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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This episode of All In with Pastor Jordan Easley has
been made possible by the generous support of viewers like you.
Welcome to All In with Pastor Jordan Eastley. Today's message
is about to begin, and we invite you to prepare
your heart and mind to hear an inspiring message from
God's word. We hope and pray for God to speak
to you today as you seek to live your life
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all in for Jesus Christ. And now from First Baptist
Church in Cleveland, Tennessee, here's Pastor Jordan Easley.
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It's going to be a great day. Glad you're here.
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If you're glad you're here, say amen, you fired up.
You got the word of God in your hand. You
can also follow along on your Bible app and we
have the notes there with you, and I want to
encourage you to take notes today as we continue this
series called God Defined It.
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Hey, let me begin by asking you a simple question.
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When you hear the word love, what picture pops into
your mind? You Know the interesting thing about that question
is every single one of us have an idea. We
have a con when it comes to what love is.
And not only have our brains been trained to personally
define love. You and I have also been convinced that
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there's a certain path to finding it. Some of you
are looking for love right now in all the wrong places.
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Ken, I get an amen.
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You're looking for love on social media, and you're looking
for love in singles events, and.
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You're looking for love through self improvement.
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You're working out and dropping all the pounds, and you think, man,
this is going to be it. This is the path
to finding love. Some of you are looking for love
right now in church. Hello, look at the person left
and right.
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They may be that person, all right. But the truth is.
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The world is looking for love, and here's what we're
going to see today. Since the very beginning of time,
the devil has been working hard to convince you and
me that love is something other than what God determined
it to be.
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You say, why would the devil do that?
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Why would he want to cause confusion when it comes
to defining love. And the answer to that is because
the devil's job is to distort what God defines.
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Hey, you can look at anything in the Bible.
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If God defines it, the devil wants to distort it,
and love is an example of just that. Hey, God
is the designer and the definer of love, and in
fee John four eight, it says that the one who
does not love does not know God because God is love.
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Lock in on what that just said today. God is love,
and the Bible says if we don't know God, if
we haven't been saved by God and changed by God,
then you and I are incapable of demonstrating love or
even experiencing love.
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That's not what the world will tell you.
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The world will say you are a candidate for love
right now, exactly in the moment that you're in right now,
no matter who you are.
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But the tricky thing is, the world has its own
definition for love. Today.
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Real quickly, I want to show you eight different things
that the culture of our day will tell you about love.
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The first one being this that love is self centered.
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Love is all about me, and it's all about you,
and it's all about self gratification.
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This is a love that says, if you love me,
you will serve me.
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When I think about this perspective, I'm reminded of what
Paul says in two Timothy three to two.
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He says, for people will be lovers of.
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Self right, that's what the world will tell you about love.
Love is all about you, but not only is it
self centered, it is also transactional.
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According to culture, this is.
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The idea that says, if I give to you and
you truly love me, then you should automatically reciprocate and
give back to me.
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Now that happens in most love relationships.
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But what the world will tell you is that giving
is a way of receiving. It's transactional. It's a way
of receiving, not a way of serving, and the world
is pretty consistent in that message.
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The third thing they'll tell you is that love is
a feeling. Have you ever heard this before? The world
portrays love as a powerful emotion.
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It will align love with this feeling that comes and goes,
leading people to believe that when your feelings start to fade,
then that love also fades. The fourth one is love
is conditional. Culture will tell you that love is something
that's earned. It's based on certain conditions in the relationship.
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For instance, sometimes love is based on physical appearance.
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I've actually heard people say that.
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They'll say, well, he used to love me when I
look like that, or he used to love me when
when I was younger or more attractive. I've also seen
love relationships where that love is based off of financial status,
or it's based off of some kind of success or
social acceptance. All those are examples of what the world
defines as love. It's not love, it's conditional relationships, which
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really isn't love at all. The fifth one is that
love is effortless. Love is effortless. Believe it or not,
There are a lot of people that love the Lord
that still believe in number five.
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They believe if love is meant.
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To be, it shouldn't require all this hard work, which
isn't true at all.
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By the way, Hey, let me tell you why this
right here is so dangerous.
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It's because this belief creates unrealistic expectations, and that expectation
leads people to abandon relationships as soon as they face
difficult circumstances. But what we see happen far too often
is that people buy into this idea that says, if
the love is real and.
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The love and the love is authentic.
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Then this relationship shouldn't require this much work. Let me
give you the sixth one. The world will tell you
that love is all about chemistry. There's a strong emphasis
in the culture we live in that says that physical
chemistry or physical attraction is the most important factor in
a love relationship, and it puts such a high emphasis
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on that that sometimes we don't even consider things like
a deep emotional connection or a spiritual connection.
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We don't think.
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About what it is to be equally yoked because he's
so hot or she's so fine.
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Right.
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We get so locked in on that that we think
if that's not there, then love isn't real.
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Number seven, Love is about possession. I don't know if
you've thought about this, but.
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The world sometimes equates love with this idea of ownership
or control. In other words, love means if we're in love,
then then I should be able to lord over you.
I should operate in such a way where I'm the
boss of you.
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I get to determine what you do and how you live.
This idea of.
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Lordship over someone else leads to all sorts of bad things.
I'm talking about possessiveness and paranoia and jealousy, all of
which are extremely unhealthy in a loving relationship. The eighth
thing I want to share with you is this that
the world says love makes you happy all the time.
All the time, there's a feeling in the there's a
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belief in.
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Our culture that says, if if.
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Your love is real, if you're in love, then your
relationship should be one where you are happy and content
all the time.
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And if you believe that today, I'm just here to
tell you if that's true. Ain't nobody in this place
ever been in love? All right?
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It hasn't been real, because no person in this world
can say, in this relationship, we've been happy all the time.
But this idea says that you should be happy, and
if you're not happy, then it's not love.
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You know what that is. It's a fantasy. That's a fantasy.
And let me just tell you why each of these
thoughts are so just instructive. Are you ready.
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It's because when reality doesn't match your fantasy, that's when
people tend to doubt.
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The validity of love.
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When reality doesn't match fantasy, that fantasy says, you know what,
maybe love's not possible.
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For me, or maybe love's not even real.
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Hey, since the day that you were born, our world
has been feeding you a fantasy regarding this idea of love,
from the books that you read when you were a
little kid, to the songs that you've sung to, the movies.
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That you've watched.
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All of those things have been built to teach you
this is what love is, and this is how you
experience love, and this is the path in which you
should take to pursue it. I want to remind you
of something today. The world doesn't have the right to
redefine love. And the reason I use that word redefine
is because the world did not define love in the
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first place. You see, the devil himself is the ruler
of the world today, and since the beginning of time,
he's been trying to redefine that which God has clearly defined.
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And you know what, the devil doesn't have the right
to tell you what love is today.
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Why because God is the definer of love. If you
believe that, say amen, God defined it. God is the
author of love. He is the creator of love. And
you know what, he's also our model for love. What
does it say in one John four sixteen? And we
have come to know and to believe.
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The love that God has for us.
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God is love, and the one who remains in love
remains in God, and God.
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Remains in him. You know what that verse tells us.
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It tells us that love isn't just an attribute of God,
but that love is central to who God is.
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It's who he is, it's what he does. God is love,
He defines love. But he also loved us, you know.
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Romans five eight says that, but God proves his own
love for us, and that while we were still sinners,
Christ died for us. So, if you're a person here
today and you're asking, how has God really loved for me?
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How has he.
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Demonstrated his love for me, you know what I'd say,
He demonstrated his love for you when he sent Jesus
to the earth to save you. Hey, I hope you
understand that without Jesus doing what Jesus did, none of
us would even be able to comprehend or understand what
true love looks like. When Jesus came to this earth,
this God, who is love, put his love on display.
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That verse just said while we were still sinners, Christ
died for us. It doesn't say while we were still
or why we were perfect, or after we had cleaned
up our act or after we had started behaving ourselves. No,
the Bible says, while we were still jacked up, while
we were undeserving and unworthy, The God of the universe
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put his love on display by sending his one and
only son to the earth to save us and to
forgive us.
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And to give us hope.
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Without that act of God demonstrating his love for us,
you and I wouldn't have hope today.
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But because of Jesus, you and I can have hope. See.
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God proved his love by sending his son. John chapter fifteen,
verse thirteen says, no one has greater love than this
to lay down his life for his friends. Hey, that's
what Jesus did for you. He laid down his life
for you, and in doing so, he not only showed
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us what love was, but he showed us how God
defines love. You know, as we read the Bible, we
see that word love many times. In fact, this week
I read my whole Bible. It's in there five hundred
and forty nine times.
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I didn't I googled it all right, but it's in
there five hundred and forty nine times, the word love.
It's in the English. It's very clear l ovee.
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But you know, we see that word over and over again.
But oftentimes we don't realize. In the original manuscripts of
the Bible there are actually several.
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Words for this one word love. In fact, today I
want to share with you.
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Four different words with four different meanings, all translated.
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Love in the Bible. They're all different. The first one's fileao.
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This word fileo in the Bible is a unique word
that talks about brotherly.
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Love, like a friend loves another friend.
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We get our English word Philadelphia from that word Fialao,
which as you know, is the city of say it with.
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Me brotherly love.
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But when I think about this kind of love, I
think about the relationship we see in First Samuel chapter
eighteen through twenty. It's a relationship between two guys named
David and Jonathan, and they loved each other like friends
love one another. I have friends like that, friends that
I love being around friends. I take a bullet for
friends that we hang out and they sharpen me and
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they make me better, and they point me to the Lord.
If you don't have friends like that, you need two,
because the Bible shows how this fileo love, this brotherly love,
it makes us better. There's another word I want you
to see, and it's the word storage. This is a
familial love, like we love people in our family.
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Once again, I go back to Scripture, and I think about.
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Different relationships, and I'm reminded of the relationship we see
between Ruth and Naomi and Ruth Chapter one. This is
what Ruth said about her mother in law.
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Are you ready?
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It says, for wherever you go, I will go, and
wherever you live, I will live. Your people will be
my people, and your God will be my god. Where
you die, I will die, and there I will be buried.
May the Lord punish me, and do so severely if
anything but death separates you and me. If you read
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that like me, I'm like, what in the world is this?
No one ever speaks of their mother in law like that?
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Right? What kind of relationship is this?
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It's a loving relationship, right, There is a demonstration of
this storage love, this familial love.
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Let me give you another one. You're ready.
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It's the word aros, aros. It's a romantic love. For
many people, this is our favorite kind of love. This
is our I'm in love with you kind of love.
It's romantic, it's.
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Passionate, it's dedicated.
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Going back to Scripture, it's the same kind of love
we see demonstrated between like a Jacob and a Rachel.
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You know in that scripture.
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In Genesis twenty nine, it says this Jacob works seven
years for Rachel and they seem like only a few
days to him because of his.
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Love for her? What is that? That's like kind of love? Right?
It was like you know what I'm talking about.
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It's like, come on, bro, seven years only a few days?
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Like it's a romantic love.
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That's an aross, romantic passionate, whatever kind of gross love
or whatever.
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But and the fourth word is a gape.
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You gotta get a gape because this right here is
the word we have for uncle conditional love.
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This is God's standard for love. It's the way that
God loves us.
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And I want to give you four different things that
really talk about God's standard for love. What does it
mean to have this agape love? Number one, it's unconditional.
We've seen that already in John three point sixteen when
the Bible says God loved the world in this way
he gave us one and only son. It's talking about
this kind of love, like an unconditional love.
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God loves us.
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So much that he's willing to do whatever it takes
to save us. It's God's standard for love. It's hard
for us to wrap our mind around unconditional love. And
I think the reason is because you and I have
been conditioned to believe that love is always conditional. We've
grown up hearing things like, hey, I.
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Love you, and I will love you.
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As long as blank right, or I love you and
I will love you as long as you don't do
this or you don't do that. That's that's what love
looks like for many of us today. We've been programmed
to believe that all love is conditional. But when you
look at the Word of God, it talks about a
love that makes no sense to most people. It's a
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love where God says, I love you, period, I love you,
and there's nothing that can separate you from that love.
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You know. Romans eight talks.
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About that, that love that's inseparable. When you look at
Romans eight, Chapter eight, verse thirty six, go ahead and
go to that verse. There you go, for I am
persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels, nor rulers,
nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor
height nor depth, nor any other created thing we'll be
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able to separate us from the love of God that
is in Christ, Jesus, our Lord. That's God saying, Hey,
nothing can separate.
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You from the love that I have. It's an unconditional love.
But you know what else, it's a personal love. You know.
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Every year growing up, my parents would bring me to
something called the Southern Baptist Convention. And if you've never been,
it's basically ten thousand church people that get together in
a conference center and they talk about church stuff and
they argue about everything for three days.
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All right, just a.
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Peaking to my childhood. All right, it sounds fun. I know,
other kids are at Disney World. I'm in Idaho watching
preachers in three peace suits talking.
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About who does it right and who does it wrong. Okay,
it's a peaking to my childhood.
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But I grew up attending this convention every single year,
and the majority of things I saw and experienced that
those events truly were great. They were positive things that
I'm grateful for today. But I also grew up seeing
things at these events that honestly still make my skin
crawl just thinking about them. For instance, this convention, it's
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always taken place in June. The month of June, which,
as you know, since the year nineteen seventy has been
has been and called.
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Pride Month in America.
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And so every single year we've been a major city
somewhere and you'd.
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Have this family called Southern.
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Baptist on one side, and they'd be sharing downtown with
protesters and gay activists and rainbow parades. And every year
there are people on both sides of the street and
they'll have picket signs, and they'll have bullhorns, and they'll
be pleading their case as.
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To why they believe the way they believe.
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You can probably imagine this scene if you close your
eyes for just a moment. But I've seen it play
out time and time again.
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I've seen this.
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Year after year on street corners outside of convention halls.
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And I'll say it this way.
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We have a lot of awesome people in this family
called Southern Baptist, people that love the Lord, people who
carry out the mission of God in a way that
makes us proud. But we also have some crazy uncles
in this family. I'm talking about crazy. I grew up
watching those crazy uncles stand on street corners and they
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would say and do some of the most ungodly things
a person could say or do, all in the name
of evangelizing sinners, making disciples and being truth tellers, bullhorns,
picket signs and all of it. Let me say this,
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Love without truth is meaningless, and truth without love is
just mean.
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I want you to get this one today.
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Love without truth is meaningless, and truth without love is mean.
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Let me ask you a personal question today.
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If you say you love someone but you refuse to
tell them the truth, can you really.
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Call that love?
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You love them but you avoid them. You love them,
but you're gonna avoid that conversation. You will not tell
them the truth. Can you really call that love? But
on the flip side of that, if all you do
is bark truth at somebody and you do so without
first wearing.
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The garment of.
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God's love, can you really expect that truth to change
their heart? He Ephesians four, verse fifteen says it this way,
But speaking the truth in love let us grow in
every way to him who is the head Christ.
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Did you hear that? He doesn't say, Hey, your job
is to bomb the rubble.
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Your job is to speak the truth as loud as
you can and take no prisoners.
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No, he doesn't say that. He tells us, above everything, man,
put on love. Put on love first, right, and then
speak the truth.
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But do so wearing that wardrobe, that garment of God's love.
The Bible says when we speak the truth in love,
we will grow in every way and we will become
more like Christ. Hey, maybe you're asking today, how do
I do that? I think many of us are asking that,
how do I do that? How can I live out
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the love of God?
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Let me give you a little outline. First thing you've
got to do is.
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You've got to personally experience the Son of God. You
have to personally experience Jesus.
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If you've not been saved, guess what. You don't have
access to his wardrobe.
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If you haven't personally experienced Christ, and if he hasn't
done a transformative work in your life, if the old
isn't gone and the new hasn't come, if you don't
have the power of the Holy Spirit.
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Living in you, then guess what. You can't live out
the rest of this.
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The first thing we've got to do is personally experience
the Son of God. Secondly, we've got to choose to
put on the love of God. Hey, just because Jesus
has saved you and given you access to his wardrobe,
doesn't mean that you've already put on the love of God.
There's an action there, and so you must choose to
put on the love of God before.
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You interact with anyone. But not only are we to
choose to put on the love of God.
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Last, but not least, we are to align our life
to the Word of God. Everything in our life ought
to be dictated and determined by the truth of who
God is and what God says. So the question is
what does God say about love? Let's keep reading in
verse four. It says love is patient, Love is kind,
Love does not envy, is not boastful, is not arrogant,
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is not rude, is not self seeking, is not irritable,
and does not keep a record of wrongs. Love finds
no joy in unrighteousness, but rejoices in the truth. It
bears all things, believes, all things, hopes, all things, endures,
all things.
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Love never ends.
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We've got to align our life to the Word of
God when it comes to what love truly is. And
don't run past that last point today. The love of
God will never end.
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Do you get that? The love of God, it will
never end.
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If you know him, if you love him, if you
live for him, if you serve him.
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The Bible says, the love you experience, the love you need.
God's love will never end.
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The love you experience today will be the love you
experience for all of eternity. Verse twelve says, for now
we see only a reflection, as in a mirror, but
then face to face.
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Now I know in part, but then.
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I will know fully as I am fully known Verse thirteen.
Now these three remain faith, hope, and love. But the
greatest of these, say with me, is love. Hey, can
you say that you've personally experienced the Son of God?
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Have you chosen to put on the love of God?
Have you aligned your life to the word of God.
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My prayer is that if you haven't made those decisions,
that today would be the day that you take that
step of faith and step into what God defines as love.
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Would you buy your heads and close your eyes?
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Hey, I want to start with that first question and
ask have you personally experienced.
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The love of God? Has He saved you? Has He
changed you?
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Has Jesus made you a new person and transformed your
life from the inside out?
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If not, today, I believe.
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That Jesus can save your soul, He can forgive you
of your sin, He can change everything and give you
a new start as a child of the King.
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Listen, when you have access to Jesus, you have access.
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To his wardrobe, and when you know Christ, you can
begin to put on his garments.
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That's a game changer. So today, if you've.
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Never accepted Christ, would you just pray right now and say, Lord,
I know that in order for me to know God,
that I need to have this moment where I surrender
my life to you. So Jesus, in this moment, in
the best way I know how, I give you my life.
I turn away from my sin, and I choose today
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to turn to you as my Lord and my savior.
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It's going to be a great day. Glad you're here.
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If you're glad you're here, say amen, you fired up.
You got the word of God in your hand. You
can also follow along on your Bible app and we
have the notes there with you, and I want to
encourage you to take notes today as we continue this
series called God Defined It.
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Hey, let me begin by asking you a simple question.
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When you hear the word love, what picture pops into
your mind? You Know the interesting thing about that question
is every single one of us have an idea. We
have a con when it comes to what love is.
And not only have our brains been trained to personally
define love. You and I have also been convinced that
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there's a certain path to finding it. Some of you
are looking for love right now in all the wrong places.
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Ken, I get an amen.
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You're looking for love on social media, and you're looking
for love in singles events, and.
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You're looking for love through self improvement.
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You're working out and dropping all the pounds, and you think, man,
this is going to be it. This is the path
to finding love. Some of you are looking for love
right now in church. Hello, look at the person left
and right.
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They may be that person, all right. But the truth is.
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The world is looking for love, and here's what we're
going to see today. Since the very beginning of time,
the devil has been working hard to convince you and
me that love is something other than what God determined
it to be.
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You say, why would the devil do that?
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Why would he want to cause confusion when it comes
to defining love. And the answer to that is because
the devil's job is to distort what God defines.
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Hey, you can look at anything in the Bible.
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If God defines it, the devil wants to distort it,
and love is an example of just that. Hey, God
is the designer and the definer of love, and in
fee John four eight, it says that the one who
does not love does not know God because God is love.
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Lock in on what that just said today. God is love,
and the Bible says if we don't know God, if
we haven't been saved by God and changed by God,
then you and I are incapable of demonstrating love or
even experiencing love.
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That's not what the world will tell you.
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The world will say you are a candidate for love
right now, exactly in the moment that you're in right now,
no matter who you are.
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But the tricky thing is, the world has its own
definition for love. Today.
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Real quickly, I want to show you eight different things
that the culture of our day will tell you about love.
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The first one being this that love is self centered.
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Love is all about me, and it's all about you,
and it's all about self gratification.
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This is a love that says, if you love me,
you will serve me.
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When I think about this perspective, I'm reminded of what
Paul says in two Timothy three to two.
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He says, for people will be lovers of.
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Self right, that's what the world will tell you about love.
Love is all about you, but not only is it
self centered, it is also transactional.
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According to culture, this is.
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The idea that says, if I give to you and
you truly love me, then you should automatically reciprocate and
give back to me.
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Now that happens in most love relationships.
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But what the world will tell you is that giving
is a way of receiving. It's transactional. It's a way
of receiving, not a way of serving, and the world
is pretty consistent in that message.
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The third thing they'll tell you is that love is
a feeling. Have you ever heard this before? The world
portrays love as a powerful emotion.
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It will align love with this feeling that comes and goes,
leading people to believe that when your feelings start to fade,
then that love also fades. The fourth one is love
is conditional. Culture will tell you that love is something
that's earned. It's based on certain conditions in the relationship.
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For instance, sometimes love is based on physical appearance.
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I've actually heard people say that.
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They'll say, well, he used to love me when I
look like that, or he used to love me when
when I was younger or more attractive. I've also seen
love relationships where that love is based off of financial status,
or it's based off of some kind of success or
social acceptance. All those are examples of what the world
defines as love. It's not love, it's conditional relationships, which
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really isn't love at all. The fifth one is that
love is effortless. Love is effortless. Believe it or not,
There are a lot of people that love the Lord
that still believe in number five.
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They believe if love is meant.
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To be, it shouldn't require all this hard work, which
isn't true at all.
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By the way, Hey, let me tell you why this
right here is so dangerous.
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It's because this belief creates unrealistic expectations, and that expectation
leads people to abandon relationships as soon as they face
difficult circumstances. But what we see happen far too often
is that people buy into this idea that says, if
the love is real and.
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The love and the love is authentic.
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Then this relationship shouldn't require this much work. Let me
give you the sixth one. The world will tell you
that love is all about chemistry. There's a strong emphasis
in the culture we live in that says that physical
chemistry or physical attraction is the most important factor in
a love relationship, and it puts such a high emphasis
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on that that sometimes we don't even consider things like
a deep emotional connection or a spiritual connection.
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We don't think.
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About what it is to be equally yoked because he's
so hot or she's so fine.
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Right.
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We get so locked in on that that we think
if that's not there, then love isn't real.
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Number seven, Love is about possession. I don't know if
you've thought about this, but.
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The world sometimes equates love with this idea of ownership
or control. In other words, love means if we're in love,
then then I should be able to lord over you.
I should operate in such a way where I'm the
boss of you.
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I get to determine what you do and how you live.
This idea of.
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Lordship over someone else leads to all sorts of bad things.
I'm talking about possessiveness and paranoia and jealousy, all of
which are extremely unhealthy in a loving relationship. The eighth
thing I want to share with you is this that
the world says love makes you happy all the time.
All the time, there's a feeling in the there's a
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belief in.
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Our culture that says, if if.
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Your love is real, if you're in love, then your
relationship should be one where you are happy and content
all the time.
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And if you believe that today, I'm just here to
tell you if that's true. Ain't nobody in this place
ever been in love? All right?
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It hasn't been real, because no person in this world
can say, in this relationship, we've been happy all the time.
But this idea says that you should be happy, and
if you're not happy, then it's not love.
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You know what that is. It's a fantasy. That's a fantasy.
And let me just tell you why each of these
thoughts are so just instructive. Are you ready.
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It's because when reality doesn't match your fantasy, that's when
people tend to doubt.
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The validity of love.
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When reality doesn't match fantasy, that fantasy says, you know what,
maybe love's not possible.
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For me, or maybe love's not even real.
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Hey, since the day that you were born, our world
has been feeding you a fantasy regarding this idea of love,
from the books that you read when you were a
little kid, to the songs that you've sung to, the movies.
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That you've watched.
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All of those things have been built to teach you
this is what love is, and this is how you
experience love, and this is the path in which you
should take to pursue it. I want to remind you
of something today. The world doesn't have the right to
redefine love. And the reason I use that word redefine
is because the world did not define love in the
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first place. You see, the devil himself is the ruler
of the world today, and since the beginning of time,
he's been trying to redefine that which God has clearly defined.
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And you know what, the devil doesn't have the right
to tell you what love is today.
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Why because God is the definer of love. If you
believe that, say amen, God defined it. God is the
author of love. He is the creator of love. And
you know what, he's also our model for love. What
does it say in one John four sixteen? And we
have come to know and to believe.
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The love that God has for us.
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God is love, and the one who remains in love
remains in God, and God.
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Remains in him. You know what that verse tells us.
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It tells us that love isn't just an attribute of God,
but that love is central to who God is.
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It's who he is, it's what he does. God is love,
He defines love. But he also loved us, you know.
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Romans five eight says that, but God proves his own
love for us, and that while we were still sinners,
Christ died for us. So, if you're a person here
today and you're asking, how has God really loved for me?
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How has he.
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Demonstrated his love for me, you know what I'd say,
He demonstrated his love for you when he sent Jesus
to the earth to save you. Hey, I hope you
understand that without Jesus doing what Jesus did, none of
us would even be able to comprehend or understand what
true love looks like. When Jesus came to this earth,
this God, who is love, put his love on display.
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That verse just said while we were still sinners, Christ
died for us. It doesn't say while we were still
or why we were perfect, or after we had cleaned
up our act or after we had started behaving ourselves. No,
the Bible says, while we were still jacked up, while
we were undeserving and unworthy, The God of the universe
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put his love on display by sending his one and
only son to the earth to save us and to
forgive us.
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And to give us hope.
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Without that act of God demonstrating his love for us,
you and I wouldn't have hope today.
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But because of Jesus, you and I can have hope. See.
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God proved his love by sending his son. John chapter fifteen,
verse thirteen says, no one has greater love than this
to lay down his life for his friends. Hey, that's
what Jesus did for you. He laid down his life
for you, and in doing so, he not only showed
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us what love was, but he showed us how God
defines love. You know, as we read the Bible, we
see that word love many times. In fact, this week
I read my whole Bible. It's in there five hundred
and forty nine times.
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I didn't I googled it all right, but it's in
there five hundred and forty nine times, the word love.
It's in the English. It's very clear l ovee.
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But you know, we see that word over and over again.
But oftentimes we don't realize. In the original manuscripts of
the Bible there are actually several.
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Words for this one word love. In fact, today I
want to share with you.
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Four different words with four different meanings, all translated.
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Love in the Bible. They're all different. The first one's fileao.
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This word fileo in the Bible is a unique word
that talks about brotherly.
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Love, like a friend loves another friend.
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We get our English word Philadelphia from that word Fialao,
which as you know, is the city of say it with.
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Me brotherly love.
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But when I think about this kind of love, I
think about the relationship we see in First Samuel chapter
eighteen through twenty. It's a relationship between two guys named
David and Jonathan, and they loved each other like friends
love one another. I have friends like that, friends that
I love being around friends. I take a bullet for
friends that we hang out and they sharpen me and
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they make me better, and they point me to the Lord.
If you don't have friends like that, you need two,
because the Bible shows how this fileo love, this brotherly love,
it makes us better. There's another word I want you
to see, and it's the word storage. This is a
familial love, like we love people in our family.
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Once again, I go back to Scripture, and I think about.
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Different relationships, and I'm reminded of the relationship we see
between Ruth and Naomi and Ruth Chapter one. This is
what Ruth said about her mother in law.
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Are you ready?
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It says, for wherever you go, I will go, and
wherever you live, I will live. Your people will be
my people, and your God will be my god. Where
you die, I will die, and there I will be buried.
May the Lord punish me, and do so severely if
anything but death separates you and me. If you read
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that like me, I'm like, what in the world is this?
No one ever speaks of their mother in law like that?
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Right? What kind of relationship is this?
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It's a loving relationship, right, There is a demonstration of
this storage love, this familial love.
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Let me give you another one. You're ready.
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It's the word aros, aros. It's a romantic love. For
many people, this is our favorite kind of love. This
is our I'm in love with you kind of love.
It's romantic, it's.
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Passionate, it's dedicated.
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Going back to Scripture, it's the same kind of love
we see demonstrated between like a Jacob and a Rachel.
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You know in that scripture.
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In Genesis twenty nine, it says this Jacob works seven
years for Rachel and they seem like only a few
days to him because of his.
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Love for her? What is that? That's like kind of love? Right?
It was like you know what I'm talking about.
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It's like, come on, bro, seven years only a few days?
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Like it's a romantic love.
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That's an aross, romantic passionate, whatever kind of gross love
or whatever.
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But and the fourth word is a gape.
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You gotta get a gape because this right here is
the word we have for uncle conditional love.
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This is God's standard for love. It's the way that
God loves us.
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And I want to give you four different things that
really talk about God's standard for love. What does it
mean to have this agape love? Number one, it's unconditional.
We've seen that already in John three point sixteen when
the Bible says God loved the world in this way
he gave us one and only son. It's talking about
this kind of love, like an unconditional love.
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God loves us.
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So much that he's willing to do whatever it takes
to save us. It's God's standard for love. It's hard
for us to wrap our mind around unconditional love. And
I think the reason is because you and I have
been conditioned to believe that love is always conditional. We've
grown up hearing things like, hey, I.
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Love you, and I will love you.
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As long as blank right, or I love you and
I will love you as long as you don't do
this or you don't do that. That's that's what love
looks like for many of us today. We've been programmed
to believe that all love is conditional. But when you
look at the Word of God, it talks about a
love that makes no sense to most people. It's a
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love where God says, I love you, period, I love you,
and there's nothing that can separate you from that love.
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You know. Romans eight talks.
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About that, that love that's inseparable. When you look at
Romans eight, Chapter eight, verse thirty six, go ahead and
go to that verse. There you go, for I am
persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels, nor rulers,
nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor
height nor depth, nor any other created thing we'll be
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able to separate us from the love of God that
is in Christ, Jesus, our Lord. That's God saying, Hey,
nothing can separate.
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You from the love that I have. It's an unconditional love.
But you know what else, it's a personal love. You know.
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Every year growing up, my parents would bring me to
something called the Southern Baptist Convention. And if you've never been,
it's basically ten thousand church people that get together in
a conference center and they talk about church stuff and
they argue about everything for three days.
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All right, just a.
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Peaking to my childhood. All right, it sounds fun. I know,
other kids are at Disney World. I'm in Idaho watching
preachers in three peace suits talking.
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About who does it right and who does it wrong. Okay,
it's a peaking to my childhood.
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But I grew up attending this convention every single year,
and the majority of things I saw and experienced that
those events truly were great. They were positive things that
I'm grateful for today. But I also grew up seeing
things at these events that honestly still make my skin
crawl just thinking about them. For instance, this convention, it's
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always taken place in June. The month of June, which,
as you know, since the year nineteen seventy has been
has been and called.
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Pride Month in America.
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And so every single year we've been a major city
somewhere and you'd.
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Have this family called Southern.
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Baptist on one side, and they'd be sharing downtown with
protesters and gay activists and rainbow parades. And every year
there are people on both sides of the street and
they'll have picket signs, and they'll have bullhorns, and they'll
be pleading their case as.
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To why they believe the way they believe.
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You can probably imagine this scene if you close your
eyes for just a moment. But I've seen it play
out time and time again.
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I've seen this.
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Year after year on street corners outside of convention halls.
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And I'll say it this way.
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We have a lot of awesome people in this family
called Southern Baptist, people that love the Lord, people who
carry out the mission of God in a way that
makes us proud. But we also have some crazy uncles
in this family. I'm talking about crazy. I grew up
watching those crazy uncles stand on street corners and they
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would say and do some of the most ungodly things
a person could say or do, all in the name
of evangelizing sinners, making disciples and being truth tellers, bullhorns,
picket signs and all of it. Let me say this,
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Love without truth is meaningless, and truth without love is
just mean.
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I want you to get this one today.
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Love without truth is meaningless, and truth without love is mean.
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Let me ask you a personal question today.
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If you say you love someone but you refuse to
tell them the truth, can you really.
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Call that love?
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You love them but you avoid them. You love them,
but you're gonna avoid that conversation. You will not tell
them the truth. Can you really call that love? But
on the flip side of that, if all you do
is bark truth at somebody and you do so without
first wearing.
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The garment of.
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God's love, can you really expect that truth to change
their heart? He Ephesians four, verse fifteen says it this way,
But speaking the truth in love let us grow in
every way to him who is the head Christ.
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Did you hear that? He doesn't say, Hey, your job
is to bomb the rubble.
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Your job is to speak the truth as loud as
you can and take no prisoners.
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No, he doesn't say that. He tells us, above everything, man,
put on love. Put on love first, right, and then
speak the truth.
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But do so wearing that wardrobe, that garment of God's love.
The Bible says when we speak the truth in love,
we will grow in every way and we will become
more like Christ. Hey, maybe you're asking today, how do
I do that? I think many of us are asking that,
how do I do that? How can I live out
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the love of God?
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Let me give you a little outline. First thing you've
got to do is.
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You've got to personally experience the Son of God. You
have to personally experience Jesus.
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If you've not been saved, guess what. You don't have
access to his wardrobe.
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If you haven't personally experienced Christ, and if he hasn't
done a transformative work in your life, if the old
isn't gone and the new hasn't come, if you don't
have the power of the Holy Spirit.
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Living in you, then guess what. You can't live out
the rest of this.
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The first thing we've got to do is personally experience
the Son of God. Secondly, we've got to choose to
put on the love of God. Hey, just because Jesus
has saved you and given you access to his wardrobe,
doesn't mean that you've already put on the love of God.
There's an action there, and so you must choose to
put on the love of God before.
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You interact with anyone. But not only are we to
choose to put on the love of God.
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Last, but not least, we are to align our life
to the Word of God. Everything in our life ought
to be dictated and determined by the truth of who
God is and what God says. So the question is
what does God say about love? Let's keep reading in
verse four. It says love is patient, Love is kind,
Love does not envy, is not boastful, is not arrogant,
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is not rude, is not self seeking, is not irritable,
and does not keep a record of wrongs. Love finds
no joy in unrighteousness, but rejoices in the truth. It
bears all things, believes, all things, hopes, all things, endures,
all things.
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Love never ends.
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We've got to align our life to the Word of
God when it comes to what love truly is. And
don't run past that last point today. The love of
God will never end.
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Do you get that? The love of God, it will
never end.
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If you know him, if you love him, if you
live for him, if you serve him.
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The Bible says, the love you experience, the love you need.
God's love will never end.
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The love you experience today will be the love you
experience for all of eternity. Verse twelve says, for now
we see only a reflection, as in a mirror, but
then face to face.
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Now I know in part, but then.
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I will know fully as I am fully known Verse thirteen.
Now these three remain faith, hope, and love. But the
greatest of these, say with me, is love. Hey, can
you say that you've personally experienced the Son of God?
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Have you chosen to put on the love of God?
Have you aligned your life to the word of God.
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My prayer is that if you haven't made those decisions,
that today would be the day that you take that
step of faith and step into what God defines as love.
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Would you buy your heads and close your eyes?
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Hey, I want to start with that first question and
ask have you personally experienced.
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The love of God? Has He saved you? Has He
changed you?
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Has Jesus made you a new person and transformed your
life from the inside out?
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If not, today, I believe.
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That Jesus can save your soul, He can forgive you
of your sin, He can change everything and give you
a new start as a child of the King.
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Listen, when you have access to Jesus, you have access.
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To his wardrobe, and when you know Christ, you can
begin to put on his garments.
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That's a game changer. So today, if you've.
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Never accepted Christ, would you just pray right now and say, Lord,
I know that in order for me to know God,
that I need to have this moment where I surrender
my life to you. So Jesus, in this moment, in
the best way I know how, I give you my life.
I turn away from my sin, and I choose today
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to turn to you as my Lord and my savior.
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God.
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I want to know you, I want to live for you,
and I want to make a difference for you and
your kingdom. I never want to be ashamed of this decision,
but I want to be light in the darkness, and
I want my life to point other people to Jesus.
Thank you for saving me, thank you for loving me.
And it's in Jesus name I pray.
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Amen.
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Have you ever dreamed of exploring the Great Pyramids of
Egypt and delving into one of the world's most remarkable
ancient civilizations. Hey, I'm pleased to extend an invitation to
you for an exclusive tour of Egypt in December twenty
twenty five. Envision yourself sailing along the historic Nile River,
just as the Pharaohs once did, and stepping ashore at
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renowned sights along the way.
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Together, we will explore the Valley of the.
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Kings, of the Egyptian Museum of Antiquities, which houses treasures
from King Tut's tomb, and many others. We're going to
journey to Mount Sinai, near the Red Sea and so on.
Then this tour offers a captivating glimpse into Bible history
at every single turn, and I am so eager to guide.
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You on this extraordinary adventure.
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To discover how you could join this tour, please follow
the lynks provided be aware that spaces are limited for
this unique journey.
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If you want to accompany me on this exploration of Egypt,
I encourage you to register soon and secure your spot.
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We never want to end our broadcast without giving you
the opportunity to know Jesus as your personal Lord and savior.
If you'd like to make the decision to trust Jesus
and want to know more about what it looks like
to follow Jesus get in touch with.
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Me right now.
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Follow the instructions at the bottom of the screen so
that we can pray for you and also put information
in your hands right away. Today we celebrate your decision
and look forward to being a part of your personal.
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Journey of going all in with Jesus Christ.
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This episode of All In with Pastor Jordan Eeseley has
been made possible by the generous support of viewers like you.
We hope today's message encourages you as you strive to
live your life fully committed to Jesus Christ.
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