER_01]: I was taught a song about how big God's love is.
[SPEAKER_01]: I've taught this song before Sunday School every Sunday morning, what we call the kids opening.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I want to teach you to it.
[SPEAKER_01]: It goes like this.
[SPEAKER_01]: You can sing it with me when you catch on.
[SPEAKER_00]: But it goes like this.
[SPEAKER_00]: God's love is so big, it's so big, it's so big.
[SPEAKER_00]: God's love is so big.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's so big, it's so big, God's love is so big, it's so big, it's so big, God's love is so big, but man's love is so small, it's so small, it's so small, man's love is so small.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's so small.
[SPEAKER_00]: Man's love of it's so small.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's so small.
[SPEAKER_00]: Soon it will fade away.
[SPEAKER_00]: But God's love of it's so big.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's so big.
[SPEAKER_00]: God's love of it's so big.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's so big.
[SPEAKER_00]: God's love, it's so big, it's so big, it's so big.
[SPEAKER_00]: God's love, it's so big, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey
[SPEAKER_00]: And no, not that it's so big with this, it's God's love.
[SPEAKER_00]: And let's talk about God's love.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's first of all talk about love all together.
[SPEAKER_01]: And every year I go through the types of love and I'll quickly mention, there are many types of love.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's storage love, stores love, it's family love, parental love, and this is one of the main types of love.
[SPEAKER_01]: And what do I mean by that?
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, there are seven types of love that we talk about.
[SPEAKER_01]: These are taught in the Greek language.
[SPEAKER_01]: Back in the day, there are seven types.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's the three types that we've talked a little bit about last year.
[SPEAKER_01]: But there are four main types of love.
[SPEAKER_01]: And the first one that we'll talk about, storage love.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now what do I mean by main type of love?
[SPEAKER_01]: Main type of love means that we share with others every day.
[SPEAKER_01]: And that's the parental family love, even when you're not a parent, you have stories love for people.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then you also have Faleola, now Faleola was also a main type of love.
[SPEAKER_01]: Some people say, get that confused with stories love, and I know what they used to.
[SPEAKER_01]: But Faleola means friendly love.
[SPEAKER_01]: That means friendly, affectionate, funness.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's the kind of love you youngsters have for your friends at school.
[SPEAKER_01]: You love them all.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then there's ludus love.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now ludus love isn't what your main loves, but it can't connect with the next big love.
[SPEAKER_01]: And ludus love's called Claythew Love.
[SPEAKER_01]: Butterfly affection, crushes.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now I don't wanna bear us in youngsters, but I wanna bear us all of us here in the moment.
[SPEAKER_01]: We've all had crushes.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, young ladies at one time was watching The Fonds on TV.
[SPEAKER_01]: And you may have had a crush on him or maybe you more or less like Richie Dunham, or maybe you guys like so I see you guys are giggling now.
[SPEAKER_01]: You guys, maybe I'm jumping the shark here.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know, but you guys are, you guys are no one different people you saw on TV.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, I like, I didn't like them, Phil.
[SPEAKER_01]: I didn't like the past, or I like Ricky Nelson.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, whoever it was, whoever it was, that's you like, everybody's had those little, those types of lotus loves.
[SPEAKER_00]: They really did.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, everybody sees someone and go, woohoo!
[SPEAKER_01]: But that's just how that goes.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's Judas love.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then there's number four, which is also a main type of love.
[SPEAKER_01]: Aero's love.
[SPEAKER_01]: I've mentioned it before.
[SPEAKER_01]: I talk about this every time I do wedding.
[SPEAKER_01]: Aero's love is romantic love.
[SPEAKER_01]: Passion it love.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's the main type of love.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is the kind of love.
[SPEAKER_01]: Why is it called Aero's?
[SPEAKER_01]: Aero's was the name of the Greek god.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now it's not a real guy.
[SPEAKER_01]: We know that, but it was a Greek guy called Eros.
[SPEAKER_01]: When Rome took on this big God, they changed his name to cute bit.
[SPEAKER_01]: Eros, he shoot arrows, it would go to the heart, you know, make you call a love.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's what it meant.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then there is another love and this is one of the three that's not one of the main types is called pragma love what's pragma love pragma means it's a mixture of storage love and for the love and that means are for the old excuse me and that means enduring love it means more than romance that's what it means how like a fam something you love so much or almost like part of you and then there's for lucha love this is not one of the main types of love but it's very important.
[SPEAKER_01]: Pollute you love means self respect.
[SPEAKER_01]: It means to have love of the passion for yourself.
[SPEAKER_01]: Some people have too much of that in nowadays and it becomes narcissism.
[SPEAKER_01]: But some people maybe like me, they'll have any self respect.
[SPEAKER_01]: And they have to learn to have pollute you love because of God loves you enough to die for you.
[SPEAKER_01]: And you need to learn to have some self respect and have that type of pollute you love amen.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then there's the last time.
[SPEAKER_01]: And this is the most important.
[SPEAKER_01]: And that's a topic.
[SPEAKER_01]: A lot of people will miss understand what a Goppy love means.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is the main love.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'd say it's the deep main love.
[SPEAKER_01]: Only a Christian can have it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, if you listen to the world, I'd say, everybody's got a Goppy love.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's love for everybody, but they don't understand.
[SPEAKER_01]: A Goppy love really isn't the love for everybody.
[SPEAKER_01]: It is God's love for everybody.
[SPEAKER_01]: Only a Christian can have it, because it's not even you who feels it.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's the love of God through you, everyone.
[SPEAKER_01]: You feel a Holy Spirit feeling it through you.
[SPEAKER_01]: on our own, you can't feel that well.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so you may ask the question, why I'm wearing so many ties today?
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, let me tell you, it's to represent all the types of love.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's why there's five ties.
[SPEAKER_01]: But we're gonna remove them all.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're gonna remove this one, which will represent the stores love and filial love.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is the one that has all these different loony tunes being friendly and weird.
[SPEAKER_01]: We'll remove them.
[SPEAKER_01]: That one goes back there.
[SPEAKER_01]: Then we have this one here.
[SPEAKER_01]: I've got to make sure it's the next one.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, this one here.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is definitely aero slow and ludic slow.
[SPEAKER_01]: And why?
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, we know why.
[SPEAKER_01]: We know why because it's Peppy LePue, a monami.
[SPEAKER_01]: We know he has no intention of being a friend.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, he does not.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then along with that, we have this one, which is more of the pragma, pragma love.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it should be flutgy of love too.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is Winnie the Pooh.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's got this loving heart for everybody and everything.
[SPEAKER_01]: We have one more.
[SPEAKER_01]: This one represents the yesterday's day, Valentine.
[SPEAKER_01]: But this can represent all the type of loves together.
[SPEAKER_01]: Except for one, the last and the final one that the sermon is about.
[SPEAKER_01]: And that is agape, y'all's a little.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is the important one.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is the one.
[SPEAKER_01]: that represents the only kind of love that you can feel as a Christian.
[SPEAKER_01]: Nobody can understand it except for you because this is the love of Christ that comes through you towards everyone else.
[SPEAKER_01]: And this is very important, very important, and why is important?
[SPEAKER_01]: because you live in a world that doesn't always love you, or understand you, in fact it will hate you.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it's really not you that it hates.
[SPEAKER_01]: It hates Christ who lives within you.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it's important to understand this that you have to love them anyway.
[SPEAKER_01]: And why?
[SPEAKER_01]: Because you have to feel the love of God.
[SPEAKER_01]: God's love.
[SPEAKER_01]: And even when you don't like those people and you won't sometimes, you still have to love them.
[SPEAKER_01]: You have to love God's love.
[SPEAKER_01]: And let's talk about God's love.
[SPEAKER_01]: First of all, there's gonna be a lot of scriptures today.
[SPEAKER_01]: I apologize, but it's the way it is.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, amortation's chapter three, verse 22.
[SPEAKER_01]: It says this, because of the Lord's great love, we are not consumed for his compassion's never failed.
[SPEAKER_01]: He loves us, he loves us.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is written way back, way.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is written by Jeremiah.
[SPEAKER_01]: He knows the love of God.
[SPEAKER_01]: In fact, we'll go back to him here in a moment.
[SPEAKER_01]: But the next one we're going to read is Psalm 103 verse 8.
[SPEAKER_01]: I have to go a little faster today in order to get through Mark and keep you from being here till 23 in the afternoon.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm joking.
[SPEAKER_01]: But Psalm 103 verse 8 says this.
[SPEAKER_01]: Psalm 103 verse eight says, the Lord is compassionate and merciful.
[SPEAKER_01]: That means loving.
[SPEAKER_01]: And merciful, He is patient and demonstrates great loyal love.
[SPEAKER_01]: A lot of people don't understand.
[SPEAKER_01]: They'll say, if He really loved us, He with this and this and this, first of all, don't put God in the box.
[SPEAKER_01]: Don't say, if God really loves me, He'll do this and this and this.
[SPEAKER_01]: I have seen and known relationships where people say, if you really love me, you'll do this and this and
[SPEAKER_01]: That's not real love.
[SPEAKER_01]: If you're trying to measure someone by your own understanding, that's not love, that is trying to enslave somebody to do what you want them to do.
[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe we've all been in that situation, I don't know.
[SPEAKER_01]: But I know one thing, we try to enslave God, we're in trouble because we try to get God to live up to our expectations instead of us to be up to His.
[SPEAKER_01]: And that's a problem.
[SPEAKER_01]: And God or He knows you can't live up to His measurement, but He knows that He lives up to His measurement within us.
[SPEAKER_01]: Is that understandable?
[SPEAKER_01]: I think it is.
[SPEAKER_01]: Then let's now look at love.
[SPEAKER_01]: Love, this version of love, this understandable love, this scripture love, first Corinthians chapter 13, turn to it, first Corinthians chapter 13, first fourth through 13, this is used at most weddings.
[SPEAKER_01]: And most people look at this, I think it's talking about romantic love, and that's fine.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's fine that they look at it like that if they want to.
[SPEAKER_01]: But in reality, it's not.
[SPEAKER_01]: If they was to read chapter 12 and then chapter 14, they would understand that really, let's talk about Goppy love.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let's talk about the love of the Lord God.
[SPEAKER_01]: So turn with me and we'll read that.
[SPEAKER_01]: I haven't marked a course because I go to it so often.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it says this, verse 4 through 13,
[SPEAKER_01]: Love suffers long and is kind.
[SPEAKER_01]: Love in these not.
[SPEAKER_01]: Love flaunts not itself.
[SPEAKER_01]: It has not puffed up.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's not behavior itself improperly.
[SPEAKER_01]: Seats not its own is not easily provoked.
[SPEAKER_01]: Thanks no evil for a joyous is not an iniquity, but for joyous is in the truth.
[SPEAKER_01]: Bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things and in doers all things.
[SPEAKER_01]: This verse eight now love never fails, but if there are prophecies, they shall fail.
[SPEAKER_01]: If there are tongues, they shall cease and if there is knowledge, it shall vanish.
[SPEAKER_01]: For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when that which is perfect comes, then that which is imperfect shall pass away.
[SPEAKER_01]: When I was a child, I spoke as a child.
[SPEAKER_01]: I understood as a child, and I thought as a child.
[SPEAKER_01]: But when I became a man, I put away child of things.
[SPEAKER_01]: For now, we see as through a glass dimly, but then face the face.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now I know in part, but then I shall know, even as I am, excuse me, even as I also am known.
[SPEAKER_01]: Verse 13, so now abide faith, hope, and love.
[SPEAKER_01]: These three, but the greatest of these is love.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is Tom and Agapella.
[SPEAKER_01]: God's love, because it's so big, it's so big.
[SPEAKER_01]: This doesn't mean that you should have romantic love and a marriage of course, but you should have God's love, as I always say, in every wedding I do, because God's love, what I'll do, all the others.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it will.
[SPEAKER_01]: If you have God's love, because here's the truth, all the other loves are wonderful, because there's gonna be a time that you're not always gonna like the person you're married to.
[SPEAKER_01]: You don't have to say amen, but we know it's true.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's gonna be times to get frustrated, because your spouse isn't perfect or wasn't perfect.
[SPEAKER_01]: One thing about when they pass, we sometimes only remember that good.
[SPEAKER_01]: And that's good, I don't mind that.
[SPEAKER_01]: But let's not only focus on the good, let's not only focus on the bad or the ugly.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let's remember that God loved them, despite the ugly.
[SPEAKER_01]: And so do we.
[SPEAKER_01]: We look past that and you know what's really great?
[SPEAKER_01]: We're not perfect either.
[SPEAKER_01]: and God loves us and so did your spouse.
[SPEAKER_01]: Despite the fact that we're not perfect, God loves us and so did they.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's the thing we got to remember.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's how great God is.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's truly loves us, no matter what.
[SPEAKER_01]: No matter what, why he came because he was on a one this purpose, but the only one it is.
[SPEAKER_01]: Jeremiah 31-3.
[SPEAKER_01]: I want you to remember this, the Lord speaking to Israel, to his people, and through Jeremiah, the Lord has appeared to him
[SPEAKER_01]: That's you, am I?
[SPEAKER_01]: From afar, saying, indeed, I have loved you.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now I speak in Israel.
[SPEAKER_01]: I have loved you with an every icing love.
[SPEAKER_01]: Therefore, with loving kindness, I have drawn you.
[SPEAKER_01]: Proverbs 3-3.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's another one you hear a lot.
[SPEAKER_01]: Proverbs 33, do not let gracious love and truth leave you.
[SPEAKER_01]: Buying them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let God's love be on your heart always to people around you.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's God's love.
[SPEAKER_01]: Listen what Jesus said, in John 159, and I'm gonna put all these together, John 15.
[SPEAKER_01]: I've got three verses from John 15.
[SPEAKER_01]: John 159, John 1512 and John 1513.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it says this.
[SPEAKER_01]: John 159, Jesus said, as the Father loved me, I also loved you.
[SPEAKER_01]: Remain in my love.
[SPEAKER_01]: In other words, in Gaza, Jesus loved us.
[SPEAKER_01]: That much.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then he said this in John 1512.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is my commandment that you love one another as I have loved you.
[SPEAKER_01]: And he goes on to say this, which is foreshadowing.
[SPEAKER_01]: In verse 13,
[SPEAKER_01]: greater love has no man than this that a man laid down his life for his friends.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now when I was young and I read this verse, I thought it meant that if you was a martyr for your friends, that that was a great love and it is.
[SPEAKER_01]: It is.
[SPEAKER_01]: If you used to protect everybody, it is.
[SPEAKER_01]: So roll up.
[SPEAKER_01]: But really, it's the foreshadowing.
[SPEAKER_01]: Jesus is telling them that he's about to die for not just them.
[SPEAKER_01]: For all of us, this is the greatest love.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's the love of God.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is why John 3 16, which is my tie by the way.
[SPEAKER_01]: John 3 16, that is what it means when God so love is all.
[SPEAKER_01]: That he gave his only be God's unhenther hystrum.
[SPEAKER_01]: So that we could all go to heaven if we put all our beliefs in heaven.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's the truest kind of love.
[SPEAKER_01]: God's love, a God's love is the greatest love of all.
[SPEAKER_01]: Greater than any hallmark card you can ever receive.
[SPEAKER_01]: Greater than the candy hearts, I gave some candy hearts to my mom and yesterday, I found you think brought to her.
[SPEAKER_01]: She told me that someone tasted good, some did not.
[SPEAKER_01]: But let me just tell you this.
[SPEAKER_01]: Those are good, they get candy hearts, you get hearts with chocolate, and that's all wonderful, but folks, those hearts come and go.
[SPEAKER_01]: Even romantic hearts come and go.
[SPEAKER_01]: Real male and Juliet, stupid children, killing themselves over nonsense.
[SPEAKER_01]: But God's love is for eternity.
[SPEAKER_01]: Amen?
[SPEAKER_01]: Smaller than Emotion.
[SPEAKER_01]: So we talked about God's love.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now let's talk about as the song said, man's love, mankind's love.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now some people, they'll talk about God's love.
[SPEAKER_01]: And they'll go on to say, well man can't love.
[SPEAKER_01]: They can't love what that's not true.
[SPEAKER_01]: God gave us emotions.
[SPEAKER_01]: And we can love, even the lost people love.
[SPEAKER_01]: And that's good.
[SPEAKER_01]: I love that they love.
[SPEAKER_01]: However, even our emotions, we fail sometimes.
[SPEAKER_01]: we can love people with our hearts, and then we allow other emotions to get the better of us.
[SPEAKER_01]: Sometimes we could love someone so much and then be an absolute creep to the person we love.
[SPEAKER_01]: We can let our temper get the better and say stupid things or say it in the wrong way, even if we mean well.
[SPEAKER_01]: because that's how we are.
[SPEAKER_01]: We don't mean to.
[SPEAKER_01]: We can say stupid things to our brothers, our sisters, even brothers, sisters to Christ.
[SPEAKER_01]: We can say it in such a wrong way.
[SPEAKER_01]: We can say things to our love, our very wife, our husbands, our children, our parents.
[SPEAKER_01]: We could say Rebla, why?
[SPEAKER_01]: Because we allow arrogance or anything else to get in the way.
[SPEAKER_01]: And that's not allowing the love of God to take over.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's man's love.
[SPEAKER_01]: mankind and kind love.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, yes.
[SPEAKER_01]: it's limited.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's a good love, but it's a limited love.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's what we got to remember.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let's talk about a few of those.
[SPEAKER_01]: Hebrews chapter 13, Hebrews 13 verse 4.
[SPEAKER_01]: It says this, marriage is to be honored among everyone and it's important and the bed undefiled.
[SPEAKER_01]: That means
[SPEAKER_01]: used to be what's upon time, and I've heard this from the world of to my lost people now.
[SPEAKER_01]: They said no one's ever waited till the day.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's stupid.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, let's put on time, everybody did.
[SPEAKER_01]: There was a few you didn't.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, and I'm not saying just a few literally, but the majority waited.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now is the opposite.
[SPEAKER_01]: The majority doesn't wait and if you do.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, I'm not gonna disrespect anybody, but God didn't make it that way.
[SPEAKER_01]: And some people will even preach nowadays, I don't really give me priests, but they'll say nowadays that you're not supposed to wait cause then you won't know what's good for you blah, blah, blah, here's the truth.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's a trick of the devil.
[SPEAKER_01]: You don't want to do that, which why I'm not looking around right now, look at the clock cause I don't want to embarrass someone, but here's the truth.
[SPEAKER_01]: If you don't wait, you're only hurting yourself.
[SPEAKER_01]: God wants you to wait, it goes on to say, but we'll talk with the baby in the spouses, but God will just as sexually immoral and adulterers, God's gonna tell us that.
[SPEAKER_01]: God made it for a husband and a wife, not a man or a woman.
[SPEAKER_01]: Definitely not a man or a woman or woman.
[SPEAKER_01]: God made it for a husband and a wife because he loves you so much.
[SPEAKER_01]: He made those things personal and private.
[SPEAKER_01]: Ecclesiastes 99.
[SPEAKER_01]: whom you love all the days of your vane life, which he, oh my God, has given you under the sun, because that is your reward in life, and in your toil, because you have labored under the sun.
[SPEAKER_01]: God's given us joy with our husbands and wives.
[SPEAKER_01]: He has, follow God, do what he told us to do.
[SPEAKER_01]: So he, man can love, but it's limited, it's limited.
[SPEAKER_01]: Proverbs 7, 18.
[SPEAKER_01]: Come let us take our fill of love until the morning when it's solace ourselves with love.
[SPEAKER_01]: God is allowed us to do it.
[SPEAKER_01]: He gave it to us and gave it to us.
[SPEAKER_01]: And take advantage of the time that you have.
[SPEAKER_01]: Some people say someday, someday, someday.
[SPEAKER_01]: Some day may not come.
[SPEAKER_01]: Until what time you have, if God's giving you someone, don't wait.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I will someday get married, but I would rather wait until I'm 37, because no, no, no.
[SPEAKER_01]: If things are right and God has set you to that person, don't put off the tomorrow, what God has told you to do today.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm not saying that you need to take it into your own hands when and all that.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm just saying, if God has told you to do something, do it.
[SPEAKER_01]: do it.
[SPEAKER_01]: So it then goes to say, you proper 17, come, let us take our OIR of Saturday that Ephesians 525.
[SPEAKER_01]: Ephesians 525.
[SPEAKER_01]: I like this.
[SPEAKER_01]: Husbands love your wives.
[SPEAKER_01]: Just ask Christ also love the church and gave himself for it.
[SPEAKER_01]: I had to use this one time when the husband was trying to misuse the Bible to say that a wife has to be enslaved to the husband.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's true.
[SPEAKER_01]: And a wife is to love the husband, to serve the husband and Bob of a ball.
[SPEAKER_01]: And the husband is to serve the wife and Bob of a ball.
[SPEAKER_01]: And in other words, they're to serve one another and give to one another and love them more than we love ourselves.
[SPEAKER_01]: Amen.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're to do into others as we'd have them doing to us.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's what it's supposed to do.
[SPEAKER_01]: The wife is like the bride, let me say, the bride is to put it like the church and the husbands that be like Christ.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're to give to one another.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's how supposed to be.
[SPEAKER_01]: then first P to three seven.
[SPEAKER_01]: First Peter, three, seven.
[SPEAKER_01]: Likewise, you husbands live considerably with your wives giving honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, I want to get that a minute, as the weaker vessel, since they too are also airs of the grace of life, so that your prayers will not be hindered now, many of people nowadays.
[SPEAKER_01]: Here's the weaker vessel part.
[SPEAKER_01]: And they go, oh my goodness, the Bible is terrible, saying that women are weak in nothing.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's not what it's saying.
[SPEAKER_01]: They say that women are physically weaker, not a weaker character.
[SPEAKER_01]: My goodness, I've met a lot of women who are much stronger in character, much stronger in attitude, much stronger in mouth and much stronger in Christianity and faith than many men.
[SPEAKER_01]: Otherwise why do we have more women here than men today?
[SPEAKER_01]: They're much stronger and lots of ways.
[SPEAKER_01]: But physically speaking, men are stronger than women because God made them that way.
[SPEAKER_01]: And they're meant to protect their woman and by that, I'm talking about their wife.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're meant to be the protectors.
[SPEAKER_01]: And that's what God's talking about.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's not saying they're weaker.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's not saying they're less.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's saying that he made them to be protected by the husband.
[SPEAKER_01]: And if the husbands are real men, he'll do that lovingly and want to link us.
[SPEAKER_01]: God put it into the man's system to be the one to want to protect the one
[SPEAKER_01]: That's the way it is.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's God put that naturally in the man he wants to get up and be like, wow, ready to take on a creepy wants to hurt his wonderful wife.
[SPEAKER_01]: And the wife has a loving heart bigger than the man.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's because God made the woman that way.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is not a sexist comment.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is a loving comment that God has given to Peter and given through me to you too.
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't understand why people can't understand this unless it just don't want to.
[SPEAKER_01]: And that's probably case.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm talking about the world.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's how it is.
[SPEAKER_01]: Women are wonderful.
[SPEAKER_01]: And men are wonderful.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're both wonderful because God created in that way.
[SPEAKER_01]: Come on.
[SPEAKER_01]: But man's love a lot of times doesn't see things the way it ought to be.
[SPEAKER_01]: First Peter 48, above all things.
[SPEAKER_01]: First Peter 48 is good to think.
[SPEAKER_01]: Above all things have unfailing love for one another because love covers a multitude of sins.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, I'm gonna say it again.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, beautiful.
[SPEAKER_01]: First Peter 48.
[SPEAKER_01]: Write this down on the tablet of your heart.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is what it says.
[SPEAKER_01]: Above all things have unfailing love for one another because love covers a multitude of sins.
[SPEAKER_01]: The person you're gonna marry.
[SPEAKER_01]: I hate to tell you this.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're in perfect.
[SPEAKER_01]: The person you're gonna go date is in perfect.
[SPEAKER_01]: If a person goes after expecting, they're going to find someone that's absolutely perfect.
[SPEAKER_01]: You might as well stay at home and suck your thumb because that person's imperfect too.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, but they don't have the perfect thumb.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's true.
[SPEAKER_01]: Nobody's perfect.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, not even one.
[SPEAKER_01]: Uh-huh.
[SPEAKER_01]: There you're not.
[SPEAKER_01]: Romans 3-10.
[SPEAKER_01]: Nobody's perfect.
[SPEAKER_01]: But I got news for you.
[SPEAKER_01]: The one who saved you is perfect.
[SPEAKER_01]: And that's why he saved you.
[SPEAKER_01]: But here's the deal.
[SPEAKER_01]: If you really want to come to know someone, you'll know that they were saved by Christ too.
[SPEAKER_01]: And together following Jesus, the perfect one will be seen more and more every day between the two amen.
[SPEAKER_01]: Romans 5 8.
[SPEAKER_01]: Here we go.
[SPEAKER_01]: Romans 5 8, about man's love and God's love through you.
[SPEAKER_01]: Romans 5 8, but God demonstrates His own love towards us in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
[SPEAKER_01]: Romans 5 8, boy, I love the book of Romans.
[SPEAKER_01]: Am I lowering that?
[SPEAKER_01]: Are the Romans in that of good book?
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, thank you, Lord God, for speaking through Paul, who speaks to us every single day.
[SPEAKER_01]: because we are imperfect, but God demonstrates his own love through us, and that while we were yes sinners Christ died for us, he said, you imperfect individual, whoever you might be, I love you, you deserve the dying go to hell, you have all these false but I love you nonetheless, and he does.
[SPEAKER_01]: Right now, if God could write you a great, big hallmark card, he said, get up all that you have come in as I go in your heart and I'll wash you by this sin or write it snow all the way, all your sin away and guess what?
[SPEAKER_01]: I love you and change you every day.
[SPEAKER_01]: Just let me do it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let me do it.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, we live in our fallen world with unloving emotions.
[SPEAKER_01]: We do.
[SPEAKER_01]: and maybe sometimes, maybe sometimes, we're even guided by it.
[SPEAKER_01]: We don't mean to be, if you're being in a good mood, suddenly the news comes out.
[SPEAKER_01]: This should see you, and then, or better put, this is S-I-M. And, uh,
[SPEAKER_01]: Is that more appropriate sometimes?
[SPEAKER_01]: And whenever you watch S I and they tell you all sorts of things that are inappropriate, just like Fox does, just like so many others, because none of the rights is no not one.
[SPEAKER_01]: All people make mistakes.
[SPEAKER_01]: The president of now, the president a few years ago,
[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, I'm not sure what you mean, but they all make mistakes.
[SPEAKER_01]: Why?
[SPEAKER_01]: Because none of our artists know not one.
[SPEAKER_01]: Some more than others, some less than others.
[SPEAKER_01]: The point is, they've all sinned.
[SPEAKER_01]: And we're living in the fall of the world.
[SPEAKER_01]: And we get guided sometimes by our frustration, anger, instead of by the love of God.
[SPEAKER_01]: And that's what we need.
[SPEAKER_01]: Proverbs chapter 10 verse 12 tells us this.
[SPEAKER_01]: Love covers all sins.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
[SPEAKER_01]: Let's now turn the first John four.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now we're going to come back to this here in a moment, but first we're going to read first John four one through twelve.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're going to look at it twice and different ways.
[SPEAKER_01]: First John four one through twelve.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's a problem.
[SPEAKER_01]: When we look at the viewpoint of the world,
[SPEAKER_01]: And we start to feel the hatred of the world, frustration, pastoral understand.
[SPEAKER_01]: I've saved, am I really saved?
[SPEAKER_01]: Because oftentimes I start to think in life the world.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I can understand that.
[SPEAKER_01]: We'll talk about that at another time, but here's the thing, you're still saved.
[SPEAKER_01]: But we're surrounded by filth.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is because you took the share it doesn't mean that when you walk outside the muddy world, you're not going to get mud on you.
[SPEAKER_01]: Sometimes you feel like pigpan from the peanuts.
[SPEAKER_01]: He takes the share, comes back outside, I've seen the counselors on this.
[SPEAKER_01]: He takes the share, comes back outside again, hurts all over again.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's how we feel, Screson, didn't it?
[SPEAKER_01]: You're walking around, follow by, it is surrounded by dirt because this world's full of dirt and disgust.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's why we need to keep going back to the house of God, to the Word of God, to prayer.
[SPEAKER_01]: When people say, oh, I went at Christmas to church.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'll go next year at Easter.
[SPEAKER_01]: Or I'll go in a month or two.
[SPEAKER_01]: Folks, problem is, you're going to have a whole heap of dirt on you by then.
[SPEAKER_01]: So you'll be so coped and dirted.
[SPEAKER_01]: It might be all over your heart, too.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not saying you'll be lost, but I'm saying you're going to feel like Word of the Host.
[SPEAKER_01]: All right, here we go.
[SPEAKER_01]: Chapter 4 of 1st John 1 through 12.
[SPEAKER_01]: Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God.
[SPEAKER_01]: Because many false prophets have gone out into the world, this is how you know the spirit of God.
[SPEAKER_01]: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God.
[SPEAKER_01]: And every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not from God.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is the spirit of the anti-Christ.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, it's not saying it is the anti-Christ.
[SPEAKER_01]: with you have heard is coming and is already in the world.
[SPEAKER_01]: You are of God little children and have overcome them because and you know this, he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world, your pastor said that many a time.
[SPEAKER_01]: Verse 5, they are of the world and therefore they speak from the world and the world listens to them.
[SPEAKER_01]: We are of God and whoever knows God, listens to us.
[SPEAKER_01]: Whoever is not of God does not listen to us.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is how we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.
[SPEAKER_01]: Amen.
[SPEAKER_01]: You can feel it.
[SPEAKER_01]: The Holy Spirit's in your heart.
[SPEAKER_01]: You feel it.
[SPEAKER_01]: How times you feel it?
[SPEAKER_01]: Markings ain't careful.
[SPEAKER_01]: Careful.
[SPEAKER_01]: You remember in the movies,
[SPEAKER_01]: There's been a different one to do this, but many of times like Star Wars and all that either dark, force, and all that stuff.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's different ones that you have that feeling, Spider-Man has spider-synthesis, right?
[SPEAKER_01]: And that's kind of what happens with the Christians, it's the Holy Spirit senses, tell you, be careful.
[SPEAKER_01]: But if you're listening to yourself rather than God's love and God's feeling, you're going to fall from the trap, be careful.
[SPEAKER_01]: It says in verse 7, beloved, let us love one another for love is of God and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is talking about a doppy love, okay?
[SPEAKER_01]: Anyone who does not love does not know God for God is love.
[SPEAKER_01]: And this way the love of God was revealed to us that God sent His only begotten Son into the world that we might live through Him and this is love.
[SPEAKER_01]: not that we love God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the attoning sacrifice for our sins.
[SPEAKER_01]: Beloved, if God so loved us, we must also love one another.
[SPEAKER_01]: No one has seen God at any time.
[SPEAKER_01]: If we love one another, God wills in us and His love is perfected in us.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're going to come back this year in a minute.
[SPEAKER_01]: This is important to know.
[SPEAKER_01]: People can see God in you when His love is in you, but if you let mankind come over you, and man's love which fails over and over again, people will say, I thought He was in me and I thought, I thought she was a woman and I thought, I thought, you know how they do.
[SPEAKER_01]: and Satan is going to trap them and trick them any time to make excuses not to follow God who's a thin you you know that you might be doing the same thing with other Christians or with even yourself amen you might as time by the way I understand if you don't want to amen to that because none of us want to admit at times that we fail but we need to follow God and we need to follow his love and not our own because we will fail there's going to be times that I love someone but yet my anger gives better of me and I'm going to yell or say something stupid you know I happen sometimes
[SPEAKER_01]: shut up, use, and let's send a God, that's what we need to do, and that's what we have to argue with ourselves sometimes.
[SPEAKER_01]: People say, oh, that's not making crazy.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, it's not.
[SPEAKER_01]: You'll be more crazy if you don't argue with yourself until let's send a God, because there's wrestling matches going on.
[SPEAKER_01]: We'll talk about that more coming up at another time.
[SPEAKER_01]: But now let us go and talk about what do we do when we're surrounded by heat and we are and we're surrounded
[SPEAKER_01]: But they don't care about being hypocrites.
[SPEAKER_01]: They don't care about telling you you should be loving and kind.
[SPEAKER_01]: And one man will tell you, this is good.
[SPEAKER_01]: And that is bad.
[SPEAKER_01]: They do it no matter what it is.
[SPEAKER_01]: They'll be politically in schools.
[SPEAKER_01]: They'll teach you one thing and they'll teach you another.
[SPEAKER_01]: They'll do it even historically.
[SPEAKER_01]: They'll teach you, this is the way it should have been.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now know this is where it was.
[SPEAKER_01]: They'll go back and forth.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're trying to confuse you.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, we know guys aren't the author of Confusion.
[SPEAKER_01]: We know that.
[SPEAKER_01]: First Corinthians chapter 14 tells us that.
[SPEAKER_01]: We know that.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're trying to confuse you, that's not of God, that's of the world, that's of Satan.
[SPEAKER_01]: So don't listen to that.
[SPEAKER_01]: Go back to God.
[SPEAKER_01]: Find the place where you know that you need to be in God's love.
[SPEAKER_01]: You need to be protected in that heart bubble of the Lord God.
[SPEAKER_01]: What does it say in Luke 635?
[SPEAKER_01]: This is where it gets hard.
[SPEAKER_01]: It gets hard.
[SPEAKER_01]: Jesus says this in Luke 635.
[SPEAKER_01]: It gets hard because when we're surrounded by that, there's times that we want to be hateful through the world, at least I want to do some time.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'll be yelled at on Facebook.
[SPEAKER_01]: I'll be yelled at on other things.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I want to be smirky and oh, I can't be.
[SPEAKER_01]: I want to be sarcastic and oh, I can't be.
[SPEAKER_01]: I want to be smart, eloquent, and that's about the smartest I can be, is the eloquent me.
[SPEAKER_01]: But here's the thing, I can't.
[SPEAKER_01]: Sometimes I have so many smart little comebacks and things.
[SPEAKER_01]: I was like, oh, I got to go and get some good old boy and it's so funny.
[SPEAKER_01]: And God says no big boy, no my child.
[SPEAKER_01]: Your account says pastor, I'm in your heart that old you, that's your love.
[SPEAKER_01]: God's love must be felt.
[SPEAKER_01]: So I have to go back and edit before I send it.
[SPEAKER_01]: and make it be agape, not mad love.
[SPEAKER_01]: And that's hard.
[SPEAKER_01]: Isn't that hard?
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, that's hard.
[SPEAKER_01]: Am I the only one who's going through that?
[SPEAKER_01]: You don't have to race in.
[SPEAKER_01]: But I think we've all set for that.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know what the problem is?
[SPEAKER_01]: Sometimes the only thing I like about it being online, sometimes when I've been in an argument or discussion with someone, my mouth bleep, throwing it out before I've ever been able to edit it.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then comes the apologies.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh,
[SPEAKER_01]: I didn't mean like that, I'm sorry.
[SPEAKER_01]: So we had to be very careful, very careful, edit it in your heart, and like God did the editing in your mind.
[SPEAKER_01]: Not you be the editor, but the whole spirit be the editor.
[SPEAKER_01]: So that God's love can be felt in your life.
[SPEAKER_01]: Because it could very well be that God's wanting to use you in this person's life, but Satan's trying to tempt you and trick you.
[SPEAKER_01]: So that God's love can't be felt.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I say, what a hypocrite.
[SPEAKER_01]: But Pastor, that's not fair.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're the hippocryphers.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's not what God said, though, did he?
[SPEAKER_01]: He said, doing the others as you wouldn't have, not as they did, but as you'd have them doing to you.
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, it's not right to the old flesh.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_01]: God doesn't care about that.
[SPEAKER_01]: He cares about him being seen through you.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's hard, but that's what it has to be.
[SPEAKER_01]: What it has to be.
[SPEAKER_01]: Luke 635 says, but love your enemies and do good and limb, hoping for nothing in return,
[SPEAKER_01]: Then your reward will be great, and you will be the sons of the highest.
[SPEAKER_01]: For he is kind to the unthinkable and the evil.
[SPEAKER_01]: I want you to remember that this is four verses after Luke 631, doing the others you have been doing to you.
[SPEAKER_01]: His God really sang, he's just really saying that you need to let people do wrong to you.
[SPEAKER_01]: No.
[SPEAKER_01]: He's saying, as he did then, they were taught to whole people or, uh, basically, a lot of the people who are lending money, hoping to make money.
[SPEAKER_01]: He was saying, don't have your hearts at that way.
[SPEAKER_01]: Have your heart set to treat people who love the passion and kindness, change your attitude and your heart.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's what Jesus was saying to them and that's what he's saying to you.
[SPEAKER_01]: Don't go into the world with the world's heart, with the mankind heart, have God's love to be your guide.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it's hard.
[SPEAKER_01]: So with that being said, we need to love like God, not like mankind does.
[SPEAKER_01]: This could only be done by Christ, not about our own doing, but because of a God be loved.
[SPEAKER_01]: It takes time, and this takes God, not us.
[SPEAKER_01]: So now let's go to the first John chapter three, at 11 through eight games.
[SPEAKER_01]: And right after that, we're gonna go into first John four, 7, 2, 21.
[SPEAKER_01]: We already read some of that, but we're gonna go through it again.
[SPEAKER_01]: So first John 3 11 3 18 and says this, first John 3 11 3 18, for this is the message that you heard from the beginning.
[SPEAKER_01]: We should love one another, not like King, who was of the wicked one and murdered his brother.
[SPEAKER_01]: And why did he murder him?
[SPEAKER_01]: Because his own works were evil.
[SPEAKER_01]: And his
[SPEAKER_01]: We know that we have passed from death to life because we love the brothers, meaning fellow believers, whoever does not love his brother remains in death, whoever hates his brother is a murderer and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining in him.
[SPEAKER_01]: By this we know the love of God that he laid down his life for us and we ought to lay
[SPEAKER_01]: Whoever has the world's goods and ceases brother in need but closes his heart of compassion from him, how can the love of God remain in him?
[SPEAKER_01]: My little children, let us love not in word and speech, but in action and in truth.
[SPEAKER_01]: What is saying here, God is saying here through John, I remember John was around through all this.
[SPEAKER_01]: He said, don't just talk the talk, walk the walk.
[SPEAKER_01]: Show love that this being that when you go out from here today you see someone down at this stuff like you have to give everything you have this only saying he's saying don't just say you're loving be loving don't just say I love my brothers and Christ don't just say it be it now let's go
[SPEAKER_01]: The first John four, this time we're gonna go seven through 21.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now we read seven through 12 while ago, but now we're gonna read, go on from there.
[SPEAKER_01]: But love it, let us love one another.
[SPEAKER_01]: For the love is, for excuse me, for love is of God.
[SPEAKER_01]: The man who is the copy love.
[SPEAKER_01]: Because I've had people say, don't wait a minute, you're saying that people can't love.
[SPEAKER_01]: They're talking about romantic love.
[SPEAKER_01]: Now, oh no, no, no, we're talking about a copy love.
[SPEAKER_01]: The love of God.
[SPEAKER_01]: for love is of God, and everyone who loves is born of God.
[SPEAKER_01]: And those God, anyone who does not love, does not know God, for God is love.
[SPEAKER_01]: And this way, the love of God was revealed to us that God sent His only begotten Son into the world that we might live through Him.
[SPEAKER_01]: In this is love, not that we love God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the Tony sacrifice of our sins.
[SPEAKER_01]: But love it, if God so loved us, we must also love one another.
[SPEAKER_01]: No one has seen God at any time.
[SPEAKER_01]: If we love one another, God wills in us and His love is perfected in us.
[SPEAKER_01]: We know that we live in Him and He and us because He has given us His Spirit.
[SPEAKER_01]: And we have seen and testified that he, excuse me, that the Father sent the Son to be the savior of the world.
[SPEAKER_01]: Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in Him, and He and God.
[SPEAKER_01]: And we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us.
[SPEAKER_01]: God is love.
[SPEAKER_01]: Whoever lives in love lives in God and God in him, this is the way God's love is perfected in us, so that we may have boldness on the day of judgment because as he is, so are we in this world.
[SPEAKER_01]: There is no fear in love.
[SPEAKER_01]: But perfect love cast out fear because fear has to do with punishment.
[SPEAKER_01]: Whoever fears is not perfect in love, we love him because he first loved us.
[SPEAKER_01]: If anyone says, I love God and hates his brother, he is a liar.
[SPEAKER_01]: For whoever does not love his brother, whom he has seen, how can he love God, whom he has not seen?
[SPEAKER_01]: We have this commandment from him, who ever loves God, must also love his brother.
[SPEAKER_01]: We must show love to the world folks, even though they're not saved, we must love them.
[SPEAKER_01]: Because we're to be an example to those who do not know Christ.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're to be an example.
[SPEAKER_01]: All right, now I know you're thinking of people probably, thinking of people right now that get on your ever-loving or as I can't believe you.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's people on TV right now that just drive me crazy.
[SPEAKER_01]: There's ties, they say things, hateful, amen, and bitter, and on-ring.
[SPEAKER_01]: And sometimes the old flexion means what's the book doing?
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm a couple, I have a friend when they whip their grandchildren or whatever they say.
[SPEAKER_01]: I want to give you power pals.
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, folks, sometimes I want to give the world power pals.
[SPEAKER_01]: I definitely want to give the devil power pals, but here's the thing.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're not to give them power pals.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're giving prayer prayers.
[SPEAKER_01]: We're to pray constantly because we're to let them see the love of God.
[SPEAKER_01]: No, that doesn't mean you let them run over you.
[SPEAKER_01]: Though they may think you are, but you need to allow them to see the power of God in you.
[SPEAKER_01]: because greater season you than he's of the world first John four four you need to allow them to understand that the Lord God is in charge in your life is hard, it's difficult, it's so difficult for God's love to win, but God's love is so big and your love is so small, soon he will fade away.
[SPEAKER_01]: I remember when I used to sing that song with the kids, we'd sing it every single week.
[SPEAKER_01]: Sometimes one of the kids would get a jam nose, you was there.
[SPEAKER_01]: One of the kids would get up and say, it's almost microscopic.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's where you say, almost microscopic.
[SPEAKER_01]: That's the truth.
[SPEAKER_01]: We think we can love.
[SPEAKER_01]: Our love is almost microscopic.
[SPEAKER_01]: It almost can't be seen at all.
[SPEAKER_01]: Compared to God's love, it's so big it can do anything that needs to be done.
[SPEAKER_01]: Think about that.
[SPEAKER_01]: Colossians 314, and above all these things, embrace love, which is the bond of her fashion.
[SPEAKER_01]: Romans 1210, Romans 1210, beat a vote into one another with brotherly love, prefer one another in honor, where to show love towards a brother's decision to Christ, even if they irritate you in a will.
[SPEAKER_01]: because they happen to be human dog on it.
[SPEAKER_01]: But you know what?
[SPEAKER_01]: Let them see the love of Christ.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let them see them.
[SPEAKER_01]: And then there's 1 Corinthians 16, 14.
[SPEAKER_01]: And this is the scripture of the month.
[SPEAKER_01]: You've heard it many times already.
[SPEAKER_01]: 1 Corinthians 16, 14.
[SPEAKER_01]: And it's just important.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let all that you do be done with love.
[SPEAKER_01]: Pastor that you're impossible.
[SPEAKER_01]: Not with Christ is not.
[SPEAKER_01]: The love of God is stronger than you.
[SPEAKER_01]: All you have to do is open up your heart and let them do it.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, when I was little, and we were in school, and I'm sure you're the same way.
[SPEAKER_01]: You remember when they used to give a construction paper?
[SPEAKER_01]: And they'd make you draw something that looked like a tier.
[SPEAKER_01]: They would have you fold your paper and then have you draw some of the look like a tear and then you go cut around to the best you could you remember those horrible scissors they gave you the almost plastic you look at any cut very well at all but you went to cut construction paper because they try to cut your fingers off.
[SPEAKER_01]: But anyway, I appreciate that I guess, but you go to you go to cut that thing and you'd open it up and the tier you couldn't tell was going to be special when you know five or six years old you never knew you go to open up that tier and you go to open it up and it was a hard.
[SPEAKER_01]: and that heart you would write what you love and I always put mommy and then I put daddy and David and Matt new my family and Herman you say who's Herman?
[SPEAKER_01]: Herman's the best doll in the world.
[SPEAKER_01]: I like thank you's in heaven now I don't know but that's what I like to think.
[SPEAKER_01]: I never put jinx even whenever jinx is around this.
[SPEAKER_01]: I like to think that jinx is in cat health but that's just that's just me.
[SPEAKER_01]: I apologize but that being said the truth is you put those things
[SPEAKER_01]: If I could right now, I would take a construction paper as big as this wall to this wall.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I'd cut a tear that big and I'd write the middle God's love because it's even bigger than that.
[SPEAKER_01]: And right in the middle of it, you would see your name.
[SPEAKER_01]: And the middle of it you'd see something that might look like a tea, but it's not, it's a cross.
[SPEAKER_01]: And you see a red dot on the bottom.
[SPEAKER_01]: A red dot up here, a red dot here of his blood.
[SPEAKER_01]: And that blood was chef for you.
[SPEAKER_01]: It was.
[SPEAKER_01]: His love is so big that's for the whole world.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, even you, even you, with a love that's not big enough for his is the love with God's love today in the moral.
[SPEAKER_01]: It's the best love, even better than your own love.
[SPEAKER_01]: God's love is so big when your love is too small.
[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm going to close today with John 360, first John 360, by this we know the love of God that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
[SPEAKER_01]: Let's close and pray.
[SPEAKER_01]: Lord God, thank you for loving us.
[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you, Lord, for allowing us to feel your love.
[SPEAKER_01]: Lord, I pray for those of this world.
[SPEAKER_01]: I pray for our family.
[SPEAKER_01]: I pray for our friends.
[SPEAKER_01]: I pray for our children, our grandchildren.
[SPEAKER_01]: I pray in Lord God for those who we work with, who know us, who don't even know us, but know of us, or those who we will meet tomorrow.
[SPEAKER_01]: I pray in Lord God that your love will be felt by us and through us to everyone.
[SPEAKER_01]: I pray in Lord God and the areas of our lives that your love needs to touch and fill.
[SPEAKER_01]: areas that we have weaknesses in.
[SPEAKER_01]: I pray that your level of this fill it up Lord Jesus Christ.
[SPEAKER_01]: I pray your love will do what needs be done.
[SPEAKER_01]: I pray you will show us the areas that we can hand over to you and that your level will be used with Lord Jesus Christ to help those with their lives, Lord Jesus Christ.
[SPEAKER_01]: I pray for your will upon our lives.
[SPEAKER_01]: If there are relationships Lord Jesus Christ that are being hurt right now, I pray that your love or God will be the patches
[SPEAKER_01]: I pray that they will be the ones who'll fix it or Lord God, if there are those right now who are going through divorces or going through family affairs and difficulties.
[SPEAKER_01]: I pray, Lord God, that you will come in and do what needs be done.
[SPEAKER_01]: If there's perhaps separations that need to be done, I pray, Lord God, that you will ease with your love, ease those who are hurting and aching.
[SPEAKER_01]: I pray for the children who are hurting right now, Lord God.
[SPEAKER_01]: I pray for the lost right now who do not know your love.
[SPEAKER_01]: I pray that they will be able to see it through us and all of our brothers and sisters
[SPEAKER_01]: I pray for all of this in your holy precious name.
[SPEAKER_01]: Amen.