WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.920 --> 00:00:07.879 I'm in trouble because the first service, I explained what 2 00:00:07.919 --> 00:00:11.880 I'm going to explain to you, and I explained that 3 00:00:12.359 --> 00:00:15.439 the most important part of the message is the part 4 00:00:15.480 --> 00:00:17.359 I'm trying to get to that is very hard to 5 00:00:17.399 --> 00:00:20.160 get to. That I want to spend the most amount 6 00:00:20.199 --> 00:00:21.920 of time, but by the time I get there, I 7 00:00:21.960 --> 00:00:26.120 have the least amount of time. And so I'm trying 8 00:00:26.120 --> 00:00:29.000 to tell you, get your heart ready. But before I do, 9 00:00:29.120 --> 00:00:31.359 I just want to pray. Don't feel like you have 10 00:00:31.399 --> 00:00:33.399 to stand, you just sit, but close your eyes for 11 00:00:33.439 --> 00:00:40.320 a moment. Lord Jesus, Oh, we just welcome you, Father. 12 00:00:40.399 --> 00:00:50.039 We just steady our hearts before you. We steady the 13 00:00:50.119 --> 00:00:52.840 posture of our heart before you. We just present ourselves 14 00:00:52.920 --> 00:00:58.520 before you a living and holy sacrifice. After all that 15 00:00:58.600 --> 00:01:01.960 worship that we sang, after all that prayer we did, 16 00:01:02.039 --> 00:01:06.439 we just present ourselves unto you. We present the soul 17 00:01:07.280 --> 00:01:10.879 of our life, our mind, our will, emotions, the fabric 18 00:01:10.959 --> 00:01:13.239 of who we are. And we asked that you would 19 00:01:13.280 --> 00:01:17.079 just come and blow through that this morning. And I 20 00:01:17.120 --> 00:01:20.120 know you've already been doing that as we've worship and 21 00:01:20.200 --> 00:01:22.840 as we've prayed, and as we've honored you this morning. 22 00:01:22.879 --> 00:01:25.280 I know you've been doing that, but now I'm asking 23 00:01:25.319 --> 00:01:28.000 you go that as we present who we think we 24 00:01:28.040 --> 00:01:31.319 are before you this morning, that you would just come 25 00:01:31.840 --> 00:01:36.879 into that realm and just begin to mess us up. 26 00:01:38.519 --> 00:01:41.359 I'm asking God that this morning would be a morning 27 00:01:41.640 --> 00:01:47.280 not only a breakthrough, but of radical transformation. That we 28 00:01:47.319 --> 00:01:51.879 would see you so clear this morning that who we 29 00:01:51.959 --> 00:01:58.000 thought we were, any false identities, lies, deception, it would 30 00:01:58.040 --> 00:02:00.239 just melt off of who we are are. 31 00:02:01.280 --> 00:02:01.480 God. 32 00:02:01.480 --> 00:02:04.120 I'm believing for that grace this morning, and I'm believing 33 00:02:04.200 --> 00:02:07.719 that You're about to do some cool things and I'm 34 00:02:07.760 --> 00:02:10.919 on board. So you say whatever you want in the 35 00:02:11.039 --> 00:02:12.039 name of Jesus. 36 00:02:12.360 --> 00:02:16.800 Amen. Well, I'm so glad to be here. 37 00:02:17.360 --> 00:02:22.439 When the request came in to preach this morning, immediately 38 00:02:22.520 --> 00:02:24.800 I knew it was a yes from my heart because 39 00:02:25.039 --> 00:02:26.919 the moment I got the request, I heard the Lord 40 00:02:26.960 --> 00:02:30.159 say the language of love and how that never happens 41 00:02:30.159 --> 00:02:33.080 to me usually. I'm praying, I'm my Lord, help me, God, 42 00:02:33.199 --> 00:02:35.599 what do you want to say? And it just came 43 00:02:35.680 --> 00:02:37.879 to me and I knew right away, Okay, I have 44 00:02:37.960 --> 00:02:40.080 to do this, And as he did it, he gave 45 00:02:40.120 --> 00:02:43.280 me three categories of this topic that he wanted me 46 00:02:43.400 --> 00:02:46.599 to address, and I'm gonna get to all three of them, 47 00:02:46.639 --> 00:02:49.919 and the first two I'm barely gonna scratch the surface of. 48 00:02:50.319 --> 00:02:53.599 And I'm gonna move fairly quickly. So if you miss something, 49 00:02:54.319 --> 00:02:57.000 there's probably a recording. But if you miss them, just 50 00:02:57.039 --> 00:02:59.599 don't worry about it. Keep staying with me, okay, because 51 00:02:59.639 --> 00:03:02.360 if you somewhere too long, you'll you'll miss the next thing. 52 00:03:02.400 --> 00:03:03.159 You know what I'm saying. 53 00:03:03.520 --> 00:03:07.599 So I'm gonna move pretty quickly. Don't be overwhelmed. Your 54 00:03:07.639 --> 00:03:12.560 heart might feel like like it's in Jesus' name. 55 00:03:12.719 --> 00:03:14.120 Okay, this makes sense. 56 00:03:14.599 --> 00:03:16.800 So when the language of love came to me, the 57 00:03:16.840 --> 00:03:20.080 Lord highlighted three different categories he wanted to talk about, 58 00:03:20.520 --> 00:03:23.960 and this the topic of love. If you're looking at 59 00:03:24.120 --> 00:03:27.280 love as itself, the topic of love is actually a 60 00:03:27.319 --> 00:03:30.800 common theme all throughout scripture. If you're looking in the garden, 61 00:03:30.879 --> 00:03:33.639 if you're looking at the Law of Moses, if you're 62 00:03:33.680 --> 00:03:36.800 looking through all the judges, through all the Prophets, through 63 00:03:36.840 --> 00:03:42.560 the Psalms, through the Proverbs, the Wisdom to the New Testament, Jesus, 64 00:03:42.879 --> 00:03:45.439 you're going through all the epistols. Everything, you're going through 65 00:03:45.599 --> 00:03:48.599 all the topic of love. Is like, for God so 66 00:03:48.960 --> 00:03:54.639 loved the world that he gave right, he loved the way. 67 00:03:54.680 --> 00:03:57.840 That's that's that's who he is. That's the purpose of 68 00:03:57.960 --> 00:04:01.120 Jesus because of the Father's love. If you're looking at 69 00:04:01.240 --> 00:04:03.960 when they came to Jesus, like, what's the greatest commands? 70 00:04:04.199 --> 00:04:07.960 And he says, you must love the Lord, your God, 71 00:04:08.039 --> 00:04:11.719 with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind, 72 00:04:12.199 --> 00:04:17.879 all your strength. And you must love your neighbor as 73 00:04:17.920 --> 00:04:19.720 who yourself. 74 00:04:20.319 --> 00:04:23.079 And then you have Paul writing the three. 75 00:04:23.040 --> 00:04:27.079 What three things last forever? It's faith, hope, and love, 76 00:04:27.120 --> 00:04:31.040 and the greatest is love. Right, So it's a common 77 00:04:31.160 --> 00:04:33.959 theme that we find throughout scripture. And then Jesus says, 78 00:04:34.600 --> 00:04:40.360 if you love me, you will obey my commands. So 79 00:04:40.399 --> 00:04:46.439 it's kind of interesting because love demands and obedience the 80 00:04:46.560 --> 00:04:51.160 love is voluntary. What he's saying is that if you love, 81 00:04:51.319 --> 00:04:55.079 if who you are is love, the direct reflection result 82 00:04:55.160 --> 00:04:58.480 of it is obedience and honor to the Lord. It's 83 00:04:58.480 --> 00:05:01.399 not a twisting your arm. It's a privilege you step into. 84 00:05:01.680 --> 00:05:02.079 Okay. 85 00:05:03.000 --> 00:05:07.240 So the first category I want to go into, it's 86 00:05:07.839 --> 00:05:09.120 words of love. 87 00:05:09.279 --> 00:05:12.160 Say that with me. Words of love. 88 00:05:12.560 --> 00:05:16.319 In Proverbs chapter eighteen, verse twenty one, Solomon writes, the 89 00:05:16.360 --> 00:05:22.079 tongue can bring life or death. Those who love to 90 00:05:22.360 --> 00:05:28.319 talk will reap the consequences. Come on, now, I love 91 00:05:28.399 --> 00:05:32.120 to talk, and the word consequences is not necessarily a 92 00:05:32.120 --> 00:05:38.439 negative connotation. We speak day today as though it is, 93 00:05:38.480 --> 00:05:41.079 but it's not. It just means those who talk will 94 00:05:41.120 --> 00:05:44.160 reap the fruit of what they're saying. Okay, So when 95 00:05:44.160 --> 00:05:46.079 my wife and I just got married, we got married 96 00:05:46.079 --> 00:05:49.360 pretty young. I was twenty, she was eighteen. I'm from 97 00:05:49.360 --> 00:05:52.600 the slavin culture. We get married young, we have big families, 98 00:05:52.680 --> 00:05:54.720 and we go to work when we're ten. Okay, that's 99 00:05:54.759 --> 00:05:58.319 just what we do, and so don't ask me questions 100 00:05:58.319 --> 00:06:02.560 about that. But when we got married, you know, I 101 00:06:02.600 --> 00:06:06.319 figured out pretty quick that just because I want to 102 00:06:06.319 --> 00:06:10.079 go doesn't mean we're going right, or just because she 103 00:06:10.199 --> 00:06:12.040 wants to do something doesn't mean she's going to do it. 104 00:06:12.399 --> 00:06:16.279 You know why, because there's a tension between what she wants. 105 00:06:16.120 --> 00:06:17.879 What I want. And we're pretty young. 106 00:06:17.959 --> 00:06:20.759 So maybe you're smarter than us and you figured it 107 00:06:20.800 --> 00:06:23.519 out pretty quick, but there was some tension sometimes, okay, 108 00:06:23.920 --> 00:06:26.000 And yeah, we didn't project it on people because we 109 00:06:26.079 --> 00:06:28.439 learned how to keep it to ourselves. But you know, 110 00:06:28.519 --> 00:06:32.639 there was tension, and so what happened was through this tension, 111 00:06:32.680 --> 00:06:34.360 there was a frustration. 112 00:06:33.920 --> 00:06:34.800 That would build up. 113 00:06:35.240 --> 00:06:37.160 And I don't know why it works this way, but 114 00:06:37.199 --> 00:06:40.079 when there's a frustration that builds up, somehow it has 115 00:06:40.120 --> 00:06:42.519 a connection to your tongue. I don't know how it works, 116 00:06:42.680 --> 00:06:45.800 but when you frustrated, it's like it activates in your 117 00:06:45.879 --> 00:06:49.839 tongue with you say things that in two minutes you regret. 118 00:06:50.240 --> 00:06:52.480 You know why, because it's coming out of a place 119 00:06:52.560 --> 00:06:53.759 that's probably not love. 120 00:06:54.240 --> 00:06:56.399 And so you say things that you regret. 121 00:06:56.759 --> 00:06:58.600 And so in the beginning of our marriage with the 122 00:06:58.639 --> 00:07:01.439 Lord began to challenge both of us with is biting 123 00:07:01.480 --> 00:07:04.199 our tongue And I'm not talking about like a you know, 124 00:07:04.240 --> 00:07:06.279 a mental kind of body like physical. 125 00:07:07.680 --> 00:07:10.439 Biting your tongue. And I was asking the Lord, why 126 00:07:10.439 --> 00:07:11.600 are you asking us to do this? 127 00:07:11.639 --> 00:07:13.600 We're not trying to be better, because if you try 128 00:07:13.639 --> 00:07:15.519 to be better and you become better, that's a work 129 00:07:15.519 --> 00:07:17.000 of the flesh, not the work of the spirit. 130 00:07:17.120 --> 00:07:19.279 So why are you asking us to do this? And 131 00:07:19.319 --> 00:07:21.560 he said, because I want to teach you the value 132 00:07:21.600 --> 00:07:27.639 of your words. See, Jesus is the word of God. Right, 133 00:07:28.240 --> 00:07:32.879 And in the garden, God said, let there be the 134 00:07:33.079 --> 00:07:37.240 word created everything we see and the function of everything 135 00:07:37.279 --> 00:07:38.439 that's happening around. 136 00:07:38.240 --> 00:07:41.240 Us his word. What if you and I were to 137 00:07:41.319 --> 00:07:46.439 value our words the way he values his? Okay, So 138 00:07:47.120 --> 00:07:53.279 the language of love, it starts with the words of love. 139 00:07:53.680 --> 00:07:56.279 And so as we were biting our tongue and Jesus 140 00:07:56.360 --> 00:07:59.839 was showing me these things, I realized. 141 00:07:59.560 --> 00:08:02.639 My good words are like they're like seeds. 142 00:08:03.959 --> 00:08:06.759 Right, You say something and you didn't see the effect 143 00:08:06.839 --> 00:08:10.360 of it, but it's hurting somebody deep deep within. Like 144 00:08:10.839 --> 00:08:13.000 I found out years later some of the things I 145 00:08:13.000 --> 00:08:15.720 said to some people that actually hurt them so bad, 146 00:08:16.079 --> 00:08:18.480 and I didn't know because I was just you know, 147 00:08:18.600 --> 00:08:20.680 it's naive or whatever you would to call it. But 148 00:08:20.720 --> 00:08:22.680 I said things that were not out of a place 149 00:08:22.720 --> 00:08:25.160 of love. But it was a seed that festered in 150 00:08:25.199 --> 00:08:28.120 somebody's life that I never addressed, or was never addressed, 151 00:08:28.199 --> 00:08:29.959 or they didn't protect their heart, but it was a 152 00:08:30.000 --> 00:08:32.679 seed that festered and it caused them harm. 153 00:08:32.960 --> 00:08:35.679 And that's just what words do. They're like seeds. And 154 00:08:35.840 --> 00:08:38.279 if we use the seeds that come out of our 155 00:08:38.360 --> 00:08:42.840 mouth to build people up, my goodness it will be beautiful. 156 00:08:43.120 --> 00:08:47.360 So what we have is we have WWJD. Somebody tell 157 00:08:47.440 --> 00:08:50.960 me what that is. What would Jesus do? I have 158 00:08:51.000 --> 00:08:56.519 a new one for you this morning, ww js What 159 00:08:56.559 --> 00:09:05.600 would Jesus say, Come on? Would he honor somebody with 160 00:09:05.720 --> 00:09:14.120 his words? Or would he gossip? Would he encourage an 161 00:09:14.159 --> 00:09:16.080 individual or would he discourage? 162 00:09:16.120 --> 00:09:20.759 Would he build them up? Would he tear him down? 163 00:09:22.399 --> 00:09:26.720 What would Jesus do? What would he say? 164 00:09:27.480 --> 00:09:29.519 I'm not gonna stay here any longer because we gotta go, 165 00:09:29.720 --> 00:09:33.679 We gotta go. I'll make a quick mention James Chapter three, 166 00:09:33.960 --> 00:09:36.600 you know that chapter on the words, just the power. 167 00:09:36.840 --> 00:09:38.759 He said, you can make grand speeches with words, and 168 00:09:38.759 --> 00:09:41.600 then you can throw your whole life into flames just 169 00:09:41.639 --> 00:09:42.720 because of the words he use. 170 00:09:43.200 --> 00:09:45.080 Right, but he says in verse two, very very crazy. 171 00:09:45.080 --> 00:09:47.440 And he says, the one who learns to control the 172 00:09:47.480 --> 00:09:51.240 tongue is perfect, being able to control the rest. 173 00:09:51.120 --> 00:09:51.600 Of their life. 174 00:09:52.320 --> 00:09:57.240 Oh, my goodness, the power of the ability to use 175 00:09:57.320 --> 00:10:00.799 this profoundly and for his glory. Put your hand on 176 00:10:00.840 --> 00:10:05.759 your lips through creakes, say Jesus, help me use the 177 00:10:05.799 --> 00:10:10.879 words that come from love in Jesus' name. Hey man, 178 00:10:10.919 --> 00:10:15.039 now put your hand on your neighbor, say Lord, make 179 00:10:15.080 --> 00:10:18.159 them perfect. If you know what I meant, you know 180 00:10:18.200 --> 00:10:22.039 what I'm at all right, So next topic I want 181 00:10:22.039 --> 00:10:24.759 to go into. Our next category of this topic is 182 00:10:24.879 --> 00:10:28.039 the acts of love. It's talked about the words of 183 00:10:28.039 --> 00:10:30.799 love a little bit. The acts of love. I believe 184 00:10:30.840 --> 00:10:32.879 personally that the acts of love is one of the 185 00:10:32.960 --> 00:10:36.960 most powerful tools of yours and mine warfare in this earth, 186 00:10:37.279 --> 00:10:41.279 like amongst each other and in the world amongst the unbeliever, 187 00:10:41.720 --> 00:10:45.120 like our ability to be have an action of love 188 00:10:45.200 --> 00:10:48.440 that comes from love, or an action that shows or 189 00:10:48.480 --> 00:10:51.240 demonstrates love to one another. I believe that's one of 190 00:10:51.279 --> 00:10:53.720 the most powerful things we have on the earth. 191 00:10:53.919 --> 00:10:54.279 So in. 192 00:10:55.919 --> 00:11:01.200 Matthew chapter five, Jesus ushers in a new an interesting 193 00:11:01.360 --> 00:11:05.360 perspective where he you know, and he says, you know 194 00:11:05.399 --> 00:11:09.440 that the law says the injury, the penalty must match 195 00:11:09.480 --> 00:11:12.200 the injury. Where he says, if somebody takes your eye, 196 00:11:12.200 --> 00:11:14.399 then you must take their eye. If somebody breaks your leg, 197 00:11:14.440 --> 00:11:16.639 you break their lege. Somebody takes your wallet, you take 198 00:11:16.679 --> 00:11:18.720 their house. I don't know, like you know what I'm saying, 199 00:11:19.080 --> 00:11:21.840 Like it shouldn't match, right, But he said, I say, 200 00:11:21.919 --> 00:11:24.159 unto you do not resist the evil person. 201 00:11:24.320 --> 00:11:25.200 Love your enemies. 202 00:11:25.279 --> 00:11:28.200 And he says, if somebody slaps you on one side, 203 00:11:28.240 --> 00:11:30.360 what do you do turn the other cheek? 204 00:11:30.559 --> 00:11:33.879 Says. If you go to court and they take your shirt, 205 00:11:34.480 --> 00:11:39.519 give him your coat? What says? 206 00:11:40.039 --> 00:11:44.919 He says, if a soldier demands that you carry their 207 00:11:44.960 --> 00:11:46.799 gear for one mile, to carry it for two. 208 00:11:47.279 --> 00:11:48.480 Let me bring it into context. 209 00:11:48.600 --> 00:11:52.919 If your boss requests that you do something outside of 210 00:11:52.960 --> 00:11:56.799 your job description, you go above and beyond into their 211 00:11:56.919 --> 00:12:02.240 job description. All right, acts of love. I'm gonna share 212 00:12:02.240 --> 00:12:06.480 a few stories. Then we're gonna go into the next category. 213 00:12:06.919 --> 00:12:10.679 I had a brother who now passed away. Once again, 214 00:12:10.720 --> 00:12:13.120 we have big families. I'm not gonna get into that one. 215 00:12:14.559 --> 00:12:15.960 But I had a brother who passed away. He was 216 00:12:15.960 --> 00:12:18.399 two years older than me and the closest brother to me. 217 00:12:18.440 --> 00:12:20.120 I was the youngest, he was the second youngest. We 218 00:12:20.120 --> 00:12:23.240 had a phenomenal time living on earth together. It's pretty cool. 219 00:12:23.639 --> 00:12:27.639 And when I was about thirteen years old, God actually 220 00:12:27.720 --> 00:12:29.080 spoke to me. And I didn't give him my life 221 00:12:29.120 --> 00:12:30.759 or anything, but he spoke to me. He said, Roman, 222 00:12:30.799 --> 00:12:32.600 I want you to change your relationship with your brother. 223 00:12:32.960 --> 00:12:34.879 And I was like, what in the world, okay, And 224 00:12:35.039 --> 00:12:37.519 when we growing up, we just fought all the time, 225 00:12:37.600 --> 00:12:41.399 and we fought so much that the nature of our 226 00:12:41.440 --> 00:12:45.200 friendship became like our high would be like a smack. 227 00:12:45.720 --> 00:12:48.440 Like literally when we would greet each other first time 228 00:12:48.440 --> 00:12:50.360 we saw each other day, should. 229 00:12:50.159 --> 00:12:52.519 Whack me upside my head. That's just the way we 230 00:12:52.559 --> 00:12:54.320 did it. It's not abused, it's just the way we 231 00:12:54.360 --> 00:12:54.759 said hi. 232 00:12:55.200 --> 00:12:57.120 But I didn't like that anymore, and I didn't feel 233 00:12:57.120 --> 00:12:59.720 like that was who we were. And so one day 234 00:12:59.799 --> 00:13:01.879 he was coming home from where he can God challenge me. 235 00:13:01.879 --> 00:13:05.200 He said, no more of this. And uh, I was 236 00:13:05.200 --> 00:13:07.600 about thirteen at the time, and I was phoning the 237 00:13:07.679 --> 00:13:09.440 laundry up on the stairs and he was walking up 238 00:13:09.480 --> 00:13:10.919 to go to the hundry. 239 00:13:11.000 --> 00:13:12.840 End I knew what was coming. 240 00:13:12.879 --> 00:13:15.960 He walks past me, slap side my head, and I'm 241 00:13:16.000 --> 00:13:17.960 just folding the laundry, and I didn't do a thing. 242 00:13:18.360 --> 00:13:20.480 Usually i'll whack him in his leg and you know, 243 00:13:20.639 --> 00:13:23.159 be like, what's up. You know, that'll be like anyway, 244 00:13:23.519 --> 00:13:25.480 but you know, sometimes one thing turns into it and 245 00:13:25.519 --> 00:13:26.120 gets violent. 246 00:13:26.200 --> 00:13:27.440 But anyway, I'm not gonna get into it. 247 00:13:27.840 --> 00:13:32.399 So so he passes me three steps after whacking me, 248 00:13:32.399 --> 00:13:35.240 and then he stops and he does he does one 249 00:13:35.279 --> 00:13:37.399 of these, and he goes back. 250 00:13:37.799 --> 00:13:38.480 He looks at me. 251 00:13:39.080 --> 00:13:41.200 It's like I missed the point. It's like he's saying, well, 252 00:13:41.200 --> 00:13:44.919 what's up. Yeah, and he whacks me again. And I'm 253 00:13:44.960 --> 00:13:46.120 folding the laundry. 254 00:13:45.759 --> 00:13:47.960 And the words that Jesus says turn the other. 255 00:13:47.840 --> 00:13:53.440 Cheek, and he's like, he's now uncomfortable, because you know, 256 00:13:53.879 --> 00:13:56.559 you can imagine. And so what he does is he 257 00:13:56.639 --> 00:13:58.480 starts whacking me. He's like, I know you want to 258 00:13:58.559 --> 00:13:58.799 hit me. 259 00:13:58.919 --> 00:14:00.720 I know you want to. I had him a bag 260 00:14:00.919 --> 00:14:01.399 or whatever. 261 00:14:01.720 --> 00:14:06.320 And then I'm overwhelmed with emotion. And you can't get 262 00:14:06.320 --> 00:14:08.320 overwhelmed with emotion in a time like that, you know, 263 00:14:08.399 --> 00:14:10.919 or else that's super embarrassing. But I'm overwhelmed with the 264 00:14:11.000 --> 00:14:14.639 love of God. And the tears start coming out, and 265 00:14:14.679 --> 00:14:17.559 I said, Bro, you're gonna hit me all you want. 266 00:14:17.600 --> 00:14:22.080 I'm not gonna do that anymore. And he was so shocked, 267 00:14:22.120 --> 00:14:24.919 he was so uncomfortable, he didn't even know what to do. 268 00:14:25.360 --> 00:14:27.559 So he took his towel and went to the shower. 269 00:14:28.120 --> 00:14:30.720 I'm telling you that man got changed from my active love. 270 00:14:31.360 --> 00:14:33.720 From that moment on. He's a Mom, I'm buying rome 271 00:14:33.720 --> 00:14:35.919 and driver's aat I'm buying him a car. And then 272 00:14:36.320 --> 00:14:39.159 our friendship was next the level. Like we did a 273 00:14:39.240 --> 00:14:41.519 bicker before he was like making fun of me in 274 00:14:41.559 --> 00:14:42.159 front of his friends. 275 00:14:42.240 --> 00:14:44.480 Now he was lifting. But this is my brother, this 276 00:14:44.519 --> 00:14:45.559 is him, he's calling with me. 277 00:14:45.879 --> 00:14:48.200 And it was like that that awesome thing, that one 278 00:14:48.320 --> 00:14:51.799 act of love released in his life. I had around 279 00:14:51.879 --> 00:14:54.159 that time. A little bit after that, I had a 280 00:14:54.200 --> 00:14:57.399 mentor out of church. I was going to at a 281 00:14:57.399 --> 00:14:59.679 camp when you know, we have food at the camp 282 00:15:00.080 --> 00:15:04.759 and uh he the leaders got the chance to get 283 00:15:04.799 --> 00:15:07.320 their food first, which I thought was crazy because leaders 284 00:15:07.320 --> 00:15:11.000 should serve. But anyway, he got his, he had his 285 00:15:11.000 --> 00:15:12.759 food and then he comes to my table and everything 286 00:15:12.799 --> 00:15:17.639 that's on his plate is everything I want. And I'm like, hey, Alex, 287 00:15:17.679 --> 00:15:20.440 his name is Alex Fertugen, the coolest guy ever. Say 288 00:15:20.480 --> 00:15:22.320 I'm like, hey, Alex, is that for me? And he 289 00:15:22.399 --> 00:15:24.879 was like oh yeah, like and he puts it right 290 00:15:24.919 --> 00:15:27.240 in front of me. He's like, oh yeah, that's for you. 291 00:15:27.840 --> 00:15:29.639 And I was young, so I was confused. I thought 292 00:15:29.639 --> 00:15:32.000 he was serious. I didn't know that was his plate 293 00:15:32.039 --> 00:15:34.440 for himself, but I was like, whoa. 294 00:15:34.440 --> 00:15:35.039 That was for me. 295 00:15:35.120 --> 00:15:37.200 He did that for me, and then I saw him 296 00:15:37.240 --> 00:15:39.159 He went and grabbed plate and got the exact same 297 00:15:39.159 --> 00:15:45.440 stuff for himself. I'm like, oh my God, that example 298 00:15:45.879 --> 00:15:48.120 did so much for me, and that took one second. 299 00:15:48.240 --> 00:15:53.039 His one act of love, one act of love, transformed 300 00:15:53.159 --> 00:15:56.279 paradigm of my thinking. And as far as Christianity, I 301 00:15:56.360 --> 00:16:00.279 was young enough that he showed me that somebody actually 302 00:16:00.360 --> 00:16:03.799 loved me. He showed me that I'm worth something. 303 00:16:04.919 --> 00:16:05.240 Just why. 304 00:16:05.279 --> 00:16:08.519 You might think it's so silly, your act of love 305 00:16:08.960 --> 00:16:11.559 in your workplace, at your homes. 306 00:16:11.399 --> 00:16:13.480 Whatever you're doing. You might think it's silly, but it's 307 00:16:13.480 --> 00:16:17.919 a powerful tool of your warfare, active love. 308 00:16:18.120 --> 00:16:20.919 It showed me that I was worth something. It showed 309 00:16:20.960 --> 00:16:23.639 me that God loves me. It showed me that somebody 310 00:16:23.679 --> 00:16:26.639 can actually walk in humility that I can look up to. 311 00:16:26.919 --> 00:16:28.399 And it showed me. 312 00:16:28.759 --> 00:16:32.360 That Jesus lives in people. Just through one simple act. 313 00:16:32.399 --> 00:16:36.519 You might say, not crazy, put your put your hands 314 00:16:36.519 --> 00:16:38.720 in front of you, look at them and say, Jesus, 315 00:16:39.759 --> 00:16:46.440 help these hands do mighty acts of love in Jesus' name. 316 00:16:47.720 --> 00:16:52.039 Amen. All right, I'm gonna flip this. 317 00:16:52.120 --> 00:16:54.799 Other's so much I got I got notes guys, I 318 00:16:54.840 --> 00:16:57.480 don't usually do this much. No, it said, I'm trying 319 00:16:57.480 --> 00:16:59.120 to stay on top of me because I know I 320 00:16:59.159 --> 00:17:02.759 could go so with places. So the third topic I 321 00:17:02.799 --> 00:17:07.400 want to get into gotta get my water. The third 322 00:17:07.440 --> 00:17:10.640 topic I want to get into, which I think is 323 00:17:10.680 --> 00:17:19.279 the most important thing at Julie One second, you guys, ready, 324 00:17:21.039 --> 00:17:30.960 it's the intentions of love. Intentions of love. You see, 325 00:17:30.960 --> 00:17:35.039 you can say all the right things, and you can 326 00:17:35.119 --> 00:17:38.079 do all the right things, but it. 327 00:17:38.079 --> 00:17:39.039 Means nothing. 328 00:17:40.839 --> 00:17:44.400 If your heart's not there, if the intentions are impure, 329 00:17:46.279 --> 00:17:50.480 if the position of your heart is positioned from selfishness 330 00:17:50.599 --> 00:18:02.480 or jealousy, it invalidates your words and your actions. In 331 00:18:02.519 --> 00:18:05.519 the garden of Eden, God created us in his image, 332 00:18:06.480 --> 00:18:09.920 and that image was love. I'm gonna start moving very quickly, 333 00:18:10.480 --> 00:18:14.319 and if you miss something, please don't sit there too long. 334 00:18:14.480 --> 00:18:17.200 Just follow me, stay with me. In the garden of Eden, 335 00:18:17.440 --> 00:18:20.079 God created us in his image, and his images for 336 00:18:20.440 --> 00:18:23.240 first and foremost it's love. And he said to them, 337 00:18:23.400 --> 00:18:25.119 the day you eat of the tree of the knowledge 338 00:18:25.160 --> 00:18:27.519 of good and evil, that's the day you'll die. When 339 00:18:27.640 --> 00:18:30.480 Eve saw the fruit, she was deceived by the serpent. 340 00:18:30.759 --> 00:18:34.119 And when she saw the fruit. She said, it looked beautiful, 341 00:18:35.279 --> 00:18:39.119 it looked delicious, and she wanted the wisdom that it 342 00:18:39.160 --> 00:18:42.720 would have given her. What is that, It's the three temptations. 343 00:18:42.759 --> 00:18:45.799 It's the pride of life, the lust of the eyes, 344 00:18:45.839 --> 00:18:47.880 and the lust of the flesh. It's the lust of 345 00:18:47.880 --> 00:18:50.279 the eyes. Saw it was beautiful, the lust of the flesh. 346 00:18:50.279 --> 00:18:52.400 It looked delicious, the pride of life. She wanted the 347 00:18:52.400 --> 00:18:55.240 wisdom it gave her. And these two temptations they only 348 00:18:55.279 --> 00:18:58.119 have a foothold if you begin to think from the 349 00:18:58.160 --> 00:19:03.319 realm of selfishness and jealousy. Selfish she saw was beautiful. 350 00:19:03.359 --> 00:19:06.119 She wanted it. Jealous she wanted the wisdom that it had. 351 00:19:06.599 --> 00:19:09.440 In these two things, James. 352 00:19:09.200 --> 00:19:12.880 Writes that where you find selfishness and where you find jealousy, 353 00:19:13.079 --> 00:19:16.279 you'll find every disorder, You'll find every kind of evil. 354 00:19:16.480 --> 00:19:20.599 And he says, this is not God's wisdom. Selfishness and 355 00:19:20.680 --> 00:19:24.319 jealousy is the wisdom that the world travels on. And 356 00:19:24.319 --> 00:19:26.319 we are not of the world because that is not 357 00:19:26.400 --> 00:19:30.599 of God's wisdom. Jesus says to Peter that get behind me, Satan, 358 00:19:30.839 --> 00:19:34.519 because you see things merely from a human point of view. 359 00:19:34.720 --> 00:19:36.559 So the establishing idea. 360 00:19:36.640 --> 00:19:39.720 What's happening here is that what God's intentions are and 361 00:19:39.720 --> 00:19:43.559 what the world's intentions are way different. The world thinks 362 00:19:43.599 --> 00:19:45.839 for itself, how can better itself, what it can do 363 00:19:46.160 --> 00:19:50.079 to help protect what they have, and defensive God's thinking selfless. 364 00:19:50.119 --> 00:19:55.519 For God's a love that he gave. Okay, you guys 365 00:19:55.559 --> 00:19:58.160 with me so far. So when Eve takes that fruit 366 00:19:58.240 --> 00:20:01.720 and she takes that and she just an interesting thought, 367 00:20:01.839 --> 00:20:05.000 nothing happened. But when she gave the fruit to the 368 00:20:05.039 --> 00:20:08.200 wand that God said you must not eat, and he 369 00:20:08.359 --> 00:20:12.400 takes to the fruit, their eyes were open. I'm not 370 00:20:12.440 --> 00:20:14.119 going to go there because that's not where we should 371 00:20:14.119 --> 00:20:16.200 have been at KST. We went through that and by 372 00:20:16.240 --> 00:20:18.480 the way, but you're not there, and we're not going there. 373 00:20:18.519 --> 00:20:22.319 But when that happened, their eyes were open, and they 374 00:20:22.319 --> 00:20:25.599 were they began to see things they were never created 375 00:20:25.640 --> 00:20:26.119 to see. 376 00:20:26.519 --> 00:20:27.119 They begin to. 377 00:20:27.119 --> 00:20:30.680 Field things they were never created to feel. So we 378 00:20:30.799 --> 00:20:33.480 know the story. God banishes them out of the garden. 379 00:20:33.559 --> 00:20:35.720 Some of us think it's because God was angry, not 380 00:20:35.839 --> 00:20:38.720 at all, go reread it. He was actually deeply in 381 00:20:38.759 --> 00:20:41.240 love with humanity, and out of his love and protection 382 00:20:41.400 --> 00:20:43.599 he banned them from the garden because in the garden 383 00:20:43.640 --> 00:20:45.119 there was a tree of life, and he didn't want 384 00:20:45.160 --> 00:20:47.920 them separated forever from him anyway. So I'm not going 385 00:20:47.960 --> 00:20:50.279 to get into that either. But watch this when he 386 00:20:50.400 --> 00:20:52.599 banned When he banned them, there was a prophetic word 387 00:20:52.640 --> 00:20:56.160 that the seed of her and the enemists see enemy seed, 388 00:20:56.240 --> 00:20:58.440 he will crush the enemy's head, and the enemy will 389 00:20:58.799 --> 00:21:01.400 will hurt his heel. And so there was a prophetic word, 390 00:21:01.400 --> 00:21:03.640 and there was a promise of a son, his name 391 00:21:03.720 --> 00:21:05.720 is Jesus, that he would come and one. 392 00:21:05.599 --> 00:21:07.599 Day restore us. Okay. 393 00:21:07.759 --> 00:21:11.200 So the common theme throughout scripture became about a one man, 394 00:21:11.279 --> 00:21:14.880 the promised Messiah that's coming. And so when Jesus comes 395 00:21:14.920 --> 00:21:17.519 Hebrews chapter one, verse three, if you have the scripture, 396 00:21:17.519 --> 00:21:20.880 please put it up. It says that Jesus the sun 397 00:21:21.240 --> 00:21:25.440 radiates God's own glory. Okay, in the garden when God 398 00:21:25.480 --> 00:21:28.440 created Adam and Eve, you and I radiated the glory 399 00:21:28.480 --> 00:21:33.319 of God. And watch this and expresses the very character 400 00:21:33.440 --> 00:21:36.160 of God, like if you see Jesus, you see who 401 00:21:36.240 --> 00:21:36.720