WEBVTT 00:00:02.000 --> 00:00:04.400 Hi, my name is Michelle Steele. 00:00:04.639 --> 00:00:10.080 Pastor Phillip and I want to thank you for listening to this message from Life of Faith First. 00:00:10.480 --> 00:00:16.800 We have more resources available to help you build your faith and bring your world by the Word of God. 00:00:17.039 --> 00:00:36.799 From our website, lifeofffaith.net, you can connect to our YouTube channel, watch the live stream feed from our church services, access books and downloads in our web store, and discover more about Life of Faith Church, producing life city, state, nation, and world. 00:00:37.039 --> 00:00:39.759 Visit lifeoffaith.net today. 00:00:42.960 --> 00:00:43.759 Hallelujah. 00:00:43.840 --> 00:00:45.600 Let's go to John 13. 00:00:46.479 --> 00:00:59.840 And of course, we just had been teaching over the last number of weeks on um influencing others, a heart for the harvest. 00:01:01.119 --> 00:01:10.799 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. 00:01:11.599 --> 00:01:15.680 And I'm calling this the core values of the believer. 00:01:16.000 --> 00:01:18.879 The core values of the believer. 00:01:19.760 --> 00:01:27.200 On uh April 26th of 2024, uh 1045 a.m. 00:01:27.680 --> 00:01:29.519 Uh at the 1045 a.m. 00:01:29.680 --> 00:01:39.439 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. 00:01:39.599 --> 00:01:55.200 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. 00:01:55.439 --> 00:02:06.319 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. 00:02:07.200 --> 00:02:09.199 And uh I started writing them down. 00:02:09.439 --> 00:02:13.520 He gave me seven things that he said were the core values of the believer. 00:02:13.680 --> 00:02:16.400 And the first one is put the word first place. 00:02:17.520 --> 00:02:19.280 Put the word first place. 00:02:20.800 --> 00:02:25.919 Um the second is determined to walk by faith. 00:02:26.800 --> 00:02:31.439 Determined to walk by faith, put the word first, determined to walk by faith. 00:02:32.159 --> 00:02:36.479 Number three is refuse to be critical. 00:02:37.840 --> 00:02:39.759 Refuse to be critical. 00:02:43.919 --> 00:02:47.919 Number four is determined to be thankful. 00:02:49.280 --> 00:02:52.719 Determine to be thankful. 00:02:56.000 --> 00:02:59.840 Number five, determined to walk in love. 00:03:02.159 --> 00:03:04.479 Determined to walk in love. 00:03:07.840 --> 00:03:13.439 The sixth one is determined to be led by the Spirit through the inner man. 00:03:14.479 --> 00:03:17.919 Determined to be led by the Spirit through the inner man. 00:03:20.960 --> 00:03:24.960 And number seven is refuse to be double-minded. 00:03:25.759 --> 00:03:27.919 Refuse to be double-minded. 00:03:29.199 --> 00:03:46.560 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. 00:03:46.800 --> 00:03:53.039 And over the span of the next few weeks, we'll deal with all seven of those. 00:03:53.439 --> 00:04:02.000 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. 00:04:02.240 --> 00:04:09.439 And we want to center up in the beginning on the fifth one, determined to walk in love. 00:04:10.240 --> 00:04:11.360 And here's why. 00:04:11.520 --> 00:04:16.000 Everything on this list cannot be done if I'm not walking in love. 00:04:16.240 --> 00:04:19.759 None of it can be done if I'm not walking in love. 00:04:19.920 --> 00:04:25.920 Now, when we talk about walking in love, of course, there are preconceived ideas that people have. 00:04:26.079 --> 00:04:37.199 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. 00:04:37.360 --> 00:04:41.279 And, you know, I used to hear that, and and I've probably even told those stories. 00:04:41.360 --> 00:04:44.639 And one day it just hit me, how immature are we? 00:04:45.839 --> 00:04:50.000 That we're mad and throwing a fit at the guy in front of us because of the way he drives. 00:04:50.160 --> 00:04:51.600 How immature is that? 00:04:52.639 --> 00:04:57.920 That we can get out of the spirit and into the flesh because of a bad driver. 00:04:58.800 --> 00:05:04.720 So to me, that is not so much walking in love as it is grow up. 00:05:06.160 --> 00:05:06.800 Right? 00:05:07.040 --> 00:05:11.040 And then we'll talk about, well, you know, if you want walk in love, you won't be offended. 00:05:11.120 --> 00:05:14.480 Again, grow up and you won't be defended, offended. 00:05:16.000 --> 00:05:18.800 Grow up and my feelings won't get hurt. 00:05:20.480 --> 00:05:24.480 But all of that growing up has to do with love. 00:05:25.600 --> 00:05:26.800 This is important. 00:05:28.000 --> 00:05:32.720 And so in John chapter thirteen, verse thirty-four. 00:06:20.800 --> 00:06:32.319 But nonetheless, Jesus, this is the the verse that we're referencing is Jesus said, A new commandment I give you. 00:06:33.519 --> 00:06:37.839 John 13, 34, a new commandment I give unto you. 00:06:38.399 --> 00:06:39.040 Right? 00:06:39.759 --> 00:06:49.199 And notice that you love one another as I have loved you. 00:06:49.519 --> 00:06:52.720 So you should love one another. 00:06:54.160 --> 00:06:55.600 That's why I couldn't find it. 00:06:55.680 --> 00:06:57.279 I was in the book of Acts. 00:06:58.480 --> 00:07:00.319 I'm ahead of myself. 00:07:00.639 --> 00:07:08.240 But then verse 35 by this shall all men know that you're my disciples if you have love one for another. 00:07:08.480 --> 00:07:09.839 So he says two things here. 00:07:10.000 --> 00:07:21.600 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. 00:07:22.399 --> 00:07:23.519 Now, this is important. 00:07:23.759 --> 00:07:27.839 Not that you love the world, that you love each other. 00:07:28.319 --> 00:07:40.000 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. 00:07:41.439 --> 00:07:46.480 The proof that I love the world is that I witness to them, I share the gospel with them. 00:07:46.720 --> 00:07:48.480 I don't live with them. 00:07:49.120 --> 00:07:51.120 I don't fellowship with them. 00:07:51.279 --> 00:07:53.199 They're not my close companions. 00:07:53.519 --> 00:07:54.160 You are. 00:07:55.680 --> 00:08:00.319 And so my love walk is towards my fellow believer. 00:08:00.879 --> 00:08:03.439 So the new covenant commandment is love. 00:08:03.519 --> 00:08:08.399 And he said that is the evidence that we're his disciples. 00:08:08.879 --> 00:08:09.920 Hallelujah. 00:08:11.120 --> 00:08:15.519 A life of faith is powered by a life of love. 00:08:18.240 --> 00:08:19.439 Hallelujah. 00:08:21.279 --> 00:08:30.240 In John chapter 8 and verse 23, this is where we'll begin our teaching. 00:08:36.240 --> 00:08:42.799 Jesus said unto them, You are from beneath, I am from above. 00:08:43.200 --> 00:08:45.440 You are of this world. 00:08:46.559 --> 00:08:49.039 I am not of this world. 00:08:49.679 --> 00:08:50.080 Alright? 00:08:50.240 --> 00:08:51.519 You are of this world. 00:08:51.759 --> 00:08:53.519 I am not of this world. 00:08:53.679 --> 00:08:54.559 Now here's the thing. 00:08:54.720 --> 00:09:00.000 Most believers have no trouble believing that Jesus was not of this world. 00:09:00.960 --> 00:09:01.440 All right? 00:09:01.679 --> 00:09:02.320 Well, of course. 00:09:02.639 --> 00:09:03.519 He was the Son of God. 00:09:03.600 --> 00:09:04.879 He came down from heaven. 00:09:05.039 --> 00:09:11.039 Well, John 17 and verse 14. 00:09:13.440 --> 00:09:15.679 We'll read two verses here in John 17. 00:09:15.840 --> 00:09:17.279 John 17, 14. 00:09:17.600 --> 00:09:34.240 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. 00:09:36.399 --> 00:09:47.919 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. 00:09:49.279 --> 00:09:57.440 The key is in that word of, the preposition of, that denotes the origin of a thing or the source of a thing. 00:09:57.679 --> 00:09:58.000 All right. 00:09:58.159 --> 00:10:01.600 The source, the origin of the believer is not the world. 00:10:01.759 --> 00:10:03.600 I am not of the world. 00:10:03.840 --> 00:10:04.879 I am of heaven. 00:10:05.039 --> 00:10:06.159 I am of God. 00:10:06.639 --> 00:10:08.639 I am of the Spirit. 00:10:10.000 --> 00:10:12.159 Remember, that's what he told Nicodemus. 00:10:12.240 --> 00:10:17.600 He said, You've got to be born again of the water and of the spirit. 00:10:18.399 --> 00:10:23.120 And the moment that you're born again of the Spirit, you're no longer of this world. 00:10:24.480 --> 00:10:25.279 No longer. 00:10:25.440 --> 00:10:26.639 Now, amen. 00:10:26.799 --> 00:10:37.519 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. 00:10:37.759 --> 00:10:43.679 You know, as a believer, don't overlook those verses where Jesus says, even as I am not. 00:10:45.519 --> 00:10:48.080 Because he's explaining something to us. 00:10:48.639 --> 00:11:03.600 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. 00:11:04.480 --> 00:11:05.600 Here's the thing. 00:11:05.840 --> 00:11:20.399 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. 00:11:22.480 --> 00:11:23.440 Is that right? 00:11:25.279 --> 00:11:29.600 So the water in that bucket is from all three buckets. 00:11:32.240 --> 00:11:35.919 I have the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit on the inside of me. 00:11:36.240 --> 00:11:39.120 My nature is not a sin nature. 00:11:40.720 --> 00:11:43.600 My nature is not the old man. 00:11:43.840 --> 00:11:45.679 The old man is dead. 00:11:46.000 --> 00:11:49.759 Now we know that, but that's why we're not of this world. 00:11:49.919 --> 00:11:57.759 That's why the things that God asks us to do are easier than people make them out, because my nature has changed. 00:11:58.720 --> 00:12:03.440 The flesh rules people because they let the flesh rule them. 00:12:03.759 --> 00:12:06.240 They choose to walk after the flesh. 00:12:06.480 --> 00:12:09.840 Over and over again, we see the word yield in the Bible. 00:12:10.000 --> 00:12:22.960 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. 00:12:23.200 --> 00:12:25.360 I've got to yield my members. 00:12:25.519 --> 00:12:28.240 I've got to yield my mind to offense. 00:12:28.399 --> 00:12:30.960 I've got to yield my heart to unforgiveness. 00:12:31.120 --> 00:12:36.240 I've got to yield my heart to the things of the flesh because I'm not of the world. 00:12:36.480 --> 00:12:41.360 It is easier to live like who you are than who you used to be. 00:12:42.559 --> 00:12:46.879 And I've got to make that decision that I'm going to live like who I am. 00:12:47.200 --> 00:12:48.480 Hallelujah. 00:12:48.960 --> 00:12:50.080 Do you see that? 00:12:50.320 --> 00:12:50.720 Amen. 00:12:51.200 --> 00:12:54.240 We got a lot of Flip Wilson theology in the church. 00:12:54.399 --> 00:12:56.000 The devil made me do it. 00:12:56.320 --> 00:12:59.519 Well, the devil can't make anybody do anything. 00:13:00.159 --> 00:13:01.440 This is so important. 00:13:01.919 --> 00:13:09.519 Because when the Apostle Paul talked about the old man dying and the old man being crucified with Christ, right? 00:13:09.679 --> 00:13:10.960 He said, Yet I live. 00:13:14.240 --> 00:13:14.639 Right? 00:13:15.279 --> 00:13:20.159 The enemy has no attraction to my new nature. 00:13:23.919 --> 00:13:25.840 I don't listen to his voice. 00:13:26.639 --> 00:13:30.480 That's why he deals with this outer ear and this mind. 00:13:30.799 --> 00:13:32.960 He can't do anything with my spirit. 00:13:33.279 --> 00:13:35.440 Because my spirit won't listen to him. 00:13:35.919 --> 00:13:37.360 Remember what Jesus said? 00:13:37.679 --> 00:13:42.080 He said, My sheep know my voice, another they won't follow. 00:13:43.519 --> 00:13:46.399 Well, if I'm his sheep, I'm of God. 00:13:46.559 --> 00:13:49.519 I can't be his sheep and not be of God. 00:13:50.559 --> 00:13:57.360 But because I'm of God, I'm his sheep, so I know his voice and another voice I won't follow. 00:13:57.600 --> 00:14:00.000 Why I'm not of, I'm not of this world. 00:14:01.600 --> 00:14:02.159 Amen. 00:14:02.320 --> 00:14:15.279 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. 00:14:15.440 --> 00:14:16.480 I'm not of it. 00:14:17.679 --> 00:14:19.759 And that's why it doesn't bother me. 00:14:20.240 --> 00:14:23.759 You know, you'll talk to people and they'll say, Can you believe the shape this world's in? 00:14:23.919 --> 00:14:25.120 Well, yeah, of course I can. 00:14:25.279 --> 00:14:26.320 It's under the curse. 00:14:26.480 --> 00:14:27.120 Of course. 00:14:28.480 --> 00:14:30.480 But I'm not under the curse. 00:14:32.080 --> 00:14:34.159 Say it out loud, I am of God. 00:14:34.639 --> 00:14:37.039 Just as Jesus was of God. 00:14:37.679 --> 00:14:38.320 Amen. 00:14:39.360 --> 00:14:42.000 So we're not of this world. 00:14:43.840 --> 00:14:45.200 Now that's important. 00:14:45.679 --> 00:14:58.720 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. 00:14:58.879 --> 00:15:00.720 Look at 1 John 4. 00:15:06.399 --> 00:15:14.799 I'm I'm really tonight, I'm setting the stage here because hallelujah. 00:15:15.759 --> 00:15:19.440 If you grab a hold of this, you'll go bear hunting with a switch. 00:15:22.480 --> 00:15:23.759 Glory to God. 00:15:24.799 --> 00:15:26.799 1 John 4 and 4. 00:15:26.960 --> 00:15:28.000 Now notice this. 00:15:28.159 --> 00:15:38.559 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. 00:15:39.039 --> 00:15:41.200 Now you'll hear that quoted all the time in church. 00:15:41.279 --> 00:15:45.679 Yeah, greater is he that's in us than he that's in the world, but you don't hear you are of God. 00:15:47.759 --> 00:15:50.879 Because nobody wants to get close to that line. 00:15:51.039 --> 00:15:53.840 Well, I don't want anybody to think I'm calling myself God. 00:15:54.080 --> 00:15:56.000 I didn't I didn't say I was of God. 00:15:56.159 --> 00:15:58.080 God's word said I was of God. 00:16:00.159 --> 00:16:00.799 Amen. 00:16:02.000 --> 00:16:02.720 Do you see that? 00:16:02.879 --> 00:16:06.080 You know, you're your your children, they are of you. 00:16:07.039 --> 00:16:09.120 I mean, you never say that to them. 00:16:09.360 --> 00:16:11.600 I don't want anybody to think my children are me. 00:16:11.759 --> 00:16:14.080 Well, they are of you. 00:16:16.080 --> 00:16:16.720 Right? 00:16:17.039 --> 00:16:23.679 If I see your son or your daughter, I can see you, fortunately or unfortunately, in them. 00:16:26.080 --> 00:16:26.480 Right? 00:16:26.639 --> 00:16:27.759 Just the same way with me. 00:16:27.840 --> 00:16:28.799 You see my kids. 00:16:28.960 --> 00:16:31.840 If you see my youngest son, you've seen me. 00:16:32.799 --> 00:16:34.320 That's just the way it is. 00:16:34.879 --> 00:16:36.159 Hallelujah. 00:16:36.559 --> 00:16:38.320 He is of Philip. 00:16:38.399 --> 00:16:40.639 He is of, you are of God. 00:16:40.799 --> 00:16:42.799 Say out loud, I am of God. 00:16:43.120 --> 00:16:45.039 So why do I overcome the world? 00:16:45.200 --> 00:16:46.480 Because I'm of God. 00:16:46.960 --> 00:16:52.720 The Bible says, whatsoever is of born of God overcometh the world. 00:16:53.840 --> 00:16:54.799 Is that right? 00:16:55.919 --> 00:16:57.120 Verse 6. 00:16:57.600 --> 00:16:58.879 You are of God. 00:16:59.759 --> 00:17:01.440 He that knows God hears us. 00:17:01.600 --> 00:17:04.000 He that is not of God does not hear us. 00:17:04.160 --> 00:17:08.000 This is how we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error. 00:17:08.079 --> 00:17:09.279 So we are of God. 00:17:09.680 --> 00:17:10.880 It denotes origin. 00:17:11.200 --> 00:17:15.039 Our origin is we are of or we are out of God. 00:17:16.400 --> 00:17:19.039 You and I, we are as believers, we are out of God. 00:17:19.279 --> 00:17:20.319 God is our father. 00:17:20.640 --> 00:17:22.720 That's not just a religious statement. 00:17:22.880 --> 00:17:25.039 That's not just some religious prayer. 00:17:25.279 --> 00:17:26.720 Oh, my father in heaven. 00:17:26.880 --> 00:17:27.440 He really is. 00:17:27.599 --> 00:17:29.200 He is your father in heaven. 00:17:29.440 --> 00:17:35.039 The Bible says in the book of Hebrews, you'll remember, we've had fathers in the flesh. 00:17:35.279 --> 00:17:44.640 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. 00:17:45.920 --> 00:17:51.200 And that's why you've got to consistently look at this body as a carrying case of your spirit. 00:17:51.519 --> 00:17:56.559 If you look in the mirror and you say that's you, you're going to have a hard time with this. 00:17:56.720 --> 00:17:57.759 That's not you. 00:17:57.920 --> 00:18:00.559 That's what carries you around. 00:18:01.359 --> 00:18:02.640 That's not you. 00:18:03.519 --> 00:18:05.200 The body is not me. 00:18:05.759 --> 00:18:06.880 I will never die. 00:18:07.039 --> 00:18:08.400 You will never die. 00:18:10.559 --> 00:18:12.960 I'm wall-to-wall, Holy Ghost. 00:18:13.279 --> 00:18:14.559 And so are you. 00:18:15.119 --> 00:18:17.039 So the body is not me. 00:18:17.200 --> 00:18:41.519 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. 00:18:41.680 --> 00:18:44.240 They're still seeing the body as them. 00:18:44.480 --> 00:18:53.039 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. 00:18:54.319 --> 00:18:58.079 So this body, this body is a carrying case. 00:19:00.480 --> 00:19:06.640 It's an instrument that's either used by God or by the flesh. 00:19:07.680 --> 00:19:09.200 It's my choice. 00:19:09.519 --> 00:19:10.799 Hallelujah. 00:19:11.440 --> 00:19:12.079 Amen. 00:19:12.400 --> 00:19:16.400 I hear people, people that I respect, people that I have great honor for. 00:19:17.519 --> 00:19:23.839 You know pushing this idea that you have a dual nature. 00:19:24.000 --> 00:19:25.279 You can't have a dual nature. 00:19:25.359 --> 00:19:26.799 It's impossible. 00:19:27.119 --> 00:19:29.519 Biblically, it's impossible. 00:19:30.480 --> 00:19:30.960 Amen. 00:19:31.119 --> 00:19:33.279 And I know you know this, but I'm going to tell you anyway. 00:19:33.359 --> 00:19:33.839 I don't care. 00:19:33.920 --> 00:19:35.759 I have the gift of redundancy. 00:19:37.519 --> 00:19:42.480 Every time that a Christian calls himself a sinner, it's a slap in God's face. 00:19:43.200 --> 00:19:46.000 It's a desecration of the blood of Jesus Christ. 00:19:46.160 --> 00:19:47.519 I am not a sinner. 00:19:48.640 --> 00:19:49.839 I'm a saint. 00:19:50.000 --> 00:19:53.039 I'm the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. 00:19:53.680 --> 00:19:54.319 Amen. 00:19:55.039 --> 00:19:55.599 Amen. 00:19:55.839 --> 00:19:56.640 Preach on. 00:19:57.680 --> 00:19:58.640 This is important. 00:19:59.279 --> 00:19:59.680 Why? 00:19:59.920 --> 00:20:06.240 Because if you're going to walk in spiritual things, you've got to see yourself as capable. 00:20:07.759 --> 00:20:11.839 People don't do things because they don't see themselves as capable. 00:20:13.839 --> 00:20:14.480 Amen. 00:20:15.519 --> 00:20:19.839 Now, in 1 John 5, whoo, glory. 00:20:20.480 --> 00:20:21.200 I did it. 00:20:21.359 --> 00:20:22.240 I apologize. 00:20:22.319 --> 00:20:24.640 I preached myself happy already. 00:20:25.839 --> 00:20:27.359 It don't take much. 00:20:28.960 --> 00:20:30.240 1 John 5. 00:20:30.319 --> 00:20:31.359 I'm like Brother Larry. 00:20:31.440 --> 00:20:33.519 Brother Larry said, Sunday, we're liable to have a runaway. 00:20:33.680 --> 00:20:34.480 That's about right. 00:20:34.640 --> 00:20:35.839 We just might. 00:20:36.640 --> 00:20:37.839 Clear the runway. 00:20:38.079 --> 00:20:39.200 Whew, glory. 00:20:39.920 --> 00:20:43.680 1 John 5 and verse 18. 00:20:44.160 --> 00:20:56.079 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. 00:20:56.319 --> 00:20:57.920 Now here's what I want you to see. 00:20:58.160 --> 00:21:00.640 Born of God, begotten of God. 00:21:02.319 --> 00:21:04.160 I'm begotten of God. 00:21:04.960 --> 00:21:06.720 You're begotten of God. 00:21:06.960 --> 00:21:08.240 We're born of God. 00:21:08.400 --> 00:21:09.519 And notice what it says. 00:21:09.599 --> 00:21:12.640 This is not what we're teaching on tonight, but notice what it says. 00:21:12.799 --> 00:21:14.640 It just states it as a fact. 00:21:14.880 --> 00:21:17.519 Whosoever is born of God overcomes. 00:21:19.039 --> 00:21:20.000 Doesn't sin. 00:21:20.079 --> 00:21:25.440 Now that word is doesn't habitually sin, does not practice sin. 00:21:26.319 --> 00:21:26.880 Alright? 00:21:27.039 --> 00:21:28.319 But here's the point. 00:21:28.480 --> 00:21:28.720 Why? 00:21:28.880 --> 00:21:30.079 I'm born of God. 00:21:30.240 --> 00:21:32.480 There's no sin in my spirit. 00:21:33.839 --> 00:21:35.680 There's no sin in your spirit. 00:21:36.079 --> 00:21:36.880 Can't be. 00:21:37.119 --> 00:21:38.240 It's of God. 00:21:38.640 --> 00:21:40.240 There's no sin in God. 00:21:40.480 --> 00:21:41.759 Well, then who sins? 00:21:41.920 --> 00:21:43.440 Well, my flesh sins. 00:21:43.680 --> 00:21:44.960 Why does my flesh sin? 00:21:45.039 --> 00:21:46.960 Because I choose not to walk in the spirit. 00:21:47.279 --> 00:21:50.640 He said, Walk in the spirit, you won't fulfill the lust of the flesh. 00:21:52.799 --> 00:21:57.359 You see how simple it is, and yet at the same time challenging? 00:21:58.240 --> 00:21:59.759 Because I gotta admit, why didn't we? 00:22:00.160 --> 00:22:01.440 Walk in the Spirit. 00:22:04.240 --> 00:22:06.079 That's why that happened. 00:22:06.799 --> 00:22:07.440 Amen. 00:22:08.640 --> 00:22:09.920 Verse 19. 00:22:11.039 --> 00:22:13.359 And we know that we are of God. 00:22:13.759 --> 00:22:17.119 And the whole world lies in wickedness. 00:22:18.160 --> 00:22:19.359 So we're of God. 00:22:19.519 --> 00:22:20.799 We are begotten of God. 00:22:20.960 --> 00:22:25.680 That word begotten, it carries the idea of procreation, to procreate. 00:22:25.920 --> 00:22:28.480 And so I was procreated by God. 00:22:30.559 --> 00:22:31.440 Hallelujah. 00:22:31.920 --> 00:22:33.599 And I am of Him. 00:22:34.400 --> 00:22:36.640 As believers, we were fathered by God. 00:22:36.799 --> 00:22:37.519 God's our Father. 00:22:37.680 --> 00:22:40.000 The DNA of God is in our spirits. 00:22:40.640 --> 00:22:45.039 In 1 John chapter 4 and verse 16. 00:22:46.960 --> 00:22:49.759 And we have known and believed the love that God has to us. 00:22:50.000 --> 00:22:50.960 God is love. 00:22:51.440 --> 00:22:54.640 And he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God and God in him. 00:22:55.039 --> 00:22:56.960 So notice God is love. 00:22:57.519 --> 00:22:59.359 God is agape. 00:22:59.680 --> 00:23:02.880 God is divine self-sacrificial love. 00:23:05.759 --> 00:23:07.119 So why does God love? 00:23:07.279 --> 00:23:08.559 Because God's love. 00:23:11.119 --> 00:23:16.079 So at the very core of my nature as a believer is love. 00:23:17.200 --> 00:23:19.599 At the very core is love. 00:23:21.200 --> 00:23:24.000 In 1 John 4, verse 7. 00:23:26.319 --> 00:23:30.960 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God. 00:23:31.599 --> 00:23:36.960 And everyone that loveth is born of God and knoweth God. 00:23:37.599 --> 00:23:42.240 He that does not love does not know God, for God is love. 00:23:43.519 --> 00:23:45.200 That's pretty strong. 00:23:45.920 --> 00:23:46.799 No love. 00:23:47.519 --> 00:23:50.000 John says it's because they don't know God. 00:23:53.599 --> 00:23:54.240 Right? 00:23:55.519 --> 00:23:59.680 So somebody will say, Well, I don't understand how they could treat me that way. 00:24:00.079 --> 00:24:01.599 We just found out. 00:24:03.839 --> 00:24:04.480 Amen. 00:24:05.759 --> 00:24:08.960 The Weast Bible says, divinely loved ones. 00:24:09.519 --> 00:24:15.759 Let us be habitually loving one another with a divine self-sacrificial love. 00:24:15.920 --> 00:24:23.920 Every time you read the word love as it pertains to between believers, it's always divine self-sacrificial love. 00:24:26.559 --> 00:24:27.680 Always agape. 00:24:28.319 --> 00:24:30.400 Divine self-sacrificial love. 00:24:30.640 --> 00:24:32.480 Now, why is that important? 00:24:32.880 --> 00:24:35.279 Because that's how we're to live our life. 00:24:37.119 --> 00:24:38.799 Towards other believers. 00:24:39.200 --> 00:24:41.599 Divine self-sacrificial. 00:24:43.279 --> 00:24:47.440 And he says to be habitually doing that. 00:24:48.319 --> 00:24:48.960 Amen. 00:24:49.920 --> 00:25:05.839 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. 00:25:06.079 --> 00:25:14.799 The one who is not habitually loving in this manner has not come to know God because God, as to his nature, is love. 00:25:15.599 --> 00:25:18.400 And so it's this habitual idea. 00:25:19.519 --> 00:25:21.920 They're habitually walking in love. 00:25:22.079 --> 00:25:25.599 And he says there are people that are habitually not walking in love. 00:25:25.680 --> 00:25:26.799 And he said, here's why. 00:25:26.880 --> 00:25:28.079 They don't know God. 00:25:28.960 --> 00:25:36.319 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. 00:25:36.480 --> 00:25:38.880 There's an area of their life they don't know God. 00:25:39.839 --> 00:25:44.480 God is not operating at full capacity in that situation. 00:25:47.440 --> 00:25:52.960 The nature of God within us causes us to habitually walk in love. 00:25:54.000 --> 00:25:54.799 Habitually. 00:25:54.960 --> 00:26:00.079 The nature of God in us causes us to habitually walk in love. 00:26:02.400 --> 00:26:09.279 John says that the evidence that we've been regenerated and that we know God is what? 00:26:09.519 --> 00:26:11.359 Habitually walking in love. 00:26:11.519 --> 00:26:15.839 The evidence that you are God's child is that you walk in love. 00:26:16.079 --> 00:26:17.839 Now we're going to get into this in a minute. 00:26:17.920 --> 00:26:23.759 Not that you speak in tongues, not that you do spiritual things, but that you walk in love. 00:26:26.079 --> 00:26:26.559 Amen. 00:26:26.720 --> 00:26:27.359 Say it out loud. 00:26:27.519 --> 00:26:30.559 The evidence is that I walk in love. 00:26:31.039 --> 00:26:33.839 See, I am of God, so I am of love. 00:26:36.799 --> 00:26:43.920 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. 00:26:44.000 --> 00:26:45.119 They're just whatever. 00:26:45.599 --> 00:26:46.240 Now come on. 00:26:46.319 --> 00:26:47.839 I am born of God. 00:26:48.720 --> 00:26:51.599 I have God's nature on the inside of me. 00:26:52.880 --> 00:27:02.160 If there's any being in the cosmos that you could possibly pluck their last nerve, it would have to be God. 00:27:02.559 --> 00:27:05.039 Because he deals with some ignorant people. 00:27:06.880 --> 00:27:07.519 Right? 00:27:08.559 --> 00:27:10.000 Myself included. 00:27:11.359 --> 00:27:12.000 Right? 00:27:12.480 --> 00:27:16.319 So if anybody could pluck his last nerve, it's me. 00:27:17.119 --> 00:27:17.599 Right? 00:27:17.920 --> 00:27:19.759 But what what what happens? 00:27:19.920 --> 00:27:22.000 He it never happens. 00:27:22.480 --> 00:27:22.880 Why? 00:27:23.200 --> 00:27:25.680 Because he is of his nature, love. 00:27:27.519 --> 00:27:29.920 Listen, have you have you ever been like in a restaurant? 00:27:30.079 --> 00:27:31.200 I I had a relative. 00:27:31.279 --> 00:27:33.119 They're not they're in heaven now. 00:27:33.279 --> 00:27:36.319 And I had a relative, and they were really bad about this. 00:27:36.640 --> 00:27:42.640 If uh if they were we were in a restaurant and there was like a crying child or something, oh, they'd mean mug. 00:27:45.839 --> 00:27:48.240 Well, I mean, you know, you're not helping anything. 00:27:49.039 --> 00:27:49.920 But here's the thing. 00:27:50.480 --> 00:27:54.559 Have you ever noticed like a mother dealing with a crying, fussing baby? 00:27:54.799 --> 00:27:57.119 They're like they're patient, right? 00:27:57.519 --> 00:28:00.400 They're they're they're trying to figure out how to fix it. 00:28:00.480 --> 00:28:01.200 Are they hungry? 00:28:01.359 --> 00:28:02.720 Do they need a change? 00:28:02.960 --> 00:28:03.920