PERFECT LOVE CASTS OUT FEAR - Mike Blume

PERFECT LOVE CASTS OUT FEAR - Mike Blume

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Speaker 1 (00:13):
The revelation.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
Then, welcome back to American Doc Radio.

Speaker 3 (01:24):
Everybody.

Speaker 4 (01:24):
This is Mike Phillip and I'm so glad to be
here with you today. We had a couple of days
where we did not go live. I was sent out
to give a hand to a couple of the young
men in the church and God did some absolutely amazing things.
There were seeds that were planted quite a ways back
that little green shoots are coming up, and I'm looking

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forward to seeing what he is going to do in
the near future. On Fridays, we re air the Thursday
Night study from my good friend and brother Mike Bloom.
And I was on my way back from laclabsh Alberta.
In the truck. We had about a three hour drive
and things that were going through my head all day.

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I was kind of building a study and then we
were discussing things in the truck. Well, God gave Mike
Bloom the very things that were going through my mind
all day last night. So this is definitely the Holy Ghost,
and so everybody please enjoy this revelation from brother Mike Bloom.

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It is an extreme pleasure to showcase his work to
a wider audience through this platform. And there's no doubt
in my mind that God brought us together for this
time for you. God bless you.

Speaker 1 (02:47):
Everyone.

Speaker 4 (02:48):
Enjoy and without further ado, Mike bloom a Breath of
Life Christian Teaching Center, follow along with your Kaneja and
you will be blessed.

Speaker 3 (03:03):
Hi, welcome tonight to our live cast. I'm streaming from Ported's,
a prairie, Manitoba. Look on a continental map and you'll
find out that Portin's, a prairie near Winnipeg, is actually
in the center of the whole continent of North America.
But we more want to be in the center of
the will of God and in the center of our

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focus where it should be. And so we're here with
tonight with American Ocreata with Mike Phillip and Breath of
Life Christian Teaching Center, and in tonight's message, actually ministered
this this past Sunday in the church in Winnipeg, which
with we work and a believer's church and more of
an evangelistic kind of approach to it. But I'm going

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to get into the fine tooth details here today and
I'm going to talk about fear, and there's a lot
more I wanted to get into and wasn't able to
over the weekend. But this is the time where really
crunched down and get into word of God. And this
is October, and everybody is looking through the stores and

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the malls and you're seeing vampires and spiderwebs and zombies
and all of these things. And you know, I get it.
I get the fun that apparently goes with it. But
there is real evil in this world and fear is
a real thing. And I want to address that because
there's a scripture that everybody knows. You know, you've probably

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heard this, but maybe I've wondered what does it actually
mean and how does that work? And that scripture is
here in First John, chapter four, verse eighteen. There is
no fear in love, but perfect love casteth out fear,
because fear hath torment. And he that fearth is not

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made perfect in love. And what's interesting is right near
the beginning of it, it talks about spirits and how
you need to try them and find if they're of
God or not, because many false prophets are gone out
into the world. And then he said, this is how
you know the spirit of God. Every spirit that confesses

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that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God.
And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is
come in the flesh is not of God. And this
spirit that will not confess Christ come in the flesh
is the spirit of Antichrist. He told those people that
they'd heard that it would come, and even now, he said,

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two thousand years ago it was already in the world.
So I want to break that down and get into
it because it really opens something up to me. And
it's a powerful message about the work of the Cross.
It always goes back to the Cross. It always goes
back to the blood of Jesus Christ. So let's get

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ready for that. Tonight. It's time for offering. And if

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John say that perfect love casts out fear. It really
does leave you with questions. And you know, John, the
way he wrote, I mean let me just show you
a little bit more of what he was talking about,
and I'm going to break it down. But notice right
after he says, there's no fear in love, but perfect
love casts out fear. Fear has torn. If you're fearing,

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you not made perfect in love. We love him because
he first loved us. And if a man say I
love God and hates his brother, he's a liar. Now,
John wrote in a unique way, and you're seeing things
that you wonder, can you be a little more plain? John, Like,
what's that mean? It can be, you know, difficult to understand.

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And Peter talked about Paul's writings being hard to be understood,
and that's sometimes the case with John, especially in John's epistles.
And you know, he started out his epistle talking about
that which was from the beginning and after his Gospel
of John says, in the beginning was the Word, and
the word was with God, and the word was good.
He's got such a poetic manner about him, and it

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really can throw you off if you just look at it,
and you know, your initial reaction would be, okay, you know,
what are you saying? But I believe the Lord really
opened this up now, you probably have never considered that
the surest way to overthrow fear is not by being strong.

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It's not by having a strategy and a method you
deal with it psychologically or resisting it. It's actually through
love that can disarm it and it transforms you. And
again you might say, well, how in the world does
love do that? Well, first of all, fear is rooted

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in uncertainty. You know, you're you're not confident, You're completely uncertain,
and that's not a comfortable state to be in. And
so here we are, we're going through a time of uncertainty,
and it's a time where we're susceptible. And what's the

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word I'm looking for. You're you're that place where you
can be impressed. You're impressionable. And but when you know
how much the Lord did for you, you know, the
love of God that is the origin of everything that

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He's done for us, is something that you really need
to consider. Because when Paul talks, or rather John talks
about the love of God, he that is not made
perfect in love, you know, is the that's why people fear.
So the greatest manner of love is when God came
down in the flesh and having sent his son in

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that manner, himself, coming in the flesh, was the son
of God and dying for us. Even Jesus said, no
greater love as any man. So if you fear, you're
not made perfect in love. Now, another thing we need
to keep in mind is that being perfect when it
says you're not made perfect in love, doesn't mean faultless.

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In the Bible, it means mature. It means it's a
full force. It's come to fruition. So love, when you
really get this mature love. And I'm going to break
it down. And you probably saw in the thumbnail eros, filio,
and agape. There's three different Greek words for love, and

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the first, top most is agape and you might have
an understanding of that, and we'll get to that in
a moment. But love brings confidence that you are accepted.
You know, that's the opposite of fear. When you're in
a place of uncertainty. Love helps you be secure and forgiven,

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and fear just can't coexist with that kind of assurance.
And you're going to know what I mean as we
continue here. Fear torments people, but love comforts people. Now,
you might think the opposite of fear is courage. No,
it's not, it's it's love, because love takes out everything

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from underneath the feet of fear. You know, this lack
of certainty when love gives you confidence that you're accepted,
this torment where love gives you comfort, you get anxious.
You are at a state of unrest, you're in bondage.
And love does the opposite. It comforts and calms and

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steadies people's hearts. And when God's love floods our soul,
it silences the tormenting voice of fear. And that's a
little taste of how we're going to understand how love
casts out fear. Perfect love, mature love, it doesn't negotiate
with fear. It drives it out completely. So you can

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get a bit of an understanding of how important it
is to have that mature or perfect love. Now let's
go back to it again one John four to eighteen.
There is no fear, no fear in love. But perfect
love casts out fear because fear hath torment, he that
fearth has not made perfect in love. My daughter's watching

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this tonight, probably Candice, and she's got a cat. Cat's
name is Posh, And I remember she had a couple
of cats before, and one cat would just come up
to me, lay on my lap and then just be
so trusting. And I said, look at the cat, what's
it doing here? And how come it's likely? She said, well,

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she completely trusts you. And they would lay on its
back and expose it's under belly. And then you think
of that's an animal's most susceptible part, you know, and
a dog, when a dog shows submission to you, it'll

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immediately throw itself on its back and expose its belly
because it's it's letting you know, look, I'm completely submitted
to I'm giving you vulnerable parts here. And so there's
kind of an idea there that there's no fear in love.
You trust and and you are so assured around that
you're you're able to reveal things about yourself, You're able

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to talk with no fear that it's going to be
used against you. For example, you are trusting, you don't
tell secrets to people that you have a fear that
they might hurt you with what you're going to say,
and so forth. Perfect fear is offset by perfect love,

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and fear involves torment. But he who fears not has
been made perfect in love. Look at that he that
fears not is made perfect in love. When we can
get this perfect matured love, we can grow in our
love until we get to the place where we do
not fear. So it shows us that fears the result

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of immaturity in love. It's not mature love. It's not
perfect love. It's immature. And John Say's perfect love cast
out fear. Now, God wants you to overcome any kind
of fear that would ever cross your path. Now look
at verse seventeen and read carefully what it says herein

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is our love made perfect, in other words, matured when
you have And he's referring to what he read and
wrote to us rather in verse sixteen, this is where
our love is made perfect, and this is the result
that we may have boldness. Now, this is really important
that we may have boldness in the day of judgment.

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So he's talking about the day of judgment here. Why
does he bring in this thing about the day of judgment.
In other words, when you become so mature and perfect
in your love, you can have boldness when you're standing
before God on judgment day. So this is the greatest
fear that anybody's ever going to come across. I don't

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care if you're afraid of the dark. I don't care
if you're afraid of nonexistent ghosts, or I'm not you know,
the devil himself. Nobody and no thing can make you
as fearful as coming before God on judgment Day if
you don't have that salvation that you need. And John

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kind of gets into that when we talk about this,
and by the way, if you can get to this
place where you are not fearing the judgment day that's coming,
then you're not going to fear anything else. So this
is the greatest fear that anybody's ever going to face.
And when we get to that place where we have

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boldness in the day of judgment, remember what he said
in the next verse and the verse after that you trust.
There's no fear in love. You are so in love
with God. You trust him so much you're not going
to fear him when he's ready to judge the living
and the dead, when he's ready to judge every single

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human being that ever existed. You can be one of
those who is bold on the day of judgment because
you've got that love for God. And John really does
break it down and you've got to get an inspiration
of the spirit to really understand it. But the chapter
also first John chapter four is what I'm focusing on.

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It connects the reality of the love of God with
Jesus coming in the flesh. And once again, how in
the world does Jesus coming in the flesh have to
do with connecting us with God's love? Now, let's go there.
John is contrasting the spirit of Antichrist from the spirit

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of God. He's saying, every spirit that confesses that Jesus
Christ is come in the flesh is of God. Now
you might say, well, why is it particularly Jesus Christ
coming in the flesh. Well, let me just kind of
jump in head right now and just cut to some chase.
The greatest thing that ever happened in the universe was
Jesus Christ going to that cross for us. You know,

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barn none, there's nothing greater than that. Jesus said, no men,
no greater love as any man, that he'd give his
life for his neighbor or his friend. And so here
Jesus Christ came in the flesh for that reason. When
you understand what he's talking about, when he says the

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spirit of Antichrist for example, that will not confess that
Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God.
You understand that it's something to do with Jesus God
loving us so much that he'd die for us. That
is why he came in the flesh. Just coming in
the flesh and being in the flesh, you're missing it.

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It's he came in the flesh to go to the cross.
And again this this scripture here quoted it so many times.
It's just opened up layers and layers of Revelation two
and fourteen of Hebrews. For as much then as the
children are partakers of flesh, now for Jesus to come

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in the flesh, he's going to partake of flesh. And
all of us, us children, we're all partakers of flesh
and blood. So because we are partakers of flesh and blood,
he also himself likewise took part of the same. Now
for him to take part of it because we had it,

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means that he existed before he came in the flesh.
And you know, there might be some people out there
watching this, and you're very sincere. You want to serve God,
you want to know the truth, but you really don't
believe Jesus Christ is actually God in very person incarnate.
You can't believe in incarnation if you don't believe that someone,

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namely God, existed before the birth of Jesus Christ and
came down and incarnate literally means to inflesh yourself, and
fleshed is in Fleshment is incarnation. And so to say
that we're partaking of flesh and blood. So he took

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part of the same means that he existed before he
was in the flesh. And so Jesus can't do that
unless he's God. You know, we didn't exist before we're
in the flesh. I don't care about the myths out
there where we're up in heaven as little angels or whatever.
And then God sends us down and now a baby's born,
and that's a back of nonsense. To be perfectly brutally

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honest with you, we did not exist before we were conceived.
That's why the Bible says we were conceived in this
and that's where everything began for us. And God formed
us in the womb. He didn't form us before the womb.
And he didn't just form our body. He formed the spirit, soul,
and body but go back to Hebrews again, because we

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were with flesh and blood, he himself likewise took part
of the same that through death. So the whole reason
he came in the flesh was through death he might
do something and accomplish. And this is the accomplishment. Destroy
him that had the power of death, that is the devil.
And here that's what he'd do coming in the flesh,

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as far as the devil was concerned. But now he
brings us into the picture and deliver them. And notice
what he does. He's connected. And you know something, I'm
just noticing this again. Wow. First John is talking about
the love of God and it talks about coming in
the flesh, and here we read and by the way,

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it was talking about fear. That's what we're talking about.
That's what we'm ministering tonight. In First John, perfect love
cast out fear. So in First John four fear love
coming in the flesh. It's all right here, bundled up
in Hebrews two fourteen and fifteen, and deliver them who,
through fear of death, were all their lifetimes subject to bondage.

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So here you've got the very reason he came in
the flesh. And it deals with fear. So no wonder. First,
John four begins by talking about the spirit of Antichrist
that will refuse to confess that Jesus came in the flesh,
and then Paul ends up talking about Peter. John ends
up talking about love and fear. He loved us so

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much that he was going to come to deliver us
who through fear of death. Where all our lifetimes subject
to bondage. Now break that down a little bit, all
our lifetimes and look at the word life. Here is
the root word subject to bondage, to the fear of death.
Can you imagine spending so much of your life fearing death.

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I mean death is only going to take a moment
to occur, but taking the whole span of your lifetime
and having a fear of that moment that's just a
brief moment when it comes, keeping us in bondage the
whole time, No wonder God showed his love for us.

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I mean, first and foremost, we were lost, and we
were without him, We were cut off from him. We
cut ourselves off in the garden of Eden. And don't
just blame Adam, because every single one of us probably
would have felt to the same temptation that him and
his wife did, wanting to exalt themselves, and the devil
tempting them as good as a tempter that he really is.
And then you see we not only were cut off

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from God, but God saw us from that point on
in a fear of death, and our entire lifetimes fearing death.
I mean, stop and think about it. The money we
have to spend to keep ourselves safe because we could
be killed. You know, you're putting locks in car, you're

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putting locks and houses or security systems. There's the money
that's spent on criminal mitigation and hindering that is astronomical.
The prisons that we build to keep these people that
are so dangerous away from hurting other people. I mean,
people are in many cases possessed by fear all their lifetimes.

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They're in fear of death, and it's such a terrible thing.
But I also like this aspect of it. I'm kind
of jumping ahead again because He didn't only come to
deliver us because of the fear of death that we
spent our lifetime in as we were subject to bondage.
But he wanted to take that devil that caused all

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of this to happen and threw us into sin and
threw us into banishment from God's presence. Jesus wanted to
come in that flesh just for the very purpose that
he would take that death through which the devil was
in fling fear of it upon our entire lifetimes, bringing

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us into bondage and destroy him that had the power
of death, that is the devil. He loved us, and
he absolutely hated with everything inside of him, this devil
that put mankind his crowning creation, made in his own
image in such a bondage of a fear of death

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for our entire lifetimes. And Satan knew it was coming
because he heard God way back in the garden of
Eden saying, devil, the seed of the woman, because you've
done this to the woman, the seed of the woman
is going to come and he is going to crush

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your head. And the devil never forgot that, and he
knew the wrath of God when he heard that tone
in God's voice. I mean, you read in the Book
of Acts for ministers and pastors, you better watch how
you take charge over the apple of my eye, my flock.

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And you imagine what kind of understanding of what kind
of feeling God has towards Satan who touched the apple
of his eye. The apple of your eye in Hebrew
culture is your iris. It's what you see. You can't
see without it. It's like wherever before his eye, his

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eyes are attracted to us more than anything else. We're
the apple of his eye, where the iris of his eye.
And so you see how the devil was absolutely terrified.
And that's why let me give you a little background
here behind the scenes. Satan will not confess Jesus came

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in the flesh, even though he came in the flesh
two thousand years ago. To this day, the devil doesn't
want even so much as confess it because it was
his greatest nightmare coming to when he was crushed in
his skull, so to speak, by Jesus Christ. As his
heel was bruised during the crushing of the devil's head.

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That represented the death and the suffering that Jesus Christ
experienced because of the crossman. He would gladly bruise his
heel to crush this enemy of his that dared touch
man who is made in God's image. Oh praise God,
powerful powerful truths. So John is contrasting again, let's go

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back to First John chapter four. The spirit of Antichrist
with the spirit of God, and he's talking to you.
There's the spirit of God, and then there's a spirit
of Antichrist. Now, most people wouldn't think of the opposite
of love as fear. Neither might you think that the
office of the spirit of God is the spirit of Antichrist. Interesting,

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isn't it? And it all has to do with Jesus
in the flesh. So this is how you'll know. Now,
a spirit of Antichrist makes a person feel independence from
Christ or in opposition to Christ. So anybody that's in
opposition to Christ, they're obviously under a spirit of Antichrist.

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But then there's an alternative. The actual literal Greek meaning
behind anti in Antichrist is an alternative. It's independent of
the real Christ, and it's another one. No matter what
it is or who it is, it's just not the
real Jesus. Now, some people in their religions they include Jesus,

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but he's not the only way to them. He's just
one of many ways. And I made this statement recently,
and I want to say it again. I respect with
everything in me every human being's right to choose what
to worship, who to worship. I respect their right to

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do that, and God respects the right that he's given
them to do that. He didn't make Adam and Eve
say no, no, no, stay away from that tree of
the knowledge of Goodniva, you get over here, I'll grab
your hand and I'll open your jaws and I'll make
you eat the fruit of life. If you're not gonna
eat and go after this, No, he told them what
not to do. He told them what his will is.

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He told them the repercussions of what would happen if
they did disobey him. Death, death, that's what we're talking about,
fear of death. But he didn't force them to do
either way, and neither does he today. So God has
allowed man to have a free will. And don't pay
any attention to that nonsense that says men doesn't have

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a free will. Let's just absolutely utter nonsense. We definitely
have free will. So I respect that. And so if
you don't worship my Jesus, I respect your decision, but
I don't respect that religion. I do not respect any
religion apart from that of Jesus Christ. And what Peter

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called Christians. If Jesus is the only way and I
respect another way, then I'm disrespecting Jesus. I want to
make that plain now again. Don't get me wrong. You're
not to hate anybody, and I said, I respect, absolutely

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respect every person's right to choose who they're going to
worship or what. I respect their right to do that
because God does. But I do not and will never
respect that other religion apart from Jesus Christ hallelujah. So
in the very spirit of being in opposition to Jesus

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or an alternative to him, it reveals somebody to be Antichrist.
Now let me show you something else. In Ezekiel chapter twenty,
we read that God was talking to Israel and people
were coming and they're saying, let me see. Certain of

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the elders of Israel came to inquire the Lord. And
then the Lord says to the prophet Ezekiel, they're inquiring
of me. I want to talk to you, Ezekiel. Tell
these elders of Israel, say, thus, says the Lord. Are
you come to inquire of me? So they're inquiring of them?
He says, is that what you're doing as I live?
Said the Lord I will not be inquired by you.

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So he tells them, I'm not going to listen to them.
Wilt thou judge them, son of man, Wilt thou judge them?
Cause them to know the abominations of their fathers, and
say to them, thus says the Lord, in the day
when I chose Israel and lifted up my hand into
the seat of April, the house of Jacob, rather and
made myself known unto them in the land of Egypt,
when I lifted up my hand into them, saying I

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am the Lord your God. In the day that I
lifted up mine hand under them, to bring them forth
out of the land of Egypt, into a land that
I had a spied for them, flowing with milk and honey,
which is the glory of all lands. Then I said
to them, cast you away, every man, the abominations of
his eyes. Defile not yourselves with the idols of Egypt.

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And then he reiterates what he said at the beginning,
I am the Lord your God. You've kind of got
a chiasm going here. He begins by saying I am
the Lord your God. He ends by saying I am
the Lord your God. But they rebelled against me, Ezekiel,
they wouldn't hearken under me. They didn't cast away the
abominations of their eyes, neither did they forsake the idols

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of Egypt. So then I said, I'm going to pour
out my fury upon them. I'm going to accomplish my
anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt,
right in Egypt. I'm going to hammer them. But Ezekiel,
I wrot for my name's sake, that it should not
be polluted before the heathen, among whom they were, in
whose sight I'd made myself known under them in bringing

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them forth out of the land of Egypt. So I
caused them to go out of the land of Egypt,
and then I brought them into the wilderness. And I
even gave them statutes and showed them my judgments, which
if you do these judgments, you'll live. And that's actually
Leviticus eighteen and five says that very thing. That's where
you'll find he made that statement. Moreover, I gave them
my sabbaths. They would be a sign between me and them.

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Notice it's not the New Testament Church, it's Him in Israel,
that they might know that I am the Lord that
does sanctify them. But the House of visionarybelled against me
in the wilderness. They did it in the in Egypt,
they didn't cast these things away. And then he brings
them out in the wilderness, and then they don't do
it there either. They walk not in my statutes. They

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despise my judgments, and if a man does it, he'll
live in them. And my sabbaths they greatly polluted. So
I said, I'm going to pour out my fury upon
them in the wilderness, to consume them. But I wrought
for my namesake that it should not be polluted before
the heathen, in whose sight I brought them out, he
repeats himself. So I lifted up my hand unto them

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in the wilderness, and I would not bring them into
the land, I said, which I'd given them, flowing with
milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands.
So I said, I'm not bringing you. I won't destroy you,
but I'm not bringing you in now, because they despise
my judgments, walk not in my statutes. They polluted my sabbaths.
Their heart went after their idols. But just like up here, nevertheless,

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my eyes spared them from destroying them. Neither did I
make an end to them in the wilderness. But I
said to their children in the wilderness, walk he not
in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their judgments,
nor defiled yourselves what they're elder. Now, Remember he's talking
up here, and he's saying to them, wilt doub judge them,

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cause them to know the abomination of their fathers. So
he's talking to these descendants now, and that's what he
said to the children, the descendants, don't go after the
way your fathers went. I'm the Lord your God. Walk
in my statutes, keep my judgments, and do them Hallo
my Sabbath, and they'll be a sign between me and

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you that you may know that I'm the Lord your God.
Notwithstanding talk about a roller coaster relationship with God, up
and down, up and down. He spares them. They go
into it all over again. Then he spares them again,
and again they rebelled against me. Now this time it's
the children. They walk not in my statues. They did
not keep my judgments, which if a man, do you

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live in them. Notice he's repeating himself. So I'm going
to pour out my fury. Nevertheless, now how many times
is this? I withdrew my hand, and I wrot for
my namesake, that it should not be plue. Notice how
much he's exalting his name. Even when he wanted to
destroy them, he realized the importance of his name. It

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was associated with them and the heathen that say their
God couldn't even take them out of Egypt. He couldn't
even take them out of the wilderness. What kind of
god is that? So he said, I wrot for my
name's sake, But he's going to bring up something about
his name in the moment, that it should not be
polluted in the side of the heathen, in whose sight
I brought them forth. They saw God do this right

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in their eyes. I lifted up my hand in them
the wilderless. I'd scatter them among the heathen, not destroy them,
disperse them, because they had not executed my judgments. But
they despise so forth and so on. So I gave
them statutes that were not good. I gave them judgments
that they would not live, and I polluted them in
their own gifts, and that they caused to pass through

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the fire all that opened at the womb. Do you
know what he's talking about here. Israelites, who saw God
perform many wonders to get them out of Egypt, started
sacrificing their children and babies to Moloch, this false god,
and threw them into the fire as a sacrifice their
own babies. Therefore, I want you to speak into the

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house of Israel. Now he's bringing it up to that
then present day, say to them, you want to inquire
me in this. Your fathers have blasphemy. They committed a
chest pass against me when I brought them into the land,
for which I lifted up mine hand to give it
to them. And then they saw every high hill, all
the thick trees, they offered their sacrifices. They presented the

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provocation of their offering. They were worshiping false gods. He said,
there also they made their sweet savor and poured out
there their drink offerings. And I said to them, what
is the high place where you're going? What's the name
called Bama? Unto this day, so say to the house
of Israel, are you polluted after the manner of your father's. Yes,

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you commit hoard them after their abominations. You offer your gifts,
You make your sons to pass through the fire you're
polluting yourselves with all your idols right till this day
in Ezekiel. And I'm gonna be inquired by you as
I live, I will not be inquired of you. That
which cometh into your mind will not be at all
that you say. We will be as the heathen, as

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the families of the countries, to serve woodenstone. As I live,
saith the Lord. Surely, with a mighty hand and a
stretched out arm, and fury poured out, I rule over you.
And I will bring you out from the people and
gather you out of all countries with a mighty hand
and a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out.
And I'll bring you into the wilderness. And there I'll
plead with you face to face, like I pleaded with

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your fathers. So I'll plead with you. I'll cause you
to pass under the rod. I'll bring you into the
bond of the covenant. I will purge you from among
the rebels, and them that trespass and transgress against me,
I'll bring them out of the country. As for you,
House of Israel, go serve you. Every one of you
serve as idols. And hereafter, if you will not hearken

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unto me, but pollute my holy name no more with
your gift and with your idols. Because in my holy mountain,
in the mountain of the Height of Israel, saith the
Lord God. There shall all the house of Israel, all
of them in the land, serve me, and I will

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accept them. And I will require your offerings, the first
fruits of your oblations. I will accept you. In other words,
if you're gonna bring my name into this anymore, it's stopping.
You brought my name into it when you worship the
idols of Egypt. You included my name. You took things
that I said to you, that I brought you out
of Egypt, and you attributed it to a golden calf

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and said, these are the gods which took us out
of Egypt. And you even took my feasts and the
way I had sacrifices, and you applied it to those
false gods from my word. You applied it to those gods.
You had atonement, you had trespass offerings, you had all
of these things. You were taking things from the Bible
and mixing them up with other religions and folks. God says,

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don't do it. So I do not respect other religions,
but I completely respect and I treat them kindly. I
don't hate them, and I don't believe that we should
harm anybody no matter what religion they're in, because we
recognize and we do respect their right to worship whatever
they're going to worship. But I do not respect what
they worship. It's just I respect their right to do

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it if it's their choice. But I am not going
to despise the only way that there is, Jesus by
respecting another way other than him. So don't mingle the
name of God. Don't even bring other religious practices. They're
doing this. We've got indigenous folks in our congregation and

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they will tell you themselves it is wrong to bring
these cultural manners of worship into worshiping Jesus and put
his name with it, because God said, don't pollute my
name with those things. Don't bring the name of Jesus
into it, And folks, Jesus is the only way recedes

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every other way, because hallelujah, no other religion has God
himself coming in the flesh to die for us on
the cross, so that the death that we all deserve
because of our sins. He's taking it upon us so
that his death can count as our deaths, and we
can pay the price for our sins by proxy through

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his death. No other religion says that, Every other religion says,
be as good as you can to make yourself righteous,
go into eternity with joy by making yourself. No, I
can't make myself righteous. I can't make myself holy. Jesus
had to do it. There's not a thing I could
do to make myself righteous. It's the thing that Jesus

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did when he died for me and resurrected again. That
makes me righteous, not a thing that I can do. Nothing, hallelujah.
And I only respect that because common sense will tell
you if you're trying to earn your salvation and it's
impossible for you to do so, and Jesus said, you've

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got to accept the fact that you can't do it.
No wonder the spirit of Antichrist hates that. It can't
stand it because it exalts itself. It defies. It's an alternative.
There's no other alternative to the Tree of life, folks,
other than the Tree of the Knowledge and good and evil.
And it's so bad and sad at the same time

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that it looks so spiritual and it looks so religious,
talking about what's good and talking about what's evil and saying,
all you need to do, the devil told them, is
just to get that knowledge of what is good and
what is evil. And you make yourself obey it. You
make yourself avoid the evil, and make yourself do the good,
and be your own God. You will be like God.

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You will be God's No, sir, and Antichrist hates it
with a passion, but I'm going to preach it loud
and clear. You can't make yourself holy. You couldn't do
it if you came back in some kind of mythical,
nonsensical off the wall, reincarnation of one animal form to another. Unbelievable.
What man has stooped down to only one way, and

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that's Jesus and the Cross. Hallelujah. So don't pollute my name,
He's saying to the church in twenty twenty five. Get
rid of those drums, Get rid of those rituals, get
rid of those idols. If any ritualistic drum used in worship,
and it's supposed to cause something to happen in the spirit,
you're bringing that in and putting God's name on it,

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get it out. He hates it with a passion. There's
only one thing that changes everything, and that's the spirit
of our God through our faith, and the only thing
that can save us the blood of Jesus Christ being
shed on the cross, and no other religion can touch
that for eternity a link. Talk about a light year distance,

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bring in an eternal distance if it can be accomplished,
if you can calculate it. Unbiblical growth and gifts and
high hills, folks, The Cross ruled out every other religion
that exists. There's no amount of good works or good
deeds that any other religion will tell you, or a
mythical return in another life through reincarnation that can deal

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with the problem that the soul that sins shall die.
The cross is the only way to see sins removed
so we can get back to God. We had to die.
That's how good we are to make ourselves righteous. We're
fit for nothing less than death. And the apostle reminds
us that God's love was revealed when he sent his

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son into the world to die so that we might
live through him. Hallelujah, I'll be kind to people in
any other religion. I'll treat them as respectfully nice as
I can to a human being made in the image
of God. I respect their rights to choose, but I
will not respect another religion. My faith is in Jesus,
and Jesus alone and no one else, barn None is

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a way to truth and life. No man comes to
the Father but by him, And if he's the only way,
I'm not going to disrespect him by respecting another way. Now,
how does love overcome fear? John said, perfect love cast
out fear. Now, remember he already referred to the judgment.
You're gonna have confidence and boldness in the day of judgment.

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So it's something to do with judgment day that we've
got to deal with. And that's the greatest, like I said,
fear you'll ever face in its truest sense. It's interesting
because let John say it himself in chapter four of
the same chapter and verse nine and ten, hallelujah. In

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this was manifested the love of God toward us. Now,
let's read closely. Because God sent his only begutten son
into the world that we might live through him. We
were gonna die because of our sins and nothing's going
to get you out of that except Jesus being sent
for what whatever purpose he was going to be sent for.

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Now we know what it is now. But herein is love.
And then look at it. Why did he say this?
I believe God showed me not that we loved God,
but that he loved us. That's love. We didn't even
love him when he loved us. He loved us not

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because we loved him, and he sent his son to
be the propitiation for our sins. Now that reminds me
so much here of Romans five. We're justified by faith.
We've got peace with God through Jesus. You're not going
to have peace with God through anything other than Jesus.
That's just the way it is. Now. Not only do

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you have peace with God, but also we have access
by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and we're
rejoicing now we've got hope. We had no hope before,
but we're rejoicing in hope. Hallelujah, because through Jesus we've
got access to God. And not only that, Paul said,
I glory and tribulations. You might say he's off his rocker,

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but keep reading knowing that tribulation works patience. Patience works experience,
and experience works hope. And when you got hope, and
it all starts with tribulation, you are not going to
be ashamed. Now modern English would say you won't be disappointed.

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You will not be disappointed, hallelujah, because the love of
God gets to the place where it shed abroad in
our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.
And that's kind of like what John meant when he
said love is made perfect. God spreads the love of
God through us. And this brings me back to what

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I entitled this message and why you saw this shot
like you did in our thumbnail. Eros is one definition.
There's one Greek word from which the English word love
is translated. Philio is another Greek word, but the same
Greek word, but the same English word love is translated
out glad you need to find out, okay, am I

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reading love as a form of eros or is it philio?
But then the third one is at gape and it
was at the top and the sunbeams were shining and
it was glorious around the word a gape because eros
is physical intimate love. It's physical, that's physical that's the
lowest that there would be. And then above that, a

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step higher is philio love. And that's an emotional love.
It's not just physical, and it's when you love somebody
and because they love you. Now that can happen simultaneously.
Two people meet each other, they fall in love, and
they each love each other more and more, and the

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one keeps on loving the other because the other is
loving that one, and the other keeps on loving the
one because the one loves the other. And so it's
a reciprocal love. And when that goes, people sink into
some dark places when they're not going to love if
the other one's not going to love me back. So
that's how you've got to understand perfect love. Perfect mature

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love is not eros, it's not filial. It is a gape.
Because a gape love will love you when you don't
even love back. And that's why it said, it's not
that we love God, but that God loved us. Let

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me read it again here in his love, not that
we love God, but that He loved us. And I
failed to mention this. I wanted to bring this out
in the Romans. Look at this, God commendeth his love
toward us in that while we were yet sinners, Christ

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died for us much more than being now justified, as
by his blood we shall be saved from wrath throom.
For if we, when we were enemies, we were reconciled
to God by the death of his son, when we
were sinners, he died for us much more being reconciled,
we shall be saved by his life. But look at that,

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while we were sinners, if God was only operating on
filial love, and he was only going to love us,
if we loved him, then it would say because we
loved him that he began to love us. But what
did John say? Not because we loved God. We didn't

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love God first he loved us. And when you grow
in love, when you are made perfect in love, you
are going to mature into an agape love. And when
you have an agape love for people, they can hate you,
they can run you down, it doesn't matter. You're like God.

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You love them still. And furthermore, you have a love
for God and you grow up into His love, you
are made perfect. You're mature in your love. Just like
shadrak mishekn a bendigo when they said our God is
able to deliver us from this fiery furnace. You're going

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to throw us in. But I want you to know something, King,
even if he doesn't deliver us, we're not going to bow.
We're not going to worship anybody else but him. Now
can you imagine God's heart bursting there? Because they weren't
going to serve God because God was loving them and

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God was blessing I would say this. They knew God
would love them whether he blessed them or not. And
they don't need God to show some blessing for us
a benefit to us before we stand for him. They said,
even if he doesn't save us. Remember the devil was

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facing God. He said, have you considered my servant Job?
And he said, skin for skin God, skin for skin,
self for self. You stop blessing him, you take away
your blessings, and then you see if he won't curse
you to your face. And what did job do? He
lost his blessings, He lost his family, he lost his treasures,

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he lost his cattle, he lost his wealth. And then
the woman came and told him curse God and die.
He said, I don't care if God slays me. I'm
going to trust him anyway, and I will not. He
had that mature, a gape love toward God like God
had toward us. Even if God lets this stuff happen,

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We're not going to fall. You know, There's a lot
of people have gone through some unbelievably traumatic experiences and
they left God. I've heard of somebody who lost their
child to suicide and they stop serving God. When you
get a love for God, you trust him. Remember, there's

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no fear in love because of that trust. You trust
him to such an extent that you'll say, I cannot
understand how he let this happen. But his mind and
his love is such a universe, an infinite source compared
to the little grain of sand that my mind understands

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that I can conquer, I can comprehend, and I can
figure out that I trust him. I can't see it.
It's tearing me to pieces. But he knows, he knows,
and I trust him anyway. He's perfect. He cannot hate me.
He loved me when I was a sinner. And so

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when you get that kind of love and that kind
of faith, where's your fear going to be? You haven't
let me get right down to it. When you have
the confidence before God in the day of judgment. It's
going to be because you've got perfect, matured love. You

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continue to do good because Jesus said, love God with
all your heart's soul in mind. Number one and number two,
love your neighbor as yourself. Now when you have a
gape for God and man, when man stops loving you,
you're going to keep on loving them because you don't
have filial love like they do. You've got a gopy love.

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You know how the world says, hey, we're tolerant of you,
until you're not tolerant of them. You know what I mean.
There's a tolerance is gone right there. It's unbelievable. They
don't have a gape mature love. Hallelujis. I put an
article in the newspaper here in our town few years ago,

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and it was gay pride coming out and marches were
taking place in all of this, and they call it
hate speech if you disagree with them. They don't know
what hate is. They don't know what love is. And
if they knew what love is, they wouldn't think such
ridiculous nonsense. Just because I disagree with the way they
believe doesn't mean I hate them. They think if you

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disagree with them, you hate you. Know why, because they
get such an immature filial love. They don't know anything
about a gape love. That they'll only love you if
you love them back. They'll only tolerate you if you'll
tolerate and agree with everything they're doing. But they don't
understand that a gape love means I don't have to
agree with you, and I don't have to believe you,

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and I don't have to think that your activity is
not sin when it actually is sin. For me to
love you just because I believe you're in sin, just
because I believe it's blasphemy and it's against God and
it's an abomination, doesn't mean I hate you. My Lord
commands me to love you with an agape love so

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that if you're my enemy and doing wrong to me,
I will love you back. And they call it hate
speech if you call them sinners. That's because even the
judges and the courts and the magistrates of the nation,
they don't know anything about a gape love. They don't
know and just because some crackpot, backslidden Christian has hatred

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all over them and kills and murders, and then they
say that if you say anything against them, by the
way of it being sin, it's going to lead to
this kind of harm and violence. No, it's not. Those
people never knew God to begin with, because when you
knew the love of God that reaches down to us
and then brings us out of sin, and when we

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were yet sinners. You don't know anything until you known
the love of God. Hallelujah. And that's what we need
to show more than anything. Because of the world's concerned.
You cannot love like that. They might even say, well, Jesus,
that's Jesus, who do you think you are? You can't
love like that. He was on the cross and he
blew their minds when he said, Father, forgive them that.

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They know not what they're doing when they were killing him.
But Stephen did the same thing, and he wasn't God
in the flesh like Jesus was. When they were stoning
Stephen to death, he said, lay not the sin to
their charge. And while they were killing him, Bible says
he had the face as an angel, and then he
gave up the ghost and died. So that means you

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can do it. Hallelujah. And when you've got that kind
of confidence before God. You're loving people. When they slap
you on the cheek, you're not going to hit them
back ten times harder. You're going to turn your other
cheek and you're going to keep on loving them because
you are loving like God loves. And how will you
have any fear on the day of judgment? If you're

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loving people with that, you'll never sin against them. You'll
never sin when if somebody loves us and we love them,
you know, everything's great and that's easy. But when they
stop loving us, then something goes bad. And then maybe
they start speaking against us, and then they're not loving me,
so I'm not loving them, and then we sink down too,
and that's where sin can come in. But if you

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love them with an agape love, it doesn't matter what
they do to you, you will never lose your love
for them. Amen, and praise God. Folks, no wonder you've
got confidence before God in the day of judgment because
you came into that perfect love and you just wouldn't
sin against anybody, let alone God. And oh my, I

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need to got to go through. I want to make
sure we get time to get into all of this.
Let's go back again to first John four again, because
there's more that he gets into. John was deep, folks,
he was absolutely deep God's love. It's not that we
loved him that made him love us. He loved us,

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he said his son, when we were yet sinners. Roman says.
And if God loved us like that, if he so
loved us, so means in this manner we ought also
to love one another, love each other the same way.
Now here's the kicker. Nobody's ever seen God and nobody
ever will. But if we love one another with this

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kind of love, then people are going to may not
see God, but they're going to see that love in us,
and they're gonna know God is in us. I can't
see God, I'll never see him, but He is in
those people. And his love is perfected in us. It's

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his love, but it's in us, and it's perfected. That's
perfect love. It's been matured, it's grown in us. And
this is how you know, folks, that you dwell in
Him and he in us. And just like it said,
no man has seen God at any time, but when
we love each other, God's dwelling in us. It's not
only us that's going to know we dwell in him

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and he in us. But they're going to know that
we dwell in Christ, and they're going to know that
Christ is in us because he has given us his love.
In other words, he hath given us of his spirit.
His love is from him and he's given it to us.
And we are loving people the way God loves. We're

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like Jesus on the cross. I'm saying, Stephen had it.
He was given of God's spirit. He was given of
that perfect love. God's love was perfected in that man
because he said, lay not the sin to their charge,
just like Jesus said, forgive them. They don't know what
they're doing when they were killing him my and he said,

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look at this, not only that we not only know
that we're in him, we not only know that He's
in us, and so does everybody else, but this also
shows that we have seen and we're testifying it by
the way we love each other. If we love each other,
we are actually testifying without saying a word, that the

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father sent the son to be the savior of the world.
How in the world can that testify that the father
sent the son? Why did the son come in to
be the savior because of his love? For us. He
loved us so much he gave his only begotten son.
He loved us so much, he gave his only son
for us. No greater love as anybody then that they

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would give their life like that. And then it says
you're testifying the same thing when you have that great
love of God, that was the same love that caused
God to look at a bunch of sinners and give
his son for them in death, and your loving people
when they're not loving you back, it's just like you're

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repeating God giving a son to us. Do you get it?
Do you get it? Hallelujah? It teaches us that God
didn't look for anything in us to make him love us.
It rips out your condemnation. You don't get you know,

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it's like you're not good enough. That doesn't come to you.
People that think they're not good enough don't know the cross.
Because He loved you when you were a sinner, So
why would you even think you're not good enough? He
already loved you so much, the greatest love anyone would
ever have, when he gave his life for you. So
what do you mean you're not good enough enough for
what him to love you? You wonder what to repent over.

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You need to repent over not realizing you can be
You aren't good enough, and you need to do good
in order for him to love you back. That's what
you need to repent of. Oh my, if our brother
wrongs us, we're still called to love him. That's the
true nature of a gape love. That's the love that
God demonstrated to us. It becomes a testimony that God's

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in us. You are testifying that God sent his only
son into the world. Amen. You're temples of the Holy Ghost,
and you know God's going to protect you. You don't
have that fear if I'm good enough or not that
leaves you completely. If you've ever had that, I wonder
if I'm good enough for God. You don't know the gospel.

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You need to realize that He loved you when there
wasn't an inch or grain of anything that caused you
to love him back, and He still loves you. You know.
In verse six, look at this as I bring this down,

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we are of God. He that knows God hears us.
Now he's talking about the apostles here. John was one
of those apostles. He that's not of God, doesn't hear us.
And this is how we know the spirit of truth too.
Not only do antichrists never confess that Jesus came in
the flesh. Antichrist don't listen to what the apostle said. Oh,

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I'm going to listen to Jesus. He's better than the apostles.
You anti Christ. You Jesus himself said in John fourteen
and seven seventeen. Rather verse twenty, he said, believe on
me through the apostles' words. So you're not listening to them.
Don't tell me you love Jesus. Let us love one

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another because loves of God. Everyone that loveth is born
of God and knows God. Now this is the agape here.
It's not just any word. It's agape. He that loveth
not knoweth not God, because God is love. Hallelujah. And
let me show you something else. In James, before we
finish chapter four, verse six, Notice how it says in

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verse eight, draw nigh to God, and he will draw
nigh to you. Notice how it says resist the devil,
and he will flee from you. Even before he said
resist the devil, he said, you've got to submit yourself
to God. But even before that he says, he gives
more grace. Wherefore he saith, God, resisteth the proud, but

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giveth grace unto who the humble, the humble? And what
do humble people do? They submit? If you resist the
devil and you're not humble, and you're not submitting to God,
the devil is not going to flee from you. Didn't
just say resist the devil, he'll flee. It said, God
gives grace to the humble. You know what grace is.
It's power. Grace is supernatural, inspiring power, and he only

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gives it to the humble. Submit yourselves to this God.
He'll give grace to you, so that when you resist
the devil, that grace will be so powerful that the
devil can't resist it, and he will flee. And drawn
eye to God. How with submission, with humility. So resist
the devil, but drawn eye to God him negatively, but

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come toward God positively, and he will draw nigh to you.
Resist the devil, he'll flee, john ey to God. He'll
draw you cleanse your hands, you sinners, purify your hearts,
you double minded. And so there's a chiasm again. He
gives grace to the humble. You have to submit. He
tells you to purify your hearts. He says, you're a sinner,
you're double minded, and then God will accept you. Hallelujah.

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And notice it says, oh my first John again on
John four. Look at verse thirteen. Hereby know we that
we dwell in Him and he in us, because He
has given us of his spirit. And what did verse

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twelve say? His love is perfected in us. In us,
in us is his love, and God is love. Praise God.
And so there you have seen, and you do testify
the Father sent to be the Son, sent the Son

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to be the savior of the world. You've got something
from the nature of God himself in you. The reason
God sent his son is for all of us, and
his love for us to be repeated in us. The
same love of God in our lives was the love
that caused him to send his son. A goape is

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the word if you look it in the Greek in
all of these verses, it's a gope. It doesn't exist
because anybody loved you. It started us with a goape
because He loved us, but it soon got a hold
of us to such an extent that we started loving
the same way and you know, a real mother's love

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comes close to this. A mother doesn't care how bad
their child is. A mother doesn't care how rebellious that
child is, she still loves that child. That's a gape love.
Jesus Christ came in the flesh because God loved us
so much that he'd give his life for us. That's
why John also said love covers a multitude of sins

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and Antichrist works and people who don't like this kind
of teaching, they don't like this preaching. It preaches against sin.
It tells us what sin is, and it tells us
what abomination is. And the truth is that if we
love God, we're going to obey that word. Anti Christ
is proud, it loves itself. And another reason it doesn't

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like this idea of Jesus Christ come in the flesh
is it can't stand the idea that God loved us
that much. It can't stand. And we defeat that spirit
of Antichrist when we love each other and the same
love that God had to make him come in the
flesh to die for us because we weren't loving him
and He was gonna love us that much anyway, When
that's in us Antichrist hates that because we're testifying that

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God sent his son in the flesh, because that love
of God, that agape is in this flesh. Now, it
wasn't only in the flesh that Jesus took upon himself
when he was manifest with flesh. Now God is in
our flesh, and it's defeating Antichrist every time. And it
doesn't matter how many miracles you're performed. It doesn't matter
how many demons you can cast out, or what prophesies

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will come to pass that you speak. It matters that
you love with a love hallelujah. That is undeniably God's
a gope love. Antichrist hates the love of God for us.
It's a demon in people and folks. Not only by
his love he died for us, but he crushed Satan's head,

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and Antichrist can't stand that either. That's why Jesus said,
when the devil said, if you're the son of God,
he won't say son of man. You say, if you're
the son of God, son of man. Talks about him
coming in flesh, born of the woman and man just
means humanity. He came from humanity as far as his

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sonship concern is concerned, and the devil will not say
son of man. And that's why the demons. Satan said,
if you're the son of God, command these stones that
they may be bred. And what did Jesus say, man, devil?
Man shall not live by bread alone, but man shall

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live by every word that comes from the mouth of God.
And if you're the son of God, do this. And
if you're the son of God, do that. He said,
thou shalt serve God, and him only shalt thou serve.
He wasn't telling the devil, you need to be serving God.
See people that are shallow come out with that. You
know why he said, I'm not going to bow down
to you, because it is written thou shalt love the

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Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve. I
as a man, will not serve anybody else but God.
As a man, I won't bow down to you. As
a man. God said, I cannot as a man worship
and serve anybody but God. And that wasn't his deity
talking there, that was his humanity. And Satan even Legion says,

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we know who thou art. Thou art the Christ, the
son of the Living God. But Jesus' favorite reference to
himself wasn't son of God, it was son of Man.
He called himself the son of Man more than anything
because he was putting it in the face of the devil.
I'm here to crush your head. I'm your biggest nightmare, Satan.

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God has come in the flesh, and the son of
Man is going to do his will. The seed of
the woman. The son of Man crushed the devil's head. Oh,
praise God, My I've gone and on and on, and
I haven't even get any chance for some comments and questions.
Let's look at that right right now, Thank you Lord.

Speaker 1 (01:10:57):
Oh well, some pastors preach the oneness of God, but
I can get confused when they speak of oneness in
the Unitarian way in regards to Christ being prepared, being
a prepared.

Speaker 3 (01:11:12):
Yeah, they're not oneness. The Son of God is not
referring to the body only you know, the body. The
Son of God is not a tupperware container. In other words,
it's just the body and God's in it. The Son
of God is the body. No, the Son of God
was a human spirit, a human soul, and a human

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Body's that's why he said Father into thy hands, I
commend my spirit. He had a human spirit. He commended that.
So the tabernacle when he said, destroy this temple in
three days, I'll raise it up. He was talking about
his body. But in the same Gospel of John, where
that's John two, verses nineteen to twenty one John one,

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verse fourteen, it says the word was made flesh and
dwelt dwelt dwelt. The word dwelt means tabernacled or it templed.
But it wasn't just his body. It was the human spirit,
the human soul, and the human body that he tabernacled in.

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It wasn't just the body. So, sister, when folks talk
about the body, was the only human part of Jesus,
Unfortunately they don't even understand oneness. Hallelujah. Patrick Walter, good
to see you here tonight. Thank you, Amen, Back at you, Amen, Connie, Patty,
any other questions. I thought i'd have a lot more

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so I guess you were really listening. But when you
understand this love of God, and you understand you've got
nothing to be condemned about because He loved you when
you were a sinner, when you're condemned, I said, this
so many times, but often people don't get it the
first fifteen times, like that. We're all like that, so

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we just it's so unfamiliar to us, revelation from God.
But if you're condemned, and you think you're not good enough,
so you're condemned. You think that you can do something
about yourself to be good for him, But because you're
not able to do it yet, and the word yet
is still sunk in there yet, I can, but I'm

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not there yet. You think he won't love you. He
loved us when we were sinners. He's not waiting for
us to make ourselves good enough to love us. And
so that condemnation will go. And the only thing you
need to repent of is not that I'm not good enough.
No repent that you disrespect, because it is disrespect and

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it's not intentional, but you're disrespecting the fact that you
can never be good. And He has to give you
his goodness if you're going to be good at all.
He has. That's why it's a gift of righteousness, righteous
as being good enough. He gave you a gift of righteousness.
Did you you know? The Bible says in Romans five

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that Adam made us all sinners. His single disobedience made
us all sinners. So if we have no problem with that, well,
Adam made me a sinner. That's why I was born sinner.
That's why I got this force in me that wants
to sin because of Adam. I didn't do anything to
make myself born with that. Adam did it. Well, we
have faith in that. How come we don't have faith

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the other way around. Well, we can't make ourselves good either,
because Christ had to give us his goodness as much
as Adam had to give us our sinfulness. Christ has
to give us our goodness. And if anybody has a
problem with that, and you can't accept the fact that
Adam gave you his sinfulness, then how in the world
are you going to believe the gospel when the Bible
tells us Christ gave us his righteousness. If you think

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you got to do something sinful to be called a sinner,
well you're gonna think you need to do something righteous
to be righteous, and that's going to mess you up,
and so that condemnation will go. You love people even
if they don't love you back, and that makes you

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in such a way when you come into that perfect love.
You're saying, I'm loving people like God is. I won't
sin against them. They can do the meanest, dirtiest things
to me, and sinning is when I strike back, but
I'm not doing it because I've got GOP. Thank you
God for giving me of your spirit. Thank you God

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for your spirit and your love being perfected in me,
because now I can love them. And if they sin
against me or like they did against you, I'm not
going to do anything back. Did Jesus sin against them
when they sinned against him? No, And you'll have that
kind of confidence on Judgment Day. You get nothing to
worry about. You're gonna flow through Judgment Day with a breeze,

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not because you've made yourself so good, not because you're
better than anybody else, because you've just accepted the Gospel
and it impacted you to such an extent that you know,
I'm going to love like that now too. And you
can't make yourself do it. You believe God and he'll

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love through you. And so we used to sing this
course years ago in our churches. Love through me, Holy Spirit,
Love through me. There's a lonely soul somewhere who needs
just one person to care, so love through me, love
and touch them through me, and that's how it works.

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Any other questions tonight before we close. This has been different.
This has been different when you get into love, when
you get into maturity, you know. I mean, there's lots
of fascinating revelations God's giving us. But here, when you
stop and think of it love, I'd like to see
something more fascinating than that. You couldn't get into anything

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greater than that. You just can't. Oh hallelujah. I put
on pause what God was showing us last week about
the priesthood of Melchizedeic. But we're still going to get
into that as well. But folks, amen, this is what
perfect love can do, and that's how it casts out fear.

Speaker 5 (01:17:51):
Ah, wonder is there anybody here who lay and bend
shard right?

Speaker 1 (01:18:01):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:18:02):
Because you didn't now no one to help you.

Speaker 5 (01:18:06):
Long the way and all Lord, And if that is anyone,
wad let me tell you.

Speaker 3 (01:18:18):
Let me tell you what I've done. I've a seen
to be offense around me and protect me every day.

Speaker 5 (01:18:29):
I don't it the war, Jean, be a bird all around.
When I get burned.

Speaker 1 (01:18:40):
The world, Jean, I want you to better.

Speaker 3 (01:18:46):
A traveler world. Sometimes it will hurt you to your
heart to see low one, see low one to the
bar brought you had been there then the snore stranger.

Speaker 5 (01:19:05):
To eat any one and all Lord, but.

Speaker 1 (01:19:11):
Just the Lord.

Speaker 5 (01:19:12):
As you stay in the phone, you never have to
worry when death knock over your overdore.

Speaker 3 (01:19:20):
That's that Jesus to be of fits around you, and
you never have to worry anymore.

Speaker 5 (01:19:28):
Just bottle down. So jeez, feel bad, wall around me
when you get better. So gee, I want you to
butt when you're getting.

Speaker 3 (01:19:48):
Lone, feel fat, war around.

Speaker 1 (01:19:58):
And word oh jeans.

Speaker 5 (01:20:02):
Beel and me. I had a promm long my way