"Love One Another" 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, we thank you for your love, your peace, your power,

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your plan, and your protection, that your will be done, O God,

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on earth, in and through us, as is being done and declared every day in heaven.

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We are your agents, your ambassadors to this earth to bring forth the good news

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and to do what you said, heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead,

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cast out demons, and preach the gospel.

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Lord God, there are servants of yours that are doing that.

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And are being severely assaulted by the enemy.

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But we pray, Father, that you'd release new, refreshing blessings and strength

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and protections to each one.

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And we thank you, Jesus, for dying on the cross for us, for securing our salvation

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eternally and forever by dying in our place.

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I thank you for not only dying, but raising from the dead, which brought justification,

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sanctification, and the power and authority to tread on serpents and scorpions

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and over all the power of the enemy. So let those who are listening today be encouraged.

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You have been given authority, the anointing, and the power to bind and to loose and to forgive.

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And by the way, forgiveness is our most superpower of the powers,

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to release people from our judgment and turn the crimes that they have committed

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against others and that have been committed against them over to the high court

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of heaven. So, Father God, we thank you for that privilege.

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We thank you that we have a power and authority to bind the powers of darkness

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that would even assault and attack these people that listen, this show,

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this radio show, Rescue Radio, and that you would bring forth divine miracles,

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healings, and revelations to people who have been stuck forever in fear.

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Terror, torment, unbelief, that you release people today into the fullness of

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the gift of power and love and the love of the brethren.

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And I thank you, Jesus, for the promise that no weapon formed against us will

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prosper, no word said, deed done, action taken, witchcraft, nothing. thing.

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We forbid it, Father, and we declare it to be null and void in the name of Jesus

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Christ, and that every word that's been spoken behind our backs or anyone to

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cast spells or to bring curses,

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those words are now covered with the blood of Jesus Christ, fall to the ground,

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and Satan cannot use them any longer against us, because we forgive the people

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who sent them, and we let this matter be yours and let rest in your court, Father.

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Now guide us as we hear, give us ears to hear this message, Father,

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in Jesus' name, and hearts to receive it. Amen.

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Amen. Well, last time we talked about let brotherly love continue,

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so we're continuing with let brotherly love continue. We're continuing, right?

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Yeah, that verse is in Hebrews 13, 1, for those who want to check it out.

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But I'm just going to read real quickly out of my, you know,

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you have the Bible app. If you do, you should have it.

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It really helps a lot. You can type in the phrase of your verse that you're

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looking up, and it will also give you a lot of other verses that are similar.

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I'm just going to read a couple here to kind of set your mind back on brotherly love.

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Continue, and then we're going to go through what Jerry has here.

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Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love and honor,

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preferring one another. That's Romans 12.10.

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Seeing that you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit

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unto unfeigned love of the brethren.

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That's 1 Peter 1.22.

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And to godliness add brotherly kindness and to brotherly kindness charity.

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That's 2 Peter. Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God,

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and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.

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1 John 4, 7. He who loveth not knoweth not God.

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1 John 4, 8. Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.

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These are all just little snippets of this command to love our brethren.

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And then 1 John 4, 12. There's a lot of them in 1 John.

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No man has seen God at any time. If you love one another, God dwells in us and

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his love is perfected in us.

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If a man says, I love God and hates his brother, he is a liar.

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For he who loves not his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?

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So these are some of the commandments. The commandment that we have from him

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is that he who loves God loves his brother also, 1 John 4.21.

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So in this end days, as Jesus said in John 13.35, they will know you are my

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disciples with the love that you have for one another. Yeah,

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it's John 13, 34 through 35.

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Yeah, go ahead. A new commandment I give you. Well, it was kind of an old commandment,

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but he gave it in a whole new way.

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Because in Leviticus chapter 19, verses 17 through 18, it talks about,

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you shall love your neighbor as yourself.

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And they came, you know, one day there was this Sadducee, a Pharisee rather,

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who was a lawyer, which means he was an expert in the law. He said,

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what's the greatest commandment?

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And he says, the greatest commandment is to love the Lord your God with all

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your heart, soul, mind, and strength, and your neighbor as yourself.

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So this is where we are. This is the real true test, the bottom line,

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the acid test, so to speak, of a Christian. He says in John 1.

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13, 34, and 35, a new commandment I give to you, that you love one another as

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I have loved you, that you also love one another.

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By this, all will know that you are my disciples, if you have love one for another.

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I remember yesterday we talked about the love of many growing cold as one of

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the signs of the end times.

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And lawlessness will abound, and the love of many will grow cold,

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and many will be betrayed and offended. There'll be much hatred and division.

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And this is what the love of God and loving your brethren is up against.

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It's up against this force of wickedness and darkness and perversion and hatred.

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And we see this division because Satan is a divide-and-conquer strategy. That's what he does.

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So he's setting human beings up in opposition to one another to cool off,

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to remove the spirit of love and brotherly kindness.

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Yeah, there's so, you know, we all know there's been, you know,

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it seems like forever there's been love songs, songs about love,

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and I want to know what love is, and all this sort of thing.

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So, but we're in this world, Margie, you mentioned about this,

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a world where there are so many offenses, so many attacks, so much viciousness.

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Injustice. So much lack of love. Injustice. Injustice, criminal activity of

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all kinds, white collar crime, blue collar crime, street crime.

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There is not much knowledge of love.

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And basically what we think of as love, oftentimes it's actually lust. It's selfish desire.

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Well, I think that the safety factor is a big one because people pull away. They isolate.

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They don't want to go out into public. They don't want to get involved.

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They don't want to understand another person's problems.

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They don't want to be in a prayer chain because it's too messy and it's too

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scary. And so people, because they don't feel safe, like we said,

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they'll just take the command to stay home, shelter in place, not get involved.

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And this is not what brotherly love is. Brotherly love is being there, going the second mile.

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It's carrying the other person's cloak, bearing their burdens,

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and so fulfill the law of Christ. So it's really being involved.

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Being involved, but a lot of times we don't want to be involved because we were,

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you know, many of us, we were involved in our family.

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We were involved in a marriage and we got hurt we got offended we got betrayed

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all that so then what we tend to do is like isolated or you know we put all

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our affection on a pet or something because.

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They don't hurt us. They don't hurt us. They don't talk back.

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They're not going to offend us. They might scratch us or bite us once in a while.

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Well, yeah, but the love that we're talking about is a different kind of love.

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It can be detected in the heart. When you have the love of God,

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you love your brother, you will have a sense of peace and warmth and goodness

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that goes through our hearts as well.

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But this love is tougher than what the infatuation or the temporary momentary

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feelings that spark so many of us and think we're in love.

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This love God is talking about is more enduring than the fleeting feelings.

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It is more resilient and it can withstand the offenses. It is not taken down by an offense.

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It forgives. This kind of love doesn't get offended when someone is very offensive

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and mean and intends to hurt you.

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This love forgives. It releases them from our judgment.

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It forgives them by releasing. That means forgiving them, releasing them into

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the judgment of God by forgiving them.

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You're not going to be the judge. You're not going to take offense.

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Jesus said, you know, offenses will come, but blessed is the man who is not

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offended because you're not taking it personal.

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So this kind of love we're talking about, the brotherly love,

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comes from, it's the outgrowth of that love of God, the bedrock love of God.

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God is love. He is with us. He wants us to love like Him, without excuses,

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without fear, without selfishness, without idolatry, and know that we are safe when we love.

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Well, the whole thing is you have to be convinced. To really love,

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you have to know that you're loved. Right.

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You know, and we love, and 1 John said, we love him because he first loved us.

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So when you know you're loved, if you don't know you're loved,

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how can you love someone else?

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If you don't have any money in the bank, you can't write a check and you can't

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give anybody any money from that account. So, knowing, and this is a,

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there's so much blockage for that, right?

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There's so many people that they know it in their head.

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They can, you know, they can read John 3, 16, for God so loved the world and so forth. They know.

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About it. Intellectually, they know about the love of God. But is there a knowing?

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Is there a connection? A connection.

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A full, a revelation of the love that God has for us. because we tend to.

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Satan lies to us about how bad we are.

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And because a lot of our life experiences have been so hurtful,

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we think that we're not loved.

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We've been, you know, all of us have been betrayed in one way or another by someone.

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Well, we believe God is mad at us because we didn't do it right.

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And the conditional love we put, you know, we've been experiencing from our

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parents and whatnot, you know, do this, this, and this. I have to do something

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to get the love. Yeah, that we project that same conditional love on God.

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And how many people are super, super mad at God?

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They're absolutely beside themselves with bitterness and anger against God because

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God didn't do this or didn't do that or should have done this or should have done that.

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God let this happen, and how can God do that?

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And they don't understand the rule is that simply God has given us free will,

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and He allows us to use it, and we get ourselves in trouble by using it,

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and then we get mad at God because He let us use our free will.

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It's kind of magical. Yeah, you know, so God—,

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But God invites us to love Him, to receive His love, to know that He— See,

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the thing is, perfect love casts out fear, so I have to know that God is good

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and faithful and not against me

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and not here to hurt me and not here to destroy me, to teach me a lesson.

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I need to know that all that I'm going through, all the experiences,

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whether I understand them or not, are God's purposes to develop the love of

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Jesus Christ in me and in me for others. So I receive the love of God.

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God encourages me in that love. And then that love is poured out in brotherly

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love and kindness to those who are around me.

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And, you know, we all go through hurtful things, you know, that might be sicknesses,

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diseases, the loss of loved ones, that sort of thing.

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And all the trials and pressures that we face are really geared to help us to learn how to love.

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Trust God. We have faith in God. And having that faith in God is faith in the

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goodness of God and His faithfulness to complete the work He's begun in us and

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to walk with Him through the fiery trial, through the confusion,

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through the lies, through the torment.

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Because perfect love casts out fear and fear as torment. So the more love you

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have in your heart, the less place you're going to have for fear.

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And so God wants to just, you know, you can live in knowing that you're loved.

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You can live in the goodness of God.

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No matter what is going on outside of you or around you, we can still live knowing

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that we are loved, that God is for us, God is with us.

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He's for us. He's not against us. He laid down His life, sent His Son to deliver us from evil.

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God is for us all the time. Whether or not we feel it or not,

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the truth is He is with us and for us.

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Well, that's the lesson, the main lesson in all of the things that we go through.

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And we don't want to miss this now.

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God is teaching us, he's wanting to make us more and more like Jesus Christ,

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who is, you know, he's the lover of,

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he demonstrated in his love for us as well, we were yet sinners,

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Christ gave his lifeblood for us.

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But the thing is, sometimes we get faked out. We misinterpret what's going on.

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The suffering that we're going through, whether it's physical,

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spiritual, or through hurtful relationships or whatever, all of it is really geared by God.

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It's allowed by God. And certainly— For a purpose.

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And what is the purpose? Well, to purify, refine, make us more like Jesus.

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Jesus had us suffer. We suffer. It's part of the process of purification.

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And it's part of the process of getting rid of yourself and becoming converted,

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becoming part of the vine.

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And then we can go with that to the place where to live is Christ.

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In him I live and move and have my being. It's like I'm exchanging my old self

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life and fear and situations and goals and apprehensions.

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I'm exchanging that for the revelation of the true knowledge of Jesus Christ

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who lives in me and through me, him living in and through me he does his work

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in and through me for others and to help others So when you're suffering,

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the point of it is like Oh God, you're so mean, how come you didn't relieve me from this?

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Well, that's not the way to look at it Look at it this way.

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That if you have, you know, say you have a son or daughter that's wayward,

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and maybe they've come back to the Lord, maybe they haven't yet,

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but you're going to have compassion on somebody.

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You're not going to be judgmental about, oh, you know, a brother or a sister,

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so on, so they've got kids that are really rebellious right now.

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Yeah, if you've been through it yourself, you're going to be— You're going to

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have compassion for them. You're going to identify with them.

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Right. You're not going to be judging

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them, oh, they must have failed as a parent or something like that.

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You're going to have that heart of compassion and to be able to stand with one

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another through the things that they're going through.

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I think that's why we go through things, isn't it? Because God wants us to be

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able to empathize with and have compassion, as you said, for one another,

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rather than judging them.

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You know, we've heard this before. People will criticize parents for how they

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raise their children, and then 20 years later they have their own children.

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And they're not criticizing anymore.

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They've been there, done that, and have found the same things to be true that

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they were critical of before they now know the truth.

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But in 1 John 4, starting with verse 7, John is really about love.

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He's all about love. He talks about love all the time. He's the apostle of love.

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This whole thing, I mean, love is something, this conversation with love,

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this relationship with love, this revelation of love that God is calling us to is way beyond us.

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It's way beyond the natural man.

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The natural man is geared to fear and survival and safety and whatnot.

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Yeah, the natural man is if you love me, I'll love you.

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And that's not the way. And that's conditional love.

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That's conditional love. The natural man flourishes in conditional love and

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also it kills him because we can never be good enough to receive enough love.

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And then we project that onto God. But God is not like that.

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He says in 1 John 4, verse 7, Beloved,

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He's calling us beloved already. Let us love one another, for love is of God.

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You know, God is love. That's a pretty much accepted, you know.

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Description of God. God is love.

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And everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. In other words,

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you can't love really unless you're born of God.

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You know, people who are not born again can love with a natural love,

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a filial love, but not the agape love.

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The agape love is that overpowering love that overcomes fear and death.

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Those that are born, whoever loves is born of God and knows God.

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So you're reflecting God's characteristics.

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You're God's offspring. God is love. So if you're an offspring born of God,

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you're going to have his same characteristics, which is to love one another.

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And that love and the truth and who God is, the likeness of God,

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image and likeness has been stamped into our spirits.

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So your spirit already knows this stuff, wants this stuff, is comfortable with

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knowing and loving and believing.

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But our souls are not convinced.

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Our bodies, our flesh is not convinced. The carnal man is not convinced because

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he's living in the place of the snake pit, the terror of life.

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Always worried, always anxious, always provoked by Satan, the demons,

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to become anxious and worried.

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A perfect love casts out that fear. And so going on, he says,

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He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.

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So when you have people who say they love God, and they're not loving their

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brethren, then there's a disconnect here.

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In this, the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only

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begotten Son into the world that we might live through Him. So he's saying,

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if you want real proof that God is love, then look at what God did.

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God sent his own son to live, to die for us, actually.

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And in Romans chapter 9, he says the same thing, kind of.

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Paul says in chapter, I'm sorry, chapter 8, verse 31, What shall we say to these things?

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If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own son,

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but delivered him for all of us, how shall we not with him also freely give,

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he shall freely give us all things.

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So he's saying God gave us his son, and that's the ultimate.

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If he gave us his son, why won't he give us the other things?

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And so God is for us, and Christ died and rose to restore us,

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reconnect us with the Father, reconnect us with our destiny in heaven.

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So God did not spare his own son, and that is the manifestation of his great love towards us.

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He sent him into the world and let him die in our place, and Jesus,

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Son of God, Word of God, was willing to do it.

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Well, God didn't just sit in heaven with a loudspeaker and saying to the world,

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I love you, I love you, I love you.

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He sent his son. There was an action taken and so forth.

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Another thing, too, is that love, we're not talking about just some feeling. There's compassion.

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Jesus, when he saw the multitude so lost, he was moved with compassion.

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Basically, it was a gut-wrenching kind of compassion that he had.

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And his heart was just troubled and torn as he reached out. By the pain he saw.

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Because he saw people so bound with religion and so sick and dying and messed up.

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Hard. And here in 1 John 3, verse 16, interesting, a parallel to John 3, 16.

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But by this we know love because he laid down his life for us.

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And we also ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

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But whoever has this world's goods and sees his brother in need and shuts up

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his heart from him, how does the love of God abide in him?

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He says, my little children, let us not love in word and tongue,

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not just by what we say, but in deed and in truth. Don't just give lip service to it.

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And by this we know that we are of the truth and shall assure our hearts before

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him. So, when we see a need, there's an action taken care of.

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It's not just, I love you, I love you.

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If somebody needs food and we're able to provide for them, let's do it.

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And that might be what he's talking about in the last days.

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The love of many will grow cold, but they will know that you are my disciples

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by the love that you have for one another.

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This might mean more practical things, too, like sharing your food or sharing

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your shelter or giving them what they need, encouraging people,

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taking them into your home, whatever all this looks like. Because ultimately...

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Love is the most powerful and important thing to protect and survive.

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It's the love of God, not my own physical life.

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And to share our lives with each other, giving, receiving, blessing,

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all of these things knit our hearts together in the assurance of love.

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And love really, if you look at it, the thing that's been most attacked in the

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snake pit where Satan rules the world through injustice, the thing most attacked is love.

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So, people are so skeptical of the love that they don't want to believe,

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and they surely don't believe that they deserve it, because we've been taught

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to believe that love is something we have to earn or that we can deserve.

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And the love of God is freely given. It's a gift, just like salvation, just like healing.

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Healing is like that, too. You cannot earn it. You cannot be good enough.

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And the lie that the enemy perpetrates throughout all of the world,

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he has some basic lies that he tells everybody.

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If it all shrinks and reduces down to, usually the lie reduces down to,

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I'm not good enough. I'm not worthy.

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I'm not worthy, I'm not good enough. Which implies what?

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That I am not worthy to be loved, to be accepted, to be wanted.

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I have to perform in some way to be loved. Right.

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So performance, Satan connects performance with love now so that I can get something

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I need, so I can be protected, taken care of, loved, taken in, belong, whatever.

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So Satan is put in the middle of love this, I have to earn it. I have to deserve it.

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And then he lies to us and said, we're not good enough to have it.

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And I think of when Jesus was baptized, the voice came from the Father.

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He says, this is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased. Hear him.

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Now, Jesus had never done any miracles at that point. He'd never cast out demons.

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He wasn't really preaching.

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You know, he hadn't performed all his miracles, all his works.

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He hadn't gone to the cross, obviously, at this point.

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So, he says, I'm pleased with him because he's my son.

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Because he belongs to me. We love our kids.

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I mean, I would hope you would love your baby child, your grandchild.

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You know, they haven't performed anything. They perform, they poop in their

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diapers and they cry and keep you awake at night.

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But you love them because why? They're yours.

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You love them not because. You don't get offended by their behavior because

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you've already loved them beyond that.

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And, you know, it's just God put that love. And I believe that's why we have

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children, many of us, because we are to know and feel how God feels towards us. He's patient.

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He endures. You're jealous over your children with a godly jealousy.

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You want them to do well. You want them to be known and accomplish their dreams.

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And so this love that we're drawn into, which is the pinnacle of our relationship

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and the demonstration of the genuineness of our relationship with God, is to love like God.

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The love of God never fails, and it doesn't melt or bow down or become afraid

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in looking at what things look like,

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but even in the collapse of whatever it is, your health, your relationships.

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It says perfect love in John 4, 17.

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Let's see. Love has been perfected among us in that we have boldness to come

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before, in the day of judgment, because as he is, so are we in the world.

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There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear because fear involves torment.

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But he who fears has not been made perfect in love.

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So fear sneaks in to taint or threaten or intimidate or cause us to back away from love.

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But love is more powerful than fear. Love is the most powerful thing in the world.

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And to love, sometimes you have to die.

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You have to, you know, like Jesus, he proved his love and then he died.

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But this is love never fails. Love will win in the end.

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And when you are in a place where fear is tormenting you with sin or condemnation

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or demonic judgments or making you think that you're sick now because God's

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mad at you or you can't get well because you've been suffering for five years

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with this thing and it's still not gone,

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what God wants you to know is that nothing has changed in terms of His love for you,

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his constant companionship with you, tender mercies over you,

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and that the demon of torment, which is a sidekick to fear, brings in that fear

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of what's going to happen and

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If I, if I, you know, if I, you know, it's up to me, God, if God doesn't help

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me, if you go beyond that to the place where I know God's got this,

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I know God loves me, whatever the outcome, it's going to be,

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God is faithful. He does not deny himself.

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He cannot be contradicted. He cannot contradict himself.

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And so if God is love, he cannot contradict himself by backing away from love

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and giving up and, and becoming afraid or abandoning us.

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He said, I will never leave you or forsake you. That means he's going to be

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there, the spirit of abandonment and fear and isolation and loneliness that

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the enemy is trying to get you to believe is your fate now because you're so

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sick and it's beyond medical intervention or whatever.

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That's where, well, do I get a miracle? Now the question is,

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okay, well, a miracle, I need a miracle, but can I have a miracle?

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Am I good enough for a miracle? Do I deserve a miracle?

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That's not the question. The question is God is the God of miracles.

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God's the God of healing. God's the God of now, right now. God loves you.

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And whether you live or die, like Paul says, whether I live or die, I'm the Lord's.

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So, you know, if you die and you love God, you're going to a way better place.

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If you live, then you're still going to be required to walk out the power and

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the commandment that we love one another.

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Yeah, and the love of God really loves messy people.

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You know, there's a lot of messy people that are intimidated.

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They're intimidating because they're rebellious, they're wrong,

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they're rough, they don't like us.

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And they've got tons of walls up to keep you from loving them.

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You know, anger, intimidation, control, witchcraft.

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To get beyond these gatekeepers to go find that person inside who's locked inside

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this prison of rejection and fear and hatred.

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To get beyond that, you have got to have the courage of love to believe that

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there's a good reason, that there's a person there that needs to be evacuated or rescued and loved.

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Yeah, the courage of love. Now, do you think of Jesus? He leaves the beautiful,

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perfect glories of heaven to come into this snake pit called earth where people

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are demonized, sick, bound with false religion,

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just messed up.

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And he comes and he reaches out. This is, you know, and the Bible says,

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as he is, so are we in this world.

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What we, you know, don't be, love is not, the real love of God is not intimidated

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by people in horrible, messy situations.

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Exactly. And the love of God is not, doesn't make you a doormat either.

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So you just got to give them everything and coddle to them and enable them.

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The love of God is a conscious, confident act of faith in response to the love of God.

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In 1 John 4, he says, We love him because he first loved us.

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If anyone says, I love God and

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hates his brother, we're going back to brotherly love here, he's a liar.

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For he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he say.

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How can he love God whom he has not seen? And this commandment we have from

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him, that he who loves God must, must love his brother also.

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So the true test of your love of God, we can say all day long, I love Jesus, I love God.

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But the true test of it comes when can you love your brother in the name of God?

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Can you love your brother because you know God loves you? And with that confidence,

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it's not anymore about you.

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It's not about you being thanks or being loved back or being appreciated.

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It's about you being God to that person, however that is. And that has to come with truth and wisdom.

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Because again, there's a time for everything. There is a time to turn the other

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cheek, go the second mile, bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

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But there's also a time, as we know, in Ecclesiastes, there's a time for everything.

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There's a time to say no, a time to let them go, a time to, but that doesn't

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mean you let them go in your heart or in your prayers, but there's wisdom in love as well.

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What time is it? Is it time to stand firm?

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And sometimes you are standing firm for someone who cannot stand firm for themselves anymore.

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Maybe they've lost their heart, they've lost their faith, they can't believe

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they've been overtaken by fear or torment or the diagnosis of cancer.

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Maybe they can't believe anymore, but you can believe for them.

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And the most important thing to believe ultimately, yes, physical healing is

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a wonderful, wonderful ultimate answer, a praise report, a blessing.

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Rejoicing beyond words. But the real ultimate,

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rejoicing is that they learn to realize and know that they are loved and that

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God is love and God is with them.

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So that perfect love casts out the fear and brings in the peace of God,

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which then allows us to love our brothers confidently and even love our enemies.

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That's the next one where he said, love your enemies, pray for those who curse

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you and spitefully use you, forgive them. How do we love our enemies like Jesus did?

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He said, Father, forgive them for they know not what they do.

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So he was loving his enemies and releasing them from the judgment he had a right

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to put on them for what they did.

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He's turning that judgment and privilege over to the God of heaven and earth,

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the court of heaven, and letting it rest to the Lord to finish the work and bring justice.

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We're called in Ephesians 4.15, speaking the truth in love.

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This is how we grow up. And so love does not preclude truth.

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No, they go together. They go together. Right, because Jesus is love and Jesus

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is truth. It might seem like it's really tough.

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You know, it's like, you know, people don't want to handle the truth.

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But if you love people, you tell them the truth. You demonstrate the truth.

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And another thing, too, about love here in Galatians 6.

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Verses 1 and 2, Brethren, if a man is overtaken in any trespass,

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you who are spiritual, restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness,

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considering yourself lest you also be tempted.

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Bear one another's burdens and so fulfill the law of Christ.

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So if someone has gotten into some particular sin trap, and we can say we can

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criticize them, we can judge them. Many are.

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But he says the ones who are spiritual do not just look down their noses at this person.

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They do what we can to restore in the spiritual.

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Restore the one in a spirit of gentleness. because you want to do it gently

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because that person in that trap, in that situation, it could be you there. Could have been you.

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So let's treat them with grace. And so when we see the horrible,

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atrocious things that people are demonized into doing these days,

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disassociated the most horrific things human beings can even think of, we have to,

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first of all, understand that that was a demonic spirit that was operating through

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that person And that's the only way we can separate the person and their behavior from the being,

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that they were overtaken, they were driven, they were demonized, they were controlled,

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they were out of their minds, you know.

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And so when we love people and forgive people, the whole process of forgiveness

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is to be able to sort out and separate the person, the being, from the behavior.

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And so sometimes we say, how can I forgive them? I hate them.

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They did this. It's horrible.

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Blah, blah, blah. And you're all hung up on the behavior, whether they molested

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your daughter or they, you know, what, I can't even say some of the things that

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people do because they're too horrible to even create those images in your mind.

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But the thing is, we have to separate out and know that that person made in

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the image of God has been hacked.

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Controlled, overtaken, programmed, demonized, whatever you want to call it.

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And they are not the one actually, Satan is using their body.

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Satan is using their mind, their mouth, their hand, whatever,

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to do what he has gotten permission, overtaken them, overtaken their mind,

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their will, their emotions.

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He's overtaken them and now they are like his instrument.

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He's their handler. And so to forgive these people really seriously,

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I mean, like we all know the story of Corrie Ten Boom,

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whose sister died, they both were in the concentration camp, and the very soldier,

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soldiers that persecuted them and tormented them, later on when they were free,

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and sister had died, but Corrie was speaking at a church or a conference,

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she saw that very man who had tormented her, and at that point,

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she was confronted with the opportunity to forgive him, to release him from her judgment.

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And we know that that pleased God, and that's exactly what happened.

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So sometimes your enemies are going to show back up in your life to give you

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an opportunity to forgive them.

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And so again, forgiveness is the ability to see beyond the behavior.

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So many times nowadays, we are identifying the being with the behavior,

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and Satan is trying to lock the two together, marry the two together,

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so that we cannot separate the being from their behavior.

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And so even in, you know, in other circles where people are saying,

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well, you know, you're judging me, you don't love me because you don't accept what I do.

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The fact is that we don't have to accept what they do, but we can continue to

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love them if we can sort out the being from the behavior.

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But so many times people identify themselves by their behavior.

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I am, I am this, I am that.

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And because of this is what I do. And now I refer that back to who I am. That redefines who I am.

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And so we have to know that the being has to be separated from the behavior

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in order to forgive them and love them and have compassion on them because they

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are bound, they're deceived, they're locked up, they're lied to, and they're lost.

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And so you're not going to be judgy and self-righteous and say,

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well, you forget you then, just go to hell. You're saying, you know what, I love you.

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This behavior is killing you. I'm going to pray that you get released from this

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demonic activity, sexual perversion, lust, pedophilia, whatever it is.

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I'm going to pray that you get released from it because you have a soul.

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You are created by God. You are precious. You are a being, and this is a doing,

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and He is doing through you.

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And so to separate and understand this very...

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Powerful, you know, complex, but truth.

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Yeah, the truth. That we are not really what we do. Yes, in this world,

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we're judged by what we do. We're held accountable for what we do.

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But I am who God says I am. Who is operating through us? Yes.

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Is it a spirit of darkness? He is projecting his identity, his lust,

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his perversion, his murderous bloodshed onto us.

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And then we are trapped in that. But if you and I see that, we're separated

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from that, we see that person being trapped in that, then we have the skill

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and the power and the wisdom and the love of God to separate them from that behavior.

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So, Father God, this is a lot. You are great.

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You are love. Let us know, Father, the love of Jesus Christ.

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Let that concept of your love permeate every cell of our being to bring us back

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to peace and grace and health and homeostasis.

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And that we will know that we're yours, that we're good, that all things work

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together for good, that we are good, even though things around us are not good,

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because you are good and you are with us and you love us.

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And you've taught us not only to receive your love, but also to love our brothers,

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love those around us, love even the unlovely.

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So Father, give us grace, pour out your love and your compassion,

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your mercy, your healing, your forgiveness, your revelation of your love onto

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and into our lives, our hearts, our situations,

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and into the lives of those we love who do not know, do not know they are loved,

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who are estranged from you, estranged from us.

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Pour out your love and your salvation upon them, Father God, in Jesus' name.

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Amen and amen. Hey, we're talking a lot about this book, Doing Relationships God's Way.

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And there's a chapter in there about loving difficult people.

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Talk about that a little bit. Well, the difficult people, they're all around

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us. They're in your life. They're in your past.

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They've rejected you. They've abandoned you. They've lied to you.

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They've divorced you. They've betrayed you.

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They've taken you to court. They've hurt your children, their children.

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All these difficult people, your sons and daughters who don't listen to you,

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who believe lies about you, who keep you from your grandchildren.

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Witchcraft being practiced against you, all of these difficult people.

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So how do you navigate through this onslaught of rejection, attack, accusation?

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It is, again, through knowing that you are loved, knowing that those people

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do not have power to speak into your life, but God does, and that you are okay.

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God is taking you through this.

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God's walking with you. God's carrying you through this pride of lions.

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So many times I see this picture. You know, we have this picture of,

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you know, walking, Jesus carrying us, you know, the footprints. Footprints. Yeah.

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And that is the truth. But he is carrying us through this pride of lions,

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roaring, man-eating lions who hate you.

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And Jesus Christ carries the little lamb through this pride of lions that are

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roaring and growling and trying and wanting to frighten you and terrify you

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and believe that they can eat you at any second,

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but they cannot get past the good shepherd.

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They cannot, they can't do anything except try to scare us through their noises

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and through their, yeah, through their lies, their words.

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But Jesus Christ is carrying us through the pride of lions that are roaring to devour us.

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So this we know, that God is greater than the lions that you face, the fears that you have.

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Jesus Christ loves you more than his love for you is greater than the lion's desire to kill you.

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So, Father, again, doing relationships God's way at liferecovery.com or on Amazon.

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Take it out. Find it. It'll be a blessing to you. Have a great day.

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