WEBVTT 00:00:01.743 --> 00:00:05.871 I know last time Brant prefaced his speaking with I haven't spoken for a while. 00:00:05.871 --> 00:00:07.054 I kind of feel the same. 00:00:07.054 --> 00:00:23.807 I only speak when I hear the Father telling me there's something to share, and this message was kind of on the back of my mind for a while, but nothing really. 00:00:23.807 --> 00:00:26.571 Until about a week ago. 00:00:26.571 --> 00:00:38.585 I was like yep, so I want to talk about and I'm just asking Father, just download everything that you gave me for this morning and I just pray receiving that we've been in. 00:00:38.585 --> 00:00:55.170 And I want to talk about embracing the love of the Father so that we can embrace loving others. 00:00:55.170 --> 00:01:02.606 Well, I'll start with a verse. 00:01:02.606 --> 00:01:04.183 You know this verse. 00:01:04.183 --> 00:01:05.748 Most of you do. 00:01:05.748 --> 00:01:21.171 I have made you known to them and will continue to make you known in order that the love you have for me may be in them and I myself may be in them. 00:01:21.171 --> 00:01:27.368 Have you experienced the love of the Father? 00:01:27.368 --> 00:01:35.328 Do you struggle with this verse? 00:01:35.328 --> 00:01:41.846 I mean, do we get this verse? 00:01:41.846 --> 00:01:44.052 Probably not. 00:01:44.052 --> 00:01:59.028 If we really got this verse that the love you have for me might be in them and that I might be in them, like if we really got this verse, I don't think we'd have any cares. 00:01:59.028 --> 00:02:06.272 I don't think we'd have any anxiety or insecurity. 00:02:06.272 --> 00:02:18.861 Maybe I'm speaking to myself, but I kind of think this is probably true for everybody Father is loving you as much as he loves Jesus. 00:02:18.861 --> 00:02:35.110 Ooh, ooh, yeah, and we can have the same relationship with the Father that Jesus did. 00:02:35.110 --> 00:02:40.954 Ooh, ooh. 00:02:40.954 --> 00:02:45.116 Do you struggle with that a little bit? 00:02:45.116 --> 00:02:54.122 I know I did and I have, and I just want to say it's true. 00:02:54.122 --> 00:02:58.532 Do you think that this is a little preposterous, maybe sacrilegious? 00:02:58.532 --> 00:03:08.718 I know I've struggled like that with it, maybe just a little bit still sometimes. 00:03:08.718 --> 00:03:34.408 But I just encourage you, take it to him, ask him about it, meditate on it, because it's true, it's always good to struggle to get the breakthrough of the revelation and I think sometimes we operate in so much shame, kind of like hunkering down, cowering, a little like we're afraid to really stand before our father and go whoa, you do love me as much as you love Jesus. 00:03:34.408 --> 00:03:35.972 I'm worthy. 00:03:35.972 --> 00:03:39.364 It's because of the blood of the lamb Whoa. 00:03:39.364 --> 00:03:47.376 And then another one, john 17, 13. 00:03:47.460 --> 00:04:06.870 I love this one in the Passion where it says I pray this is Jesus speaking that they will experience and enter into my joyous delight in you, so that it is fulfilled in them and overflows. 00:04:06.870 --> 00:04:09.566 What does that mean I just love to picture. 00:04:09.566 --> 00:04:15.947 There's Jesus is loving the Father and the Father's loving Jesus. 00:04:15.947 --> 00:04:17.766 It's all back and forth. 00:04:17.766 --> 00:04:24.470 And then there's Holy Spirit, airy and beautiful, just floating in between. 00:04:24.470 --> 00:04:26.004 They're loving each other. 00:04:26.004 --> 00:04:31.009 It's continual, it's ongoing, it's always been and it always will be. 00:04:31.009 --> 00:04:42.848 And he's saying we get to enter into that oh experience and enter into my joyous delight in you, so that it's fulfilled in them. 00:04:42.848 --> 00:04:45.940 I kind of think that means it reaches the tipping point. 00:04:45.940 --> 00:04:46.942 It keeps building. 00:04:46.942 --> 00:04:59.670 We keep getting more revelation and so it till it almost, I like to think, reaches the tipping point and it overflows. 00:04:59.670 --> 00:05:10.833 Don't you want that we're receiving so much of the love of the Father that it just keeps building and building and reaches it and overflows, so that all that comes out of us is love. 00:05:10.833 --> 00:05:14.290 I'm starting to say that to the Father daily. 00:05:14.370 --> 00:05:18.663 I heard sorry, I borrowed that one from Leonard Hayes when he was here last June. 00:05:18.663 --> 00:05:31.435 I remember he said when I get to be a little old man, when I get to be a little old man, all that I want to come out. 00:05:31.435 --> 00:05:34.684 If someone pokes me, all that I want to come out of me is love. 00:05:34.684 --> 00:05:35.625 So I took that on. 00:05:35.625 --> 00:05:45.980 I was like Papa, when I get to be a little old lady, all that comes out of me is love. 00:05:46.959 --> 00:05:48.458 And you know, we can walk into a room and we can change an atmosphere. 00:05:48.458 --> 00:05:50.946 Right, you know that analogy they use. 00:05:50.946 --> 00:05:51.408 What is it? 00:05:51.408 --> 00:05:53.889 The thermostat or the thermometer? 00:05:53.889 --> 00:05:59.964 And so often myself included, really I'm speaking to myself. 00:05:59.964 --> 00:06:03.879 We can go into a room and just be the thermometer. 00:06:03.879 --> 00:06:08.870 We take the read on what's going on and we sort of fit into that. 00:06:08.870 --> 00:06:16.528 But he wants us to be the thermostats where we change the environment because of the love of God in us. 00:06:16.528 --> 00:06:28.185 We go into our workspace or we go to the playground with our kids and there's a mom who's hurting and we change the atmosphere because the atmosphere, because the love of the Father is flowing out of us. 00:06:28.185 --> 00:06:30.692 So you know, that's what I want to be. 00:06:30.692 --> 00:06:36.170 I don't do it always perfectly, but I want to be the thermostat. 00:06:38.600 --> 00:06:49.363 All right, so, and then Ephesians 3.18, that you, being rooted and established in love, may have the power, together with all the Lord's people, I would say with the saints. 00:06:49.363 --> 00:07:09.288 That must be a version I memorized to comprehend how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ and to know this love that surpasses knowledge, that you might be filled to the measure with the fullness of God, and the only way you can do that is by revelation is you're asking Father to give you open your eyes of your heart to understand his love for you? 00:07:09.288 --> 00:07:16.913 Oh, by the way, I've been meditating on a new verse this week and I want to share it. 00:07:16.913 --> 00:07:30.644 You know, just as we were saying open up your hearts, have faith to receive healing during worship, have faith to receive physical and emotional healing during the preaching of the Word of God. 00:07:30.644 --> 00:07:40.809 It's his anointing, it's his Word, and in Psalm 107.20, it says he sent his Word and healed them. 00:07:40.809 --> 00:07:57.786 So if you need healing in your hearts today, if you need healing in your bodies, just posture yourself in faith and expectation to receive, receive in his presence, the worship, the communion together, the fellowship with one another. 00:07:57.786 --> 00:08:00.091 But I want to go on. 00:08:00.091 --> 00:08:10.281 If he's asked us to love one another, or if we've experienced God loving us whoo, stumbling over my words, he is asking us to love one another. 00:08:10.281 --> 00:08:11.744 That's where I want to get to today. 00:08:11.744 --> 00:08:16.211 We've received so much In 1 John 4, 7,. 00:08:16.250 --> 00:08:17.793 I'm just going to read these two verses. 00:08:17.793 --> 00:08:19.154 I love this one. 00:08:19.154 --> 00:08:32.043 In the Passion it said those who are loved by God, which I believe is everyone in this room. 00:08:32.043 --> 00:08:35.450 Let his love continually pour from you to one another, because God is love. 00:08:35.450 --> 00:08:41.125 Everyone who loves is fathered by God and experience an intimate knowledge of him. 00:08:41.125 --> 00:08:55.488 Fathered by God, and then in 1 John 3.16, in the New International Version, this is how we know what love is. 00:08:55.488 --> 00:09:08.283 Jesus Christ laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and our sisters. 00:09:08.283 --> 00:09:25.017 I find that really overwhelming. 00:09:25.017 --> 00:09:29.625 It's like how do we do that? 00:09:29.625 --> 00:09:31.207 How do we love like he loves? 00:09:31.207 --> 00:09:35.715 It has to be his love in us, right? 00:09:35.715 --> 00:09:41.403 This isn't humanly possible. 00:09:41.403 --> 00:09:48.113 We just receive more and more so that it can flow out of us and we can be an expression of his love. 00:09:48.113 --> 00:09:50.796 I just want to give you an analogy. 00:09:50.796 --> 00:09:56.075 It was something I heard recently and I think it's quite powerful. 00:09:56.075 --> 00:09:58.405 A little illustration. 00:09:58.405 --> 00:10:08.932 So a man I may not have this perfectly, but this is how I remember it A man was asked to cut 100 boards, 2x4s, 8 foot length. 00:10:10.481 --> 00:10:11.566 So this is what he did. 00:10:11.566 --> 00:10:22.261 He took his tape measure and he measured the first one, 8 feet, marked it with his pencil and saw it at 8 feet and sawed at eight feet. 00:10:22.261 --> 00:10:34.812 Then to cut the second one, he didn't take out his tape measure, he just put the first board on top of the second board, marked it with his pencil and sawed. 00:10:34.812 --> 00:10:37.553 And then he did the same for the third board. 00:10:37.553 --> 00:10:51.003 He took the second board, laid it on the third board, marked it with his pencil, sawed, and on and on right. 00:10:51.003 --> 00:10:53.028 The fourth board was measured by the third board, marked it with his pencil, sawed, and on and on right. 00:10:53.028 --> 00:10:54.011 The fourth board was measured by the third board. 00:10:54.011 --> 00:10:56.782 When he finished cutting the hundred two-by-fours, he had some that were eight feet long and some that were nine feet long. 00:10:56.782 --> 00:11:09.192 They weren't accurate to the original and I only share that as an example of what Jesus, what the Father, is asking us. 00:11:10.260 --> 00:11:17.187 He's not asking us to compare our standard of how we live, how we think, to the previous church generation. 00:11:17.187 --> 00:11:21.725 He's not asking us to compare our standard to what we see going on. 00:11:21.725 --> 00:11:28.274 He's not asking us to compare our standard to what we see going on. 00:11:28.274 --> 00:11:44.187 He's asking us to compare our standard, our measure for ourself, our attitudes to the early church, what the apostles and prophets wrote about, and I just find that amazing and I think sometimes we forget. 00:11:44.187 --> 00:11:48.105 So I'm going to read some scriptures on what loving each other looks like. 00:11:48.105 --> 00:11:49.227 I'm just going to share some. 00:11:49.227 --> 00:12:24.187 I hope it all comes out right, but as you listen to these scriptures there's about four of them listen through that grid of as if you're hearing these for the first time and not by what you've seen happening with the way others treat each other or the previous church generation how they treated each other, but what Father, through the Lord Jesus, was saying how we are to love and treat each other. 00:12:24.187 --> 00:12:25.250 Is that okay? 00:12:25.250 --> 00:12:35.153 So the first one Ephesians 4, 4 to 6. 00:12:35.153 --> 00:12:39.067 I'm going to read it in the message. 00:12:40.120 --> 00:12:42.448 This one is especially meaningful to me. 00:12:42.448 --> 00:12:46.701 A message. 00:12:46.701 --> 00:12:47.542 This one is especially meaningful to me. 00:12:47.542 --> 00:13:06.029 It was given by the Holy Spirit in one of an intercession listening time we had for you church way back in the fall, and I think it's something that's really on Father's heart for us as a community and I know I've been actually meditating on it daily as kind of a. 00:13:06.029 --> 00:13:19.475 It really impacted me as a grid to go whoa, if I feel a little critical or a negative irritation towards someone, it's like oh, father, okay, more of your love. 00:13:20.539 --> 00:13:22.417 So here it is in the message More of your love. 00:13:22.417 --> 00:13:29.238 So here it is. 00:13:29.238 --> 00:13:29.759 In the message. 00:13:29.759 --> 00:13:44.008 You were called to travel on the same road, in the same direction, to stay together, both outwardly and inwardly. 00:13:44.008 --> 00:13:46.653 Okay, this one gets me. 00:13:46.653 --> 00:13:59.572 You have one master, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all who rules over all. 00:13:59.572 --> 00:14:00.945 Whoa, that's so encouraging. 00:14:00.945 --> 00:14:06.273 Comforting Works through all is present in all. 00:14:06.273 --> 00:14:07.255 Whoa, that's so encouraging. 00:14:07.255 --> 00:14:08.240 Comforting Works through all is present in all. 00:14:08.240 --> 00:14:16.573 Everything you are, do and think is permeated with oneness. 00:14:16.573 --> 00:14:37.830 Whew, that's his standard for us. 00:14:37.830 --> 00:14:52.561 And then in 1 Thessalonians 3.12, in the New International Version, you know this one May the Lord. 00:14:52.561 --> 00:14:56.628 May the Lord, okay, make your love increase and overflow for each other and everyone else, just as ours does for you. 00:14:56.628 --> 00:15:01.220 So again, it's the Lord, it's got to be him doing it, but in the message. 00:15:01.220 --> 00:15:01.961 I love this. 00:15:01.961 --> 00:15:06.265 And may the master pour on the love. 00:15:06.265 --> 00:15:07.227 How do you like that? 00:15:07.227 --> 00:15:17.562 May the master pour on the love so it fills your lives and splashes over on everyone around you, just as it does from us to you. 00:15:17.582 --> 00:15:28.948 I love that like word, picture of, like it's as if Papa Godfather has a big watering can or pitcher and you just picture him like pouring. 00:15:28.948 --> 00:15:34.010 It's like water, but it's love being poured out onto our bodies. 00:15:34.010 --> 00:15:34.893 Just picture that. 00:15:34.893 --> 00:15:40.067 So it's filling up our bodies, or filling us up, and it's getting so full. 00:15:40.067 --> 00:15:51.933 We keep asking him to pour out the love that it fills up and starts overflowing and splashing out onto people around us. 00:15:51.933 --> 00:15:55.927 Right, we're like I feel so much love. 00:15:55.927 --> 00:16:00.126 I feel love from you, I feel safe with you. 00:16:00.126 --> 00:16:06.831 There's something different about you, right, because his love is being filling up and splashing out. 00:16:06.831 --> 00:16:09.869 And I mean another little knowledge I was thinking about. 00:16:09.869 --> 00:16:21.530 If you can picture this, I don't know, you know, like a fairy Tinkerbell and she just you know, it's pixie dust and she's just flicking it out and splashing it out onto everybody. 00:16:21.530 --> 00:16:34.346 And it's just like how the love of the Father wants to just come and land on you and fill you up, so that it's splashing out to others like water droplets or yeah. 00:16:34.346 --> 00:16:41.605 So how do we love others? 00:16:41.605 --> 00:16:47.389 Well, it has to be his love filling us up and flowing out to others. 00:16:49.100 --> 00:16:51.548 Another verse Romans 12.10. 00:16:51.548 --> 00:16:54.748 Be devoted to one another in love. 00:16:54.748 --> 00:16:56.886 Honor one another above yourselves. 00:16:56.886 --> 00:17:07.765 You've heard this one lots of times, probably, but I love it again in the message Whoa, just good to start going deeper into the word and studying different versions. 00:17:07.765 --> 00:17:15.949 It says although I know the message isn't a version, but it's great Love from the center of who you are. 00:17:15.949 --> 00:17:17.211 Don't fake it. 00:17:17.211 --> 00:17:19.193 That's a good word. 00:17:19.193 --> 00:17:22.026 Run from dear life, from evil. 00:17:22.026 --> 00:17:24.132 Hold on for dear life to good. 00:17:24.940 --> 00:17:28.150 Practice playing second fiddle. 00:17:28.150 --> 00:17:34.587 Yeah, that one really got me. 00:17:34.587 --> 00:17:38.588 That's not our usual norm, is it? 00:17:38.588 --> 00:17:40.119 Practice playing second fiddle? 00:17:40.119 --> 00:17:46.931 I've been thinking about this verse a lot and I've been trying to meditate on this one daily too. 00:17:46.931 --> 00:18:13.073 That doesn't generally come easy to most of us and you know I've experienced this where you're trying to help somebody or do something for someone and it sort of seems like it all becomes around them and their schedule and what's best for them, and you can feel a little bit irritated or wanting to go to resentment. 00:18:13.073 --> 00:18:22.490 And I've found now I'm not saying I do it perfectly, but I've found like, as I've been meditating on that, practice playing second fiddle to just go. 00:18:22.490 --> 00:18:31.670 You know what, it's all right, it doesn't matter, put that person first, you don't need to push your way to the top. 00:18:31.670 --> 00:18:44.096 Practice playing second fiddle Is that good? 00:18:44.096 --> 00:19:01.298 I need a drink of water. 00:19:01.298 --> 00:19:02.138 You can think about it. 00:19:02.339 --> 00:19:04.942 Two more scriptures on loving each other Philippians 2, 2-4. 00:19:04.942 --> 00:19:15.070 You know this one, if you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, any comfort from his love, any common sharing in the spirit. 00:19:15.070 --> 00:19:31.544 Then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and sorry, maybe I didn't type this right being one in spirit and sorry, maybe I didn't type this right being one in spirit in mind, do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but rather, in humility, consider others above yourselves. 00:19:31.544 --> 00:19:33.268 Okay, so you got the reference. 00:19:33.268 --> 00:19:38.480 Um, I just want to make a comment. 00:19:38.480 --> 00:19:41.185 His joy is brought to fullness or completion. 00:19:41.185 --> 00:19:44.593 He's made really happy or joyful when we love each other. 00:19:44.633 --> 00:19:59.171 Well, and I don't know about you, but I think probably for many of you, I've been trying to understand the Father more, trinity more, and to get to know him so well that I understand his moods. 00:19:59.171 --> 00:20:03.625 Not that he's moody, but God never has a bad day. 00:20:03.625 --> 00:20:14.740 But you know what makes him happy, what gives him delight, what gives him a big smile Like. 00:20:14.740 --> 00:20:17.929 I often get a picture of Father God just like beaming down on me. 00:20:17.929 --> 00:20:22.079 Do you ever get that Like that sense of his pleasure, what gives him pleasure? 00:20:22.079 --> 00:20:28.208 And I know it says when we're loving each other well, that really thrills his heart. 00:20:30.501 --> 00:20:51.241 So here it is in the message, if you've gotten anything at all out of following Christ, which we all have, if his love has made any difference in your life, if being in a community of the Spirit means anything to you I know it does to you guys that you wouldn't be here. 00:20:51.241 --> 00:20:53.749 Uh, do me a favor. 00:20:53.749 --> 00:20:58.039 Oh, if you have a heart, if you care, do me a favor. 00:20:58.039 --> 00:21:04.589 Agree with each other, love each other, be deep spirited. 00:21:04.589 --> 00:21:06.311 I love that. 00:21:06.311 --> 00:21:08.736 Don't push your way to the front. 00:21:08.736 --> 00:21:11.828 Don't sweet-talk your way to the top. 00:21:11.828 --> 00:21:15.529 Put yourself aside and help others get along. 00:21:15.529 --> 00:21:18.368 Don't be obsessed with getting your own advantage. 00:21:18.368 --> 00:21:21.708 Forget yourselves long enough to lend a helping hand. 00:21:21.708 --> 00:21:22.931 I like that. 00:21:22.931 --> 00:21:24.666 Be deep-spirited friends. 00:21:24.666 --> 00:21:26.521 It's really convicting. 00:21:26.521 --> 00:21:32.093 Don't push your way to the front. 00:21:32.093 --> 00:21:37.900 I don't. 00:21:37.900 --> 00:21:41.167 Actually I don't see that in any of you guys here, but you know, I have seen it in the past in ministry situations, sadly enough. 00:21:41.188 --> 00:21:44.201 But Bill Johnson made a comment that I've heard on several occasions. 00:21:44.201 --> 00:21:58.548 He said if you put yourself into a position by self-promotion, you're going to have to work really hard to maintain that position by self-promotion, like, in other words, if it wasn't of the spirit. 00:21:58.548 --> 00:22:04.121 So that's sobering and I love. 00:22:04.121 --> 00:22:07.184 Forget yourselves long enough to lend a helping hand. 00:22:07.184 --> 00:22:10.949 We all get so busy with it and I love forget yourselves long enough to lend a helping hand. 00:22:10.949 --> 00:22:25.432 We all get so busy with our schedules, our timetables, what we need to get done, that we can sometimes forget to slow down long enough to see where somebody needs a helping hand. 00:22:25.432 --> 00:22:28.368 How many of you have been a recipient of some? 00:22:28.368 --> 00:22:29.281 Sure? 00:22:29.281 --> 00:22:31.308 Actually I have some throat lozenges in here. 00:22:31.308 --> 00:22:40.490 I should get a recipient of, like somebody just practically helping you and doing something so amazing. 00:22:40.490 --> 00:22:44.327 You didn't expect it you, I know I was. 00:22:45.181 --> 00:22:47.068 In 2019, I had foot surgery. 00:22:47.068 --> 00:22:48.707 I didn't really want foot surgery. 00:22:48.707 --> 00:22:56.665 Most of you know I have an ankle fusion and I was housebound, couldn't wait there, couldn't drive for four months. 00:22:56.665 --> 00:23:07.380 I have lots of great soaking times, but sometimes it felt a little bit challenging to be so isolated and I had somebody in this community. 00:23:07.380 --> 00:23:08.866 Start a food train for me. 00:23:08.866 --> 00:23:19.807 I had my sister, who's got such a gift of mercy take a week off, work, drive down, make meals for me, drive me on outings so I could get out. 00:23:19.807 --> 00:23:35.220 I had somebody it was Steve Bliley organize a gift, a huge gift a beautiful, comfortable chaise lounge so that I could sit in my bedroom and read with my foot up Like it was such a blessing and it was so unexpected. 00:23:35.220 --> 00:23:38.347 And I know a lot of you have been involved in things like that. 00:23:38.347 --> 00:23:43.770 For people, it's just forget yourself long enough to lend a helping hand. 00:23:43.770 --> 00:23:47.925 And I think there's lots of opportunities in this community of faith. 00:23:47.925 --> 00:23:51.965 There's even food chains going on right now, so powerful. 00:23:53.099 --> 00:23:55.087 And then 1 Peter 4.8. 00:23:55.087 --> 00:24:02.666 Oh, I had another one that I just found Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers the multitude of sins. 00:24:02.666 --> 00:24:12.440 You've heard this one, I love it in the message sins. 00:24:12.440 --> 00:24:15.625 You've heard this one, I love it in the message Most of all, love, as if your life depended on it. 00:24:15.625 --> 00:24:15.744 Whoa. 00:24:15.766 --> 00:24:17.028 Now why does he say that? 00:24:17.028 --> 00:24:21.153 I mean, we could go on and on about that. 00:24:21.153 --> 00:24:29.213 I could come up with lots of reasons, you know, because you could go to bitterness and all that if you don't, and that would really take your life out. 00:24:29.213 --> 00:24:36.191 But I think he just really wants to emphasize the importance of practicing love and letting his love flow through us. 00:24:36.191 --> 00:24:49.890 But why is he asking us to love like this? 00:24:49.890 --> 00:24:59.525 It's obviously for our own benefit, you know. 00:24:59.525 --> 00:25:01.568 It says in first john 13. 00:25:01.568 --> 00:25:04.273 Oh, not first john, sorry, john 13. 00:25:04.273 --> 00:25:09.567 By this everyone will know you are my disciples if you love one another. 00:25:09.567 --> 00:25:33.569 So it's really a sign to those outside of the family of God, outside of the family of faith, right, when they see how we treat each other, when they see the tenderness where they see forgiveness in operation and they don't see that necessarily in relationships outside of community. 00:25:33.569 --> 00:25:41.428 And then another verse why does he ask us to love like this? 00:25:41.428 --> 00:25:45.166 You know, do you ask those questions? 00:25:45.166 --> 00:25:46.546 Why does God ask that? 00:25:49.221 --> 00:25:55.547 And this is a verse that I just came across this week in my daily readings 1 John 4.12. 00:25:55.547 --> 00:26:02.127 I've been trying to gain understanding on. 00:26:02.127 --> 00:26:14.487 It Says no one has ever seen God, but if we love one another, god lives in us and his love is made complete in us. 00:26:14.487 --> 00:26:31.127 And in the Passion it says no one has ever gazed upon the fullness of God's splendor, but if we love one another, god makes his permanent home in us and we make our permanent home in him and his love is brought to its full expression. 00:26:31.127 --> 00:26:39.268 And then in the message, I looked it up because I was like what does it mean? 00:26:39.268 --> 00:26:41.071 His love is made complete in us. 00:26:41.071 --> 00:26:43.025 What does that mean? 00:26:43.025 --> 00:26:48.003 Isn't his love complete on its own? 00:26:48.003 --> 00:26:54.174 Like he's so big, so powerful, he loves all of us. 00:26:54.174 --> 00:27:03.105 He's been loving every single person in this whole world, like the people that have already lived and died Everyone here, now, on this entire planet. 00:27:03.105 --> 00:27:04.469 He's loving them so well. 00:27:04.469 --> 00:27:08.394 Why is this love being made complete in us? 00:27:08.394 --> 00:27:10.561 What does that mean? 00:27:10.561 --> 00:27:12.346 I'm going to take a stab at it. 00:27:12.346 --> 00:27:19.208 In the message it says my dear friends, if God loved us like this, we certainly ought to love each other. 00:27:19.208 --> 00:27:31.107 No one has ever seen God, but if we love one another, god dwells deeply within us and his love becomes complete in us. 00:27:31.107 --> 00:27:31.951 Perfect love. 00:27:31.951 --> 00:27:39.667 His love becomes complete in us. 00:27:39.667 --> 00:27:40.431 Perfect love. 00:27:40.431 --> 00:27:42.924 I'm not saying that. 00:27:42.924 --> 00:27:45.807 I know I have all the revelation on this. 00:27:45.807 --> 00:27:48.047 Okay, I'm just going to throw this out. 00:27:48.047 --> 00:27:49.422 It just took a stab at it. 00:27:49.422 --> 00:27:54.509 Okay, something's been coming to me. 00:27:56.053 --> 00:27:58.761 I don't think, for example, that God needs our help. 00:27:58.761 --> 00:28:08.015 He doesn't need our help to get people saved to come to know him. 00:28:08.015 --> 00:28:16.751 He could zap every single person on this planet and they would come to know him, but he chooses to partner with us as sons and daughters. 00:28:16.751 --> 00:28:20.605 He always wants to partner with us. 00:28:20.605 --> 00:28:28.250 He's a good daddy, he wants to work with his kids and he asks us to share our faith with those who don't know him. 00:28:28.250 --> 00:28:34.853 And another example is he doesn't really need us to physically heal people. 00:28:34.853 --> 00:28:46.828 He could just pour out the love, pour out the power and zap anybody who needed healing and he does that sometimes actually and they're healed. 00:28:46.828 --> 00:28:53.673 But he chooses to partner with us, his sons and daughters, his little kids. 00:28:53.673 --> 00:29:08.575 So we get to participate with Daddy and ask us to pray for the sick and we pray the prayer in faith and we see people healed and I kind of feel, or I'm wondering I'll take a stab at this it's the same with his love. 00:29:09.941 --> 00:29:11.326 His love is full. 00:29:11.326 --> 00:29:20.711 He is loving everybody on this planet currently that's alive and he's loved everybody that's been here and gone to heaven. 00:29:20.711 --> 00:29:32.304 But I'm wondering if it is his love is brought to complete expression or fullness. 00:29:32.304 --> 00:29:43.539 When his love flows through us to others, like he's loving all the time, his love is being poured. 00:29:43.539 --> 00:29:50.532 But when his love is being poured through us to others, his love is being poured. 00:29:50.532 --> 00:30:01.011 But when his love is being poured through us to others, is it that it's so that the fullness of the expression of his love here on earth can be manifest in ways that he couldn't do without us? 00:30:01.011 --> 00:30:06.311 Because each of us have a unique DNA. 00:30:06.311 --> 00:30:10.926 Each of us have a unique DNA, each of us have a unique expression, kind of like a snowflake. 00:30:10.926 --> 00:30:20.750 He made us a certain way and each of us can reflect a part of God, god's heart, that only we can reflect. 00:30:20.750 --> 00:30:28.887 So I'm not saying I know for sure, but is that what it means when it's said, his love is made complete in us? 00:30:28.887 --> 00:30:44.630 Letting his love flow through us allows an expression of his love to be manifest to others that couldn't be manifest or completely expressed in other ways. 00:30:44.630 --> 00:30:55.506 So he's saying my dear children, love one another and it makes his joy complete, it touches his heart. 00:30:58.662 --> 00:31:04.445 We're going to finish with communion, so I just want to cap up. 00:31:04.445 --> 00:31:05.463 How can we love others? 00:31:05.463 --> 00:31:08.786 Well, only his love being poured through us. 00:31:08.786 --> 00:31:10.590 It's his love. 00:31:10.590 --> 00:31:14.128 He causes it to increase and overflow. 00:31:14.128 --> 00:31:17.066 And sometimes we need to do heart forgiveness. 00:31:17.066 --> 00:31:29.633 If there's a block, if we've allowed some bitterness or some resentment or negativity in towards someone, we need to do the heart work to forgive so that his love can flow. 00:31:29.633 --> 00:31:46.191 So, as I lead you into communion, take time to meditate on his love, but also take time to meditate on if there's anyone that you need to forgive, and just take that moment and give that to the Father.