September 21, 2025 • 15 mins
11 Finally, brothers and sisters, rejoice! Strive for full restoration, encourage one another, be of one mind, live in peace. And the God of love and peace will be with you. 12 Greet one another with a holy kiss. 13 All God’s people here send their greetings. 14 May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.
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Speaker 1 (00:35):
Finally, brothers and sisters, rejoice, strive for restoration, encourage one
another to be of one mind, live in peace, and
the God of love and peace will be with you.
Greet one another with a holy kiss. All God's people
(00:58):
here send their greetings. May the grace of the Lord
Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship
of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Well, that's
kind of short today, short reading, but an important one.
(01:23):
And why is something so like they something as greeting
one another so important? It isn't just the greeting. It
is to be of the one mind, so that we
live in a peace. That one mind doesn't necessarily mean
(01:47):
that we're always going to agree with each other. But
and what one mind actually means is that we respect
each other's opinions, that we are willing to accept who
each other are and our differences. It says all God's people,
(02:16):
It says all It means. It means that we are
all God's people, that we are all under the fellowship
of the Holy Spirit, that we are all under the
grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and that God loves
us all equally. God doesn't say, oh, well, not those people.
(02:41):
But when we think about free will and everything, God
will let some people go. You see. The thing is
is that we can extend end love to everyone around us,
(03:04):
but we can't make that love come back. That free
will is there so that we can love freely and
not be forced, because that isn't how God created us.
(03:28):
He created us because he wants our love. He desires
our love, but he isn't going to force us to
love him. He gives us free will so that we
can decide to love him. Force force love doesn't work,
(03:53):
it isn't fulfilling. But when someone decides that they love you,
and they show and care enough to love you, that
is fulfilling. It's not just fulfilling for you giving the
(04:14):
love to that person. It isn't fulfilling to the person
who you're giving it to, but it's fulfilling for you
because it's joyful when you know that you've expressed that
love for our fellow human being. There are very many
(04:35):
people out there that want to preach hate. They want
to preach and that well one group of us as
far superior as human beings to then to the next
group of human beings, and that we should hold privilege
according to our superiority, and that because we are who
(05:01):
we are, we've earned that to be there, and that
God has allowed us to earn it. And those people
are truly preaching the word of God. They are preaching
that God's love is equal to everyone. They are preaching that.
(05:25):
They're preaching that it's only for a select few. And
that's a mistake because when you say that not those people,
that those people are to be held aside, and well,
(05:49):
these people don't look great, so we can't offer them
God's love because they're not. They don't fit in the
right category. When you start doing things like that, when
you start placing limitations and conditions to what love is,
it is no longer fulfilling, fulfilling You've put too many
filters in categories and restrictions. That is no longer love.
(06:16):
Don't ask me what it is. I of not going
to go that way. But real love holds no boundaries.
It doesn't discriminate from one person to the next. It
(06:37):
knows that all beings the same. And when you hear
somebody talk about God's love in that way, when someone
stands in front of you and is talking about God
in that way, how he loves us all, how He
(06:57):
loves us all equally. It does matter about the rest
of it. That we are all children of God, that
equal and the same. When you hear somebody speaking about that,
that is the word. That's the word that you're listening for.
That person is full of God's love, because many others
(07:24):
are going to want to segregate, separate, and categorize that.
They don't want to be accepting of who that person is.
That they want to divide them up and divide up
people so that they have control over people, but not
(07:49):
truly love them, not truly deliver God's love to those people.
And that's what becomes important. That we have to open
our hearts, open our minds to all, not a select few.
(08:17):
It becomes a few when you consider the billions of
people that are out there and that you're only going
to touch the lives of maybe a few thousand. Yeah,
that becomes a few. But it's a few thousand that
you that you're going to run into, have a conversation with,
(08:38):
be able to hug, serve, open your home to. Yes.
That starts to narrow things down, yes, but it doesn't
place a condition. It puts a place, Yeah, because you're
(09:01):
only one person, but your heart is open to all,
and that's the whole point. We have to encourage one
another to open our minds, open our hearts to everyone
around us. That takes encouragement. We have to do that,
(09:27):
encourage each other to do that, because the more we
open to other people, the more we let God's love
inside of us, the more our lives become filled with
that grace, and the more fellowship that we have with
all of us around us, the more spirit we have.
(10:00):
So we have to open our minds, open our hearts
to all that are around us, because God is inside
of each and every one of us. Rather if we
know it or not, it doesn't matter about denomination religion.
Oh well he's Catholic. No, he's Protestant. Oh well, he's Jewish.
(10:22):
He can't be worshiping God. He doesn't even believe in Jesus.
Oh well, those Muslims, aren't they alogyet just some other
kind of people. We can't do that. We can't narrow
things down like that. We can't segregate people and say
(10:44):
that I can't be associated with this person because of this,
I can't be associated with that person because of that.
I can only associate myself with that, with that group
of people. You can't do that. You have to open
yourself to everyone. You have to allow your spirit to
(11:08):
touch all all the other spirits around you. That's what
God's word is about. It's about sharing, It's about openness.
It's about laying your heart out there for people to
(11:33):
see the good in you. It's about opening your eyes
so that you see the good in everyone, that you
see the beauty that is inside of everyone, the beauty
that is all around us. It is about hearing the
(11:55):
good in everyone and feeling that good, feeling everything how
wonderful it is, all of the wonderfulness that God has
placed in the creation He has. They were living in
(12:19):
a wonderful place, a beautiful place filled with love. The
more you open your heart to that love, the more
fulfilling your life becomes. I know there's some people out
(12:40):
there they still say, well, what about hardships and things
like that? There lessons learned, lessons learned in order for
us to keep living, to live as the spiritual people
that we're supposed to be, we have to learn. Those
(13:05):
hardships are one of those lessons. And some of those
hardships turn out not to be so hard when you
get on the other side of it, when you move
past it, because it's temporary. God's love is as permanent
(13:33):
as permanent it's going to be. The rest are just events.
They have come and they've passed. So fill your hearts
with God's love. Fill your hearts with the fellowship that
(13:55):
is offered by every spirit that is around us. Do
it with the grace that Jesus Christ gave to us.
Do it with the lesson of that grace that he
has taught us. And open your hearts to all who
(14:17):
were around you. Lord, help me to open my heart.
Help me to be to see freely who is all
around me. Help me not to put conditions to your love.
(14:38):
Help me to love freely, warmly, and with the examples
you have given me. Help us to be the person
who shares and spreads your love all over
Finally, brothers and sisters, rejoice, strive for restoration, encourage one
another to be of one mind, live in peace, and
the God of love and peace will be with you.
Greet one another with a holy kiss. All God's people
(00:58):
here send their greetings. May the grace of the Lord
Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship
of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Well, that's
kind of short today, short reading, but an important one.
(01:23):
And why is something so like they something as greeting
one another so important? It isn't just the greeting. It
is to be of the one mind, so that we
live in a peace. That one mind doesn't necessarily mean
(01:47):
that we're always going to agree with each other. But
and what one mind actually means is that we respect
each other's opinions, that we are willing to accept who
each other are and our differences. It says all God's people,
(02:16):
It says all It means. It means that we are
all God's people, that we are all under the fellowship
of the Holy Spirit, that we are all under the
grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and that God loves
us all equally. God doesn't say, oh, well, not those people.
(02:41):
But when we think about free will and everything, God
will let some people go. You see. The thing is
is that we can extend end love to everyone around us,
(03:04):
but we can't make that love come back. That free
will is there so that we can love freely and
not be forced, because that isn't how God created us.
(03:28):
He created us because he wants our love. He desires
our love, but he isn't going to force us to
love him. He gives us free will so that we
can decide to love him. Force force love doesn't work,
(03:53):
it isn't fulfilling. But when someone decides that they love you,
and they show and care enough to love you, that
is fulfilling. It's not just fulfilling for you giving the
(04:14):
love to that person. It isn't fulfilling to the person
who you're giving it to, but it's fulfilling for you
because it's joyful when you know that you've expressed that
love for our fellow human being. There are very many
(04:35):
people out there that want to preach hate. They want
to preach and that well one group of us as
far superior as human beings to then to the next
group of human beings, and that we should hold privilege
according to our superiority, and that because we are who
(05:01):
we are, we've earned that to be there, and that
God has allowed us to earn it. And those people
are truly preaching the word of God. They are preaching
that God's love is equal to everyone. They are preaching that.
(05:25):
They're preaching that it's only for a select few. And
that's a mistake because when you say that not those people,
that those people are to be held aside, and well,
(05:49):
these people don't look great, so we can't offer them
God's love because they're not. They don't fit in the
right category. When you start doing things like that, when
you start placing limitations and conditions to what love is,
it is no longer fulfilling, fulfilling You've put too many
filters in categories and restrictions. That is no longer love.
(06:16):
Don't ask me what it is. I of not going
to go that way. But real love holds no boundaries.
It doesn't discriminate from one person to the next. It
(06:37):
knows that all beings the same. And when you hear
somebody talk about God's love in that way, when someone
stands in front of you and is talking about God
in that way, how he loves us all, how He
(06:57):
loves us all equally. It does matter about the rest
of it. That we are all children of God, that
equal and the same. When you hear somebody speaking about that,
that is the word. That's the word that you're listening for.
That person is full of God's love, because many others
(07:24):
are going to want to segregate, separate, and categorize that.
They don't want to be accepting of who that person is.
That they want to divide them up and divide up
people so that they have control over people, but not
(07:49):
truly love them, not truly deliver God's love to those people.
And that's what becomes important. That we have to open
our hearts, open our minds to all, not a select few.
(08:17):
It becomes a few when you consider the billions of
people that are out there and that you're only going
to touch the lives of maybe a few thousand. Yeah,
that becomes a few. But it's a few thousand that
you that you're going to run into, have a conversation with,
(08:38):
be able to hug, serve, open your home to. Yes.
That starts to narrow things down, yes, but it doesn't
place a condition. It puts a place, Yeah, because you're
(09:01):
only one person, but your heart is open to all,
and that's the whole point. We have to encourage one
another to open our minds, open our hearts to everyone
around us. That takes encouragement. We have to do that,
(09:27):
encourage each other to do that, because the more we
open to other people, the more we let God's love
inside of us, the more our lives become filled with
that grace, and the more fellowship that we have with
all of us around us, the more spirit we have.
(10:00):
So we have to open our minds, open our hearts
to all that are around us, because God is inside
of each and every one of us. Rather if we
know it or not, it doesn't matter about denomination religion.
Oh well he's Catholic. No, he's Protestant. Oh well, he's Jewish.
(10:22):
He can't be worshiping God. He doesn't even believe in Jesus.
Oh well, those Muslims, aren't they alogyet just some other
kind of people. We can't do that. We can't narrow
things down like that. We can't segregate people and say
(10:44):
that I can't be associated with this person because of this,
I can't be associated with that person because of that.
I can only associate myself with that, with that group
of people. You can't do that. You have to open
yourself to everyone. You have to allow your spirit to
(11:08):
touch all all the other spirits around you. That's what
God's word is about. It's about sharing, It's about openness.
It's about laying your heart out there for people to
(11:33):
see the good in you. It's about opening your eyes
so that you see the good in everyone, that you
see the beauty that is inside of everyone, the beauty
that is all around us. It is about hearing the
(11:55):
good in everyone and feeling that good, feeling everything how
wonderful it is, all of the wonderfulness that God has
placed in the creation He has. They were living in
(12:19):
a wonderful place, a beautiful place filled with love. The
more you open your heart to that love, the more
fulfilling your life becomes. I know there's some people out
(12:40):
there they still say, well, what about hardships and things
like that? There lessons learned, lessons learned in order for
us to keep living, to live as the spiritual people
that we're supposed to be, we have to learn. Those
(13:05):
hardships are one of those lessons. And some of those
hardships turn out not to be so hard when you
get on the other side of it, when you move
past it, because it's temporary. God's love is as permanent
(13:33):
as permanent it's going to be. The rest are just events.
They have come and they've passed. So fill your hearts
with God's love. Fill your hearts with the fellowship that
(13:55):
is offered by every spirit that is around us. Do
it with the grace that Jesus Christ gave to us.
Do it with the lesson of that grace that he
has taught us. And open your hearts to all who
(14:17):
were around you. Lord, help me to open my heart.
Help me to be to see freely who is all
around me. Help me not to put conditions to your love.
(14:38):
Help me to love freely, warmly, and with the examples
you have given me. Help us to be the person
who shares and spreads your love all over
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