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SPEAKER_02: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_02: Let's go to John 13.
SPEAKER_02: And of course, we just had been teaching over the last number of weeks on um influencing others, a heart for the harvest.
SPEAKER_02: And there's some things the Lord has been wanting me to get into, and I've been waiting, and uh we want to begin that tonight.
SPEAKER_02: And I'm calling this the core values of the believer.
SPEAKER_02: The core values of the believer.
SPEAKER_02: On uh April 26th of 2024, uh 1045 a.m.
SPEAKER_02: Uh at the 1045 a.m.
SPEAKER_02: service, I was sitting in Faith Life Church in Branson, and I had uh I had traveled there with Brother Jerry, and uh he was ministering.
SPEAKER_02: It was a Saturday, it was our last meeting, our last service, and I was listening to him minister, and I didn't obviously didn't know it at the time, but that would be the last time I would ever hear him live as he went to home to be with the Lord a couple weeks after that.
SPEAKER_02: But as I was sitting there listening to him minister, uh the Lord said to me, He said, These are the core values of the believer.
SPEAKER_02: And uh I started writing them down.
SPEAKER_02: He gave me seven things that he said were the core values of the believer.
SPEAKER_02: And the first one is put the word first place.
SPEAKER_02: Put the word first place.
SPEAKER_02: Um the second is determined to walk by faith.
SPEAKER_02: Determined to walk by faith, put the word first, determined to walk by faith.
SPEAKER_02: Number three is refuse to be critical.
SPEAKER_02: Refuse to be critical.
SPEAKER_02: Number four is determined to be thankful.
SPEAKER_02: Determine to be thankful.
SPEAKER_02: Number five, determined to walk in love.
SPEAKER_02: Determined to walk in love.
SPEAKER_02: The sixth one is determined to be led by the Spirit through the inner man.
SPEAKER_02: Determined to be led by the Spirit through the inner man.
SPEAKER_02: And number seven is refuse to be double-minded.
SPEAKER_02: Refuse to be double-minded.
SPEAKER_02: So put the word first place, determined to walk by faith, refuse to be critical, determined to be thankful, determined to walk in love, determined to be led by the Spirit through the inner man, and refuse to be double-minded.
SPEAKER_02: And over the span of the next few weeks, we'll deal with all seven of those.
SPEAKER_02: Uh we probably won't get through all of them, I mean all any one of them in one service, but uh we'll deal with all of them.
SPEAKER_02: And we want to center up in the beginning on the fifth one, determined to walk in love.
SPEAKER_02: And here's why.
SPEAKER_02: Everything on this list cannot be done if I'm not walking in love.
SPEAKER_02: None of it can be done if I'm not walking in love.
SPEAKER_02: Now, when we talk about walking in love, of course, there are preconceived ideas that people have.
SPEAKER_02: You know, when you start talking about walking in love, in most cases, you know, you're going to hear stories about, you know, somebody got mad in the traffic and they were uh getting frustrated at the guy in front of them.
SPEAKER_02: And, you know, I used to hear that, and and I've probably even told those stories.
SPEAKER_02: And one day it just hit me, how immature are we?
SPEAKER_02: That we're mad and throwing a fit at the guy in front of us because of the way he drives.
SPEAKER_02: How immature is that?
SPEAKER_02: That we can get out of the spirit and into the flesh because of a bad driver.
SPEAKER_02: So to me, that is not so much walking in love as it is grow up.
SPEAKER_02: Right?
SPEAKER_02: And then we'll talk about, well, you know, if you want walk in love, you won't be offended.
SPEAKER_02: Again, grow up and you won't be defended, offended.
SPEAKER_02: Grow up and my feelings won't get hurt.
SPEAKER_02: But all of that growing up has to do with love.
SPEAKER_02: This is important.
SPEAKER_02: And so in John chapter thirteen, verse thirty-four.
SPEAKER_02: But nonetheless, Jesus, this is the the verse that we're referencing is Jesus said, A new commandment I give you.
SPEAKER_02: John 13, 34, a new commandment I give unto you.
SPEAKER_02: Right?
SPEAKER_02: And notice that you love one another as I have loved you.
SPEAKER_02: So you should love one another.
SPEAKER_02: That's why I couldn't find it.
SPEAKER_02: I was in the book of Acts.
SPEAKER_02: I'm ahead of myself.
SPEAKER_02: But then verse 35 by this shall all men know that you're my disciples if you have love one for another.
SPEAKER_02: So he says two things here.
SPEAKER_02: He says the New Testament commandment is love, and that the way that people will know that you are his disciples is that you love each other.
SPEAKER_02: Now, this is important.
SPEAKER_02: Not that you love the world, that you love each other.
SPEAKER_02: Of course, we love the world, but almost every reference in the New Testament that has to do with love and walking in love is the believer walking in love with their fellow believers.
SPEAKER_02: The proof that I love the world is that I witness to them, I share the gospel with them.
SPEAKER_02: I don't live with them.
SPEAKER_02: I don't fellowship with them.
SPEAKER_02: They're not my close companions.
SPEAKER_02: You are.
SPEAKER_02: And so my love walk is towards my fellow believer.
SPEAKER_02: So the new covenant commandment is love.
SPEAKER_02: And he said that is the evidence that we're his disciples.
SPEAKER_02: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_02: A life of faith is powered by a life of love.
SPEAKER_02: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_02: In John chapter 8 and verse 23, this is where we'll begin our teaching.
SPEAKER_02: Jesus said unto them, You are from beneath, I am from above.
SPEAKER_02: You are of this world.
SPEAKER_02: I am not of this world.
SPEAKER_02: Alright?
SPEAKER_02: You are of this world.
SPEAKER_02: I am not of this world.
SPEAKER_02: Now here's the thing.
SPEAKER_02: Most believers have no trouble believing that Jesus was not of this world.
SPEAKER_02: All right?
SPEAKER_02: Well, of course.
SPEAKER_02: He was the Son of God.
SPEAKER_02: He came down from heaven.
SPEAKER_02: Well, John 17 and verse 14.
SPEAKER_02: We'll read two verses here in John 17.
SPEAKER_02: John 17, 14.
SPEAKER_02: Jesus praying for his disciples and for us says, I have given them your word, and the world has hated them, because they are not of this world, even as I am not of this world.
SPEAKER_02: Now, you can do it with that whatever you want, but Jesus, my elder brother, the Son of God, said, I'm not of the world, just like he's not of the world.
SPEAKER_02: The key is in that word of, the preposition of, that denotes the origin of a thing or the source of a thing.
SPEAKER_02: All right.
SPEAKER_02: The source, the origin of the believer is not the world.
SPEAKER_02: I am not of the world.
SPEAKER_02: I am of heaven.
SPEAKER_02: I am of God.
SPEAKER_02: I am of the Spirit.
SPEAKER_02: Remember, that's what he told Nicodemus.
SPEAKER_02: He said, You've got to be born again of the water and of the spirit.
SPEAKER_02: And the moment that you're born again of the Spirit, you're no longer of this world.
SPEAKER_02: No longer.
SPEAKER_02: Now, amen.
SPEAKER_02: In verse 16, notice he says, they, talking about the disciples and us, they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
SPEAKER_02: You know, as a believer, don't overlook those verses where Jesus says, even as I am not.
SPEAKER_02: Because he's explaining something to us.
SPEAKER_02: You know, somewhere religion got in there, and hear me when I say this, somewhere religion got in there, and they caused people to debase themselves, somehow we're less than God says we are.
SPEAKER_02: Here's the thing.
SPEAKER_02: If you have three buckets and you have water in all three buckets, and you take the water out of two buckets and you pour it all in the third bucket, well, you got water from all three of those buckets in one bucket.
SPEAKER_02: Is that right?
SPEAKER_02: So the water in that bucket is from all three buckets.
SPEAKER_02: I have the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit on the inside of me.
SPEAKER_02: My nature is not a sin nature.
SPEAKER_02: My nature is not the old man.
SPEAKER_02: The old man is dead.
SPEAKER_02: Now we know that, but that's why we're not of this world.
SPEAKER_02: That's why the things that God asks us to do are easier than people make them out, because my nature has changed.
SPEAKER_02: The flesh rules people because they let the flesh rule them.
SPEAKER_02: They choose to walk after the flesh.
SPEAKER_02: Over and over again, we see the word yield in the Bible.
SPEAKER_02: Paul says over and over again in the book of Romans, he said, Don't yield your members as instruments of sin, of unrighteousness unto sin, but yield your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.
SPEAKER_02: I've got to yield my members.
SPEAKER_02: I've got to yield my mind to offense.
SPEAKER_02: I've got to yield my heart to unforgiveness.
SPEAKER_02: I've got to yield my heart to the things of the flesh because I'm not of the world.
SPEAKER_02: It is easier to live like who you are than who you used to be.
SPEAKER_02: And I've got to make that decision that I'm going to live like who I am.
SPEAKER_02: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_02: Do you see that?
SPEAKER_02: Amen.
SPEAKER_02: We got a lot of Flip Wilson theology in the church.
SPEAKER_02: The devil made me do it.
SPEAKER_02: Well, the devil can't make anybody do anything.
SPEAKER_02: This is so important.
SPEAKER_02: Because when the Apostle Paul talked about the old man dying and the old man being crucified with Christ, right?
SPEAKER_02: He said, Yet I live.
SPEAKER_02: Right?
SPEAKER_02: The enemy has no attraction to my new nature.
SPEAKER_02: I don't listen to his voice.
SPEAKER_02: That's why he deals with this outer ear and this mind.
SPEAKER_02: He can't do anything with my spirit.
SPEAKER_02: Because my spirit won't listen to him.
SPEAKER_02: Remember what Jesus said?
SPEAKER_02: He said, My sheep know my voice, another they won't follow.
SPEAKER_02: Well, if I'm his sheep, I'm of God.
SPEAKER_02: I can't be his sheep and not be of God.
SPEAKER_02: But because I'm of God, I'm his sheep, so I know his voice and another voice I won't follow.
SPEAKER_02: Why I'm not of, I'm not of this world.
SPEAKER_02: Amen.
SPEAKER_02: And that's why it's always important when you're seeing the world in the Bible that you're translating and meditating, that it's not this planet that we're living on, it's the society, it's the spiritual aspect of this world.
SPEAKER_02: I'm not of it.
SPEAKER_02: And that's why it doesn't bother me.
SPEAKER_02: You know, you'll talk to people and they'll say, Can you believe the shape this world's in?
SPEAKER_02: Well, yeah, of course I can.
SPEAKER_02: It's under the curse.
SPEAKER_02: Of course.
SPEAKER_02: But I'm not under the curse.
SPEAKER_02: Say it out loud, I am of God.
SPEAKER_02: Just as Jesus was of God.
SPEAKER_02: Amen.
SPEAKER_02: So we're not of this world.
SPEAKER_02: Now that's important.
SPEAKER_02: Because when you talk about things like walking in love and you talk about things like living by love, there's gotta be a reason that it's possible.
SPEAKER_02: Look at 1 John 4.
SPEAKER_02: I'm I'm really tonight, I'm setting the stage here because hallelujah.
SPEAKER_02: If you grab a hold of this, you'll go bear hunting with a switch.
SPEAKER_02: Glory to God.
SPEAKER_02: 1 John 4 and 4.
SPEAKER_02: Now notice this.
SPEAKER_02: Over and over again in 1 John, we see this phrase you are of God little children, and have overcome them, because greater is he that's in you than he that's in the world.
SPEAKER_02: Now you'll hear that quoted all the time in church.
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, greater is he that's in us than he that's in the world, but you don't hear you are of God.
SPEAKER_02: Because nobody wants to get close to that line.
SPEAKER_02: Well, I don't want anybody to think I'm calling myself God.
SPEAKER_02: I didn't I didn't say I was of God.
SPEAKER_02: God's word said I was of God.
SPEAKER_02: Amen.
SPEAKER_02: Do you see that?
SPEAKER_02: You know, you're your your children, they are of you.
SPEAKER_02: I mean, you never say that to them.
SPEAKER_02: I don't want anybody to think my children are me.
SPEAKER_02: Well, they are of you.
SPEAKER_02: Right?
SPEAKER_02: If I see your son or your daughter, I can see you, fortunately or unfortunately, in them.
SPEAKER_02: Right?
SPEAKER_02: Just the same way with me.
SPEAKER_02: You see my kids.
SPEAKER_02: If you see my youngest son, you've seen me.
SPEAKER_02: That's just the way it is.
SPEAKER_02: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_02: He is of Philip.
SPEAKER_02: He is of, you are of God.
SPEAKER_02: Say out loud, I am of God.
SPEAKER_02: So why do I overcome the world?
SPEAKER_02: Because I'm of God.
SPEAKER_02: The Bible says, whatsoever is of born of God overcometh the world.
SPEAKER_02: Is that right?
SPEAKER_02: Verse 6.
SPEAKER_02: You are of God.
SPEAKER_02: He that knows God hears us.
SPEAKER_02: He that is not of God does not hear us.
SPEAKER_02: This is how we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.
SPEAKER_02: So we are of God.
SPEAKER_02: It denotes origin.
SPEAKER_02: Our origin is we are of or we are out of God.
SPEAKER_02: You and I, we are as believers, we are out of God.
SPEAKER_02: God is our father.
SPEAKER_02: That's not just a religious statement.
SPEAKER_02: That's not just some religious prayer.
SPEAKER_02: Oh, my father in heaven.
SPEAKER_02: He really is.
SPEAKER_02: He is your father in heaven.
SPEAKER_02: The Bible says in the book of Hebrews, you'll remember, we've had fathers in the flesh.
SPEAKER_02: And then he said, but here's how you walk in victory is you submit yourself to the father of spirits, which is your father.
SPEAKER_02: And that's why you've got to consistently look at this body as a carrying case of your spirit.
SPEAKER_02: If you look in the mirror and you say that's you, you're going to have a hard time with this.
SPEAKER_02: That's not you.
SPEAKER_02: That's what carries you around.
SPEAKER_02: That's not you.
SPEAKER_02: The body is not me.
SPEAKER_02: I will never die.
SPEAKER_02: You will never die.
SPEAKER_02: I'm wall-to-wall, Holy Ghost.
SPEAKER_02: And so are you.
SPEAKER_02: So the body is not me.
SPEAKER_02: And so when people start making decisions based on the body, based on their mind, based on what they feel they can do or not do, based on their failures, based on their past, based on the mistakes they've always made, based on how it seems like they always do this, they will never get victory over those things because they're not seeing themselves as who they are.
SPEAKER_02: They're still seeing the body as them.
SPEAKER_02: And the Bible says that if you're born again, the body is dead because of sin, but the spirit is alive because of Christ.
SPEAKER_02: So this body, this body is a carrying case.
SPEAKER_02: It's an instrument that's either used by God or by the flesh.
SPEAKER_02: It's my choice.
SPEAKER_02: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_02: Amen.
SPEAKER_02: I hear people, people that I respect, people that I have great honor for.
SPEAKER_02: You know pushing this idea that you have a dual nature.
SPEAKER_02: You can't have a dual nature.
SPEAKER_02: It's impossible.
SPEAKER_02: Biblically, it's impossible.
SPEAKER_02: Amen.
SPEAKER_02: And I know you know this, but I'm going to tell you anyway.
SPEAKER_02: I don't care.
SPEAKER_02: I have the gift of redundancy.
SPEAKER_02: Every time that a Christian calls himself a sinner, it's a slap in God's face.
SPEAKER_02: It's a desecration of the blood of Jesus Christ.
SPEAKER_02: I am not a sinner.
SPEAKER_02: I'm a saint.
SPEAKER_02: I'm the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus.
SPEAKER_02: Amen.
SPEAKER_02: Preach on.
SPEAKER_02: This is important.
SPEAKER_02: Why?
SPEAKER_02: Because if you're going to walk in spiritual things, you've got to see yourself as capable.
SPEAKER_02: People don't do things because they don't see themselves as capable.
SPEAKER_02: Amen.
SPEAKER_02: Now, in 1 John 5, whoo, glory.
SPEAKER_02: I did it.
SPEAKER_02: I apologize.
SPEAKER_02: I preached myself happy already.
SPEAKER_02: It don't take much.
SPEAKER_02: 1 John 5.
SPEAKER_02: I'm like Brother Larry.
SPEAKER_02: Brother Larry said, Sunday, we're liable to have a runaway.
SPEAKER_02: That's about right.
SPEAKER_02: We just might.
SPEAKER_02: Clear the runway.
SPEAKER_02: Whew, glory.
SPEAKER_02: 1 John 5 and verse 18.
SPEAKER_02: We know that whatsoever or whosoever is born of God does not sin, but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one touches him not.
SPEAKER_02: Now here's what I want you to see.
SPEAKER_02: Born of God, begotten of God.
SPEAKER_02: I'm begotten of God.
SPEAKER_02: You're begotten of God.
SPEAKER_02: We're born of God.
SPEAKER_02: And notice what it says.
SPEAKER_02: This is not what we're teaching on tonight, but notice what it says.
SPEAKER_02: It just states it as a fact.
SPEAKER_02: Whosoever is born of God overcomes.
SPEAKER_02: Doesn't sin.
SPEAKER_02: Now that word is doesn't habitually sin, does not practice sin.
SPEAKER_02: Alright?
SPEAKER_02: But here's the point.
SPEAKER_02: Why?
SPEAKER_02: I'm born of God.
SPEAKER_02: There's no sin in my spirit.
SPEAKER_02: There's no sin in your spirit.
SPEAKER_02: Can't be.
SPEAKER_02: It's of God.
SPEAKER_02: There's no sin in God.
SPEAKER_02: Well, then who sins?
SPEAKER_02: Well, my flesh sins.
SPEAKER_02: Why does my flesh sin?
SPEAKER_02: Because I choose not to walk in the spirit.
SPEAKER_02: He said, Walk in the spirit, you won't fulfill the lust of the flesh.
SPEAKER_02: You see how simple it is, and yet at the same time challenging?
SPEAKER_02: Because I gotta admit, why didn't we?
SPEAKER_02: Walk in the Spirit.
SPEAKER_02: That's why that happened.
SPEAKER_02: Amen.
SPEAKER_02: Verse 19.
SPEAKER_02: And we know that we are of God.
SPEAKER_02: And the whole world lies in wickedness.
SPEAKER_02: So we're of God.
SPEAKER_02: We are begotten of God.
SPEAKER_02: That word begotten, it carries the idea of procreation, to procreate.
SPEAKER_02: And so I was procreated by God.
SPEAKER_02: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_02: And I am of Him.
SPEAKER_02: As believers, we were fathered by God.
SPEAKER_02: God's our Father.
SPEAKER_02: The DNA of God is in our spirits.
SPEAKER_02: In 1 John chapter 4 and verse 16.
SPEAKER_02: And we have known and believed the love that God has to us.
SPEAKER_02: God is love.
SPEAKER_02: And he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God and God in him.
SPEAKER_02: So notice God is love.
SPEAKER_02: God is agape.
SPEAKER_02: God is divine self-sacrificial love.
SPEAKER_02: So why does God love?
SPEAKER_02: Because God's love.
SPEAKER_02: So at the very core of my nature as a believer is love.
SPEAKER_02: At the very core is love.
SPEAKER_02: In 1 John 4, verse 7.
SPEAKER_02: Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God.
SPEAKER_02: And everyone that loveth is born of God and knoweth God.
SPEAKER_02: He that does not love does not know God, for God is love.
SPEAKER_02: That's pretty strong.
SPEAKER_02: No love.
SPEAKER_02: John says it's because they don't know God.
SPEAKER_02: Right?
SPEAKER_02: So somebody will say, Well, I don't understand how they could treat me that way.
SPEAKER_02: We just found out.
SPEAKER_02: Amen.
SPEAKER_02: The Weast Bible says, divinely loved ones.
SPEAKER_02: Let us be habitually loving one another with a divine self-sacrificial love.
SPEAKER_02: Every time you read the word love as it pertains to between believers, it's always divine self-sacrificial love.
SPEAKER_02: Always agape.
SPEAKER_02: Divine self-sacrificial love.
SPEAKER_02: Now, why is that important?
SPEAKER_02: Because that's how we're to live our life.
SPEAKER_02: Towards other believers.
SPEAKER_02: Divine self-sacrificial.
SPEAKER_02: And he says to be habitually doing that.
SPEAKER_02: Amen.
SPEAKER_02: And he said, because this aforementioned love is out of God as a source, and everyone who is in this manner habitually loving out of God has been born with the present result that he is regenerated and knows God in an experiential way.
SPEAKER_02: The one who is not habitually loving in this manner has not come to know God because God, as to his nature, is love.
SPEAKER_02: And so it's this habitual idea.
SPEAKER_02: They're habitually walking in love.
SPEAKER_02: And he says there are people that are habitually not walking in love.
SPEAKER_02: And he said, here's why.
SPEAKER_02: They don't know God.
SPEAKER_02: Now I know that people could come up with people and say, well, I know that person's a Christian and they don't walk in love and they're this and they're that.
SPEAKER_02: There's an area of their life they don't know God.
SPEAKER_02: God is not operating at full capacity in that situation.
SPEAKER_02: The nature of God within us causes us to habitually walk in love.
SPEAKER_02: Habitually.
SPEAKER_02: The nature of God in us causes us to habitually walk in love.
SPEAKER_02: John says that the evidence that we've been regenerated and that we know God is what?
SPEAKER_02: Habitually walking in love.
SPEAKER_02: The evidence that you are God's child is that you walk in love.
SPEAKER_02: Now we're going to get into this in a minute.
SPEAKER_02: Not that you speak in tongues, not that you do spiritual things, but that you walk in love.
SPEAKER_02: Amen.
SPEAKER_02: Say it out loud.
SPEAKER_02: The evidence is that I walk in love.
SPEAKER_02: See, I am of God, so I am of love.
SPEAKER_02: And I'm not going to get into all these clichaic things, but you know, you'll hear people say, Ah, that person plucking my last nerve.
SPEAKER_02: They're just whatever.
SPEAKER_02: Now come on.
SPEAKER_02: I am born of God.
SPEAKER_02: I have God's nature on the inside of me.
SPEAKER_02: If there's any being in the cosmos that you could possibly pluck their last nerve, it would have to be God.
SPEAKER_02: Because he deals with some ignorant people.
SPEAKER_02: Right?
SPEAKER_02: Myself included.
SPEAKER_02: Right?
SPEAKER_02: So if anybody could pluck his last nerve, it's me.
SPEAKER_02: Right?
SPEAKER_02: But what what what happens?
SPEAKER_02: He it never happens.
SPEAKER_02: Why?
SPEAKER_02: Because he is of his nature, love.
SPEAKER_02: Listen, have you have you ever been like in a restaurant?
SPEAKER_02: I I had a relative.
SPEAKER_02: They're not they're in heaven now.
SPEAKER_02: And I had a relative, and they were really bad about this.
SPEAKER_02: If uh if they were we were in a restaurant and there was like a crying child or something, oh, they'd mean mug.
SPEAKER_02: Well, I mean, you know, you're not helping anything.
SPEAKER_02: But here's the thing.
SPEAKER_02: Have you ever noticed like a mother dealing with a crying, fussing baby?
SPEAKER_02: They're like they're patient, right?
SPEAKER_02: They're they're they're trying to figure out how to fix it.
SPEAKER_02: Are they hungry?
SPEAKER_02: Do they need a change?
SPEAKER_02: Are they hot?
SPEAKER_02: Do we need to walk?
SPEAKER_02: Do we need to bounce?
SPEAKER_02: What do we need to do?
SPEAKER_02: Right?
SPEAKER_02: What's the difference?
SPEAKER_02: That child is of them.
SPEAKER_02: They love that child.
SPEAKER_02: Now we're not going to go there tonight, but the one of the first things the Bible says about love is that love is patient.
SPEAKER_02: And that love is kind while it's patient.
SPEAKER_02: And so, as the illustration is, you see that that mother caring for that child.
SPEAKER_02: They're not frustrated at the child.
SPEAKER_02: They're trying to find out how to help the child, right?
SPEAKER_02: It's other people.
SPEAKER_02: And what's bothering them?
SPEAKER_02: The loudness.
SPEAKER_02: They're causing my dinner not to be what I want it to be.
SPEAKER_02: They're causing a problem or whatever the case may be.
SPEAKER_02: But the mother is habitually walking in love.
SPEAKER_02: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_02: The nature of God within me.
SPEAKER_02: Walking in love should not be hard or foreign to the believer.
SPEAKER_02: It should not be hard or foreign to the believer.
SPEAKER_02: Because we're of God, so we're of love.
SPEAKER_02: That's my nature.
SPEAKER_02: My nature is to walk in love.
SPEAKER_02: I remember years ago, decades now, I read the verse where Paul said, I exercise myself to have a conscience void of offense towards all men.
SPEAKER_02: And I figured something out when I read that verse.
SPEAKER_02: If he wrote that in the Bible, inspired by the Holy Spirit, it is possible for Philip to have a conscience void of offense.
SPEAKER_02: So why would I ever allow myself to be offended when it is an affront to my spirit?
unknown: Right?
SPEAKER_02: It's not my spirit being offended, it's me being offended.
SPEAKER_02: Right?
SPEAKER_02: In every situation.
SPEAKER_02: Let's go to Romans 5.
SPEAKER_02: Am I helping you at all?
SPEAKER_02: And you know, I'm I'm a little different than some.
SPEAKER_02: I don't preach on love, you know, with a gotcha motive.
SPEAKER_02: You know, it's it's not trying to catch somebody doing something wrong.
SPEAKER_02: Amen.
SPEAKER_02: I I read the scripture also where Paul wrote years ago to the church, and he said to that church, he said, I am persuaded of better things than that of you.
SPEAKER_02: I'm persuaded that you're doing better than you think you're doing.
SPEAKER_02: Amen.
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I'm your pastor.
SPEAKER_02: I believe in you.
SPEAKER_02: And I don't think anybody's running around offended.
SPEAKER_02: When I teach on these things, it's I'm not teaching on it because I think you're not walking in love.
SPEAKER_02: If something applies to you, then just deal with it, chew it up, swallow it, and go on, right?
SPEAKER_02: But here's the thing: it's it's it's not trying to get somebody or trying to put pressure on somebody.
SPEAKER_02: Romans 5, verse 1.
SPEAKER_02: I tried to shrink this series of verses down, but you just can't.
SPEAKER_02: Verse 1, he says, Therefore, being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand and rejoice in the hope of the glory of God.
SPEAKER_02: And not only so, but we glory in tribulations, knowing that tribulations work patience.
SPEAKER_02: Tribulation worketh patience.
SPEAKER_02: Trying times, pressure is what it means.
SPEAKER_02: And it works patience.
SPEAKER_02: All right?
SPEAKER_02: Now notice it didn't say God sends the tribulation.
SPEAKER_02: Now that's not my message, but if you live in this earth, you're gonna have pressure.
SPEAKER_02: And what does it do?
SPEAKER_02: It works patience.
SPEAKER_02: And patience experience, and experience hope.
SPEAKER_02: Well, why is that?
SPEAKER_02: Because you look back on the experience you had before, and God brought you out, so you have hope that God will do it again.
SPEAKER_02: And that hope is expectation, it's a picture.
SPEAKER_02: So what am I what do I have?
SPEAKER_02: I have a picture.
SPEAKER_02: God already brought me out, he'll bring me out again, right?
SPEAKER_02: And it says that it works hope.
SPEAKER_02: And hope does not make ashamed.
SPEAKER_02: Now, when it says hope does not make ashamed, it's hope does not disappoint.
SPEAKER_02: In other words, you'll never hope in God and be disappointed.
SPEAKER_02: You'll never do what God said and be disappointed.
SPEAKER_02: Amen.
SPEAKER_02: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_02: And he said, Notice, because the love of God, the love of who?
SPEAKER_02: The love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost, which is given unto us.
SPEAKER_02: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_02: The wee Bible says the love of God has been poured in our hearts and still floods them through the agency of the Holy Spirit, who is given to us.
SPEAKER_02: So the agape love of God has been poured into our hearts and still floods them.
SPEAKER_02: Right?
SPEAKER_02: I was teaching a message one time and I said, here's the issue.
SPEAKER_02: You always have this endless supply of love because the Holy Spirit's always pouring it into your heart.
SPEAKER_02: One of the jobs of the Holy Spirit is not only to tell you how much God loves you, but to keep you supplied with the love of God.
SPEAKER_02: Amen.
SPEAKER_02: This means I always have a more than adequate supply of the love of God for whatever I may meet, no matter what I may encounter.
SPEAKER_02: I always have a more than adequate supply of the love of God.
SPEAKER_02: I used to have a Noah preacher when I was growing up.
SPEAKER_02: He was from Ponka City, Oklahoma.
SPEAKER_02: And if you've ever been through Ponka City, Oklahoma, you understand there's nothing there.
SPEAKER_02: But anyway, like most places in Oklahoma, but anyway, we're not going to get over on Oklahoma.
SPEAKER_02: But he would always say this well, I love you because I'm commanded to.
SPEAKER_02: Wrong answer.
SPEAKER_02: It's easy for me to love you because the love of God is constantly poured into my heart by the Holy Ghost.
SPEAKER_02: Say it out loud.
SPEAKER_02: I love everybody all the time, every time.
SPEAKER_02: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_02: Now you might have said that by faith.
SPEAKER_02: I have.
SPEAKER_02: And uh you can maybe even quote it.
SPEAKER_02: But it says, though I speak with the tongues of men and angels, and do not have love, that's agape.
SPEAKER_02: When you look up the word charity, it's agape, and do not have agape love, divine self-sacrificial love, I am become as a sounding brass or a tinkling symbol, and though I have the gift of prophecy and understand all mysteries, and have all knowledge, and though I have all faith that I can remove mountains and have not agape, I am nothing.
SPEAKER_02: I am nothing.
SPEAKER_02: So love is what makes spiritual gifts effective and spiritual things effective.
SPEAKER_02: Notice he says, without love, giving a message in tongues is just noise.
SPEAKER_02: Amen.
SPEAKER_02: It's just noise without love.
SPEAKER_02: The spiritual gift of prophecy, the word of wisdom, the word of knowledge, the gift of faith that will remove the weast Bible says mountain after mountain without love.
SPEAKER_02: One translation says I'm a useless nobody.
SPEAKER_02: And he just said, I can work in the word of wisdom, the word of knowledge, the gift of faith, but without love, I'm nobody.
SPEAKER_02: A useless nobody.
SPEAKER_02: One translation says I'm just annoying.
SPEAKER_02: Amen.
SPEAKER_02: Spiritual activity does not prove maturity.
SPEAKER_02: Where I went to school, who I know, how long I've been saved, how much scripture I know doesn't prove maturity.
SPEAKER_02: There are people I know 80 years old that are immature.
SPEAKER_02: Because length of time saved does not mean you're mature.
SPEAKER_02: It's how do you walk in spiritual things?
SPEAKER_02: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_02: Do you see this?
SPEAKER_02: The evidence that I'm maturing is that I can walk in love with those around me.
SPEAKER_02: Walking in love is more important than prophesying.
SPEAKER_02: In 1 Corinthians 12, verse 29, Paul says, by the Holy Spirit, are all apostles, are all prophets, are all teachers, are all workers of miracles?
SPEAKER_02: No, they're not.
SPEAKER_02: Have all the gifts of healing?
SPEAKER_02: No.
SPEAKER_02: Do all speak with tongues, the meaning the gift of tongues?
SPEAKER_02: No.
SPEAKER_02: Do all interpret?
SPEAKER_02: No.
SPEAKER_02: But covet earnestly the best gifts.
SPEAKER_02: And yet I show you a more excellent way.
SPEAKER_02: The Weast Bible says, yet I point out a super excellent way.
SPEAKER_02: So I need to be zealous after the spiritual gifts, but I want to walk in this super excellent way.
SPEAKER_02: Not everybody will operate in the gifts of the Spirit, but everybody can walk in love.
SPEAKER_02: Now it's great if God uses a person, but it's better for the hearer that they know that person's walking in love.
SPEAKER_02: This is somewhere you gotta, you've gotta constantly be checking up on yourself.
SPEAKER_02: Am I walking in love here?
SPEAKER_02: Because the Holy Spirit calls love the super excellent way.
SPEAKER_02: So as we pursue love, we place ourselves in a position to be used by God in other areas.
SPEAKER_02: But I need to pursue love first.
SPEAKER_02: Then God will open up other areas for me to be used.
SPEAKER_02: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_02: This is important.
SPEAKER_02: Because once again, when I'm walking in love, you know, Paul made the statement in Galatians, he said, My little children in whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you.
SPEAKER_02: Well, he had founded that church and brought them into the revelation of the freedom that's in Christ.
SPEAKER_02: And then he was off on other journeys, and the Judaizers came in and just seemed like overnight they're they're going away from the freedom that's in Christ, and they're going back up under the law.
SPEAKER_02: Remember?
SPEAKER_02: He said, I'm afraid of you.
SPEAKER_02: He said, How is it you started in the spirit and now you're trying to finish this thing in the flesh?
SPEAKER_02: But he didn't just wipe his hands of them and say, Look, I'm done with y'all.
SPEAKER_02: I came there and labored and fought hell and fought demons and brought the word there, and you just so can just walk away from it?
SPEAKER_02: No, he said, I'm gonna travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you.
SPEAKER_02: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_02: Why?
SPEAKER_02: Because that's walking in love.
SPEAKER_02: You know, sometimes the people that need the love walk from you the most are the people that think they're okay.
SPEAKER_02: They don't need to take notes in church, they don't need to open their Bible because they know.
SPEAKER_02: Well, they need it more than anybody in the church.
SPEAKER_02: What?
SPEAKER_02: Your love.
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, the word, but your love.
SPEAKER_02: The worst thing a person can be is a person who thinks, I know it all.
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, that's right.
SPEAKER_02: I'm gonna quote that scripture with him.
SPEAKER_02: Knowing how to quote it and being able to quote it doesn't mean you know it.
SPEAKER_02: Amen.
SPEAKER_02: The Holy Spirit says love is the super excellent way.
SPEAKER_02: And so Paul shows us the environment in which the gifts of the Spirit are to exist and the force by which they're guided.
SPEAKER_02: Love.
SPEAKER_02: The environment they exist in is love.
SPEAKER_02: The force that guides them is love.
SPEAKER_02: And so when you read, and you know this, but when you read 1 Corinthians, Paul was constantly saying, you're doing all these things, and you've got all this going on and all this spiritual activity, but here's you're not walking in love.
SPEAKER_02: You're not caring about the people in the church.
SPEAKER_02: You're having these feasts, and there's people that can't afford to bring anything to it, and they're having to sit there and watch you eat.
SPEAKER_02: Where's the love of God?
SPEAKER_02: Oh, hallelujah.
SPEAKER_02: In uh 1 John 3.
SPEAKER_02: When you when a church makes the love of God their aim, a church has to love their city, a church has to love each other, a church has to love what God has asked them to do.
SPEAKER_02: When the Lord said to uh my pastor, he said, if you can build a church and if you can keep it free from splits, he said, then you'll be ready to move into the second thing I have for you, which was VTN.
SPEAKER_02: Well, how are you how do you keep a church from splitting?
SPEAKER_02: How do you keep a church from going down that route?
SPEAKER_02: Everybody's got to be walking in love.
SPEAKER_02: You know, I can't help who walks out of love with me.
SPEAKER_02: I'm in control of me.
SPEAKER_02: I can't make you do anything, but I can make me do something.
SPEAKER_02: I can walk in love.
SPEAKER_02: Oh, hallelujah.
SPEAKER_02: 1 John 3, verse 10.
SPEAKER_02: It says, In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil.
SPEAKER_02: Whoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.
SPEAKER_02: Uh oh.
SPEAKER_02: For this is the message that you heard from the beginning.
SPEAKER_02: Beginning that we should love one another.
SPEAKER_02: Not as Cain, who was of the wicked one, and murdered his brother.
SPEAKER_02: Wherefore did he murder him?
SPEAKER_02: Because his own works were evil and his brothers were righteous.
SPEAKER_02: Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you.
SPEAKER_02: We know that we have passed from death unto life because we love the brethren.
SPEAKER_02: He that does not love his brother abides in death.
SPEAKER_02: I think that's scripture.
SPEAKER_02: Right?
SPEAKER_02: It says in verse 10, in this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil.
SPEAKER_02: Whoever does not righteousness is not of God.
SPEAKER_02: Neither he that loveth not his brother.
SPEAKER_02: So he says, if you don't love your brother, you're not of God.
SPEAKER_02: Now that's powerful to me.
SPEAKER_02: That's challenging.
SPEAKER_02: Amen.
SPEAKER_02: Because he says the evidence that I have passed from death to life is that I love the brethren.
SPEAKER_02: That's the evidence.
SPEAKER_02: So what does that mean?
SPEAKER_02: Loving the brethren.
SPEAKER_02: It's not just something people can see.
SPEAKER_02: There's no hidden judgment, there's no hidden criticism in me.
SPEAKER_02: I'm not holding somebody to a standard that they don't know I'm holding them to.
SPEAKER_02: Amen.
SPEAKER_02: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_02: That's why, listen, that's why if something comes up, I learned this years ago.
SPEAKER_02: If if something comes up, I'm in a conversation or somebody says something and it hits me what we call the wrong way, I stop and I ask myself, why'd that bother me?
SPEAKER_02: Why'd that bother me?
SPEAKER_02: It bothered me because there's something there that's not in love.
SPEAKER_02: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_02: One trans The Weeks Bible says, as for us, we know absolutely that we have passed over permanently out of death into life.
SPEAKER_02: Because we are habitually loving the brethren.
SPEAKER_02: Here it is again, with a divine and self-sacrificial love.
SPEAKER_02: The one who's not habitually loving in this manner is abiding in the spirit of death.
SPEAKER_02: And so he uses this phrase over and over again, habitually.
SPEAKER_02: What we are doing habitually.
SPEAKER_02: We have passed from spiritual death to spiritual life because we are habitually loving our fellow believers.
SPEAKER_02: The key is the word habitually.
SPEAKER_02: You'll never be successful at anything that you don't do habitually.
SPEAKER_02: You know, you've got to show the love of God to yourself.
SPEAKER_02: And that can sound very elementary.
SPEAKER_02: But there are people, I can take you to people tonight.
SPEAKER_02: They don't think very much of themselves.
SPEAKER_02: Now you look at them on the outside and you would think they do, but they don't.
SPEAKER_02: Because you talk to them long enough and they'll start saying things about themselves that you would never say about anybody you love.
SPEAKER_02: Well, I always do this and I always do that, and it's just a matter of time, and I'm all, and it seems like this always happens.
SPEAKER_02: Well, you don't say that about people you love.
SPEAKER_02: If you don't love yourself as much as God loves you, you can't change.
SPEAKER_02: You know there's a saying, hurt people, hurt people.
SPEAKER_02: If if if you're not looking at yourself right, you're not going to look at somebody else right.
SPEAKER_02: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_02: That's why when I talk about an IDC degree, you know, I don't care.
SPEAKER_02: That's not arrogance, that's not uh flippancy.
SPEAKER_02: I don't care what anybody thinks of me because I know what God thinks of me.
SPEAKER_02: And what he thinks is what matters.
SPEAKER_02: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_02: You can try to climb a ladder that's not there, it doesn't exist.
SPEAKER_02: Why does it matter what people think?
SPEAKER_02: Because that person's not rooted and grounded in love to the point that what God thinks is what calls their shots and makes their decisions.
SPEAKER_02: Amen.
SPEAKER_02: And I discovered that nearly 35 years ago.
SPEAKER_02: When people started asking my wife and I, well, who do y'all think you are?
SPEAKER_02: You're saying you're gonna do these things for God?
SPEAKER_02: Who do you think you are?
SPEAKER_02: You're the bottom of the barrel.
SPEAKER_02: Well, that why would they say that?
SPEAKER_02: Because that's what they thought.
SPEAKER_02: Here's what I learned almost 40 years ago now is that I'm not gonna allow what you think to become what I think.
SPEAKER_02: And I just grabbed my wife's hand and I said, let's go do what God told us to do.
SPEAKER_02: I'm gonna do what God told me.
SPEAKER_02: And if if you do it, that's if you want to do, if you want to help or if you want to do whatever, that's fine.
SPEAKER_02: Ever how you think about me, that's your business.
SPEAKER_02: But here you go.
SPEAKER_02: I don't care.
SPEAKER_02: Why?
SPEAKER_02: Because I'm walking in the love of God.
SPEAKER_02: What God thinks is more important.
SPEAKER_02: What God wants out of me is more important than that I feel justified.
SPEAKER_02: Why is that nagging thing there in that person about another person?
SPEAKER_02: Because there's something they haven't dealt with.
SPEAKER_02: Why am I secretly judging them?
SPEAKER_02: Why am I secretly being critical of them?
SPEAKER_02: I would never stand up behind the pulpit and say, you know what?
SPEAKER_02: I really, I'm I'm just gonna judge Chris right now.
SPEAKER_02: I just I have really something, right?
SPEAKER_02: I'm gonna.
SPEAKER_02: But if I'm secretly doing that, how does the love of God dwell in me?
SPEAKER_02: Do you see what I'm saying?
SPEAKER_02: And and the reason why people struggle in these areas is because when you step out of love, you step out of the power zone.
SPEAKER_02: I can't I can't love you correctly.
SPEAKER_02: I cannot help but be offended at you if I'm not walking in love.
SPEAKER_02: No matter how nice I am.
SPEAKER_02: Amen.
SPEAKER_02: The hidden nature of a person's heart reveals it in two symptoms reveals itself in two symptoms.
SPEAKER_02: A person fails continually to do what is righteous, and they fail to habitually love their fellow believer.
SPEAKER_02: Amen.
SPEAKER_02: So I'm always asking, well, how does love think?
SPEAKER_02: What would love do in this situation?
SPEAKER_02: Asking yourself, why did that bother me?
SPEAKER_02: Why is that an issue?
SPEAKER_02: Why can't I let that go?
SPEAKER_02: You know, there are relationships that people don't have anymore at this point in their life because of something somebody did 10 years ago.
SPEAKER_02: Ten years ago.
SPEAKER_02: And they're both believers.
SPEAKER_02: Well, at what point do we leave it, let it go, and drop it?
SPEAKER_02: That's what Jesus said.
SPEAKER_02: Right?
SPEAKER_02: He said, He said, if you fight if you determine that you have awe against your brother or your brother has awe against you, go be reconciled to him.
SPEAKER_02: Leave it, drop it, let it go.
SPEAKER_02: Well, you know, Pastor, it's just not that easy.
SPEAKER_02: Oh, I'm I disagree because Jesus said it was.
SPEAKER_02: I've said this for years.
SPEAKER_02: Somebody's lying.
SPEAKER_02: I choose you because God can't lie.
SPEAKER_02: Now this is important.
SPEAKER_02: And so what the Lord's had me centered up on is just this understanding of doing this habitually.
SPEAKER_02: I don't want anything to come in between me and the love of God.
SPEAKER_02: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_02: And so, and so, ever what it is, and it's not just offense, it's not just unforgiveness, why do I think that way?
SPEAKER_02: In in whatever arena it is.
SPEAKER_02: And I've always got to talk to them and say, look, you got to be merciful.
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, but it was their fault.
SPEAKER_02: I understand, but you got to be merciful.
SPEAKER_02: You know, if somebody did something and it was their fault and it caused damage or it caused a problem, listen, they're they're gonna be held accountable for that by somebody.
SPEAKER_02: My job is to be merciful.
SPEAKER_02: How much is it gonna help things if I rehearse over and over again what they did, how they did, the way they did, why did they do?
SPEAKER_02: Right?
SPEAKER_02: Why'd they treat me that way?
SPEAKER_02: How come they did this?
SPEAKER_02: Said they love me.
SPEAKER_02: Well, but wait a minute.
SPEAKER_02: You can't keep rehearsing that.
SPEAKER_02: You can't keep rehearsing that because that's not the love of God.
SPEAKER_02: The Bible says, and I'm not gonna go there because I gotta close.
SPEAKER_02: The Bible says that love pays no attention to a suffered wrong.
SPEAKER_02: Love is not keeping records, love is not holding things against people.
SPEAKER_02: Why do you think that person can't be spiritual because of what they did to you?
SPEAKER_02: If I'm spiritual, I'm gonna let it go.
SPEAKER_02: You know, we we very often talk about, you know, God used a donkey and God used a rooster.
SPEAKER_02: Yeah, but I don't want to be a donkey or a rooster.
SPEAKER_02: I want God to use me.
SPEAKER_02: He had to use a donkey or a rooster because they wouldn't listen.
SPEAKER_02: What's God saying to us tonight?
SPEAKER_02: You've got to, you've got to watch the hidden things in my heart.
SPEAKER_02: I've got to habitually walk in love.
SPEAKER_02: Why is everything that, I mean, why is it that everything that comes up in a person's life, why is it that they're always beating themselves up?
SPEAKER_02: Boy, if I would have just done this, no, just they're not walking in love.
SPEAKER_02: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_02: Now, if you're just being irresponsible, by all means, slap yourself around.
SPEAKER_02: Right?
SPEAKER_02: But if you're if you're doing everything you know to do, I've had people come to me and say, I'm doing everything I know to do.
SPEAKER_02: Well, then what do you want me to say?
SPEAKER_02: You're doing everything you know to do, let's just keep doing everything you know to do.
SPEAKER_02: Love is our heritage.
SPEAKER_02: We are love children of a love God.
SPEAKER_02: The way anything changes is through love.
SPEAKER_02: Faith doesn't change it, love changes it.
SPEAKER_02: You can't live a life of faith without a life of love.
SPEAKER_02: Amen.
SPEAKER_02: I'll close with this.
SPEAKER_02: I was listening to Brother Hagan one time, and uh he was talking about he had gone to this church in California to minister.
SPEAKER_02: And of course, this would have been in the late 50s, probably.
SPEAKER_02: And uh, you know, he he was kind of becoming known nationally, uh, getting more involved with the full gospel businessmen and whatnot.
SPEAKER_02: And uh, but he went to this church.
SPEAKER_02: And when he went, the pastor asked him, he said, what's your budget?
SPEAKER_02: And he said, I didn't normally tell people, but he said this pastor had already talked to me, and he said, you know, Brother Hagin, whatever it is, we'll pay it.
SPEAKER_02: You know, we got three millionaires in our church.
SPEAKER_02: He said, we got something like$286,000 in this account, and uh, you know, we we'll we'll meet your budget.
SPEAKER_02: And so he said, I told him.
SPEAKER_02: And he said at the end of the meeting, the pastor handed him a check, and it was like, you know, a couple hundred dollars, not very much.
SPEAKER_02: And uh he said, it sure wasn't my budget.
SPEAKER_02: And he said, so we're in California, we got to drive back to Texas.
SPEAKER_02: We don't have no money.
SPEAKER_02: He said, because I told my wife, you know, in in those days, evangelists would travel, you know, my dad used to travel as an evangelist, he'd be gone six months out of the year.
SPEAKER_02: And uh he would handle business from the road.
SPEAKER_02: And so he said, you know, back in those days, they had to pay their the the notes they had.
SPEAKER_02: He said, I had enough money to send payment for three of those notes, and that was it.
SPEAKER_02: He said, I had a Texaco gas card, I could buy gas.
SPEAKER_02: He said, but I didn't know you could get a cash advance on that card and these different things.
SPEAKER_02: Well, anyway, here's the point.
SPEAKER_02: One of those gentlemen that was a millionaire had told him, you know, if you ever need anything, here's my number, here's where I'm at, just come see me.
SPEAKER_02: And he said, I told my wife, I said, you know, I think I'm gonna call him and see if I can borrow a little money and get home.
SPEAKER_02: And he said, and then right there in my spirit, I thought, no, I can't do that.
SPEAKER_02: Because why am I going to tell him I need the money?
SPEAKER_02: If I asked to borrow the money, I got to tell him the pastor didn't do what he said he would do.
SPEAKER_02: And he said, that's not love.
SPEAKER_02: Now I know that sounds simple, that sounds elementary, and you know, yeah, that's right.
SPEAKER_02: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_02: Praise God.
SPEAKER_02: But it's not just things that you can see out visible.
SPEAKER_02: It's here.
SPEAKER_02: Something had changed, and he had had a work in him in walking in love that that would come up.
SPEAKER_02: You can't do that because that wouldn't be love.
SPEAKER_02: And so he drove all the way back to Texas, eating bologna and drinking some milk they bought, didn't stop, drove straight through all the way back to Texas, never told nobody.
SPEAKER_02: And here was here's what he said.
SPEAKER_02: He said, I'm out in the middle of that trip.
SPEAKER_02: He said, What if I get sick?
SPEAKER_02: What if my body comes under attack?
SPEAKER_02: He said, I gotta go all the way back to California and ask them to forgive me.
SPEAKER_02: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_02: Guard against that.
SPEAKER_02: As we're closing, guard against that.
SPEAKER_02: Why does that bother me?
SPEAKER_02: When I see that person doing something in church, why does that bother me?
SPEAKER_02: When I see them involved in something, why does that bother me?
SPEAKER_02: There's something there.
SPEAKER_02: I gotta habitually walk in love.
SPEAKER_02: Hallelujah.
SPEAKER_02: Father, we thank you tonight for the word of God on this very important subject, and we thank you that as we walk this out, that we'll grow in the things of God, we'll grow and mature in the things of God.
SPEAKER_02: That the result will be our strength and our spiritual maturity.
SPEAKER_02: We thank you for it in the name of Jesus.
SPEAKER_02: Amen.
SPEAKER_02: And amen.
SPEAKER_02: Will let's stand up tonight.
SPEAKER_02: Praise God.