15 Minutes With Jesus

I want to encourage you to listen to this program which my Lord Jesus has given me to publish every week: 15 Minutes With Jesus. A little history to the fact: about one year ago I finally decided to set aside Saturday, every week, as a day for God; not in the sense of keeping the Sabbath, but rather as a day for Him in which I don’t do my own work, or my own pleasure, but rather I seek only to do what He would have me do that day; set aside for Him. Shortly after making that commitment to Him, the Lord spoke to my heart and told me that because I had honored Him, He was going to honor me. Then a few days later Jesus told me He wanted me to do a 15 minute program. Almost immediately the name 15 Minutes With Jesus came up in my heart, also the scripture, Matt 18:20, Jesus said, For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them. So I spend time during the week in the scriptures and prayer, seeking the Lord and every week He gives me the Words He would have me share with you. We pray before every broadcast and seek to be filled with the Holy Spirit when we do the program. So as Darlene and I gather together in Jesus name with you, if you can receive it, we will be in His presence and receiving from Him the edification, exhortation and comfort He is giving us. Jesus said, The Words I speak, they are Spirit and they are life.

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The Responsibility of Love

August 23, 2025 • Robert Haymes

It is our responsibility, in the love of God, to love Him and keep His Words and to love one another...

The Responsibility of Love

Greetings in the name of Jesus! This is Rob Haymes. This is 15 Minutes With Jesus. Wherever two or three are gathered together in My name, Jesus said, there am I in the midst of them. To those of you who love Him in truth: mercy unto you and peace and love be multiplied. (Jude 1:2)

Thank you Heavenly Father for this program. We give you thanks; we worship you in Jesus’ name. Thank you Father. Today’s program is called The Responsibility of Love.

Let’s turn to John 8:2, Now early in the morning He came again into the temple, and all the people came to Him; and He sat down and taught them. Then the scribes and Pharisees brought to Him a woman caught in adultery. And when they had set her in the midst, they said to Him, Teacher, this woman was caught in adultery, in the very act. Now Moses, in the law, commanded us that such should be stoned. But what do You say? This they said, testing Him, that they might have something of which to accuse Him. But Jesus stooped down and wrote on the ground with His finger, as though He did not hear. So when they continued asking Him, He raised Himself up and said to them, He who is without sin among you, let him throw a stone at her first. And again He stooped down and wrote on the ground. Then those who heard it, being convicted by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning with the oldest even to the last. And Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst. When Jesus had raised Himself up and saw no one but the woman, He said to her, Woman, where are those accusers of yours? Has no one condemned you? She said, No one, Lord. And Jesus said to her, Neither do I condemn you; go and sin no more.

This program is not intended to condemn anyone, but to speak the truth, in the hope that some will be set free from the things that are destroying them. Let’s turn to 1 Cor 6:9, Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.

Fornication: One flesh with someone who does not love you, and does not love God, and is in rebellion against Him. Jesus said, Those whom God has joined together, let no man put asunder. They two shall be one flesh. Through the covenant of marriage, before God and man, God joins two people together: male and female. When you fornicate, you are joining together in rebellion against God. You are becoming one flesh with someone that God did not give you. Fornication is not love. It is love of self; love of pleasure: two people seeking their own pleasure in rebellion against God. It takes away the heart; your heart is hardened through the sin; you sin against your own body. Your body is for the Lord, not for fornication.

Jesus said, Keep My commandments. He that does not love Me, does not keep My commandments, and the Word that you hear is not mine, but the Father’s who sent Me. Fornication is having sex with someone who is not your wife or your husband. A man shall leave his father and his mother and be joined to his wife. What God has joined together, let no man separate. God joins a man and a woman together through marriage, and you become one flesh. When you fornicate, or commit adultery, you are having sex with someone; becoming one flesh with someone, who God did not give you; He did not join you together. It is not love; it is selfish gratification of the lust of your flesh.

When you get married, you take responsibility for each other in love. The man commits to love and care for his wife, and support her and their children. The woman commits to care for their children and their household. The man becomes responsible before God for his wife and children, and the woman for her children and her household. With fornication, there is no commitment; no responsibility, and no love. As a Christian man, you seek God for a wife, and He gives you the woman He has chosen for you. You enter into marriage with her, and you take responsibility before Him to love her and care for her. It is a responsibility before God and man. She also commits to love her husband and children and care for them before her God, and God joins you two together as one flesh. There is the blessing, as you continue on with Jesus, in fulfilling your responsibility of love for Him and for one another.

Let’s go to Mat 5:27, You have heard that it was said to those of old, You shall not commit adultery. But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart. If your right eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and cast it from you; for it is more profitable for you that one of your members perish, than for your whole body to be cast into hell. When you marry someone you commit to one another to love one another and be faithful to one another. God joins you together and you become one flesh. Jesus said, When a man looks on a woman to lust after her, he has committed adultery already with her in his heart. In order to emphasize how serious this is, He said, If your right eye is causing you to offend, then pluck it out and cast it from you. It is better to enter into life with one eye, than to be cast into hell with two eyes. If you die in adultery, you will be cast into hell. So, just consider this for a moment: if you actually took out your right eye, do you think that would keep you from lusting after someone with your left eye? Of course not. You are lusting after them in your heart. It’s the heart that is the problem: adultery and lust in your heart. He said this to show how serious this is. Do what you have to do to put adultery out of your heart. Start by repenting; confessing your sin to God. He promised in 1 John, that He is faithful and just to forgive you of your sin and to cleanse you of all unrighteousness. Let’s go there, 1 John 1:5, This is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light and in Him is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin. If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His Word is not in us. He promised that He would set you free from sin; that’s why Jesus died for you and shed His Blood. Let’s go to John 8:31, Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed Him, If you abide in My Word, you are My disciples indeed. In the King James version it says, continue in My Word; and you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. They answered Him, we are Abraham's descendants, and have never been in bondage to anyone. How can You say, You will be made free? Jesus answered them, Most assuredly, I say to you, whoever commits sin is a slave of sin. And a slave does not abide in the house forever, but a son abides forever. Therefore if the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed.

So you take it seriously: looking and lusting after another woman, or if you are a wife, another man; very seriously, and you seek God until He delivers you. You can start by simply looking away; turning your eyes away from looking at that person and praying. Remembering your responsibility to your wife or your husband to love them and care for them. Ask the Lord for grace to help you in that time of temptation; His grace is sufficient for you. He has promised, He will help you, if you are serious; if you want His love. If you love yourself and your pleasures, you will have a hard time until you repent and call upon Him.

1 John 4:7, Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. He who does not love does not know God, for God is love. In this the love of God was manifested toward 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 loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. We love Him because He first loved us. If someone says, I love God, and hates his brother, verse 20, he is 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.

If you love Me, Jesus said, Keep My commandments. If you keep My commandments, you shall abide in My love, even as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love. Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. You are My friends if you do whatever I command you. He that says he knows Him and does not keep His commandments is a liar, and there is no truth in him, and His commandments are not grievous. This is My commandment: that you love one another as I have loved you. It is our responsibility in the love of God to love Him and keep His Words and to love one another, day to day.

Col 3:12, Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, put on tender mercies, kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering; bearing with one another, and forgiving one another, if anyone has a complaint against another; even as Christ forgave you, so you also must do. But above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfection. And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body; and be thankful.

Thank you for reading this message from 15 Minutes With Jesus at roberthaymes.com . May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with all of you who love Him in truth, Amen. (2 Cor 13:14)