Speaker 1: Thank you for your word, Thank you for your ministry
Speaker 1: to us. We appreciate you coming right now with teaching, training, correction,
Speaker 1: and reproof lead us into all that you've made us
Speaker 1: to be in the new creation. We bless you for
Speaker 1: it and for your living word, not only in the atmosphere,
Speaker 1: not only coming from Holy Spirit, but alive within us.
Speaker 1: We give you the praise in Jesus' name. And everybody said, Amen,
Speaker 1: you may be seated. Hallelujah.
Speaker 2: Well, good to.
Speaker 1: See you all, praise. The Lord's going to be seventy
Speaker 1: seven tomorrow. What are you going to do with seventy
Speaker 1: seven vitamin D? Here we come, hallelujah. What a blessing.
Speaker 2: Amen.
Speaker 1: Amen, Amen, I want to talk to you a little
Speaker 1: more more today about becoming love. Becoming love. Everybody's say
Speaker 1: becoming love. Now, the truth is at the tricky title.
Speaker 1: The truth is you've already become love for Shawn for
Speaker 1: seventeen says as he is, so also are we in
Speaker 1: this world. So we've already become love essentially. But we
Speaker 1: have to bring our heart, our mind, our emotions, our
Speaker 1: behavior into agreement with what He's made us to be.
Speaker 1: And I found that with my children as well, and
Speaker 1: we are children of God. At the Wolf House, you know,
Speaker 1: we had certain things that were characteristics of the Wolf Home.
Speaker 1: And though they were wolf children, and it couldn't be
Speaker 1: taken away that they were wolf children. They certainly had
Speaker 1: our last name. They certainly popped out of Missus Wolfe,
Speaker 1: so it couldn't be denied. But many times they didn't
Speaker 1: carry forward our characteristics.
Speaker 2: And so.
Speaker 1: Part of the success of parenting is instilling in them
Speaker 1: the values, the DNA values of your family. And then
Speaker 1: when the children reflect those values, you will say things
Speaker 1: like they make me proud you ever said that kind
Speaker 1: of a thing, or you'll observe that, you know, And
Speaker 1: I know that can come rarely sometimes when we look
Speaker 1: at our kids, right, I'm teasing with you then, but
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, all the time, all the time. But
Speaker 1: they make me proud when we actually say that. What
Speaker 1: we're saying is that the lifestyle they've chosen is reflecting
Speaker 1: the lifestyle put in them, So therefore they must love me.
Speaker 1: So when children carry forward, so you know, funny things
Speaker 1: with us, you know.
Speaker 2: And I was, you know, thinking of some.
Speaker 1: Today, I was trying to think of some and I'm
Speaker 1: not being braggadosius on my family by any means whatsoever.
Speaker 1: But I was thinking, you know, trying to think of
Speaker 1: some that we instilled in them for the sake of
Speaker 1: this illustration. But you know, one was loading the dishwasher.
Speaker 1: Wolf children, we have four of them. Wolf children load
Speaker 1: the dishwasher, They do the dishes. Mom works hard on dinner.
Speaker 1: So this is, you know, the way it was often
Speaker 1: at our house. Not that Dad never helped. But you know, Mom,
Speaker 1: it's okay, you really don't want me making you dinner
Speaker 1: because every dinner I ever made taste exactly the same.
Speaker 1: And Joel calls Joel calls that goulash. I'm like, how
Speaker 1: is it, honey, She's like, that's just like the last
Speaker 1: guulash we had.
Speaker 2: How could that be?
Speaker 1: I use different flavors and different spices and different It's
Speaker 1: a good question.
Speaker 2: How can that be?
Speaker 1: I don't know, honey, all make the dinners, you so,
Speaker 1: But the kids, the kids would do the dishes, you know,
Speaker 1: the kids would load the dishwasher. And if you've heard
Speaker 1: Joel talk about this, she will tell you it was
Speaker 1: the sound of I love you when when the kids
Speaker 1: were loading the dishwasher and doing the dishes, so she
Speaker 1: would say that. Sometimes at the house, she would say, oh,
Speaker 1: I hear the sound of my children loving me because
Speaker 1: they were loading the dishwasher. Right, So that's one of
Speaker 1: the things it was, you know, And so you know
Speaker 1: carrying that forward. If you come to our house for
Speaker 1: a big dinner, you'll find that even afterwards, all the
Speaker 1: kids are loading the dishwasher and doing all the dishes.
Speaker 2: It's carried forward.
Speaker 1: So they make us proud, but they're actually saying that
Speaker 1: they love what we instilled in them so much that
Speaker 1: they carry it forward into their own homes. So one
Speaker 1: of the ways that our children.
Speaker 2: Love us.
Speaker 1: Is by carrying our DNA forward as they walk, as
Speaker 1: they live, you follow them time. Another one is I
Speaker 1: got a revelation from it. But all of my children work.
Speaker 1: No no, no, no, no no. This is twenty twenty six,
Speaker 1: and all of my children work. You don't understand, like
Speaker 1: all of my children have jobs. No no, no, you're
Speaker 1: not getting this. All of my children actually they for income.
Speaker 1: They actually have jobs. This is a big deal.
Speaker 2: No no, no, no, this is this.
Speaker 1: Is like Halujah ha lujah, hallelujah, hallelujah. This is the
Speaker 1: Hallelujah chorus. You see what I'm saying. So, but this
Speaker 1: is a this is a value that we instilled in
Speaker 1: our children, is that they pay their way. They paid
Speaker 1: their way through college, they paid their way through their training,
Speaker 1: they paid their way through they bought their cars, they
Speaker 1: paid their way, they paid they continue to pay their
Speaker 1: way today and they continue to work today. It's a
Speaker 1: value to them, right, and so as they carry that
Speaker 1: forward and they instill that into.
Speaker 2: The next generation.
Speaker 1: Actually, as we observe that we see this impartation that
Speaker 1: we put in them, as they carry it forward, is
Speaker 1: a way that they love us. You know what I'm
Speaker 1: saying now, I'm bringing this up because we have been
Speaker 1: born of the spirit, and the imperishable seed of the
Speaker 1: Word of God abides in us. And that word that
Speaker 1: imperish will see to the Word of God has completely
Speaker 1: transformed our spirit man and made us new creatures in Christ.
Speaker 1: And now the Word is seeking to revolutionize not just
Speaker 1: our spirit man, but our soul and our body. And
Speaker 1: one of the things that one of the characteristics that
Speaker 1: the indwelling Word of God carries, that the Holy Spirit carries.
Speaker 1: We read a few weeks ago, I think it was
Speaker 1: on Easter Sunday, Romans five seventeen, that we have received
Speaker 1: the abundance of grace, that by the gift of righteousness
Speaker 1: we have received the abundance of grace, that we might
Speaker 1: reign in life, that we might be triumphant in life.
Speaker 1: The abundance of grace we are partaking now. Abundance of
Speaker 1: grace is the abundance of the enablement of God. And
Speaker 1: one of the most important, maybe the most important characteristic.
Speaker 2: Of God.
Speaker 1: That has been made alive within us, is a gop
Speaker 1: a love. A gop a love is already alive within you.
Speaker 1: A gope the the enablement of a gopey love, the
Speaker 1: anointing of a gop a love, the grace for a
Speaker 1: gop ay love, the power for a gop a love,
Speaker 1: the vision of a gope love is already alive within you,
Speaker 1: who are born of the spirit, and who have received
Speaker 1: the imperishable word of God. But do we carry that forward?
Speaker 1: Do we do we imitate Him in that love? Have
Speaker 1: we have we captured our on being to partner and
Speaker 1: cooperate with that love? And John twenty one and John
Speaker 1: twenty one he tells us something crazy and John twenty one,
Speaker 1: John twenty one versus one through. Wait, there's a story there.
Speaker 1: This is after the Resurrection. After the Resurrection, the disciples
Speaker 1: go fishing and they're out on the water all night
Speaker 1: and they didn't catch one fish. And so then as
Speaker 1: they're coming into shore, Jesus is there. This is after
Speaker 1: the Resurrection. Jesus encounters them and Jesus says, hey, have
Speaker 1: you caught any He yells from the shore, hey have
Speaker 1: you caught any fish? And they don't know who he is.
Speaker 1: They don't know who this vagabond is on the shore right,
Speaker 1: And they said no, and he said, cast your net
Speaker 1: on the other side. Like, oh, it's Jesus, my word,
Speaker 1: caught up with us again. I thought we were hiding out.
Speaker 1: So they throw the net on the other side and
Speaker 1: they catch all the fish and they come in and
Speaker 1: they're like, oh, my word. And so he's there with
Speaker 1: a fire and he's cooking fish. He's making breakfast for him, right,
Speaker 1: and he he and they come in and he singles
Speaker 1: out Peter, Peter with the loud mouth, with Peter with
Speaker 1: the leader of the pack, Peter with the a class clown,
Speaker 1: Peter with the onery one. And he singles out Peter,
Speaker 1: and he says, Peter you love me more than you
Speaker 1: love these fish, and he uses the word agape. He says,
Speaker 1: do you a gope me more than these more than
Speaker 1: you know you? And Peter answers, Lord, you know I
Speaker 1: fialow you. Now remember in the New Testament when you
Speaker 1: look in the strongs concordance, or you go to your
Speaker 1: et sword, or how many of you have a stronges concordance,
Speaker 1: Well you know you can load it on your phone.
Speaker 1: Now you can get a strongs on your phone. Or
Speaker 1: if you've got an es sword, how maybe have the
Speaker 1: sword on your phone. You don't have to write that down.
Speaker 1: You need esword. It's a free app. You need the
Speaker 1: sword on your phone because if you get loaded sword
Speaker 1: on your phone, you can get into commentaries, you can
Speaker 1: get into studies, you can get into you can get
Speaker 1: into the strongest concordance.
Speaker 2: And the strongs concordance.
Speaker 1: Gives you the original word on every word in the Bible,
Speaker 1: every single word in the Bible. It gives you the
Speaker 1: original word in Hebrew or Greek. So es sword you
Speaker 1: can just I think it's free. So remember in the
Speaker 1: New Testament, when you see the word love, it could
Speaker 1: be one of three things. It could be eros, it
Speaker 1: could be fi lao, it could be a gope. Right,
Speaker 1: so it could be one of those three. So we
Speaker 1: see Jesus, Jesus and Peter are interacting as like it's
Speaker 1: kind of an interesting interaction, right, And so Jesus is saying,
Speaker 1: do you a gop amy and Peter's saying I fullayo you,
Speaker 1: But nonetheless Jesus still gives him specific instruction. Jesus says, okay, well,
Speaker 1: that's good. I can work with that. Feed my sheep.
Speaker 1: If you love me, feed my sheep. If you love me?
Speaker 1: Do you really love me? Do you really love me, Peter?
Speaker 1: I want to talk to you about your love Peter.
Speaker 1: If you really love me, I'm calling you to feed
Speaker 1: my sheep. So that's the first one. There's three times
Speaker 1: he does this three times. The second time he says
Speaker 1: it again, Peter, do you love me? And he says
Speaker 1: do you God amy again and Peter says, Lord, you
Speaker 1: know I fialayo you. God's trying to raise.
Speaker 2: Our level of love and the Holy Spirit, the end
Speaker 2: dwelling Holy Spirit.
Speaker 1: That we've received in salvation is actually the love level raiser.
Speaker 1: Like God has raised our level of love so that
Speaker 1: we can live like him, we can act like him.
Speaker 1: He wants us to carry his characteristics forward. When we do,
Speaker 1: it's a way that we love him. Now, I know
Speaker 1: there's all sorts of ways that we love him, and
Speaker 1: we could. We usually think of those. One is Sunday
Speaker 1: morning church attendance, and we're thinking, I'm going to go
Speaker 1: to church because I love the Lord and that's valid.
Speaker 1: And then the other time we're thinking, I'm going to
Speaker 1: give financially because I love the Lord and that's valid.
Speaker 1: And then you know, somebody else might think of something,
Speaker 1: and you can come up with all of these ways.
Speaker 1: But the emphasis of John twenty one is feed my
Speaker 1: sheep and tend my flock. The second time he asks this,
Speaker 1: the second time, do you agape me? Peter says, I
Speaker 1: fillail you. Then the Lord he gives the same commandment.
Speaker 1: He's like, okay, well I can work with that. But
Speaker 1: here's what I'm asking you to do. Tend my flock.
Speaker 1: The word there is a different word in the Greek
Speaker 1: and it means govern, guide, lead, care for, bring order
Speaker 1: and administration to the flock. So first he says tend
Speaker 1: the flock or I mean feed the flock, and then
Speaker 1: he says, tend the flock. And then he does it again.
Speaker 1: There's a third time, and the third time Peter's like, Lord,
Speaker 1: you know my heart? You know because he says do
Speaker 1: you you?
Speaker 2: God bay me?
Speaker 1: A third time and Peter says, Lord, you know I
Speaker 1: filayo you. Now, this is God working on Peter's heart.
Speaker 1: All of us need our heartwork do on because Holy
Speaker 1: Spirit was calling Peter to a greater level of love
Speaker 1: and a cooperation and a partnership with Holy Spirit in love.
Speaker 1: And honestly, Peter was resisting it. But God wasn't letting up.
Speaker 1: Jesus wasn't letting up. God through the Son was not
Speaker 1: letting up. And so he says it again. He says
Speaker 1: it again. Feed my sheep, Feed my sheep. So this
Speaker 1: is interesting, This is interesting. How do we show our love?
Speaker 1: How do we show our love to Father. It's not
Speaker 1: about the dishwasher, it's not about work. We're not talking
Speaker 1: about the wolf family. We're talking about the family of God.
Speaker 1: How do we show that we love God? We carry
Speaker 1: forward his characteristics. Jesus was the chief shepherd. He cared
Speaker 1: for the flock. He's not here anymore. You're here, He's
Speaker 1: here through you. He's here through me. He says, I am.
Speaker 2: The good shepherd.
Speaker 1: By the way, this is John Tenn He says, I
Speaker 1: am the good shepherd, and I lay down my life
Speaker 1: for the sheep. Every other shepherd that came beforehand, they
Speaker 1: were hilings because they were thinking only about them.
Speaker 2: Oh.
Speaker 1: Oh, that's filayo love. That's the problem with fialao love.
Speaker 1: That's why Peter was in trouble. The problem with fialao
Speaker 1: love is that it's mutual. It demands mutuality. Filao love
Speaker 1: is relational love. It's the emotional love, it's friendship love,
Speaker 1: it's companion love, and requires mutuality. And I'm afraid this
Speaker 1: is the way a lot of us live in church
Speaker 1: even today. Even though we're born of the spirit, we
Speaker 1: haven't graduated up into a gop a love. A gop
Speaker 1: a love is one way love. Filayo love is two
Speaker 1: way love. If you ride a motorcycle like I do,
Speaker 1: you know that two way highways are a lot more
Speaker 1: dangerous than one way highways. On a two way highway,
Speaker 1: you can get hit, so they can be on their phone,
Speaker 1: and if you're on a motorbike, that's not a good day.
Speaker 1: You don't have an airbag, it might not be a
Speaker 1: good day. Two way love is more dangerous than one
Speaker 1: way love. One way love is intentional love. It is
Speaker 1: sacrificial love. It's investing love. It's love so that something
Speaker 1: will bloom. It's love for the benefit of another. One
Speaker 1: way love doesn't require love back. One way love a
Speaker 1: god a love. Let me read to you the difference.
Speaker 1: I've been holding my phone on purpose. You wondered if
Speaker 1: I'd lost my mind, But here I am. My mind
Speaker 1: is still working. But I had a definition here okay,
Speaker 1: a gop a love unconditional, unconditional, you tick me off.
Speaker 1: I'm still going to love you. You've got my parking spot.
Speaker 1: I'm still going to love you. You're singing my song. I'm
Speaker 1: still going to love you. You got first place on the
Speaker 1: Harmony team. I'm still going to love you. I love somebody.
Speaker 1: You got my Spanish girl zone. I'm still going to
Speaker 1: love you. You cult in front of me in the
Speaker 1: coffee line. I'm still going to love you. You took
Speaker 1: my bathroom stall and I'm in trouble. I'm still going
Speaker 1: to love you.
Speaker 3: Let's just get real, folks, Let's get real right there, Maybe.
Speaker 1: Unconditional sacrificial without constraint. It's voluntary. Nobody's making me do it.
Speaker 1: It's volitional, sacrificial, unconditional, volitional, it's of my.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: But you have to understand you can turn off the
Speaker 1: agape or you can turn it on, because you have
Speaker 1: the power in your soul to cooperate with the Holy
Speaker 1: Spirit or to discooperate. I'm afraid that in the church,
Speaker 1: and I'm not looking at anybody in particular, so I'm
Speaker 1: just my eyes room everywhere because i don't want you
Speaker 1: to feel funny. But I'm just afraid that in the
Speaker 1: church mostly we operate in for layo love. I helped
Speaker 1: them move. How come they're not helping me move. I
Speaker 1: flagged down the parking team and got them a spot,
Speaker 1: But when I needed one this week, they weren't there
Speaker 1: for me. I went down volunteered at the church. Nobody
Speaker 1: gave me a shower or of thanks. We had those
Speaker 1: folks over for dinner five times. They've never called us once.
Speaker 1: I served their kids so many times back in Nitro,
Speaker 1: They've never served me one time. I'm sick of this garbage.
Speaker 1: I'm never doing this again. I'm just burnt out. I
Speaker 1: worked in the cafe. For three months, all I wanted
Speaker 1: was a free coffee. I didn't have a dime on me.
Speaker 1: All they gave me was water. Do you know how
Speaker 1: long are you kidding me? I helped her do all
Speaker 1: of her artistic paintings. I provided half of her paints.
Speaker 1: Now when I want one, she wants to sell it
Speaker 1: to me.
Speaker 2: Flao. We're operating out of fialao love.
Speaker 1: We're expecting reciprocation all of the time, and if we
Speaker 1: don't get equal reciprocation, we're ticked off.
Speaker 2: I thought they were a Christian, all right? How long
Speaker 2: have they been serving the Lord? Anyway? We're ticked off.
Speaker 2: We're upset.
Speaker 1: Suddenly judging their level of love when we're not called
Speaker 1: to live there. The Christian is not called to live
Speaker 1: in falao. The Christian is called to live in a gope.
Speaker 1: We build up one another. We care for one another,
Speaker 1: we provide for one another, we esteem one another, we
Speaker 1: honor one another. We help one another, and we don't
Speaker 1: need it in return. We're not looking for a return.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: Agape is so powerful, Remember I told you last week.
Speaker 1: A gope is so powerful that it will resolve conflicts,
Speaker 1: It will win every relationship it will break down every barrier.
Speaker 2: A gope is.
Speaker 1: There's nothing stronger than a gope, nothing in the universe
Speaker 1: stronger than a gope love. And Jesus said, my love
Speaker 1: demonstrated for you is so strong that when I'm lifted
Speaker 1: up in a gope love, it will draw all men
Speaker 1: to me. What's drawing us to Jesus is not the
Speaker 1: holy spirit club of God, the cosmic club of God.
Speaker 1: What's drawing us to Jesus is his life that he
Speaker 1: that he forgives us, that while we were yet sinners,
Speaker 1: Christ died for us and gave himself for us. No
Speaker 1: greater love would one show than to lay down there.
Speaker 1: They lay down their life for a friend, and he
Speaker 1: calls us friends. How could he call us friends who
Speaker 1: have flipped him off in customs, wore and let out
Speaker 1: every kind of profanity of hatred against him, who wanted
Speaker 1: nothing to do with him, who violated everything that he
Speaker 1: ever stood for, And he calls us friends. He calls
Speaker 1: us friends, and then he laid down his life for us.
Speaker 2: That's a gopey love.
Speaker 1: A godpe love is actually what we're supposed to This
Speaker 1: is how the church will flourish. Frank talked about This
Speaker 1: is family day and God's calling us to family.
Speaker 2: This is this is how.
Speaker 1: The church is called to actually grow and mature and flourish.
Speaker 1: Is that we don't keep record of wrong suffered against us,
Speaker 1: That we believe the best about one another, that our
Speaker 1: love for one another never fails, that we desire the
Speaker 1: best for one another.
Speaker 2: This is love. This is First Corinthians thirteen.
Speaker 1: Is the living, abiding, holy Spirit expression of God through us.
Speaker 1: That we're patient. Why should I be patient? They were
Speaker 1: so impatient with me. I want reciprocation. Nope, that's falleo.
Speaker 1: Leave it behind, go to First Peter. Let's go to
Speaker 1: First Peter one twenty two. Okay with me, Listen to
Speaker 1: what fileo is. Falleo is brotherly love. It's friendship or affection,
Speaker 1: and it's literally natural affection. Everybody say natural affection. Now,
Speaker 1: I will submit to you that if you try to
Speaker 1: live out of the flow of agape and you're not
Speaker 1: born of the spirit, connected to the spirit, feeding on
Speaker 1: the spirit, you will burn out. And this is why
Speaker 1: there's so much burnout in churches, Why there's so much
Speaker 1: burnout in the things of God, so much burnout in serving.
Speaker 1: I had a small group and nobody cared about me. Well,
Speaker 1: I had a small group. I fixed snacks every week.
Speaker 1: I fix snacks. Do you have much money it costs
Speaker 1: me to have those snacks? I mean like we had goldfish,
Speaker 1: we had potato chips and dip, we had granola bars
Speaker 1: and kool aid. I mean I was spending thousands of
Speaker 1: dollars on snacks. Nobody gave a rip, nobody cared. Nobody
Speaker 1: nobody ever asked if they could do snacks. So we
Speaker 1: get all burnt out. Why are we burnt out? We're
Speaker 1: disconnected from the head. The head is love. We're disconnected
Speaker 1: from the spirit. Acting like every other Christian, and we're
Speaker 1: comparing our actions with every other Christian, therefore justifying our
Speaker 1: actions because every other small group leaders burnt out too.
Speaker 1: The lords just calling us higher. Come up out of Fialao.
Speaker 1: You don't need reciprocal love. You don't need anybody to
Speaker 1: pat you on the back. You don't need to whine
Speaker 1: and moan about your five dollars on kool aid and cheese.
Speaker 1: It's God is more than enough for you. You're going to
Speaker 1: reap from God. You don't need to reap from people.
Speaker 1: You're going to reap from God, you're not going to
Speaker 1: reap from You don't need to reap from people. You
Speaker 1: never need to reap from the same people you sewed
Speaker 1: into because you did it as unto the Lord. So
Speaker 1: you're going to reap from the Lord. The Lord is
Speaker 1: your reward. Watch him be your supply. All this grumbling
Speaker 1: and complaining and moaning and counting the cost and nobody
Speaker 1: sees it.
Speaker 2: A bunch of garbage.
Speaker 1: It's Falleoh, we're looking for recipitation from humans when God said,
Speaker 1: let me be your source, let me be your supply,
Speaker 1: let me be sufficient, Let me be enough for you,
Speaker 1: Let me be your everything. Let me be your abundance
Speaker 1: for you. Don't you know I've already chosen to put
Speaker 1: in you the anointing of abundance first Peter one, Now
Speaker 1: that you have purified yourselves, can you oh, okay, all right,
Speaker 1: all right, I messed up on this.
Speaker 2: It's my batter.
Speaker 1: I gave you the NIV, and the NIV is just
Speaker 1: not very good on this. And you know what, I
Speaker 1: go to the Bible app right then, that says, are
Speaker 1: you enjoying the Bible app It wants me to take
Speaker 1: a survey, and I'm preaching, so I said no, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, I know that's a mistake. As soon as
Speaker 1: I say no, another thing pops up. Please tell us why. No,
Speaker 1: I'm not telling you why I don't like the Bible.
Speaker 1: App I do like it. I don't have time to
Speaker 1: tell you.
Speaker 3: Why give me a break and let me alone. Bible apse, lovely,
Speaker 3: it's wonderful. Go get a life somewhere Verse twenty two. Okay,
Speaker 3: so we have it in the out of you.
Speaker 1: Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth.
Speaker 1: So you've come to Christ. You've come to Christ. You've
Speaker 1: given your heart to the Lord. Now that you've purified
Speaker 1: yourselves by obeying the truth, so that you have a
Speaker 1: sincere love for one another. The love there, that first
Speaker 1: love is fialao. Now that you've come into Christ, you've
Speaker 1: acknowledged you have a falao for one another. But I'm
Speaker 1: calling you deeper, know a gope one another deeply from
Speaker 1: the heart. Peter is calling now. This is a time
Speaker 1: under great persecution the church. He's writing to a church
Speaker 1: that's greatly distressed and under great persecution, and he's writing
Speaker 1: to them. And we don't see this when we look
Speaker 1: at the text. We don't see this, We just see
Speaker 1: love twice. But what Peter is saying by the Holy
Speaker 1: Spirit is that when you come into Christ, you come
Speaker 1: in and you begin to relate to the body out
Speaker 1: of fialao. But the Holy Spirit is calling you to
Speaker 1: now begin to a gope one another. Thank you you
Speaker 1: went forward, and thank you for going backwards, so that
Speaker 1: you have a sincere love for each other. Now a
Speaker 1: gope one another deeply from the heart. And it goes
Speaker 1: on to say, why, because you've been born of imperishable seed.
Speaker 1: Because you aren't who you are. You're thinking, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: filayo these brothers and sisters. But because you've been born
Speaker 1: of imperison vers. Twenty three place, because you've been born
Speaker 1: of imperishable seed. No, you need to come higher. The
Speaker 1: seed of God in you requires a gape with me.
Speaker 2: We have to stand, we have to close.
Speaker 1: The piano has been back there for a couple minutes,
Speaker 1: and now I'm in big trouble. The beauty, the beauty
Speaker 1: of us coming together, Wow, the beauty of us coming
Speaker 1: together as a body is rich. Actually, us coming together
Speaker 1: is telling Dad today, telling Papa, telling Abbo that we
Speaker 1: love him because we value, we cherish the body. But
Speaker 1: the other way that we cherish the body, and it
Speaker 1: requires a gope and we recognize, Okay, I have a
Speaker 1: goape in me. I'm going to intentionally, out of volition,
Speaker 1: I'm going to serve. It means getting involved, getting involved
Speaker 1: in somebody else's kids. Those aren't my kids. Why in
Speaker 1: the world would I go back and serve in Nitro?
Speaker 1: Those are not my kids. My kids grew up a
Speaker 1: while back. I'm done with kids. Oh really, are you
Speaker 1: done with God? Well, no, I'm not done with God.
Speaker 1: Then you're not done with kids. Sorry, you're not done
Speaker 1: with kids. If you're not done with God, you're not
Speaker 1: done with kids. Because the way we show him that
Speaker 1: we love him is we tend the flock. We feed
Speaker 1: the flock, We care for the flock, we feed the flock.
Speaker 2: This is a gope, a gope.
Speaker 1: So when we think about outreach or hospitality, when we
Speaker 1: think about these ministries, the Altar team, the Destiny tribe,
Speaker 1: tribe needs you, tribe, the youth ministry needs you. What
Speaker 1: am I gonna do with youth? Man, I don't know
Speaker 1: what I'm gonna do with your ministry? Find out, ask
Speaker 1: them how to support they need prayer teams that they
Speaker 1: need prayer covering, they need food, they need they need drivers.
Speaker 1: There's a host of things they need for Tribe youth,
Speaker 1: and then for the Kingdom kids, and then for the
Speaker 1: Nitro kids, and then over here we've got all sorts
Speaker 1: of We've got the Trail Life Ministry, the Heritage Girls Ministry,
Speaker 1: We've got all these ministries here right and we're gonna
Speaker 1: ask you this morning, because we're closing our lead, to
Speaker 1: run around and connect with three ministries. Don't leave the
Speaker 1: room until you connect with three ministries. You're not signing
Speaker 1: up for your life. You're not signing up. You're not
Speaker 1: even signing up. You know you're signing up. You're signing
Speaker 1: up to hear more about it. The leader is going
Speaker 1: to reach out to you and let you know more
Speaker 1: about it. We just had a big transition in the
Speaker 1: Cafe team. We need a bunch of you in the cafe.
Speaker 1: We've got transitions going on, We've got things happening. So
Speaker 1: you're thinking, oh, there's no room for me in that ministry.
Speaker 1: Oh there might be now because things are happening, and
Speaker 1: there's transitions happening all the time in every ministry. And
Speaker 1: you are the person that fits perfectly to make that
Speaker 1: thing happen. So don't leave and get your Spanish calzone,
Speaker 1: your l Salvatorian call zone until you stop by three
Speaker 1: of these and say hi, and say hi the leader,
Speaker 1: and then sign up, sign up, and in doing so
Speaker 1: you're saying, hey, I'd like to know more about it.
Speaker 1: We had over seven hundred on Easter Sunday and we
Speaker 1: didn't have room for all the cars. We need people
Speaker 1: on the parking team. All of this is caring for
Speaker 1: the flock. All of this is tending the flock, and
Speaker 1: all of it says to Father, I love you, I
Speaker 1: love you, Father. We bless your people. Let's put her
Speaker 1: hands on them.
Speaker 2: Let's see this together. Father.
Speaker 1: I agree that the seed of the Spirit, the seed
Speaker 1: of the Word, the seed of God dwells in me,
Speaker 1: that agape love is alive on the inside of me,
Speaker 1: and that I come up higher, I leave Falo behind,
Speaker 1: and I embrace the agpe that You've called me to
Speaker 1: and enabled me with in Jesus' name, And everybody said, amen, Amen,
Speaker 1: let's go, go, go, go, praise the Lord.