March 26, 2025 • 63 mins
Love links the Fruit of the Spirit with the Gifts of the Spirit, fueling the Church and aiding in advancing God's Kingdom.
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Lord for his mercy, his grace. A year ago yesterday,
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I had a hip replacement, and I am thankful for
his healing virtues, for the doctors and the abilities that
he gave them, and looking forward to not more surgery,
but more and more healing and the rest of my
body getting back to my divine design. So thank you Lord,
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I praise him for my salvation. Without that, I have nothing.
I am nothing. I am truly worthless without him. But
he gave me back the family I discarded. So I
have a lovely wife coming up on forty five years
of marriage next month, and two wonderful sons, daughter in laws,
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two grandchildren. And we've had a bunch of furry kids
throughout the years, and we have two right now. And
I'm thankful for all of that. I am blessed. I
praise him. I praise him for loving me, for loving
us when we were unlovable. Abbah Papa Daddy. Now we
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can boldly approach your throne of grace and mercy because
we are your children, restored and right relationship with you
because of the blood of your show of your son.
So thank you Lord for doing that for us. Thank
you for enduring the cross, the pain, the shame, and
everything that went with it so that we could be
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reconciled to our heavenly Father. We thank you for sending
back the Holy Spirit to walk with us, to teach us,
to guide us, to encourage us, and empower us. So
thank your Holy Spirit for your part in the equation
for reminding us of what the Lord said and what
he meant when he said it. So touch us, did
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I protect this technology, keep the enemy away from us
and all that we have, And let your word go
into our hearts and our minds. Let us receive it
and do with it what you desire. And I pray
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I'm going to start out that quote by C. S.
Lewis again. It's been I've used it for the last
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two weeks, and I feel like we're going to build
on it again. C. S Lewis said, if I find
in myself a desire which no experience in this world
can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was
made for another world. We were made for another world.
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This wasn't supposed to be our existence. We know from
what happened in Genesis and in the Garden and Adam
and E even the serpent and all that went with it.
Things got thrown into chaos haywire. But we also know
that the Cross made things right. So now we live
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a naturally supernatural life where we are in this natural body,
but living a supernatural life from another world. So what
does that mean? Have what does this mean? Well, we
when we're from another world, we produce a different kind
of fruit. Go with me to Galatians chapter five, starting
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verse sixteen, Paul says, I say, then walk in the spirit,
and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh,
for the flesh lust against the spirit, and the spirit
against the flesh. And these are contrary to one another,
so that you do not do the things you wish.
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But if you are led by the spirit, you are
not under the law. Now the works of the flesh
are evident, which are adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies,
outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries,
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and the like of which I tell you beforehand, just
as I told you in time past, that those who
practice such things will not inherit the Kingdom of God.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace,
long suffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self control. Against such
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there is no law. And those who are messiahs have
crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. If we
live in the spirit, let us also walk in the spirit.
And that's the crux of being from another world. If
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we live by the Holy Spirit, let us walk by
the Holy Spirit. If by the Holy Spirit we have
our life in God. Let us go forward walking in line,
our conduct controlled by the Spirit, which means the decisions
we make will be guided by him. We live by
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the guidance of the Holy Spirit, doing good and reaping
the fruit that we plant. Believers study Bible says the
word flesh sometimes refers to the physiological frame of man,
as distinguished from the immaterial aspect of man, which is
variously called spirit or soul. The New Testament employs the
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term more frequently to designate man's sinful tendency, most of
which are related to bodily appetites and ambitions. Paul uses
the word in this latter sense here, concluding that the
fleshly nature wages continual warfare against spiritual impulses. A habitual
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lifestyle of sin short circuits the spirit's ability to use you.
You are not walking in the Kingdom, You're walking in
the world. But a faith that is not governed by
the law in this case, because it's governed by the
Holy Spirit, won't result in moral decay because the spirit
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within us. Remember we live inside out. The spirit within
us guides our conduct. That was always his intention Jeremiah
thirty one thirty three. But this, this is what the
Lord says to the prophet Jeremiah, speak to Israel. This
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is the covenant that I will make with the House
of Israel. After those days, says the Lord, I will
put my law on their minds and write it on
their hearts. Excuse me, hearts. I will write it on
their hearts, and I will be their God, and they
shall be my people. Well, he's referring to after the
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arrival of the Messiah, after they become complete in Him
in Amashiak, then they get filled with the Holy Spirit
as they did on the day of Pentecost. And now
the Spirit is within them, writing it on their hearts
and their minds. So Paul's quoting. He quotes from Jeremiah
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thirty one thirty three in Hebrews eight ten to show
us that the New Covenant made the old one obsolete.
The external has been replaced by the internal. So when
the Holy Spirit guides us and it controls us, they
have to go together. He changes our hearts and guides
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us into actions that please God. The fruit of the spirit,
what the spirit produces is love. It produces joy, it
produces peace. It inspires us to be long suffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness,
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self control. So if we're going to live in the spirit,
let us walk in the spirit, obeying the prompting of
the Holy Spirit, living and reigning as kingdom of God's citizens,
which is what we're posts to be. We're in this world,
but we're not of this world. But we need to
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understand that this battle between the flesh and the spirit
is always going on, and whichever one you feed the
most is going to be the strongest. Galatians five thirteen
and fourteen says, for you, brethren have been called to liberty,
only do not use liberty as an opportunity for the flesh,
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but through love, serve one another. For all the law
is fulfilled in one word. Even in this you shall
love your neighbor as yourself. That's from Leviticus nineteen eighteen.
You shall not take vengeance nor bear any grud against
the children of your people, but you shall love your
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neighbor as yourself. I am the Lord, which is why
later on the scribe comes to you. You have Matthew
twenty two, starting verse thirty six, and says teacher, which
is the great commandment in the law. And she has said,
you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart,
with all your soul, and with all your mind. This
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is the first and great commandment, and the second is
like it. You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On
these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
Now what does he mean by that. He means that
if you do those two things, love the Lord your
God with all your heart, with all your soul, and
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with all your mind, and then you love your neighbor
as yourself. Every action you take, every decision you make,
will be in fulfillment with God's rules and regulations and
the intent of his heart. But if we don't, what
comes out of our heart has nothing to do with
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his She was said in John thirteen thirty four, A
new commandment, I give to you that you love one
another as I have loved you, That you also love
one another. Says that again in John fifteen twelve. This
is my commandment, that you love one another as I
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have loved you. Just struggle in our flesh, in our
natural minds, and our natural abilities to love others the
way He loved us. And I don't believe he's talking
about the stranger of the world, because in Leviticus it's
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about your neighbor, the children of your people. Here it's
love one another, speaking to the disciples, speaking to his church.
But we'll show about how you love the world, the
people of the world, how you love them into the kingdom.
But we are to love one another. We are to
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love the body. We are to love our brothers and
sisters in the Lord as he has loved us. If
that's a struggle, then get up every day and read
those words to yourself and speak them over yourself. Because
John continued to talk about that love in First John,
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chapter three, verses twenty one through twenty four. This is
the amplified and beloved. If our consciences, our hearts, do
not accuse us, if they do not make us feel
guilty and bring condemnation upon us. We have confidence, complete assurance,
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and boldness before God, and we receive from Him whatever
we ask, because we watchfully obey his orders, observe his
suggestions and injunctions, follow him his plan for us, and
habitually practice what is pleasing to him. And this is
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his order, his command, his injunction, that we should believe in,
put our faith in trust, in adhere to and rely
on the name of His son, Yeshiah Hamashiah, Jesus the Messiah,
and that we should love one another just as he
commanded us. All who keep his commandments, who obey his
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orders and follow his plan, who live and continue to
live and stay and abide him, and He and them,
they let Messiah be home to them, and they are
the home of Messiah. And by this we know and
understand and have the proof that He really lives in
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us and makes his home in us. By the Holy Spirit,
whom He has given us, we cannot live this life
without the Holy Spirit in us. We won't produce any fruit,
we won't do anything good without His presence in us.
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John fifteen, starting verse five. You Shua says, I am
the vine. You are the branches. He who abides in me,
what's abide permanent residence. He who abides in me and
I in him, bears much fruit. For without me you
can do nothing. If anyone does not abide me, he
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is cast out as a branch and is withered. And
they gather them and throw them into the fire, and
they are burned. If you abide in me in my words,
abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and
it shall be done for you. By this, My Father
is glorified that you bear much fruit, so you will
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be my disciples. If his word and his spirit is
abiding in us, what we ask for will line up
with His will for us. So the fruit of the
spirit is tied to the gifts of the Spirit by love.
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Love is the bridge between the two. Love is the
conduit between the fruit and the gifts to produce a
maximum flow of the spirit. Love is the channel of
the medium by which the Holy Spirit flows into us
and through us. See a conduit, a channel or a medium.
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It's a means by which something is transmitted. The Holy
Spirit transmits love from God to us out to others.
And that conduit, that channel, that medium is a narrow
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passage of private communication between us and Him, from our
heart to His heart. So biblical love as God is
its object, its focus. It's the true motivator and source
of that love. It's why the world is lacking in it,
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because the world is not under his influence or his control.
It's under the influence on the control of the one
who knows no love, cannot feel love, and offers none,
Satan and the fallen. So love is the fruit of
the Holy Spirit, love, joy, peace, long suffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, illness,
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self control. And because of that, it's not directed towards
the world or the things of the world. You know,
the lust of the eyes, the us of the flesh,
the pride of life. That's not the focus of our love. Again,
John tells us that in First John Chapter two, starting
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verse fifteen, do not love this world know the things
it offers you. For when you love the world, you
do not have the love of God in you. For
the world only offers a craving for physical desire, a
craving for everything we see and pride in our achievements
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and possessions. These are not from the Father, but are
from the world, and this world is fading away along
with everything that people crave. But anyone who does what
please God will live forever. John really got this thing
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on love. They got it down, learned it firsthand from
the Lord. It's what he wrote about. This is not
the OUI guy, you know, hippie kind of love, not
the Beatles. All you need is love now, Huey Lewis
and the News the power of love. No, no, no,
this is different, completely different. It's a love that only
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he can give us. It's a love that we can
only experience. But when we're trying to focus on him,
do not love a cherish the world or are the
things in the world, Because if you love the world,
if that's what your focus is, the love for the
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Father is not in you. For all that the world
has to offer, the lust of the flesh, craving for
sensual gratification, the lust of the eyes, the greedy longings
of the mind, and the pride of life, the assurance
in one's own resources or the stability of earthly things
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does not come from the Father, does not come from God.
It's from the world. In this world, it's going to disappear,
and with it those forbidden cravings, the passionate desires, the
lust of it. But if we do the will of God,
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if we carry out his purpose is in our life
we abide, we remain forever, and the fruit we create
remains forever. You know, having been in and I guess
I still am, but having been in the entertainment industry,
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the film, TV, theater, I've been around a lot of
famous people. I've been around a lot of people who
sought fame and the accolades and everything that went with that,
fame and the fortune and all the money. And I've
seen one consistent thing. It all goes away, and they
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all disappear, and eventually people stop talking about them, they
forget them, and their moment in the sun has burned
out and gone like the early morning dew. It's disappeared.
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To the world. The cosmos is the created order that's
in rebellion against God, and that's where we live. Never
forget that there's nothing good in this Worldys to remind
the church that in Romans chapter one, so was the
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end of chapter verse twenty eight, and talking about the world,
talking about those in the world, even they did not
like to retain God in their knowledge. God gave them
over to a debased mind to do things which are
not fitting and what it means by gave him over.
He didn't exert any control, he didn't try to correct them.
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He basically said, that's what you want, that's what you
can have. Being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual, immorality, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness,
full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil mindedness. They were whisperers, backbiters,
haters of God, violent, proud boasters, inventors of evil things,
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disobedient to parents, undiscerning, untrustworthy, unloving, unforgiving, unmerciful, who knowing
the righteous judgment of God that those who practice such
things are deserving of death. Not only do they do
the same, but they approve of those who practice them.
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The world loves itself, and it loves anyone who acts
like it does. And it's always like the serpent in
the garden, trying to interpret and entice, not interpret, entice
more people to partake. The sins of the Kingdom of
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darkness infected the world and inspires a turning away, a
rejection of God and the things of God. So those
three facets of worldliness in first John to sixteen, never
forget them. The lust of the flesh, what do you
lust after? What do you desire? What do you covet?
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The lust of the eyes? What your eyes see you
suddenly want? And the pride of life ambition title it
has infected the church, And all of that appeals to
misuse our natural appetites, to misapply the sense of beauty
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of God the things we see in our eyes, and
to fall prey to the peril of excessive ambition. I've
seen men and women start out right with God and
then get caught up in the ambition and the pride,
and the man and the greed, and before you know it,
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there are nowhere near him. That one degree off has
taken them off into the wilderness, like Eve and Genesis
three six see Eve. And we don't really know what
took place. Did Adam tell her what God had told him?
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We don't know, but we do know something. She saw
that the tree was good for food. It was pleasant
to her eyes and desirable to make one wise lust
of the eyes, less of the flesh, pride of life.
So she took its fruit and ate, and she gave
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it to her husband with her, and this is where
the fall happens he ate. We also see that same
pattern in the Wilderness exchange between the Lord and Satan
the three temptations, except he doesn't fall. He relies upon
what God says. That's our example. When then the enemy
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comes to entice us. What does the word say? I
saw a famous couple music couple on I think a
video on YouTube recently, both singers, both very well known singers,
one very well known in the Christian world. She is
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talking about how they met, how they fell in love,
how they were actually married to other people when they
did that, which caused divorce, and then they got married,
but it was okay in their eyes. They didn't see
that it was wrong. They fell for the temptation. We
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can't do that your shoe as our example, what does
the word say? The word and say covet another person's
husband or wife because you're unhappy. Doesn't say desire to
be with them while you're still married. It doesn't say
to make it all right and justify it to the world.
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What does the word say? And that's just a small example,
but an extreme one. See, our focus is on trusting
God and relying on the Holy Spirit, walking in the spirit.
If they had been walking in the spirit, they would
not have given into what their eyes saw and what
they felt at that moment. They would have waited. They
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would have stayed apart from one another, and then if
their marriages broke up and they were single, then they
could have found one another again. But that's not what
they did. And win it called to love others as
we love God and He loves us. Even in that
interview you could find it, but I'd have to tell
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you who I'm talking about. They knew that what they
were doing hurt other people, hurt their families, hurt their
extended families. It didn't matter. That's not God, that's not
the Holy Spirit. That's something that seems to infect the church,
justifying our sin. Go with me now first Corinthians twelve,
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starting verse one. Now concerning spiritual gifts, Brethren, I do
not want you to be ignorant. You know that your
were gentiles carried away to these dumb idols. However you
were led. Therefore, I make known to you that no
one speaking by the spirit of God calls Yeshua a curse,
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and no one can say that Yeshua is Lord, except
by the Holy Spirit that I should say, say that
Yeshua is their Lord, because one thing in deliverances, demons
will not do. They will not say that He is
their Lord. Verse. For there are diversities of gifts, but
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the same spirit. There are differences of ministries, but the
same Lord. There are diversities of activities, but it is
the same God who works them all in all, but
the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one
for the profit of all, for the profit of everyone.
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For to one is given the word of wisdom through
the spirit to another, the word of knowledge through the
same spirit to another, Faith by the same spirit to another,
gifts of healing by the same spirit to another, the
working of miracles to another, prophecy to another, discerning of
spirits to another, different kinds of tongues to another, the
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interpretation of tongues but one and the same space. It
works all these things, distributing to each one individually as
he wills. Then we'll jump down the verse thirty one
of one Corinthians twelve. Paul says, earnestly desire the best gifts.
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Yet I'm gonna show you a more excellent way. What
is the more excellent way? Picks it right up for
us in third chapter thirteen, Verse one. Of course, he
wasn't writing in chapters. He was writing a letter to
the church in Corinth. But this is the excellent way.
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Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels,
but have not love, I've become a sounding brass or
a clanging symbol. And though I have the gift of
prophecy and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, And though
I have all faith so that I could move mountains,
but have not love, I am nothing. And though I
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bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though
I give my body to be burned, but have not love,
it profits me nothing. Love suffers long and is kind.
Love does not envy, Love does not parade itself, is
not puffed up, does not behave rudely, does not seek
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its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil, does not
rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in truth, bears all things,
believes all things, hopes, all things endures all things. Love
never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will fail.
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Where there are tongues, they will cease, and he's speaking about,
after you, sue, it comes back and church asu is over.
Whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. For we
know in part, and we prophesy in part. But when
that which is perfect has come, you show us second
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coming Kingdom of God, New Jerusalem. When that which is
perfect has come, then that which is in part will
be done away. When I was a child, I spoke
as a child, I understood as a child. I thought
as a child. But when I became a man and
put away childish things. But now we see in a
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mirror dimly. But then face to face, that's your clue
what he's talking about, face to face with the Lord.
When does that happen after he comes back? Now I
know in part, but then I shall know just as
I am known. And now abide, faith, Hope, Love, These
three the greatest of these is love. That's the more
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excellent way. That's what we're working towards. That's what he's
trying to get the church in Corinth understand now why
is he writing this letter? Well, at this point, the
church at Corinth is a seriously troubled church. It's infected
with sexual immorality, split by factions. They're dragging each other
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into court. It's crippled by people abusing spiritual gifts. It's
a church in need of some radical spiritual surgery. And
that's what Paul's advancing here. Even though they had true believers,
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they were especially immature and they had a lot of
growing up to do that has stopped following the immoral,
selfish and cantentious ways of their pagan neighbors. And Corinth,
they were still being influenced by the world that they
had come out of, and Corinth was a notoriously immoral
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city of that day. And if you look at Paul's words,
they have the hint of the disappointment of a father
for his children. Yet as a good father would do,
a good parent would do, he diagnoses the problem and
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he directs his efforts of correction straight at the source,
pride and a lack of true love in the church.
See that's why he gives this definitive statement on love.
It wasn't meant for weddings, though we use it for that,
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That's really not what it's for. It's about us as believers,
about the church. So what he's saying is you can
have tremendous speaking, rhetorical abilities preaching. You can have all
this knowledge and be a great teacher. You can have
mountain moving faith, charity towards the poor, even martyrdom, and
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all of that is nothing without the agape love of God.
The New Living Translation Study Bible says Paul is saying
here love is more important than any of the spiritual gifts,
and it's the most important virtue. Love binds us all
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together in perfect harmony. And he's not talking about singing.
That's not the perfect harmony. Isn't it amazing how all
of these commercials will use scripture and take it out
a context, will appeal to our spiritual natures. So the
church is fooled by the sugar coated lies of the enemy.
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Cautions three verses twelve or fourteen bears this out. Therefore,
as the elect of God, holy and beloved, put on
tender mercies, kindness, humility, meekness, long suffering, bearing with one another,
and forgiving one another. If anyone has a complaint against another,
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even as Messire forgave you, so you also must too.
But above all these things, put on love, which is
the bond of perfection. Without love, ministry, spiritual activities, church
events without love, it has limited value. So you could
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speak with the tongues of men, or you could speak
with a tongue of angels. But if you don't have love,
you're nothing more than a sounding brass or a clanging
symbol making a lot of noise. Or you can have
the gift of prophecy and understand all the mysteries, and
have read all these books and done all those things,
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and you have all this knowledge, and you can even
have the faith enough to move a mountain. But if
you have not loved you nothing. You can give away
all your goods, you can feed the poor, and you
could set your body up to be burned, be martyred,
be tortured in the name of the Lord. But if
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you have not love, it profits you nothing. Now, Paul
is intentionally exaggerating this illustration to get you to see
the uselessness of spiritual gifts without love. See, the Corinthians
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understood the images that he was offering them sounding brass
or a clanging symbol the instruments of pagan worship before
they got saved. They also knew that the temple prostitutes
would walk through town with the little bells on the
hems of their garments to attract customers, the little clinging
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symbols that would slept together and make that noise, the
seductive noise of sin. Theater performers on the stage to
reach the people in the back rows would use these
brass megaphones positioned around the stage and to echo their
voice to project it to the audience. So basically, what
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he's saying is, if you do all these great things,
but you don't have the Love of God in you,
you're nothing more than a spiritual prostitute selling yourself or
a performer. You're putting on a show. Faith expressing itself
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in love, fruit of the Spirit, a gift of the spirit,
the bridge from which everything flows. It offers us the
Holy life, enabled by the fullness of the Holy Spirit.
It encompasses every mode of every deed, and most of all,
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is the characteristic of a mature believer, because it takes
a while to learn this. This is not natural, this
is not our human nature. The Life Application Bible Commentary says,
the Corinthians Corinthians, not Corinthian leather. Like the commercial The Corinthians,
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the church and corner believed that they had angel, the
Angel's language. When they spoke in tongues, and that their
knowledge led them to pride, which stripped them of love
and consideration for others. Love makes believers actions and gifts useful,
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although people have different gifts. Love is available to everyone
without love speaking in another language, though, a gift of
the spirit becomes nothing more than meaningless noise. A symbol
was often used in the ecstatic rites in pagan worship,
So the gift of tongues used without love is as
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valueless as pagan worship, which would also tell me those
tongues probably weren't from the Holy Spirit. Without love, the
gifts don't build up other believers, so they're useless. And
believers must not exalt gifts over character. Whoops, Church, especially
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the charismatic church. Let me say it again, don't exalt
gifts of a character. We need people with characters, not
be characters. Love is far more important that word for love.
Here goes on to say, is a gope A goape
denotes a deep, abiding, self sacrificial love, the kind that
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looks out for another person. First, God requires his people
to have a gope love for one another. Why because
a gope love is the essential nature of God. Unmerited undeserved,
but He gave it anyway. A gape expresses expresses the
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deep and constant love of God and through us the
interest in another person, but the interest of a perfect
being Him God towards entirely unworthy objects us, producing instering
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reverential love in them towards God. See that cycle. Love
the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all
your mind, with all your soul, with all your spirit,
everything within you, Love your neighbors, yourself. Boom, you get
the cycle going on up to Him, back to us,
up to Him, back to us. It will inspire us
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to want to help others. So Fir Corinthians thirteen four
through eight gives us several characteristics of love, first being
long suffering. In the Greek macro thumia, it refers to
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a quality that doesn't seek revenge, but its suffers wrong
in order to act redemptively. Finds complete expository. A Dictionary
of Old and newtystem at Words says long suffering macrothumia
is the quality of self restraint in the face of provocation,
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which does not hastily retaliate or promptly punish. It is
the opposite of anger and is associated with mercy, and
it's used of God. Second, love is kind, it's gracious,
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it's virtuous, it's manageable, it's mild, it's pleasant, it's benevolent,
the opposite of harsh, herd or bitter. Love is not envious,
not Covetousness doesn't have jealous desires of what it does
not possess and belongs to others. Love does not promote itself.
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It's not puffed up. Knowledge causes people to be puffed up,
to bear themselves loftily and be proud. But love and
affection and goodwill and benevolence edifies, builds up, encourages one
to grow to their full stature. So then the knowledge
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in question here is religious knowledge, which was being paraded
around by certain believers in Corinth. You know, over the years,
I've called them makeheads. We have them now who felt
superior because of their understanding, and therefore they were unaccountable
to the opinions of others. My problem is most of
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them have had knowledge. They have no experiential knowledge, and
when you challenge them on that, they act like you're
beneath them. He don't waste your I'm on them. I
did in the beginning try to engage them, try to
talk to them, try to show them whether they're wrong.
But anybody who's an egghead, anybody who's caught up in
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themselves and their knowledge, and they're whatever letters they have
after their name, and whatever books they've written, and but
have no experiential knowledge, don't waste your time, Philippi and
Stevers one through five. Is that any encouragement from belonging
to Messiah, any comfort from his love, any fellowship together
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in the spirit. Are your hearts tender and compassionate, then
make me truly happy, Paul says, by agreeing wholeheartedly with
each other, loving one another, working together with one mind
and purpose. Don't be selfish, don't try to impress others,
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be humble, thinking of others as better than yourselves. Don't
look out only for your own interests, but take an
interest in others too. You must have the same attitude
that Messiah Issua had. Consistent note to all the churches
of the day who are being infected by what the
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enemy was promoting in the flesh, by the people the
enemy was sending in there. And folks, don't you for
one minute think that the enemy doesn't send people into
congregations into fellowships. Very few places I've ever been had
such an anointing on them that the enemy wouldn't come in,
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sit in a chair upew and be there to disrupt
thing through their prayers, through their little under their breath things. Now,
if you happen to go to a place that had
somebody like me in it, and I'm not saying this
about me, but it's just personal experience. For my time
at Christian Heritage, Pastor Shelley who and I were always
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in eye line with each other, and he didn't have
to tell me, he didn't have to do a nod
and give me direction. I would know that somebody was
in that church on assignment. I would know that the
local witches had shown up, and I would turn and
I outd scan the audience until I found them, make
eye contact with them, nod my head and show them
that I knew that they were there, and more often
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than not, they immediately got up and left. Sometimes they didn't.
Sometimes I'd have to walk the back of the church
praying in tongues, praying in the spirit until they got
so uncomfortable they ran from the room. But I haven't
been too many places that has that going for it,
so we can't be motivated by the factional motives. This click,
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that click, These people believe this all. We're going to
go over here and now I only want him to
pray for me, not him. I don't want to word
from you, but I'll take a word from them, because
they're going to say what I want to hear. And
why is he pastor why isn't he on the board.
Oh my gosh, it gets so old. Strife, selfishness, the conceit,
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the empty arrogance. Instead, in the true spirit of humility,
lowliness of mind, we should regard each other as better.
We should think more of the other person than we
think of ourselves. We should not look down on anyone.
We should care about their interests. We should be humble,
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just as you Shuwa was humble. Love does not behave
improperly Verse Thesalonians five, twenty two. Believers are to avoid
all appearance of evil. Do not quench the spirit verse nineteen,
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verse twenty of Verse Thesalonians five, Do not despise prophecy,
test all things hold faster what is good. Abstain from
every form of evil. Abstain from evil, shrink away from it,
keep aloof from it, stay hold yourself apart from it.
Don't go in and embrace it. Don't get too close
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to look at it. It will infect you if it's
left there long enough, like a cold virus. Sooner or later,
everybody has it the will of God first Unsalonians four
three through five, three through five. Excuse me, for this
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is the will of God, your sanctification, that you should
abstain from sexual immorality, that each of you should know
how to possess its own vessel, your body, this temple,
this tent insanctification and honor, not in passion of lust,
like the gentiles who do not know God. From the
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time of Adam and Eve to now until the very end,
and then after one thousand years, Satan entices us with
the lust of the eyes, the lust of the flesh,
the pride of life, and causes people to rebel to
sin one Peter two eleven. Beloved, I beg you with
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sojournals and pilgrims in this world abstained from fleshly lust,
which war against the soul. We don't belong in this world.
We're aliens with strangers. Therefore we should resist the urges
of this world, the passions of the flesh, which appealed
to what our lower base, human nature, which is what
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waging against our spirit, man or woman. Love is not
self centered. Philippians, do we see that Paul has asked
for Timothy. He's sending Timothy in his place because he's
like minded and cares about their interests, not his own interest.
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But I hope in trust in the Lord Jesus to
soon send Timothy to you, so that I may also
be encouraged and cheered by learning news of you, For
I have no one like him, no one so kindred,
a spirit, who so genuinely interested in your welfare and
devoted to your interest. For the others, I'll seek to
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advance their own interest, not those of Jesus the Messiah.
This is written in sixty one or sixty two AD,
thirty years after the death, burial, and resurrection of the Lord.
The church has been around for three decades, and it's
already infected with people that are building their own ministries.
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They're building their own name. It's obvious that Satan has
one trick, and it always works. Love is not conceited,
it's not arrogant, it's not inflated with pride. It's not rude,
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doesn't act unbecomingly. God's love in us does not insist
on our own rights, our own way for it. It's
not self seeking. If it is, it's not the Holy Spirit.
It's not touchy or fretful or resentful, and takes no
account of the evil done to it. It pays no
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attention to suffering or wrong. I get it. That's difficult,
very difficult, especially when you're young and full of fire,
and because you're going to be mistreated, you're going to
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be spoken against. Timothy was here's Timothy, who's like Paul.
He cares about the people, And what did they do
when Paul wasn't around and he put Timothy in charge.
Timothy tried to do right, and they tried to destroy him,
and then destroyed the church too in the process. Selfish
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ambition is a cancer in the church. Love is not
easily provoked, doesn't get irritated, exasperated, or made angry. Love
believes the best about people. Therefore it's willing to overlook
the insult of the wrong Proverbs seventeen to nine. Love
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prospers when a false is forgiven, but dwelling on it
separates friends. Why because you're watering that seed of bitterness.
You're watering it till becomes a weed and strangles the
entire garden. Love finds no joy in unrighteousness or in
wrongdoing and injustice, but it rejoices in the truth. Oh,
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what a lost concept. So professing God's love is never boastful.
Living out God's love, let's call it that. How about that,
walking it and talking it? The fruit of the spirit,
the gift of the spirits never boastful or conceited. It's
not a hypocrite. It's always honest. It leaves no impression.
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But what is absolutely strictly true. It's never self assertive,
does not blaze out and passionate anger, doesn't brood over wrongs.
It's always just. It's always joyful, it's always truthful. It
knows how to be silent, full of trust, and always present.
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So what does Paul conclude? Love bears all, believes, all
hopes all, and endures all. Love never foils. And again
he's talking about the agpy love of God through the
power of the Holy Spirit. Even Solomon said in Song
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of Solomon, many waters cannot quench love. Neither can the
floods drown it. So if we're going to walk in
this power, if we're going to be the Church, if
we're going to change this world and shake it one
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last time before the return of the King, we have
to do what Paul says in Colossians three, verses thirteen
and fourteen. Be gentle and forbearing with one another. And
if anyone has a difference or a grievance or a
complaint against another, readily pardoning each other. Even if the
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Lord has freely forgiven you, you must also forgive. And
above all, put on love and fold yourselves with the
bond of perfection, which binds everything together in ideal harmony.
That's what love does. Hearts of compassion, hearts of kindness, humility, gentleness,
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hearts of having patience with one another. People going to
take time to grow up in the spirit. Just because
your child can't walk right, or falls over or bumps
into things, maybe even breaks things, you don't get yelled.
You don't yell at them, you don't scream at them.
You understand that they're children and learning to walk. Why
is it any different with the church. But there's another
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side to that. Once you're an adult, If you're still
doing the same things you did as a child. We
have a problem. That's because the spirit is a not
working with you, because you're not allowing the Spirit to
not work with the or you just don't want to change.
But on love all telling us now when I'm trying
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to get across before we can deal with the power
and the gifts and the things necessary to make the
influence and the change I believe he needs from us.
Can only be effective, can only edify, can only be
exercised properly when it's done with love. So this otherworldly
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love is a byproduct of the presence of the Holy
Spirit in us. It makes the church different from the world,
sanctified set apart for holiness and service filled with the
love of God. We need to live out Galatians two twenty.
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I've been crucified with Messiah. It is no longer I
who live, but Messiah lives in me and the life
that I now live in the flesh. I live by
faith in the Son of God, who loved me and
gave himself for me. So lack of love, lack of
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agape love reduces words spoken and song sung in the
church to senseless noise. Been there done that. You can
hear it, you can sense it, you can feel it.
It's external performance, empty of any value of substance. It
has no power, It has no presence of the Holy Spirit.
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It is simply dead. Religion, now, aby, faith, hope, love,
these three, But the greatest of these is love. Love
is spiritual maturity, which produces the fruit of the spirit
to allow a free flow of the gifts of the Spirit.
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So the power of the Holy Spirit is fueled by love. Abbah,
you loved us when we were unlovable, and you still do.
But the love that our human minds and hearts cannot
even comprehend. That you sent your shore to pay our price.
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We desire to know you, to know you more, to
have hearts of love, have hearts like yours. Lord. So
I'm asking you, Holy Spirit right now for myself and
my brothers and my sisters, this family, to search us,
to show us where we don't have love, To show
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us what we're not living out one Corinthians thirteen. Show
us those areas that we're not measuring up to what
needs to be done for you to flow through us,
without any impedance, without anything interference, without any short circuiting
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so we can be like you. Show us how to forgive,
show us how to forget, show us how to walk
in the power of the Holy Spirit, fueled by your love.
And I pray all these things and your shoe his name. Amen.
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May the Lord bless you and keep you. May the Lord,
may I don't I make his face to shine upon
you and be gracious to you. May the Lord, may
the May I don't I your shoe a Hummusiah Jesus them,
must Siah lift up his countenance upon you and give
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you peace. Give you shell home. I'm Richard Gren. This
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I had a hip replacement, and I am thankful for
his healing virtues, for the doctors and the abilities that
he gave them, and looking forward to not more surgery,
but more and more healing and the rest of my
body getting back to my divine design. So thank you Lord,
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I praise him for my salvation. Without that, I have nothing.
I am nothing. I am truly worthless without him. But
he gave me back the family I discarded. So I
have a lovely wife coming up on forty five years
of marriage next month, and two wonderful sons, daughter in laws,
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two grandchildren. And we've had a bunch of furry kids
throughout the years, and we have two right now. And
I'm thankful for all of that. I am blessed. I
praise him. I praise him for loving me, for loving
us when we were unlovable. Abbah Papa Daddy. Now we
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can boldly approach your throne of grace and mercy because
we are your children, restored and right relationship with you
because of the blood of your show of your son.
So thank you Lord for doing that for us. Thank
you for enduring the cross, the pain, the shame, and
everything that went with it so that we could be
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reconciled to our heavenly Father. We thank you for sending
back the Holy Spirit to walk with us, to teach us,
to guide us, to encourage us, and empower us. So
thank your Holy Spirit for your part in the equation
for reminding us of what the Lord said and what
he meant when he said it. So touch us, did
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I protect this technology, keep the enemy away from us
and all that we have, And let your word go
into our hearts and our minds. Let us receive it
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I'm going to start out that quote by C. S.
Lewis again. It's been I've used it for the last
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two weeks, and I feel like we're going to build
on it again. C. S Lewis said, if I find
in myself a desire which no experience in this world
can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was
made for another world. We were made for another world.
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This wasn't supposed to be our existence. We know from
what happened in Genesis and in the Garden and Adam
and E even the serpent and all that went with it.
Things got thrown into chaos haywire. But we also know
that the Cross made things right. So now we live
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a naturally supernatural life where we are in this natural body,
but living a supernatural life from another world. So what
does that mean? Have what does this mean? Well, we
when we're from another world, we produce a different kind
of fruit. Go with me to Galatians chapter five, starting
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verse sixteen, Paul says, I say, then walk in the spirit,
and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh,
for the flesh lust against the spirit, and the spirit
against the flesh. And these are contrary to one another,
so that you do not do the things you wish.
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But if you are led by the spirit, you are
not under the law. Now the works of the flesh
are evident, which are adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies,
outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries,
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and the like of which I tell you beforehand, just
as I told you in time past, that those who
practice such things will not inherit the Kingdom of God.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace,
long suffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self control. Against such
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there is no law. And those who are messiahs have
crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. If we
live in the spirit, let us also walk in the spirit.
And that's the crux of being from another world. If
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we live by the Holy Spirit, let us walk by
the Holy Spirit. If by the Holy Spirit we have
our life in God. Let us go forward walking in line,
our conduct controlled by the Spirit, which means the decisions
we make will be guided by him. We live by
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the guidance of the Holy Spirit, doing good and reaping
the fruit that we plant. Believers study Bible says the
word flesh sometimes refers to the physiological frame of man,
as distinguished from the immaterial aspect of man, which is
variously called spirit or soul. The New Testament employs the
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term more frequently to designate man's sinful tendency, most of
which are related to bodily appetites and ambitions. Paul uses
the word in this latter sense here, concluding that the
fleshly nature wages continual warfare against spiritual impulses. A habitual
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lifestyle of sin short circuits the spirit's ability to use you.
You are not walking in the Kingdom, You're walking in
the world. But a faith that is not governed by
the law in this case, because it's governed by the
Holy Spirit, won't result in moral decay because the spirit
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within us. Remember we live inside out. The spirit within
us guides our conduct. That was always his intention Jeremiah
thirty one thirty three. But this, this is what the
Lord says to the prophet Jeremiah, speak to Israel. This
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is the covenant that I will make with the House
of Israel. After those days, says the Lord, I will
put my law on their minds and write it on
their hearts. Excuse me, hearts. I will write it on
their hearts, and I will be their God, and they
shall be my people. Well, he's referring to after the
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arrival of the Messiah, after they become complete in Him
in Amashiak, then they get filled with the Holy Spirit
as they did on the day of Pentecost. And now
the Spirit is within them, writing it on their hearts
and their minds. So Paul's quoting. He quotes from Jeremiah
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thirty one thirty three in Hebrews eight ten to show
us that the New Covenant made the old one obsolete.
The external has been replaced by the internal. So when
the Holy Spirit guides us and it controls us, they
have to go together. He changes our hearts and guides
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us into actions that please God. The fruit of the spirit,
what the spirit produces is love. It produces joy, it
produces peace. It inspires us to be long suffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness,
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self control. So if we're going to live in the spirit,
let us walk in the spirit, obeying the prompting of
the Holy Spirit, living and reigning as kingdom of God's citizens,
which is what we're posts to be. We're in this world,
but we're not of this world. But we need to
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understand that this battle between the flesh and the spirit
is always going on, and whichever one you feed the
most is going to be the strongest. Galatians five thirteen
and fourteen says, for you, brethren have been called to liberty,
only do not use liberty as an opportunity for the flesh,
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but through love, serve one another. For all the law
is fulfilled in one word. Even in this you shall
love your neighbor as yourself. That's from Leviticus nineteen eighteen.
You shall not take vengeance nor bear any grud against
the children of your people, but you shall love your
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neighbor as yourself. I am the Lord, which is why
later on the scribe comes to you. You have Matthew
twenty two, starting verse thirty six, and says teacher, which
is the great commandment in the law. And she has said,
you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart,
with all your soul, and with all your mind. This
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is the first and great commandment, and the second is
like it. You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On
these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
Now what does he mean by that. He means that
if you do those two things, love the Lord your
God with all your heart, with all your soul, and
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with all your mind, and then you love your neighbor
as yourself. Every action you take, every decision you make,
will be in fulfillment with God's rules and regulations and
the intent of his heart. But if we don't, what
comes out of our heart has nothing to do with
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his She was said in John thirteen thirty four, A
new commandment, I give to you that you love one
another as I have loved you, That you also love
one another. Says that again in John fifteen twelve. This
is my commandment, that you love one another as I
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have loved you. Just struggle in our flesh, in our
natural minds, and our natural abilities to love others the
way He loved us. And I don't believe he's talking
about the stranger of the world, because in Leviticus it's
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about your neighbor, the children of your people. Here it's
love one another, speaking to the disciples, speaking to his church.
But we'll show about how you love the world, the
people of the world, how you love them into the kingdom.
But we are to love one another. We are to
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love the body. We are to love our brothers and
sisters in the Lord as he has loved us. If
that's a struggle, then get up every day and read
those words to yourself and speak them over yourself. Because
John continued to talk about that love in First John,
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chapter three, verses twenty one through twenty four. This is
the amplified and beloved. If our consciences, our hearts, do
not accuse us, if they do not make us feel
guilty and bring condemnation upon us. We have confidence, complete assurance,
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and boldness before God, and we receive from Him whatever
we ask, because we watchfully obey his orders, observe his
suggestions and injunctions, follow him his plan for us, and
habitually practice what is pleasing to him. And this is
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his order, his command, his injunction, that we should believe in,
put our faith in trust, in adhere to and rely
on the name of His son, Yeshiah Hamashiah, Jesus the Messiah,
and that we should love one another just as he
commanded us. All who keep his commandments, who obey his
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orders and follow his plan, who live and continue to
live and stay and abide him, and He and them,
they let Messiah be home to them, and they are
the home of Messiah. And by this we know and
understand and have the proof that He really lives in
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us and makes his home in us. By the Holy Spirit,
whom He has given us, we cannot live this life
without the Holy Spirit in us. We won't produce any fruit,
we won't do anything good without His presence in us.
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John fifteen, starting verse five. You Shua says, I am
the vine. You are the branches. He who abides in me,
what's abide permanent residence. He who abides in me and
I in him, bears much fruit. For without me you
can do nothing. If anyone does not abide me, he
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is cast out as a branch and is withered. And
they gather them and throw them into the fire, and
they are burned. If you abide in me in my words,
abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and
it shall be done for you. By this, My Father
is glorified that you bear much fruit, so you will
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be my disciples. If his word and his spirit is
abiding in us, what we ask for will line up
with His will for us. So the fruit of the
spirit is tied to the gifts of the Spirit by love.
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Love is the bridge between the two. Love is the
conduit between the fruit and the gifts to produce a
maximum flow of the spirit. Love is the channel of
the medium by which the Holy Spirit flows into us
and through us. See a conduit, a channel or a medium.
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It's a means by which something is transmitted. The Holy
Spirit transmits love from God to us out to others.
And that conduit, that channel, that medium is a narrow
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passage of private communication between us and Him, from our
heart to His heart. So biblical love as God is
its object, its focus. It's the true motivator and source
of that love. It's why the world is lacking in it,
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because the world is not under his influence or his control.
It's under the influence on the control of the one
who knows no love, cannot feel love, and offers none,
Satan and the fallen. So love is the fruit of
the Holy Spirit, love, joy, peace, long suffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, illness,
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self control. And because of that, it's not directed towards
the world or the things of the world. You know,
the lust of the eyes, the us of the flesh,
the pride of life. That's not the focus of our love. Again,
John tells us that in First John Chapter two, starting
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verse fifteen, do not love this world know the things
it offers you. For when you love the world, you
do not have the love of God in you. For
the world only offers a craving for physical desire, a
craving for everything we see and pride in our achievements
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and possessions. These are not from the Father, but are
from the world, and this world is fading away along
with everything that people crave. But anyone who does what
please God will live forever. John really got this thing
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on love. They got it down, learned it firsthand from
the Lord. It's what he wrote about. This is not
the OUI guy, you know, hippie kind of love, not
the Beatles. All you need is love now, Huey Lewis
and the News the power of love. No, no, no,
this is different, completely different. It's a love that only
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he can give us. It's a love that we can
only experience. But when we're trying to focus on him,
do not love a cherish the world or are the
things in the world, Because if you love the world,
if that's what your focus is, the love for the
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Father is not in you. For all that the world
has to offer, the lust of the flesh, craving for
sensual gratification, the lust of the eyes, the greedy longings
of the mind, and the pride of life, the assurance
in one's own resources or the stability of earthly things
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does not come from the Father, does not come from God.
It's from the world. In this world, it's going to disappear,
and with it those forbidden cravings, the passionate desires, the
lust of it. But if we do the will of God,
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if we carry out his purpose is in our life
we abide, we remain forever, and the fruit we create
remains forever. You know, having been in and I guess
I still am, but having been in the entertainment industry,
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the film, TV, theater, I've been around a lot of
famous people. I've been around a lot of people who
sought fame and the accolades and everything that went with that,
fame and the fortune and all the money. And I've
seen one consistent thing. It all goes away, and they
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all disappear, and eventually people stop talking about them, they
forget them, and their moment in the sun has burned
out and gone like the early morning dew. It's disappeared.
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To the world. The cosmos is the created order that's
in rebellion against God, and that's where we live. Never
forget that there's nothing good in this Worldys to remind
the church that in Romans chapter one, so was the
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end of chapter verse twenty eight, and talking about the world,
talking about those in the world, even they did not
like to retain God in their knowledge. God gave them
over to a debased mind to do things which are
not fitting and what it means by gave him over.
He didn't exert any control, he didn't try to correct them.
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He basically said, that's what you want, that's what you
can have. Being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual, immorality, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness,
full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil mindedness. They were whisperers, backbiters,
haters of God, violent, proud boasters, inventors of evil things,
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disobedient to parents, undiscerning, untrustworthy, unloving, unforgiving, unmerciful, who knowing
the righteous judgment of God that those who practice such
things are deserving of death. Not only do they do
the same, but they approve of those who practice them.
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The world loves itself, and it loves anyone who acts
like it does. And it's always like the serpent in
the garden, trying to interpret and entice, not interpret, entice
more people to partake. The sins of the Kingdom of
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darkness infected the world and inspires a turning away, a
rejection of God and the things of God. So those
three facets of worldliness in first John to sixteen, never
forget them. The lust of the flesh, what do you
lust after? What do you desire? What do you covet?
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The lust of the eyes? What your eyes see you
suddenly want? And the pride of life ambition title it
has infected the church, And all of that appeals to
misuse our natural appetites, to misapply the sense of beauty
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of God the things we see in our eyes, and
to fall prey to the peril of excessive ambition. I've
seen men and women start out right with God and
then get caught up in the ambition and the pride,
and the man and the greed, and before you know it,
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there are nowhere near him. That one degree off has
taken them off into the wilderness, like Eve and Genesis
three six see Eve. And we don't really know what
took place. Did Adam tell her what God had told him?
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We don't know, but we do know something. She saw
that the tree was good for food. It was pleasant
to her eyes and desirable to make one wise lust
of the eyes, less of the flesh, pride of life.
So she took its fruit and ate, and she gave
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it to her husband with her, and this is where
the fall happens he ate. We also see that same
pattern in the Wilderness exchange between the Lord and Satan
the three temptations, except he doesn't fall. He relies upon
what God says. That's our example. When then the enemy
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comes to entice us. What does the word say? I
saw a famous couple music couple on I think a
video on YouTube recently, both singers, both very well known singers,
one very well known in the Christian world. She is
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talking about how they met, how they fell in love,
how they were actually married to other people when they
did that, which caused divorce, and then they got married,
but it was okay in their eyes. They didn't see
that it was wrong. They fell for the temptation. We
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can't do that your shoe as our example, what does
the word say? The word and say covet another person's
husband or wife because you're unhappy. Doesn't say desire to
be with them while you're still married. It doesn't say
to make it all right and justify it to the world.
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What does the word say? And that's just a small example,
but an extreme one. See, our focus is on trusting
God and relying on the Holy Spirit, walking in the spirit.
If they had been walking in the spirit, they would
not have given into what their eyes saw and what
they felt at that moment. They would have waited. They
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would have stayed apart from one another, and then if
their marriages broke up and they were single, then they
could have found one another again. But that's not what
they did. And win it called to love others as
we love God and He loves us. Even in that
interview you could find it, but I'd have to tell
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you who I'm talking about. They knew that what they
were doing hurt other people, hurt their families, hurt their
extended families. It didn't matter. That's not God, that's not
the Holy Spirit. That's something that seems to infect the church,
justifying our sin. Go with me now first Corinthians twelve,
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starting verse one. Now concerning spiritual gifts, Brethren, I do
not want you to be ignorant. You know that your
were gentiles carried away to these dumb idols. However you
were led. Therefore, I make known to you that no
one speaking by the spirit of God calls Yeshua a curse,
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and no one can say that Yeshua is Lord, except
by the Holy Spirit that I should say, say that
Yeshua is their Lord, because one thing in deliverances, demons
will not do. They will not say that He is
their Lord. Verse. For there are diversities of gifts, but
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the same spirit. There are differences of ministries, but the
same Lord. There are diversities of activities, but it is
the same God who works them all in all, but
the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one
for the profit of all, for the profit of everyone.
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For to one is given the word of wisdom through
the spirit to another, the word of knowledge through the
same spirit to another, Faith by the same spirit to another,
gifts of healing by the same spirit to another, the
working of miracles to another, prophecy to another, discerning of
spirits to another, different kinds of tongues to another, the
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interpretation of tongues but one and the same space. It
works all these things, distributing to each one individually as
he wills. Then we'll jump down the verse thirty one
of one Corinthians twelve. Paul says, earnestly desire the best gifts.
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Yet I'm gonna show you a more excellent way. What
is the more excellent way? Picks it right up for
us in third chapter thirteen, Verse one. Of course, he
wasn't writing in chapters. He was writing a letter to
the church in Corinth. But this is the excellent way.
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Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels,
but have not love, I've become a sounding brass or
a clanging symbol. And though I have the gift of
prophecy and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, And though
I have all faith so that I could move mountains,
but have not love, I am nothing. And though I
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bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though
I give my body to be burned, but have not love,
it profits me nothing. Love suffers long and is kind.
Love does not envy, Love does not parade itself, is
not puffed up, does not behave rudely, does not seek
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its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil, does not
rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in truth, bears all things,
believes all things, hopes, all things endures all things. Love
never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will fail.
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Where there are tongues, they will cease, and he's speaking about,
after you, sue, it comes back and church asu is over.
Whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. For we
know in part, and we prophesy in part. But when
that which is perfect has come, you show us second
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coming Kingdom of God, New Jerusalem. When that which is
perfect has come, then that which is in part will
be done away. When I was a child, I spoke
as a child, I understood as a child. I thought
as a child. But when I became a man and
put away childish things. But now we see in a
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mirror dimly. But then face to face, that's your clue
what he's talking about, face to face with the Lord.
When does that happen after he comes back? Now I
know in part, but then I shall know just as
I am known. And now abide, faith, Hope, Love, These
three the greatest of these is love. That's the more
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excellent way. That's what we're working towards. That's what he's
trying to get the church in Corinth understand now why
is he writing this letter? Well, at this point, the
church at Corinth is a seriously troubled church. It's infected
with sexual immorality, split by factions. They're dragging each other
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into court. It's crippled by people abusing spiritual gifts. It's
a church in need of some radical spiritual surgery. And
that's what Paul's advancing here. Even though they had true believers,
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they were especially immature and they had a lot of
growing up to do that has stopped following the immoral,
selfish and cantentious ways of their pagan neighbors. And Corinth,
they were still being influenced by the world that they
had come out of, and Corinth was a notoriously immoral
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city of that day. And if you look at Paul's words,
they have the hint of the disappointment of a father
for his children. Yet as a good father would do,
a good parent would do, he diagnoses the problem and
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he directs his efforts of correction straight at the source,
pride and a lack of true love in the church.
See that's why he gives this definitive statement on love.
It wasn't meant for weddings, though we use it for that,
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That's really not what it's for. It's about us as believers,
about the church. So what he's saying is you can
have tremendous speaking, rhetorical abilities preaching. You can have all
this knowledge and be a great teacher. You can have
mountain moving faith, charity towards the poor, even martyrdom, and
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all of that is nothing without the agape love of God.
The New Living Translation Study Bible says Paul is saying
here love is more important than any of the spiritual gifts,
and it's the most important virtue. Love binds us all
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together in perfect harmony. And he's not talking about singing.
That's not the perfect harmony. Isn't it amazing how all
of these commercials will use scripture and take it out
a context, will appeal to our spiritual natures. So the
church is fooled by the sugar coated lies of the enemy.
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Cautions three verses twelve or fourteen bears this out. Therefore,
as the elect of God, holy and beloved, put on
tender mercies, kindness, humility, meekness, long suffering, bearing with one another,
and forgiving one another. If anyone has a complaint against another,
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even as Messire forgave you, so you also must too.
But above all these things, put on love, which is
the bond of perfection. Without love, ministry, spiritual activities, church
events without love, it has limited value. So you could
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speak with the tongues of men, or you could speak
with a tongue of angels. But if you don't have love,
you're nothing more than a sounding brass or a clanging
symbol making a lot of noise. Or you can have
the gift of prophecy and understand all the mysteries, and
have read all these books and done all those things,
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and you have all this knowledge, and you can even
have the faith enough to move a mountain. But if
you have not loved you nothing. You can give away
all your goods, you can feed the poor, and you
could set your body up to be burned, be martyred,
be tortured in the name of the Lord. But if
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you have not love, it profits you nothing. Now, Paul
is intentionally exaggerating this illustration to get you to see
the uselessness of spiritual gifts without love. See, the Corinthians
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understood the images that he was offering them sounding brass
or a clanging symbol the instruments of pagan worship before
they got saved. They also knew that the temple prostitutes
would walk through town with the little bells on the
hems of their garments to attract customers, the little clinging
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symbols that would slept together and make that noise, the
seductive noise of sin. Theater performers on the stage to
reach the people in the back rows would use these
brass megaphones positioned around the stage and to echo their
voice to project it to the audience. So basically, what
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he's saying is, if you do all these great things,
but you don't have the Love of God in you,
you're nothing more than a spiritual prostitute selling yourself or
a performer. You're putting on a show. Faith expressing itself
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in love, fruit of the Spirit, a gift of the spirit,
the bridge from which everything flows. It offers us the
Holy life, enabled by the fullness of the Holy Spirit.
It encompasses every mode of every deed, and most of all,
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is the characteristic of a mature believer, because it takes
a while to learn this. This is not natural, this
is not our human nature. The Life Application Bible Commentary says,
the Corinthians Corinthians, not Corinthian leather. Like the commercial The Corinthians,
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the church and corner believed that they had angel, the
Angel's language. When they spoke in tongues, and that their
knowledge led them to pride, which stripped them of love
and consideration for others. Love makes believers actions and gifts useful,
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although people have different gifts. Love is available to everyone
without love speaking in another language, though, a gift of
the spirit becomes nothing more than meaningless noise. A symbol
was often used in the ecstatic rites in pagan worship,
So the gift of tongues used without love is as
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valueless as pagan worship, which would also tell me those
tongues probably weren't from the Holy Spirit. Without love, the
gifts don't build up other believers, so they're useless. And
believers must not exalt gifts over character. Whoops, Church, especially
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the charismatic church. Let me say it again, don't exalt
gifts of a character. We need people with characters, not
be characters. Love is far more important that word for love.
Here goes on to say, is a gope A goape
denotes a deep, abiding, self sacrificial love, the kind that
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looks out for another person. First, God requires his people
to have a gope love for one another. Why because
a gope love is the essential nature of God. Unmerited undeserved,
but He gave it anyway. A gape expresses expresses the
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deep and constant love of God and through us the
interest in another person, but the interest of a perfect
being Him God towards entirely unworthy objects us, producing instering
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reverential love in them towards God. See that cycle. Love
the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all
your mind, with all your soul, with all your spirit,
everything within you, Love your neighbors, yourself. Boom, you get
the cycle going on up to Him, back to us,
up to Him, back to us. It will inspire us
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to want to help others. So Fir Corinthians thirteen four
through eight gives us several characteristics of love, first being
long suffering. In the Greek macro thumia, it refers to
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a quality that doesn't seek revenge, but its suffers wrong
in order to act redemptively. Finds complete expository. A Dictionary
of Old and newtystem at Words says long suffering macrothumia
is the quality of self restraint in the face of provocation,
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which does not hastily retaliate or promptly punish. It is
the opposite of anger and is associated with mercy, and
it's used of God. Second, love is kind, it's gracious,
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it's virtuous, it's manageable, it's mild, it's pleasant, it's benevolent,
the opposite of harsh, herd or bitter. Love is not envious,
not Covetousness doesn't have jealous desires of what it does
not possess and belongs to others. Love does not promote itself.
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It's not puffed up. Knowledge causes people to be puffed up,
to bear themselves loftily and be proud. But love and
affection and goodwill and benevolence edifies, builds up, encourages one
to grow to their full stature. So then the knowledge
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in question here is religious knowledge, which was being paraded
around by certain believers in Corinth. You know, over the years,
I've called them makeheads. We have them now who felt
superior because of their understanding, and therefore they were unaccountable
to the opinions of others. My problem is most of
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them have had knowledge. They have no experiential knowledge, and
when you challenge them on that, they act like you're
beneath them. He don't waste your I'm on them. I
did in the beginning try to engage them, try to
talk to them, try to show them whether they're wrong.
But anybody who's an egghead, anybody who's caught up in
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themselves and their knowledge, and they're whatever letters they have
after their name, and whatever books they've written, and but
have no experiential knowledge, don't waste your time, Philippi and
Stevers one through five. Is that any encouragement from belonging
to Messiah, any comfort from his love, any fellowship together
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in the spirit. Are your hearts tender and compassionate, then
make me truly happy, Paul says, by agreeing wholeheartedly with
each other, loving one another, working together with one mind
and purpose. Don't be selfish, don't try to impress others,
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be humble, thinking of others as better than yourselves. Don't
look out only for your own interests, but take an
interest in others too. You must have the same attitude
that Messiah Issua had. Consistent note to all the churches
of the day who are being infected by what the
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enemy was promoting in the flesh, by the people the
enemy was sending in there. And folks, don't you for
one minute think that the enemy doesn't send people into
congregations into fellowships. Very few places I've ever been had
such an anointing on them that the enemy wouldn't come in,
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sit in a chair upew and be there to disrupt
thing through their prayers, through their little under their breath things. Now,
if you happen to go to a place that had
somebody like me in it, and I'm not saying this
about me, but it's just personal experience. For my time
at Christian Heritage, Pastor Shelley who and I were always
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in eye line with each other, and he didn't have
to tell me, he didn't have to do a nod
and give me direction. I would know that somebody was
in that church on assignment. I would know that the
local witches had shown up, and I would turn and
I outd scan the audience until I found them, make
eye contact with them, nod my head and show them
that I knew that they were there, and more often
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than not, they immediately got up and left. Sometimes they didn't.
Sometimes I'd have to walk the back of the church
praying in tongues, praying in the spirit until they got
so uncomfortable they ran from the room. But I haven't
been too many places that has that going for it,
so we can't be motivated by the factional motives. This click,
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that click, These people believe this all. We're going to
go over here and now I only want him to
pray for me, not him. I don't want to word
from you, but I'll take a word from them, because
they're going to say what I want to hear. And
why is he pastor why isn't he on the board.
Oh my gosh, it gets so old. Strife, selfishness, the conceit,
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the empty arrogance. Instead, in the true spirit of humility,
lowliness of mind, we should regard each other as better.
We should think more of the other person than we
think of ourselves. We should not look down on anyone.
We should care about their interests. We should be humble,
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just as you Shuwa was humble. Love does not behave
improperly Verse Thesalonians five, twenty two. Believers are to avoid
all appearance of evil. Do not quench the spirit verse nineteen,
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verse twenty of Verse Thesalonians five, Do not despise prophecy,
test all things hold faster what is good. Abstain from
every form of evil. Abstain from evil, shrink away from it,
keep aloof from it, stay hold yourself apart from it.
Don't go in and embrace it. Don't get too close
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to look at it. It will infect you if it's
left there long enough, like a cold virus. Sooner or later,
everybody has it the will of God first Unsalonians four
three through five, three through five. Excuse me, for this
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is the will of God, your sanctification, that you should
abstain from sexual immorality, that each of you should know
how to possess its own vessel, your body, this temple,
this tent insanctification and honor, not in passion of lust,
like the gentiles who do not know God. From the
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time of Adam and Eve to now until the very end,
and then after one thousand years, Satan entices us with
the lust of the eyes, the lust of the flesh,
the pride of life, and causes people to rebel to
sin one Peter two eleven. Beloved, I beg you with
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sojournals and pilgrims in this world abstained from fleshly lust,
which war against the soul. We don't belong in this world.
We're aliens with strangers. Therefore we should resist the urges
of this world, the passions of the flesh, which appealed
to what our lower base, human nature, which is what
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waging against our spirit, man or woman. Love is not
self centered. Philippians, do we see that Paul has asked
for Timothy. He's sending Timothy in his place because he's
like minded and cares about their interests, not his own interest.
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But I hope in trust in the Lord Jesus to
soon send Timothy to you, so that I may also
be encouraged and cheered by learning news of you, For
I have no one like him, no one so kindred,
a spirit, who so genuinely interested in your welfare and
devoted to your interest. For the others, I'll seek to
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advance their own interest, not those of Jesus the Messiah.
This is written in sixty one or sixty two AD,
thirty years after the death, burial, and resurrection of the Lord.
The church has been around for three decades, and it's
already infected with people that are building their own ministries.
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They're building their own name. It's obvious that Satan has
one trick, and it always works. Love is not conceited,
it's not arrogant, it's not inflated with pride. It's not rude,
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doesn't act unbecomingly. God's love in us does not insist
on our own rights, our own way for it. It's
not self seeking. If it is, it's not the Holy Spirit.
It's not touchy or fretful or resentful, and takes no
account of the evil done to it. It pays no
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attention to suffering or wrong. I get it. That's difficult,
very difficult, especially when you're young and full of fire,
and because you're going to be mistreated, you're going to
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be spoken against. Timothy was here's Timothy, who's like Paul.
He cares about the people, And what did they do
when Paul wasn't around and he put Timothy in charge.
Timothy tried to do right, and they tried to destroy him,
and then destroyed the church too in the process. Selfish
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ambition is a cancer in the church. Love is not
easily provoked, doesn't get irritated, exasperated, or made angry. Love
believes the best about people. Therefore it's willing to overlook
the insult of the wrong Proverbs seventeen to nine. Love
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prospers when a false is forgiven, but dwelling on it
separates friends. Why because you're watering that seed of bitterness.
You're watering it till becomes a weed and strangles the
entire garden. Love finds no joy in unrighteousness or in
wrongdoing and injustice, but it rejoices in the truth. Oh,
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what a lost concept. So professing God's love is never boastful.
Living out God's love, let's call it that. How about that,
walking it and talking it? The fruit of the spirit,
the gift of the spirits never boastful or conceited. It's
not a hypocrite. It's always honest. It leaves no impression.
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But what is absolutely strictly true. It's never self assertive,
does not blaze out and passionate anger, doesn't brood over wrongs.
It's always just. It's always joyful, it's always truthful. It
knows how to be silent, full of trust, and always present.
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So what does Paul conclude? Love bears all, believes, all
hopes all, and endures all. Love never foils. And again
he's talking about the agpy love of God through the
power of the Holy Spirit. Even Solomon said in Song
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of Solomon, many waters cannot quench love. Neither can the
floods drown it. So if we're going to walk in
this power, if we're going to be the Church, if
we're going to change this world and shake it one
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last time before the return of the King, we have
to do what Paul says in Colossians three, verses thirteen
and fourteen. Be gentle and forbearing with one another. And
if anyone has a difference or a grievance or a
complaint against another, readily pardoning each other. Even if the
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Lord has freely forgiven you, you must also forgive. And
above all, put on love and fold yourselves with the
bond of perfection, which binds everything together in ideal harmony.
That's what love does. Hearts of compassion, hearts of kindness, humility, gentleness,
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hearts of having patience with one another. People going to
take time to grow up in the spirit. Just because
your child can't walk right, or falls over or bumps
into things, maybe even breaks things, you don't get yelled.
You don't yell at them, you don't scream at them.
You understand that they're children and learning to walk. Why
is it any different with the church. But there's another
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side to that. Once you're an adult, If you're still
doing the same things you did as a child. We
have a problem. That's because the spirit is a not
working with you, because you're not allowing the Spirit to
not work with the or you just don't want to change.
But on love all telling us now when I'm trying
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to get across before we can deal with the power
and the gifts and the things necessary to make the
influence and the change I believe he needs from us.
Can only be effective, can only edify, can only be
exercised properly when it's done with love. So this otherworldly
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love is a byproduct of the presence of the Holy
Spirit in us. It makes the church different from the world,
sanctified set apart for holiness and service filled with the
love of God. We need to live out Galatians two twenty.
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I've been crucified with Messiah. It is no longer I
who live, but Messiah lives in me and the life
that I now live in the flesh. I live by
faith in the Son of God, who loved me and
gave himself for me. So lack of love, lack of
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agape love reduces words spoken and song sung in the
church to senseless noise. Been there done that. You can
hear it, you can sense it, you can feel it.
It's external performance, empty of any value of substance. It
has no power, It has no presence of the Holy Spirit.
(01:00:42):
It is simply dead. Religion, now, aby, faith, hope, love,
these three, But the greatest of these is love. Love
is spiritual maturity, which produces the fruit of the spirit
to allow a free flow of the gifts of the Spirit.
(01:01:04):
So the power of the Holy Spirit is fueled by love. Abbah,
you loved us when we were unlovable, and you still do.
But the love that our human minds and hearts cannot
even comprehend. That you sent your shore to pay our price.
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We desire to know you, to know you more, to
have hearts of love, have hearts like yours. Lord. So
I'm asking you, Holy Spirit right now for myself and
my brothers and my sisters, this family, to search us,
to show us where we don't have love, To show
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us what we're not living out one Corinthians thirteen. Show
us those areas that we're not measuring up to what
needs to be done for you to flow through us,
without any impedance, without anything interference, without any short circuiting
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so we can be like you. Show us how to forgive,
show us how to forget, show us how to walk
in the power of the Holy Spirit, fueled by your love.
And I pray all these things and your shoe his name. Amen.
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May the Lord bless you and keep you. May the Lord,
may I don't I make his face to shine upon
you and be gracious to you. May the Lord, may
the May I don't I your shoe a Hummusiah Jesus them,
must Siah lift up his countenance upon you and give
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you peace. Give you shell home. I'm Richard Gren. This
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