Speaker 1: I want to talk to you a little bit about reconciliation.
Speaker 1: So God was in Christ reconciling the world. And I'm
Speaker 1: on this theme of love becoming love. We're still becoming love.
Speaker 1: Anybody's still becoming low. Okay, So I want to draw
Speaker 1: the cornerstone of your house. This is this is just
Speaker 1: a personal revelation. I believe the Lord showed me. If
Speaker 1: you like it, great, if you don't throw it away.
Speaker 1: But this is your house. And the Bible says Jesus
Speaker 1: has become the chief cornerstone.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: So there's four cornerstones to building your life. Four cornerstones
Speaker 1: to building your life. One is the position cornerstone. I
Speaker 1: call this the position cornerstone. If you've been through restored life,
Speaker 1: you've heard me talk about this stuff. This is the
Speaker 1: purpose cornerstone. And this is the partnership cornerstone, because we're
Speaker 1: not meant to build our lives alone. And this is
Speaker 1: the power cornerstone, because we were meant to have all
Speaker 1: power and authority over all things. So in the beginning,
Speaker 1: we know that when Adam fell, that there was an
Speaker 1: assault on hang on, for those of you that are
Speaker 1: up front, when Adam fell, we know there was an
Speaker 1: assault on the position cornerstone. So we went from sons
Speaker 1: and daughters to slaves, right, So there was a there
Speaker 1: was an assault on the position cornerstone. But every cornerstone
Speaker 1: was inverted when Adam fell. Every cornerstone, the cornerstones that
Speaker 1: that's required to build a profitable life, So these cornerstones
Speaker 1: were inverted. Instead of having partnership with one another, we
Speaker 1: were immediately at war with one another. So through the
Speaker 1: fall there was enmity warfare introduced into humanity. So there
Speaker 1: was violence, there was hatred, there was jealousy. Think about
Speaker 1: all the things that are really pretty much common to
Speaker 1: us experiencing every single day in relationships didn't even exist
Speaker 1: until the fall. Those didn't even exist. Jealousy didn't exist,
Speaker 1: Envy didn't exist, Animosity one to another didn't exist.
Speaker 2: So you know, all of that.
Speaker 1: Was introduced with the fall. And over here, what was
Speaker 1: introduced with the fall was inferiority. So what would have
Speaker 1: existed before the fall would have been the confidence, the
Speaker 1: confidence of who we are and our identity. So our
Speaker 1: position released us into confidence, it released us into purpose wherever,
Speaker 1: and what was loosed into this period was inferiority. Remember
Speaker 1: that inferiority, shame, and condemnation. Right, So those were the
Speaker 1: big three of Genesis three fifteen through seventeen, shame and condemnation.
Speaker 1: So those were introduced into the fall. So in other words,
Speaker 1: we related to ourself with doubt, We related to ourself
Speaker 1: with fear.
Speaker 2: So not only were we relating to.
Speaker 1: God with fear, we were relating to our self with fear,
Speaker 1: and inferiority was introduced. So self doubt, regret, self hatred,
Speaker 1: self loathing, self condemnation, all of these attributes were common,
Speaker 1: uh to first Adam. After the fall, then here, as
Speaker 1: you know, what happened is we came under Satan's authority
Speaker 1: and so here we uh, we were subverted. We became
Speaker 1: subordinate to Satan's influence. Right, So when we're restored, when
Speaker 1: we're restored as a son or a daughter, then simultaneously
Speaker 1: these are also restored at the same time, and and
Speaker 1: we become and because because so positionally even think about this, positionally,
Speaker 1: you're restored in harmony with every other person. Yeah, the
Speaker 1: moment you're born of the spirit, you are stored in
Speaker 1: harmony with every other person.
Speaker 2: You become a carrier.
Speaker 1: You are now infected with harmony. You're infected with shalom,
Speaker 1: you're infected with reconciliation. So let's go to Second Corinthia,
Speaker 1: chapter five, real quick, Second Corinthyon chapter five, seventeen through nineteen,
Speaker 1: if we could go there. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ,
Speaker 1: the new Creation has come. The new Creation is not coming.
Speaker 1: The new Creation has come. Now that doesn't mean you're
Speaker 1: not working it out. You are working it out, but
Speaker 1: it has come. If it hadn't come, you couldn't work
Speaker 1: it out. You can only work it out because it
Speaker 1: has come. So you're working your way into the maturity
Speaker 1: of who you are. So he starts with the end
Speaker 1: from the beginning. That's Isaiah forty six. He starts with
Speaker 1: the end. He sees you perfect before you are. He
Speaker 1: covers you with perfect blood and righteousness before you are,
Speaker 1: and that enables you to work it out and to
Speaker 1: bring your flesh under subjection, and to bring your soul
Speaker 1: under subjection, and to bring demons who had a claim
Speaker 1: on first atom, they had a claim on you, to
Speaker 1: bring them under subjection. Put them under your feet. If
Speaker 1: you tread upon them, they obey you. You don't obey them.
Speaker 1: If anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come,
Speaker 1: the old has gone.
Speaker 2: Then it is here.
Speaker 1: All of this is from God, who reconciled us to
Speaker 1: himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation.
Speaker 1: So he reconciled us to himself. But when he did that,
Speaker 1: because he broke down Ephesian Seu says, he broke down
Speaker 1: the dividing wall dividing between us one to another, the
Speaker 1: dividing wall of animosity. He broke that down and made
Speaker 1: peace through his blood. He broke down animosity between us, tribes, races, tongues, kindred.
Speaker 1: Remember at Babble, they were scattered. The scattering was the
Speaker 1: overflow of rebellion that empowered even more, the animosity, the tribalism,
Speaker 1: the warfare, the contention. This is why, as we near
Speaker 1: the end, everybody beats their swords in the plowshares. I'm
Speaker 1: trading my gun in for a harvester, right. So that's
Speaker 1: because what's happening as peace is growing, reconciliation is winning,
Speaker 1: love is triumphing. So he gave us and so he
Speaker 1: gave us the ministry of reconciliation. So not only did
Speaker 1: he reconcile you, but he gave you the ministry of reconciliation.
Speaker 1: So you're a reconciler. That's the end of person him.
Speaker 1: Thank you, pastor what were you thinking God? And God
Speaker 1: was reconciling the world. Oh there's verse ieteen that God
Speaker 1: was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting
Speaker 1: people's sins against them, and he is committed to us
Speaker 1: that ministry of reconciliation. Let's just say that again. Maybe
Speaker 1: let's just meditate on that, not counting their sins against them.
Speaker 1: How do we reconcile with people? Well, you just need
Speaker 1: them to repent. I need them to change, I need
Speaker 1: them to shape up, I need them to acknowledge, I
Speaker 1: need them.
Speaker 2: Oh really, God didn't need that.
Speaker 1: God sent God sent his love to us in Christ
Speaker 1: to reconcile us in Christ, not counting their sins against them,
Speaker 1: meaning that the blood of Jesus, the sacrifice of Jesus,
Speaker 1: the victory of Jesus on the cross, the payment, the propitiation,
Speaker 1: the sacrifice, fast official payment of Jesus was sufficient for
Speaker 1: the judgment we deserve. So if it's sufficient for the
Speaker 1: judgment we deserve, then he doesn't need to talk to
Speaker 1: us about judgment. Hello, some money I'm just messing with
Speaker 1: us a little bit. I'm just trying to lead us
Speaker 1: into this a little bit. Uh and uh, And I
Speaker 1: want you to I want you to see that this
Speaker 1: is this is when I say this is already, this
Speaker 1: is already yours.
Speaker 2: Uh, it's because you're in Christ.
Speaker 1: And so Christ didn't Christ isn't recognizing Christ isn't reconciling
Speaker 1: part of the world to himself.
Speaker 2: What he did.
Speaker 1: His love is flying up here at an altitude that
Speaker 1: is above circumstances, and it's above situations, And it's above
Speaker 1: whether you've burned it or not. And it's even above
Speaker 1: whether you reject.
Speaker 2: Him or not.
Speaker 1: His love is hovering at an altitude that.
Speaker 2: Is above all of that, his love for.
Speaker 1: Us, so that every one of us can be reconciled
Speaker 1: to God, every person can be reconciled to God. And
Speaker 1: that is the love that now abides in you and
Speaker 1: abides in me. And this love abides in us with
Speaker 1: regard to our spouse. This love abides in us with
Speaker 1: regard to relatives and friends and homeworkers. This love abides
Speaker 1: in us with regard to unbelievers and believers alike. This
Speaker 1: love abides so there's a love. There's a love that
Speaker 1: abides in us. Can I make it bigger? I'll make
Speaker 1: it bigger. It's more impressive, this love that abides in
Speaker 1: us at this altitude, above every situation, above all rejection,
Speaker 1: above all attitudinal fits, above all falling short, above all circumstances,
Speaker 1: above all performance of earning. That love is constant, It
Speaker 1: is sacrificial, It is unconditional, and it is flowing to us,
Speaker 1: whether we're having a fit or not. It is flowing
Speaker 1: to us, whether even if we're rejecting him. Here's this love,
Speaker 1: This love is just still being poured out, a fire hose.
Speaker 2: Of love over your life.
Speaker 1: Now, here's what God, here's what the Bible says. That
Speaker 1: love is so powerful that love will draw people to you.
Speaker 1: It'll draw people to God. It'll draw And Jesus said,
Speaker 1: if I am lifted up, if I am lifted up, Now,
Speaker 1: why would the lifting up part be important? The fulfillment was.
Speaker 1: The fulfillment was the picture of Him on the cross.
Speaker 1: If I be lifted up, I will draw all men
Speaker 1: unto myself.
Speaker 2: How does that work?
Speaker 1: Because love demonstrated through sacrifice is reconcilatory, It is powerful.
Speaker 2: It draws people to you.
Speaker 1: Whenever you behave in a manner that is beyond and
Speaker 1: above what people deserve. That grace and mercy that you're
Speaker 1: demonstrating draws people to you instead of pushes people away
Speaker 1: from you. Are you hearing what I'm saying? First, John
Speaker 1: four eight and nine. Let's go there. First, John four
Speaker 1: eight and nine. This is where John quotes a problem.
Speaker 1: John quotes a problem here. Whoever does not love does
Speaker 1: not know God, because God is love. Oh, that's not
Speaker 1: the one I wanted. Well, it's verse nine? Is there
Speaker 1: a verse nine? No, I didn't load verse nine. Hmmm,
Speaker 1: I don't think that's the one I wanted.
Speaker 2: Lord, help my brain.
Speaker 1: The one I wanted, the one I wanted you to see?
Speaker 2: It says, what is it? What is it? Oh? First Peter? Sorry?
Speaker 1: Sorry, sorry, first Peter. Four First Peter four eight nine.
Speaker 1: I had a address verb. Above all love each other deeply,
Speaker 1: because love covers. This is where he's quoting a proverb,
Speaker 1: because love covers over a multitude of sins. Above all
Speaker 1: love each other deeply. This is a gope. So he's
Speaker 1: talking about a gope. Love the goape is not the
Speaker 1: fhileo love fileleio. Love is brotherly kindness and brotherly kindness
Speaker 1: is a conditional love. Eros is the third word for
Speaker 1: love in the Greek. Eros is erotic. It's where we
Speaker 1: get erotic love from. So it's more of a sexual love.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: So, but this is a gope love above all, a
Speaker 1: gope each other deeply, because a gope love covers over
Speaker 1: a multitude of sins. So I want you to I
Speaker 1: want you to see this is part. This is part
Speaker 1: of reconciliation. Is that that I'm reconciled in Christ to humanity.
Speaker 1: But I'm gonna work that out as a minister of reconciliation.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna work that out as a minister of reconciliation.
Speaker 1: As people are drawn to me, they'll be in the
Speaker 1: process drawn to who I receive.
Speaker 2: My love from. Does that make sense?
Speaker 1: So this is why, this is why the Cross broke
Speaker 1: down the animosity between me and one another. And the
Speaker 1: Cross shows me, for one, is that because I'm restored
Speaker 1: in Christ, you don't have my stuff. You can't get
Speaker 1: my stuff. There's nothing you can do to me that
Speaker 1: will surpass God's blessings that He already preordained toward me.
Speaker 1: So you're no longer my enemy or my competitor. You're
Speaker 1: my completion. So in Christ we complete one another. We
Speaker 1: don't compete with one another. In Christ, we become partners.
Speaker 1: And we see that in Christ that I can't fulfill
Speaker 1: my purpose without you, I'm actually meant. I'm actually meant
Speaker 1: for purpose fulfillment. To see that manifested with you and
Speaker 1: not alone. That makes sense. So let's talk about the
Speaker 1: covering part, because that's what the blood does. The Old
Speaker 1: Testament talks about the covering of the shed blood, and
Speaker 1: the covering of the shed blood of a sacrifice is
Speaker 1: so that mercy would be shown to a person, so
Speaker 1: that a person wouldn't rea see what they deserve. So
Speaker 1: wherever there is this word covering, as in the Old Testament,
Speaker 1: and then here Peter's quoting it, wherever there's this word covering,
Speaker 1: then what's happening is that where you've got a chasm
Speaker 1: in a relationship, love is going to build a bridge
Speaker 1: over that chasm. And it's going to build a bridge
Speaker 1: over that chasm because love is the sacrifice love, and
Speaker 1: love is costly, as if you were shedding your blood.
Speaker 2: The love that we show to one another.
Speaker 1: When there is separation, where there's animosity, where there's rebellion,
Speaker 1: where there's rejection, where there's failure, where there's contempt, where
Speaker 1: there's difficulty, where there's disagreement. The love is at a
Speaker 1: high altitude. That love doesn't need somebody to be perfect
Speaker 1: for it to be demonstrated, and that love isn't pointing
Speaker 1: out the chasm. That love is building a bridge over
Speaker 1: the chasm.
Speaker 2: But that's costly.
Speaker 1: It's costly to love when things are tough, when things
Speaker 1: are challenging, when things are negative, where things are of
Speaker 1: a bad report, when things it's it's costly, it's hard
Speaker 1: to do. It's going to mean, it's sacrificial. You felt
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. It's sacrificial to love that way. That
Speaker 1: sacrifice is as if there's the shedding of blood. You're
Speaker 1: giving up yourself. I'm going to love you at my
Speaker 1: own cost, at the cost of me. I'm going to
Speaker 1: love you. Why am I gonna do that? Because I'm loved,
Speaker 1: Because I'm loved, and because I'm loved and have received love,
Speaker 1: and I'm no longer functioning in a need to be loved.
Speaker 1: This love doesn't even need to be loved. You know
Speaker 1: what's wrong with mom and dads today? And their kids.
Speaker 1: They need their kids to love them. You know why
Speaker 1: they need their kids to love them, because they aren't
Speaker 1: secure in God's love. If you aren't secure in God's love,
Speaker 1: you need your kids to love you. If you need
Speaker 1: your kids to love you, You've got an inverse relationship with
Speaker 1: your family, your children. I'm talking about raising kids. I'm
Speaker 1: not talking about adult kids, well even adult kids, even
Speaker 1: adult kids.
Speaker 2: I don't need them to love me.
Speaker 1: I need to love them.
Speaker 2: I live to love them. I don't live for them
Speaker 2: to love me. I live to love them. Are you
Speaker 2: with me? Let me?
Speaker 1: I want to give you an example of how this
Speaker 1: kind of works. Last week I talked to you about
Speaker 1: and part of what I'm talking about is like living
Speaker 1: in an atmosphere of forgiveness, creating within you, creating within
Speaker 1: you an atmosphere of forgiveness, Like this is what you
Speaker 1: walk in. So instead of walking with an inner atmosphere
Speaker 1: of offense, looking for people to fail you and looking
Speaker 1: for how they're failing you and looking to point that out,
Speaker 1: you're walking in an inner atmosphere of forgiveness, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, So that you're constantly looking for opportunities
Speaker 1: to pour out mercy and grace. That have to pour
Speaker 1: out judgment. Where are our opportunities? Because when you pour
Speaker 1: out mercy and grace, it draws people to you. When
Speaker 1: you pour out judgment, it pushes people away from you.
Speaker 1: This is how God got all of us in this room.
Speaker 1: He got all of us in this room because Jesus
Speaker 1: was lifted up in love. He was the demonstration of
Speaker 1: the fullness of God's wilful a godad choice toward us
Speaker 1: when we didn't deserve a thing, when we were unworthy
Speaker 1: as can be, when there was no way for us
Speaker 1: to earn ourselves into a place with God. God sent
Speaker 1: the sun as a demonstration of love, and that's how
Speaker 1: he got us in this room. We are drawn to
Speaker 1: him not because of judgment. We are drawn to him
Speaker 1: because of mercy, because we deserved so much more judgment.
Speaker 1: We deserve judgment, but we're not getting it. I'll give
Speaker 1: you just a couple examples, a practical one. I talked
Speaker 1: to you last week about Airbnb when we went to
Speaker 1: Pasadena two weeks ago.
Speaker 2: And I'm a netpicker. What's the nitpicker? I don't know.
Speaker 1: Will that fly on the television? Nitpicker? I find everything
Speaker 1: wrong with everything, you know, potentially probably sometimes you might
Speaker 1: be better at that than me, because.
Speaker 2: I overlook a lot, I cover a.
Speaker 1: Lot, but I have airbnbs, so when I go to, say,
Speaker 1: in an airbb, I catch stuff right, and and the
Speaker 1: others in the house with us, you know, we had
Speaker 1: others from staff and elders with us, and they catch stuff.
Speaker 1: So on the thread, I started sending him some notes
Speaker 1: him or her, you know, sending some notes. You know, hey,
Speaker 1: we found this wrong. The master bedroom lights don't work,
Speaker 1: and and you know we only you know, he left
Speaker 1: us six coffee pods, so I think we could use
Speaker 1: some more than you know. And I just shot him
Speaker 1: a bunch of notes about the airbnb. Well, you know
Speaker 1: that I was building a chasm. Now Ephesians four fifteen says,
Speaker 1: speak to truth and love. Well, it's hard for him
Speaker 1: to pick up any love in a thread on a
Speaker 1: text message. Most people read a text message with negativity,
Speaker 1: with fear. So I'm building this good chasm. So he's expecting,
Speaker 1: he's expecting a one or a two star, but instead I.
Speaker 2: Gave him a five star.
Speaker 1: Because as we're talking through the thread, he's like, oh
Speaker 1: thank you, oh thank you, for letting me know about that.
Speaker 2: Oh that's good. I didn't know that. We'll jump on that.
Speaker 1: I'm not figuring this guy gave me a shack on purpose.
Speaker 1: He posted his airbnb. He's just a scoundrel. It's just
Speaker 1: a shack. He just posted his shack on purpose. He's
Speaker 1: just ripping me off on burpose. No, no, no, I'm
Speaker 1: not thinking that. Because love a gope that floods your
Speaker 1: heart and my heart.
Speaker 2: Firs.
Speaker 1: Corinthians thirteen defines it, and it says that love thinks
Speaker 1: the best of all things. Love believes the best. Love
Speaker 1: thinks the best. And so I'm not thinking the worst.
Speaker 1: I'm thinking the best. And so he's texting me back. Okay,
Speaker 1: we'll jump right on that one. But he knows there's
Speaker 1: a big chasm because I've sent him for these big messages.
Speaker 1: But when it's all done, I gave him a five star.
Speaker 2: See the truth. The truth.
Speaker 1: Set the stage for a chasm, but love built a bridge.
Speaker 1: So he immediately sent me fifty dollars. He's like, Wow,
Speaker 1: I can't believe you did this. This is amazing. Thank
Speaker 1: you so much for not docking me's you know, like
Speaker 1: you had every right to dock me and thank you
Speaker 1: for not docking me. We're gonna jump right on this stuff.
Speaker 1: And here's fifty dollars off of you know, here's fifty
Speaker 1: dollars off. So that's just a little practical thing. Thursday night,
Speaker 1: I asked if I could tell him, Elder Jeff, he's
Speaker 1: not here to defend himself now. The first service he was,
Speaker 1: and so I asked him graciously if I could shame
Speaker 1: him in front of the whole congregation. He said yes,
Speaker 1: that'd be fine. So but Thursday night we had Restored Life,
Speaker 1: I had to be in a different meeting in the building.
Speaker 2: So I'm back in this other meeting.
Speaker 1: So I reached out to Elder Jeff, who's familiar with
Speaker 1: the Restored Life in the class. I reach out to
Speaker 1: Elder Jeff ahead of time, many days ahead of him,
Speaker 1: and I said, could you cover, you know, be the
Speaker 1: MC for Restored Life. We're going to show a video
Speaker 1: and then I want you to open this way. I
Speaker 1: want you to close this way, and then you know,
Speaker 1: get some reflections and thoughts and we could put people
Speaker 1: in small groups and you know, prayer over people and
Speaker 1: that kind of thing, and we'll just have a great night.
Speaker 1: And oh, yeah, I'd love to do that. When I
Speaker 1: came out of my When I came out of my
Speaker 1: meeting at seven twenty one, in the back of the building,
Speaker 1: Adriana was up here, our restort life assistant was up
Speaker 1: here on the microphone leading the meeting, and they weren't
Speaker 1: sure in the video yet, and I'm like, you know,
Speaker 1: so I came in the back and I gave her
Speaker 1: that deer in the headlight look, you know, and she's like,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, And so, you know, she gets us to
Speaker 1: a place where she could, you know, break us into
Speaker 1: the video, and then she comes and she's like, I
Speaker 1: don't know who this older Jeff guy is, but he
Speaker 1: never showed up. So so I, uh, I texted him,
Speaker 1: you know, I texted him as point in the night,
Speaker 1: not at that moment. By the way, what a lot
Speaker 1: of us do is we react to things before we
Speaker 1: think a lot of us what we're what we're doing
Speaker 1: is we're not thinking how can I how.
Speaker 2: Can I build a bridge?
Speaker 1: We're thinking how can I dig a chasm? And so
Speaker 1: when things go sideways, we pull out a shovel. We
Speaker 1: pull out a shovel, and we start pondering how we're
Speaker 1: gonna dig that chasm. I'm gonna tell them a thing
Speaker 1: or two. Wait till I get them on the phone.
Speaker 1: Can I don't do. I have to wait till the
Speaker 1: end of the meeting. I can't believe how they made me.
Speaker 1: Look look at this now, everybody thanks restored. Life is stupid.
Speaker 1: The leadership is stupid. You're gonna blame the whole thing
Speaker 1: on pastor Dwayne. He's stupid too. And we're just digging
Speaker 1: this big shovel. I'm gonna give them a piece of
Speaker 1: my mind. Right, And this is what happened. We don't realize.
Speaker 1: We gotta we gotta stay over here? Is it?
Speaker 2: No matter what, nothing can steal who? Uh?
Speaker 1: You know what this is? By the way, this is
Speaker 1: this is uh. This is self love. Self love, self
Speaker 1: love abides in. I am loved. The proper Romans says,
Speaker 1: nothing can steal God's love from you. Nothing, tribulation, hardship, hunger, famine, difficulty,
Speaker 1: nothing can steal God's love from you, Nor can someone
Speaker 1: failing you. Right, So that means we can stay up
Speaker 1: here in this realm. I can only love you. This
Speaker 1: is my partnership. This is loving others. I can only
Speaker 1: love you to the degree that I love myself. I
Speaker 1: can only love myself to the degree that I receive love.
Speaker 1: But there's another factor, because many times we don't get
Speaker 1: delivered from those voices that belong to first atom. So
Speaker 1: many of us, even in this room today, including your yours, Truly,
Speaker 1: I'm doing better second service because I had to preach
Speaker 1: to myself the whole first service, because uh, what I
Speaker 1: tend to do, and this is this is unclean, it's wrong,
Speaker 1: it's not right. But what I tend to do is
Speaker 1: I tend to when somebody fails me and somebody does
Speaker 1: something wrong, somebody messes up. Could even be that beautiful
Speaker 1: thing that this five foot seven that I live with
Speaker 1: h I like to let them know. And usually when
Speaker 1: I'm letting them know, it's not there's not like an
Speaker 1: Ephesians four fifteen tone to it.
Speaker 2: Speak the truth and love.
Speaker 1: You know, when you speak the truth and love, it's
Speaker 1: probably like, honey, honey, love, come here, let me give
Speaker 1: you a kiss.
Speaker 2: Honey.
Speaker 1: Did you know that when the dish rag is in
Speaker 1: the sink filled with crowd, it's just not that wonderful.
Speaker 1: Could we partner together on cleaning it better and hanging
Speaker 1: it up.
Speaker 2: Right? Yesterday.
Speaker 1: I'm saying that because yesterday I'm like, she's behind me.
Speaker 1: I'm like, honey, I really don't like the dish rag
Speaker 1: down in the bottom of the sink. You hear that tone,
Speaker 1: you hear that you kind of have to raise your
Speaker 1: voice at the end of it.
Speaker 2: That's the sink. You know what? She said.
Speaker 1: So gently? I heard the sparrow from behind me. I
Speaker 1: don't either. I'm like, she just popped the balloon. She
Speaker 1: just she just took the air right out of my
Speaker 1: my little You know, I was gonna.
Speaker 2: Give her a jab right there. I know she's the
Speaker 2: one that did it. She put that dish rag down here,
Speaker 2: give her a little jab. She just popped.
Speaker 1: Oh oh, you don't. I wonder who put it in there.
Speaker 1: Then I was just okay, well, I'll talk to Bob
Speaker 1: when he drops in next time.
Speaker 2: Like, what do you say with that? Right? First? Sean
Speaker 2: for God is love. This is verse sixteen. Whoever lives.
Speaker 1: In Love lives in God and God in them. And
Speaker 1: this is how we know, and this is how love
Speaker 1: is made complete among us.
Speaker 2: This is I think this is the envy. I don't
Speaker 2: know what it is. God is Love.
Speaker 1: Whoever lives in love lives in God and God in them.
Speaker 1: This is how love is made complete or perfect among us,
Speaker 1: so that we will have confidence in the day of judgment.
Speaker 1: In this world we are like Jesus. For in this
Speaker 1: world we are like Jesus. There is no fear in love,
Speaker 1: but perfect love drives out fear because fear has to
Speaker 1: do with punishment. The one who fears is not made
Speaker 1: perfect in love. In other words, whenever we incite, whenever
Speaker 1: we incite fear or punishment or punishment which will always
Speaker 1: bring forth fear because punishment will bring forth fear concerning
Speaker 1: the next failure. Relationally, Whenever we do that, we aren't
Speaker 1: helping that other person rise up into being loved and
Speaker 1: dismissing the fear that's now attached to the relationship.
Speaker 2: Give you an example, you want to hear the rest
Speaker 2: of the story.
Speaker 1: So I text Elder Jeff some kind of a very
Speaker 1: kind thing, just said, hey, I was hoping to see
Speaker 1: you tonight.
Speaker 2: Is all okay, right?
Speaker 1: And then he shoots me another Yeah, how can I
Speaker 1: call him so? On my way out of the gate.
Speaker 1: You know, we called each other and and he's like,
Speaker 1: he's ready for punishment. You know what I'm talking about
Speaker 1: in our relationships, when we fail one another, we're ready
Speaker 1: for punishment. There's the fear of punishment, and we're ready
Speaker 1: for punishment. But perfect love dismisses that fear because in
Speaker 1: perfect love, our goal is not punishment, it's to build
Speaker 1: a bridge and win the other person.
Speaker 2: By drawing them near. With Grayson Mercy, so he.
Speaker 1: Starts going off on his Yeah, I switched to another calendar,
Speaker 1: and I'm so sorry, and he's just giving me this
Speaker 1: mountain of a mountainous, beautiful, you know, repentance. But I'm like,
Speaker 1: it's okay, you know, don't worry. You know, we had
Speaker 1: it covered. It worked out just perfect. I walked out
Speaker 1: at the perfect timing. Nothing was lost, Everything's fine. I
Speaker 1: had every right. I had every right, as does Adam.
Speaker 1: First atom, first atom, not the new atom. I'm now
Speaker 1: born in the new Atom. I'm now born again of
Speaker 1: holy Spirit and the love of God. The gopy of
Speaker 1: God is trying to burst through my spirit man, through
Speaker 1: the arguments of my soul, and be animated through my
Speaker 1: body and my mouth. But first Adam has every right
Speaker 1: to be like, Jeff, what in the world happened to you?
Speaker 2: Dude?
Speaker 1: You let me down. You made the whole thing look terrible.
Speaker 1: We were scrambling, we didn't know what to do. Just
Speaker 1: so stupid of you to miss. Aren't you a grown man?
Speaker 1: I can't believe you did this. Do you do this
Speaker 1: with other stuff?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: And or something? Have you talked to Karen Lateley? No wonders.
Speaker 2: She's like, what in the world with you?
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. This is how we could relate.
Speaker 1: This is how the old person would relate. But we're
Speaker 1: called to reconcile every relationship. We're called to reconcile every failure,
Speaker 1: every hurt, every damage, every bruise, every faltering. We are
Speaker 1: called to build a bridge over those things and to
Speaker 1: throw our shovel away.
Speaker 2: Throw your shovel away.
Speaker 1: Do not dig a deeper chasm when your brain starts
Speaker 1: going into that realm like I just can't wait to
Speaker 1: give them a piece of my mind. You better throw
Speaker 1: that mind back in the baptismal tank. That's the wrong
Speaker 1: mind to give them a peace of them. The mind
Speaker 1: you need to give them the peace of is one strength.
Speaker 1: In thirteen, you're gonna believe all things that are true
Speaker 1: and lovely. You're not going to see them in malice.
Speaker 1: You're going to see them the best in them. You're
Speaker 1: going to be faith. Your love is up here at
Speaker 1: an altitude. Your love is flying at an altitude that
Speaker 1: circumstances can't touch. Situations cannot touch, failures cannot touch, rejection
Speaker 1: cannot touch for four months, or the lack thereof cannot touch.
Speaker 1: Your love is God's love. You are filled with God's love.
Speaker 1: And whatever's contradicting that is not of God and needs
Speaker 1: to be thrown out and dismissed. And no longer do
Speaker 1: we listen to that which contradicts God's love.