WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:04.920 This morning is genuine love, having genuine love. 00:04.920 --> 00:08.640 2 Corinthians 6, verse 4 says, 00:08.640 --> 00:11.040 but in all things approving ourselves 00:11.040 --> 00:15.160 as the ministers of God in much patience and afflictions 00:15.160 --> 00:18.320 and necessities and distresses and stripes 00:18.320 --> 00:21.600 and imprisonments and tumults and labors and watchings 00:21.600 --> 00:25.480 and fastings by pureness, by knowledge, 00:25.480 --> 00:28.000 by long suffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost. 00:28.000 --> 00:30.000 I want you to notice this by love 00:30.480 --> 00:36.620 Unfamed now, what does it mean to have love unfaimable? What is unfaimed love? It means real love 00:36.940 --> 00:39.380 Famed love is fake. Love. It's 00:39.900 --> 00:44.880 Dissimulated love it's a false love and the Bible is telling us here that we as God's people 00:45.400 --> 00:51.060 Should be approved as the ministers of God the servants of God by having these lists of qualities 00:51.060 --> 00:54.560 And one of the things that it says here is that we need to make sure that we have genuine 00:55.080 --> 00:56.000 sincere 00:56.000 --> 01:02.920 Love genuine sincere love towards the Lord towards others towards our brothers and sisters in Christ towards the lost 01:03.180 --> 01:09.160 We should be characterized by a genuine love according to the Bible first Timothy chapter 5 01:09.160 --> 01:14.200 You don't have to turn there stay there in 2nd Corinthians 1st Timothy 5 verse 1 says now the end of the commandment 01:15.000 --> 01:18.840 It's charity out of a pure heart and of a good conscience and of faith 01:19.600 --> 01:26.120 Unfamed Romans chapter 12 verse 9 says this listen. Let love be without dissimulation 01:26.800 --> 01:31.060 Abhor that which is evil cleaved to that which is good. What is he saying here? 01:31.060 --> 01:36.580 He's saying in Romans chapter 12 make sure that your love isn't fake. It's not just this 01:37.360 --> 01:41.480 Insincere love where you're just faking the whole thing. It's simulated 01:42.000 --> 01:47.120 Make sure that your love is without the simulation and I want you to notice that it says abhor that which is evil 01:47.500 --> 01:51.800 Meaning that this is showing us that some people claim to have love 01:51.800 --> 01:54.300 But they also love that which is evil 01:54.300 --> 01:59.800 Whereas the Bible tells us that if we're going to have a sincere, genuine love towards the things of God, towards others 01:59.800 --> 02:06.900 It merits us to abhor hate, despise that which is evil according to the Bible 02:06.900 --> 02:09.900 It goes on to say, be kindly affection one to another 02:10.300 --> 02:14.140 with brotherly love in honor, preferring one another. 02:14.140 --> 02:16.540 You know, obviously what the Bible's telling us here 02:16.540 --> 02:19.140 is that we as God's people need to make sure that we have love. 02:19.140 --> 02:20.940 And love is obviously a fruit of the Spirit. 02:20.940 --> 02:23.100 We know that God is love. 02:23.100 --> 02:25.820 And so it's important for us to learn how to love. 02:25.820 --> 02:28.020 We obviously know that the Bible tells us that 02:28.020 --> 02:30.500 once we get saved, we become children of God. 02:30.500 --> 02:32.500 We're taught of God how to love. 02:32.700 --> 02:36.860 But that doesn't mean that we're not supposed to abound and grow in our love as well 02:36.860 --> 02:39.580 and learn how to become loving individuals. 02:39.580 --> 02:41.580 Now, why is a sermon like this important? 02:41.580 --> 02:45.660 Well, because of the fact that this world, you know, lukewarm Christians, 02:45.660 --> 02:50.940 compromising Christians are always defining for us what it means to love, okay? 02:51.700 --> 03:01.000 Fake churches out there, fake pastors and fake preachers are constantly condemning Christians for their so-called lack of love. 03:01.000 --> 03:07.600 Oh, these people are not loving. Your preaching is not loving. That doctrine is not loving. You're just not loving enough. 03:07.600 --> 03:14.400 No, actually, you just have a fake definition of what love is. You actually just don't know what the Bible says about what it means to love others. 03:14.400 --> 03:17.400 Okay. And we have to, you know, stop allowing. 03:17.800 --> 03:25.200 these internet type people, these fake pastors, these insincere individuals who try to define for us what it means to love. 03:25.200 --> 03:29.600 And for sure we need to stop letting unsaid people define for us what love is. 03:29.600 --> 03:30.600 Right? 03:30.600 --> 03:32.800 You know what unsaid people say? Oh man, that's very Christ-like. 03:32.800 --> 03:34.600 It's like you don't even know who Jesus is. 03:35.300 --> 03:40.100 How are you going to tell me what it's like to be like Christ when you've rejected Him? 03:40.100 --> 03:44.500 You claim you don't even believe in Him, but somehow you're going to hold me to that standard 03:44.500 --> 03:48.980 even though you have no idea who Jesus is? You've never read the Bible? You don't know 03:48.980 --> 03:53.060 any doctrine? You don't believe in God? But yet you're going to tell me that I'm not Christ-like? 03:53.620 --> 03:57.140 Oh, what would Jesus do? He would do exactly what I'm doing. 03:58.400 --> 04:04.340 So, you know the Bible says that we have the mind of Christ the Bible tells us that the natural man referring to the unsaved 04:04.340 --> 04:07.400 Person receive it not the things of the Spirit of God neither 04:07.400 --> 04:13.300 Can you know them for their spiritually discern they should not to take the covenant of God in their mouths and try to condemn us 04:13.300 --> 04:18.240 As Christians and say well, you know, that's very loving as a Christian 04:18.240 --> 04:22.520 Yeah, actually it is very loving as a Christian, but you wouldn't know that because you haven't read the Bible 04:22.520 --> 04:26.360 You know, I'm not gonna allow unsafe people to tell me what it means to love someone 04:26.400 --> 04:30.400 what love means because at the end of the day, my God is love. 04:30.400 --> 04:34.400 And he's taught me within his word what that means and how that looks. 04:34.400 --> 04:40.400 And so, you know, if you've gone to these weak, you know, limp wristed type churches, 04:40.400 --> 04:45.400 these soft churches, you probably have been infected with this fake love. 04:45.400 --> 04:49.400 You probably have been demonstrated fake love, you've been preached that with fake love, 04:49.400 --> 04:54.300 you've been fellowshiped with fake love, maybe you might have a little fake love of yourself. 04:55.400 --> 04:57.900 You might have some sort of fake love in you, 04:57.900 --> 05:03.500 and it's my agenda today to remove that fake love from you 05:03.500 --> 05:06.700 and teach you what it's like to have genuine love according 05:06.700 --> 05:07.700 to the Bible. 05:07.700 --> 05:09.300 Now, you're in 2 Corinthians chapter 6. 05:09.300 --> 05:10.900 Go to chapter 7, if you would. 05:10.900 --> 05:12.200 Chapter 7. 05:13.000 --> 05:16.760 We're going to talk about genuine sincere love today. 05:16.760 --> 05:22.200 And look folks, obviously I understand that sometimes Christians can become, 05:22.200 --> 05:29.880 you know, quote unquote, fair sacral. They can lack love. They can struggle in that area for sure. 05:29.880 --> 05:34.680 You know, if a Christian is not walking in the spirit, they're not reading the word of God, 05:34.680 --> 05:40.520 they're not fellowshipping with the Lord, they can, you know, become cold-hearted towards others. 05:41.000 --> 05:42.600 towards the things of God. 05:42.600 --> 05:43.420 Okay? 05:43.420 --> 05:44.380 And at the end of the day, 05:44.380 --> 05:46.320 we need to make sure that we grow in our love. 05:46.320 --> 05:48.620 Yeah, we have love in our hearts because of God, 05:48.620 --> 05:49.460 but you know what? 05:49.460 --> 05:52.740 The Bible also requires for us to grow in that area, 05:52.740 --> 05:54.820 to cultivate that love as well, 05:54.820 --> 05:56.940 and work on it on a daily basis. 05:56.940 --> 05:58.780 Now the first point I wanna make here 05:58.780 --> 06:01.020 regarding genuine love is that genuine love, 06:01.020 --> 06:02.960 listen to this, is an emotion. 06:03.300 --> 06:06.920 Okay, we don't want to go so far in the opposite extreme and think to ourselves 06:07.140 --> 06:10.340 Well, no, the Bible says other things about love doesn't have to be an emotion 06:10.340 --> 06:13.140 No, actually according to the Bible it is an emotion 06:13.460 --> 06:18.500 Bible tells us to love the Lord thy God with all thy heart soul mind and strength 06:18.540 --> 06:24.820 Right talks about loving God with our hearts and with their strength meaning that God wants us to be emotionally involved 06:25.340 --> 06:31.300 When we love God and when we love others not just be this robot this person who's just in motion 06:31.300 --> 06:39.420 Emotionless just despondent towards others and towards God he wants us to have some emotion when we're praying some emotion when we're talking to others 06:39.420 --> 06:46.520 He wants us to have that genuine love that exerts that emotion look at 2nd Corinthians chapter 7 verse 14 says for if I have 06:46.520 --> 06:49.240 Boasted anything to him of you. I am NOT ashamed 06:50.100 --> 06:57.980 But as we spake all things to you in truth, even so are boasting which I made before Titus is found a truth 06:58.500 --> 07:00.860 His inward listen to this his inward 07:01.380 --> 07:08.340 Affection is more abundant toward you whilst he remembereth the obedience of you all how with fear and trembling 07:08.700 --> 07:11.500 Ye received him what is the Bible telling us here? 07:11.500 --> 07:16.020 it's telling us that Titus when he's reporting about the church at Corinth as 07:16.580 --> 07:18.580 carnal as they were as 07:18.660 --> 07:25.260 You know immature spiritually as they were he had this inward affection towards the Corinthian Church 07:25.800 --> 07:31.640 Okay, and obviously, you know what we see here is that Titus because he's spending time with the Corinthian Church 07:31.880 --> 07:37.920 He's helping them grow in their faith. He's leading them. He's reporting about them. He's thinking about them 07:37.960 --> 07:41.600 He ends up developing a love for them, right? 07:41.600 --> 07:46.120 Now what does this show us? You know, if you have a hard time loving someone just spend some time with them, right? 07:46.760 --> 07:52.560 Invest time and that which you're lacking love in you know what happens you end up cultivating a love for that person 07:52.900 --> 07:55.660 For that thing right you're like I don't love church 07:55.660 --> 08:01.020 We'll spend time in church and the more you do you end up developing a love for that, okay? 08:01.380 --> 08:05.340 You know oh man. I have such a hard time loving the Word of God 08:05.340 --> 08:09.160 We'll invest some time into reading the Word of God every single day 08:09.160 --> 08:15.060 And what's gonna happen is you're gonna develop a love for the Word of God. How about this in marriage? 08:15.600 --> 08:18.200 Oh man, I just, I don't feel like I'm in love anymore. 08:18.200 --> 08:22.280 Well, you know, why don't you spend some time developing that relationship, 08:22.280 --> 08:24.880 investing in your marriage, and guess what will happen? 08:24.880 --> 08:27.480 You'll fall in love again, and then you'll fall out again, 08:27.480 --> 08:29.880 and then you'll fall in love again, and then you'll fall out again. 08:29.880 --> 08:32.520 It's just part of how marriage is, okay? 08:33.560 --> 08:36.360 You know, you're not going to be in love 100% of the time. 08:36.600 --> 08:38.600 It's just not realistic, okay? 08:38.600 --> 08:46.840 Because we are sinners, we fall short, our spouses fall short, you know, they can annoy us, we annoy them, 08:46.840 --> 08:50.040 we have characteristics and attributes that they may not like, but here's the thing, 08:50.040 --> 08:55.480 is that the more we invest into that relationship, the more we can keep that flame going, right? 08:55.480 --> 09:03.800 That inward affection, okay, is what keeps it going. The point being here is that love is, genuine love, is an emotion. 09:04.200 --> 09:08.520 Genuine love is expressed through affection genuine love is expressed through tears 09:08.920 --> 09:12.620 Genuine love is expressed through wanting to be in the presence of that individual 09:13.080 --> 09:18.800 That we care for and have love for as well. You don't have to turn their first John chapter 4 09:20.000 --> 09:23.640 But go with me if you would to 1st Peter chapter 3 1st Peter chapter 3 09:24.200 --> 09:31.600 We saw that in 2 Corinthians chapter 7, Titus had an inward affection towards the believers. 09:31.600 --> 09:35.000 We can say that he had sincere love for the brethren. 09:35.000 --> 09:39.800 I don't really like to go to church because I just don't really click with people at church. 09:39.800 --> 09:44.800 We don't click with people at church because you just leave church as soon as it ends. 09:44.800 --> 09:48.000 You don't give anybody time to click. 09:48.000 --> 09:50.800 You unclick as soon as church ends. 09:51.000 --> 09:56.720 Okay, I just I like to preach it and everything. It's just you know, I'm not really a people person, you know 09:56.800 --> 10:02.000 Well, you know what as a Christian don't really have that luxury now do you because the Bible commands us to be people people 10:03.360 --> 10:05.440 Okay, we're supposed to be around people 10:06.040 --> 10:09.720 Fellowship with people and if you're like, yeah, but I just don't know what to talk about 10:09.960 --> 10:13.140 Trust me in a church this size. You will find someone as weird as you 10:14.680 --> 10:16.300 That you can click with 10:16.800 --> 10:20.000 You can talk too, okay? There's a bunch of them 10:20.900 --> 10:25.200 Okay, and well the end result of that will be what an inward affection 10:25.800 --> 10:31.100 For others okay, and look make no mistake about it. God commands you to love the brethren and 10:31.920 --> 10:37.280 Part of that of course is having that affection for them as well first John chapter 4 you don't have to turn there 10:37.640 --> 10:42.200 You are in first Peter chapter 3 first John 4 7 says beloved. Let us love one another 10:43.300 --> 10:48.420 For love is of God, and everyone that loveth is born of God and knoweth God." 10:48.420 --> 10:52.820 This is showing us that one of the first things that we learn as Christians, when we get saved, 10:52.820 --> 10:53.860 is what? To love. 10:54.300 --> 11:01.420 More specifically to love the brethren why for God is love he says in verse 8 he that loveth not 11:01.900 --> 11:07.520 Knoweth not God for God is love basically the fundamental 11:08.060 --> 11:13.040 You know attribute divine characteristic that we get at the moment of salvation is love 11:13.700 --> 11:19.700 Now this kind of flies in the face of those who think, well, you know, you have to love God to be saved or something like that. 11:19.700 --> 11:22.700 No, you have to believe on Jesus Christ to be saved. 11:22.700 --> 11:24.700 Okay? Unsafe people don't know how to love God. 11:25.800 --> 11:28.800 You know, Christians barely know how to love God, right? 11:28.800 --> 11:30.800 Because they have to learn from the Word of God. 11:30.800 --> 11:35.800 But the initial thing that we learn, the initial thing that is given to us, is the love of God. 11:35.800 --> 11:40.800 And it's our job thereafter to develop, to cultivate that for the Lord and for others. 11:40.800 --> 11:42.800 It goes on the same verse 9, 11:42.800 --> 11:44.800 In this was manifested the love of God toward us, 11:44.800 --> 11:48.800 because God sent his only begotten Son into the world that we might live through him, 11:48.800 --> 11:53.800 hearing his love, not that we love God, but that he loved us. 11:53.800 --> 11:59.140 sent his son to be the propitiation for our sins beloved if God so loved us we 11:59.140 --> 12:04.940 ought also to love one another this is nice and mushy amen no man had seen God 12:04.940 --> 12:09.800 at any time if we love one another God dwells in us and his love is perfected 12:09.800 --> 12:13.600 in us this is obviously demonstrating that we should never have hatred towards 12:13.600 --> 12:18.500 the brethren and let me just be very clear the brethren 12:18.500 --> 12:25.580 Okay, meaning those who are saved right actual Christians because sometimes it's just like oh, yeah 12:25.580 --> 12:31.580 But I saw a video of you saying some pretty crazy stuff about this one pastor. Yeah, it's probably the false prophet 12:32.060 --> 12:34.060 It's probably not saved 12:34.140 --> 12:40.700 Okay, and I can't love those who love evil. You know the Bible commands me to love the brethren 12:41.300 --> 12:44.060 And when we talk about the brethren, we're referring to people who are saved. 12:44.060 --> 12:50.140 And when I talk about people who are saved, I'm talking about people who have believed on the Lord Jesus Christ exclusively for salvation. 12:50.140 --> 12:57.900 Not repenting of your sins for salvation, not baptism for salvation, not the keeping of commands for salvation, not works for salvation. 12:57.900 --> 13:01.020 We're just talking about believing on Jesus Christ. 13:01.020 --> 13:04.580 And it's not believing on Jesus Christ plus something else either. 13:04.580 --> 13:07.180 So why believe in Jesus? But I do believe that you have to, you're not saved. 13:09.000 --> 13:14.600 Because now you're adding something to your faith in Jesus Christ and the Bible tells us and if by grace and there's no more of works 13:14.840 --> 13:16.840 Otherwise grace is no more grace 13:17.120 --> 13:24.860 Romans 11 6 so when the Bible talks about brethren don't take that label and place it upon just anything that calls itself a Christian 13:25.140 --> 13:31.420 And look we need to wake up here and recognize that not everyone on the internet calls themselves the Christian are actually Christians 13:32.160 --> 13:33.700 ie Catholics 13:34.600 --> 13:41.700 Oh, they're our brothers. No, they're not they worship Mary. They believe in a workspace salvation. I heard there are the first Christians 13:41.920 --> 13:44.040 They might have been the first Christians that went apostate 13:46.200 --> 13:52.520 I'll give you that but just because something calls itself a Christian a believer doesn't mean it's true 13:53.360 --> 13:57.920 We need to make sure that we prove all things hold fast that which is good that we test people 13:58.240 --> 14:00.360 Based upon what they profess to believe 14:00.900 --> 14:09.020 And if a person claims to believe in salvation and they assert that salvation is anything else other than through their faith in Jesus Christ 14:09.020 --> 14:11.020 Mark it down, they're not saved 14:11.020 --> 14:15.020 Oh, are you allowed to say if people are not saved? Yeah! 14:15.020 --> 14:18.020 You know, the apostle Paul said, I'm afraid of you! 14:18.900 --> 14:26.900 What is he saying? I'm worried that you're probably not even saved. That's what he told the Galatians in Galatians chapter 2, okay? 14:26.900 --> 14:34.500 It's important for us to recognize that when we talk about the brethren, we're talking about those who have placed their faith exclusively upon Christ for salvation, folks. 14:34.500 --> 14:43.700 And look, if you're not 100% sure that if you died today that you'd go to heaven, if you fall into the category in the camp that I just described for you, you need to get saved today. 14:44.900 --> 14:48.340 I thought baptism saves you though. Well, that's funny. What happened to the thief on the cross? 14:49.620 --> 14:53.660 Today thou shalt be with me in paradise and you know, he didn't come down from the cross and get baptized 14:54.260 --> 14:59.460 The Bible tells us therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith. Listen to this without the deeds of the law 15:00.300 --> 15:06.100 There's your faith alone, by the way without the deeds of the law. I mean is but fight by faith alone. Okay 15:06.800 --> 15:12.160 So the point being here is that we are to love the brethren. That's what the Bible teaches us 15:12.160 --> 15:18.200 But obviously we know we're supposed to love unsafe people as well enough that we would go and give them the gospel. Okay 15:18.700 --> 15:22.540 Now you're in 1 Peter chapter 3, let me read you one more verse before we get into chapter 3 15:22.540 --> 15:24.220 1 Peter chapter 1, 22 says, 15:24.220 --> 15:30.780 Seeing ye have purified your souls and obeying the truth of the Spirit, unto unfeigned love of the brethren, 15:30.780 --> 15:34.740 See that ye love one another with a pure heart, 15:34.740 --> 15:36.740 Listen to this, fervently! 15:36.740 --> 15:42.020 So the Bible says that we should have a sincere love for our brothers and sisters in Christ 15:42.500 --> 15:45.620 And it communicates that by talking about a pure heart 15:46.180 --> 15:51.660 Unfamed love but then it says we should be fervent about it. What does that mean? What's another word for fervent? 15:52.140 --> 15:54.140 passionate you should be 15:54.660 --> 15:56.180 passionately 15:56.180 --> 15:58.180 loving the brethren 15:58.220 --> 16:03.780 Okay, meaning that we should you know, we should favor our brothers and sisters in Christ 16:04.380 --> 16:09.340 Let us do good into all men, especially those of the household of faith the Bible tells us 16:09.900 --> 16:15.380 So what do we see here genuine love is an emotion and specifically when we see it as an emotion 16:15.380 --> 16:19.080 We see that should be geared towards the brethren that we should have fervent love 16:19.540 --> 16:26.340 Unfamed pure love towards our brothers and sisters in Christ look at first Peter chapter 3 verse 7 says likewise ye husbands 16:26.580 --> 16:28.580 dwell with them according to knowledge 16:28.860 --> 16:32.580 giving honor unto the wife as unto the weaker vessel 16:33.200 --> 16:36.320 And as being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers be not hindered. 16:36.320 --> 16:41.840 Of course, first Peter chapter three, the initial part of first Peter three are instructions for 16:41.840 --> 16:46.240 husbands and wives. And of course, the first part talks about the fact that a wife should be in 16:46.240 --> 16:52.080 subjection to her husband, submit to her husband that he is essentially the boss, right? 16:52.700 --> 16:57.700 And it goes on to say that the husband should likewise give honor unto the wife. 16:57.700 --> 17:00.700 Why? Because according to the Bible, she is the weaker vessel. 17:00.700 --> 17:06.700 She's weaker emotionally, she's weaker physically, and in some cases she is weaker spiritually. 17:06.700 --> 17:11.700 Which is why Eve was deceived by Satan. 17:12.800 --> 17:16.480 So he says, you know, we need to honor them, dwell with them according to knowledge. 17:16.480 --> 17:20.240 And what happens when you have this harmony within the home? 17:20.240 --> 17:24.720 What happens when the wife submits into her husband and the husband honors his wife? 17:24.720 --> 17:28.800 Well, the latter part of verse seven says this, that your prayers be not hindered. 17:29.520 --> 17:33.840 So if you want a life hack for prayers in your marriage, get this, have harmony in your home. 17:34.640 --> 17:36.880 Make sure that you're living in accordance to 17:37.600 --> 17:41.360 the structure of the Bible when it comes to marriage and what happens is you will get your 17:41.360 --> 17:45.920 prayers answered if not your prayers can be hindered your petitions will not be answered 17:45.920 --> 17:51.300 because you have no harmony in the home verse 8 says finally be all of one mind 17:51.700 --> 17:54.740 This is another way of saying be on the same page, okay? 17:54.740 --> 17:56.900 Having compassion one for another, 17:56.900 --> 17:57.940 and I want you to notice this, 17:57.940 --> 18:02.100 love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous. 18:02.100 --> 18:05.220 Now, this is obviously addressing, you know, 18:05.220 --> 18:07.540 husbands and wives, but this is very much applicable 18:07.540 --> 18:10.660 all across the board to just Christians in general, right? 18:10.660 --> 18:13.700 You know, to love as brethren, what does that mean? 18:13.700 --> 18:15.300 It means you should be friends. 18:15.400 --> 18:20.600 Okay, you know my wife and I yes, she's my wife. I'm her husband, but guess what we're friends, too 18:20.600 --> 18:25.960 You know what we do as friends. We cut up we laugh together. I make fun of her 18:26.920 --> 18:28.920 She tries to make fun of me, but she's not as funny 18:30.040 --> 18:35.600 You know we cut up we laugh we joke we cry we are like friends 18:36.100 --> 18:44.040 So obviously the Bible promotes friendships in Christianity and the Bible tells us that when we have this sincere pure 18:44.380 --> 18:48.780 Genuine love one toward another the result of that is that we end up loving as brethren 18:48.780 --> 18:55.300 We end up being like good close friends and the byproduct of that is that we are pitiful one towards another 18:55.480 --> 19:00.300 So what does it mean to be a friend? It means you have sincere love and you pity someone when they're going through a hard time 19:00.980 --> 19:02.900 You're courteous towards them 19:03.100 --> 19:08.000 You favor them. You mind what they're going through more than yourself. 19:08.000 --> 19:11.600 You put their needs and their desires above your own. 19:11.600 --> 19:14.100 Right? This is what it means to have sincere love. 19:14.100 --> 19:15.600 Look what it goes on to say in verse 9, 19:15.600 --> 19:18.500 not rendering evil for evil. 19:18.500 --> 19:21.900 You know what that means? We shouldn't be vengeful towards other Christians. 19:21.900 --> 19:22.600 Right? 19:22.800 --> 19:25.200 We should not have vengeance towards other Christians. 19:25.200 --> 19:30.400 If someone in our church wrongs you, or offends you, or whatever it may be, 19:30.400 --> 19:36.200 you know, the Bible says that the answer for you, the solution for you, should not be to render evil back. 19:36.200 --> 19:43.800 Because genuine love forgives. Genuine love is pitiful, it's courteous, it doesn't render evil for evil. 19:43.800 --> 19:46.600 Listen to this, or railing for railing. 19:46.700 --> 19:52.140 What is railing? It means lying, slander. You should not have vengeance towards someone and 19:52.140 --> 19:57.180 lie about them because they lied about you. Okay, the point being here is that genuine 19:57.180 --> 20:02.940 love is not vengeful. He says, but contrary wise blessing knowing that you are called thereunto 20:02.940 --> 20:08.220 that you should inherit a blessing. Turn with me if you would go to first John chapter three, 20:08.220 --> 20:09.180 first John chapter three. 20:11.600 --> 20:14.080 We're talking about genuine love this morning. 20:14.080 --> 20:16.080 Genuine love is an emotion. 20:16.400 --> 20:21.240 Inward affection don't be despondent emotionally towards others now. I get it 20:21.240 --> 20:25.060 You know what I mean? Maybe to some of us that isn't necessarily come as easy 20:25.420 --> 20:32.420 We're kind of stoic or we try to act like we're stoic other people is just a lot more easy to become emotional with people and 20:32.820 --> 20:34.820 Just be have that visible 20:35.660 --> 20:40.420 Affection towards others we should try to meet people in the middle though, right you know 20:41.100 --> 20:45.100 To some people when they're just overly affectionate, you need to chill out a little bit. 20:45.100 --> 20:51.100 You're just a touchy type, but if you're a dude, go hug a dude. 20:51.100 --> 20:54.100 You don't have to be hugging the ladies, amen? And vice versa. 20:54.100 --> 20:57.100 Oh, but I got inward affection. Yeah, I bet you do. 20:57.100 --> 21:05.100 Obviously, the rule should be that we should be appropriate. 21:05.700 --> 21:08.700 The point being here is that genuine love is an emotion. 21:08.700 --> 21:13.500 We don't want to disregard that or think that love, according to the Bible, you know, this 21:13.500 --> 21:14.500 is the exception. 21:14.500 --> 21:16.580 Oh, we don't have to be emotional about this stuff. 21:16.580 --> 21:17.580 And you know what? 21:17.580 --> 21:22.540 To a certain degree, I kind of felt like that for a while because of the fact that I seen 21:22.540 --> 21:23.620 so much fake. 21:23.900 --> 21:30.660 So much fakeness in churches amongst Christians where they had this visible emotional love towards God 21:30.660 --> 21:36.940 But they were super off doctrinally. They didn't have love for souls. They didn't have love for the truth 21:36.940 --> 21:38.940 And so it's just like well, this is just fake 21:39.460 --> 21:43.500 You act like you you draw nines of God with your lips, but your heart is far from him 21:44.580 --> 21:49.460 You're acting like you love God. You're acting like you love the Word of God, but when you're given the truth you reject it 21:49.460 --> 21:50.600 That's not real love 21:50.700 --> 21:52.280 That's a fake love. 21:52.280 --> 21:55.380 And so just seeing that for years on end 21:55.380 --> 21:59.140 kind of gave me somewhat of an aversion to that emotion. 21:59.140 --> 22:00.980 But that's not right either, though. 22:00.980 --> 22:03.500 Because we need to recognize that love is an emotion. 22:03.500 --> 22:04.940 It's an inward affection. 22:04.940 --> 22:07.300 And we need to balance it with all the other descriptions 22:07.300 --> 22:08.540 of love that we see in the Bible. 22:08.540 --> 22:10.060 So genuine love is an emotion. 22:10.060 --> 22:13.980 Number two, genuine love is demonstrated by actions. 22:14.800 --> 22:17.500 Okay, meaning that yes, we should have 22:18.300 --> 22:25.480 Affection one toward another have a love in our hearts one for another but they should also be demonstrated in our deeds as well 22:25.640 --> 22:29.620 Okay, look at first Sean chapter 3 and verse 16. It says hereby 22:30.480 --> 22:37.080 Perceive we the love of God because he laid down his life for us and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren 22:37.500 --> 22:45.020 But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth this brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, 22:45.020 --> 22:48.140 how dwelleth the love of God in him? 22:48.140 --> 22:51.500 Now, let me just help you to understand something here. 22:51.500 --> 22:55.100 Because along with this fake love that people have, 22:55.100 --> 23:01.340 people also end up, you know, asserting that if someone doesn't have love in their hearts, that means they're not saved. 23:01.340 --> 23:04.060 Right? And that's not necessarily true either. 23:04.600 --> 23:09.960 Okay, because sometimes people don't cultivate the spiritual virtues that they have 23:10.680 --> 23:14.920 Understand they don't cultivate. How do you cultivate it by going to church by reading the bible? 23:15.320 --> 23:17.720 Walking in the spirit that you should not fulfill the lust of the flesh 23:18.200 --> 23:22.460 Okay, how is the fruit of the spirit produced by walking in the spirit doesn't come naturally? 23:24.300 --> 23:27.940 You know, when we get saved, the Bible tells us that we're indwelling with the Holy Spirit of God 23:27.940 --> 23:32.140 and whom you also trusted, after that you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation 23:32.140 --> 23:36.260 and whom also after that you believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise 23:36.260 --> 23:39.740 which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession. 23:39.740 --> 23:43.140 The Bible says we're sealed unto the day of redemption with the Holy Spirit of God 23:43.140 --> 23:45.340 and we have the Spirit of truth, but hold on a second. 23:45.340 --> 23:50.740 If we want to benefit from the indwelling Spirit, we got to walk in the Spirit. 23:51.900 --> 23:54.620 You actually have to yield to the spirit. 23:54.620 --> 23:57.260 And so, if a person gets saved, listen to this, 23:57.260 --> 23:59.900 if a person gets saved, they come to the saving knowledge of Christ, 23:59.900 --> 24:02.140 they're in dwell with the Holy Spirit, but they don't go to church, 24:03.500 --> 24:07.340 they're not reading the Bible, they're not getting Godly fellowship, 24:07.340 --> 24:12.460 they're going to be a carnal person, not absent of the Spirit, but weak in the Spirit. 24:12.460 --> 24:14.220 I mean, folks, this is why the Bible tells us, 24:14.220 --> 24:16.940 be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might. 24:16.940 --> 24:19.340 Well, why would he have to command us that if that just comes naturally? 24:20.200 --> 24:23.720 I'll tell you why because it doesn't come naturally. It's something that has to be cultivated 24:23.800 --> 24:28.760 You know what? I know weak Christians. I've seen weak Christians. You want to know weak Christian? 24:28.920 --> 24:34.440 It's a Christian who just doesn't live according to the bible. They're giving themselves over to the lust of the flesh 24:34.600 --> 24:38.200 But if you're to talk to them, are you saying they'll say well, I remember when I got saved years ago 24:38.680 --> 24:43.740 Yeah, I believed on Jesus Christ. I'm just living a backslid in life right now. That's a weak Christian 24:44.300 --> 24:45.300 It's a carnal Christian. 24:45.300 --> 24:47.340 You're like, oh, there's no such thing as a carnal Christian. 24:47.340 --> 24:47.840 Really? 24:47.840 --> 24:51.540 Because the apostle Paul said in Romans 7, I am carnal. 24:51.540 --> 24:55.580 And I'm assuming that he's a better Christian than you. 24:55.580 --> 24:57.620 Just throwing that out there. 24:57.620 --> 24:59.980 It's possible the apostle Paul was better than you 24:59.980 --> 25:03.140 in regards to his Christian practices 25:03.140 --> 25:04.580 and living a godly life. 25:04.580 --> 25:08.300 Yet he himself said, in me, that is in my flesh dwelleth 25:08.300 --> 25:08.920 no good thing. 25:08.920 --> 25:10.820 For the things that I would, I do not. 25:11.400 --> 25:13.400 The things I do not, that I do. 25:13.400 --> 25:17.400 You know, he's talking about that inner turmoil that he experiences. 25:17.400 --> 25:23.400 Why? Because when we get saved, it doesn't mean that God extracts the old man from us. 25:23.400 --> 25:25.400 He's still there with us. 25:25.400 --> 25:30.400 Which is why the Bible says to put off the old man according to the deceitful lust. 25:30.400 --> 25:34.400 Make sure that you put off the old man, put on the Lord Jesus Christ. 25:34.400 --> 25:38.400 Why? Because we have both natures on us 100% of the time. 25:38.800 --> 25:46.160 Okay, and you say well, what's the difference between the person who actually has love and is a Christian and the person who doesn't have love? 25:46.160 --> 25:49.400 And as a Christian, I'll tell you what the person who has 25:50.240 --> 25:53.400 Salvation and they don't have love they're not reading the Bible 25:54.280 --> 26:01.060 They're not walking in the spirit. They're not in church being taught how to have sincere love. They're not here today 26:02.000 --> 26:03.400 listening to the sermon 26:04.800 --> 26:08.240 So yeah, you know what's going to happen to them? They're going to become bitter towards people who wrong them. 26:08.800 --> 26:12.560 They're going to have hatred in their hearts towards brothers and sisters in Christ. 26:12.880 --> 26:18.560 They're going to have fear in their hearts. They're going to have inner turmoil. They're going to have constant 26:19.180 --> 26:26.880 battles in their mind. They're backslidden. They're involved in sin. Why? Because they're not really growing in their faith now, are they? 26:28.000 --> 26:34.740 So the Bible tells us here that how do all the love of God in him if he's shutting up his bowels of compassion 26:34.740 --> 26:38.700 We need that, you know when the Bible talks about the bowels is referring to kind of like our intestines 26:39.200 --> 26:43.200 Okay, you know we like to say I love them with all my heart the bottles like I love with all my bowels 26:44.500 --> 26:50.880 Okay, you know I have a bow movement for you. I feel something, you know 26:53.000 --> 26:54.960 And it's kind of like, maybe it's referring to, 26:54.960 --> 26:56.800 like if I were to conjecture, 26:56.800 --> 26:58.640 what's the exact interpretation here, 26:58.640 --> 26:59.600 it would be like, you know, 26:59.600 --> 27:02.800 I have butterflies in my stomach, right? 27:03.000 --> 27:06.440 Got one laugh, alright, one man who knows what I'm talking about there. 27:06.440 --> 27:11.360 You know, the bowels of compassion is simply referring to when you see a brother in need. 27:11.360 --> 27:18.000 Maybe they have like a physical need, a financial need, some sort of, you know, they're lacking something in their life. 27:18.000 --> 27:21.400 You know, the Bible says that we should have some sort of bowel of compassion. 27:21.400 --> 27:23.400 Like, man, I want to help this person. 27:23.400 --> 27:27.120 Okay, I want to help fulfill that need as best as I possibly can. 27:27.300 --> 27:34.660 He says in verse 18, my little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue, but 27:34.660 --> 27:38.660 in deed and in truth. 27:38.660 --> 27:39.660 What does it say? 27:39.660 --> 27:42.300 You know, it's nice that you say you love people. 27:42.300 --> 27:44.880 It's great that you claim to love God. 27:44.880 --> 27:48.660 It's great that you claim to have sincere love, but the Bible says don't love in word 27:48.660 --> 27:49.660 and tongue. 27:49.660 --> 27:51.620 Do it in deed and in truth. 27:52.200 --> 27:55.800 Meaning do it according to the Bible and then do it by doing something about it 27:56.440 --> 27:59.080 Now what is the clearest example of this in the Word of God? 27:59.080 --> 28:05.620 Well, James chapter 2 tells us if a brother or sister be naked in destitute of daily food and one of you saying to them 28:05.640 --> 28:07.640 Be warmed and filled 28:07.680 --> 28:10.280 You know, but give them not those things which are needful to the body 28:10.280 --> 28:13.200 What does the prophet even so faith that behalf and I works is dead being alone? 28:13.680 --> 28:17.820 What the Bible saying there is like, oh you have love with your words because you're like, oh be warmed and filled 28:18.300 --> 28:22.260 I hope you get your needs met and God bless you. 28:22.260 --> 28:26.180 You know, yeah, that's a very loving thing to say, but the Bible says here that if we're 28:26.180 --> 28:32.160 to have a mature, perfect faith, we need to make sure that we provide for the needs as 28:32.160 --> 28:33.420 best as we possibly can. 28:33.420 --> 28:34.820 What is it about telling us? 28:34.820 --> 28:39.740 It's telling us that sincere, genuine love seeks to go out of its way to provide for 28:39.740 --> 28:43.500 the needs of our brothers and sisters in Christ, okay, as best as we can. 28:44.100 --> 28:51.800 Obviously in some instances, maybe you're not financially able or you're just not you don't have the possessions or the resources available 28:52.320 --> 28:59.180 But if you do though the Bible says you should have bowels of compassion for your brother and sisters in 28:59.660 --> 29:05.020 Christ John chapter 15 turn with me if you would to John 13 go to John 13 29:05.020 --> 29:09.720 You're in first on go to John chapter 13. I'm gonna read you from John 15 29:11.400 --> 29:16.280 Verse 12 it says this is my commandment that you love one another as I have loved you 29:17.240 --> 29:19.240 Greater love hath no man than this 29:19.680 --> 29:25.660 That a man lay down his life for his friends obviously one of the greatest expressions of love 29:26.120 --> 29:33.600 As far as an action is concerned is to actually give your life for your friends, and that's a major sacrifice is it not? 29:34.120 --> 29:36.120 you know and 29:36.500 --> 29:40.800 I think I speak for all dads when we say like we would willingly give our lives for our children 29:41.500 --> 29:46.160 You know if my son my daughter was in some sort of danger if they're drowning or whatever may be and 29:46.420 --> 29:50.860 And it would require my death to save them. I would willingly make that trade 29:51.580 --> 29:58.060 That's obviously I think that's more of an easier trade rather than just just anybody you know 29:58.600 --> 30:02.440 But the Bible says, you know, that's like the greatest expression of love there 30:02.440 --> 30:06.040 as noted by the fact that Jesus Christ obviously sacrificed himself for us. 30:06.040 --> 30:11.800 I remember years ago, maybe it was like 10, 15 years ago, this is in a different church, 30:11.800 --> 30:19.000 there was a youth activity and I think it was at a beach or something, but it was a youth activity 30:19.000 --> 30:23.960 and the teens were swimming and one of the teens got caught in a riptide. 30:25.000 --> 30:28.240 He got caught in a riptide, which was extremely dangerous. 30:28.240 --> 30:31.840 And he got caught in a riptide, and one of his friends 30:31.840 --> 30:34.080 saw that he jumped in. 30:34.080 --> 30:36.520 I think he jumped in with a boogie board or something 30:36.520 --> 30:37.440 like that. 30:37.440 --> 30:39.880 And he saved his friend. 30:39.880 --> 30:41.560 But he drowned. 30:41.560 --> 30:44.160 He was about 15, 16 years old or something. 30:44.160 --> 30:45.280 He was a teenager. 30:45.280 --> 30:46.000 He drowned. 30:46.000 --> 30:47.480 He gave his life for his friend. 30:48.200 --> 30:52.460 And you know that is the greatest expression of love right there and of course he's a hero 30:52.880 --> 30:56.200 But you know this is demonstrating that you know greater love has no man than this 30:56.200 --> 31:01.600 He had enough love for his friend to want to save him even if a man given his life for him, okay? 31:01.960 --> 31:06.960 Jesus goes on to say in verse 14 ye are my friends if you do whatsoever I command you 31:07.600 --> 31:11.080 John chapter 13 let me just spend some time on that actually real quick 31:11.500 --> 31:19.000 Ye are my friends if you do whatsoever I command you okay, so don't put you know friend of Jesus on your bio 31:19.000 --> 31:21.000 If you're not obeying the Bible 31:21.560 --> 31:26.880 Okay, don't put it. Oh, I'm a friend. I'm a follower of Jesus really. How's your obedience though? 31:27.400 --> 31:29.880 You kind of look like a godless person 31:30.360 --> 31:33.400 Don't tell me you're a friend of Jesus. You got an only fans or something like that 31:35.100 --> 31:39.180 Look at John 13 verse 33, little children, get a little wine with you. 31:39.180 --> 31:44.620 You shall seek me and as I said unto the Jews, whether I go you cannot come, so now I say to you. 31:44.900 --> 31:51.780 A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another as I have loved you, that 31:51.780 --> 31:54.420 ye also love one another." 31:54.420 --> 31:55.640 What is the Bible telling us? 31:55.640 --> 32:01.440 It's telling us here that this is a major, major command in the New Testament that we 32:01.440 --> 32:06.820 should be characterized by our love towards other brothers and sisters in Christ. 32:06.820 --> 32:07.940 And you know what? 32:07.940 --> 32:12.300 It should be said that we have a greater love for our brothers and sisters in Christ than 32:12.300 --> 32:12.860 the unsafe. 32:12.900 --> 32:20.900 You know, obviously if you're working out in the world, you go to school in the world, you are involved in the secular realm, 32:20.900 --> 32:28.900 you're going to come in contact with a lot of unsaved people. A lot of people who don't adhere to religion, they're not Christian. 32:28.900 --> 32:32.900 But let me say this, you should obviously befriend them in order to win them to Christ, 32:32.900 --> 32:38.900 but you should never favor an unsaved person over your brothers and sisters in Christ though. 32:39.200 --> 32:42.400 And it should not be that you're closer. 32:42.400 --> 32:45.440 You feel a lot, you feel this kinship 32:45.440 --> 32:48.120 towards unsafe people more than you do towards 32:48.120 --> 32:51.960 your brothers and sisters in Christ, towards Christians. 32:52.800 --> 32:54.960 Why? Because of the fact that the Bible tells us, 32:54.960 --> 32:57.840 be not unequally yoked together with unbelievers. 32:57.840 --> 33:00.320 For what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? 33:00.960 --> 33:02.960 What concord hath Christ with Belial? 33:02.960 --> 33:05.680 What party hath he that believeth with an infidel? 33:05.680 --> 33:07.760 Obviously, we want to win them to Christ. 33:07.760 --> 33:11.680 We want to get them saved, help them come to the saving knowledge of Jesus. 33:11.680 --> 33:14.640 But hold on a second, if you're just super comfortable with the unsaved though, 33:15.280 --> 33:17.760 you just love being around them, you know something wrong with you. 33:18.400 --> 33:25.000 You need to develop a sincere genuine love for Christians because this is literally commanded by Jesus himself 33:26.400 --> 33:32.180 He says a commandment I give unto you that ye love one another and he's talking to his disciples and that command 33:32.400 --> 33:38.860 Extends unto us as well. You don't have to turn there but go with me if you would to Matthew chapter 5. I'm gonna read to you from 33:39.720 --> 33:42.600 2nd Corinthians chapter 8 you go to Matthew chapter 5 if you would 33:45.500 --> 33:52.680 Second Corinthians 8 7 says therefore as ye abound in everything in faith and utterance and knowledge and in all diligence and 33:52.820 --> 33:57.260 In your love to us see thee you bound in this grace also 33:58.300 --> 34:01.940 When it says a bound it means to grow so if you're sitting there like man 34:01.940 --> 34:05.340 I don't actually love the brethren as much as I should well 34:05.340 --> 34:08.580 You know join the join the club because we all get there at one point or another 34:09.300 --> 34:12.100 Where our love for the brethren is not where it should be 34:12.100 --> 34:14.900 We don't necessarily have an inward affection towards the brethren 34:14.900 --> 34:18.020 But you know the Bible says we need to abound in that area 34:18.020 --> 34:22.660 Just as you abound in growing your utterance and your knowledge of the Bible 34:22.660 --> 34:24.340 God says you need to work on your love 34:24.900 --> 34:30.580 Stop being such a cold-hearted person, such a stoic, and actually develop some inward affection 34:30.580 --> 34:37.140 towards your brothers and sisters in Christ. And of course, we're in the point of actions, right? 34:37.140 --> 34:40.500 It goes on to say in verse 8, I speak not by commandment, but by the occasion of the 34:40.500 --> 34:46.660 forwardness of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love. This is in 2nd Corinthians 8 verse 9, 34:46.660 --> 34:49.060 For you know that the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ 34:49.300 --> 34:53.300 that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor. 34:53.300 --> 34:59.620 the aetherist poverty might be rich and here and I give my advice for this is expedient for you 34:59.620 --> 35:04.900 who have begun before not only to do but also to be forward a year ago now therefore perform the 35:04.900 --> 35:09.140 doing of it of course the context here is that he's saying you know provide for the needs of the 35:09.140 --> 35:15.300 church at Corinth you know you claim to have love in your hearts express that love by your actions 35:15.300 --> 35:19.460 and by your sacrifices now let me say this when it comes to loving the brethren 35:20.500 --> 35:22.000 And this is important. 35:22.000 --> 35:26.520 We should love the brethren not expecting anything in return. 35:26.520 --> 35:29.400 Now the natural byproduct is just like, 35:29.400 --> 35:32.120 can you show me some love back though? 35:32.120 --> 35:33.680 Can I get some love? 35:33.680 --> 35:35.680 Can you favor me like I favored you? 35:35.680 --> 35:38.240 And you know what, that's a natural response, 35:38.240 --> 35:40.560 but it should not be an expectation though. 35:41.520 --> 35:42.560 Okay. 35:42.560 --> 35:43.760 You know, we, why? 35:43.760 --> 35:45.740 Because genuine, sincere love, 35:45.740 --> 35:47.900 loves not expecting anything in return. 35:49.200 --> 35:54.080 Genuine sincere love loves and just is satisfied is 35:54.660 --> 35:57.380 Content is happy. We're just leaving it at that 35:58.200 --> 36:04.440 Making it just a one one-way road like well. You know I always tell this person. I love them to never tell me they'll be back 36:09.200 --> 36:12.200 I mean, some people are like that. 36:12.200 --> 36:14.200 Now, you know, I think every once in a while, 36:14.200 --> 36:16.200 you know, in its appropriate way, 36:16.200 --> 36:18.200 you should, you know, reciprocate that 36:18.200 --> 36:21.200 so you don't come off as a jerk. 36:21.200 --> 36:22.200 You know what I mean? 36:22.200 --> 36:26.200 You know, like, uh, ditto, bro, or something, you know? 36:26.200 --> 36:30.200 But, you know, don't do things for people 36:30.200 --> 36:32.100 because you want something in return. 36:32.800 --> 36:38.820 Don't express by your works the sincerity of your love your inward affection because you want people to 36:39.220 --> 36:43.620 Express that to you as well. That's not right because sincere love doesn't expect it 36:43.620 --> 36:50.060 They do it without expecting any type of return or expect for it to be reciprocated look at Matthew 5 verse 44 36:50.060 --> 36:52.760 But I say into you now this of course is talking about your enemies 36:53.220 --> 36:59.820 But you know we can place this also in the context of just anybody love your enemies bless them that curse you do good to them 36:59.820 --> 37:00.800 They hate you 37:00.800 --> 37:04.080 Pray for them which despitefully use you and persecute you. 37:04.400 --> 37:09.760 Ye may be the children of your father which is in heaven for you make it the sun to rise on the evil and on the 37:09.760 --> 37:17.360 Good and send its rain on the just and on the unjust for if you love them which love you what reward have ye? 37:17.560 --> 37:24.040 Do not even the publicans the same the Bible says okay, so this is like. Oh, man. You know unsafe people 37:24.600 --> 37:30.060 Act like that okay. We need to make sure that when we love others. We're not expecting like 37:33.000 --> 37:35.000 Aren't you going to say something? 37:35.000 --> 37:37.000 Don't you want to say it back? 37:37.000 --> 37:39.000 Or you did something for someone who's just like, 37:39.000 --> 37:41.000 well, remember when I did that for you? 37:41.000 --> 37:43.000 Well, obviously that didn't come from a heart of sincerity. 37:43.000 --> 37:45.000 When we help others, 37:45.000 --> 37:47.000 give gifts to others, 37:47.000 --> 37:49.000 we bless others, 37:49.000 --> 37:51.000 we should see it as mission accomplished, 37:51.000 --> 37:53.000 I can move on with my life, 37:53.000 --> 37:55.000 and not wait for that person to reciprocate that in return. 37:55.000 --> 37:57.000 Like, well, man, 37:57.000 --> 37:59.000 I'm just a person who kind of needs that. 37:59.000 --> 38:01.000 Well, you need to learn not to need that. 38:01.800 --> 38:09.200 Okay, and you know what if you are not receiving that type of compassion love for one another from others 38:09.240 --> 38:11.400 Then you know find your solace in the Lord 38:11.960 --> 38:13.960 Because the Lord always reciprocates that 38:14.400 --> 38:20.240 We love the Lord. He loves us back and let's just be honest. We don't reciprocate that to the Lord as much as we should 38:20.900 --> 38:25.780 So when he extends his love towards us, his compassion and mercy towards us, his grace towards us, 38:25.780 --> 38:30.500 you know, we're not always hopping on in our prayer life thanking God for those things. 38:30.500 --> 38:35.860 Sometimes he just blesses us with rain, with blessings, with resources and finances and possessions 38:35.860 --> 38:40.100 and spiritual blessings and we don't say nothing back. So everyone does that. 38:40.400 --> 38:42.940 Okay, the point that I'm making is that 38:44.000 --> 38:50.460 Genuine sincere love gives not necessarily expecting anything in return. Okay, and let me also say this 38:51.040 --> 38:54.240 Sincere genuine love we're talking about works here forgives 38:56.440 --> 39:04.020 The Bible tells us go with you if you would to let's see here go to first Peter chapter 4 first Peter chapter 4 39:05.920 --> 39:07.920 First Peter chapter 4 if you would 39:12.100 --> 39:16.420 After first Peter 4 we're gonna go to Galatians chapter 4 first Peter chapter 4 39:16.940 --> 39:18.940 so point number two is that 39:18.940 --> 39:20.940 sincere genuine love 39:21.300 --> 39:23.740 demonstrates works right for one another and 39:24.460 --> 39:27.800 Part of the works is just being willing to forgive people when they wrong 39:28.740 --> 39:31.080 Forgiveness needs to be a major 39:32.020 --> 39:37.720 Attribute and characteristic of a Christian. That's something that we definitely need to develop on a daily weekly monthly yearly basis 39:38.300 --> 39:44.920 Okay, because people offend us they wrong us they you know do evil unto us and we need to learn how to forgive 39:45.140 --> 39:52.160 The Bible says Bible tells us in Ephesians chapter 4 let all bitterness and wrath and clamor and evil speaking 39:52.160 --> 39:57.180 Be put away from you with all malice be kind one to another tender heart of forgiving one another 39:57.920 --> 39:59.960 Even as God for Christ sake have forgiven you 40:00.900 --> 40:04.480 You know what that means? It means that you should forgive people in your heart 40:05.300 --> 40:08.300 Like, well, I don't forgive them because they haven't asked for forgiveness. 40:08.300 --> 40:11.300 Well, you should still forgive them in your heart though. 40:11.300 --> 40:14.300 And if they come to you in person asking for forgiveness, forgive them. 40:14.300 --> 40:20.300 And look folks, you know, forgiveness is probably one of the most pleasurable things to do, 40:20.300 --> 40:22.300 you know, as a Christian, I'll be honest with you. 40:22.800 --> 40:27.800 When you forgive someone, you're just able to release them of that debt, of that burden, of that offense. 40:27.800 --> 40:33.800 It's great. And it ensures you, and it ensures me, that we will be forgiven of God. 40:33.800 --> 40:38.800 Obviously, we know that we're forgiven of God of past, present, and future sins for eternal damnation. 40:39.400 --> 40:44.000 But guess what? We need daily forgiveness of sins because we offend God on a daily basis. 40:44.000 --> 40:47.200 If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves in the truth that's not in us. 40:47.200 --> 40:52.000 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 40:52.000 --> 40:56.200 Well, you know what? If you want that promise to be true, you have to forgive your offenders. 40:56.700 --> 40:57.400 Okay? 40:57.800 --> 41:00.200 And the Bible says, for Christ's sake, had He forgiven you. 41:00.200 --> 41:02.600 So we need to make sure we do it as unto the Lord, right? 41:02.800 --> 41:10.280 Look at 1 Peter chapter 4 verse 8, and above all things, listen to this, have fervent charity among yourselves. 41:10.280 --> 41:12.280 Charity is just another way of saying love. 41:12.280 --> 41:14.280 Have passionate love! 41:14.280 --> 41:19.640 But then he says, for charity shall cover the multitude of sins. 41:19.640 --> 41:22.880 Now this doesn't mean you sweep things under the rug. 41:22.880 --> 41:24.120 Okay? 41:24.120 --> 41:29.760 You know, these churches that sweep pedophilia and crimes under the rug, that's not fervent charity. 41:30.100 --> 41:32.100 It's criminal, okay? 41:32.100 --> 41:33.700 When it says the covers of multitude of sins, 41:33.700 --> 41:35.400 it's referring to the fact that when you forgive someone, 41:35.400 --> 41:37.700 you don't bring it back up again. 41:37.700 --> 41:39.500 You bury that offense. 41:40.500 --> 41:43.300 You bury it and you don't hang it over their heads 41:43.300 --> 41:44.900 for the rest of their life. 41:44.900 --> 41:47.900 You know, you wanna have good relationships in your marriage. 41:47.900 --> 41:50.100 You wanna have a good relationship amongst your friends. 41:50.100 --> 41:52.800 Don't be the person who just brings up the past all the time. 41:52.800 --> 41:54.700 Have fervent charity. 41:54.700 --> 41:56.300 Listen to this, have fervent charity 41:56.300 --> 41:58.000 that covers the multitude of sins. 41:58.200 --> 41:59.200 Okay? 41:59.200 --> 42:00.200 Amen. 42:00.200 --> 42:01.680 And so that's important. 42:01.680 --> 42:02.680 Go with me if you would. 42:02.680 --> 42:05.000 Go to Galatians chapter four. 42:05.000 --> 42:07.300 Genuine love is an emotion. 42:07.300 --> 42:10.040 Genuine love is demonstrated in actions. 42:10.040 --> 42:13.640 But let me also say this, genuine love speaks the truth. 42:13.640 --> 42:14.640 Amen. 42:14.640 --> 42:15.640 Okay? 42:15.640 --> 42:18.240 This is my favorite part right here, amen. 42:18.240 --> 42:22.680 Let's get all that mushy-gushy stuff out of the way real quick. 42:22.680 --> 42:25.000 Let's get down to brass tacks here, okay? 42:25.500 --> 42:28.100 Genuine love speaks the truth, okay? 42:28.100 --> 42:31.100 And this is something that churches don't like to talk about. 42:31.100 --> 42:32.800 They love those first two points. 42:32.800 --> 42:34.300 You know? 42:34.300 --> 42:37.300 And if you're a lib Christian, you love what I just said right there. 42:37.300 --> 42:38.800 Like, man, just finish right there. 42:38.800 --> 42:41.900 Just, just, amen right there and we're good to go. 42:41.900 --> 42:43.300 No, but hold on a second. 42:43.300 --> 42:46.600 We're expounding upon what it means to have genuine love. 42:46.600 --> 42:50.000 And according to the Bible, genuine love actually tells you the truth. 42:51.100 --> 42:54.380 And let me say this, you know, the word nice is not in the Bible 42:57.200 --> 42:59.200 Nice doesn't exist in the Bible. 42:59.200 --> 43:02.200 Obviously the Bible tells us to be kind, to be gracious, 43:02.200 --> 43:04.200 but let me just tell you something right now. 43:04.200 --> 43:07.200 Sometimes the truth hurts. 43:07.200 --> 43:10.200 And you know what? Sometimes the Bible commands us to tell the truth 43:10.200 --> 43:13.200 in a very rude manner. 43:13.200 --> 43:14.200 And in fact the apostle Paul said, 43:14.200 --> 43:17.200 though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge. 43:17.200 --> 43:20.200 That's like my live verse right there. 43:21.300 --> 43:23.700 You know, because people are like, oh man, he's so rude. 43:23.700 --> 43:26.420 Look how he says all these, what he's saying in these letters. 43:26.420 --> 43:28.900 And he's like, yeah, I'm rude in my speech, yeah. 43:28.900 --> 43:30.700 The way I say things is not nice. 43:30.700 --> 43:32.200 But I'm not rude in my knowledge, 43:32.200 --> 43:33.240 because I know what I'm talking about. 43:33.240 --> 43:35.620 I'm giving you the truth. 43:35.620 --> 43:36.940 And you know what? 43:36.940 --> 43:40.640 You'll never find a spirit-filled prophet 43:40.640 --> 43:42.700 of the Old Testament being nice. 43:45.500 --> 43:50.860 And I didn't say there's not any nice prophets in the Old Testament, because there are, but they're false prophets. 43:52.700 --> 43:54.700 They're all false prophets. 43:54.780 --> 43:55.700 Study it! 43:56.600 --> 43:59.200 The false prophets of the Old Testament, they're the ones who are just like, 43:59.200 --> 44:03.100 no judgment is coming, you're gonna have peace in your day, 44:03.100 --> 44:10.300 don't listen to this guy, he's being mean, he's guilty of treason, you know. 44:10.300 --> 44:15.100 You're gonna go and prosper, you're gonna win this war, Ahab dies. 44:17.300 --> 44:18.620 Liar 44:18.620 --> 44:20.620 That's the result of nice preaching 44:21.220 --> 44:23.460 Whereas Micaiah is like you're gonna die 44:24.180 --> 44:26.060 You're not coming back 44:26.060 --> 44:29.300 And he's like this guy never preaches good concern to me, but only evil 44:29.700 --> 44:32.980 He doesn't like the truth, but you know what the truth sometimes hurts does it not? 44:35.000 --> 44:36.600 And let me tell you something right now. 44:36.600 --> 44:40.040 The Bible tells us that we need to be in church, 44:40.040 --> 44:41.640 hear the preaching of God's word, 44:41.640 --> 44:44.320 and it says that we henceforth be no more children 44:44.320 --> 44:47.000 tossed to and fro, carried about with every wind of doctrine 44:47.000 --> 44:49.280 by the sleight of men, cunning craftiness, 44:49.280 --> 44:50.960 whereby they lie in wait to deceive. 44:50.960 --> 44:55.760 And then it tells us, but speaking the truth in love. 44:55.760 --> 45:00.760 And this is the liberals favorite verse right here. 45:02.100 --> 45:05.300 Oh, he's not speaking the truth in love. 45:05.300 --> 45:06.300 Right? 45:06.300 --> 45:08.940 And I get accused of this all the time. 45:08.940 --> 45:10.560 All the time. 45:10.560 --> 45:11.560 It doesn't offend me though. 45:11.560 --> 45:12.560 At all. 45:12.560 --> 45:16.000 Because I don't get offended by people who don't know the Bible. 45:16.000 --> 45:18.080 If they try to use the Bible against me. 45:18.080 --> 45:19.560 I'm not like, how could you? 45:19.560 --> 45:23.040 I'm like, this person just doesn't know the Bible. 45:23.040 --> 45:26.760 Because what do they mean by, oh, he's not speaking the truth in love? 45:26.760 --> 45:28.880 He's saying it mean. 45:31.000 --> 45:36.700 It's just the way he says it and you know if I had a dime for every time I heard this we've had we would 45:36.700 --> 45:38.300 Have the building already 45:40.600 --> 45:47.800 Where they'll say something like this, they're like, well, it's not what he says, it's how he says it. 45:49.500 --> 45:50.000 You know? 45:50.400 --> 45:59.800 Preach about fornication, preach against Jews, preach against Muslims, preach against the Goders, preach against false religion, 45:59.800 --> 46:05.800 and then, you know, I'm ripping face, I'm lifting up my voice like a trumpet crying out loud and sparing not as the Bible commands me, 46:05.800 --> 46:08.300 and they're like, well, it's true what he's saying, but I just, it's... 46:08.600 --> 46:11.440 how he says it. 46:11.440 --> 46:15.360 You know, it's good that he's preaching fornication is a sin, yeah, but you know, it's just how 46:15.360 --> 46:16.360 he says it. 46:16.360 --> 46:17.360 Why does he have to say it like that? 46:17.360 --> 46:20.000 And it's just like, how do you want me to say it? 46:20.000 --> 46:23.360 You want me to be like, fornication is wicked. 46:23.360 --> 46:23.720 Don't do it. 46:26.100 --> 46:28.100 Yeah, you would laugh at me, exactly! 46:29.600 --> 46:30.800 You would laugh at me! 46:30.800 --> 46:32.800 Because you would not take me serious! 46:33.300 --> 46:37.800 And there's a reason why God commands a certain dynamic in preaching in the Bible. 46:39.000 --> 46:41.300 He would literally command His prophets, 46:41.600 --> 46:44.400 you better make sure you yell this when you're preaching this. 46:44.700 --> 46:47.200 You better make sure you stomp with your foot! 46:49.800 --> 46:53.900 Against the nation and the leaders you got to get the people's attention 46:54.800 --> 46:59.480 You know he didn't say hey make sure you're like nice about this whole thing. You know don't go overboard 47:00.580 --> 47:06.100 You know make sure that you display Christ, but you know what Christ was a hard preacher though 47:07.440 --> 47:11.700 And people always always like you don't preach like Jesus, and I tell them yeah, you're right because I'm not flipping over tables 47:14.200 --> 47:20.700 You're actually right about that, because I don't remember ever flipping over a table when I'm preaching, because that's exactly what he did! 47:22.700 --> 47:26.200 And again, people have this perception of who Jesus is that's not in the Bible. 47:27.200 --> 47:29.200 This is the perception of people of Jesus. 47:33.200 --> 47:37.200 The protruding Catholic heart, it's all bleeding, it has a crown on it for whatever reason. 47:38.200 --> 47:38.700 He has long- 47:41.000 --> 47:43.000 He's got the A1s 47:43.500 --> 47:47.360 You know he's got the Robon lights. What does this mean? 47:48.880 --> 47:52.000 And they think he just like floated around and just 47:53.740 --> 47:55.740 That's not the Jesus of the Bible 47:55.760 --> 47:59.900 When the Bible says to speak the truth and love let me explain to you what this means 48:00.240 --> 48:04.980 Speaking the truth and love meaning means that you tell people the truth out of a heart that loves them 48:05.880 --> 48:08.280 In love doesn't mean how nice you say it 48:09.200 --> 48:12.940 It means you're telling them because you actually love the person that you're talking to. 48:12.940 --> 48:15.700 That means sometimes people tell you the truth not because they love you. 48:15.700 --> 48:18.320 They just want to be condemning towards you. 48:18.320 --> 48:19.320 Right? 48:19.320 --> 48:21.520 They have a holier than now complex. 48:21.520 --> 48:23.520 They're hyper spiritual. 48:23.520 --> 48:24.520 You know? 48:24.520 --> 48:26.160 So that is a temptation for people. 48:26.160 --> 48:30.160 And so the Bible commands is make sure when you preach the truth you give the truth and you do it in love. 48:30.160 --> 48:35.200 Meaning you do it out of a heart that actually desires their exhortation. 48:35.200 --> 48:37.100 Their spiritual growth. 48:37.100 --> 48:39.940 You want them to repent of that sin, 48:39.940 --> 48:43.540 lest they should come to destruction and desolation. 48:43.540 --> 48:47.100 You want them to come to the truth of this particular subject 48:47.100 --> 48:49.460 so that they don't destroy themselves. 48:49.460 --> 48:50.980 That's what it means to speak the truth in love, 48:50.980 --> 48:53.660 not like the decibels of your voice. 48:53.660 --> 48:55.300 Well, you don't have to yell like that. 48:56.000 --> 48:57.600 Why do you have to be mean? 48:57.600 --> 48:59.600 Why do you have to call them homos and fags? 48:59.600 --> 49:01.600 Why do you have to say Jews? 49:01.600 --> 49:03.960 Why do you have to say all these words are so offensive? 49:03.960 --> 49:07.440 Well, because, you know, I got to get your attention. 49:07.440 --> 49:08.440 And you know what? 49:08.440 --> 49:11.360 Look at all the stuff that God had Ezekiel do when he preached. 49:13.800 --> 49:17.480 And look, people who criticize this dynamic preaching 49:17.480 --> 49:19.680 have obviously never actually studied 49:19.680 --> 49:22.640 how the Old Testament prophets behaved. 49:22.640 --> 49:26.480 God's like, lay on your side for 360 days, 390 days. 49:26.480 --> 49:29.440 And then he's like, eat cow's dung. 49:29.440 --> 49:32.880 And he's like, make a, you know, just doing crazy stuff. 49:32.880 --> 49:34.920 I mean, one of the craziest is like, you know what? 49:34.920 --> 49:36.680 I'm going to take the desire from your eyes, 49:36.680 --> 49:38.260 and I don't want you to mourn, meaning 49:38.260 --> 49:40.280 that he was going to allow Ezekiel's wife to die. 49:41.300 --> 49:44.500 And he's like, when you rise up in the morning, go and preach and don't mourn. 49:45.380 --> 49:46.380 That's not very nice. 49:47.940 --> 49:48.860 You know what the Bible says? 49:49.060 --> 49:52.460 In the morning, she died and he rose and he did as he was commanded. 49:53.700 --> 49:55.020 Not very nice now, is it? 49:56.020 --> 49:56.980 Yeah, no one likes to talk. 49:57.060 --> 49:59.940 There's no non-denom church like to talk about that story. 50:01.860 --> 50:04.180 Because it doesn't fit into their nice narrative. 50:05.000 --> 50:09.220 God says I'm gonna take the desire from your eyes, and I don't want you to mourn when she dies 50:09.220 --> 50:13.040 I want you to get up and preach the Word of God. He said why just to use it as an illustration 50:15.700 --> 50:23.300 Just to say, you know, when I destroy Jerusalem, the destruction is going to be so heavy, it's going to leave everyone speechless. 50:23.300 --> 50:25.300 Just to illustrate that. 50:25.300 --> 50:28.500 Like, man, why did God do that? Because He's God, He can do whatever He wants. 50:28.500 --> 50:32.100 And you know what? Ezekiel is boss. 50:32.100 --> 50:36.900 He's a Chad. Okay? Because he did it. 50:36.900 --> 50:43.300 And he's one of the prophets of the Old Testament who said of probably more than anybody else, that the Spirit of God came upon him. 50:43.700 --> 50:49.560 Okay, the point being here is that get the word nice out of your vocabulary when we're talking about preaching 50:50.580 --> 50:53.060 Because according to the Bible sometimes you need to hear the truth 50:54.200 --> 50:57.020 Okay, look at Galatians chapter 4 if you would 50:57.860 --> 50:59.860 Galatians chapter 4 51:00.020 --> 51:07.540 And sometimes you know Christians they get offended at that but it's because they've just been in churches. They're just too nice 51:08.700 --> 51:12.460 But let me give you the equivalent of nice in the Bible when it comes to preaching 51:12.940 --> 51:14.860 Because the word nice is not found in the Bible 51:14.860 --> 51:20.220 But you know there is an equivalent to nice when it comes to preaching in the Bible. It's called deception 51:21.660 --> 51:23.660 It's called flattery 51:24.060 --> 51:30.780 When people are being overly nice behind the pulpit flattering you they're deceiving you 51:31.980 --> 51:33.980 You know like Joel's thing for example 51:34.460 --> 51:35.700 Bro's nice 51:36.600 --> 51:41.200 Super nice! I mean, I don't know if there's a sermon where he's not smiling. 51:41.200 --> 51:48.200 Got the million dollar smile, everyone loves him, he's just a really nice guy. 51:48.200 --> 51:53.400 He doesn't condemn anybody, but he's just full of lies and deceit because he doesn't really love people. 51:53.400 --> 51:54.800 He's not really telling them the truth. 51:54.800 --> 51:57.800 Look at Galatians 4 verse 13. 51:57.800 --> 52:03.200 You know how that through infirmity of the flesh, I preached the gospel unto you at the first. 52:03.500 --> 52:07.020 and my temptation which was in my flesh he despised not nor rejected 52:07.020 --> 52:11.420 but receive me as an angel of God even as Christ Jesus." So what's going on here? 52:12.380 --> 52:17.260 Apostle Paul is writing this letter to the churches of Galatia who have been Judaized. 52:17.500 --> 52:22.140 Okay, in his absence you have these false brethren who crept in unawares 52:22.780 --> 52:29.340 These jews who were coming in after the apostle paul trying to teach people to come back under the law and they they made 52:29.580 --> 52:31.580 They create a lot of chaos in these churches 52:31.900 --> 52:34.780 Because people started thinking well, I got to make sure I keep the law in order to be saved 52:35.100 --> 52:40.620 And so he writes this letter and he's just getting on them. He's calling them stupid. He said that they're foolish 52:40.940 --> 52:42.600 I mean, he's ripping their faces off 52:43.700 --> 52:45.220 And I want you to notice this in verse 15 52:45.220 --> 52:46.900 Where is then the blessing as he spake of? 52:46.900 --> 52:49.860 For I bear you record that if it had been possible 52:49.860 --> 52:52.620 You would have plucked out your own eyes and have given them to me 52:52.620 --> 52:53.300 What is he saying? 52:53.300 --> 52:56.220 You know when I first came you guys were, you guys loved me 52:56.220 --> 53:00.220 You guys were willing to sacrifice things for me 53:00.220 --> 53:02.100 You saw me as an angel 53:02.100 --> 53:05.100 You were just kindly affection towards me 53:05.100 --> 53:07.020 But now like you don't like me anymore 53:07.020 --> 53:08.620 He says in verse 16 53:08.620 --> 53:11.420 Am I therefore become your enemy because I tell you the truth? 53:12.700 --> 53:18.060 He said, is it because now I'm exposing all this stuff that now you don't like me because of that? 53:18.060 --> 53:23.500 Is that what it is? You just don't like the truth? You know what folks, this is still common today 53:23.500 --> 53:28.620 in 2026 that when you preach the truth, people are going to get offended. You know, and I'm sure I've 53:28.620 --> 53:34.060 offended a lot of people in our church over the last couple of years, for sure. I run the risk of 53:34.060 --> 53:35.600 offending you. Yeah, I know that. 53:36.100 --> 53:41.220 I run the risk of offending people that I love, people that I have inward affection towards, 53:41.220 --> 53:43.900 because I've got to give you the truth. 53:43.900 --> 53:44.900 But you know what? 53:44.900 --> 53:45.460 At least I'm willing to give you the truth. 53:45.900 --> 53:51.680 And if you decide, well I'm never going to come back to this church because I was offended at what you said, 53:51.680 --> 53:55.640 I didn't agree with that, I don't like the way you said it, I don't like when you say whore, 53:55.640 --> 53:59.740 I don't like when you say, you know, whatever, I don't like when you preach against so and so, 53:59.740 --> 54:04.820 I don't like that, I'm never going to come back, well at least you know that there was a prophet who gave you the truth though. 54:04.820 --> 54:06.120 Amen. 54:06.120 --> 54:09.860 And that doesn't mean I won't hurt for you, like I hurt when people leave for sure. 54:09.860 --> 54:11.100 For wrong reasons. 54:11.800 --> 54:13.800 It hurts me. It breaks my heart for sure. 54:14.680 --> 54:17.880 You know because I do have genuine love for the brethren 54:18.920 --> 54:23.960 I have inward affection towards the brethren and it burdens me when people leave for that reason for sure 54:24.760 --> 54:27.320 But i'm just i'm just not going to stop doing my job though 54:28.120 --> 54:32.360 Because my job yeah, my job is to pastor you but my job is to give you the truth though 54:33.080 --> 54:35.000 And it's a gamble sometimes 54:35.400 --> 54:42.280 Because I got to think to myself like if I preach this if I say this I run the risk of running these people out 54:43.640 --> 54:46.020 But it's a risk I have to take every single time 54:46.880 --> 54:49.320 Because at the end of the day though, I'm serving you 54:49.840 --> 54:54.620 Sorry, I'm serving the Lord first and I have a job to do 54:55.240 --> 54:56.200 Okay 54:56.200 --> 55:01.360 So I'm telling you that to demonstrate that you know what genuine love actually gives you the truth 55:01.360 --> 55:06.780 It doesn't just allow you to remain in that sin and just be that type of person and have that 55:07.000 --> 55:10.000 Characteristic in that quality with no correction whatsoever 55:10.000 --> 55:15.120 No, my job as an under shepherd is to sometimes whack the sheep on the top of the head 55:16.200 --> 55:20.620 If the sheep wants to leave the fold and that's the sheep's prerogative if that's what he wants to do 55:20.620 --> 55:22.820 That's what she wants to do, but you know at the end of the day 55:22.820 --> 55:27.680 It's not gonna stop me. It's not gonna prevent me from the future like maybe I shouldn't preach that because you know 55:27.680 --> 55:30.440 I just scare people away. No. I'm just gonna have to keep doing it I 55:31.540 --> 55:35.860 Don't have to change the way I deliver my preaching you just have to start loving the truth 55:38.200 --> 55:41.880 I don't need to change my delivery, you need to change how you receive it. 55:41.880 --> 55:45.560 You know, the Bible tells us to be spirit-filled, but like the song leader says right before he 55:45.560 --> 55:51.720 prays, give us spirit-filled ears. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the spirit 55:51.720 --> 55:55.560 sayeth unto the churches. You know what that means? It means that it's my job to be spirit-filled, 55:55.560 --> 56:00.600 to give you the truth, but it's your job to receive the truth, to accept it, 56:00.600 --> 56:05.000 especially if there is biblical, substantial proof to back it up. 56:06.400 --> 56:09.400 And you know what? We live in a society today that's just offended about everything. 56:09.400 --> 56:15.100 They just get offended about everything and everyone, cancel culture this, and I don't like the way he said, 56:15.100 --> 56:19.700 let's cancel this person, let's expose this person, and people bring that into the church. 56:19.700 --> 56:25.400 People bring that into the church and they're so offended at everything, you need to develop some thick skin. 56:28.700 --> 56:30.700 I'm not your enemy because I tell you the truth 56:31.420 --> 56:33.420 It's actually an expression of genuine love 56:34.300 --> 56:39.180 Let me say this, you know open the bible says open rebuke is better than secret love 56:41.180 --> 56:45.020 You know faithful are the wounds of a friend but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful 56:45.740 --> 56:53.200 Meaning that god interprets genuine love as openly rebuking you rather than secretly telling you how much they love you 56:55.400 --> 56:57.400 Think about Judas Iscariot 56:57.400 --> 56:59.400 Hail Rabbi 56:59.400 --> 57:02.400 Gives him a kiss as he's betraying Jesus Christ 57:02.400 --> 57:04.400 That's what the pastors are doing today 57:04.400 --> 57:08.400 Okay, they're giving you a deceitful kiss 57:08.400 --> 57:10.400 On the cheek on Sunday mornings 57:10.400 --> 57:12.400 All the while they're betraying you 57:12.400 --> 57:14.400 By not giving you the truth 57:15.200 --> 57:22.700 And so it's important for us to recognize the importance of genuine love because genuine love truly tells you the truth. 57:22.700 --> 57:24.700 And look folks, let's be real. 57:24.700 --> 57:27.700 When I say have sincere love, I'm saying be a genuine person. 57:27.700 --> 57:31.700 You know, here's the great thing about our church, is that you can just be yourself. 57:33.700 --> 57:37.700 Now, I will say this though, you know, let me just, let me just give this... 57:38.700 --> 57:41.600 I want you to be yourself, but like improve yourself too though. 57:42.300 --> 57:45.500 Because sometimes yourself is just too much. 57:45.500 --> 57:49.000 It's too worldly. 57:49.000 --> 57:54.960 You should work at living a sanctified life, but you don't need to be fake around me. 57:54.960 --> 58:00.680 You don't need to act like some sort of hyper-spiritual giant around me and that you got it all together. 58:00.680 --> 58:01.680 Just be real with me. 58:01.680 --> 58:03.960 I'll be real with you. 58:03.960 --> 58:04.960 I know you're not perfect. 58:04.960 --> 58:07.620 I know that you're not perfect. 58:09.100 --> 58:14.540 Everyone knows you're not perfect. You know I'm not perfect. You're not perfect. Just be real 58:15.340 --> 58:17.340 Okay, be a sincere 58:17.780 --> 58:20.780 Genuine person you don't have to try to overcompensate 58:21.300 --> 58:27.180 Just be genuine and at the end of the day you know when you are a genuine person. You don't have to worry 58:28.180 --> 58:30.180 About whether what people think about you? 58:30.600 --> 58:34.600 Just like, well, you know what? This is who I am. I love the Lord. I'm coming to church. I'm reading my Bible. 58:34.600 --> 58:38.100 I'm trying to win souls to Christ. I'm trying to fellowship here. 58:38.100 --> 58:42.600 And that's all. That's my agenda. That's my prerogative. That's my goal in life. 58:42.600 --> 58:43.600 Praise God. 58:46.100 --> 58:50.020 The person you have to worry about is the person who cakes on the spirituality 58:50.820 --> 58:52.820 That's the one you have to worry about 58:52.900 --> 58:57.620 Let me read you a verse here proverbs chapter 26 verse 23 says this burning lips and a wicked heart 58:58.020 --> 59:00.020 Are like a pot shirt covered with silver dross 59:00.500 --> 59:02.500 He that hateth 59:02.560 --> 59:07.780 Dissembleth with his lips and layeth up the seat within him when he speaketh fair 59:08.900 --> 59:10.500 Believe him not 59:10.500 --> 59:12.760 For there are seven abominations in his heart 59:13.200 --> 59:15.700 What does it mean to be fair? It's referring to beautiful. 59:15.700 --> 59:16.900 But when someone's just like, 59:16.900 --> 59:17.900 Hey brother. 59:19.200 --> 59:20.200 Brother, I'm just... 59:22.700 --> 59:24.700 This is the Lord's day. 59:26.200 --> 59:28.200 You're right, bro. 59:29.200 --> 59:32.700 You know, I'm just in love with the Lord, you know. 59:34.200 --> 59:35.200 Hmm. 59:36.200 --> 59:37.200 Okay. 59:38.200 --> 59:40.200 You don't have to be fake! 59:41.200 --> 59:42.200 Hey, church. 59:44.300 --> 59:50.860 You know, just this overly flowery, here's how the Bible calls it, great swelling words of vanity. 59:50.860 --> 59:53.260 That's what the Bible refers to it as. 59:53.260 --> 59:57.420 You know what the Bible says? When you find a person who's like that, very flowery, 59:57.420 --> 01:00:01.980 very vainly puffed up with their words, they have deceit in their heart. 01:00:01.980 --> 01:00:04.140 They're trying to trick you. 01:00:04.700 --> 01:00:07.500 You run into a neighbor that flatters you constantly, 01:00:07.500 --> 01:00:09.620 a friend that's constantly flattering you, 01:00:09.620 --> 01:00:11.340 and just being over the top, 01:00:11.340 --> 01:00:14.340 it's probably because they're trying to trick you. 01:00:14.340 --> 01:00:17.740 They're trying to deter attention from their true motives. 01:00:17.740 --> 01:00:19.460 Why? Because a sincere person is just sincere, 01:00:19.460 --> 01:00:20.540 they're just pure. 01:00:20.540 --> 01:00:22.900 Even if it means they're just a little too pure. 01:00:24.020 --> 01:00:25.180 A little too sincere. 01:00:25.500 --> 01:00:29.060 But you know, I'd rather have the guy, don't come up and do this after the service, but 01:00:29.060 --> 01:00:34.900 I'd rather have the guy come up and just drop an F-bomb on accident, or on purpose, you know? 01:00:34.900 --> 01:00:39.940 And you know, just, it's sincere, but they're trying to win souls to Christ, they're trying 01:00:39.940 --> 01:00:45.260 to grow in their faith, they love the Lord, they're faithful to church, and they're going 01:00:45.260 --> 01:00:49.900 in the right direction, than the person who's just completely clean with his language, but 01:00:49.900 --> 01:00:51.540 he has deceit in his heart. 01:00:52.600 --> 01:01:01.600 Give me the other guy. Give me David's mighty men. Give me the motley crew. I'd rather work with people like that than people who are just fake. 01:01:01.600 --> 01:01:09.600 Because the person who's actually working towards that is a sincere individual and they're not laying up the seat in their heart. 01:01:09.600 --> 01:01:14.600 Okay. Go with me if you would to, let's go to 1 Corinthians chapter 13. 01:01:14.600 --> 01:01:16.600 1 Corinthians chapter 13. 01:01:16.800 --> 01:01:19.500 Talk about genuine love, I got two more points and I'm done 01:01:19.500 --> 01:01:22.880 Let me just breeze over this next point here before I get into my last 01:01:22.880 --> 01:01:26.460 And that is that genuine love obeys the Lord 01:01:26.460 --> 01:01:29.840 Genuine love obeys the Lord 01:01:29.840 --> 01:01:33.800 The Bible says, if you love me, keep my 01:01:33.800 --> 01:01:37.640 commandments, okay? And so obviously 01:01:37.640 --> 01:01:39.400 genuine love does obey the Lord 01:01:40.000 --> 01:01:49.500 And a person can't say, well, I love God, and they're not going to church, they're not reading the Bible, they're drinking alcohol, they're smoking weed, they're living a godless life. 01:01:49.500 --> 01:01:54.500 Notice that in, by the way, notice the Bible doesn't say, if you're saved, love my, keep my commandments. 01:01:54.500 --> 01:02:01.000 Notice it doesn't say, if you have everlasting life, keep my commandments. It just says, if you love me, keep my commandments. 01:02:01.000 --> 01:02:02.000 Okay. 01:02:03.100 --> 01:02:07.460 So it's important for us to recognize that if we want to express love towards towards the Lord 01:02:07.980 --> 01:02:11.140 We need to be obedient now. Here's the great thing about this think about 01:02:11.700 --> 01:02:15.540 Because sometimes people are like man. I struggle like I feel like I don't have a love for God 01:02:16.140 --> 01:02:19.980 Right and more often than not they're referring to like the emotion 01:02:21.200 --> 01:02:27.080 They don't have the motivation, they feel apathetic towards the things of God. 01:02:27.080 --> 01:02:28.360 You guys know what I'm talking about? 01:02:28.360 --> 01:02:31.720 Sometimes you're just like, man, and let me just explain something to you. 01:02:31.720 --> 01:02:39.480 I don't wake up every morning jumping out of bed like, trying to read the Bible. 01:02:39.480 --> 01:02:42.800 If that's you, you're the guy I was just talking about in the previous point. 01:02:42.800 --> 01:02:45.280 You're lying. 01:02:45.280 --> 01:02:46.200 Nobody wakes up like that. 01:02:47.300 --> 01:02:52.980 I mean, I wake up, I got six kids, you know, my wife and my six kids, and you know what? 01:02:52.980 --> 01:02:56.660 I don't want to talk to any one of them until I got my cup of coffee and get ready. 01:02:56.660 --> 01:02:58.460 Like I'm not a morning person at all. 01:02:58.460 --> 01:03:00.660 Some of you are morning people, I'm not a morning person at all. 01:03:00.660 --> 01:03:04.920 I have to transition into the morning, okay? 01:03:04.920 --> 01:03:06.720 And you know, I got to work on that. 01:03:06.720 --> 01:03:09.060 But you know, I don't wake up just like, oh man, I love the Bible. 01:03:09.060 --> 01:03:10.820 No, sometimes I read it out of duty. 01:03:11.900 --> 01:03:16.700 A lot of times Christians think man if I don't have that burning desire within me to read the Bible 01:03:17.100 --> 01:03:21.540 To go soul winning to go to church like it means like I'm a really bad Christian 01:03:22.180 --> 01:03:28.900 Because I don't have that love in my heart that emotion that loves the Lord like that, but you know what you're okay 01:03:28.900 --> 01:03:33.440 I got an answer for you because according to the Bible if you obey the Lord 01:03:34.500 --> 01:03:40.260 If you do those things even if you don't have a heart for it the Bible God still interprets that as love 01:03:40.680 --> 01:03:42.920 Because if you love me keep my commandments 01:03:43.760 --> 01:03:48.800 And here's the great thing folks, and this is what mature Christians. This is how mature Christians behave, okay? 01:03:50.100 --> 01:03:53.120 They read the Bible when they're in love with the Bible, but they read the Bible even if they're not 01:03:54.760 --> 01:03:58.560 They go to church when they're excited and they go to church when they're not 01:03:59.800 --> 01:04:05.080 They win souls to Christ when they're excited about soul winning and they win souls to Christ even if they're not 01:04:05.880 --> 01:04:10.160 There's times when I go out soul winning and I'm just like gung-ho. I'm like man. I'm excited Lord 01:04:10.160 --> 01:04:12.920 Please help me see someone saved. I'm excited to talk to people 01:04:12.920 --> 01:04:17.400 I'm just you know knocking on doors, but there's other times just like I'm not in the mood right now 01:04:18.440 --> 01:04:21.960 I'm not in the mood to go knock on doors, especially in this hot weather 01:04:23.520 --> 01:04:25.500 With all my kids 01:04:25.700 --> 01:04:28.580 Get off the load, you know, just like just having to you know 01:04:29.460 --> 01:04:31.940 Lead that sometimes i'm not but you know, I do it anyways 01:04:32.740 --> 01:04:37.140 Because that's what mature christians do because genuine love is not only an emotion 01:04:37.860 --> 01:04:39.860 Genuine love is also obedience 01:04:40.420 --> 01:04:44.900 So, you know what if you don't have the emotion don't feel bad, but make sure you're doing what you're supposed to do 01:04:45.940 --> 01:04:46.960 and 01:04:46.960 --> 01:04:50.920 Obedience is the vehicle that leads you to the next mount on top of emotion 01:04:51.600 --> 01:04:55.520 So when you're on the mountain, you're like, oh man, I'm zealous for the Lord. 01:04:55.520 --> 01:04:56.800 I'm passionate. 01:04:56.800 --> 01:04:58.560 I have zeal for God. 01:04:58.560 --> 01:05:00.400 And then you just drop into the valley. 01:05:00.400 --> 01:05:01.120 Keep obeying God. 01:05:02.320 --> 01:05:07.840 Because obedience to Him and His Word is like the momentum you need to get back to the top again. 01:05:08.720 --> 01:05:11.440 But whether you're at the top or at the bottom, obey God. 01:05:12.880 --> 01:05:13.760 Emotion is great. 01:05:15.040 --> 01:05:19.280 I love having, being, you know, emotional about the things of God. 01:05:19.600 --> 01:05:22.960 I love feeling emotions towards my wife, right? 01:05:22.960 --> 01:05:25.120 I love having that inward affection towards my brothers. 01:05:25.120 --> 01:05:26.000 But you know what? 01:05:26.000 --> 01:05:29.040 If I don't, because I'm a carnal person, 01:05:29.040 --> 01:05:31.120 because I'm a weak Christian at times, 01:05:31.120 --> 01:05:33.040 because I'm not perfect, guess what? 01:05:33.040 --> 01:05:36.880 The Bible says that I can still demonstrate genuine love 01:05:36.880 --> 01:05:38.400 through my obedience to His word. 01:05:39.200 --> 01:05:40.880 So I don't have to feel guilty. 01:05:42.000 --> 01:05:48.000 Just because I don't feel like I'm in love with the Lord, feel like I'm in love with the Bible, 01:05:48.000 --> 01:05:54.200 feel like I'm in love with my wife, feel like I don't have an inward affection towards the brothers and sisters in Christ. 01:05:54.200 --> 01:05:58.000 Because the Bible says, well, if you do those things, God still interprets that as love. 01:05:59.400 --> 01:06:03.600 If you obey the Lord, you do those things, God says you love. 01:06:04.800 --> 01:06:09.000 And that's important because I'm telling you, church is like, well, you know, something's wrong with you then. 01:06:09.300 --> 01:06:12.180 So what's wrong with if you don't have that emotion? 01:06:12.180 --> 01:06:15.380 Well, I would say something is wrong if you don't have the emotion and you're not obeying the Lord 01:06:17.460 --> 01:06:20.340 But if you're obeying the Lord, you don't have the emotion you're good 01:06:21.300 --> 01:06:23.300 Here's what it's called life 01:06:24.500 --> 01:06:26.100 That's just how life is 01:06:27.700 --> 01:06:31.360 Very important. Let me read you one last verse here. 1 John, or should I say passage? 01:06:31.360 --> 01:06:32.480 1 John 5, 1 says, 01:06:32.480 --> 01:06:40.480 Who soever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone that loveth him that begat, loveth him also that is begotten of him? 01:06:40.480 --> 01:06:44.860 By this we know that we love the children of God when we love God and keep his commandments, 01:06:44.860 --> 01:06:51.240 for this is the love of God that we keep his commandments, and his commandments are not grievous, the Bible says. 01:06:51.240 --> 01:06:52.240 So again. 01:06:52.500 --> 01:06:58.420 Genuine love is obedience to the Lord and here is oh actually two more points 01:06:59.880 --> 01:07:05.460 Two more points. Let me skip that last one here. I'm gonna go into this one. What I have you turn 01:07:07.380 --> 01:07:08.300 Where 01:07:10.600 --> 01:07:15.400 Okay, go to Romans 13. I just want to make sure you guys know where first Corinthians 13 is 01:07:17.040 --> 01:07:19.040 Genuine love hates evil, right? 01:07:20.160 --> 01:07:24.840 Genuine love hates evil the Bible tells us ye that love the Lord hate evil. Okay 01:07:25.680 --> 01:07:31.160 Now let me say this right right now and that is that genuine love works no evil 01:07:32.200 --> 01:07:37.360 It hates evil, but it worketh no ill towards his brother or towards others 01:07:39.600 --> 01:07:45.060 Meaning that you know I can't say that I love Cody and doing evil unto Cody 01:07:45.960 --> 01:07:50.720 Right I can't say that I love my children and do evil to my children. That's not real love 01:07:51.240 --> 01:07:53.240 Because love according to the Bible worketh no ill 01:07:53.720 --> 01:07:59.000 Look at Romans chapter 13 verse 8. Oh no man anything but to love one another 01:07:59.840 --> 01:08:02.040 For he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law 01:08:02.600 --> 01:08:07.240 For this thou shall not commit adultery thou shall not kill that shall not steal that shall not bear false witness 01:08:07.400 --> 01:08:12.200 Thou shall not covet and if there be any other commandment it is briefly comprehended in the same 01:08:12.640 --> 01:08:19.000 Namely thou shall love thy neighbor as thyself listen to this love worketh no ill to his neighbor 01:08:19.520 --> 01:08:24.040 Therefore love is the fulfilling of the law. What does the same? 01:08:24.080 --> 01:08:28.360 It's saying that if we have genuine love towards others 01:08:29.100 --> 01:08:35.580 we're not going to do evil towards them. Okay, now let me go ahead and talk about the whole Lindsey 01:08:35.580 --> 01:08:41.900 Clancy situation, okay, to give you a biblical perspective on this entire case here, okay. 01:08:43.500 --> 01:08:50.540 You know, obviously most of us know about this situation. Lindsey Clancy murdered her three 01:08:50.540 --> 01:08:54.700 children in 2023. She strangled her three children. 01:08:55.200 --> 01:09:00.200 And right now they are, you know, she's going through, there's a, there's a, 01:09:00.200 --> 01:09:06.200 there's an entire case going on whether she's going to be guilty of, or she's going to plead insanity, 01:09:06.200 --> 01:09:08.200 if she's guilty of insanity or not, okay? 01:09:08.200 --> 01:09:12.200 And here's the thing folks, is that let me say a couple things regarding this whole situation, 01:09:12.200 --> 01:09:17.200 just to make sure you have a biblical perspective on this entire case, okay? 01:09:17.200 --> 01:09:21.100 First and foremost, let me say, number one, that I... 01:09:21.200 --> 01:09:29.200 As a pastor, as a Christian, and as a husband, I do sympathize with people, or women, who go through postpartum depression. 01:09:29.200 --> 01:09:35.200 I sympathize with that 100%. That is a legitimate thing. 01:09:35.200 --> 01:09:46.200 My wife went through that a couple years ago, where she went through a state of psychosis, and she was very ill, and you know, it was a hard time for my wife and I. It was extremely difficult. 01:09:47.000 --> 01:09:50.000 And it helped me to realize like, man, 01:09:50.000 --> 01:09:52.400 you know, women are the weaker vessel in that regard, 01:09:52.400 --> 01:09:55.480 especially because, you know, their hormones can just 01:09:55.480 --> 01:09:57.160 kind of drive them crazy. 01:09:57.160 --> 01:09:58.920 OK? 01:09:58.920 --> 01:10:00.640 So I know that that's a legitimate thing. 01:10:00.640 --> 01:10:03.280 And you guys know that I preach about that, you know, 01:10:03.280 --> 01:10:05.160 not regularly, but I do mention it a lot. 01:10:05.160 --> 01:10:07.400 I tell husbands to make sure you check on your wives 01:10:07.400 --> 01:10:09.840 after they give birth because they can go 01:10:09.840 --> 01:10:11.360 through a lot of mental stuff. 01:10:11.360 --> 01:10:13.240 OK? 01:10:13.240 --> 01:10:14.000 However. 01:10:14.800 --> 01:10:19.260 Don't believe this is a situation where a person can use 01:10:20.500 --> 01:10:23.780 Postpartum depression as an excuse to kill her children 01:10:24.980 --> 01:10:28.380 Okay, now I'm not saying that that didn't play a role in 01:10:29.260 --> 01:10:35.380 What she did, but I personally believe according to the Bible that that woman is demonically possessed 01:10:38.180 --> 01:10:41.000 Demonically possessed why because what love worketh no ill 01:10:41.800 --> 01:10:43.800 towards their neighbor. 01:10:43.800 --> 01:10:45.800 And folks, you know, 01:10:45.800 --> 01:10:48.800 it's important for us to talk about this because of the fact that, 01:10:48.800 --> 01:10:53.800 you know, this whole situation has not produced women who want to defend this. 01:10:53.800 --> 01:10:57.800 It's exposed that women today are willing to defend this crap. 01:10:58.600 --> 01:11:04.160 And we live in such a godless society today where feminism has infiltrated churches and 01:11:04.160 --> 01:11:11.080 America to the extent that a woman can literally strangle her three children and women by and 01:11:11.080 --> 01:11:13.920 large in this country will try to defend that. 01:11:13.920 --> 01:11:16.680 It's oh man, you know her husband. 01:11:16.680 --> 01:11:20.840 Folks the whole trial is not about whether she did it or not. 01:11:20.840 --> 01:11:21.560 She said she did it. 01:11:23.200 --> 01:11:25.660 And it was like, ah, the conspiracy of her husband. 01:11:25.660 --> 01:11:28.320 She said she did it! 01:11:28.320 --> 01:11:30.020 The trial is not whether she did it or not. 01:11:30.020 --> 01:11:32.660 The trial is whether she was sane or not. 01:11:32.660 --> 01:11:36.060 Now, let me also say this is the Mosaic law doesn't carve out 01:11:36.060 --> 01:11:41.220 insanity as a defense in the way modern courts do. 01:11:41.220 --> 01:11:43.300 It was like, well, you know, she's insane. 01:11:43.300 --> 01:11:46.260 So no, OK, she's insane. 01:11:46.260 --> 01:11:48.180 Yeah, she is. 01:11:48.180 --> 01:11:49.180 But she. 01:11:49.900 --> 01:11:53.660 Meaning that her okay, it's not another person 01:11:54.500 --> 01:11:59.180 She can't separate herself and say well the insane part of me is the one that did it. No you did it 01:12:01.700 --> 01:12:04.900 The mosaic law doesn't carve out insanity as an excuse to murder. 01:12:05.900 --> 01:12:08.100 We have such a stupid judicial system, 01:12:08.500 --> 01:12:12.400 where it's just like, well, if she's insane, then we'll just put her in an insane asylum. 01:12:12.600 --> 01:12:14.300 And let me just be very clear. 01:12:14.500 --> 01:12:16.100 She deserves the death penalty. 01:12:16.300 --> 01:12:19.000 She deserves a millstone to be tied about her neck, 01:12:19.300 --> 01:12:20.900 to be drowned in the depths of the sea, 01:12:21.100 --> 01:12:22.800 because she murdered her children. 01:12:24.200 --> 01:12:33.200 And you know what, anybody who advocates for that woman and her actions, you know, you're just as wicked, you're godless, and you know what, you should be reported. 01:12:33.200 --> 01:12:36.200 And you know, do you have children? 01:12:36.200 --> 01:12:42.200 You know, how are these women, like literally defending them with their children along their side? 01:12:42.200 --> 01:12:47.200 If I was their kid I'd be like... 01:12:47.200 --> 01:12:50.200 Uh... 01:12:50.200 --> 01:12:51.200 Do you agree with this? 01:12:51.200 --> 01:12:51.600 Like... 01:12:53.700 --> 01:12:55.160 She deserves the death penalty. 01:12:55.160 --> 01:12:56.160 Okay? 01:12:56.160 --> 01:12:58.660 And I do believe that she was satanically possessed. 01:12:58.660 --> 01:13:02.200 Like, well, wouldn't you agree then that she shouldn't be convicted? 01:13:02.200 --> 01:13:06.240 Well, you know, Judas Iscariot was also satanically possessed when he betrayed Jesus Christ and 01:13:06.240 --> 01:13:09.200 he still held responsible. 01:13:09.200 --> 01:13:15.520 He was mentally insane because Satan took over, he possessed him, yet God held him accountable 01:13:15.520 --> 01:13:16.020 for that. 01:13:18.300 --> 01:13:21.500 And so yes, she does deserve the death penalty for that. 01:13:21.500 --> 01:13:22.860 She is godless and wicked. 01:13:22.860 --> 01:13:23.980 And you know what? 01:13:23.980 --> 01:13:26.060 I'm not standing up here standing in judgment of women 01:13:26.060 --> 01:13:27.800 who've gone through postpartum depression. 01:13:28.200 --> 01:13:34.280 Let me tell you this as someone with the experience of someone who's dealt with situations like that my wife who went through something like that 01:13:34.280 --> 01:13:36.200 You know what she eventually came out of it 01:13:36.200 --> 01:13:40.680 And you know what when she came out of it she realized like all those thoughts 01:13:40.680 --> 01:13:46.600 I was having all the the feelings and the emotions that I was experiencing. I know that they're wrong Lindsay's not doing that 01:13:49.000 --> 01:13:54.200 And look, people need to wake up and realize, do you understand that she's pleading not guilty? 01:13:57.700 --> 01:13:59.700 What do you mean? 01:13:59.700 --> 01:14:01.700 So, everyone knows she did it. 01:14:01.700 --> 01:14:04.700 She claims it, but she's plainly not guilty because she's saying, 01:14:04.700 --> 01:14:06.700 well, I was insane when I did it. 01:14:06.700 --> 01:14:08.700 So that's not repentance. 01:14:08.700 --> 01:14:10.700 That's not sorrow. 01:14:10.700 --> 01:14:12.700 Let me just explain something to you. 01:14:12.700 --> 01:14:14.700 Let me just be real with you. 01:14:14.700 --> 01:14:16.700 If I ever did something like that, 01:14:16.700 --> 01:14:18.700 and I was insane, you know what I'd do? 01:14:18.700 --> 01:14:21.700 I'd go up there and say, I'm guilty, and you better kill me now. 01:14:22.400 --> 01:14:27.560 I want to die now and if you don't put me to death now every single day that I'm on this earth 01:14:27.560 --> 01:14:32.360 I'm gonna look for a way to put myself to death because as a father as a parent 01:14:32.360 --> 01:14:36.100 I don't know how I'll be able to live with myself knowing that I took my children's life 01:14:37.120 --> 01:14:39.120 Is that what she's doing? Oh 01:14:39.880 --> 01:14:41.880 Not guilty because of insanity 01:14:43.080 --> 01:14:44.000 insane 01:14:45.300 --> 01:14:49.940 And you know what? Yeah, I'm sad. The only thing, I'm sad for the children, but you know I'm also sad for her. 01:14:49.940 --> 01:14:52.900 I'm sad that she didn't finish the job when she jumped out the window. 01:14:56.300 --> 01:14:58.660 jumped out the window, she paralyzed herself, 01:14:58.660 --> 01:14:59.500 and you know what? 01:14:59.500 --> 01:15:02.220 I would say, we don't even have to do this trial, 01:15:02.220 --> 01:15:03.860 I don't care if I'm insane or not, 01:15:03.860 --> 01:15:05.500 I want the death penalty, 01:15:05.500 --> 01:15:07.620 just end my suffering now, 01:15:07.620 --> 01:15:11.300 because what parent in their sane mind, 01:15:11.300 --> 01:15:13.620 thereafter would be like, yeah, I'm not guilty. 01:15:13.620 --> 01:15:16.100 That's not postpartum depression, my friends. 01:15:16.100 --> 01:15:18.100 Postpartum depression ends. 01:15:19.220 --> 01:15:21.540 People don't keep it for the rest of their life, 01:15:21.540 --> 01:15:23.100 because it's a hormonal thing. 01:15:23.600 --> 01:15:26.640 You know hormones go up and down, they change. 01:15:26.640 --> 01:15:29.040 You know, women you know that, nod, nod. 01:15:29.040 --> 01:15:29.880 You know? 01:15:29.880 --> 01:15:33.680 They go through hormonal changes and you know what? 01:15:33.680 --> 01:15:36.920 Postpartum depression is an extreme, 01:15:36.920 --> 01:15:39.620 extreme version of that. 01:15:39.620 --> 01:15:42.960 Where they lose the progesterone, their estradiol, 01:15:42.960 --> 01:15:47.200 their testosterone goes up, but eventually over months, 01:15:47.200 --> 01:15:50.260 you know, monthly periods, it actually ends up leveling out. 01:15:51.300 --> 01:15:54.180 And obviously, you know, should people have helped her? 01:15:54.180 --> 01:15:55.740 Of course. 01:15:55.740 --> 01:15:57.980 Should she have gotten the help when she cried out for it? 01:15:57.980 --> 01:15:59.740 Yes, of course. 01:15:59.740 --> 01:16:00.140 But you know what? 01:16:00.140 --> 01:16:02.100 Still, that doesn't excuse what she did, 01:16:02.100 --> 01:16:05.980 and it doesn't excuse the fact that she did it. 01:16:05.980 --> 01:16:06.980 Hormones level out. 01:16:06.980 --> 01:16:09.940 And when hormones level out and people are no longer 01:16:09.940 --> 01:16:12.140 under that state of psychosis, they recognize, wow, 01:16:12.140 --> 01:16:15.020 I was crazy. 01:16:15.020 --> 01:16:16.580 And I guarantee you, moms in here 01:16:16.580 --> 01:16:18.260 who have gone through something like that, 01:16:18.260 --> 01:16:18.300 you 01:16:18.400 --> 01:16:23.300 Baby blues or whatever months later a year later. You're like yeah, I was thinking some dumb stuff 01:16:24.080 --> 01:16:31.180 Like you recognize whatever thoughts you were having were wrong you recognize like I'm not that sad you recognize the world's not falling apart 01:16:31.760 --> 01:16:33.760 Like you come to your senses 01:16:34.420 --> 01:16:36.060 eventually 01:16:36.060 --> 01:16:38.060 She's not I 01:16:39.040 --> 01:16:43.920 Mean she's literally saying well, I don't deserve to be put 01:16:44.400 --> 01:16:49.600 In prison for life, just you know, put me in a mental institution. 01:16:49.600 --> 01:16:53.100 No, you're right, you don't deserve to be put in prison for life, you deserve to die. 01:16:53.100 --> 01:16:54.600 That's what you deserve. 01:16:54.600 --> 01:16:58.800 And I can't even get into all the specifics because there's a mixed crowd here. 01:16:58.800 --> 01:17:02.600 But just understand, first and foremost, think about this. 01:17:02.600 --> 01:17:03.600 Okay? 01:17:03.600 --> 01:17:07.800 Those people, people who want to claim well, postpartum depression that can do that to you, 01:17:07.800 --> 01:17:12.200 well number one, there was three children that she did this to. 01:17:13.500 --> 01:17:18.180 Meaning once she did it to one, she did it to the other, and then the other while they were there. 01:17:19.180 --> 01:17:20.180 Do you understand that? 01:17:21.180 --> 01:17:22.500 Number two, strangulation. 01:17:23.500 --> 01:17:24.740 And that's all I'm going to say of that. 01:17:25.500 --> 01:17:26.980 Strangulation takes a long time. 01:17:29.300 --> 01:17:30.100 put it that way 01:17:30.900 --> 01:17:31.400 you know 01:17:32.840 --> 01:17:33.800 a person 01:17:34.200 --> 01:17:36.900 who maybe under the influence realizes like what am I doing? 01:17:38.460 --> 01:17:41.060 she finished the job and then went to the next and went to the next 01:17:41.780 --> 01:17:43.860 that's the she's demonically possessed 01:17:45.860 --> 01:17:47.460 she's satanically possessed 01:17:47.700 --> 01:17:50.900 she's a godless woman and yes she is a reprobate 01:17:52.100 --> 01:17:52.900 because you know what 01:17:53.100 --> 01:17:56.260 she's past feeling she doesn't have natural affection 01:17:57.400 --> 01:18:01.880 Because no person, and look you say well you know, I've gone through postpartum depression 01:18:02.600 --> 01:18:07.000 and I've had emotions like that, or I feel like I've gone crazy and I've had emotions like that. 01:18:07.000 --> 01:18:11.480 But most of the time when people have emotions like this, when women have emotions like that, 01:18:12.280 --> 01:18:16.680 it's not a matter of that she ends up wanting, she's tempted to harm her children. 01:18:17.320 --> 01:18:21.160 Most of the time it's just like I feel like I'm so crazy I might harm my children. 01:18:21.880 --> 01:18:23.400 Which is a major difference between the two. 01:18:24.200 --> 01:18:31.320 It's like tempted to be harmed to harm your children and worrying that you're not in the right state of mind that you might harm your children 01:18:31.320 --> 01:18:33.320 two different things number two 01:18:33.740 --> 01:18:40.180 Most women who go through this postpartum depression, and they feel this way they want to take themselves out of the picture 01:18:44.000 --> 01:18:45.000 not others. 01:18:47.700 --> 01:18:49.820 So you know I have no sympathy for her 01:18:50.460 --> 01:18:54.720 You know on Thursday. I called her a reprobate, and then you know Friday. I was kind of looking to more 01:18:54.720 --> 01:19:00.540 I'm like oh, she went through postpartum like maybe there's some legitimacy to this you know let me I think I answered a matter before 01:19:00.540 --> 01:19:03.100 I heard it let me investigate this a little more and 01:19:03.880 --> 01:19:06.980 Then I got all the details. I was like nope spirit of God was upon me. I was right 01:19:08.880 --> 01:19:10.200 She's a reprobate 01:19:12.500 --> 01:19:15.780 You know, and here's the thing folks, is like, 01:19:15.780 --> 01:19:17.700 there was like a chaplain that came afterwards, 01:19:17.700 --> 01:19:21.660 some dyke chaplain, afterwards and came up to her 01:19:21.660 --> 01:19:23.540 and she's like, yeah, I visited her, 01:19:23.540 --> 01:19:25.000 why are you visiting her? 01:19:25.000 --> 01:19:26.720 This woman deserves no sympathy. 01:19:27.620 --> 01:19:28.960 No sympathy! 01:19:29.880 --> 01:19:31.060 She's a murderer! 01:19:33.060 --> 01:19:34.740 And he's like, oh, and I went up to her 01:19:34.740 --> 01:19:36.100 and this is what she said, she's like, 01:19:36.100 --> 01:19:38.660 I'm just happy they're in heaven now, what? 01:19:40.400 --> 01:19:46.800 Folks, you understand how much insanity like a parent would go through if they would commit 01:19:46.800 --> 01:19:47.800 something like that? 01:19:47.800 --> 01:19:53.720 I feel like if I were to do something like that, it would just drive me mentally insane. 01:19:53.720 --> 01:19:56.560 You wouldn't be able to live with yourself. 01:19:56.560 --> 01:19:58.200 It would just drive me mentally insane. 01:19:58.200 --> 01:20:02.480 I wouldn't be thinking, well, my children aren't having, and just kind of happy go lucky. 01:20:02.480 --> 01:20:04.560 That's a godless reprobate. 01:20:05.900 --> 01:20:09.680 No love. She has no sincere love. There is no genuine love there 01:20:10.180 --> 01:20:17.120 And you know what the state in which women are in today in 2026 is disgusting. I hate feminism 01:20:17.800 --> 01:20:22.800 And you know what? All these women who are promoting this, we better keep an eye on them, 01:20:22.800 --> 01:20:27.200 and you better not, you better make sure that you as a woman are not falling into the same trap. 01:20:27.200 --> 01:20:32.600 Sympathizing with women who murder their children, trying to make excuses, calling her the victim. 01:20:32.600 --> 01:20:34.400 The children are the victim! 01:20:35.900 --> 01:20:36.900 Not her! 01:20:37.700 --> 01:20:39.300 Yeah, but she's paralyzed. 01:20:40.400 --> 01:20:41.000 Yeah! 01:20:41.900 --> 01:20:44.100 We need to, we need to continue the paralyzation. 01:20:47.700 --> 01:20:50.700 We need to keep feminism out of the church. 01:20:50.700 --> 01:20:53.700 This godless attitude out of the church. 01:20:53.700 --> 01:20:56.700 This attitude that says, well, you know, 01:20:56.700 --> 01:21:01.700 and by the way, if Lindsay would have killed like three dogs, 01:21:01.700 --> 01:21:04.700 these same feminists would have wanted her head on a platter. 01:21:04.700 --> 01:21:08.700 That's a fact. Right? 01:21:08.700 --> 01:21:12.700 If she would have killed three kittens and three dogs for measure, 01:21:12.700 --> 01:21:14.700 they would have wanted her head on a platter. 01:21:16.900 --> 01:21:21.800 And make no mistake about it, there's a bunch of reprobates out there who are promoting this, they're for her, 01:21:21.800 --> 01:21:27.100 because they want to enable and create a society that despises children, 01:21:27.100 --> 01:21:32.600 that allows women to just behave like absolute beasts without any consequences. 01:21:33.000 --> 01:21:34.000 It's disgusting. 01:21:35.300 --> 01:21:35.900 You know? 01:21:36.100 --> 01:21:41.500 And I know the trial's still going, and you know, hopefully she, you know, hopefully she does get... 01:21:41.800 --> 01:21:47.440 Life in prison because that's the best our country could do apparently I prefer that over the mental mental institution 01:21:48.940 --> 01:21:54.640 You know and hopefully when she's in prison she hangs herself. Oh, yes, you can't she's paralyzed, but you know oh 01:21:57.240 --> 01:22:01.860 That's so I can't believe you would say something like that. Oh should I talk about the kids again? 01:22:03.560 --> 01:22:05.960 Are you sympathizing with murderers of children? 01:22:07.500 --> 01:22:12.440 Let me you see yeah, but what would Jesus say here's what Jesus would say tie a millstone 01:22:13.300 --> 01:22:17.960 About their neck and drown them in the depths of the sea. You know that's called strangulation 01:22:18.780 --> 01:22:20.780 asphyxiation drowning 01:22:21.060 --> 01:22:22.600 My Jesus said that 01:22:25.400 --> 01:22:27.400 That's not genuine love, friends. 01:22:28.400 --> 01:22:32.400 You know, and my heart breaks for the children. 01:22:32.400 --> 01:22:37.400 Obviously it happened three years ago, and you know, I don't, I try not to think about it too deeply, 01:22:37.400 --> 01:22:44.400 because it just, it's so severe, it's such a disgusting thing that happened, and it shatters my heart. 01:22:45.400 --> 01:22:49.300 And look folks, just look at a picture of Lindsay, there's nothing there. 01:22:50.800 --> 01:22:52.360 You guys know what I'm talking about? 01:22:52.360 --> 01:22:54.300 Look at right here, nothing there. 01:22:58.000 --> 01:23:00.000 Love worketh no ill to his neighbor. 01:23:00.000 --> 01:23:02.000 There is no love there. 01:23:02.000 --> 01:23:04.000 And it's showing us that we're just... 01:23:04.000 --> 01:23:06.000 We live in a disgusting world. 01:23:06.000 --> 01:23:12.000 And after I was done researching, I'm like, I hate this world. 01:23:12.000 --> 01:23:14.000 I hate this place. 01:23:14.000 --> 01:23:16.000 I just hate it. 01:23:16.200 --> 01:23:19.000 You know, I hate that we live in a society like this. 01:23:19.000 --> 01:23:21.560 I hate that women defend this stuff. 01:23:21.560 --> 01:23:23.640 I hate that women exist like this. 01:23:23.640 --> 01:23:27.560 I hate that she has accumulated a million dollars 01:23:27.560 --> 01:23:31.160 from literally people giving to her. 01:23:31.160 --> 01:23:33.720 Like, what? 01:23:33.720 --> 01:23:36.280 I hate that women are blaming the husband, 01:23:36.280 --> 01:23:37.560 and I don't know the husband. 01:23:37.560 --> 01:23:38.840 He might be a piece of crap. 01:23:38.840 --> 01:23:39.800 I don't know. 01:23:39.800 --> 01:23:41.080 Probably is. 01:23:41.080 --> 01:23:42.280 I don't know. 01:23:42.280 --> 01:23:43.080 And I don't care. 01:23:43.600 --> 01:23:45.600 But you know what? He didn't do it. 01:23:45.600 --> 01:23:53.600 I hate that, you know, they're out there with pink shirts and, you know, oh man, she's a victim. 01:23:53.600 --> 01:24:00.600 I hate the fact that just there's literally thousands and thousands and thousands of women out there 01:24:00.600 --> 01:24:04.600 who are saying, yeah, see, it was his fault. 01:24:04.600 --> 01:24:08.600 Yeah, see, the system failed her. 01:24:08.600 --> 01:24:10.100 She did it. 01:24:10.400 --> 01:24:16.780 Hold people accountable for their actions my friends and so what's the sermon today genuine love 01:24:17.640 --> 01:24:20.800 Do you have genuine love? I have genuine. I have genuine love for the kids who died 01:24:21.800 --> 01:24:25.780 And the Bible says ye that love the Lord hate evil. That's why I hate Lindsay 01:24:28.100 --> 01:24:30.100 Can't you love both? Nope. 01:24:30.100 --> 01:24:34.100 How can I love her when she literally violated and took the lives of her children? 01:24:34.100 --> 01:24:36.900 A baby. A baby! 01:24:40.500 --> 01:24:42.500 You know that's disgusting. 01:24:42.500 --> 01:24:46.500 So it's important for us to recognize the importance of having sincere love, 01:24:46.500 --> 01:24:50.500 developing it, and recognizing that that's not at the exclusion of hating, 01:24:50.500 --> 01:24:53.500 it's not at the exclusion of judging, 01:24:53.500 --> 01:24:56.500 that's not at the exclusion of telling the truth, 01:24:56.500 --> 01:24:57.500 it's not at the exclusion of that. 01:24:57.500 --> 01:25:01.500 We need to make sure that we cultivate sincere, genuine love, 01:25:01.500 --> 01:25:04.500 and that we define it according to the Bible. 01:25:04.500 --> 01:25:06.500 Not according to Gandhi. 01:25:08.000 --> 01:25:12.000 not according to, you know, unsafe people or your favorite poet. 01:25:12.800 --> 01:25:16.160 You define it according to the Bible. Let's pray. Father, we thank you so much for your word. 01:25:16.800 --> 01:25:23.440 Lord, I pray that you'd help us as your people to develop and cultivate sincere, genuine love, Lord, 01:25:24.240 --> 01:25:30.240 for the innocent, for the righteous. And Lord, I pray that Lindsay would get 01:25:30.700 --> 01:25:36.080 the fullest extent of the law upon her Lord that you would judge her severely and obviously we know that 01:25:36.520 --> 01:25:41.260 Ultimately when she does die you will punish her severely and we thank God for that Lord 01:25:42.180 --> 01:25:46.140 Because in our hearts we grieve over the injustices of this world 01:25:46.820 --> 01:25:53.720 And I pray that Lord you would help us as your people to have solace in the fact that those children are in heaven 01:25:54.600 --> 01:26:03.200 And I pray that Lord you would again help us as your people to just continue to love those who merit our love Lord. 01:26:03.200 --> 01:26:06.200 But even the unsaved who don't merit the love, we need to give them the gospel. 01:26:06.700 --> 01:26:09.100 We need to get them saved and pray for their salvation. 01:26:09.500 --> 01:26:13.700 We need to pray that backsliding Christians would return back to the fold. 01:26:14.400 --> 01:26:18.100 And we need to pray that we could be a blessing to those around us as well. 01:26:18.500 --> 01:26:19.400 And we love you Lord. 01:26:19.400 --> 01:26:19.800 We thank you. 01:26:19.800 --> 01:26:20.900 Pray this in Jesus name. 01:26:20.900 --> 01:26:21.200 Amen. 01:26:25.600 --> 01:26:31.700 Please turn your songbooks to song number 65.