"Let Brotherly Love Continue" RESCUE RADIO with Marjorie Cole

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Music.

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Rescue Radio, because there's a war for your soul.

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Yes, Father God, indeed, the war goes on, but we have won.

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And we thank you, Father, that your will be done, O God, on earth,

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in and through us this day.

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That your kingdom come, your will be done, especially through your remnant,

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the people who have chosen to lay down their lives and follow you.

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I thank you, Lord God, for the obedience and the example of Jesus Christ,

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your Son. And thank you, Jesus, for dying, taking on the death penalty for us

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and standing in our place that we might be set free.

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Thank you for the gift of salvation, a free gift to whosoever will,

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Lord God. And I thank you, Jesus, for giving us power over all the power of the enemy.

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You've given us authority, anointing, and assignments.

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And I pray right now, God, that we would step into those assignments and use

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the authority that you have given us to do what you've called us to do,

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including binding and loosing and forbidding the enemy and forgiving those who

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need forgiveness, Lord God.

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I thank you, Jesus, that you are the great, wonderful counselor.

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You are giving us instruction. Guide us this day. Give us eyes to see,

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ears to hear, heart to hear, to receive the revelation of your love,

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not to be afraid or disappointed or confused.

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We bind every spirit of confusion, discouragement, anything that would be hindering

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any of our listeners. We bind and forbid you, enemy, you're exposed by the light

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of God's truth. Now get out of them.

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Go to the pit in the name of Jesus Christ. And we thank you,

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Lord, for encouragement, health, answers to prayer and healing.

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And Father God, help us to understand that no weapon formed against us will prosper.

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No word said, deed done, or action taken against us, our families,

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those who work for us, pray for us, love us.

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Lord God, the many in the remnant, that you'd cover and answer prayers that

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they'd deliver and heal. Father God, encourage your people.

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Father, through your word, through your spirit, and through your interventions

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in our lives. In Jesus' name, amen. Amen.

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Well, let brotherly love continue. This is what I woke up with on my mind today.

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And, you know, we all know, we all know, Jerry, we all know in our spirits that

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the world and the things that are going on around us are not right.

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Everybody knows that, even though many of us do not live up to the standards

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that Jesus called for, you know, love one another. We know the truth.

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Jesus is coming back. Our 6,000 years is pretty well up, pretty much up, would you say?

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Yeah, and Jesus talked about, you know, what it's going to be like in the last

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days, which we are in the last of the last of the last days.

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I'm pretty sure we are, yeah.

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You know, before the return of the Lord, and one of the characteristics of the

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last of the last of the last days, it says in Matthew 24,

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10, many will be offended and will betray one another and will hate one another. And he says...

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And then he talks about many false prophets rising up and deceiving many.

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And then he says in verse 12 of Matthew 24, and because lawlessness or iniquity

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will abound, there's so much of it.

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There's a lot of it. The love of many will grow cold. The word that's used there

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for love means the love of God.

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It's not brotherly love per se.

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It's the love of God in God's people is going to grow cold. And the word grow

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there, cold, it cools off.

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It means like if you take a hot

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bowl of soup and you put a spoon in it and you blow on it to cool it off.

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And the iniquity in this world blows on us. Wears us out. It cools us off.

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And so the love grows cold.

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Well, you know, part of that is Satan is, he's fanatic.

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He's frantically trying to divide and conquer his main method of everything,

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divide and conquer. setting us up in opposition to each other, to ourselves.

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And for the most part, you know, it's really working well.

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Like you just said, in the last days, or just before the return of Jesus,

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this is one of the signs that the love of many, many will be offended,

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they'll betray one another, they'll hate one another.

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Just listen to any newscast and you've got all that.

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And so this hatred and betrayal, divisiveness, division, bitterness is springing

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up to divide families, setting two against three, you know, that's really a common thing too now.

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So much of it's so that people can't even, you know,

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have family discussions or meals together because they have to bar certain subjects

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like politics or religion because there's so much tension and intense feelings

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on these subjects that it's really missing the whole point,

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the whole mark of what Jesus said in the last days, love one another.

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Yeah, and you think of when someone passes away, say a mother or father,

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grandpa, grandma, and then the children, the siblings—,

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deal with all the estate stuff, and it seems like things that have been harbored

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for so long come out. Yeah, it's true.

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And it can be very vile, very vicious.

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Well, it's all about people. Tragic. People getting revved up,

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raging, mad at each other.

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Long-term bitterness. Yeah, divisiveness and division that are being deliberately

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perpetuated to weaken our families, our nations, and wear out the saints.

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This is the devil's plan. He is in the midst of it all, and we don't even acknowledge or realize it.

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We're busy being lawless, you know, where the love of God grows cold.

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The devil is busy stirring the pot of fear and offense.

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And it's really at the point of boiling over. And here's another interesting thing.

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I think he recycles old information, doubts,

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doctored videos, creates old scandals, He resurrects old scandals,

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horrible stories, atrocities, shortcomings, you know, carnage,

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weather-related destructions to create fear and devastation in the people's

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life and keeping at a constant hot temperature to create the fear and the destructions

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and the distractions. So what does that do?

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Well, what is it? Causes people to what?

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Shelter in place. To shelter in place. Not to trust one another.

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Yeah, right. There's so much betrayal in marriages, in families,

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in government, that people, for good reason, people get the idea, don't trust anybody.

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Well, that's right. We've been taught to shelter in place, to keep ourselves,

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stop talking to one another, don't reach out.

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And all of this is designed to break the law of love, to stop the love of God

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from moving forward in this very devastated environment we live in.

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It's all to quench that brotherly love that Jesus told us would be the sign

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and behavior of his followers, of his true followers in the end days.

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They will know you are my disciples by the love that you have for one another.

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That brotherly love is probably the only place that's safe. because he said

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here's how here's how this works he said very clearly by their fruits you shall know them.

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Okay, not by the size of their house or their bank account or the church that

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they go to or the agility to move in the marketplace or proficiency in Facebook or social media.

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Our real mark of love is our love for one another, our love for God.

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And love is not just words, you know, I love you, I love you, I love you.

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It's not just feeling. It's, Jesus said, love, not just in word,

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but in deed and in truth. Yeah.

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Yeah, it's so sad. We're really being faked out by everything around us.

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We are busy being divided over political manipulations.

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We're busy trying to figure out who we can trust.

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You know, it's like everything is become, you know, people can't even talk or

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share their own lives, their own sense of destiny or the truth of God without becoming an enemy.

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Paul says, do I become your enemy because I tell you the truth?

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Well, everybody doesn't agree on what that truth is, so everybody,

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it's a, truth is like a blade that Satan is using to cut one another.

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And so many of us are so self-centered, we're so focused on ourselves,

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we're overwhelmed by our own self, our own problems, our own issues.

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Trying to solve them, yeah. That we're so ingrown with our own issues that we

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don't have the confidence or the ability to reach out and love other people. Because we're afraid.

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And, you know, also it's like simple little straightforward things that were

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common sense back in the day.

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Like male and female and marriage and peace have been chopped up like you would

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chop up wood and throw it on a burning fire.

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And this creates, is really intended by saying to burn down the house of humankind

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and set us on fire in the blazing fire of hell.

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Because, you know, every little splinter, every little nuance,

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every little thing that isn't right, isn't perfect, isn't whatever,

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it becomes a place of offense.

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But it really kind of boils down to our rejection of the one true God is being

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brought into the forefront because that's why we're here. We're actually in

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this mess because we have rejected the first commandment.

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Thou shalt have no other gods before him. We've practiced paganism and idolatry.

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This has opened the door to fear and division and danger and demonic everything

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among us. So we see this. You see this.

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We hear this. We recognize this. But we have to recognize this is all part of the culmination.

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You know, in the movie, you have Act 2, and then it builds up into Act 3.

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Act 3 is where you have the crisis resolved. But we're in Act 3,

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where the crisis is—we're in crisis right now all over the place.

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Jesus is coming back. You know, all creation is groaning.

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Everybody is sick and fearful, and it's just a mess.

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But we know that brotherly love, the love of God, is the sure refuge for us in the last days.

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And Jesus said again, by their fruits you shall know them. The fruit of the

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Spirit in Galatians 5 is what?

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It's love, joy, peace, longs, suffering, gentleness, goodness,

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faith, meekness, and self-control.

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Now, these are the antidotes for fear, sorrow, war, discouragement,

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hard-heartedness, meanness, doubt, hostility, and lust.

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Jesus had it right. You know, he said this, that whosoever, you know,

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would follow him in the last days would risk, you know, the work of being,

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the work of offense would be the attack, the judging,

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the failure to discern.

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People are tired and they don't even...

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They don't even want to fight anymore. They don't even want,

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but you don't have to fight. You just can be, be in the love of God,

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be in the place where you're okay because God's love is in you.

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Fear is removed by the love of God. Sorrow is removed by the peace of God.

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War and discouragement are removed by the rejoicing and the gratitude we have

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towards God, thanking God, thinking of God, focusing on God,

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letting God take the center stage in your life, even in this messy time we live in.

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Realizing that we're so highly valued by God, and we need to value ourselves, not worship ourselves.

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You know, we're not making ourselves the center of the universe.

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God is the center of our universe.

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And coming into that place of when we value ourselves, he says we're to love

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our neighbor as ourself.

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I mean, basically, it's the threefold thing, loving God with all your heart,

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soul, mind, and strength, and your neighbor.

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As yourself. Secondly, and your neighbor as yourself.

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In other words, even places in the scripture where Paul writes,

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he said, esteem one another higher than yourself.

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In other words, helping others.

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The best way to take care of you is to help others. Right, and God will take care of you.

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You know, I think Peter had it absolutely right in 1 Peter 3 where he says,

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finally, all of you be of one mind, having compassion for one another.

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Love as brothers, brotherly love.

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Be tenderhearted, be courteous. In other words, be nice to one another,

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be thankful, not returning evil for evil or reviling for reviling,

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but on the contrary, blessing, knowing that you were called to this,

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that you may inherit a blessing.

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So God has called us, it says, he who would love life, like you just said,

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and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking guile or deceit.

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Let him turn away from evil and do good. Let him seek peace and pursue it.

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For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears are open to their prayers.

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But the face of the Lord is against those who do evil. And you'd think the fear

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of God would actually start to come upon people as we recognize the days and

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the signs of the times that we're in, where the love of many is growing cold,

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they're being offended, betrayed, bitter, hostile.

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And all of this squabbling and all of this, you know.

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Trying to find the truth and discern the truth is actually making it more hard

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to find and more obscure because people are set up in their own,

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locked up in their own fears and mindsets.

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And so really the choice is in this last day for you and for me. We still have a choice.

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How are we going to conduct ourselves? Are we

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going to operate out of fear and fighting and shedding and shredding the truth

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and tearing down one another and the hope that is in us that we must— and even

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destroying the hope of those who have to live beyond us in our children, our grandchildren.

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They have to continue living in this until the Lord comes. but are we going

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to do this in brotherly love or are we going to keep trying to save our own lives?

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Jesus said he who seeks to save his life will lose it.

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It's time to let go of your life. Don't worry about your life.

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Be thankful for your life. Bless God at all times and forgive.

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Teach people through example how to love and forgive.

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Forgiveness is really a big part of brotherly love because forgiveness means

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you release them from the offense, the judgment, the bitterness,

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the betrayal that they committed against you and you release them and release

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that action into the counsel of God.

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Let God be the judge when you forgive. You're saying, I release you for my judgment,

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and I'm going to let the Lord God judge between us.

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Galatians 5.13, reading there and a little bit beyond. For you,

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brethren, have been called to liberty only.

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Do not use liberty as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.

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For all the law is fulfilled in one word. even this, you shall love your neighbor as yourself.

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Then the other part of it, the contrary area with this is verse 15,

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but if you bite and devour one another,

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beware lest you be consumed by one another. So don't be a piranha.

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Don't just, we're so good at,

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Finding the faults in other people. Finding fault in other people.

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That doesn't mean that we just accept everything and we never criticize somebody

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or call somebody out on their sin and what evil they're doing.

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That doesn't mean that we just said, Oh, we just love. Well,

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Jesus did that, but he did that in a spirit.

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He used the spirit of truth and spirit of love to identify those things for

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people so that they could be set free.

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And I believe that's kind of what it is will be too with us.

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But what's it going to cost us to practice brotherly love?

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Well, one of the things it's going to cost us is our opinions and our right

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to be offended, our stubbornness, our refusal to repent.

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All of these things get in the way of love and they make us difficult to be with.

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You know, fear says, but then who will defend the truth if I lay down my political opinions?

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Or who will, you know, thinking that we all have the absolute correct,

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every man's opinion seems right in his own eyes, as Proverbs says.

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There's a bit of truth sprinkled on both sides of every issue,

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you know, and so people can pick one side and just not flip the coin over and

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say, well, yeah, there's this also, you know.

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I mean, we have trigger words that are thrown out in our news and in our political

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arenas, you know, like Ukraine and war and deportation, All of these trigger

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words cause the devil to use it.

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The devil uses them to set us up in opportunities to take sides against each other.

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We have to be aware of this. My fight is not that.

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The hill I die on is the hill of love and the salvation promised us by Jesus

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Christ, not whether this politician is going to do what he said or this war

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is going to end over here.

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I have to give account to God for what I decide, and I decide to follow Jesus

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no matter what that looks like.

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Romans 12, 16 says, Be of the same mind toward one another. Do not set your

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mind on high things, but associate with the humble.

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Do not be wise in your own opinion.

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Now, I have some friends that love the Lord, but they have opinions about things that are really wrong.

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Because my opinions are always right. Yeah, that's right.

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But here's the deal is that when he, I think in one particular friend,

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when he brings up something, I know he's just so, he loves Jesus,

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but he's so off on some things.

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According to you anyway. Oh, yeah. He's just like, are you kidding me?

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How can you say that? And how can you think that?

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But what I do is just, let's go back to Jesus.

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Let's talk about Jesus. Let's go for the truth.

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Opinions aren't going to save you. Truth will save you. Truth will set you free.

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Let's focus on the truth.

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Let's focus on the Word of God and not just get torn apart by various opinions

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on whatever the matter is. Well, you know, we're talking about truth here.

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Real bottom line truth is defined in Jesus Christ.

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And he is one and the same with love. So love and truth are both found in Jesus

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Christ, are defined by Jesus Christ and through him.

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So they really love and truth.

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You know, if I don't take this stand, who's going to defend the truth?

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Blah, blah, blah. And I have to defend the truth at the expense of love.

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This is all divisive. You know, Jesus Christ is truth.

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He is love. He loves the truth. and those who follow him will walk in the truth

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and will walk in the truth with love.

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And so this is not as complicated as it might seem.

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Actually love and truth complement and complete each other.

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And Paul deals with this in Corinthians.

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I'm not sure if it's 1 Corinthians 7. I could be off on that.

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But he talks about the debatable things, the Christian and debatable things.

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Some people eat meat. Some people just eat vegetables. Some people.

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Worship on this day. Some people worship on that day. Some people play golf.

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Some people. You know. You know.

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Well, you know, it's just like there's. Do something else. So it's,

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yeah, there's different. He says, allow for differences.

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Allow for differences of view because not every one of us are going to see everything

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exactly the same way. And that's okay.

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And that's okay. But love is going to, if love prevails, then we're not going to get divided on.

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I mean, I don't have to do, for somebody doing something with their time,

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if they're serving the Lord and do that, I wouldn't do that.

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And they wouldn't do what I would do. But I can still love them and walk with them.

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And the more we walk, the more we really get closer to the Lord,

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It's just like the triangle.

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If you have two people at the base of a triangle, and the closer you get to

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the Lord, the closer you get to one another.

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Not close in terms of distance. I'm talking about the more you're in tune with

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Jesus, the more you're in tune with the Word, the more you're going to agree on things.

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So the agreements we need to have, Marjorie, And so brotherly love can be there.

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Is the agreements we need to make, have, and continue in is based on truth.

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Right. We're agreeing on the truth. Who is Jesus.

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With Jesus, and then. Yeah, and there's a lot of, in Jesus Christ,

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that's where the strength comes from. There's a lot of variety.

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There's a lot of differences. Like you said, people do things differently.

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As a man, how does that say? Whatsoever is not of faith is sin.

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So if a person believes something and you believe something a little different,

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but they're actually believing, and God is okay with that, you know,

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then let them walk in that.

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We're not here to correct everybody's walk. We're here not to correct them at all, really.

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We're here to be a light and let the light of Jesus Christ shine in us,

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let the love of God shine through us, because I have to give an account of my

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behavior before the Lord, not theirs.

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And so, you know, obviously there are times when it's right to speak the truth

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in love that they may grow up, Ephesians 4.15, where you have to,

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you know, bring some direction or correction,

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as the Word of God does, we're not going to sit here and say nothing because

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it might offend someone.

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That's not the solution to being unoffended is just be quiet.

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But the truth is if you have a relationship with someone and you have,

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love suffers all things, bears all things, believes all things,

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hopes all things, love endures, if the people know that,

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you know, and whether they know it or not, if you love them,

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that is what's most important, and that you love them, that brotherly love that

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comes from you continue through you to comfort your people.

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And there's so many people out there that we can love, and so many broken people out there.

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There's no end to opportunities to love people. And you can love them with a smile.

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You can love them with a, you know, with a whatever, with a handshake, with a kind word.

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Sometimes just these courteous little gentle gestures are so encouraging.

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People, even eye contact is a blessing sometimes when people walk with their

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eyes on the sidewalk and don't want to see anybody and don't want to hear anybody.

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You know, people are so disconnected. And that's exactly, again, division.

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The devil wants that division so that we don't care about one another.

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We don't want to resolve our issues because we don't like one another anyway.

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So why should we resolve our issues? Well, I just want to stay right.

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I just want to stay with my opinion.

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And this only promotes the devil's frantic plan to divide us.

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In the end, there's going to be a huge division.

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Everything is going to separate. Daniel said the godly and the unjust are going to get more unjust.

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So this rift is becoming like the Grand Canyon, and there are people on either

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side of it. And it will be that way.

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That is actually one of the signs in the book of Revelation of the sorting.

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You know, those who are ready to be raptured and go with the Lord and those

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who are going to hang around and take the mark of the beast or be tempted to.

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And, you know, and I'm not saying that the rapture is going to rescue us out

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of the Mark of the Beast situation.

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I hope so. I really would believe that God would be kind, and if I were a father,

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that's kind of what I would do, because he does talk about the rapture.

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But the thing is, there is this separation.

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You and I are being separated unto Christ. But at the same time that we're being

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separated unto Christ, we're also seeing division all around us that's promoting

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separation from Christ. You know, people are being drawn away by fear, isolate.

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So you and I have the great opportunity to meet them in that place of fear with

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a word of truth or a word of hope.

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You know, discerning that their soul is in danger and that their mind,

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their thoughts, their soul has drawn them through the demonic,

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you know, whatever the devil has done.

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Drawn them into a mindset, a dangerous place where if you love them,

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love bears all things, love suffers, love believes.

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And so let brotherly love continue. I mean, this is your challenge.

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This is the mark of a true believer. And we are in the end times.

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So whatever you got planned for the next, you know, five years,

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whatever, just pencil in the

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return of Jesus Christ, because it could be coming sooner than you think.

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Exactly, exactly. You know, and someone said life happens. Life is what happens

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while you're making other plans.

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But, you know, the thing is, Jesus is coming for those who are looking for him. His appearing.

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For those who love his appearing, not that said dread his appearing.

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Oh, no, the Lord might come and catch me in some sin or something like that.

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You know, it's just like, Lord, when you love the Lord, you want to be with him. You know.

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And in the meantime, I just think of Philippians chapter 2.

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Therefore, beginning with verse 1 through verse 4, therefore,

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if there is any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love,

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if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any affection and mercy, fulfill my joy.

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Paul is saying, you know, you want to make me happy?

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This is what you do. Be like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, one mind.

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Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, but in lowliness of

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mind let each esteem others better than himself. Let each of you,

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Look out not only for your own interests, but for the interests of others.

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So esteeming others better than ourselves means that you have more concern maybe

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about their eternal salvation and destiny than they do at the time.

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Because they're maybe captured in some lie or destruction.

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So, Father God, we thank you for our wonderful opportunity to be here at this

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very powerful and critical culmination of the end.

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Of whatever it is, this dispensation, Father.

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So we're praising you and thanking you for inspiring each one who's listening today.

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Encourage them, take away the fear, hold up the obstacles,

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the barricades in their minds, in their hearts, and let them be encouraged to

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let brotherly love continue and let all of us, permit all of us,

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as we permit love to continue, you.

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Let us love one another as you love us, and let us be comforted in that love, Father, in Jesus' name.

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And those who are sick and those who are tormented and afflicted,

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and which is so many, Father God, may our prayers be effective.

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The love of our prayers, the compassion that we have been praying for them,

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set them free to come into a new place of healing and hope,

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knowing also that they are loved, because that's what brotherly love is all

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about, knowing that we are loved by God, by one another.

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Thank you, Jesus, for your faithfulness to us and for your healing virtue that

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comes through love. Amen.

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Well, love is in the context, of course, of in relationships,

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and you have a book. Tell us about your book.

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Yes, Doing Relationships God's Way.

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Actually, we talk about our relationships with God, with ourself,

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We talk about all kinds of things that the enemy has tried to do to divide and

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And relationships are actually the road. It is the medium.

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It is the activity center in which God teaches us how to love.

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Relationships are the connection and the way we learn how to live and love one another.

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So yeah, doing relationships God's way, you can get it on amazon.com.

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