WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:03.799 Thank you for your word, Thank you for your ministry 2 00:00:03.879 --> 00:00:09.759 to us. We appreciate you coming right now with teaching, training, correction, 3 00:00:10.080 --> 00:00:15.960 and reproof lead us into all that you've made us 4 00:00:16.000 --> 00:00:20.280 to be in the new creation. We bless you for 5 00:00:20.359 --> 00:00:24.320 it and for your living word, not only in the atmosphere, 6 00:00:24.519 --> 00:00:28.399 not only coming from Holy Spirit, but alive within us. 7 00:00:30.239 --> 00:00:34.399 We give you the praise in Jesus' name. And everybody said, Amen, 8 00:00:34.520 --> 00:00:40.679 you may be seated. Hallelujah. 9 00:00:42.920 --> 00:00:43.399 Well, good to. 10 00:00:43.359 --> 00:00:45.119 See you all, praise. The Lord's going to be seventy 11 00:00:45.159 --> 00:00:50.799 seven tomorrow. What are you going to do with seventy 12 00:00:50.840 --> 00:00:59.560 seven vitamin D? Here we come, hallelujah. What a blessing. 13 00:01:00.039 --> 00:01:00.479 Amen. 14 00:01:00.799 --> 00:01:04.840 Amen, Amen, I want to talk to you a little 15 00:01:04.879 --> 00:01:10.359 more more today about becoming love. Becoming love. Everybody's say 16 00:01:10.400 --> 00:01:14.359 becoming love. Now, the truth is at the tricky title. 17 00:01:14.400 --> 00:01:18.840 The truth is you've already become love for Shawn for 18 00:01:19.040 --> 00:01:23.560 seventeen says as he is, so also are we in 19 00:01:23.640 --> 00:01:29.239 this world. So we've already become love essentially. But we 20 00:01:29.359 --> 00:01:34.560 have to bring our heart, our mind, our emotions, our 21 00:01:34.599 --> 00:01:38.000 behavior into agreement with what He's made us to be. 22 00:01:39.239 --> 00:01:44.200 And I found that with my children as well, and 23 00:01:44.239 --> 00:01:48.159 we are children of God. At the Wolf House, you know, 24 00:01:48.200 --> 00:01:51.599 we had certain things that were characteristics of the Wolf Home. 25 00:01:53.879 --> 00:01:58.200 And though they were wolf children, and it couldn't be 26 00:01:58.239 --> 00:02:01.359 taken away that they were wolf children. They certainly had 27 00:02:01.359 --> 00:02:05.040 our last name. They certainly popped out of Missus Wolfe, 28 00:02:06.560 --> 00:02:09.159 so it couldn't be denied. But many times they didn't 29 00:02:09.199 --> 00:02:11.439 carry forward our characteristics. 30 00:02:12.400 --> 00:02:12.800 And so. 31 00:02:14.520 --> 00:02:20.759 Part of the success of parenting is instilling in them 32 00:02:21.159 --> 00:02:27.879 the values, the DNA values of your family. And then 33 00:02:28.120 --> 00:02:33.000 when the children reflect those values, you will say things 34 00:02:33.120 --> 00:02:37.319 like they make me proud you ever said that kind 35 00:02:37.319 --> 00:02:41.199 of a thing, or you'll observe that, you know, And 36 00:02:41.280 --> 00:02:43.599 I know that can come rarely sometimes when we look 37 00:02:43.599 --> 00:02:47.719 at our kids, right, I'm teasing with you then, but 38 00:02:47.919 --> 00:02:49.879 you know, yeah, all the time, all the time. But 39 00:02:50.000 --> 00:02:53.639 they make me proud when we actually say that. What 40 00:02:53.680 --> 00:02:58.919 we're saying is that the lifestyle they've chosen is reflecting 41 00:02:59.000 --> 00:03:02.879 the lifestyle put in them, So therefore they must love me. 42 00:03:08.400 --> 00:03:11.319 So when children carry forward, so you know, funny things 43 00:03:11.360 --> 00:03:12.960 with us, you know. 44 00:03:13.080 --> 00:03:15.080 And I was, you know, thinking of some. 45 00:03:15.240 --> 00:03:19.479 Today, I was trying to think of some and I'm 46 00:03:19.520 --> 00:03:22.560 not being braggadosius on my family by any means whatsoever. 47 00:03:23.560 --> 00:03:25.840 But I was thinking, you know, trying to think of 48 00:03:25.879 --> 00:03:28.800 some that we instilled in them for the sake of 49 00:03:28.840 --> 00:03:33.319 this illustration. But you know, one was loading the dishwasher. 50 00:03:35.400 --> 00:03:38.400 Wolf children, we have four of them. Wolf children load 51 00:03:38.479 --> 00:03:41.680 the dishwasher, They do the dishes. Mom works hard on dinner. 52 00:03:41.800 --> 00:03:43.439 So this is, you know, the way it was often 53 00:03:43.439 --> 00:03:54.639 at our house. Not that Dad never helped. But you know, Mom, 54 00:03:54.800 --> 00:03:57.400 it's okay, you really don't want me making you dinner 55 00:03:57.439 --> 00:04:00.599 because every dinner I ever made taste exactly the same. 56 00:04:01.000 --> 00:04:06.439 And Joel calls Joel calls that goulash. I'm like, how 57 00:04:06.520 --> 00:04:08.520 is it, honey, She's like, that's just like the last 58 00:04:08.560 --> 00:04:09.400 guulash we had. 59 00:04:10.800 --> 00:04:11.360 How could that be? 60 00:04:11.439 --> 00:04:14.840 I use different flavors and different spices and different It's 61 00:04:14.879 --> 00:04:15.840 a good question. 62 00:04:15.599 --> 00:04:16.199 How can that be? 63 00:04:16.319 --> 00:04:19.680 I don't know, honey, all make the dinners, you so, 64 00:04:20.519 --> 00:04:23.560 But the kids, the kids would do the dishes, you know, 65 00:04:23.600 --> 00:04:26.360 the kids would load the dishwasher. And if you've heard 66 00:04:26.439 --> 00:04:29.399 Joel talk about this, she will tell you it was 67 00:04:29.480 --> 00:04:33.120 the sound of I love you when when the kids 68 00:04:33.120 --> 00:04:36.759 were loading the dishwasher and doing the dishes, so she 69 00:04:36.800 --> 00:04:38.920 would say that. Sometimes at the house, she would say, oh, 70 00:04:38.959 --> 00:04:43.040 I hear the sound of my children loving me because 71 00:04:43.079 --> 00:04:45.279 they were loading the dishwasher. Right, So that's one of 72 00:04:45.319 --> 00:04:47.319 the things it was, you know, And so you know 73 00:04:47.920 --> 00:04:50.759 carrying that forward. If you come to our house for 74 00:04:50.800 --> 00:04:54.279 a big dinner, you'll find that even afterwards, all the 75 00:04:54.319 --> 00:04:56.879 kids are loading the dishwasher and doing all the dishes. 76 00:04:57.319 --> 00:04:58.120 It's carried forward. 77 00:04:58.160 --> 00:05:01.920 So they make us proud, but they're actually saying that 78 00:05:02.399 --> 00:05:07.000 they love what we instilled in them so much that 79 00:05:07.079 --> 00:05:11.879 they carry it forward into their own homes. So one 80 00:05:11.920 --> 00:05:13.959 of the ways that our children. 81 00:05:13.680 --> 00:05:14.439 Love us. 82 00:05:15.920 --> 00:05:23.279 Is by carrying our DNA forward as they walk, as 83 00:05:23.279 --> 00:05:27.519 they live, you follow them time. Another one is I 84 00:05:27.560 --> 00:05:30.240 got a revelation from it. But all of my children work. 85 00:05:38.120 --> 00:05:40.279 No no, no, no, no no. This is twenty twenty six, 86 00:05:40.360 --> 00:05:45.160 and all of my children work. You don't understand, like 87 00:05:45.240 --> 00:05:49.279 all of my children have jobs. No no, no, you're 88 00:05:49.319 --> 00:05:54.480 not getting this. All of my children actually they for income. 89 00:05:54.680 --> 00:05:57.439 They actually have jobs. This is a big deal. 90 00:05:58.000 --> 00:06:00.199 No no, no, no, this is this. 91 00:06:00.240 --> 00:06:05.800 Is like Halujah ha lujah, hallelujah, hallelujah. This is the 92 00:06:05.839 --> 00:06:14.480 Hallelujah chorus. You see what I'm saying. So, but this 93 00:06:14.519 --> 00:06:16.959 is a this is a value that we instilled in 94 00:06:17.000 --> 00:06:19.800 our children, is that they pay their way. They paid 95 00:06:19.800 --> 00:06:22.319 their way through college, they paid their way through their training, 96 00:06:22.360 --> 00:06:25.360 they paid their way through they bought their cars, they 97 00:06:25.399 --> 00:06:27.959 paid their way, they paid they continue to pay their 98 00:06:27.959 --> 00:06:30.680 way today and they continue to work today. It's a 99 00:06:30.800 --> 00:06:34.000 value to them, right, and so as they carry that 100 00:06:34.120 --> 00:06:36.160 forward and they instill that into. 101 00:06:36.000 --> 00:06:36.759 The next generation. 102 00:06:37.319 --> 00:06:41.839 Actually, as we observe that we see this impartation that 103 00:06:41.879 --> 00:06:44.560 we put in them, as they carry it forward, is 104 00:06:44.639 --> 00:06:50.040 a way that they love us. You know what I'm 105 00:06:50.079 --> 00:06:54.000 saying now, I'm bringing this up because we have been 106 00:06:54.160 --> 00:06:58.439 born of the spirit, and the imperishable seed of the 107 00:06:58.480 --> 00:07:01.639 Word of God abides in us. And that word that 108 00:07:01.759 --> 00:07:04.959 imperish will see to the Word of God has completely 109 00:07:05.079 --> 00:07:12.519 transformed our spirit man and made us new creatures in Christ. 110 00:07:13.120 --> 00:07:16.560 And now the Word is seeking to revolutionize not just 111 00:07:16.639 --> 00:07:27.519 our spirit man, but our soul and our body. And 112 00:07:27.720 --> 00:07:32.279 one of the things that one of the characteristics that 113 00:07:32.399 --> 00:07:36.920 the indwelling Word of God carries, that the Holy Spirit carries. 114 00:07:36.959 --> 00:07:38.879 We read a few weeks ago, I think it was 115 00:07:38.920 --> 00:07:42.600 on Easter Sunday, Romans five seventeen, that we have received 116 00:07:42.639 --> 00:07:47.879 the abundance of grace, that by the gift of righteousness 117 00:07:48.319 --> 00:07:52.079 we have received the abundance of grace, that we might 118 00:07:52.120 --> 00:07:56.399 reign in life, that we might be triumphant in life. 119 00:07:56.959 --> 00:08:01.279 The abundance of grace we are partaking now. Abundance of 120 00:08:01.319 --> 00:08:05.000 grace is the abundance of the enablement of God. And 121 00:08:05.240 --> 00:08:09.360 one of the most important, maybe the most important characteristic. 122 00:08:08.839 --> 00:08:09.639 Of God. 123 00:08:11.040 --> 00:08:14.279 That has been made alive within us, is a gop 124 00:08:14.319 --> 00:08:23.120 a love. A gop a love is already alive within you. 125 00:08:26.439 --> 00:08:29.720 A gope the the enablement of a gopey love, the 126 00:08:29.759 --> 00:08:33.000 anointing of a gop a love, the grace for a 127 00:08:33.039 --> 00:08:36.519 gop ay love, the power for a gop a love, 128 00:08:36.919 --> 00:08:41.960 the vision of a gope love is already alive within you, 129 00:08:42.399 --> 00:08:47.000 who are born of the spirit, and who have received 130 00:08:47.039 --> 00:08:52.879 the imperishable word of God. But do we carry that forward? 131 00:08:54.200 --> 00:08:58.320 Do we do we imitate Him in that love? Have 132 00:08:58.480 --> 00:09:02.320 we have we captured our on being to partner and 133 00:09:02.360 --> 00:09:08.440 cooperate with that love? And John twenty one and John 134 00:09:08.679 --> 00:09:12.360 twenty one he tells us something crazy and John twenty one, 135 00:09:12.600 --> 00:09:15.320 John twenty one versus one through. Wait, there's a story there. 136 00:09:16.000 --> 00:09:21.440 This is after the Resurrection. After the Resurrection, the disciples 137 00:09:21.480 --> 00:09:27.320 go fishing and they're out on the water all night 138 00:09:28.120 --> 00:09:32.600 and they didn't catch one fish. And so then as 139 00:09:32.600 --> 00:09:36.120 they're coming into shore, Jesus is there. This is after 140 00:09:36.159 --> 00:09:42.120 the Resurrection. Jesus encounters them and Jesus says, hey, have 141 00:09:42.240 --> 00:09:44.519 you caught any He yells from the shore, hey have 142 00:09:44.600 --> 00:09:47.720 you caught any fish? And they don't know who he is. 143 00:09:47.759 --> 00:09:55.080 They don't know who this vagabond is on the shore right, 144 00:09:55.720 --> 00:09:57.600 And they said no, and he said, cast your net 145 00:09:57.639 --> 00:10:02.240 on the other side. Like, oh, it's Jesus, my word, 146 00:10:03.600 --> 00:10:06.159 caught up with us again. I thought we were hiding out. 147 00:10:06.639 --> 00:10:08.759 So they throw the net on the other side and 148 00:10:08.799 --> 00:10:10.840 they catch all the fish and they come in and 149 00:10:10.840 --> 00:10:14.039 they're like, oh, my word. And so he's there with 150 00:10:14.159 --> 00:10:18.039 a fire and he's cooking fish. He's making breakfast for him, right, 151 00:10:19.600 --> 00:10:22.720 and he he and they come in and he singles 152 00:10:22.720 --> 00:10:27.679 out Peter, Peter with the loud mouth, with Peter with 153 00:10:27.120 --> 00:10:34.120 the leader of the pack, Peter with the a class clown, 154 00:10:35.399 --> 00:10:38.000 Peter with the onery one. And he singles out Peter, 155 00:10:38.240 --> 00:10:40.639 and he says, Peter you love me more than you 156 00:10:40.720 --> 00:10:48.679 love these fish, and he uses the word agape. He says, 157 00:10:48.720 --> 00:10:52.799 do you a gope me more than these more than 158 00:10:53.159 --> 00:10:58.440 you know you? And Peter answers, Lord, you know I 159 00:10:58.519 --> 00:11:04.440 fialow you. Now remember in the New Testament when you 160 00:11:04.519 --> 00:11:07.759 look in the strongs concordance, or you go to your 161 00:11:07.759 --> 00:11:10.399 et sword, or how many of you have a stronges concordance, 162 00:11:11.120 --> 00:11:12.559 Well you know you can load it on your phone. 163 00:11:12.600 --> 00:11:14.039 Now you can get a strongs on your phone. Or 164 00:11:14.080 --> 00:11:15.960 if you've got an es sword, how maybe have the 165 00:11:16.039 --> 00:11:20.039 sword on your phone. You don't have to write that down. 166 00:11:20.080 --> 00:11:22.919 You need esword. It's a free app. You need the 167 00:11:23.000 --> 00:11:25.279 sword on your phone because if you get loaded sword 168 00:11:25.320 --> 00:11:28.000 on your phone, you can get into commentaries, you can 169 00:11:28.039 --> 00:11:32.919 get into studies, you can get into you can get 170 00:11:32.960 --> 00:11:34.759 into the strongest concordance. 171 00:11:35.080 --> 00:11:37.240 And the strongs concordance. 172 00:11:36.679 --> 00:11:40.399 Gives you the original word on every word in the Bible, 173 00:11:40.879 --> 00:11:43.360 every single word in the Bible. It gives you the 174 00:11:43.399 --> 00:11:49.320 original word in Hebrew or Greek. So es sword you 175 00:11:49.360 --> 00:11:56.039 can just I think it's free. So remember in the 176 00:11:56.080 --> 00:11:59.960 New Testament, when you see the word love, it could 177 00:12:00.080 --> 00:12:02.519 be one of three things. It could be eros, it 178 00:12:02.559 --> 00:12:07.159 could be fi lao, it could be a gope. Right, 179 00:12:07.840 --> 00:12:09.600 so it could be one of those three. So we 180 00:12:09.639 --> 00:12:15.919 see Jesus, Jesus and Peter are interacting as like it's 181 00:12:16.039 --> 00:12:20.159 kind of an interesting interaction, right, And so Jesus is saying, 182 00:12:22.879 --> 00:12:27.080 do you a gop amy and Peter's saying I fullayo you, 183 00:12:29.759 --> 00:12:38.200 But nonetheless Jesus still gives him specific instruction. Jesus says, okay, well, 184 00:12:38.240 --> 00:12:41.559 that's good. I can work with that. Feed my sheep. 185 00:12:43.480 --> 00:12:47.639 If you love me, feed my sheep. If you love me? 186 00:12:48.039 --> 00:12:49.960 Do you really love me? Do you really love me, Peter? 187 00:12:50.480 --> 00:12:51.960 I want to talk to you about your love Peter. 188 00:12:52.360 --> 00:12:56.440 If you really love me, I'm calling you to feed 189 00:12:56.519 --> 00:12:59.639 my sheep. So that's the first one. There's three times 190 00:12:59.679 --> 00:13:02.399 he does this three times. The second time he says 191 00:13:02.440 --> 00:13:04.960 it again, Peter, do you love me? And he says 192 00:13:05.120 --> 00:13:08.399 do you God amy again and Peter says, Lord, you 193 00:13:08.440 --> 00:13:14.879 know I fialayo you. God's trying to raise. 194 00:13:14.720 --> 00:13:20.679 Our level of love and the Holy Spirit, the end 195 00:13:20.799 --> 00:13:22.559 dwelling Holy Spirit. 196 00:13:22.720 --> 00:13:28.559 That we've received in salvation is actually the love level raiser. 197 00:13:29.840 --> 00:13:35.120 Like God has raised our level of love so that 198 00:13:35.159 --> 00:13:37.480 we can live like him, we can act like him. 199 00:13:37.759 --> 00:13:41.799 He wants us to carry his characteristics forward. When we do, 200 00:13:42.039 --> 00:13:44.759 it's a way that we love him. Now, I know 201 00:13:44.799 --> 00:13:46.720 there's all sorts of ways that we love him, and 202 00:13:46.759 --> 00:13:50.440 we could. We usually think of those. One is Sunday 203 00:13:50.480 --> 00:13:53.080 morning church attendance, and we're thinking, I'm going to go 204 00:13:53.080 --> 00:13:55.759 to church because I love the Lord and that's valid. 205 00:13:56.120 --> 00:13:57.679 And then the other time we're thinking, I'm going to 206 00:13:57.720 --> 00:14:01.240 give financially because I love the Lord and that's valid. 207 00:14:02.519 --> 00:14:05.240 And then you know, somebody else might think of something, 208 00:14:05.279 --> 00:14:07.080 and you can come up with all of these ways. 209 00:14:08.759 --> 00:14:14.320 But the emphasis of John twenty one is feed my 210 00:14:14.480 --> 00:14:20.039 sheep and tend my flock. The second time he asks this, 211 00:14:20.519 --> 00:14:23.799 the second time, do you agape me? Peter says, I 212 00:14:23.879 --> 00:14:27.200 fillail you. Then the Lord he gives the same commandment. 213 00:14:27.320 --> 00:14:30.919 He's like, okay, well I can work with that. But 214 00:14:30.960 --> 00:14:33.480 here's what I'm asking you to do. Tend my flock. 215 00:14:34.679 --> 00:14:36.440 The word there is a different word in the Greek 216 00:14:36.480 --> 00:14:41.399 and it means govern, guide, lead, care for, bring order 217 00:14:41.440 --> 00:14:46.279 and administration to the flock. So first he says tend 218 00:14:46.360 --> 00:14:49.799 the flock or I mean feed the flock, and then 219 00:14:49.840 --> 00:14:52.279 he says, tend the flock. And then he does it again. 220 00:14:52.320 --> 00:14:56.320 There's a third time, and the third time Peter's like, Lord, 221 00:14:56.360 --> 00:15:00.039 you know my heart? You know because he says do 222 00:14:59.879 --> 00:15:00.240 you you? 223 00:15:01.200 --> 00:15:01.759 God bay me? 224 00:15:01.840 --> 00:15:06.799 A third time and Peter says, Lord, you know I 225 00:15:07.000 --> 00:15:15.039 filayo you. Now, this is God working on Peter's heart. 226 00:15:15.080 --> 00:15:18.080 All of us need our heartwork do on because Holy 227 00:15:18.159 --> 00:15:22.440 Spirit was calling Peter to a greater level of love 228 00:15:23.360 --> 00:15:26.960 and a cooperation and a partnership with Holy Spirit in love. 229 00:15:28.639 --> 00:15:33.960 And honestly, Peter was resisting it. But God wasn't letting up. 230 00:15:34.399 --> 00:15:38.600 Jesus wasn't letting up. God through the Son was not 231 00:15:38.720 --> 00:15:41.759 letting up. And so he says it again. He says 232 00:15:41.759 --> 00:15:46.279 it again. Feed my sheep, Feed my sheep. So this 233 00:15:46.399 --> 00:15:49.799 is interesting, This is interesting. How do we show our love? 234 00:15:52.000 --> 00:15:53.960 How do we show our love to Father. It's not 235 00:15:54.000 --> 00:15:56.840 about the dishwasher, it's not about work. We're not talking 236 00:15:56.879 --> 00:15:59.919 about the wolf family. We're talking about the family of God. 237 00:16:00.120 --> 00:16:03.559 How do we show that we love God? We carry 238 00:16:03.679 --> 00:16:10.320 forward his characteristics. Jesus was the chief shepherd. He cared 239 00:16:10.360 --> 00:16:16.480 for the flock. He's not here anymore. You're here, He's 240 00:16:16.519 --> 00:16:20.799 here through you. He's here through me. He says, I am. 241 00:16:20.679 --> 00:16:21.440 The good shepherd. 242 00:16:21.440 --> 00:16:23.080 By the way, this is John Tenn He says, I 243 00:16:23.159 --> 00:16:26.559 am the good shepherd, and I lay down my life 244 00:16:26.639 --> 00:16:30.519 for the sheep. Every other shepherd that came beforehand, they 245 00:16:30.519 --> 00:16:34.000 were hilings because they were thinking only about them. 246 00:16:34.080 --> 00:16:36.559 Oh. 247 00:16:36.679 --> 00:16:40.200 Oh, that's filayo love. That's the problem with fialao love. 248 00:16:40.279 --> 00:16:43.679 That's why Peter was in trouble. The problem with fialao 249 00:16:43.840 --> 00:16:51.279 love is that it's mutual. It demands mutuality. Filao love 250 00:16:51.799 --> 00:16:56.799 is relational love. It's the emotional love, it's friendship love, 251 00:16:56.879 --> 00:17:03.759 it's companion love, and requires mutuality. And I'm afraid this 252 00:17:03.879 --> 00:17:05.799 is the way a lot of us live in church 253 00:17:05.920 --> 00:17:08.640 even today. Even though we're born of the spirit, we 254 00:17:08.759 --> 00:17:16.640 haven't graduated up into a gop a love. A gop 255 00:17:16.640 --> 00:17:21.400 a love is one way love. Filayo love is two 256 00:17:21.400 --> 00:17:25.599 way love. If you ride a motorcycle like I do, 257 00:17:25.920 --> 00:17:27.680 you know that two way highways are a lot more 258 00:17:27.759 --> 00:17:31.720 dangerous than one way highways. On a two way highway, 259 00:17:31.720 --> 00:17:35.039 you can get hit, so they can be on their phone, 260 00:17:36.039 --> 00:17:39.279 and if you're on a motorbike, that's not a good day. 261 00:17:40.000 --> 00:17:41.519 You don't have an airbag, it might not be a 262 00:17:41.559 --> 00:17:44.960 good day. Two way love is more dangerous than one 263 00:17:44.960 --> 00:17:51.519 way love. One way love is intentional love. It is 264 00:17:51.640 --> 00:17:58.240 sacrificial love. It's investing love. It's love so that something 265 00:17:58.279 --> 00:18:02.319 will bloom. It's love for the benefit of another. One 266 00:18:02.319 --> 00:18:09.880 way love doesn't require love back. One way love a 267 00:18:10.000 --> 00:18:13.119 god a love. Let me read to you the difference. 268 00:18:13.440 --> 00:18:16.400 I've been holding my phone on purpose. You wondered if 269 00:18:16.400 --> 00:18:19.319 I'd lost my mind, But here I am. My mind 270 00:18:19.400 --> 00:18:29.799 is still working. But I had a definition here okay, 271 00:18:31.119 --> 00:18:40.079 a gop a love unconditional, unconditional, you tick me off. 272 00:18:40.079 --> 00:18:43.119 I'm still going to love you. You've got my parking spot. 273 00:18:43.160 --> 00:18:46.599 I'm still going to love you. You're singing my song. I'm 274 00:18:46.640 --> 00:18:50.559 still going to love you. You got first place on the 275 00:18:50.799 --> 00:18:56.039 Harmony team. I'm still going to love you. I love somebody. 276 00:18:56.599 --> 00:18:59.119 You got my Spanish girl zone. I'm still going to 277 00:18:59.160 --> 00:19:04.039 love you. You cult in front of me in the 278 00:19:04.039 --> 00:19:07.559 coffee line. I'm still going to love you. You took 279 00:19:07.599 --> 00:19:09.759 my bathroom stall and I'm in trouble. I'm still going 280 00:19:09.759 --> 00:19:10.160 to love you. 281 00:19:16.880 --> 00:19:21.200 Let's just get real, folks, Let's get real right there, Maybe. 282 00:19:21.400 --> 00:19:30.920 Unconditional sacrificial without constraint. It's voluntary. Nobody's making me do it. 283 00:19:30.920 --> 00:19:38.799 It's volitional, sacrificial, unconditional, volitional, it's of my. 284 00:19:40.400 --> 00:19:40.599 Right. 285 00:19:41.319 --> 00:19:45.119 But you have to understand you can turn off the 286 00:19:45.160 --> 00:19:47.720 agape or you can turn it on, because you have 287 00:19:47.759 --> 00:19:50.559 the power in your soul to cooperate with the Holy 288 00:19:50.599 --> 00:19:57.599 Spirit or to discooperate. I'm afraid that in the church, 289 00:19:57.640 --> 00:20:00.599 and I'm not looking at anybody in particular, so I'm 290 00:20:00.640 --> 00:20:03.319 just my eyes room everywhere because i don't want you 291 00:20:03.359 --> 00:20:06.200 to feel funny. But I'm just afraid that in the 292 00:20:06.319 --> 00:20:14.000 church mostly we operate in for layo love. I helped 293 00:20:14.039 --> 00:20:17.839 them move. How come they're not helping me move. I 294 00:20:17.880 --> 00:20:19.839 flagged down the parking team and got them a spot, 295 00:20:19.920 --> 00:20:21.640 But when I needed one this week, they weren't there 296 00:20:21.680 --> 00:20:29.559 for me. I went down volunteered at the church. Nobody 297 00:20:29.599 --> 00:20:35.920 gave me a shower or of thanks. We had those 298 00:20:35.920 --> 00:20:38.640 folks over for dinner five times. They've never called us once. 299 00:20:40.640 --> 00:20:43.599 I served their kids so many times back in Nitro, 300 00:20:43.799 --> 00:20:48.160 They've never served me one time. I'm sick of this garbage. 301 00:20:48.200 --> 00:20:54.319 I'm never doing this again. I'm just burnt out. I 302 00:20:54.359 --> 00:20:56.640 worked in the cafe. For three months, all I wanted 303 00:20:56.680 --> 00:20:58.960 was a free coffee. I didn't have a dime on me. 304 00:20:59.240 --> 00:21:04.839 All they gave me was water. Do you know how 305 00:21:04.880 --> 00:21:07.680 long are you kidding me? I helped her do all 306 00:21:07.720 --> 00:21:10.920 of her artistic paintings. I provided half of her paints. 307 00:21:11.119 --> 00:21:12.759 Now when I want one, she wants to sell it 308 00:21:12.759 --> 00:21:13.000 to me. 309 00:21:21.319 --> 00:21:25.400 Flao. We're operating out of fialao love. 310 00:21:26.319 --> 00:21:30.400 We're expecting reciprocation all of the time, and if we 311 00:21:30.440 --> 00:21:33.680 don't get equal reciprocation, we're ticked off. 312 00:21:35.599 --> 00:21:40.759 I thought they were a Christian, all right? How long 313 00:21:40.799 --> 00:21:47.319 have they been serving the Lord? Anyway? We're ticked off. 314 00:21:47.920 --> 00:21:48.880 We're upset. 315 00:21:50.200 --> 00:21:55.680 Suddenly judging their level of love when we're not called 316 00:21:55.720 --> 00:21:58.960 to live there. The Christian is not called to live 317 00:21:59.079 --> 00:22:03.240 in falao. The Christian is called to live in a gope. 318 00:22:05.319 --> 00:22:07.839 We build up one another. We care for one another, 319 00:22:07.960 --> 00:22:11.160 we provide for one another, we esteem one another, we 320 00:22:11.240 --> 00:22:14.440 honor one another. We help one another, and we don't 321 00:22:14.480 --> 00:22:17.720 need it in return. We're not looking for a return. 322 00:22:19.279 --> 00:22:19.440 Now. 323 00:22:19.440 --> 00:22:22.000 Agape is so powerful, Remember I told you last week. 324 00:22:22.039 --> 00:22:25.440 A gope is so powerful that it will resolve conflicts, 325 00:22:25.480 --> 00:22:29.880 It will win every relationship it will break down every barrier. 326 00:22:30.000 --> 00:22:30.839 A gope is. 327 00:22:31.160 --> 00:22:35.440 There's nothing stronger than a gope, nothing in the universe 328 00:22:35.519 --> 00:22:39.640 stronger than a gope love. And Jesus said, my love 329 00:22:39.799 --> 00:22:43.039 demonstrated for you is so strong that when I'm lifted 330 00:22:43.160 --> 00:22:46.519 up in a gope love, it will draw all men 331 00:22:46.759 --> 00:22:52.319 to me. What's drawing us to Jesus is not the 332 00:22:52.799 --> 00:22:57.480 holy spirit club of God, the cosmic club of God. 333 00:22:57.759 --> 00:23:01.920 What's drawing us to Jesus is his life that he 334 00:23:02.400 --> 00:23:05.519 that he forgives us, that while we were yet sinners, 335 00:23:05.640 --> 00:23:08.559 Christ died for us and gave himself for us. No 336 00:23:08.799 --> 00:23:11.880 greater love would one show than to lay down there. 337 00:23:12.119 --> 00:23:15.599 They lay down their life for a friend, and he 338 00:23:15.680 --> 00:23:18.920 calls us friends. How could he call us friends who 339 00:23:18.960 --> 00:23:22.480 have flipped him off in customs, wore and let out 340 00:23:22.640 --> 00:23:26.680 every kind of profanity of hatred against him, who wanted 341 00:23:26.759 --> 00:23:30.000 nothing to do with him, who violated everything that he 342 00:23:30.079 --> 00:23:34.680 ever stood for, And he calls us friends. He calls 343 00:23:34.720 --> 00:23:39.200 us friends, and then he laid down his life for us. 344 00:23:39.279 --> 00:23:40.119 That's a gopey love. 345 00:23:40.400 --> 00:23:43.559 A godpe love is actually what we're supposed to This 346 00:23:43.640 --> 00:23:46.920 is how the church will flourish. Frank talked about This 347 00:23:47.079 --> 00:23:50.599 is family day and God's calling us to family. 348 00:23:50.640 --> 00:23:51.720 This is this is how. 349 00:23:51.640 --> 00:23:56.759 The church is called to actually grow and mature and flourish. 350 00:23:57.400 --> 00:24:01.960 Is that we don't keep record of wrong suffered against us, 351 00:24:02.519 --> 00:24:05.319 That we believe the best about one another, that our 352 00:24:05.440 --> 00:24:10.119 love for one another never fails, that we desire the 353 00:24:10.119 --> 00:24:11.599 best for one another. 354 00:24:11.720 --> 00:24:14.880 This is love. This is First Corinthians thirteen. 355 00:24:18.079 --> 00:24:22.440 Is the living, abiding, holy Spirit expression of God through us. 356 00:24:23.960 --> 00:24:27.000 That we're patient. Why should I be patient? They were 357 00:24:27.000 --> 00:24:31.079 so impatient with me. I want reciprocation. Nope, that's falleo. 358 00:24:32.119 --> 00:24:35.160 Leave it behind, go to First Peter. Let's go to 359 00:24:35.160 --> 00:24:44.720 First Peter one twenty two. Okay with me, Listen to 360 00:24:44.759 --> 00:24:48.920 what fileo is. Falleo is brotherly love. It's friendship or affection, 361 00:24:51.359 --> 00:24:57.400 and it's literally natural affection. Everybody say natural affection. Now, 362 00:24:57.440 --> 00:25:01.519 I will submit to you that if you try to 363 00:25:01.680 --> 00:25:07.480 live out of the flow of agape and you're not 364 00:25:08.359 --> 00:25:12.440 born of the spirit, connected to the spirit, feeding on 365 00:25:12.480 --> 00:25:17.000 the spirit, you will burn out. And this is why 366 00:25:17.000 --> 00:25:20.079 there's so much burnout in churches, Why there's so much 367 00:25:20.200 --> 00:25:24.079 burnout in the things of God, so much burnout in serving. 368 00:25:24.680 --> 00:25:27.880 I had a small group and nobody cared about me. Well, 369 00:25:28.200 --> 00:25:30.519 I had a small group. I fixed snacks every week. 370 00:25:30.559 --> 00:25:32.960 I fix snacks. Do you have much money it costs 371 00:25:32.960 --> 00:25:36.799 me to have those snacks? I mean like we had goldfish, 372 00:25:37.279 --> 00:25:41.559 we had potato chips and dip, we had granola bars 373 00:25:41.599 --> 00:25:43.960 and kool aid. I mean I was spending thousands of 374 00:25:44.000 --> 00:25:47.039 dollars on snacks. Nobody gave a rip, nobody cared. Nobody 375 00:25:47.359 --> 00:25:51.079 nobody ever asked if they could do snacks. So we 376 00:25:51.119 --> 00:25:54.359 get all burnt out. Why are we burnt out? We're 377 00:25:54.359 --> 00:25:58.440 disconnected from the head. The head is love. We're disconnected 378 00:25:58.480 --> 00:26:02.440 from the spirit. Acting like every other Christian, and we're 379 00:26:02.480 --> 00:26:06.000 comparing our actions with every other Christian, therefore justifying our 380 00:26:06.039 --> 00:26:08.799 actions because every other small group leaders burnt out too. 381 00:26:14.799 --> 00:26:17.799 The lords just calling us higher. Come up out of Fialao. 382 00:26:18.000 --> 00:26:21.519 You don't need reciprocal love. You don't need anybody to 383 00:26:21.559 --> 00:26:25.400 pat you on the back. You don't need to whine 384 00:26:25.400 --> 00:26:29.480 and moan about your five dollars on kool aid and cheese. 385 00:26:29.519 --> 00:26:33.559 It's God is more than enough for you. You're going to 386 00:26:33.599 --> 00:26:36.000 reap from God. You don't need to reap from people. 387 00:26:36.440 --> 00:26:38.559 You're going to reap from God, you're not going to 388 00:26:38.599 --> 00:26:40.559 reap from You don't need to reap from people. You 389 00:26:41.119 --> 00:26:43.640 never need to reap from the same people you sewed 390 00:26:43.640 --> 00:26:46.079 into because you did it as unto the Lord. So 391 00:26:46.160 --> 00:26:48.359 you're going to reap from the Lord. The Lord is 392 00:26:48.400 --> 00:26:55.319 your reward. Watch him be your supply. All this grumbling 393 00:26:55.359 --> 00:26:59.519 and complaining and moaning and counting the cost and nobody 394 00:26:59.640 --> 00:27:00.359 sees it. 395 00:27:03.920 --> 00:27:05.039 A bunch of garbage. 396 00:27:05.559 --> 00:27:11.799 It's Falleoh, we're looking for recipitation from humans when God said, 397 00:27:11.880 --> 00:27:13.839 let me be your source, let me be your supply, 398 00:27:14.000 --> 00:27:17.000 let me be sufficient, Let me be enough for you, 399 00:27:17.119 --> 00:27:20.319 Let me be your everything. Let me be your abundance 400 00:27:20.359 --> 00:27:23.400 for you. Don't you know I've already chosen to put 401 00:27:23.400 --> 00:27:35.039