July 14, 2025 • 27 mins
A study in the book of 1st Corinthians, chapter 13.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome to Kwave's Pastor Spotlight featuring the Bible teaching of
our local Southern California pastors. This week we're pleased to
bring you Mission Viejo's native son, Mike Mayolo, lead pastor
of Mission Viejo Christian Church. Mike has a passion for
leading people into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. To
learn more about Mission Viejo Christian Church, you're invited to
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visit MBCC Home.org. Most of the
The population in our country would agree that the division
has been at its highest level in the past decade.
There's an answer to ending the division, and that is
one heart change at a time. The love of God
can change anyone. Well, how do we do this? When
we choose to love someone by acting in their best interest.
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According to 1 Corinthians chapter 13, it'll bring about real change.
Here's Pastor Mike with today's message.
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You have been gifted. You have been anointed. If you
are a believer in Jesus and you surrendered your life
to God, He has gifted you, he has empowered you,
and one of our roles here at NBCC is we
want to give you every tool possible so that you
can serve him, love him, and the greatest thing that
we can bring to people is a heart, God-filled heart
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with love.
In 1 Corinthians chapter 12, man, the last, we're just
going through the book of 1 Corinthians, we looked at
all these incredible gifts, the gift of wisdom, knowledge, faith, prophecy, tongues,
interpretation of tongues, languages, all these giftings, spiritual giftings God
gave us.
If we're so focused on just the gift and the
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person using the gift but have no love, it doesn't work.
Jesus said to his disciples, people will know that I'm
alive because you preach great sermons. No. You serve people.
That's important, but not that. If you love.
If you love one another. Do you remember back in
the day, um, if you were a Christian back in
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the day about the 1970s, there was something that was
happening in Southern California in Costa Mesa. All of a sudden,
the spirit of God was starting to hone around the
word of God and a little Calvary Chapel in Costa Mesa,
all these hippies started flooding in.
To the church. And I was just thinking about this.
There were thousands and thousands and thousands. I wasn't Christian
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at the time, so I didn't even know this was
going on. But all these all these hippies were coming
in with long hair, no shoes, smelly, didn't have jobs,
but they found Jesus, man, and they were so excited
about this born again experience.
This was a real thing. It wasn't an emotional high.
It wasn't just a season of life. This was a
real born again experience by the living God, touching every
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single one of them with love, and then they just
wanted to love everyone else with the love of Jesus.
And I think about that movement, it never would have
taken off the runway.
If some of those people who had been in the
church and said, what are you doing letting those hippies
in the church? They got long hair, they smell, they
don't work, they're messing up the carpet. I'm so glad
for one bold person who saw the love of Jesus Christ,
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and every single one of those young people and said, well,
this might not be the church for you then.
We gotta love people, man, loving people means that we,
it costs us something. It cost Jesus his life. The
fact that he loves every single one of us here today.
I don't want anyone leaving here in this moment, this
next half hour, without knowing that you are deeply loved
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by God. And because God loves you, that does something
on the inside of us.
We're all searching for love. We're all searching for unconditional love,
a love that we don't have to work for, earn,
do something special to get it. It is an in
your face love unconditional that God says, I just love
you for free, and I will never stop loving you,
even if you leave me, even if you walk away,
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even if you deny me, I love you as much
as if you are passionately following me.
I don't know what that does for you, but for me,
it makes me wanna love him more, and it makes
me wanna see people the way Jesus sees people. Church,
we are on the brink. I believe revival has already
started in our nation in small pockets of our great
nation of United States of America, and I don't wanna
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miss it. I don't wanna miss it because we were
missing just loving people on our faces, praying to God,
asking of God unless our nation has you again, we're lost.
Join with me in this because I believe that God
wants to do this. He is doing it, and I
don't want us to miss it. When the Greeks wrote
in their language, we're gonna read 1 Corinthians 13 in
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just a moment. They had different descriptions for the word love.
In our Western American culture in English, we use the
word love. I love my 4x4 truck.
I love my golden retriever, and I love my wife,
but we use the same word for all kinds of
different things. Now, the love for my wife is so
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much different than the love for my truck. Truck's just
a piece of metal, but I love it. These people,
when they use the language, there were different words for
the word love. For example, they had a word in
the Greek for family type love. You love your family,
even though you may not like your family, you love.
your family, you're stuck with them, and you are called,
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you're my father was Italian, so it was always about
food and family. You stick together as family, you work
things out. In the church life, man, sometimes we're gonna
rub up against each other, we're gonna offend one another.
We're not gonna agree on everything, but we've got to
work at loving one another. The gospel is at stake.
People's lives are in the balances, and unless you and
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I get this thing called love, loving people for free.
The revival might just pass us by. Listen, I believe
God is looking for a church, a community of people.
He's looking for people that say, yes, I believe in
Jesus with my whole heart. I'm not the most perfect person.
My life is messed up. You should have seen my
life before I accepted Jesus. Now that I've accepted Jesus,
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it's a little half messed up, but God, I'm solely.
Rendered for you. God is looking for one. He's looking
for a few. He's looking for a body of people
that will say we will love people into the kingdom
of God. Everybody has an opportunity. Everyone should have an
opportunity to hear and respond to the love of God, right?
When we get this right, the vertical kind of love,
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the more I see how he views me, the more
that I wanna love him and love other people.
And we can get this horizontal thing right. What's the
answer to racism? Can we legislate morality? Can you make
somebody love somebody? No. Laws and, and, and principles and
all of those things are good, policies are good, but
what really will bring change in our nation?
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Is a changed heart.
A changed heart that says, God, I'm not much. But Lord,
I love you, and I know now I understand that
when you died on that cross, you gave your life
for me, to cover my sin, to forgive me, to
make me new, to transform my life, and not only
do we get heaven.
Man, we get heaven on earth. Here too. Jesus says,
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I have come that you might have life and have
it to the full, man. Revival's coming. We wanna get
this love thing right. Why? Because Jesus, I believe, as
he will call so many people before the rapture happens
before Jesus returns. We wanna be able to have as
many people as possible.
NBCC, if we gotta have 7 services, we'll have 7 services.
If we gotta have Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, pray
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for our staff, but I, I, I, we are so committed. God,
if you're moving, we'll do it, Lord. We wanna make
sure everybody has a seat. Why? To be a disciple
of Jesus Christ, and love, love is the most excellent way.
In 1 Corinthians 13, I want to read this in
the context of division in the church and all kinds
of problems.
And they love Jesus, they found Jesus, they were changed,
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but they went back into the old life. They were
suing one another, and they were gouging each other financially.
They couldn't get their uh uh worship of idols even correct.
They couldn't drop all their idols. They were worshiping still
false idols and saying, yes, I love Jesus, but I'm
following this false idol. They had no respect for someone
who was young in the faith when they were just
eating all kinds of meat in the marketplace that were
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sacrificed to idols, and these young believers will say, wait
a minute, what are you doing? I don't care. I'll
just do what I wanna do. I'm a Christian, I'm saved.
They had no respect and love.
For each other and therefore there was so much division
and just to put the icing on the cake and
all these gifts, Paul says, don't be thinking it's all
about you, man. You've been gifted, you have been given
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many gifts to serve him, but it's not about you.
It's not about you, Pastor Mike. You're just, you're just
a tool, you're a pawn on my chessboard. I'm using
you so that everybody can see Jesus.
At our church, you're not gonna see all these pictures
of all the pastors. Pictures, we want pictures of you.
You're the ones that are the servants, you are the leaders.
We want people to see Jesus Christ and loving him
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in a church family that loves each other. It's not perfect.
We're never gonna be perfect. We're never gonna be everything
we ought to be until we get there. But we're
working on it. I think as many times I, I, I'm,
I'm working on a sermon, I'm still working on a call.
I'm trying.
I'm trying to be loving, trying to not be selfish,
and so I hope that the word of God brings
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and speaks to every one of our hearts about how
do we do this thing well. Now it's easy to
love somebody who's lovable, but what about loving people who
aren't nice? What about loving people who have backstabbed you,
people who have lied about you, people have taken your money,
ripped your business apart, lied about family members. I mean,
we could go on and on of the ways that
we've been hurt and betrayed, right? Every single one of
us here, you can't be breathing without experiencing some betrayal
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in your life, right?
How do we deal with that? Do we ignore it?
Do we just put our head in the sand? Do
we say it's not happening? I'll get them secretly. I
know I got a plan. Let's drop all that. Let's
just drop all that and read the text here in
1 Corinthians 13. So Paul says, this little letter, the
about the apostle Paul, remember when these believers in Corinth
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were opening up this letter from a scroll, they didn't
have the Bible like we have. So when
The reader, the, the, the leader, the pastors would say
the letter came from Paul. People would pack into houses
in small areas because they wanted to hear the word.
What did Jesus say to us today? And he says this,
if I could speak of all the languages of all
the earth and all the angels but didn't love others, man.
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I would only be a no noisy gong or a
clanging cymbal. If I had the gift of prophecy, I
could understand all of God's secret plans and possessed all knowledge.
And if I had such a faith that I could
move mountains.
But didn't love others, I would be nothing.
If I gave everything I had to the poor and
even sacrifice my body, I could boast about it, but
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if I didn't love others, I would have gained nothing.
Love is patient, love is kind.
Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude rude.
It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable.
It keeps no record of being wronged.
It does not rejoice about unjustice, but rejoices whenever the
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truth wins out.
Love never gives up.
Love never loses faith.
It's always hopeful and endures through every circumstance, prophecy and
speaking in unknown languages and special knowledge will become useless.
But love will last forever.
Now our knowledge is partial and incomplete, and every gift
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of prophecy reveals only part of the whole picture. But
when the time of perfection comes, these partial things will
become useless. What he's saying is we are living in
the last days, family.
Friends, we are living in the last days, and these
gifts we have been given by God are to simply
serve others so that God can be glorified. But there
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will come a day when those gifts are no longer needed,
because we'll be on our perfect state. What is he
saying about when the perfect comes? He's talking about Jesus
Christ's second coming. When the perfect returns, we will no
longer need these gifts because we're gonna be in heaven
with Jesus forever. We'll be in our perfect state, a
new body, a new mind, a new spirit, the way
God intended us to be. Isn't that great?
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So verse 10, he says, but when the time of
perfection comes, these partial things will become useless. When I
was a child, I spoke and thought of reason like
a child, but when I grew up, I put away
childish things. Now we see things imperfectly, like puzzling reflections
in a mirror, but they will, we will see everything
perfect in perfect clarity. All that I know is partial
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and incomplete, but then, I will know everything completely just
as God knows me completely.
And these things will will last forever. Faith, come on together,
what faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these
is love.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
You're listening to Kwave's Pastor Spotlight featuring Mike Mayolo, lead
pastor of Mission Viejo Christian Church. For information about Mike's church,
visit MVCChome.org. Once again, here's Pastor Mike Mayolo.
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And I just wanna ask that we come to this
next few moments with just a childlike heart that just
trusts and believes and not, well, this happened to me
and you don't know how I was wrong and you
don't know how I feel and I was violated and
I gave trust and they we just.
Let all that go.
Say, God, help me to live your most excellent way.
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There's a little girl that in the middle of a
storm she was up in the 3rd story of a
home back east. Lightning, thunder rain was just pelting against
the window. She Mom tucked her into bed at night.
She just felt lead. Mom felt led to come back
upstairs during the storm. She was a little worried that
her daughter was afraid and she saw her little girl,
her daughter with her chin on the window sill looking
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up out the window. She says, honey, honey, what are
you doing? She says, Mom, I think God is trying
to take my picture.
Yeah, isn't that? I just thought, man, Lord, that's the
kind of heart I want. It's just come, Lord, do
you want me to love people? I'll do it, Lord.
So in this text, we have a long list of
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what love is. My son and I, um, I don't know,
about 10 years ago we went down to um San
Clemente Pier. We took a camera and a microphone and
we just asked, hey, just random people, would you tell us,
what do you, when you hear the word love, what
do you think of? We got out of 20 people,
we got 20 different answers, some just some weird stuff.
Jesus gives truth. He is truth. He's very clear about
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this is what love is.
Jesus was asked in Mark Matthew chapter 9, from a
desperate father, his 911 call, his little daughter was sick,
she was dying. Jesus, can you come save her? Crowds
of people everywhere on his way and on his way,
he said, Of course I will. Crowds, I believe in this.
Moment because he was in a specific place, there were
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thousands of people pressing against Jesus. Some people just wanted
to touch him, some people just wanted to see him.
Some people wanted to see a miracle, others were there
to try to entrap him and try to catch him
doing something wrong, which Jesus never did.
And on his way in the middle of a crowd.
Jesus says some someone touched me.
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Now, as holy and respectful and honoring as this moment is.
I just gotta say I'm probably like what Peter would
have said. Come on, Lord, we've been pressed around by
thousands of people. You're asking who that would be like
in Dodger Stadium, going to the World Series, and thousands
of people are pressing to get to their seats, want
to get their hot dogs and their drinks, and everybody's excited.
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There's anticipation in there, there's an expectancy, we're gonna win.
And there's this people pressing against us and
I'll say, hey, somebody touched me, that would be ridiculous.
There's thousands of people around, but Jesus felt there was
something different about this touch, this little woman who was sick.
And faith be believed, if I just touch the hem
of this guy, if I touch the tassel at the
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end of his rope, I know he can heal me.
And what I, what I love about this scene is
that the crowd stopped for Jesus, thousands of people, but
Jesus stopped for one.
I really wanna just take a moment and let that
soak in.
Where were you?
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When you knew God loved you.
He died on that cross to save you, and you said, yes,
where were you? He stops. I believe to every single
person who've ever lived, Jesus gives opportunity.
Because why he wants every single one of us to
know you have been chosen, and I love you.
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I know that life and circumstances might be difficult for
you right now, but I still love you. I will
never stop loving you.
I, I guess that's what makes loving people a little
bit easier as a Christian, because if he is perfect,
loved me through all my mess and all my sin
and forgave me of all that, how in the world
could I hold back love from anyone else? I do
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not have a right to hold back love.
And you, you, you know as well as I do.
We all live in the same world here in South County.
People are looking for real and authentic love. They're looking
for a real Christian. They're looking for someone who doesn't
play the plastic game, who doesn't have all the right
answers cause none of us do. But they're looking for
someone who says, man, I love God and I'm trying
my best, and I can't say I am not the
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most perfect person, and I've got weaknesses and I've got failures,
but I'm trying.
People are drawn to that. I think that's why so
many people love Jesus, because he was so authentic. He
was so down in the streets with everyone. He understood
the questions, he understood the concerns, he felt people's pain.
He was sympathetic, he was empathetic, and he was present.
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And that's what Paul in this long list, this is
not a to do list. This is allowing the spirit
of God to soak our heart. And remember that Jesus
is kind. Jesus is patient. In fact, in Romans 5:8,
it says, but God showed his love for us, and
that while we were still sinners, every single one of
us when I was still running away from God, didn't
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want anything to do with God, making fun of Christians,
even making fun of churches and Jesus.
While we are still sinners, Christ died for us.
Jeremiah 31:3, I have loved you with an everlasting love. Therefore,
I have continued my faithfulness to you. In Ephesians 3:18,
and you may have power to understand as all God's people,
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he wants all of us to get this, to show
how high, how wide, how deep His love is for
every single one of us.
Out of this text that we just read in chapter 13,
especially the verses 3 to 8, where all this love
is patient, love is kind. God showed me this about
10 years ago and I just wanna keep just I
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guess just revealing what's really in the word to encourage
us and equip us. But let's just look at something
I just put up here. This is all scriptural. We
know that God is love, right? First John 4:16, no question.
And we know that Jesus is God. John chapter 1,
in the beginning was the word, the word was with God,
the word was God, right? Jesus is love, 1 Corinthians 13.
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Jesus lives in us. So, every time we see in
1 Corinthians 13.
Love is
Patient, love is kind, love keeps no record of Jesus
is patient. Jesus is kind.
Jesus keeps no record of wrongs. Jesus is not boastful.
Jesus is not proud. Jesus is not self-seeking.
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Now,
You really wanna get real this morning or you just
wanna have a church service and just pretend everything's fine.
You, you, are you with me? You wanna get real?
If Jesus lives in you, all right, you have accepted
Jesus Christ, he sent the Holy Spirit into you. You
have Him, He will never leave you. The Holy Spirit
is in you. You don't have to keep asking, God,
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give me more love. God give me love to love
this person. Give me love for my ex. Give me
love for the uncle Tom that gosh, he's just always
every Christmas, every Thanksgiving, I can't. Uncle Bob is always, Lord,
give me more love. You don't have to ask for
more love. What we need to is we've already have
the love.
You have the Holy Spirit in you?
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And he's looking for people, ordinary people who will just
rely and lean and step out in faith. So, Jesus,
of course, is all those qualities.
But what about us?
This is dangerous. I'm gonna ask us all to do this.
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Mike is patient. Mike is kind. Mike keeps no record
of wrongs.
Mike does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.
Why are you laughing? Stick your name in there, right?
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But that's where we live as believers, right? This is
where God wants us to live. We'll never ever measure
up to the perfection of His love, but we wanna
keep moving forward. We wanna keep moving forward in love,
and I found the best way to love people is practice, practice, practice.
We know what we ought to do, but some of us,
myself included, sometimes I just don't wanna do it.
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I just don't want to talk to them. I don't
wanna see them. I don't wanna be around them. I, I, it's,
it's my flesh that rises up and I can justify anything, right?
We can justify any behavior. It's easy to do that.
But Jesus says, I'm not looking for people to justify,
I'm looking for people who are sanctified. I'm looking for
people who are sanctified by my blood, who will say, OK, Lord,
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I know, you know, God, my heart, I really wanna
take this person out in.
Jesus' name. I want to take him out. Fire from heaven, Lord.
Jesus had been loving people for 3 years. It was
James and John who said, Lord, we're going into this town,
you know, they don't like you. Do you want us
to call fire from heaven? Anybody here identify with them?
And Jesus says, no, man, that's not my way. That's
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not my kingdom.
I have this $50 bill. It's crisp.
It's
but the way things are going, it's only by about
a dozen bananas. But anyway, um,
Its value is 50, right?
But if I drop that 50 on this surface, rub it, stamp,
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stomp on it, let's get some place where it's dirty
and Vito cleaned this place before service started. I was
hoping this would be a little more dirty, but I'm just,
I'm just gonna get and I'll tell you what, this value,
even though it now is a little bit marked up,
it's still the value is the same, $50 isn't it?
Now if I crumple this up.
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Right.
And I opened it up
What is the value of this?
I'll tell you what, brothers and sisters, sometimes I feel
like I've been stepped on. Sometimes I feel like I
got marks all over me. I wasn't very spiritual the
other day. I totally missed an opportunity. God, I totally
wasn't thinking about you. I didn't even pray as much
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as I really, all the things that we just get
caught up in, and sometimes I feel so crumpled up,
but the value, your value to God is still the same.
Anyone here today thinking, God, there's no way you could
love me. God, there's no way that that I could
serve you. There's no way that I could be used
of you. You're wrong. That is so the enemy. You
are valuable to him, so valuable that he laid down
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his life to die on a cross. In London, I, I, I,
this was amazing. In London, there was an ice factory
that actually watched this caught fire.
There's a documentary, the truth. It caught fire. They called
the fire department to put the fire out. What was
the reason that they couldn't put the fire out themselves,
because all of their assets were frozen.
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My heart can get so cold.
The more I justify, the more I hold back love,
the more that I don't forgive. It's like.
It just keeps getting like a, like a, the Bible
says like a, a hot iron, my heart gets seared.
And I lose compassion. I squelch the Holy Spirit.
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And who's the one that's really in prison when we
don't love and we don't forgive? It's, it's me.
Love is a decision, family. We're gonna make decisions.
Sometimes I'll be honest, I don't wanna.
But I know it's the right thing to do, regardless
of how I feel about it. Anybody here with me?
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Love can bring.
Together anything that's divided, anything.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
That's Pastor Mike Mayolo, lead pastor of Mission Viejo Christian
Church here on K Waves Pastor Spotlight. Pastor Mike will
be back here tomorrow at this same time with a
message looking at Deuteronomy chapter 6, verses 1 through 9.
Mike Mayolo serves as the lead pastor of Mission Viejo
Christian Church, where he's been pastoring for the last 23 years,
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3 years as a youth pastor and lead pastor for
the last 20. MVCC is a vibrant church in Mission Viejo.
Where real discipleship happens, love is on display, and lives
are released on mission for Christ. Their vision is to
reach people with the good news of Jesus Christ, to
make disciples who make disciples. Again, Mission Viejo Christian Church
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is located at 27 192 Geronimo Road in Mission Viejo.
Sunday worship times are 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. MVCC
is best known in the community for assisting the city
with service to children and their families.
Through preschool to junior high education, they also provide after
school outreaches for public school children and service projects throughout
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the city of Mission Viejo. Their purpose in providing these
is to bring the good news of Jesus Christ to
their city in hopes that God will transform their community
through prayer, wanting everyone to have a personal relationship with
Jesus Christ. Some upcoming events that you and your family
are invited to include their Christmas Eve services at 1, 2:30,
and 4.
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PM and their worship night with circuit riders on January
13th at 6 p.m. For more information about Mission Viejo
Christian Church, visit MVCC Home.org. Be here again tomorrow at
the same time on Kwave's Pastor Spotlight for another message
from Mike Mayolo, lead pastor of Mission Viejo Christian Church.
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Welcome to Kwave's Pastor Spotlight featuring the Bible teaching of
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of Mission Viejo Christian Church. Mike has a passion for
leading people into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. To
learn more about Mission Viejo Christian Church, you're invited to
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visit MBCC Home.org. Most of the
The population in our country would agree that the division
has been at its highest level in the past decade.
There's an answer to ending the division, and that is
one heart change at a time. The love of God
can change anyone. Well, how do we do this? When
we choose to love someone by acting in their best interest.
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According to 1 Corinthians chapter 13, it'll bring about real change.
Here's Pastor Mike with today's message.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
You have been gifted. You have been anointed. If you
are a believer in Jesus and you surrendered your life
to God, He has gifted you, he has empowered you,
and one of our roles here at NBCC is we
want to give you every tool possible so that you
can serve him, love him, and the greatest thing that
we can bring to people is a heart, God-filled heart
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with love.
In 1 Corinthians chapter 12, man, the last, we're just
going through the book of 1 Corinthians, we looked at
all these incredible gifts, the gift of wisdom, knowledge, faith, prophecy, tongues,
interpretation of tongues, languages, all these giftings, spiritual giftings God
gave us.
If we're so focused on just the gift and the
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person using the gift but have no love, it doesn't work.
Jesus said to his disciples, people will know that I'm
alive because you preach great sermons. No. You serve people.
That's important, but not that. If you love.
If you love one another. Do you remember back in
the day, um, if you were a Christian back in
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the day about the 1970s, there was something that was
happening in Southern California in Costa Mesa. All of a sudden,
the spirit of God was starting to hone around the
word of God and a little Calvary Chapel in Costa Mesa,
all these hippies started flooding in.
To the church. And I was just thinking about this.
There were thousands and thousands and thousands. I wasn't Christian
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at the time, so I didn't even know this was
going on. But all these all these hippies were coming
in with long hair, no shoes, smelly, didn't have jobs,
but they found Jesus, man, and they were so excited
about this born again experience.
This was a real thing. It wasn't an emotional high.
It wasn't just a season of life. This was a
real born again experience by the living God, touching every
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single one of them with love, and then they just
wanted to love everyone else with the love of Jesus.
And I think about that movement, it never would have
taken off the runway.
If some of those people who had been in the
church and said, what are you doing letting those hippies
in the church? They got long hair, they smell, they
don't work, they're messing up the carpet. I'm so glad
for one bold person who saw the love of Jesus Christ,
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and every single one of those young people and said, well,
this might not be the church for you then.
We gotta love people, man, loving people means that we,
it costs us something. It cost Jesus his life. The
fact that he loves every single one of us here today.
I don't want anyone leaving here in this moment, this
next half hour, without knowing that you are deeply loved
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by God. And because God loves you, that does something
on the inside of us.
We're all searching for love. We're all searching for unconditional love,
a love that we don't have to work for, earn,
do something special to get it. It is an in
your face love unconditional that God says, I just love
you for free, and I will never stop loving you,
even if you leave me, even if you walk away,
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even if you deny me, I love you as much
as if you are passionately following me.
I don't know what that does for you, but for me,
it makes me wanna love him more, and it makes
me wanna see people the way Jesus sees people. Church,
we are on the brink. I believe revival has already
started in our nation in small pockets of our great
nation of United States of America, and I don't wanna
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miss it. I don't wanna miss it because we were
missing just loving people on our faces, praying to God,
asking of God unless our nation has you again, we're lost.
Join with me in this because I believe that God
wants to do this. He is doing it, and I
don't want us to miss it. When the Greeks wrote
in their language, we're gonna read 1 Corinthians 13 in
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just a moment. They had different descriptions for the word love.
In our Western American culture in English, we use the
word love. I love my 4x4 truck.
I love my golden retriever, and I love my wife,
but we use the same word for all kinds of
different things. Now, the love for my wife is so
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much different than the love for my truck. Truck's just
a piece of metal, but I love it. These people,
when they use the language, there were different words for
the word love. For example, they had a word in
the Greek for family type love. You love your family,
even though you may not like your family, you love.
your family, you're stuck with them, and you are called,
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you're my father was Italian, so it was always about
food and family. You stick together as family, you work
things out. In the church life, man, sometimes we're gonna
rub up against each other, we're gonna offend one another.
We're not gonna agree on everything, but we've got to
work at loving one another. The gospel is at stake.
People's lives are in the balances, and unless you and
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I get this thing called love, loving people for free.
The revival might just pass us by. Listen, I believe
God is looking for a church, a community of people.
He's looking for people that say, yes, I believe in
Jesus with my whole heart. I'm not the most perfect person.
My life is messed up. You should have seen my
life before I accepted Jesus. Now that I've accepted Jesus,
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it's a little half messed up, but God, I'm solely.
Rendered for you. God is looking for one. He's looking
for a few. He's looking for a body of people
that will say we will love people into the kingdom
of God. Everybody has an opportunity. Everyone should have an
opportunity to hear and respond to the love of God, right?
When we get this right, the vertical kind of love,
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the more I see how he views me, the more
that I wanna love him and love other people.
And we can get this horizontal thing right. What's the
answer to racism? Can we legislate morality? Can you make
somebody love somebody? No. Laws and, and, and principles and
all of those things are good, policies are good, but
what really will bring change in our nation?
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Is a changed heart.
A changed heart that says, God, I'm not much. But Lord,
I love you, and I know now I understand that
when you died on that cross, you gave your life
for me, to cover my sin, to forgive me, to
make me new, to transform my life, and not only
do we get heaven.
Man, we get heaven on earth. Here too. Jesus says,
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I have come that you might have life and have
it to the full, man. Revival's coming. We wanna get
this love thing right. Why? Because Jesus, I believe, as
he will call so many people before the rapture happens
before Jesus returns. We wanna be able to have as
many people as possible.
NBCC, if we gotta have 7 services, we'll have 7 services.
If we gotta have Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, pray
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for our staff, but I, I, I, we are so committed. God,
if you're moving, we'll do it, Lord. We wanna make
sure everybody has a seat. Why? To be a disciple
of Jesus Christ, and love, love is the most excellent way.
In 1 Corinthians 13, I want to read this in
the context of division in the church and all kinds
of problems.
And they love Jesus, they found Jesus, they were changed,
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but they went back into the old life. They were
suing one another, and they were gouging each other financially.
They couldn't get their uh uh worship of idols even correct.
They couldn't drop all their idols. They were worshiping still
false idols and saying, yes, I love Jesus, but I'm
following this false idol. They had no respect for someone
who was young in the faith when they were just
eating all kinds of meat in the marketplace that were
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sacrificed to idols, and these young believers will say, wait
a minute, what are you doing? I don't care. I'll
just do what I wanna do. I'm a Christian, I'm saved.
They had no respect and love.
For each other and therefore there was so much division
and just to put the icing on the cake and
all these gifts, Paul says, don't be thinking it's all
about you, man. You've been gifted, you have been given
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many gifts to serve him, but it's not about you.
It's not about you, Pastor Mike. You're just, you're just
a tool, you're a pawn on my chessboard. I'm using
you so that everybody can see Jesus.
At our church, you're not gonna see all these pictures
of all the pastors. Pictures, we want pictures of you.
You're the ones that are the servants, you are the leaders.
We want people to see Jesus Christ and loving him
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in a church family that loves each other. It's not perfect.
We're never gonna be perfect. We're never gonna be everything
we ought to be until we get there. But we're
working on it. I think as many times I, I, I'm,
I'm working on a sermon, I'm still working on a call.
I'm trying.
I'm trying to be loving, trying to not be selfish,
and so I hope that the word of God brings
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and speaks to every one of our hearts about how
do we do this thing well. Now it's easy to
love somebody who's lovable, but what about loving people who
aren't nice? What about loving people who have backstabbed you,
people who have lied about you, people have taken your money,
ripped your business apart, lied about family members. I mean,
we could go on and on of the ways that
we've been hurt and betrayed, right? Every single one of
us here, you can't be breathing without experiencing some betrayal
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in your life, right?
How do we deal with that? Do we ignore it?
Do we just put our head in the sand? Do
we say it's not happening? I'll get them secretly. I
know I got a plan. Let's drop all that. Let's
just drop all that and read the text here in
1 Corinthians 13. So Paul says, this little letter, the
about the apostle Paul, remember when these believers in Corinth
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were opening up this letter from a scroll, they didn't
have the Bible like we have. So when
The reader, the, the, the leader, the pastors would say
the letter came from Paul. People would pack into houses
in small areas because they wanted to hear the word.
What did Jesus say to us today? And he says this,
if I could speak of all the languages of all
the earth and all the angels but didn't love others, man.
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I would only be a no noisy gong or a
clanging cymbal. If I had the gift of prophecy, I
could understand all of God's secret plans and possessed all knowledge.
And if I had such a faith that I could
move mountains.
But didn't love others, I would be nothing.
If I gave everything I had to the poor and
even sacrifice my body, I could boast about it, but
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if I didn't love others, I would have gained nothing.
Love is patient, love is kind.
Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude rude.
It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable.
It keeps no record of being wronged.
It does not rejoice about unjustice, but rejoices whenever the
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truth wins out.
Love never gives up.
Love never loses faith.
It's always hopeful and endures through every circumstance, prophecy and
speaking in unknown languages and special knowledge will become useless.
But love will last forever.
Now our knowledge is partial and incomplete, and every gift
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of prophecy reveals only part of the whole picture. But
when the time of perfection comes, these partial things will
become useless. What he's saying is we are living in
the last days, family.
Friends, we are living in the last days, and these
gifts we have been given by God are to simply
serve others so that God can be glorified. But there
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will come a day when those gifts are no longer needed,
because we'll be on our perfect state. What is he
saying about when the perfect comes? He's talking about Jesus
Christ's second coming. When the perfect returns, we will no
longer need these gifts because we're gonna be in heaven
with Jesus forever. We'll be in our perfect state, a
new body, a new mind, a new spirit, the way
God intended us to be. Isn't that great?
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So verse 10, he says, but when the time of
perfection comes, these partial things will become useless. When I
was a child, I spoke and thought of reason like
a child, but when I grew up, I put away
childish things. Now we see things imperfectly, like puzzling reflections
in a mirror, but they will, we will see everything
perfect in perfect clarity. All that I know is partial
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and incomplete, but then, I will know everything completely just
as God knows me completely.
And these things will will last forever. Faith, come on together,
what faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these
is love.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
You're listening to Kwave's Pastor Spotlight featuring Mike Mayolo, lead
pastor of Mission Viejo Christian Church. For information about Mike's church,
visit MVCChome.org. Once again, here's Pastor Mike Mayolo.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
And I just wanna ask that we come to this
next few moments with just a childlike heart that just
trusts and believes and not, well, this happened to me
and you don't know how I was wrong and you
don't know how I feel and I was violated and
I gave trust and they we just.
Let all that go.
Say, God, help me to live your most excellent way.
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There's a little girl that in the middle of a
storm she was up in the 3rd story of a
home back east. Lightning, thunder rain was just pelting against
the window. She Mom tucked her into bed at night.
She just felt lead. Mom felt led to come back
upstairs during the storm. She was a little worried that
her daughter was afraid and she saw her little girl,
her daughter with her chin on the window sill looking
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up out the window. She says, honey, honey, what are
you doing? She says, Mom, I think God is trying
to take my picture.
Yeah, isn't that? I just thought, man, Lord, that's the
kind of heart I want. It's just come, Lord, do
you want me to love people? I'll do it, Lord.
So in this text, we have a long list of
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what love is. My son and I, um, I don't know,
about 10 years ago we went down to um San
Clemente Pier. We took a camera and a microphone and
we just asked, hey, just random people, would you tell us,
what do you, when you hear the word love, what
do you think of? We got out of 20 people,
we got 20 different answers, some just some weird stuff.
Jesus gives truth. He is truth. He's very clear about
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this is what love is.
Jesus was asked in Mark Matthew chapter 9, from a
desperate father, his 911 call, his little daughter was sick,
she was dying. Jesus, can you come save her? Crowds
of people everywhere on his way and on his way,
he said, Of course I will. Crowds, I believe in this.
Moment because he was in a specific place, there were
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thousands of people pressing against Jesus. Some people just wanted
to touch him, some people just wanted to see him.
Some people wanted to see a miracle, others were there
to try to entrap him and try to catch him
doing something wrong, which Jesus never did.
And on his way in the middle of a crowd.
Jesus says some someone touched me.
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Now, as holy and respectful and honoring as this moment is.
I just gotta say I'm probably like what Peter would
have said. Come on, Lord, we've been pressed around by
thousands of people. You're asking who that would be like
in Dodger Stadium, going to the World Series, and thousands
of people are pressing to get to their seats, want
to get their hot dogs and their drinks, and everybody's excited.
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There's anticipation in there, there's an expectancy, we're gonna win.
And there's this people pressing against us and
I'll say, hey, somebody touched me, that would be ridiculous.
There's thousands of people around, but Jesus felt there was
something different about this touch, this little woman who was sick.
And faith be believed, if I just touch the hem
of this guy, if I touch the tassel at the
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end of his rope, I know he can heal me.
And what I, what I love about this scene is
that the crowd stopped for Jesus, thousands of people, but
Jesus stopped for one.
I really wanna just take a moment and let that
soak in.
Where were you?
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When you knew God loved you.
He died on that cross to save you, and you said, yes,
where were you? He stops. I believe to every single
person who've ever lived, Jesus gives opportunity.
Because why he wants every single one of us to
know you have been chosen, and I love you.
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I know that life and circumstances might be difficult for
you right now, but I still love you. I will
never stop loving you.
I, I guess that's what makes loving people a little
bit easier as a Christian, because if he is perfect,
loved me through all my mess and all my sin
and forgave me of all that, how in the world
could I hold back love from anyone else? I do
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not have a right to hold back love.
And you, you, you know as well as I do.
We all live in the same world here in South County.
People are looking for real and authentic love. They're looking
for a real Christian. They're looking for someone who doesn't
play the plastic game, who doesn't have all the right
answers cause none of us do. But they're looking for
someone who says, man, I love God and I'm trying
my best, and I can't say I am not the
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most perfect person, and I've got weaknesses and I've got failures,
but I'm trying.
People are drawn to that. I think that's why so
many people love Jesus, because he was so authentic. He
was so down in the streets with everyone. He understood
the questions, he understood the concerns, he felt people's pain.
He was sympathetic, he was empathetic, and he was present.
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And that's what Paul in this long list, this is
not a to do list. This is allowing the spirit
of God to soak our heart. And remember that Jesus
is kind. Jesus is patient. In fact, in Romans 5:8,
it says, but God showed his love for us, and
that while we were still sinners, every single one of
us when I was still running away from God, didn't
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want anything to do with God, making fun of Christians,
even making fun of churches and Jesus.
While we are still sinners, Christ died for us.
Jeremiah 31:3, I have loved you with an everlasting love. Therefore,
I have continued my faithfulness to you. In Ephesians 3:18,
and you may have power to understand as all God's people,
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he wants all of us to get this, to show
how high, how wide, how deep His love is for
every single one of us.
Out of this text that we just read in chapter 13,
especially the verses 3 to 8, where all this love
is patient, love is kind. God showed me this about
10 years ago and I just wanna keep just I
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guess just revealing what's really in the word to encourage
us and equip us. But let's just look at something
I just put up here. This is all scriptural. We
know that God is love, right? First John 4:16, no question.
And we know that Jesus is God. John chapter 1,
in the beginning was the word, the word was with God,
the word was God, right? Jesus is love, 1 Corinthians 13.
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Jesus lives in us. So, every time we see in
1 Corinthians 13.
Love is
Patient, love is kind, love keeps no record of Jesus
is patient. Jesus is kind.
Jesus keeps no record of wrongs. Jesus is not boastful.
Jesus is not proud. Jesus is not self-seeking.
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Now,
You really wanna get real this morning or you just
wanna have a church service and just pretend everything's fine.
You, you, are you with me? You wanna get real?
If Jesus lives in you, all right, you have accepted
Jesus Christ, he sent the Holy Spirit into you. You
have Him, He will never leave you. The Holy Spirit
is in you. You don't have to keep asking, God,
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give me more love. God give me love to love
this person. Give me love for my ex. Give me
love for the uncle Tom that gosh, he's just always
every Christmas, every Thanksgiving, I can't. Uncle Bob is always, Lord,
give me more love. You don't have to ask for
more love. What we need to is we've already have
the love.
You have the Holy Spirit in you?
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And he's looking for people, ordinary people who will just
rely and lean and step out in faith. So, Jesus,
of course, is all those qualities.
But what about us?
This is dangerous. I'm gonna ask us all to do this.
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Mike is patient. Mike is kind. Mike keeps no record
of wrongs.
Mike does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.
Why are you laughing? Stick your name in there, right?
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But that's where we live as believers, right? This is
where God wants us to live. We'll never ever measure
up to the perfection of His love, but we wanna
keep moving forward. We wanna keep moving forward in love,
and I found the best way to love people is practice, practice, practice.
We know what we ought to do, but some of us,
myself included, sometimes I just don't wanna do it.
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I just don't want to talk to them. I don't
wanna see them. I don't wanna be around them. I, I, it's,
it's my flesh that rises up and I can justify anything, right?
We can justify any behavior. It's easy to do that.
But Jesus says, I'm not looking for people to justify,
I'm looking for people who are sanctified. I'm looking for
people who are sanctified by my blood, who will say, OK, Lord,
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I know, you know, God, my heart, I really wanna
take this person out in.
Jesus' name. I want to take him out. Fire from heaven, Lord.
Jesus had been loving people for 3 years. It was
James and John who said, Lord, we're going into this town,
you know, they don't like you. Do you want us
to call fire from heaven? Anybody here identify with them?
And Jesus says, no, man, that's not my way. That's
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not my kingdom.
I have this $50 bill. It's crisp.
It's
but the way things are going, it's only by about
a dozen bananas. But anyway, um,
Its value is 50, right?
But if I drop that 50 on this surface, rub it, stamp,
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stomp on it, let's get some place where it's dirty
and Vito cleaned this place before service started. I was
hoping this would be a little more dirty, but I'm just,
I'm just gonna get and I'll tell you what, this value,
even though it now is a little bit marked up,
it's still the value is the same, $50 isn't it?
Now if I crumple this up.
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Right.
And I opened it up
What is the value of this?
I'll tell you what, brothers and sisters, sometimes I feel
like I've been stepped on. Sometimes I feel like I
got marks all over me. I wasn't very spiritual the
other day. I totally missed an opportunity. God, I totally
wasn't thinking about you. I didn't even pray as much
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as I really, all the things that we just get
caught up in, and sometimes I feel so crumpled up,
but the value, your value to God is still the same.
Anyone here today thinking, God, there's no way you could
love me. God, there's no way that that I could
serve you. There's no way that I could be used
of you. You're wrong. That is so the enemy. You
are valuable to him, so valuable that he laid down
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his life to die on a cross. In London, I, I, I,
this was amazing. In London, there was an ice factory
that actually watched this caught fire.
There's a documentary, the truth. It caught fire. They called
the fire department to put the fire out. What was
the reason that they couldn't put the fire out themselves,
because all of their assets were frozen.
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My heart can get so cold.
The more I justify, the more I hold back love,
the more that I don't forgive. It's like.
It just keeps getting like a, like a, the Bible
says like a, a hot iron, my heart gets seared.
And I lose compassion. I squelch the Holy Spirit.
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And who's the one that's really in prison when we
don't love and we don't forgive? It's, it's me.
Love is a decision, family. We're gonna make decisions.
Sometimes I'll be honest, I don't wanna.
But I know it's the right thing to do, regardless
of how I feel about it. Anybody here with me?
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Love can bring.
Together anything that's divided, anything.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
That's Pastor Mike Mayolo, lead pastor of Mission Viejo Christian
Church here on K Waves Pastor Spotlight. Pastor Mike will
be back here tomorrow at this same time with a
message looking at Deuteronomy chapter 6, verses 1 through 9.
Mike Mayolo serves as the lead pastor of Mission Viejo
Christian Church, where he's been pastoring for the last 23 years,
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3 years as a youth pastor and lead pastor for
the last 20. MVCC is a vibrant church in Mission Viejo.
Where real discipleship happens, love is on display, and lives
are released on mission for Christ. Their vision is to
reach people with the good news of Jesus Christ, to
make disciples who make disciples. Again, Mission Viejo Christian Church
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is located at 27 192 Geronimo Road in Mission Viejo.
Sunday worship times are 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. MVCC
is best known in the community for assisting the city
with service to children and their families.
Through preschool to junior high education, they also provide after
school outreaches for public school children and service projects throughout
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the city of Mission Viejo. Their purpose in providing these
is to bring the good news of Jesus Christ to
their city in hopes that God will transform their community
through prayer, wanting everyone to have a personal relationship with
Jesus Christ. Some upcoming events that you and your family
are invited to include their Christmas Eve services at 1, 2:30,
and 4.
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PM and their worship night with circuit riders on January
13th at 6 p.m. For more information about Mission Viejo
Christian Church, visit MVCC Home.org. Be here again tomorrow at
the same time on Kwave's Pastor Spotlight for another message
from Mike Mayolo, lead pastor of Mission Viejo Christian Church.
(26:43):
We hope you'll join us. Pastor Spotlight is a production
of Kwave Radio, sharing life, delivering truth, giving hope.
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