June 15, 2025 • 31 mins
This Father’s Day message presents a powerful idea: that the answer to our world’s chaos isn’t political or social change, but a deep revelation of the Father’s supernatural love. Unlike human love that fails, God’s divine love transforms and empowers believers to live differently—putting others first, remaining steadfast, and carrying His nature. As we embrace this heavenly love, we grow in boldness and become true sons and daughters of God, bringing light to a divided world by simply loving as He loves.
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and pick our Bibles up and I want to get into the
Word of God.
Thank you for agreeing with mein prayer.
We're going to continue to prayand process God's plan for the
Middle East.
These, you know, iran has gotplaces in the Bible where
judgment is occurring and that'shappening right now.
But they also have a blessingbecause of Cyrus they built the
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second temple, they financed thebuilding of the second temple,
and so they have a blessingcoming and I believe that God's
going to open up a chance forIran to get a blessing out of
all this.
But no nukes I appreciate ourpresident.
No nukes, I don't care what.
So praise the Lord, let's liftour Bibles up, lift your wave
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them around, make Jesus glad,the devil mad.
Let's say this together SayHeavenly Father, thank you for
Father's Day.
We remember our Heavenly Fatherand we thank you for his
faithfulness and his goodness.
And, lord, we honor our ownfathers and we thank you for
them.
Today we thank you for a risingup of the fathers, especially
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in the church.
Lord, there's many, many peopleneed a good father to look to.
And, lord, we thank you thatspiritual fathers are only
increase and we give you thepraise for it in Jesus name,
amen, you can be seated.
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Let's turn in our Bibles to 1John, chapter 3.
And happy Father's Day.
1 John, chapter 3.
John is writing to the churchIn verse one behold, what manner
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of love the Father hathbestowed upon us, that we should
be called or named the sons ofGod.
Therefore, the world knoweth usnot because it knew him not
Beloved.
Now are we the sons of God, andit doth not yet appear what we
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shall be.
But we know that when he shallappear, we shall be like him,
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for we shall see him as he is.
And so today I wanted, here, onFather's Day, I wanted to share
a message entitled Beholdingthe Father's Love.
Beholding the Father's Love.
The church needs a revelationof the Father's love because we
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need to be the ones to manifestthat love in the earth.
Behold, see and understand.
Don't just gloss over it.
We talk about the love, we talkabout how we love, and this and
that and the other.
But this verse is calling us toa deeper understanding.
Behold, see and understand whatmanner of love, in kind and in
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degree.
You know, sometimes it helps tostudy the Bible.
I studied the Bible on thissubject and we're kind of
getting into a little bit of theteaching, of what the words
mean, because they all meansomething that we need to be
acquainted with and have.
A revelation of Faith comes byrevelation, not by just having a
mental agreement, and we're allcalled to manifest that love.
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How can we do it if we don'tknow what it is and how it is?
But he said behold the love,see it and understand it.
This manner of love, in kind andin degree, what kind of love?
Well, it's not phileo love.
Phileo love is human love.
Human love exists on the earthand human love is a failure.
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Human love has been proven tobe a failure.
People can have phileo love andthen one day and the next day
they can have hate and they canmurder their wife and they can
say the day before they phileoedthem and then they phileo them.
Poor joke, but anyway, I meanthat's phileo is just not going
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to work.
Phileo is not enough.
Phileo is not supernatural,phileo is of the earth.
But agape is what we're talkingabout, supernatural.
He said what manner of love.
And really, when you get backinto that word manner, it says
from what country it came.
It's coming from a differentcountry, it's coming from heaven
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.
It doesn't exist on the earth.
This love that he's bestowed,that he's granted, that he's
implanted in us, comes from thecountry of heaven and it's
astonishing heaven.
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And it's astonishing, see, thethe.
The implication of that word,manner, is, is is it implicates
that we're astonished at thatlove?
Aren't you astonished at thelove of God that while we were
yet sinners, while we wererunning around doing our own
thing me in my case, I mean Iran around, I knew about God, I
knew he existed, I didn't denythat, and yet I did my own thing
.
Me in my case, I mean I ranaround, I knew about God, I knew
he existed, I didn't deny that,and yet I did my own thing.
I live like a sinner, and yetGod loved me all the way through
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.
And I'm astonished.
That's the kind of love thatwe've been given, we've been
bestowed, given an unearned gift, permanent and abiding.
It's never going to leave.
Some people say well, you know,I just don't feel like loving.
Yeah, you've got it implantedin you.
It's called a fruit of theSpirit.
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I mean, when you got saved, youknow, romans 5, 5 says the
Spirit you know we've been theHoly Ghost has shed abroad in
our hearts the love of God.
It's been shed abroad.
When we got saved, we have itin there.
Peter says we've been partakersof the divine nature and of
course God is love.
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That's the center of his nature.
So that's the center of ournature.
If we only knew it.
But in God's case it's somagnificent, it's so majestic
that it takes us time toencounter the size of it and it
takes us time to grow in it.
Because it is a fruit, see,gifts are given, but fruit is
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grown and love is a fruit of thespirit.
Everybody say agape is in meand it's growing, see.
But because if it doesn't grow,then we can't really be
manifesting as sons of God.
I mean, god wants us to be thesons of God.
He said you know, now are wethe sons of God, not later.
We're the sons of God right now.
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But every baby Christian is ason of God.
You take that little baby.
That's my son.
Look at my little son.
Is he acting like a son?
Well, not yet.
He's a baby.
Does he act like a son whenhe's two?
Not yet, but it's down the way.
You know as they grow and asthey mature and as they're just.
You know as they're raised in agodly home with an atmosphere
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of love, sooner or later theystart manifesting that love.
It's supernatural love.
It's the love that's otherpeople oriented.
It's the love that putssomebody else first.
See, that's not natural.
Our children are not born thatway.
They don't have the natural.
They don't have that kind oflove.
They have it inside them whenthey get saved, but until then
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they're pretty muchself-centered, aren't they?
They want what they want whenthey want it, which is right now
.
And that's the way a lot ofpeople are.
I mean, people don't let thelove of God dominate them.
They let the phileo love, theconditional love, the love that
says I love you as long as youtreat me the way I want to be
treated, but if you mess with meI'll send you to the moon.
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Are you with me now?
So we've been named the sons ofGod and the result that we're
the sons of God, and then that'sour purpose.
When we begin to pick up thepurpose of our sonship, I
believe the world is waiting fora manifestation of the purpose
of our sonship.
I believe the world is waitingfor a manifestation of the sons
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of God, and that's what revivalis.
Everybody shout revival.
Revival is when the sons of Godrise up and start acting like
sons, Hallelujah.
We start manifesting the samelove of the father and, uh, you
know, if we think the world isgoing to understand us, well,
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they won't.
You'll never be understood aslong as they're where they're at
.
And we're seeing this divide inthis nation and around the world
, really because it is the enddays.
I mean, the Bible talks aboutseparating the tares from the
wheat.
The tares are in the church.
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You've got people that areunsaved in the church and
they're beginning to createtrouble.
They're beginning to createproblems.
They look like Christians butthey're a counterfeit.
They've never been born again.
There's hope for them, but theygot about that much longer
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because they're gettingseparated.
And then you've got the chafffrom the wheat, and so that's
what you're seeing out there.
The chaff and the wheat have tobe separated so that the wheat
can be gathered and put into thebarn.
The angels are in charge of it.
Every time.
I see one of thesedemonstrations and these antifas
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.
I saw an antifa get thrownacross the street the other day.
I did my heart good.
You know, these are the guysthat are dressed in black.
They're head to toe.
I mean they're paidprofessional agitators.
He messed with the wrong donkey.
I mean that guy kicked him allthe way across the street and he
went running the otherdirection.
This is why they go crazy,because the cops in LA are told
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to back off and stand down Allby design.
We're being sold a bill ofgoods in this country.
We need to know what the truthis.
The truth is that these peopleare trying to overthrow our
country and the only way theycan do it is open the borders
and create chaos.
Look at all these people.
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They're almost all communists.
One of these days, when theAntichrist takes over, there
will be no more riots.
That's kind of days.
When the Antichrist takes over,there will be no more riots.
That's kind of.
That's the.
I always look at the.
You know the enigma of thesituation Right now they're
rioting and they're screamingand they're cursing and they're
going to town.
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Man, they're just.
They have such rage.
Rage is contagious and rage isjust.
It's the devil.
Rage is the devil.
Those riots are the devil.
That's the devil manifesting.
And so, but one day, when theantichrist we're gone and the
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antichrist takes over, therewon't be any more of that.
They'll be forced to bow theirknee to him.
They'll be.
They'll be.
They'll be quoting the companyline or they'll be dead.
I just think it's ironic, don'tyou?
They don't know what theirfuture is.
Oh, I tell you, we've got amuch better future If you just
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listen, if you just hear thegospel.
You've got a better future,hallelujah.
Your children, yourgrandchildren, they got a better
future.
Glory to God.
I tell you, young people allaround the world are waking up.
We're seeing a revival amongyoung people, college campuses.
I get amazed that, charlie Kirk, he's going all across the
country and he's got thousandsof these students.
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I mean, they're on fire for God.
They might not know historylike they should.
They might not understandeverything that's going on, but
I know one thing they're gettingacquainted with the Lord.
That's the first step.
He said.
Now are we the sons of God, butit's not yet manifested what
we're going to be.
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When I hear, when I see that Istill, I still hear that word
astonishment, or even the wordstartle, I believe that the
world will be startled as thechurch begins to manifest the
Father's love.
As sons, they're going to bestartled at our ability to love
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in the midst of all this hate,all of this conflict.
And so then, you know, theApostle John says now everybody
that's got the hope of that, ofthat future time, and we're
going to be startled at what welook like.
We're going to see him as he is, we'll be just like him.
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We're not just like him yet,just in our spirit, but that's
talking about when we see him inthe rapture.
When we see him come, we'regonna be instantly changed.
And I mean to tell you, we'regoing to be astonished and we're
gonna be astonishing and I havethat hope in me.
I look for that day.
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I'm not acting like it's notcoming, it is coming.
And since it is coming, then Iam purifying myself.
As he is pure.
Book of Revelation says thebride has made herself ready.
I mean it's time for us to getready for the king.
Glory to God.
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He's the standard.
That's chapter before chaptertwo, verse 15.
He says to them love not theworld, neither the things that
are in the world.
If any man love the world, thelove of the father's not in him.
So you just gotta, you've gotta.
This world is out there.
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I mean, years ago God told meyou know, many, just you know,
are satiated with the cares ofthis world and the pleasures of
this world, and much of the carecomes from the pursuit of the
pleasure.
Many just tip their hats to meand go along their merry way.
Well, that's not the attitudewe need to have right now.
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We need to be, we need to bemaking sure that our priorities
are turned heavenward and andturn toward the Lord.
We need to be God inside minded.
We need to be making sure thatour priorities are turned
heavenward and and turn towardthe Lord.
We need to be God inside minded.
We need to always be consciousof the indwelling presence of
the Holy ghost.
He's in there to help us.
Amen, he's the standard.
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I said he's the standard.
We, we, we.
You know we don't love theworld and things that are in it.
You know we need some of thethings that are in it, but we
don't love them.
I like cars, but I and I, and Iown cars and I buy cars, but I
love God.
I might enjoy something on theearth, I might have a hobby, I
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might enjoy hunting, I mightenjoy fishing, but I love God.
Let's, let's draw a difference,let's draw a distinction.
When Jesus came to the earth, herevealed something that mankind
didn't know about.
Even the Jews really didn'tknow the love side of God.
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He revealed the love of theFather and they just couldn't
get a hold of it.
They were astonished at it.
They didn't understand it.
You see, the Jews knew God asJehovah.
Jehovah is covenant-keeping God.
They knew him as acovenant-keeping God.
They knew him as Elohim, thesupreme God creator of heaven
and earth.
They knew him as a covenantkeeping God.
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They knew him as Elohim, thesupreme God creator of heaven
and earth.
They knew him as that.
They knew him as El Shaddai,which literally is the almighty,
breasty one, the one who, theGod, who's more than enough.
He's got more than enough milk.
That's the female side of God.
See, god's got both sides.
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That's why it took a man and awoman to reflect God.
They knew him in those areas.
But they also knew him as judge, and they were very.
You know, they were faced withGod, the judge, more than
anything, because they were sostiff-necked and so disobedient.
I mean, you read the history ofIsrael.
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I mean they just could not.
You know, from Abraham on, theyjust couldn't get with the
program we want a king.
You know, all the way throughthey wanted what they wanted,
which was seldom what God wanted.
And so they came under judgment.
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They came under judgment andthey were thoroughly acquainted.
And that's when John the Baptistshowed up.
Who who was there to preparethe way of the Lord?
When he started preaching tohim in the wilderness, he said
you know, repent, for thekingdom of heaven is at hand.
Well, they could get withrepent.
They understood that.
And then he said you,generation of vipers, who warned
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you to flee from the wrath tocome, and boy, they got with
that.
They could understand.
They frowned him.
I mean they got out there andthey got baptized in the river
Jordan.
And I mean they couldunderstand John, john, they
could understand.
They could understand thelanguage he was speaking,
because he was speaking the samelanguage they'd heard for a
couple of thousand years.
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But when Jesus showed up, ohglory to God, he began to talk
about God as their father.
My heavenly father knows whatyou have need.
Of the Beatitudes Matthew,chapter 5, 6, and 7 was
revolutionary for the Jews tohear that.
They were completely shocked.
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Their jaws dropped.
Are you kidding?
Is this the same God that wethought we knew?
He cares about what you need.
He knows what you need.
He knows what you need.
Ask and you shall receive.
Seek and you shall find.
Knock and it'll be opened untoyou.
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Amen.
You know, if you, being naturalor evil, know how to give good
gifts to your children, how muchmore shall your heavenly father
give good gifts to them thatask him?
Oh, they couldn't.
They didn't.
They didn't understand thatthey loved it, but they didn't
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understand it.
They tried, they couldn't graspit.
Most of them couldn't grasp it.
They couldn't lay hold on it.
We need to lay hold on it,don't we?
They were spiritually dead, butwe're not.
We're not spiritually dead.
We have the Holy Ghost on theinside to help us lay hold on
those things that come from thelove of the Father.
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I like Luke 12.
Fear not, little flock.
It's your father's goodpleasure to give you the kingdom
.
He's not holding anything back.
John 14, you know Jesus istalking to his disciples on the
night before he was crucified,and he talked to him about the
Holy Ghost.
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He said I'd like to tell youmore, but you can't bear it now,
because they were spirituallydead still he hadn't died on the
cross yet.
Because they were spirituallydead still he hadn't died on the
cross yet, but nonetheless hetold them.
In John 14, judas, verse 22,said Judas said unto him, not
Iscariot, not Judas Iscariot,but Judas the other Lord.
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How is it that you willmanifest yourself unto us and
not unto the world?
And Jesus answered and saidunto him if a man loved me, he
will keep my words and my fatherwill love him and we will come
and make our abode with him.
See.
So there he's talking about thenew birth.
There he's talking about theindwelling presence of God
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himself.
The Jews didn't have that.
The Jews didn't have that.
The disciples didn't have thatNot yet.
But he's talking to them aboutit.
He's saying what's available.
Oh, thank God, we got what wasavailable, didn't we?
Come on, lift your hands rightnow.
Thank God for the Father's love.
Hallelujah.
The Father and Jesus both abidein us.
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And how does that happen?
In the person of the HolySpirit.
Because the Holy Spirit isidentical in every way to the
Father and the Son.
He said whatever I hear Jesussay, I'll share it with you.
All things the Father has aremine.
Therefore, I said I'd share itwith you.
So the Father shares with Jesus.
The Holy Ghost takes what Jesushas shared and shares it with
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us.
We have the effect of theFather and the Son all living in
us at the same time, eventhough it's just one.
Are you all with me now?
So Jesus manifested this overin John, chapter 21, after the
resurrection, you know, he wasrisen from the dead.
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He appeared to the disciples anumber of times, and this is one
where he appeared to them bythe seaside, you know, and they
had fished all night.
Lads, have you got any meat?
No, we've been fishing allnight.
No, john said it's the Lord.
Peter drove in the water, youknow, and swam off, and Jesus
already had some fish going onthe fire.
He's gonna have fish tacosWondered if they had any to add
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to what he had.
I don't know where he got them,but he's cooking and they have
a meal right there on the side,you know.
And in verse 15,.
So when they had dined, jesussaid to Simon Peter 15.
So when they had dined, jesussaid to Simon Peter Simon, son
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of Jonas, agape, thou me morethan these.
He saith unto him yea, lord,thou knowest that I phileo thee.
He didn't know about agape.
He's got it, but he didn't knowit.
I said he's got it, but hedoesn't know it.
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Jesus has died on the cross.
He's breathed on them.
They have the Holy Ghost forsalvation.
Not filled with the Holy Ghost,but they have the Holy Ghost.
They're alive to God.
But he doesn't know it, so hecan't say agape.
He says, yeah, yeah, lord, youknow, I phileo you.
Yeah, he said feed my lambs.
If that's true, do somethingabout it.
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If you love me, do something.
Love demands an action.
Love's not just a, you know aword.
Love's not just a word.
Love is not just an idea, it'san action.
And then he asked him thesecond time, sayeth him again
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the second time Verse 16.
Simon, son of Jonas, agape thoume.
He saith unto him yea, Lord,thou knowest that I phileo thee.
He said unto him feed my sheep,feed my sheep, do something.
Then the third time, 17.
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Simon, son of Jonas, lovestthou me.
Peter was grieved because hesaid unto him the third time
agape thou me.
And he said unto him Lord, youknow, you know all things, you
know that I, the lay of thee.
Jesus said unto him feed mysheep.
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Now one commentator said youknow that Jesus gave him a
chance to undo his betrayalbefore the cross, that he denied
Jesus three times.
So now he had to confess himthree times.
And so Peter had a realrevelation of the purpose of
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ministry, and that is to feedthe sheep, to watch after the
sheep.
He was an apostle, all right,but he had a real pastoral
revelation Because Jesus saidlook, if you love me, you're
going to make sure that my sheepare well fed and well watered.
You're going to watch afterthem.
And that's not just for thepastor, but that's for all of us
.
That's because we're all in thesame family.
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Are you with me now Talkingabout the love of the Father?
So just four things.
I want to leave you with Just asimple message that reminds you
in this time of conflict, it'seasy to get distracted, it's
easy to grit your teeth and getangry, and I find myself just
having to calm myself downbecause there's just such
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ludicrous, there's ludicrous,it's just ludicrous.
What's going on, I mean it justyou know defies the imagination
sometimes.
What's going on, I mean it justyou know, defies the
imagination sometimes.
But but let's, let's remembernumber one you've got a father
who loves you.
Maybe your earthly fatherfailed.
We have some people in here,barbara, I don't know everybody,
but I'm in a crowd this sizethere's always dysfunctional
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families.
I mean, you know, read theBible.
You want to see dysfunctionalfamily.
Look at, look at the Biblefamilies, look at the 12 tribes.
It's about as dysfunctionalfamily as you can get.
So welcome to the dysfunctionalclub.
I was blessed to have a daddythat loved me and was involved
in my life, and my mother too.
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And but not everybody has that.
Not everybody that's aChristian comes from a good,
loving, stable background.
Maybe yours was full ofconflict and maybe even abuse.
Maybe it was broken.
Maybe there was divorce.
Maybe there was betrayal, maybethere was.
You know, maybe you were raisedby grandparents, maybe you were
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, maybe you were foster children.
I mean, there's all kinds offolks in the church that are
lacking the earthly imprint ofwhat God's plan was.
But let me tell you somethingYou've got the love of the
father implanted in you.
He loves you with aneverlasting love.
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It'll never decrease, it'llnever go away, and your
realization of it is gonna growand grow as you grow in Him.
Number two he gave you His name.
In other words, he let you benamed, or let you be called, the
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Son of God.
You have a DNA.
We've been all partakers of Hisdivine nature.
We've been partakers of His DNA.
The center of His DNA is thelove of God.
God is love.
As a matter of fact, I mean,love is God, god is love, and so
that's the center of it, butit's not the only part.
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Love, joy, peace, patience, allthe fruit of the Spirit, is
just how God is.
He's faithful.
We've been talking aboutfaithful.
Well, we're faithful.
We can develop in faithfulnessand should.
Amen, amen.
Are you getting anything out ofthis?
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We've got the very.
I mean, the love of God hasbeen shed abroad in our hearts
by the Holy Ghost Minute.
You got saved, you got his, yougot his very nature.
And as we grow in things, as wetaught the word and get a
revelation of that love, we growand we grow, and we grow and we
grow, and one of these dayswe're going to see him as he is.
Glory to God, Woo, hallelujah.
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And then, not only that, but hegave you an inheritance.
Number three he gave you aninheritance Psalm 116, 12 and 13
.
The psalmist said it this waywhat shall I render under the
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Lord for all his benefits towardme?
What, what, how can I repay him?
How can, what can I render backto him?
I mean, he's given me so much.
How can I, how can I properlypay him back?
And then the psalmist answershis question.
He says I know what I'll do.
I know I'll take the cup ofsalvation and call upon the name
of the Lord.
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I'll take full advantage of hiscovenant.
I will not let one drop of hisprecious blood be shed in vain.
I will receive I will believe Ireceive every benefit the
forgiveness of my sins, theinfilling of the Holy Ghost.
I'm going to be a witness tohis love.
I'm going to go everywhere.
I'm going to lay my hands onsick people.
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I'm going to brag on Jesus.
I'm going to make a differencein this earth, hallelujah.
That's how we can repay him byliving like sons.
And then the last one, sinceall of that's true now, serve
him as a son, be a son of God,be a son of love.
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Let's look at first John,chapter 3, again in verse 8.
Very powerful verse he thatcommitteth sin is of the devil.
The word committeth meanspractice he that practices sin.
See, we might sin, but we don'tpractice it.
We might slip and fall and dothings that we're ashamed of,
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but we can confess that and getthat cleansed.
But a person that's lost is apracticer of sin.
That's what they want to do.
They're sinners.
So here you're of the devil.
He that committed sin is of thedevil.
The devil sinneth from thebeginning.
For this purpose, the Son ofGod was manifest that he might
destroy the works of the devil.
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That's our job description.
That's what we're here to do.
We're here to rise up anddestroy the works of the devil.
One of the greatest ways todestroy the works of the devil
is to get somebody saved.
Love covers a multitude of sin.
When you love people enough totell them the truth and witness
about what he's done for you andyou get them saved, I'm telling
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you you've just defeated thedevil, you've destroyed his
works.
Glory to God, hallelujah,hallelujah.
First, john 4, 17.
Another good one I want to leaveyou with Herein is our love
made perfect or mature, that wemay have boldness in the day of
judgment.
Isn't that where we're livingright now?
We boldness in the day ofjudgment?
Isn't that where we're livingright now?
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We're living in the day ofjudgment.
We ought to have boldnessbecause, as he is, so are we in
this world.
Hallelujah, so as we behold andlive in the Father's love, we
will see a great harvest.
Come on, lift your hands andreceive the word of God today.
Hallelujah, happy Father's Day.
Glory to God.
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Thank you, jesus, for your lovetranscends everything that
we're seeing and is a remedy forwhat ails the earth.
Hallelujah, the love of God.
and pick our Bibles up and I want to get into the
Word of God.
Thank you for agreeing with mein prayer.
We're going to continue to prayand process God's plan for the
Middle East.
These, you know, iran has gotplaces in the Bible where
judgment is occurring and that'shappening right now.
But they also have a blessingbecause of Cyrus they built the
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second temple, they financed thebuilding of the second temple,
and so they have a blessingcoming and I believe that God's
going to open up a chance forIran to get a blessing out of
all this.
But no nukes I appreciate ourpresident.
No nukes, I don't care what.
So praise the Lord, let's liftour Bibles up, lift your wave
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them around, make Jesus glad,the devil mad.
Let's say this together SayHeavenly Father, thank you for
Father's Day.
We remember our Heavenly Fatherand we thank you for his
faithfulness and his goodness.
And, lord, we honor our ownfathers and we thank you for
them.
Today we thank you for a risingup of the fathers, especially
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in the church.
Lord, there's many, many peopleneed a good father to look to.
And, lord, we thank you thatspiritual fathers are only
increase and we give you thepraise for it in Jesus name,
amen, you can be seated.
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Let's turn in our Bibles to 1John, chapter 3.
And happy Father's Day.
1 John, chapter 3.
John is writing to the churchIn verse one behold, what manner
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of love the Father hathbestowed upon us, that we should
be called or named the sons ofGod.
Therefore, the world knoweth usnot because it knew him not
Beloved.
Now are we the sons of God, andit doth not yet appear what we
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shall be.
But we know that when he shallappear, we shall be like him,
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for we shall see him as he is.
And so today I wanted, here, onFather's Day, I wanted to share
a message entitled Beholdingthe Father's Love.
Beholding the Father's Love.
The church needs a revelationof the Father's love because we
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need to be the ones to manifestthat love in the earth.
Behold, see and understand.
Don't just gloss over it.
We talk about the love, we talkabout how we love, and this and
that and the other.
But this verse is calling us toa deeper understanding.
Behold, see and understand whatmanner of love, in kind and in
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degree.
You know, sometimes it helps tostudy the Bible.
I studied the Bible on thissubject and we're kind of
getting into a little bit of theteaching, of what the words
mean, because they all meansomething that we need to be
acquainted with and have.
A revelation of Faith comes byrevelation, not by just having a
mental agreement, and we're allcalled to manifest that love.
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How can we do it if we don'tknow what it is and how it is?
But he said behold the love,see it and understand it.
This manner of love, in kind andin degree, what kind of love?
Well, it's not phileo love.
Phileo love is human love.
Human love exists on the earthand human love is a failure.
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Human love has been proven tobe a failure.
People can have phileo love andthen one day and the next day
they can have hate and they canmurder their wife and they can
say the day before they phileoedthem and then they phileo them.
Poor joke, but anyway, I meanthat's phileo is just not going
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to work.
Phileo is not enough.
Phileo is not supernatural,phileo is of the earth.
But agape is what we're talkingabout, supernatural.
He said what manner of love.
And really, when you get backinto that word manner, it says
from what country it came.
It's coming from a differentcountry, it's coming from heaven
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.
It doesn't exist on the earth.
This love that he's bestowed,that he's granted, that he's
implanted in us, comes from thecountry of heaven and it's
astonishing heaven.
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And it's astonishing, see, thethe.
The implication of that word,manner, is, is is it implicates
that we're astonished at thatlove?
Aren't you astonished at thelove of God that while we were
yet sinners, while we wererunning around doing our own
thing me in my case, I mean Iran around, I knew about God, I
knew he existed, I didn't denythat, and yet I did my own thing
.
Me in my case, I mean I ranaround, I knew about God, I knew
he existed, I didn't deny that,and yet I did my own thing.
I live like a sinner, and yetGod loved me all the way through
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.
And I'm astonished.
That's the kind of love thatwe've been given, we've been
bestowed, given an unearned gift, permanent and abiding.
It's never going to leave.
Some people say well, you know,I just don't feel like loving.
Yeah, you've got it implantedin you.
It's called a fruit of theSpirit.
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I mean, when you got saved, youknow, romans 5, 5 says the
Spirit you know we've been theHoly Ghost has shed abroad in
our hearts the love of God.
It's been shed abroad.
When we got saved, we have itin there.
Peter says we've been partakersof the divine nature and of
course God is love.
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That's the center of his nature.
So that's the center of ournature.
If we only knew it.
But in God's case it's somagnificent, it's so majestic
that it takes us time toencounter the size of it and it
takes us time to grow in it.
Because it is a fruit, see,gifts are given, but fruit is
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grown and love is a fruit of thespirit.
Everybody say agape is in meand it's growing, see.
But because if it doesn't grow,then we can't really be
manifesting as sons of God.
I mean, god wants us to be thesons of God.
He said you know, now are wethe sons of God, not later.
We're the sons of God right now.
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But every baby Christian is ason of God.
You take that little baby.
That's my son.
Look at my little son.
Is he acting like a son?
Well, not yet.
He's a baby.
Does he act like a son whenhe's two?
Not yet, but it's down the way.
You know as they grow and asthey mature and as they're just.
You know as they're raised in agodly home with an atmosphere
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of love, sooner or later theystart manifesting that love.
It's supernatural love.
It's the love that's otherpeople oriented.
It's the love that putssomebody else first.
See, that's not natural.
Our children are not born thatway.
They don't have the natural.
They don't have that kind oflove.
They have it inside them whenthey get saved, but until then
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they're pretty muchself-centered, aren't they?
They want what they want whenthey want it, which is right now
.
And that's the way a lot ofpeople are.
I mean, people don't let thelove of God dominate them.
They let the phileo love, theconditional love, the love that
says I love you as long as youtreat me the way I want to be
treated, but if you mess with meI'll send you to the moon.
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Are you with me now?
So we've been named the sons ofGod and the result that we're
the sons of God, and then that'sour purpose.
When we begin to pick up thepurpose of our sonship, I
believe the world is waiting fora manifestation of the purpose
of our sonship.
I believe the world is waitingfor a manifestation of the sons
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of God, and that's what revivalis.
Everybody shout revival.
Revival is when the sons of Godrise up and start acting like
sons, Hallelujah.
We start manifesting the samelove of the father and, uh, you
know, if we think the world isgoing to understand us, well,
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they won't.
You'll never be understood aslong as they're where they're at
.
And we're seeing this divide inthis nation and around the world
, really because it is the enddays.
I mean, the Bible talks aboutseparating the tares from the
wheat.
The tares are in the church.
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You've got people that areunsaved in the church and
they're beginning to createtrouble.
They're beginning to createproblems.
They look like Christians butthey're a counterfeit.
They've never been born again.
There's hope for them, but theygot about that much longer
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because they're gettingseparated.
And then you've got the chafffrom the wheat, and so that's
what you're seeing out there.
The chaff and the wheat have tobe separated so that the wheat
can be gathered and put into thebarn.
The angels are in charge of it.
Every time.
I see one of thesedemonstrations and these antifas
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.
I saw an antifa get thrownacross the street the other day.
I did my heart good.
You know, these are the guysthat are dressed in black.
They're head to toe.
I mean they're paidprofessional agitators.
He messed with the wrong donkey.
I mean that guy kicked him allthe way across the street and he
went running the otherdirection.
This is why they go crazy,because the cops in LA are told
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to back off and stand down Allby design.
We're being sold a bill ofgoods in this country.
We need to know what the truthis.
The truth is that these peopleare trying to overthrow our
country and the only way theycan do it is open the borders
and create chaos.
Look at all these people.
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They're almost all communists.
One of these days, when theAntichrist takes over, there
will be no more riots.
That's kind of days.
When the Antichrist takes over,there will be no more riots.
That's kind of.
That's the.
I always look at the.
You know the enigma of thesituation Right now they're
rioting and they're screamingand they're cursing and they're
going to town.
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Man, they're just.
They have such rage.
Rage is contagious and rage isjust.
It's the devil.
Rage is the devil.
Those riots are the devil.
That's the devil manifesting.
And so, but one day, when theantichrist we're gone and the
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antichrist takes over, therewon't be any more of that.
They'll be forced to bow theirknee to him.
They'll be.
They'll be.
They'll be quoting the companyline or they'll be dead.
I just think it's ironic, don'tyou?
They don't know what theirfuture is.
Oh, I tell you, we've got amuch better future If you just
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listen, if you just hear thegospel.
You've got a better future,hallelujah.
Your children, yourgrandchildren, they got a better
future.
Glory to God.
I tell you, young people allaround the world are waking up.
We're seeing a revival amongyoung people, college campuses.
I get amazed that, charlie Kirk, he's going all across the
country and he's got thousandsof these students.
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I mean, they're on fire for God.
They might not know historylike they should.
They might not understandeverything that's going on, but
I know one thing they're gettingacquainted with the Lord.
That's the first step.
He said.
Now are we the sons of God, butit's not yet manifested what
we're going to be.
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When I hear, when I see that Istill, I still hear that word
astonishment, or even the wordstartle, I believe that the
world will be startled as thechurch begins to manifest the
Father's love.
As sons, they're going to bestartled at our ability to love
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in the midst of all this hate,all of this conflict.
And so then, you know, theApostle John says now everybody
that's got the hope of that, ofthat future time, and we're
going to be startled at what welook like.
We're going to see him as he is, we'll be just like him.
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We're not just like him yet,just in our spirit, but that's
talking about when we see him inthe rapture.
When we see him come, we'regonna be instantly changed.
And I mean to tell you, we'regoing to be astonished and we're
gonna be astonishing and I havethat hope in me.
I look for that day.
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I'm not acting like it's notcoming, it is coming.
And since it is coming, then Iam purifying myself.
As he is pure.
Book of Revelation says thebride has made herself ready.
I mean it's time for us to getready for the king.
Glory to God.
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He's the standard.
That's chapter before chaptertwo, verse 15.
He says to them love not theworld, neither the things that
are in the world.
If any man love the world, thelove of the father's not in him.
So you just gotta, you've gotta.
This world is out there.
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I mean, years ago God told meyou know, many, just you know,
are satiated with the cares ofthis world and the pleasures of
this world, and much of the carecomes from the pursuit of the
pleasure.
Many just tip their hats to meand go along their merry way.
Well, that's not the attitudewe need to have right now.
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We need to be, we need to bemaking sure that our priorities
are turned heavenward and andturn toward the Lord.
We need to be God inside minded.
We need to be making sure thatour priorities are turned
heavenward and and turn towardthe Lord.
We need to be God inside minded.
We need to always be consciousof the indwelling presence of
the Holy ghost.
He's in there to help us.
Amen, he's the standard.
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I said he's the standard.
We, we, we.
You know we don't love theworld and things that are in it.
You know we need some of thethings that are in it, but we
don't love them.
I like cars, but I and I, and Iown cars and I buy cars, but I
love God.
I might enjoy something on theearth, I might have a hobby, I
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might enjoy hunting, I mightenjoy fishing, but I love God.
Let's, let's draw a difference,let's draw a distinction.
When Jesus came to the earth, herevealed something that mankind
didn't know about.
Even the Jews really didn'tknow the love side of God.
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He revealed the love of theFather and they just couldn't
get a hold of it.
They were astonished at it.
They didn't understand it.
You see, the Jews knew God asJehovah.
Jehovah is covenant-keeping God.
They knew him as acovenant-keeping God.
They knew him as Elohim, thesupreme God creator of heaven
and earth.
They knew him as a covenantkeeping God.
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They knew him as Elohim, thesupreme God creator of heaven
and earth.
They knew him as that.
They knew him as El Shaddai,which literally is the almighty,
breasty one, the one who, theGod, who's more than enough.
He's got more than enough milk.
That's the female side of God.
See, god's got both sides.
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That's why it took a man and awoman to reflect God.
They knew him in those areas.
But they also knew him as judge, and they were very.
You know, they were faced withGod, the judge, more than
anything, because they were sostiff-necked and so disobedient.
I mean, you read the history ofIsrael.
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I mean they just could not.
You know, from Abraham on, theyjust couldn't get with the
program we want a king.
You know, all the way throughthey wanted what they wanted,
which was seldom what God wanted.
And so they came under judgment.
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They came under judgment andthey were thoroughly acquainted.
And that's when John the Baptistshowed up.
Who who was there to preparethe way of the Lord?
When he started preaching tohim in the wilderness, he said
you know, repent, for thekingdom of heaven is at hand.
Well, they could get withrepent.
They understood that.
And then he said you,generation of vipers, who warned
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you to flee from the wrath tocome, and boy, they got with
that.
They could understand.
They frowned him.
I mean they got out there andthey got baptized in the river
Jordan.
And I mean they couldunderstand John, john, they
could understand.
They could understand thelanguage he was speaking,
because he was speaking the samelanguage they'd heard for a
couple of thousand years.
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But when Jesus showed up, ohglory to God, he began to talk
about God as their father.
My heavenly father knows whatyou have need.
Of the Beatitudes Matthew,chapter 5, 6, and 7 was
revolutionary for the Jews tohear that.
They were completely shocked.
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Their jaws dropped.
Are you kidding?
Is this the same God that wethought we knew?
He cares about what you need.
He knows what you need.
He knows what you need.
Ask and you shall receive.
Seek and you shall find.
Knock and it'll be opened untoyou.
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Amen.
You know, if you, being naturalor evil, know how to give good
gifts to your children, how muchmore shall your heavenly father
give good gifts to them thatask him?
Oh, they couldn't.
They didn't.
They didn't understand thatthey loved it, but they didn't
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understand it.
They tried, they couldn't graspit.
Most of them couldn't grasp it.
They couldn't lay hold on it.
We need to lay hold on it,don't we?
They were spiritually dead, butwe're not.
We're not spiritually dead.
We have the Holy Ghost on theinside to help us lay hold on
those things that come from thelove of the Father.
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I like Luke 12.
Fear not, little flock.
It's your father's goodpleasure to give you the kingdom
.
He's not holding anything back.
John 14, you know Jesus istalking to his disciples on the
night before he was crucified,and he talked to him about the
Holy Ghost.
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He said I'd like to tell youmore, but you can't bear it now,
because they were spirituallydead still he hadn't died on the
cross yet.
Because they were spirituallydead still he hadn't died on the
cross yet, but nonetheless hetold them.
In John 14, judas, verse 22,said Judas said unto him, not
Iscariot, not Judas Iscariot,but Judas the other Lord.
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How is it that you willmanifest yourself unto us and
not unto the world?
And Jesus answered and saidunto him if a man loved me, he
will keep my words and my fatherwill love him and we will come
and make our abode with him.
See.
So there he's talking about thenew birth.
There he's talking about theindwelling presence of God
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himself.
The Jews didn't have that.
The Jews didn't have that.
The disciples didn't have thatNot yet.
But he's talking to them aboutit.
He's saying what's available.
Oh, thank God, we got what wasavailable, didn't we?
Come on, lift your hands rightnow.
Thank God for the Father's love.
Hallelujah.
The Father and Jesus both abidein us.
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And how does that happen?
In the person of the HolySpirit.
Because the Holy Spirit isidentical in every way to the
Father and the Son.
He said whatever I hear Jesussay, I'll share it with you.
All things the Father has aremine.
Therefore, I said I'd share itwith you.
So the Father shares with Jesus.
The Holy Ghost takes what Jesushas shared and shares it with
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us.
We have the effect of theFather and the Son all living in
us at the same time, eventhough it's just one.
Are you all with me now?
So Jesus manifested this overin John, chapter 21, after the
resurrection, you know, he wasrisen from the dead.
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He appeared to the disciples anumber of times, and this is one
where he appeared to them bythe seaside, you know, and they
had fished all night.
Lads, have you got any meat?
No, we've been fishing allnight.
No, john said it's the Lord.
Peter drove in the water, youknow, and swam off, and Jesus
already had some fish going onthe fire.
He's gonna have fish tacosWondered if they had any to add
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to what he had.
I don't know where he got them,but he's cooking and they have
a meal right there on the side,you know.
And in verse 15,.
So when they had dined, jesussaid to Simon Peter 15.
So when they had dined, jesussaid to Simon Peter Simon, son
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of Jonas, agape, thou me morethan these.
He saith unto him yea, lord,thou knowest that I phileo thee.
He didn't know about agape.
He's got it, but he didn't knowit.
I said he's got it, but hedoesn't know it.
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Jesus has died on the cross.
He's breathed on them.
They have the Holy Ghost forsalvation.
Not filled with the Holy Ghost,but they have the Holy Ghost.
They're alive to God.
But he doesn't know it, so hecan't say agape.
He says, yeah, yeah, lord, youknow, I phileo you.
Yeah, he said feed my lambs.
If that's true, do somethingabout it.
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If you love me, do something.
Love demands an action.
Love's not just a, you know aword.
Love's not just a word.
Love is not just an idea, it'san action.
And then he asked him thesecond time, sayeth him again
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the second time Verse 16.
Simon, son of Jonas, agape thoume.
He saith unto him yea, Lord,thou knowest that I phileo thee.
He said unto him feed my sheep,feed my sheep, do something.
Then the third time, 17.
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Simon, son of Jonas, lovestthou me.
Peter was grieved because hesaid unto him the third time
agape thou me.
And he said unto him Lord, youknow, you know all things, you
know that I, the lay of thee.
Jesus said unto him feed mysheep.
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Now one commentator said youknow that Jesus gave him a
chance to undo his betrayalbefore the cross, that he denied
Jesus three times.
So now he had to confess himthree times.
And so Peter had a realrevelation of the purpose of
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ministry, and that is to feedthe sheep, to watch after the
sheep.
He was an apostle, all right,but he had a real pastoral
revelation Because Jesus saidlook, if you love me, you're
going to make sure that my sheepare well fed and well watered.
You're going to watch afterthem.
And that's not just for thepastor, but that's for all of us
.
That's because we're all in thesame family.
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Are you with me now Talkingabout the love of the Father?
So just four things.
I want to leave you with Just asimple message that reminds you
in this time of conflict, it'seasy to get distracted, it's
easy to grit your teeth and getangry, and I find myself just
having to calm myself downbecause there's just such
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ludicrous, there's ludicrous,it's just ludicrous.
What's going on, I mean it justyou know defies the imagination
sometimes.
What's going on, I mean it justyou know, defies the
imagination sometimes.
But but let's, let's remembernumber one you've got a father
who loves you.
Maybe your earthly fatherfailed.
We have some people in here,barbara, I don't know everybody,
but I'm in a crowd this sizethere's always dysfunctional
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families.
I mean, you know, read theBible.
You want to see dysfunctionalfamily.
Look at, look at the Biblefamilies, look at the 12 tribes.
It's about as dysfunctionalfamily as you can get.
So welcome to the dysfunctionalclub.
I was blessed to have a daddythat loved me and was involved
in my life, and my mother too.
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And but not everybody has that.
Not everybody that's aChristian comes from a good,
loving, stable background.
Maybe yours was full ofconflict and maybe even abuse.
Maybe it was broken.
Maybe there was divorce.
Maybe there was betrayal, maybethere was.
You know, maybe you were raisedby grandparents, maybe you were
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, maybe you were foster children.
I mean, there's all kinds offolks in the church that are
lacking the earthly imprint ofwhat God's plan was.
But let me tell you somethingYou've got the love of the
father implanted in you.
He loves you with aneverlasting love.
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It'll never decrease, it'llnever go away, and your
realization of it is gonna growand grow as you grow in Him.
Number two he gave you His name.
In other words, he let you benamed, or let you be called, the
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Son of God.
You have a DNA.
We've been all partakers of Hisdivine nature.
We've been partakers of His DNA.
The center of His DNA is thelove of God.
God is love.
As a matter of fact, I mean,love is God, god is love, and so
that's the center of it, butit's not the only part.
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Love, joy, peace, patience, allthe fruit of the Spirit, is
just how God is.
He's faithful.
We've been talking aboutfaithful.
Well, we're faithful.
We can develop in faithfulnessand should.
Amen, amen.
Are you getting anything out ofthis?
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We've got the very.
I mean, the love of God hasbeen shed abroad in our hearts
by the Holy Ghost Minute.
You got saved, you got his, yougot his very nature.
And as we grow in things, as wetaught the word and get a
revelation of that love, we growand we grow, and we grow and we
grow, and one of these dayswe're going to see him as he is.
Glory to God, Woo, hallelujah.
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And then, not only that, but hegave you an inheritance.
Number three he gave you aninheritance Psalm 116, 12 and 13
.
The psalmist said it this waywhat shall I render under the
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Lord for all his benefits towardme?
What, what, how can I repay him?
How can, what can I render backto him?
I mean, he's given me so much.
How can I, how can I properlypay him back?
And then the psalmist answershis question.
He says I know what I'll do.
I know I'll take the cup ofsalvation and call upon the name
of the Lord.
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I'll take full advantage of hiscovenant.
I will not let one drop of hisprecious blood be shed in vain.
I will receive I will believe Ireceive every benefit the
forgiveness of my sins, theinfilling of the Holy Ghost.
I'm going to be a witness tohis love.
I'm going to go everywhere.
I'm going to lay my hands onsick people.
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I'm going to brag on Jesus.
I'm going to make a differencein this earth, hallelujah.
That's how we can repay him byliving like sons.
And then the last one, sinceall of that's true now, serve
him as a son, be a son of God,be a son of love.
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Let's look at first John,chapter 3, again in verse 8.
Very powerful verse he thatcommitteth sin is of the devil.
The word committeth meanspractice he that practices sin.
See, we might sin, but we don'tpractice it.
We might slip and fall and dothings that we're ashamed of,
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but we can confess that and getthat cleansed.
But a person that's lost is apracticer of sin.
That's what they want to do.
They're sinners.
So here you're of the devil.
He that committed sin is of thedevil.
The devil sinneth from thebeginning.
For this purpose, the Son ofGod was manifest that he might
destroy the works of the devil.
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That's our job description.
That's what we're here to do.
We're here to rise up anddestroy the works of the devil.
One of the greatest ways todestroy the works of the devil
is to get somebody saved.
Love covers a multitude of sin.
When you love people enough totell them the truth and witness
about what he's done for you andyou get them saved, I'm telling
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you you've just defeated thedevil, you've destroyed his
works.
Glory to God, hallelujah,hallelujah.
First, john 4, 17.
Another good one I want to leaveyou with Herein is our love
made perfect or mature, that wemay have boldness in the day of
judgment.
Isn't that where we're livingright now?
We boldness in the day ofjudgment?
Isn't that where we're livingright now?
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We're living in the day ofjudgment.
We ought to have boldnessbecause, as he is, so are we in
this world.
Hallelujah, so as we behold andlive in the Father's love, we
will see a great harvest.
Come on, lift your hands andreceive the word of God today.
Hallelujah, happy Father's Day.
Glory to God.
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Thank you, jesus, for your lovetranscends everything that
we're seeing and is a remedy forwhat ails the earth.
Hallelujah, the love of God.
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