"Love One Another" RESCUE RADIO with Marjorie Cole

0:00 Music. Rescue radio, because there's a war for your soul. Yes, Father God, we thank you for your love, your peace, your power, your plan, and your protection, that your will be done, O God, on earth, in and through us, as is being done and declared every day in heaven.

0:40 We are your agents, your ambassadors to this earth to bring forth the good news and to do what you said, heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out demons, and preach the gospel. Lord God, there are servants of yours that are doing that. And are being severely assaulted by the enemy. But we pray, Father, that you'd release new, refreshing blessings and strength and protections to each one. And we thank you, Jesus, for dying on the cross for us, for securing our salvation eternally and forever by dying in our place. I thank you for not only dying, but raising from the dead, which brought justification, sanctification, and the power and authority to tread on serpents and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy. So let those who are listening today be encouraged.

1:26 You have been given authority, the anointing, and the power to bind and to loose and to forgive. And by the way, forgiveness is our most superpower of the powers, to release people from our judgment and turn the crimes that they have committed against others and that have been committed against them over to the high court of heaven. So, Father God, we thank you for that privilege. We thank you that we have a power and authority to bind the powers of darkness that would even assault and attack these people that listen, this show, this radio show, Rescue Radio, and that you would bring forth divine miracles, healings, and revelations to people who have been stuck forever in fear. Terror, torment, unbelief, that you release people today into the fullness of the gift of power and love and the love of the brethren.

2:07 And I thank you, Jesus, for the promise that no weapon formed against us will prosper, no word said, deed done, action taken, witchcraft, nothing. thing. We forbid it, Father, and we declare it to be null and void in the name of Jesus Christ, and that every word that's been spoken behind our backs or anyone to cast spells or to bring curses, those words are now covered with the blood of Jesus Christ, fall to the ground, and Satan cannot use them any longer against us, because we forgive the people who sent them, and we let this matter be yours and let rest in your court, Father. Now guide us as we hear, give us ears to hear this message, Father, in Jesus' name, and hearts to receive it. Amen. Amen. Well, last time we talked about let brotherly love continue, so we're continuing with let brotherly love continue. We're continuing, right?

2:57 Yeah, that verse is in Hebrews 13, 1, for those who want to check it out. But I'm just going to read real quickly out of my, you know, you have the Bible app. If you do, you should have it. It really helps a lot. You can type in the phrase of your verse that you're looking up, and it will also give you a lot of other verses that are similar. I'm just going to read a couple here to kind of set your mind back on brotherly love. Continue, and then we're going to go through what Jerry has here. Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love and honor, preferring one another. That's Romans 12.10. Seeing that you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren. That's 1 Peter 1.22.

3:37 And to godliness add brotherly kindness and to brotherly kindness charity. That's 2 Peter. Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God, and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. 1 John 4, 7. He who loveth not knoweth not God. 1 John 4, 8. Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another. These are all just little snippets of this command to love our brethren. And then 1 John 4, 12. There's a lot of them in 1 John. No man has seen God at any time. If you love one another, God dwells in us and his love is perfected in us. If a man says, I love God and hates his brother, he is a liar.

4:20 For he who loves not his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen? So these are some of the commandments. The commandment that we have from him is that he who loves God loves his brother also, 1 John 4.21. So in this end days, as Jesus said in John 13.35, they will know you are my disciples with the love that you have for one another. Yeah, it's John 13, 34 through 35. Yeah, go ahead. A new commandment I give you. Well, it was kind of an old commandment, but he gave it in a whole new way. Because in Leviticus chapter 19, verses 17 through 18, it talks about, you shall love your neighbor as yourself.

5:01 And they came, you know, one day there was this Sadducee, a Pharisee rather, who was a lawyer, which means he was an expert in the law. He said, what's the greatest commandment? And he says, the greatest commandment is to love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength, and your neighbor as yourself. So this is where we are. This is the real true test, the bottom line, the acid test, so to speak, of a Christian. He says in John 1. 13, 34, and 35, a new commandment I give to you, that you love one another as I have loved you, that you also love one another.

5:44 By this, all will know that you are my disciples, if you have love one for another. I remember yesterday we talked about the love of many growing cold as one of the signs of the end times. And lawlessness will abound, and the love of many will grow cold, and many will be betrayed and offended. There'll be much hatred and division. And this is what the love of God and loving your brethren is up against. It's up against this force of wickedness and darkness and perversion and hatred. And we see this division because Satan is a divide-and-conquer strategy. That's what he does. So he's setting human beings up in opposition to one another to cool off, to remove the spirit of love and brotherly kindness.

6:26 Yeah, there's so, you know, we all know there's been, you know, it seems like forever there's been love songs, songs about love, and I want to know what love is, and all this sort of thing. So, but we're in this world, Margie, you mentioned about this, a world where there are so many offenses, so many attacks, so much viciousness. Injustice. So much lack of love. Injustice. Injustice, criminal activity of all kinds, white collar crime, blue collar crime, street crime. There is not much knowledge of love. And basically what we think of as love, oftentimes it's actually lust. It's selfish desire.

7:06 Well, I think that the safety factor is a big one because people pull away. They isolate. They don't want to go out into public. They don't want to get involved. They don't want to understand another person's problems. They don't want to be in a prayer chain because it's too messy and it's too scary. And so people, because they don't feel safe, like we said, they'll just take the command to stay home, shelter in place, not get involved. And this is not what brotherly love is. Brotherly love is being there, going the second mile. It's carrying the other person's cloak, bearing their burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. So it's really being involved. Being involved, but a lot of times we don't want to be involved because we were, you know, many of us, we were involved in our family.

7:51 We were involved in a marriage and we got hurt we got offended we got betrayed all that so then what we tend to do is like isolated or you know we put all our affection on a pet or something because. They don't hurt us. They don't hurt us. They don't talk back. They're not going to offend us. They might scratch us or bite us once in a while. Well, yeah, but the love that we're talking about is a different kind of love. It can be detected in the heart. When you have the love of God, you love your brother, you will have a sense of peace and warmth and goodness that goes through our hearts as well. But this love is tougher than what the infatuation or the temporary momentary feelings that spark so many of us and think we're in love.

8:37 This love God is talking about is more enduring than the fleeting feelings. It is more resilient and it can withstand the offenses. It is not taken down by an offense. It forgives. This kind of love doesn't get offended when someone is very offensive and mean and intends to hurt you. This love forgives. It releases them from our judgment. It forgives them by releasing. That means forgiving them, releasing them into the judgment of God by forgiving them. You're not going to be the judge. You're not going to take offense. Jesus said, you know, offenses will come, but blessed is the man who is not offended because you're not taking it personal.

9:18 So this kind of love we're talking about, the brotherly love, comes from, it's the outgrowth of that love of God, the bedrock love of God. God is love. He is with us. He wants us to love like Him, without excuses, without fear, without selfishness, without idolatry, and know that we are safe when we love. Well, the whole thing is you have to be convinced. To really love, you have to know that you're loved. Right. You know, and we love, and 1 John said, we love him because he first loved us.

10:00 So when you know you're loved, if you don't know you're loved, how can you love someone else? If you don't have any money in the bank, you can't write a check and you can't give anybody any money from that account. So, knowing, and this is a, there's so much blockage for that, right? There's so many people that they know it in their head. They can, you know, they can read John 3, 16, for God so loved the world and so forth. They know. About it. Intellectually, they know about the love of God. But is there a knowing? Is there a connection? A connection. A full, a revelation of the love that God has for us. because we tend to.

10:43 Satan lies to us about how bad we are. And because a lot of our life experiences have been so hurtful, we think that we're not loved. We've been, you know, all of us have been betrayed in one way or another by someone. Well, we believe God is mad at us because we didn't do it right. And the conditional love we put, you know, we've been experiencing from our parents and whatnot, you know, do this, this, and this. I have to do something to get the love. Yeah, that we project that same conditional love on God. And how many people are super, super mad at God? They're absolutely beside themselves with bitterness and anger against God because God didn't do this or didn't do that or should have done this or should have done that.

11:25 God let this happen, and how can God do that? And they don't understand the rule is that simply God has given us free will, and He allows us to use it, and we get ourselves in trouble by using it, and then we get mad at God because He let us use our free will. It's kind of magical. Yeah, you know, so God—, But God invites us to love Him, to receive His love, to know that He— See, the thing is, perfect love casts out fear, so I have to know that God is good and faithful and not against me and not here to hurt me and not here to destroy me, to teach me a lesson. I need to know that all that I'm going through, all the experiences, whether I understand them or not, are God's purposes to develop the love of Jesus Christ in me and in me for others. So I receive the love of God.

12:14 God encourages me in that love. And then that love is poured out in brotherly love and kindness to those who are around me. And, you know, we all go through hurtful things, you know, that might be sicknesses, diseases, the loss of loved ones, that sort of thing. And all the trials and pressures that we face are really geared to help us to learn how to love. Trust God. We have faith in God. And having that faith in God is faith in the goodness of God and His faithfulness to complete the work He's begun in us and to walk with Him through the fiery trial, through the confusion, through the lies, through the torment. Because perfect love casts out fear and fear as torment. So the more love you have in your heart, the less place you're going to have for fear.

13:02 And so God wants to just, you know, you can live in knowing that you're loved. You can live in the goodness of God. No matter what is going on outside of you or around you, we can still live knowing that we are loved, that God is for us, God is with us. He's for us. He's not against us. He laid down His life, sent His Son to deliver us from evil. God is for us all the time. Whether or not we feel it or not, the truth is He is with us and for us. Well, that's the lesson, the main lesson in all of the things that we go through.

13:42 And we don't want to miss this now. God is teaching us, he's wanting to make us more and more like Jesus Christ, who is, you know, he's the lover of, he demonstrated in his love for us as well, we were yet sinners, Christ gave his lifeblood for us. But the thing is, sometimes we get faked out. We misinterpret what's going on. The suffering that we're going through, whether it's physical, spiritual, or through hurtful relationships or whatever, all of it is really geared by God. It's allowed by God. And certainly— For a purpose.

14:23 And what is the purpose? Well, to purify, refine, make us more like Jesus. Jesus had us suffer. We suffer. It's part of the process of purification. And it's part of the process of getting rid of yourself and becoming converted, becoming part of the vine. And then we can go with that to the place where to live is Christ. In him I live and move and have my being. It's like I'm exchanging my old self life and fear and situations and goals and apprehensions. I'm exchanging that for the revelation of the true knowledge of Jesus Christ who lives in me and through me, him living in and through me he does his work in and through me for others and to help others So when you're suffering, the point of it is like Oh God, you're so mean, how come you didn't relieve me from this?

15:15 Well, that's not the way to look at it Look at it this way. That if you have, you know, say you have a son or daughter that's wayward, and maybe they've come back to the Lord, maybe they haven't yet, but you're going to have compassion on somebody. You're not going to be judgmental about, oh, you know, a brother or a sister, so on, so they've got kids that are really rebellious right now. Yeah, if you've been through it yourself, you're going to be— You're going to have compassion for them. You're going to identify with them. Right. You're not going to be judging them, oh, they must have failed as a parent or something like that. You're going to have that heart of compassion and to be able to stand with one another through the things that they're going through.

16:01 I think that's why we go through things, isn't it? Because God wants us to be able to empathize with and have compassion, as you said, for one another, rather than judging them. You know, we've heard this before. People will criticize parents for how they raise their children, and then 20 years later they have their own children. And they're not criticizing anymore. They've been there, done that, and have found the same things to be true that they were critical of before they now know the truth. But in 1 John 4, starting with verse 7, John is really about love. He's all about love. He talks about love all the time. He's the apostle of love. This whole thing, I mean, love is something, this conversation with love, this relationship with love, this revelation of love that God is calling us to is way beyond us.

16:48 It's way beyond the natural man. The natural man is geared to fear and survival and safety and whatnot. Yeah, the natural man is if you love me, I'll love you. And that's not the way. And that's conditional love. That's conditional love. The natural man flourishes in conditional love and also it kills him because we can never be good enough to receive enough love. And then we project that onto God. But God is not like that. He says in 1 John 4, verse 7, Beloved, He's calling us beloved already. Let us love one another, for love is of God. You know, God is love. That's a pretty much accepted, you know. Description of God. God is love.

17:29 And everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. In other words, you can't love really unless you're born of God. You know, people who are not born again can love with a natural love, a filial love, but not the agape love. The agape love is that overpowering love that overcomes fear and death. Those that are born, whoever loves is born of God and knows God. So you're reflecting God's characteristics. You're God's offspring. God is love. So if you're an offspring born of God, you're going to have his same characteristics, which is to love one another. And that love and the truth and who God is, the likeness of God, image and likeness has been stamped into our spirits.

18:15 So your spirit already knows this stuff, wants this stuff, is comfortable with knowing and loving and believing. But our souls are not convinced. Our bodies, our flesh is not convinced. The carnal man is not convinced because he's living in the place of the snake pit, the terror of life. Always worried, always anxious, always provoked by Satan, the demons, to become anxious and worried. A perfect love casts out that fear. And so going on, he says, He who does not love does not know God, for God is love. So when you have people who say they love God, and they're not loving their brethren, then there's a disconnect here. In this, the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world that we might live through Him. So he's saying, if you want real proof that God is love, then look at what God did.

19:05 God sent his own son to live, to die for us, actually. And in Romans chapter 9, he says the same thing, kind of. Paul says in chapter, I'm sorry, chapter 8, verse 31, What shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own son, but delivered him for all of us, how shall we not with him also freely give, he shall freely give us all things. So he's saying God gave us his son, and that's the ultimate. If he gave us his son, why won't he give us the other things? And so God is for us, and Christ died and rose to restore us, reconnect us with the Father, reconnect us with our destiny in heaven.

19:49 So God did not spare his own son, and that is the manifestation of his great love towards us. He sent him into the world and let him die in our place, and Jesus, Son of God, Word of God, was willing to do it. Well, God didn't just sit in heaven with a loudspeaker and saying to the world, I love you, I love you, I love you. He sent his son. There was an action taken and so forth. Another thing, too, is that love, we're not talking about just some feeling. There's compassion. Jesus, when he saw the multitude so lost, he was moved with compassion. Basically, it was a gut-wrenching kind of compassion that he had.

20:30 And his heart was just troubled and torn as he reached out. By the pain he saw. Because he saw people so bound with religion and so sick and dying and messed up. Hard. And here in 1 John 3, verse 16, interesting, a parallel to John 3, 16. But by this we know love because he laid down his life for us. And we also ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. But whoever has this world's goods and sees his brother in need and shuts up his heart from him, how does the love of God abide in him?

21:12 He says, my little children, let us not love in word and tongue, not just by what we say, but in deed and in truth. Don't just give lip service to it. And by this we know that we are of the truth and shall assure our hearts before him. So, when we see a need, there's an action taken care of. It's not just, I love you, I love you. If somebody needs food and we're able to provide for them, let's do it. And that might be what he's talking about in the last days. The love of many will grow cold, but they will know that you are my disciples by the love that you have for one another. This might mean more practical things, too, like sharing your food or sharing your shelter or giving them what they need, encouraging people, taking them into your home, whatever all this looks like. Because ultimately...

22:04 Love is the most powerful and important thing to protect and survive. It's the love of God, not my own physical life. And to share our lives with each other, giving, receiving, blessing, all of these things knit our hearts together in the assurance of love. And love really, if you look at it, the thing that's been most attacked in the snake pit where Satan rules the world through injustice, the thing most attacked is love. So, people are so skeptical of the love that they don't want to believe, and they surely don't believe that they deserve it, because we've been taught to believe that love is something we have to earn or that we can deserve.

22:45 And the love of God is freely given. It's a gift, just like salvation, just like healing. Healing is like that, too. You cannot earn it. You cannot be good enough. And the lie that the enemy perpetrates throughout all of the world, he has some basic lies that he tells everybody. If it all shrinks and reduces down to, usually the lie reduces down to, I'm not good enough. I'm not worthy. I'm not worthy, I'm not good enough. Which implies what? That I am not worthy to be loved, to be accepted, to be wanted. I have to perform in some way to be loved. Right. So performance, Satan connects performance with love now so that I can get something I need, so I can be protected, taken care of, loved, taken in, belong, whatever.

23:34 So Satan is put in the middle of love this, I have to earn it. I have to deserve it. And then he lies to us and said, we're not good enough to have it. And I think of when Jesus was baptized, the voice came from the Father. He says, this is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased. Hear him. Now, Jesus had never done any miracles at that point. He'd never cast out demons. He wasn't really preaching. You know, he hadn't performed all his miracles, all his works. He hadn't gone to the cross, obviously, at this point. So, he says, I'm pleased with him because he's my son.

24:18 Because he belongs to me. We love our kids. I mean, I would hope you would love your baby child, your grandchild. You know, they haven't performed anything. They perform, they poop in their diapers and they cry and keep you awake at night. But you love them because why? They're yours. You love them not because. You don't get offended by their behavior because you've already loved them beyond that. And, you know, it's just God put that love. And I believe that's why we have children, many of us, because we are to know and feel how God feels towards us. He's patient. He endures. You're jealous over your children with a godly jealousy.

25:02 You want them to do well. You want them to be known and accomplish their dreams. And so this love that we're drawn into, which is the pinnacle of our relationship and the demonstration of the genuineness of our relationship with God, is to love like God. The love of God never fails, and it doesn't melt or bow down or become afraid in looking at what things look like, but even in the collapse of whatever it is, your health, your relationships. It says perfect love in John 4, 17. Let's see. Love has been perfected among us in that we have boldness to come before, in the day of judgment, because as he is, so are we in the world.

25:50 There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love. So fear sneaks in to taint or threaten or intimidate or cause us to back away from love. But love is more powerful than fear. Love is the most powerful thing in the world. And to love, sometimes you have to die. You have to, you know, like Jesus, he proved his love and then he died. But this is love never fails. Love will win in the end. And when you are in a place where fear is tormenting you with sin or condemnation or demonic judgments or making you think that you're sick now because God's mad at you or you can't get well because you've been suffering for five years with this thing and it's still not gone, what God wants you to know is that nothing has changed in terms of His love for you, his constant companionship with you, tender mercies over you, and that the demon of torment, which is a sidekick to fear, brings in that fear of what's going to happen and If I, if I, you know, if I, you know, it's up to me, God, if God doesn't help me, if you go beyond that to the place where I know God's got this, I know God loves me, whatever the outcome, it's going to be, God is faithful. He does not deny himself.

27:12 He cannot be contradicted. He cannot contradict himself. And so if God is love, he cannot contradict himself by backing away from love and giving up and, and becoming afraid or abandoning us. He said, I will never leave you or forsake you. That means he's going to be there, the spirit of abandonment and fear and isolation and loneliness that the enemy is trying to get you to believe is your fate now because you're so sick and it's beyond medical intervention or whatever. That's where, well, do I get a miracle? Now the question is, okay, well, a miracle, I need a miracle, but can I have a miracle? Am I good enough for a miracle? Do I deserve a miracle? That's not the question. The question is God is the God of miracles.

27:53 God's the God of healing. God's the God of now, right now. God loves you. And whether you live or die, like Paul says, whether I live or die, I'm the Lord's. So, you know, if you die and you love God, you're going to a way better place. If you live, then you're still going to be required to walk out the power and the commandment that we love one another. Yeah, and the love of God really loves messy people. You know, there's a lot of messy people that are intimidated. They're intimidating because they're rebellious, they're wrong, they're rough, they don't like us. And they've got tons of walls up to keep you from loving them.

28:33 You know, anger, intimidation, control, witchcraft. To get beyond these gatekeepers to go find that person inside who's locked inside this prison of rejection and fear and hatred. To get beyond that, you have got to have the courage of love to believe that there's a good reason, that there's a person there that needs to be evacuated or rescued and loved. Yeah, the courage of love. Now, do you think of Jesus? He leaves the beautiful, perfect glories of heaven to come into this snake pit called earth where people are demonized, sick, bound with false religion, just messed up.

29:14 And he comes and he reaches out. This is, you know, and the Bible says, as he is, so are we in this world. What we, you know, don't be, love is not, the real love of God is not intimidated by people in horrible, messy situations. Exactly. And the love of God is not, doesn't make you a doormat either. So you just got to give them everything and coddle to them and enable them. The love of God is a conscious, confident act of faith in response to the love of God. In 1 John 4, he says, We love him because he first loved us.

29:57 If anyone says, I love God and hates his brother, we're going back to brotherly love here, he's a liar. For he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he say. How can he love God whom he has not seen? And this commandment we have from him, that he who loves God must, must love his brother also. So the true test of your love of God, we can say all day long, I love Jesus, I love God. But the true test of it comes when can you love your brother in the name of God? Can you love your brother because you know God loves you? And with that confidence, it's not anymore about you. It's not about you being thanks or being loved back or being appreciated.

30:38 It's about you being God to that person, however that is. And that has to come with truth and wisdom. Because again, there's a time for everything. There is a time to turn the other cheek, go the second mile, bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. But there's also a time, as we know, in Ecclesiastes, there's a time for everything. There's a time to say no, a time to let them go, a time to, but that doesn't mean you let them go in your heart or in your prayers, but there's wisdom in love as well. What time is it? Is it time to stand firm? And sometimes you are standing firm for someone who cannot stand firm for themselves anymore.

31:21 Maybe they've lost their heart, they've lost their faith, they can't believe they've been overtaken by fear or torment or the diagnosis of cancer. Maybe they can't believe anymore, but you can believe for them. And the most important thing to believe ultimately, yes, physical healing is a wonderful, wonderful ultimate answer, a praise report, a blessing. Rejoicing beyond words. But the real ultimate, rejoicing is that they learn to realize and know that they are loved and that God is love and God is with them. So that perfect love casts out the fear and brings in the peace of God, which then allows us to love our brothers confidently and even love our enemies.

32:03 That's the next one where he said, love your enemies, pray for those who curse you and spitefully use you, forgive them. How do we love our enemies like Jesus did? He said, Father, forgive them for they know not what they do. So he was loving his enemies and releasing them from the judgment he had a right to put on them for what they did. He's turning that judgment and privilege over to the God of heaven and earth, the court of heaven, and letting it rest to the Lord to finish the work and bring justice. We're called in Ephesians 4.15, speaking the truth in love. This is how we grow up. And so love does not preclude truth.

32:44 No, they go together. They go together. Right, because Jesus is love and Jesus is truth. It might seem like it's really tough. You know, it's like, you know, people don't want to handle the truth. But if you love people, you tell them the truth. You demonstrate the truth. And another thing, too, about love here in Galatians 6. Verses 1 and 2, Brethren, if a man is overtaken in any trespass, you who are spiritual, restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness, considering yourself lest you also be tempted. Bear one another's burdens and so fulfill the law of Christ. So if someone has gotten into some particular sin trap, and we can say we can criticize them, we can judge them. Many are.

33:31 But he says the ones who are spiritual do not just look down their noses at this person. They do what we can to restore in the spiritual. Restore the one in a spirit of gentleness. because you want to do it gently because that person in that trap, in that situation, it could be you there. Could have been you. So let's treat them with grace. And so when we see the horrible, atrocious things that people are demonized into doing these days, disassociated the most horrific things human beings can even think of, we have to, first of all, understand that that was a demonic spirit that was operating through that person And that's the only way we can separate the person and their behavior from the being, that they were overtaken, they were driven, they were demonized, they were controlled, they were out of their minds, you know.

34:29 And so when we love people and forgive people, the whole process of forgiveness is to be able to sort out and separate the person, the being, from the behavior. And so sometimes we say, how can I forgive them? I hate them. They did this. It's horrible. Blah, blah, blah. And you're all hung up on the behavior, whether they molested your daughter or they, you know, what, I can't even say some of the things that people do because they're too horrible to even create those images in your mind. But the thing is, we have to separate out and know that that person made in the image of God has been hacked. Controlled, overtaken, programmed, demonized, whatever you want to call it.

35:14 And they are not the one actually, Satan is using their body. Satan is using their mind, their mouth, their hand, whatever, to do what he has gotten permission, overtaken them, overtaken their mind, their will, their emotions. He's overtaken them and now they are like his instrument. He's their handler. And so to forgive these people really seriously, I mean, like we all know the story of Corrie Ten Boom, whose sister died, they both were in the concentration camp, and the very soldier, soldiers that persecuted them and tormented them, later on when they were free, and sister had died, but Corrie was speaking at a church or a conference, she saw that very man who had tormented her, and at that point, she was confronted with the opportunity to forgive him, to release him from her judgment.

36:04 And we know that that pleased God, and that's exactly what happened. So sometimes your enemies are going to show back up in your life to give you an opportunity to forgive them. And so again, forgiveness is the ability to see beyond the behavior. So many times nowadays, we are identifying the being with the behavior, and Satan is trying to lock the two together, marry the two together, so that we cannot separate the being from their behavior. And so even in, you know, in other circles where people are saying, well, you know, you're judging me, you don't love me because you don't accept what I do. The fact is that we don't have to accept what they do, but we can continue to love them if we can sort out the being from the behavior.

36:50 But so many times people identify themselves by their behavior. I am, I am this, I am that. And because of this is what I do. And now I refer that back to who I am. That redefines who I am. And so we have to know that the being has to be separated from the behavior in order to forgive them and love them and have compassion on them because they are bound, they're deceived, they're locked up, they're lied to, and they're lost. And so you're not going to be judgy and self-righteous and say, well, you forget you then, just go to hell. You're saying, you know what, I love you. This behavior is killing you. I'm going to pray that you get released from this demonic activity, sexual perversion, lust, pedophilia, whatever it is.

37:31 I'm going to pray that you get released from it because you have a soul. You are created by God. You are precious. You are a being, and this is a doing, and He is doing through you. And so to separate and understand this very... Powerful, you know, complex, but truth. Yeah, the truth. That we are not really what we do. Yes, in this world, we're judged by what we do. We're held accountable for what we do. But I am who God says I am. Who is operating through us? Yes. Is it a spirit of darkness? He is projecting his identity, his lust, his perversion, his murderous bloodshed onto us.

38:13 And then we are trapped in that. But if you and I see that, we're separated from that, we see that person being trapped in that, then we have the skill and the power and the wisdom and the love of God to separate them from that behavior. So, Father God, this is a lot. You are great. You are love. Let us know, Father, the love of Jesus Christ. Let that concept of your love permeate every cell of our being to bring us back to peace and grace and health and homeostasis. And that we will know that we're yours, that we're good, that all things work together for good, that we are good, even though things around us are not good, because you are good and you are with us and you love us.

38:55 And you've taught us not only to receive your love, but also to love our brothers, love those around us, love even the unlovely. So Father, give us grace, pour out your love and your compassion, your mercy, your healing, your forgiveness, your revelation of your love onto and into our lives, our hearts, our situations, and into the lives of those we love who do not know, do not know they are loved, who are estranged from you, estranged from us. Pour out your love and your salvation upon them, Father God, in Jesus' name. Amen and amen. Hey, we're talking a lot about this book, Doing Relationships God's Way. And there's a chapter in there about loving difficult people.

39:40 Talk about that a little bit. Well, the difficult people, they're all around us. They're in your life. They're in your past. They've rejected you. They've abandoned you. They've lied to you. They've divorced you. They've betrayed you. They've taken you to court. They've hurt your children, their children. All these difficult people, your sons and daughters who don't listen to you, who believe lies about you, who keep you from your grandchildren. Witchcraft being practiced against you, all of these difficult people. So how do you navigate through this onslaught of rejection, attack, accusation? It is, again, through knowing that you are loved, knowing that those people do not have power to speak into your life, but God does, and that you are okay.

40:27 God is taking you through this. God's walking with you. God's carrying you through this pride of lions. So many times I see this picture. You know, we have this picture of, you know, walking, Jesus carrying us, you know, the footprints. Footprints. Yeah. And that is the truth. But he is carrying us through this pride of lions, roaring, man-eating lions who hate you. And Jesus Christ carries the little lamb through this pride of lions that are roaring and growling and trying and wanting to frighten you and terrify you and believe that they can eat you at any second, but they cannot get past the good shepherd. They cannot, they can't do anything except try to scare us through their noises and through their, yeah, through their lies, their words.

41:16 But Jesus Christ is carrying us through the pride of lions that are roaring to devour us. So this we know, that God is greater than the lions that you face, the fears that you have. Jesus Christ loves you more than his love for you is greater than the lion's desire to kill you. So, Father, again, doing relationships God's way at liferecovery.com or on Amazon. Take it out. Find it. It'll be a blessing to you. Have a great day. Music. Thank you for joining us. I have an emergency, what is your location?

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