WEBVTT 00:00:00.101 --> 00:00:02.565 Let's all stand together, pick your Bibles up, wave them around. 00:00:02.565 --> 00:00:05.027 Let's make Jesus glad and the devil mad. 00:00:05.027 --> 00:00:05.729 Say this together. 00:00:05.729 --> 00:00:09.089 Say Heavenly Father glad to be here on Sunday night. 00:00:09.089 --> 00:00:16.288 I need what I'm gonna hear right now, because this is a divine appointment for me. 00:00:16.288 --> 00:00:21.870 This is all part and parcel of my end time ministry. 00:00:21.870 --> 00:00:30.870 I am a believer and as a believer I have a ministry, and I thank you for what I'm gonna receive tonight. 00:00:30.870 --> 00:00:39.146 In Jesus' name, amen, you can be seated and turn in your Bibles to 1 John, chapter three. 00:00:39.606 --> 00:00:41.451 1 John, verse one. 00:00:41.451 --> 00:00:50.368 Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us that we should be called the sons of God. 00:00:50.368 --> 00:00:57.764 Therefore, the world knoweth us not because it knew him not Beloved. 00:00:57.764 --> 00:01:22.490 Now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be, but we know that when he shall appear, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is, and every man that hath this hope in him purifies himself even as he is pure. 00:01:22.490 --> 00:01:29.147 And so tonight I wanted to share a message entitled Beholding the Father's Love. 00:01:29.147 --> 00:01:33.984 It's Father's Day and I just thought we ought to study the love of the Father. 00:01:33.984 --> 00:01:37.305 Let me read it to you out of the passion translation. 00:01:37.305 --> 00:01:43.308 It's worth the extra time for three verses. 00:01:43.308 --> 00:01:53.147 Out of the passion it says look with wonder at the depth of the Father's marvelous love that he has lavished on us. 00:01:53.147 --> 00:01:54.362 Isn't that good? 00:01:54.362 --> 00:02:00.793 He has called us and made us his very own beloved children. 00:02:00.793 --> 00:02:08.921 The reason the world doesn't recognize who we are is that they didn't recognize him Beloved. 00:02:08.921 --> 00:02:10.645 We are God's children. 00:02:10.645 --> 00:02:44.106 Right now, however, it is not yet apparent what we will become, but we do know that when it is finally made visible, we will be just like him, for we will see him as he truly is, and all who focus their hope on him will always be purifying themselves, just as Jesus is pure, Beholding the Father's love. 00:02:44.159 --> 00:02:54.769 You know we need a revelation of the Father's love, and so, as you heard the other version, behold the word behold there. 00:02:54.769 --> 00:02:56.747 It means to see and to understand. 00:02:56.747 --> 00:02:58.225 It means to gaze into it. 00:02:58.225 --> 00:03:00.105 It's not a casual glance. 00:03:00.105 --> 00:03:09.770 We need to really look into the Father's love until we have a revelation of it, and the reason is because we all have various backgrounds. 00:03:09.770 --> 00:03:21.151 Some of us have strong family backgrounds, we had strong fathers that loved us, and some of us didn't have a good family. 00:03:21.151 --> 00:03:35.748 Maybe some of us came out of abusive households, but no matter how great your father was in the natural, you know we have a heavenly Father and we need to have a revelation. 00:03:36.719 --> 00:03:53.528 Behold, see and understand what manner of love in kind and degree, the kind of love and the degree of love that he has and I love. 00:03:53.528 --> 00:04:08.323 You know, looking at the words you're looking up in the in the Thayer's dictionary of Bible words, the word manner of love, it says this of what country, in other words, what? 00:04:08.323 --> 00:04:11.131 Where did this kind of love come from? 00:04:11.131 --> 00:04:14.889 What kind of a country gave birth to this kind of love? 00:04:14.889 --> 00:04:19.250 That's the kind of awe and wonder. 00:04:19.339 --> 00:04:24.944 When you really get a true revelation of how much he loves you See, that's where we have to have it. 00:04:24.944 --> 00:04:29.442 We've got to get it down to how much he loves you, amen. 00:04:29.442 --> 00:04:32.625 Before we can really get a revelation of how much he loves the sinner. 00:04:32.625 --> 00:04:39.004 You're not gonna be like Jesus and love sinners if you don't really have a revelation of how much he loves you. 00:04:39.004 --> 00:05:05.005 And if you don't have a revelation of how much he loves you, then you're gonna have a harder time doing what I was talking about this morning breaking off your rear view mirror See, and letting things that in your past limit you the woulda, coulda and shoulda of life, all of the mistakes we all make, all of the things that we're ashamed of, things that we, you know. 00:05:05.005 --> 00:05:07.045 The blood of Jesus takes all that shame. 00:05:07.045 --> 00:05:12.389 And the revelation of the Word of God, the love of God, will dissolve all of that. 00:05:12.389 --> 00:05:15.947 And all of this applies to astonishment. 00:05:15.947 --> 00:05:21.622 If we're not astonished at how much he loves us, are you with me now? 00:05:21.622 --> 00:05:24.346 We're talking about beholding the Father's love. 00:05:24.346 --> 00:05:29.028 Without this revelation, we're not gonna really reap the kind of harvest we need to reap. 00:05:29.028 --> 00:05:36.048 Because Jesus and just look how he loves sinners he was never hesitant about sinners. 00:05:36.048 --> 00:05:36.500 He didn't. 00:05:36.500 --> 00:05:39.009 He wasn't embarrassed to hang around sinners. 00:05:39.009 --> 00:05:45.925 Now, he didn't fellowship with sinners, but he would be with them long enough to talk to them, just like the woman at the well. 00:05:45.925 --> 00:05:58.879 I mean, he wasn't embarrassed to talk to her long enough for her to get so impressed that she went to her village and told everybody come see a man who told me all things ever I did. 00:05:58.879 --> 00:06:03.795 She was a little evangelist. 00:06:03.795 --> 00:06:09.480 And so the astonishment. 00:06:10.682 --> 00:06:28.416 Then it says that the Father hath bestowed, that the Father hath bestowed upon us, and so that word bestowed means to give an unearned gift. 00:06:28.416 --> 00:06:32.978 It means to a permanent and abiding gift. 00:06:32.978 --> 00:06:38.110 It means something that is for your benefit. 00:06:38.110 --> 00:06:47.418 I mean, when you get a revelation of how much God loves you, it's to your benefit. 00:06:47.418 --> 00:06:50.038 It's to your benefit. 00:06:50.038 --> 00:06:55.562 You can't be much of a benefit to anybody else if you don't realize how much he loves you. 00:06:55.562 --> 00:07:05.324 Otherwise you'll be kind of judgmental and kind of look down your nose and you'll kind of think, well, god can't love them. 00:07:05.324 --> 00:07:11.985 Look out what their life is, look how they live, look how they and you know there's a lot of that right now. 00:07:12.355 --> 00:07:17.845 We've got to get past the behavior and get down to the fact that everybody's eligible to get saved. 00:07:17.845 --> 00:07:22.401 You know God showed me this years ago. 00:07:22.401 --> 00:07:24.857 You know we talk about the rights, our rights. 00:07:24.857 --> 00:07:30.144 In America Every person has a right to hear the gospel. 00:07:30.144 --> 00:07:36.225 They have a right, they have a Bible right to hear the gospel. 00:07:36.225 --> 00:07:41.384 And if they have a right to hear the gospel, then we have an obligation to tell them the good news. 00:07:42.875 --> 00:07:56.963 I think about whoever it was the person we tried to figure out who was talking to Armando this morning, but somebody was coming around and they saw Armando and they said you know what he needs the Lord, I'm gonna tell him about glorious way. 00:07:56.963 --> 00:07:58.379 I'm gonna tell him about glorious way. 00:07:58.379 --> 00:08:00.882 And evidently they don't come here anymore. 00:08:00.882 --> 00:08:05.002 I don't know where they are, but they didn't say hey, I'm the one we haven't heard. 00:08:05.002 --> 00:08:07.021 He doesn't know who they are cause they're not here. 00:08:07.021 --> 00:08:13.879 So somebody that no longer comes here is telling him every week for like six weeks why don't you check out that church? 00:08:13.879 --> 00:08:23.024 Well, no, well, no, well, finally he did, and they both came up and the altar called and gave their hearts to Jesus and they got married. 00:08:23.024 --> 00:08:28.036 And then I mean, they got in this church and they started working to this church, working for the Lord. 00:08:28.036 --> 00:08:30.685 Amen, boy, what a testimony. 00:08:30.735 --> 00:08:31.096 I tell you. 00:08:31.096 --> 00:08:39.043 It's the love of God like that, where we don't hold back, but we first have to have that revelation ourselves. 00:08:39.043 --> 00:08:46.821 So it's been bestowed, it's been given an unearned gift that is for our benefit. 00:08:46.821 --> 00:09:00.524 And it says here that we should be called, that we should be called, or the word call there means named. 00:09:00.524 --> 00:09:03.062 We've been named literally with the name of Jesus. 00:09:03.062 --> 00:09:06.664 And then tonight I just saw that red banner. 00:09:06.664 --> 00:09:07.958 We lift that. 00:09:07.958 --> 00:09:08.982 We were singing that song. 00:09:08.982 --> 00:09:12.515 I saw that banner and I saw it kind of just wrapped around them. 00:09:12.515 --> 00:09:13.740 It wasn't like they were holding up. 00:09:13.740 --> 00:09:21.024 It was like it was wrapped around them and but we've been named with that name. 00:09:21.024 --> 00:09:29.878 Maybe your earthly father gave you your surname, or maybe you are married and so your husband gave you your name. 00:09:29.878 --> 00:09:33.898 But I tell you, the love of God gave you Jesus' name. 00:09:33.898 --> 00:09:35.403 You bear the name of Jesus. 00:09:35.403 --> 00:09:38.981 We've been named sons of God. 00:09:38.981 --> 00:09:42.802 Praise God, called or named the sons of God. 00:09:42.802 --> 00:09:50.899 I mean, you're a son of God and you know it's. 00:09:51.681 --> 00:09:55.917 Sometimes we think, well, I just don't understand why I can't connect to that person. 00:09:55.917 --> 00:09:57.557 I don't understand why they don't understand me. 00:09:57.557 --> 00:09:59.001 Sometimes it's our own family. 00:09:59.001 --> 00:10:08.921 I mean, you know, if you're saved, and even if your family saved, but they're not filled with the Holy Ghost and you're filled with the Holy Ghost, sometimes it's hard to make that connection. 00:10:08.921 --> 00:10:17.919 I mean you're talking one thing and they're over here, and it's just hard sometimes to have that familial connection that you had when you grew up. 00:10:17.919 --> 00:10:18.402 Because why? 00:10:18.402 --> 00:10:20.542 Well, because it was a different thing. 00:10:20.542 --> 00:10:25.298 You literally left your family and you came into a new family. 00:10:25.298 --> 00:10:35.903 That's why it's a little strange, and it can be strange, if your parents or your siblings aren't saved, or maybe your children aren't saved. 00:10:35.903 --> 00:10:38.619 You had that connection, you have a connection. 00:10:38.619 --> 00:10:52.505 But yet once you're saved, it's a little different, and so they don't always understand you, they don't always get where you're coming from. 00:10:52.505 --> 00:10:54.794 Anybody ever had that happen. 00:10:54.794 --> 00:11:02.267 You suddenly start getting uninvited to family reunions, especially if you speak in other tongues. 00:11:02.267 --> 00:11:10.081 If you ever slipped, you know, oh whoops, and you get those. 00:11:10.081 --> 00:11:10.322 What? 00:11:10.322 --> 00:11:11.125 What was that? 00:11:13.501 --> 00:11:21.595 First time it happened to me, it was my cousin and I was praying over her mother, my aunt, and I mean that's just how I prayed for people. 00:11:21.595 --> 00:11:23.134 I didn't know how to pray for people. 00:11:23.134 --> 00:11:26.105 I pray for people to start off in tongues. 00:11:26.105 --> 00:11:35.827 I mean, here she was in a coma, she was near death, you know, and so I started launching out. 00:11:35.827 --> 00:11:40.138 I leaned over first and I said okay, aunt Eunice, this is John Walter. 00:11:40.138 --> 00:11:43.158 They always call me John Walter, that part of the family. 00:11:43.158 --> 00:11:47.179 I was named both names John Walter, john Walter. 00:11:47.179 --> 00:11:50.600 So I had to say John Walter, because what John would it be? 00:11:50.600 --> 00:11:53.158 I don't think there was another John in the whole family, but John Walter. 00:11:53.197 --> 00:11:57.820 So I told her well, she was in a coma, yeah, but I know her spirit hurt me. 00:11:57.820 --> 00:12:02.203 I said I asked the Lord so she's not gonna hear me. 00:12:02.203 --> 00:12:06.620 Oh yes, her spirit hurt, her spirit hurt, oh yeah, huh, wow. 00:12:06.620 --> 00:12:09.062 Have you ever had Lord tell you something? 00:12:09.062 --> 00:12:10.660 And you knew that, but you didn't know it? 00:12:10.660 --> 00:12:12.318 And you feel so dumb. 00:12:12.318 --> 00:12:14.759 You know, Wow, could have had a VA. 00:12:14.759 --> 00:12:16.001 You know that kind of a feeling. 00:12:16.001 --> 00:12:21.907 And so so I've been over, I said this is John Walter. 00:12:21.907 --> 00:12:23.681 You know, today Jesus is gonna heal you. 00:12:23.681 --> 00:12:32.379 I'm here, I'm gonna pray over you, I'm gonna lay hands on you and you're not gonna die, you're gonna live and declare the works of the Lord. 00:12:32.379 --> 00:12:34.798 Well, she didn't respond. 00:12:34.879 --> 00:12:36.878 And there's Betty Lou, it's my cousin. 00:12:36.878 --> 00:12:38.576 She's there sitting there and she's listening. 00:12:38.576 --> 00:12:39.620 She's okay so far. 00:12:39.620 --> 00:12:46.822 She's a Episcopalian, a Whiscopalian, I think it's more like it, and so Whiscopalian, you know Whiscopalian. 00:12:46.822 --> 00:12:50.841 So she's okay so far. 00:12:50.955 --> 00:12:52.662 But then, man, I started off in tongues. 00:12:52.662 --> 00:12:55.182 Oh, brother, I tell you, man, she's jerk. 00:12:55.182 --> 00:12:59.738 I thought she was gonna dive out of the window in Herman Hospital. 00:12:59.738 --> 00:13:09.082 I mean they had a big window in there and I thought she was gonna whew, and what's that? 00:13:09.082 --> 00:13:10.640 I said, oh, I'm just praying. 00:13:10.640 --> 00:13:12.119 In other tongues, she said, I thought so. 00:13:13.794 --> 00:13:19.144 She furrowed her brow and then, you know, I couldn't find a place to touch my aunt. 00:13:19.144 --> 00:13:25.557 I mean, she had tubes everywhere, she was yellow, she had jaundice and what it was? 00:13:25.557 --> 00:13:33.145 She had double pneumonia, her lungs were filled with fluid and her kidneys and her organs had started failing. 00:13:33.145 --> 00:13:34.440 So they had her on dialysis. 00:13:34.440 --> 00:13:47.081 Well, the dialysis was filtering out the medicine, the antibiotics or whatever penicillin, whatever they were giving her for the pneumonia, and so it was a war. 00:13:47.081 --> 00:13:49.181 You know she's losing ground. 00:13:49.181 --> 00:13:50.916 You know fast, I'm here. 00:13:50.916 --> 00:13:56.383 She's got organ failure and then her lungs are filling up and her brain waves are almost flat. 00:13:56.383 --> 00:13:58.458 And her feet? 00:13:58.458 --> 00:14:03.859 They put tennis shoes on her feet because her feet were curling and she'd ever walked. 00:14:03.960 --> 00:14:08.076 After that she did come out of the hospital, but she was in a wheelchair from then on, but anyway. 00:14:08.076 --> 00:14:20.738 So then I found a place, just I put my two fingers on her and she went whoop, like that, just like somebody shocked her with a paddle, and then I thought my cousin again was gonna die after me. 00:14:20.738 --> 00:14:23.144 What was that? 00:14:23.144 --> 00:14:25.481 That's the power of God, your mother's healed. 00:14:25.481 --> 00:14:27.860 I didn't see any evidence of it. 00:14:27.860 --> 00:14:31.263 In two weeks she left the hospital. 00:14:31.263 --> 00:14:35.625 She lived another eight years before she went to heaven. 00:14:36.095 --> 00:14:38.423 Praise God, praise God. 00:14:38.423 --> 00:14:39.820 Oh, the love of God. 00:14:39.820 --> 00:14:48.285 When you have a revelation of the love of God, there was no way I was gonna let my aunt die because I didn't know the state of her soul. 00:14:48.285 --> 00:14:49.879 I mean, I didn't know if she was saved. 00:14:49.879 --> 00:14:53.524 I grew up, I grew up Catholic but I never noticed. 00:14:53.524 --> 00:14:55.721 I knew my other aunt and uncle. 00:14:55.721 --> 00:14:59.062 They were good Baptists, they went to church all the time, they were real. 00:14:59.062 --> 00:15:05.364 But this uncle and aunt, they did not go to church that I knew of and I didn't know if they were saved. 00:15:05.364 --> 00:15:08.365 I had never heard them say anything about anything like that. 00:15:08.365 --> 00:15:10.403 So I said God, I can't let her die. 00:15:10.403 --> 00:15:11.620 She can't die and go to hell. 00:15:11.620 --> 00:15:13.759 She has to live. 00:15:13.759 --> 00:15:14.859 I pleaded case. 00:15:14.859 --> 00:15:23.851 I pled her case and God heard me Praise God, thank God, god healed her. 00:15:25.708 --> 00:15:26.725 But the love of God I'm talking about. 00:15:26.725 --> 00:15:27.924 Come on, let's just lift our hands. 00:15:27.924 --> 00:15:34.004 Thank God, for the love of God, jesus moved with compassion and healed their sick. 00:15:34.004 --> 00:15:36.904 See, without that love we're not gonna get a harvest. 00:15:36.904 --> 00:15:37.708 We're not. 00:15:37.708 --> 00:15:44.313 And we gotta get a revelation of how much the Father loves us and how much he loves people. 00:15:44.313 --> 00:15:47.471 Amen, for God so loved the world. 00:15:47.471 --> 00:15:48.929 See, he so loved the world. 00:15:51.585 --> 00:16:04.078 You know, when Jesus was on the earth he was sent to the lost sheep of the house of Israel and you know, they just didn't get it. 00:16:04.078 --> 00:16:08.774 I mean, they were acquainted with the God of judgment. 00:16:08.774 --> 00:16:11.730 The Jews knew God as Jehovah. 00:16:11.730 --> 00:16:17.133 Jehovah means covenant, keeping God, so he was Jehovah Rafa, the Lord that healeth thee. 00:16:17.133 --> 00:16:20.033 Jehovah Jireh, the Lord, my provider. 00:16:20.033 --> 00:16:25.932 You know Jehovah Roy, which is the Lord of my shepherd, and all those seven names of God. 00:16:26.404 --> 00:16:35.475 At various times in Israel's history, god would reveal Himself through the prophets, or through the priest, or through the king or whatever. 00:16:35.475 --> 00:16:40.433 Through Moses, he would reveal Himself to Israel as Jehovah. 00:16:40.433 --> 00:16:56.615 They also knew Him as Elohim, the Creator God, and they knew Him as El Shaddai, the God who's more than enough, and he revealed Himself to Abraham as El Shaddai. 00:16:56.615 --> 00:17:00.033 But they did not know the God of love. 00:17:00.033 --> 00:17:01.691 They knew the God of judgment. 00:17:01.691 --> 00:17:03.611 They knew the God that got mad. 00:17:03.611 --> 00:17:07.973 They knew the God that said tell them not to touch the mountain or they'll die. 00:17:07.973 --> 00:17:16.132 They knew the God that opened up the ground and swallowed up dathened in the Byron for offering strange fire to the Lord. 00:17:17.885 --> 00:17:19.952 I mean, they could all recount that story. 00:17:19.952 --> 00:17:24.756 They knew the God that told, found out about Achan. 00:17:24.756 --> 00:17:39.615 You know, achan was the one that took the garments that he wasn't supposed to take and some of the gold and some of the stuff out of Jericho, everything in Jericho, the first city they conquered in the Canaan land. 00:17:39.615 --> 00:17:45.424 When Joshua led them there and they marched around Jericho and the walls fell down, god said that first city is devoted. 00:17:45.424 --> 00:17:47.372 In other words, that's a tithe. 00:17:47.372 --> 00:17:50.534 In other words, I want everything they're given to me. 00:17:50.534 --> 00:17:52.625 You don't take anything for yourself. 00:17:53.451 --> 00:17:56.671 Well, achan and his family, they just couldn't man. 00:17:56.671 --> 00:18:02.244 They liked that garment, they liked that fabric, they liked the gold coin, they liked some of this stuff. 00:18:02.244 --> 00:18:04.395 So they stole it. 00:18:04.395 --> 00:18:08.877 And so then it caused them to fail in the next city that you know. 00:18:08.877 --> 00:18:12.554 There was sin in the camp and they didn't win the next battle. 00:18:12.554 --> 00:18:18.805 And Joshua would fell on his face and cry get up off the ground, you've got sin in the camp, that's what's wrong. 00:18:18.805 --> 00:18:26.204 And God basically helped them point out the family of Achan, and then he made them stone them. 00:18:26.204 --> 00:18:32.854 All of Israel got out there and killed that entire family and all their stuff with stones. 00:18:33.449 --> 00:18:35.722 That's the God they were acquainted with. 00:18:35.722 --> 00:18:47.724 They were not acquainted with God as a father, they were not acquainted with the love of God, and so when Jesus came preaching to Israel, they couldn't relate to that God. 00:18:47.724 --> 00:18:52.479 They couldn't relate to a father that loved them, john the Baptist. 00:18:52.479 --> 00:18:56.384 They related to John the Baptist, you, generation of vipers. 00:18:56.384 --> 00:18:59.305 That was the kind of preaching they could take. 00:18:59.305 --> 00:19:02.464 They kind of liked you know what, israel in those days? 00:19:02.464 --> 00:19:04.653 They liked to get beat up. 00:19:04.653 --> 00:19:06.184 There are people like that today. 00:19:06.184 --> 00:19:11.054 They would rather go to a church and get beat up and they feel like they really went to church. 00:19:11.054 --> 00:19:18.092 If the pastor can beat them up enough, tell them they're worthless and they're sinners and everything else. 00:19:18.092 --> 00:19:19.494 They feel like man. 00:19:19.494 --> 00:19:20.376 That was powerful. 00:19:20.376 --> 00:19:22.671 I feel lower than a dog. 00:19:22.671 --> 00:19:26.461 Whoo, thank you Lord, thank you Lord, thank you Lord. 00:19:26.461 --> 00:19:35.413 Unfortunately, that's not the love of God Not gonna attract a whole lot of sinners to that message. 00:19:38.907 --> 00:19:43.009 You know, back, I grew up Catholic, you know, and Catholics are trained. 00:19:43.009 --> 00:19:44.650 How many have grew up Catholic? 00:19:44.650 --> 00:19:48.332 Y'all liars, I know there's more of you than that. 00:19:48.332 --> 00:19:50.048 Come on there. 00:19:50.048 --> 00:19:51.050 That's more hands down. 00:19:51.050 --> 00:19:58.099 I'm just joking, don't get offended, I'm just joking. 00:19:58.099 --> 00:20:03.093 So you know, catholics are trained to mistrust Protestants. 00:20:03.093 --> 00:20:05.538 Don't hang around Protestants. 00:20:05.538 --> 00:20:09.074 They'll get you caught in a Bible argument and you'll lose. 00:20:09.074 --> 00:20:10.048 Of course I'll lose. 00:20:10.048 --> 00:20:14.125 I don't know anything about the Bible. 00:20:14.125 --> 00:20:15.088 I stayed away. 00:20:16.005 --> 00:20:17.672 And then I fell in love with a Baptist girl. 00:20:17.672 --> 00:20:19.769 No, thank God. 00:20:19.769 --> 00:20:25.355 She never preached to me, though, and she thought I was saved. 00:20:25.355 --> 00:20:28.068 I mean, you know, she didn't know about Catholics, she didn't know anything about that. 00:20:28.068 --> 00:20:31.953 And she married me thinking that I was a Christian. 00:20:31.953 --> 00:20:35.453 She didn't know I was, she didn't know I was lost. 00:20:35.453 --> 00:20:37.167 I didn't know I was really. 00:20:37.167 --> 00:20:39.529 I guess I knew it, but I didn't want to admit it. 00:20:39.529 --> 00:20:47.393 But you know, you just pull back from revelation, you know. 00:20:47.393 --> 00:20:54.916 So my version of Baptist, the only Baptist that I remember, was on television. 00:20:56.988 --> 00:21:01.791 Now, this guy, he's a big fella, and in his younger days now he had kind of a. 00:21:01.791 --> 00:21:06.484 He claims he got baptized in the Holy Ghost, but without speaking in tongues. 00:21:06.484 --> 00:21:10.744 James Robinson, okay, well, I saw James Robinson in the 70s. 00:21:10.744 --> 00:21:16.338 You know, he was growling, he was preaching to God. 00:21:16.338 --> 00:21:20.795 And see, that was my version of Baptist. 00:21:20.795 --> 00:21:34.409 I didn't want nothing to do with that kind of preaching, but oh man, when I heard Brother Osteen man, that just whoo, that did it for me I said that did it for me. 00:21:34.469 --> 00:21:39.089 Man, that ministry, oh wow, thank God for the love of God. 00:21:39.089 --> 00:21:41.770 I said thank God for the love of God. 00:21:41.770 --> 00:21:46.095 So they knew God as judge, but not love. 00:21:46.095 --> 00:21:46.666 Do you see? 00:21:46.666 --> 00:21:52.608 God is love, god is love, love is God. 00:21:52.608 --> 00:21:54.990 God is love, love is God. 00:21:54.990 --> 00:21:57.298 And that's who they just didn't know. 00:21:57.298 --> 00:21:57.865 God is love. 00:21:57.865 --> 00:22:04.550 They knew God as judge and so you know, they just couldn't, they couldn't get with Jesus. 00:22:04.550 --> 00:22:12.249 They just they rejected Jesus, in no small part because they were used to that harsh revelation and all of that. 00:22:13.285 --> 00:22:20.871 In John 3.16, he said God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believe on him should not perish, have everlasting life. 00:22:20.871 --> 00:22:25.590 But the next verse I come not to condemn the world, but that the world through me might be saved. 00:22:25.590 --> 00:22:32.628 Jesus didn't come to condemn, and so when we get filled up with the love of God, we won't condemn. 00:22:32.628 --> 00:22:41.894 Now there's a difference between crying against things that are wrong in the country and then denigrating individuals. 00:22:41.894 --> 00:22:43.632 See, we've got to draw that line. 00:22:43.632 --> 00:22:45.271 That's why I'm preaching this love message. 00:22:45.271 --> 00:22:50.371 I'm preaching it to myself, because you've got to remember that people are lost and don't know it. 00:22:50.371 --> 00:22:53.992 As long as they're lost, god wants to get them saved. 00:22:53.992 --> 00:22:58.809 He wants to at least have them have a chance to hear the truth. 00:22:58.809 --> 00:23:10.611 And then, once you, once a person has heard the truth and then rejects it, then God just feels like he's did what he's supposed to do, and so? 00:23:10.611 --> 00:23:16.065 So the Father's love is now. 00:23:16.065 --> 00:23:19.041 He said now are you the sons of God? 00:23:19.041 --> 00:23:27.115 Now, and it's not yet manifested what we're gonna be Now. 00:23:27.155 --> 00:23:34.901 Most of the time when we read that, we think well, we're gonna be something when we see Jesus face to face, that's when we're gonna be different. 00:23:34.901 --> 00:23:37.001 But we're gonna be different all the time. 00:23:37.001 --> 00:23:40.564 It's not talking about just all of a sudden. 00:23:40.564 --> 00:23:45.901 Here we're like we are, and suddenly we see Jesus and all of a sudden we're just like him. 00:23:45.901 --> 00:23:47.441 No, that's not what that means. 00:23:47.441 --> 00:23:51.241 It means continually we're growing in that love. 00:23:51.241 --> 00:23:55.079 That love is shaping us, it's affecting us. 00:23:55.079 --> 00:23:59.965 That's why we have to purify ourselves as he is pure. 00:23:59.965 --> 00:24:06.340 We have to separate ourselves and consecrate ourselves as he is pure, amen. 00:24:06.340 --> 00:24:27.863 And if we do that, as we do that, and the more revelation of God's love and the more we flow in that love of God, the more we'll be changed and the more we'll be changed and the more we'll be changing, then that day when we see him, we will have grown into the people that can see him as he is because we have grown into that. 00:24:27.863 --> 00:24:30.684 Does that make sense? 00:24:30.684 --> 00:24:31.376 It's not something. 00:24:31.376 --> 00:24:32.501 This thing is gonna happen. 00:24:32.501 --> 00:24:35.964 All of a sudden we go from zero to 60 in five seconds. 00:24:35.964 --> 00:24:38.423 So you're like, no, no, we're growing all the time. 00:24:38.423 --> 00:24:41.201 Oh, I tell you, a church has to grow in the love of God. 00:24:41.201 --> 00:24:45.404 I said the church has got to grow in the love of God. 00:24:45.555 --> 00:24:51.048 Purify in verse 15, two, verse 15. 00:24:51.048 --> 00:24:54.943 Love, not the world, neither the things that are in the world. 00:24:54.943 --> 00:25:08.797 If any man loved the world, the love of the father's not in him, and see, so it says here in verse three, every man that has this hope of seeing Jesus as he is. 00:25:08.797 --> 00:25:13.323 Verse three in chapter three he purifies himself as he is pure. 00:25:13.323 --> 00:25:14.920 How do you purify yourself? 00:25:14.920 --> 00:25:16.740 You separate from the world. 00:25:16.740 --> 00:25:18.740 Now, you don't go to Mars. 00:25:18.740 --> 00:25:20.839 Not talking about going to Mars. 00:25:20.839 --> 00:25:23.722 President Trump talked about going to Mars last night. 00:25:23.722 --> 00:25:25.883 I thought, man, that's a perfect place for the Democrats. 00:25:25.883 --> 00:25:37.396 If we could send them to Mars, put them on spaceships, then we could skip Mars, all right. 00:25:43.546 --> 00:25:46.292 No, he said the love of the world. 00:25:46.292 --> 00:26:03.119 If the love of the world, looking across what God's been dealing with me about, as many other preachers saying the same thing is the lack of the fear of the Lord, there's a love of the world and the lack of the fear of the Lord. 00:26:03.119 --> 00:26:04.576 Again. 00:26:04.576 --> 00:26:17.759 God put it to me this way back in 2006, I went to Galveston to pray and he just started speaking to me and he said you know, many just tip their hat to me and go along their merry way. 00:26:17.759 --> 00:26:29.903 And he said many are satiated with the cares of this world and with the pleasures of this world and much of the care comes from the pursuit of the pleasure. 00:26:29.903 --> 00:26:33.416 And man, I mean. 00:26:33.416 --> 00:26:35.284 Satiated is not a word that I use. 00:26:35.284 --> 00:26:37.497 I mean that's a 25 cent word I had to look at. 00:26:37.497 --> 00:26:43.481 I thought I knew what it meant, but I wanted to look it up, make sure I had the right understanding of what he was telling me. 00:26:43.694 --> 00:26:45.180 But satiated means gorged. 00:26:45.180 --> 00:26:50.045 It's like me when I've eaten fajitas I'm gorged. 00:26:50.045 --> 00:26:57.097 You know the sour cream on there, guacamole, grilled onions. 00:26:57.097 --> 00:27:01.041 Man, let's break for dinner. 00:27:01.041 --> 00:27:01.983 It's eight o'clock. 00:27:01.983 --> 00:27:05.625 Oh, that's the love of the world, never mind. 00:27:05.625 --> 00:27:09.761 Well, fajitas is not the world, well anyway. 00:27:13.015 --> 00:27:32.200 So when you purify yourself, you separate yourself from just that need for entertainment, that need for constant you know constant effort toward being engaged in the worldly activities, and they're not necessarily sinful. 00:27:32.200 --> 00:27:34.619 It comes about like it's weights. 00:27:34.619 --> 00:27:47.963 You know, hebrews 13 says lay aside, or Hebrews 12, lay aside the sin and the weights and the sin that does so easily beset you, and run with patience the race that's set before you. 00:27:47.963 --> 00:27:52.938 So we have to separate ourselves, the love of God. 00:27:52.938 --> 00:28:04.167 Let's look at Matthew, chapter seven, and this is part of the beatitude. 00:28:04.167 --> 00:28:06.373 You know, the Sermon on the Mount. 00:28:06.373 --> 00:28:08.583 I mean, you know, listen to Jews, man. 00:28:08.583 --> 00:28:12.336 They had a hard time with this whole chapter five, six and seven. 00:28:12.778 --> 00:28:16.843 Jesus is telling them about the Father and they just they've got a disconnect. 00:28:16.843 --> 00:28:20.000 A lot of Christians have a disconnect. 00:28:20.000 --> 00:28:21.986 That's why it's good to read your Bible. 00:28:21.986 --> 00:28:23.642 It's good to read what Jesus said. 00:28:23.642 --> 00:28:26.061 Jesus came to reveal the Father. 00:28:26.061 --> 00:28:29.143 He said I and my Father are one. 00:28:29.143 --> 00:28:32.183 He said I only say the things I hear my Father say. 00:28:32.183 --> 00:28:34.141 I only do the things I see my Father do. 00:28:34.141 --> 00:28:38.159 So if you wanna know what the Father is like, you, look at Jesus. 00:28:38.159 --> 00:28:41.123 There is no gap between them. 00:28:41.123 --> 00:28:43.297 There's no daylight between them. 00:28:43.297 --> 00:28:52.107 They're like Jesus, is like the Father, and so he's telling them here, and he just blow their mind. 00:28:53.042 --> 00:29:08.714 He said in verse 11, if you then, being evil or natural parents, know how to give good gifts under your children, how much more everybody shout, how much more, how much more shall your Father, which is in heaven, give good things to them that ask Him. 00:29:08.714 --> 00:29:11.720 Well, they just blew their mind. 00:29:11.720 --> 00:29:13.240 They thought they had to earn everything. 00:29:13.240 --> 00:29:16.720 They thought they had to keep every law. 00:29:16.720 --> 00:29:21.220 They had to burn every incense, they had to do every little thing right. 00:29:21.220 --> 00:29:32.309 They had to offer this peace offering and that trespass offering and that sin offering and that, on and on and on, and all their different other things that they added to the law traditions of men. 00:29:32.309 --> 00:29:34.585 And then it was dicey. 00:29:34.585 --> 00:29:38.599 No, if you know how to be a good parent, he's a much better parent than you. 00:29:38.599 --> 00:29:40.948 He'll give you good things if you ask Him. 00:29:40.948 --> 00:29:46.204 And in Luke 12, 32, he said fear, not little flock. 00:29:46.204 --> 00:29:48.606 It is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom. 00:29:48.606 --> 00:29:51.826 You don't have to put, get Him in a mood. 00:29:51.826 --> 00:29:54.586 He's always in the mood to give good things. 00:29:57.980 --> 00:29:59.486 Look at John, chapter 14. 00:29:59.486 --> 00:30:01.443 Are you getting anything out of this? 00:30:01.443 --> 00:30:14.448 Everybody say I'm pursuing a revelation of the love of my Father, john 14, verse 23. 00:30:14.448 --> 00:30:24.265 Jesus answered and said unto them if a man loved me I mean if you love God then this is what you'll do. 00:30:24.265 --> 00:30:27.867 If you love Him, he will keep my words. 00:30:27.867 --> 00:30:30.988 Or he could say, he will keep my commandments. 00:30:30.988 --> 00:30:33.723 What commandments do we have to keep the 10 commandments? 00:30:33.723 --> 00:30:36.465 No, the commandment of love. 00:30:36.465 --> 00:30:40.424 That's the only commandment that Christians have is the commandment of love. 00:30:40.424 --> 00:30:56.949 He will keep my words and my Father will love Him and we and we will come unto Him and make our abode with Him. 00:30:59.340 --> 00:31:03.226 And a lot of times I'm sure they were wondering how is that ever gonna happen? 00:31:03.226 --> 00:31:08.506 You mean to tell me God the Father and God the Son are gonna come down and they're gonna live inside of me? 00:31:08.506 --> 00:31:14.423 No, but the Holy Ghost is, because the Holy Ghost is just like the Father and just like the Son. 00:31:14.423 --> 00:31:18.848 So in the stead of Father and Son. 00:31:18.848 --> 00:31:26.505 Then Jesus said the Father's gonna send you what another comforter who will live and abide with you forever. 00:31:26.505 --> 00:31:27.843 Praise God. 00:31:27.843 --> 00:31:29.644 So he is the one. 00:31:29.644 --> 00:31:48.606 Then, when we have the Holy Ghost and we've got the love of God that's been shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost, we have the very same love that the Father has for us and it's been given to us, and we can love other people with the same love that we're loved with, and the Father and Jesus abide in us. 00:31:48.606 --> 00:31:50.063 Praise God. 00:31:50.720 --> 00:32:00.749 So John in the book of John he wanted to write this about Peter because he was there when Peter kinda messed up. 00:32:00.749 --> 00:32:07.733 Peter denied the Lord and John, chapter 21,. 00:32:07.733 --> 00:32:13.500 It's interesting that the one that wrote about it was John and not Peter. 00:32:13.500 --> 00:32:26.291 Peter didn't write about it in his epistle because by the time that Peter wrote the epistle of Peter he had been delivered from the care of it, it was under the blood and he didn't ever talk about it. 00:32:26.291 --> 00:32:32.618 I mean, you ever noticed he denied the Lord three times, right, and I mean he failed. 00:32:32.618 --> 00:32:34.880 And he said Lord, no matter what, I'll be with you. 00:32:34.880 --> 00:32:39.759 Oh, peter, don't be saying that before the cockroach you'll deny me three times. 00:32:39.759 --> 00:32:40.391 And so he did. 00:32:40.391 --> 00:32:41.865 Oh, he just. 00:32:41.865 --> 00:32:44.998 And so when they got filled with the Holy Ghost, who stood up? 00:32:44.998 --> 00:32:50.973 Who stood up first, started preaching Peter, and he didn't stand up and say, well, I got a confession to make. 00:32:50.973 --> 00:32:54.009 You know, I denied the Lord. 00:32:54.009 --> 00:32:56.519 Yeah, I tell you, I just feel so bad. 00:32:56.519 --> 00:32:59.319 No, he just stood up and preached. 00:32:59.319 --> 00:33:02.480 I mean, he got so free he never thought about it again. 00:33:02.480 --> 00:33:05.846 That's why we need to be, we need to, we need to a lot. 00:33:05.846 --> 00:33:15.259 Look back, but John wrote all about it and he wrote about the kind of the healing part of this. 00:33:15.259 --> 00:33:19.772 So here in John, john 21, 15. 00:33:21.829 --> 00:33:30.119 So when they had dined, jesus said to Simon Peter Simon, son of Jonah's, love us thou me more than these and he's talked about the disciples, I guess. 00:33:30.119 --> 00:33:33.299 And he said yes, lord, thou knowest that I love thee. 00:33:33.299 --> 00:33:36.358 He said feed my lambs. 00:33:36.358 --> 00:33:40.719 So that love is the agape love. 00:33:40.719 --> 00:33:43.791 Do you love me with the same love that the Father loves you? 00:33:43.791 --> 00:33:45.857 Do you agape me? 00:33:45.857 --> 00:33:47.472 Agape is the love of God. 00:33:47.472 --> 00:33:49.527 And so he said yes. 00:33:49.527 --> 00:33:57.356 And then he said again second time Simon, son of Jonah's, love us thou me fillet. 00:33:57.356 --> 00:33:58.586 Oh, thou me Fillet. 00:33:58.586 --> 00:34:00.438 Oh is the love of man. 00:34:00.438 --> 00:34:02.659 It's the kind of love that says I love you. 00:34:02.659 --> 00:34:07.039