The sermon emphasizes that love, as the ultimate fruit of the Spirit, is not merely an emotion but a willful decision and an active, sacrificial force that transforms individuals and the world around them.
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11:00 a.m. or 6:00 p.m. Well, while
everybody is standing, let's uh
listen to the text for today, which is
Galatians chapter 5 verse 19- 23, the
modern English version of the
scriptures. You'll notice there these words.
words.
Now the works of the flesh are revealed
which are these adultery, sexual immorality,
immorality,
impurity, lwdness, idolatry, sorcery,
hatred, strife, jealousy, rage,
selfishness, dissensions, heresies,
envy, murders, drunkenness, carousing,
and the like.
I warn you as I previously warned you
that those who do such thing, the ones
who make a practice, a habit of
practicing those things shall not
inherit the kingdom of God.
But the fruit of the spirit, this is a
contrast between the works of the flesh
and the fruit of the spirit. But the
fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace,
patience, gentleness, goodness, faith,
meekness, and self-control. Against such
there is no law. And today we're talking
from the subject of the ultimate fruit.
fruit of the spirit
because it is the the fruit out of which
all of the other fruit grow.
Where do you get your peace?
>> All of these are an outgrowth of love itself.
itself.
Love is the first fruit of the spirit.
Notice it's I'm so glad that he talked
about the first fruit of the spirit, the
preeminent, the ultimate fruit. It is
not power.
It is not fame.
It is not wealth.
The first fruit of the spirit is love.
And the ultimate fruit,
it is not something that you consume. It
is something that you become.
So when you talk about the fruit of love,
love,
it is not merely that we consume love.
We are to become the embodiment of love.
The Bible didn't say that God consumes
love. The Bible says God is love. 1 John
4:8, God is love. It this is about what
we are to become, not merely consumed.
Now they are connected because you are
what you eat.
So if I eat love, I become love. If you
eat carcinogenic things, you become cancer.
cancer.
You are what you eat. So the focus here
though is not merely on the consuming.
It is on the becoming.
I grew up watching Papa the Sailor Man
and remember when he would get on a
pickle, he would go and eat his spinach
and he would become strong. He was after
not the spinach, he was after the
strength, the stuff that the spinach
produced. There's a difference. So we
have to learn to consume the stuff that
helps us to become strong. We have to
consume what helps us to become more
loving. We have to consume what allows
us to become more joyous. So this is
about not merely what we consume but
what we become. What we become. You are
what you eat. And that's why you can't
have too strong of a mental diet of
things that you have seen online
because you'll be stressed out. And the
wars and the rumors of wars and the lack
of peace and all of the stuff that we
have in the world because of greed and
because of corruption in government and
world leaders.
We have an issue in our world now. And
I'm just telling you, it's time now for
the church to be in full prayer mode.
We are warriors. We are intercessors.
And we're in touch with the kingdom
above the kings of this world and the
presidents of this world. We have to
appeal to the king of kings and the lord
of lords because the heart of the king
is in the hand of God. AND HE CAN TURN
IT WHICHEVER WAY THAT HE so desires.
Our God is faithful. He's faithful. He
is faithful. And we do that because we
love people. It is our love that is the
motive behind all goodness that comes.
But you are what you eat. If you eat
pride, you become cold and callous and hard.
hard.
And if if you eat fear, you become
small. Fear will make you shut down.
It'll make you pass over opportunities
that could really bless your life and
enlarge you. But fear makes your world small.
small.
>> But if you consume Christ, you become alive.
alive.
>> Jesus said, "Except you eat my flesh and
drink my blood, you have no part of me."
And when we partake of Christ, WE
PARTAKE OF the Zoey life of God. We
become lifeed by him. So there's a
power. You are what you eat. Because if
you eat pride, you become hard and cold.
and and and when when you begin to eat
fear, your world gets smaller. But if
you partake of Christ, you come alive.
And then if you partake of love, your
world becomes expansive. Love opens the
whole world to you. You see things when
you get in love that you couldn't see
before. You don't even know what uh
living is until you fall in love. If you
don't know love, you don't know life.
You don't start living until you start loving.
loving.
You really don't. Love makes your life
come alive.
And when love is correctly cultivated,
the rest of all of the other fruit of
the spirit begin to ripen naturally.
When when love is correctly cultivated,
then the rest of the fruit of the spirit
begin to ripen naturally. And I want to
just show you all of the rest. The love,
the joy, the peace, the the patience,
the kindness, all of them. Joy is love rejoicing.
rejoicing.
>> So that's that's all joy is. It's love
rejoicing. Peace is love resting.
Patience is love waiting. Kindness is
love expressing itself. Goodness is love
that is serving. Faithfulness is love uh staying.
staying.
Gentleness is love handling uh ca
carefully. It's handling carefully
things. That's love. Handling carefully
when you're just in gentleness. And
self-control is love governing desire.
But love is the ultimate
gift. It's the ultimate gift. It is actually
actually ultimately
ultimately
God being reproduced on the inside of
us. That's what it is. Because remember,
God is love. First John 4:8, God is
love. So when you have love, love is
actually God being reproduced in us.
The essence of what we do here in
ministry, in church, is not about
rituals. It's about loving God, loving
yourself, and being able to love others.
It's all based on love. Jesus said,
"Listen, out of all of the other 630
laws, commandments that you have," Jesus
said, "I give you these two, and if you
can handle these two that all deal with
love, the ultimate gift,
>> if you just deal with those two, to love
the Lord your God with all your heart,
your mind, your soul, and your strength,
and then to love your neighbor as you
love your self." And there are too many
people that are wicked to their
neighbors. It is a reflection of their
own selfhatred.
So whenever you find people being nasty,
it has nothing to do with who you are.
It has everything to do with how they
see themselves.
>> Because when people have had a foul day
and when they've had bad and negative
experiences, it makes them negative. It
makes them critical. It makes them have
a bad attitude. So it's not a reflection
of you. They were like that when you met them.
them.
They were like that when you bumped into
them. And so we have to just keep on
allowing the beauty of God's love in us
to radiate out irrespective of how they
come across to us because they have
failed to allow the fruit of love to be cultivated.
cultivated.
Fruit grows.
So, nobody is just born perfected in
love and joy and peace and gentleness
and faithfulness and goodness and
meekness and temperance and all of that.
You grow in the fruit. They're not fully
developed. They're a seed. And as we
water them, as we nurture them, as we
cultivate them, as we are spiritually formed,
formed,
>> the fruit matures
>> and as it is exposed to the light, the
sunshine of God's the light of his word,
the light of his understanding, the more
that fruit begins to grow. But let me
clarify this. Love is not merely an
emotion or a feeling. Love is a decision.
decision.
Love is a decision. Love is a decision.
I'm just telling you, whenever you find
people that have been together a long
time, it's it's not that they were never
tempted to leave.
>> And I told you, I I I have someone who's
been together a long time and and and he
said to me, I I I asked him, I just
said, "Have you ever thought about
divorce?" He said, "No, I've never
thought about divorce, but I've thought
But love is a decision. It is a decision.
decision.
Biblical love is willful before it is
emotional. It is willful. It has a will.
It decides before it delights.
>> It commits before it celebrates. It
obeys before it makes sense.
>> It's a decision. Biblical love is
willful before it is emotional. So it
obeys even before it makes sense. When
you love people, you just when you love
God, you obey him before you fully
understand what is he's asking. Even
when you can't see it.
>> Jesus told us in St. John chapter 14 and
verse1 15 he said if you love me if you
love me you will keep my commandments.
If you love me you will keep my
commandments. If you love me you will
keep my commandments. You know why?
Because you see feelings may follow but
obedience comes first.
>> Obedience comes first. And one reason
that people are skeptical about our Christianity
Christianity
is simply because of the way that we
treat other people.
As you mature in love, you treat people
differently. Because here's the here's
the here's the principle. How you are
with people shows where you are with God.
God.
>> How you are with people shows where you
are with God. How you are with people
shows where you are with God. 1 John 4
and 20 says this that if a person says
that they love God whom they cannot see,
how can you say that you love God that
you cannot see and you can't even love
your brother, your sister that you can see.
see.
It says if anybody says that they love
God whom they can't see and can't love
the brother or sister that they can see,
it says that they are a liar.
>> The Bible says lie a liar, pants on fire.
fire.
It's amazing.
But how you are with people
>> shows where you are with God.
But you don't love people simply because
people are lovable. You know why?
Because some people are unlovable.
unlovable.
And we're commanded
to love them. Even the ones that are
hard to love. Some people are easy to
love. And there are other people that
you have to, you know, you have to say,
Lord, I need to feed them out of a long
because some people are so challenging,
so difficult to actually be able to love.
love.
But the issue is, it's not that
you don't love someone because they're
lovable. You love them because you give
to them. And I want you to just think
about how parents do parents fall in
love with their children more and more
every day because they are giving to
their children. They're feeding them.
They're changing their diaper. They're
bathing them. They're providing a roof
over their head. They are giving to them
constantly. The child has not done
anything. They're not working and
pulling their own weight, but the parent
still loves them because they're giving
to them. They're giving to them. They're
giving to them. They're giving to them.
The child is not entitled. They're entrusted.
entrusted.
>> There's a difference.
>> They're entrusted with your love. And so
before they can even contribute to the
family, before they can contribute to
the budget, we love them anyway. Because
love gives. Here's the thing that I want
you to see is that the Hebrew word for
love is actually the word ahava, which
means to give. Isn't that interesting?
The Hebrew word for love, ahava, means
to give. So when you love people, you
have to give something to them. Whether
you give a smile, whether you give
encouragement, whether you give a pat on
the back, whether whether you just uh
give something, it's it's your
attention. Whether you give empathy,
whether you give prayer, but you give
something to them. And when you give to
people, you somehow your love will grow
toward them as you give the ahaba.
>> The ahaba when you give to them. For God
so loved the world that he
>> gave. He didn't just say, "I love y'all,
>> but you're on your own."
No, no, no. He so loved the world that
he then
>> gave. That's a hava in manifestation
because love means to give. When you
love people, you give not because it's
obligated. You give because you love.
Love gives. It's the nature of love.
People with a loving heart. They're
giving people.
>> And they they may not have money, but
they can give you a smile. They can give
you encouragement. They can give you
some wisdom. They they give you counsel.
They give you prayer. I mean, they they
give you things that mean something.
They show up. They give you their attention.
attention.
>> When you walk in the room, the eyes
light up. And just the way that they
were excited to see YOU COME IN IS A GIFT.
GIFT.
>> It values the imo day, the image of God
on the inside of you. So every time that
we love people, we're actually giving
something to them. Ah hava it describes
an action not an emotion. It's an action
not an emotion not an emotion. So love
always gives.
Love is not merely a feeling. Love is a flow.
flow.
>> You flow in love. That's just how you
flow. My wife is a love person. She just
flows in love
>> in ways sometimes that just amaze me.
because she just flows in it. And it's a
genuine thing. It's not fabricated. She
doesn't wait until a camera is on.
>> She flows
in in in in a love. And she has a a
Godgiven ability to just allow that love
to flow through her. Love is not a
feeling, it's a flow. If nothing is
Love is a flow. Love is a flow. Love is
a flow. Whenever you come under
pressure, whatever is in you is coming out.
out.
>> Love is a flow. Love is a flow. And love
seeks the highest good of others. Love
seeks the highest good of others.
Because love is about giving at the
expense of self. Whereas lust seeks to
get at the expense of others.
>> But love is a giving thing. Love asks a
a better question than what do I want?
It doesn't just ask what do I want?
Here's what love asks. Love asks what
helps this person become who God
designed them to be?
>> How can I step in and help them to
become who God has designed them to be?
It says, what helps this person become
who God has designed them to be? And
love has a function. It's not just a
feeling. Love is a flow. Love is a
function. Love is a giving. So sometime
love comforts because you've been messed
up. You've gone through trauma. Sometime
love comforts. Sometime love confronts.
Like what what time is it? I see you
coming in here. It it's 2 o'clock in the
morning. What what time I tell you to be
here? And love will confront you.
They're not doing that because they hate
you. They're confronting you because
they love you. Sometime love confronts.
Sometime it carries. You can get sick.
You can get financially weak and
somebody has to carry you. I mean you
just need help. Sometime you can get
under addiction and somebody has to
carry you. Somebody has to carry you in
prayer. They got to be able to carry
you. Pleading the blood of Jesus over
you until you come to your senses.
Somebody has to carry you. When you fall
down, you get broken. You get hurt in
life. Sometime love carries you. And
sometime love corrects. Love comforts.
Love confronts. Love carries. And then
love corrects. Love won't just see a
person that's wrong and not then do
something to correct them. When you love
people, you correct them.
>> When you love people, you correct them.
If a parent loves their children, you
correct them when they're wrong. You
correct them if they say the wrong
thing. If they speak in the in the wrong
way. If they act or respond. If they're
bullying somebody. love ought to correct
them and said, "This is not how we do
this. This is not how we do this." You
see one child go over and slap one of
the other children and they cause harm
and injury to them. Stop them and have a
conversation with them. And it says,
"This is not the way that we express our
anger to inflict pain on another human
being and GIVE THEM AN UNDERSTANDING OF
WHAT THEY'RE DOING AND WHY this is
wrong." Love confronts. It brings a
clear framework so that if that child is
not taught while they are young how to
handle their anger, they will become a
grown man and a grown woman and wind up
behind bars and with some charge against
them because they were never taught THAT
WHEN I'M ANGRY. THIS IS NOT how we
express it. if I have to go out and go
for a walk, if I need to go to the gym
and work out, if I need to just go to
the backyard and scream to the top of my
lung. But we do not inflict our pain on
another human being because we are
angry. LOVE WILL TEACH YOU SOME SENSE SO
THAT YOU BECOME a respectable HUMAN
BEING AND YOU'RE not slapping and
pulling triggers and get pulling out a
switchblade when you get angry.
Love teaches. Love will correct you and
say, "No, no, no, no. This is not how we
handle anger. When we get angry, be
angry, but sin not. When I get angry,
this is what I do. I sit down and I say,
"Listen, I don't like this. The way that
you just made me feel make me very
angry. I'm upset." Teach them an
alternative way. Show them a better way.
Love corrects. Love corrects. Love is
not passive that said, "Oh, look at my
baby there." No, no, no. says, "This is
not how we do this as a family. You do
this again, I'm going to have to apply
the board of education to the seat of learning.
Love is not soft. Love is wise.
>> Love is not soft. Love is wise."
And love that is a fruit of the spirit
is not just transactional but it is sacrificial.
sacrificial.
>> You see people are the transactional
people are saying what do you bring to
the table? Love is sacrificial. The
sacrificial love says whatever whatever
you need baby in order for us to be able
to make it. I'm I'm I'm in it for you.
That's right.
>> I'm in it. I'm I'm in it to win it with
you. We we in this together. whatever
you need. It It's not that I I I put in
three apples and you put in three. No,
no, no. You might have to get a whole
bushel of apples and you might have to
be willing to stand out in front of the
this the fruit stand and sell the apples
and it may have to go longer than what
you expected because this may not have
been what you signed up for. But when
you have love, remember that a hava is a
giving love and it say we going to make
this thing work. It's sacrificial, not
transactional. It's like I bring this
and YOU BRING THAT. WHAT IF I GET INJURED?
INJURED?
>> What if I GET HURT? WHAT IF I'M LAID off
of my job?
>> Where's my Ahaba been?
>> It's like when I need a hand up, who's
going to give me the hand up when I'm in
a position where I cannot contribute in
the way that I have been contributing
before. I need a little a hover
>> so that I'm strengthened. That's
sacrificial. You see, love does not give
to get. Love gives because it reflects
God's heart.
>> And love serves without keeping score.
Remember that it keeps no record of
wrong. And love blesses without
bargaining. You know, you don't just if
if if I do this for you then, baby, what
you going to do for me?
>> That's transactional. Love blesses
without bargaining. And love pours
without demanding repayment.
>> It just pours.
And see we we are in our culture today
we have become so self-conscious and I
and I understand you know we we are
self-aware we got talk about self-esteem
and self-acceptance and self-love and
self-image and self-realization and and
self-preservation and all of all of this
stuff revolving around self. But how
does that pair up with what Jesus taught
us? That's right.
>> Jesus taught us to have sacrificial love
which denies self.
>> Luke chapter 9 23 and 24. Notice this.
Then he said to them all, "Whoever wants
to be my disciple," Jesus said, "You're
going to be a disciple coming after me.
You must deny yourself." Whoever wants
to be my disciple must deny themselves,
take up their cross how often? daily,
every day, every day. And then do what?
>> Follow me. If you want to be a disciple
of Jesus, deny yourself. Deny yourself.
Take up your cross daily and follow me.
For whoever
>> whoever wants to save their life
>> will lose it.
>> But whoever loses their life for me will
save it.
>> It's a paradox.
>> It's a paradox.
But you have to give up in order to go up.
up.
>> And love is not going to let you lose in
the end.
>> Love's reward is alignment with heaven,
not applause from people.
>> I want you to understand that when you
do it God's way, it is alignment with
heaven. As it is in heaven, so it is on
the earth. Love's reward is alignment
with heaven. It is not the applause of
people. And if people don't uh stand
there patting you on the back because
when you're sitting with a sick person
helping them to get back on their feet,
if somebody has gotten addicted and uh
and they're going through rehab trying
to get themselves if they've been
traumatized and they're going through
therapy and you may not be able to
contribute much during that time, but
during that time you need somebody who
can just love you and you don't get
applause when you have sat up with a
sick child all night long. Nobody is
going to give you an award at the end of
the year. You don't get something on
your job just because you know you were
sitting up nursing a sick uh spouse or a
sick parent or a sibling or or whoever.
Those are the types of things that you
don't get the applause of people, but
you will get heaven's attention. God
will take note of people that are
manifesting the love of God in the
earth. And here's what I want you to see
is that power impresses people but love
transforms them. Power impresses people
but love transforms.
I cannot tell you the number of lives
that I have seen transformed over the
years. So many men have told me
personally, man, if it if it wasn't for
my mama, my mama wouldn't ever stop
praying for me. My mama my mama she she
she laid me on the altar and she took me
before Jesus and and man I would have
been I would have been I would have lost
my mind. I would have been in jail. I I
would have lost everything that I had,
>> when they had somebody. And then other
other men have told me, man, my wife
wouldn't give up on me,
>> man. When I was out there cutting the
food and doing all kind of crazy stuff,
and she should have left me. And I don't
even understand why she didn't. But if
it hadn't been for that woman that stood
to the horns of the all of the altar and
had a tenacity before God, she wouldn't
let me go. She wouldn't give up on me.
Love won't let go. Love won't let go.
Love keeps on forgiving so it doesn't
get offended. Love keeps on forgiving so
that it doesn't get offended. Love keeps
on forgiving so that it doesn't get
offended. And love will persevere
through because they know that love has
transformational power. And you can see
people that out of their love, it gives
you the strength not to give up. And as
long as YOU'VE GOT STRENGTH NOT TO GIVE
UP, YOU WILL SEE THE POWER of love begin
to transform that person. It doesn't
happen overnight. It happens over time.
The transformational power of love
happens over time.
>> Real spiritual growth. See, you have to
grow in this thing. It is not measured
by age or by tenure. All right.
>> There are some people that can work for
your organization
uh for a long time and and never really
mature. I'll never forget I spoke at a
school a number of years ago
and uh I was talking about some of these
principles to the staff. I was just
talking to the staff of the school and
uh the principal told me afterwards they
said, "You know, you mentioned about
this that you pointed out a lady here
that's been here for 25 years
and that she had 25 years of experience."
experience."
He says, "She doesn't have 25 years of
experience. She's got one year of
experience that's been repeated 25 times."
And so you can't just assume that
because somebody is hanging around that
they're growing.
>> Some people can be there and still not grow.
grow.
>> So real spiritual growth is not made by
age. It's not measured by age or tenure.
>> They can be there for a long time
>> and still not grow. Still the same old person.
person.
>> Still doing the same old thing the same
old way. No innovation. No no no
growing. No, not not trying to see how I
can better myself.
>> It is not measured by your gifts
>> cuz you speak with tongues or prophesy
or lay hands and get healing. That
that's not that that won't save a marriage.
marriage.
>> Real spiritual growth is not measured by
gifts. Real spiritual growth is not
measured by knowledge. Just because you
can quote chapter and verse, that
doesn't mean you've grown in the Lord.
And real spiritual growth is not
measured by your eloquence because you
can put your words together
>> and wow people with the way that they
just you can just spit it. You like you
spit knowledge.
And some of the folks that do that are
just demons on the inside,
but they can spit it out. They can just
real spiritual growth is measured by
this. Real spiritual growth is measured
by how kind your attitude is when you
have to wait.
>> You don't know how how kind people are
until you put them in a position where
they have to wait for something. Until
you see how you they treat difficult
people. How do you treat difficult
people? Anytime you run a business, you
going to have difficult people that come
in. And I understand sometimes you have
And then it's measured by how you
respond under pressure. How do you
handle pressure?
Real spiritual growth is measured by how
you respond under pressure. And it's how
you behave when you are unseen,
>> when you've really grown. It's not
because you're doing the right thing
because cameras are on you,
>> because you're FaceTiming somebody
because you going live on something. No,
no, no. is how you behave when you're unseen.
unseen.
>> And I'm just telling you, we're called
to love people that's unlovable. But as
I said, you know, we got to give prayer
to them. We got to give counsel to them.
We've got to give encouragement to them.
Cuz you don't really know who a person
is until money is involved.
>> Lend people money. Oh my goodness.
You'll see another side of things.
>> But you only have as much integrity as
you have with money. Yes.
>> So, you don't really know a person until
money is involved. Until you deal with
them when they're angry.
>> There's some people that's as sweet as
pie. But you need to see the other side
of Dr. Jackekal,
Miss Jackekal.
>> I mean, you you you just you need to see
you need to understand that if they get
angry enough, and you need to see that
before you get in a long-term committed relationship,
relationship,
>> cuz you need to know whether I can
handle this or not. That's how people
>> You don't know people until you live
with them.
>> Until you live with them.
You don't know people until you tell
them no.
>> Until you tell them no. Do you travel
with them? Until you work with them.
>> And you and then you have to see how
they handle stress. Yes.
>> Just see how they handle stress. So, you
don't really know people until you see
how money is in how until money is
involved in the deal. Until you deal
with them when they're angry, until you
live with them, till you travel with
them, work with them. Till you tell them
no, until you see how they handle stress
in their life. But the fruit of love is
a character trait. It's a character
trait. The fruit of love, fruit of the
spirit is about character. I love how
Paul Washer stated it when he said,
"When we speak of bearing fruit, we tend
to think in terms of activities rather
than Christlike character and likeness."
And here's what I want you to get. To
know God just to know God or to trust
God is to know him.
>> To trust God is to know God.
>> And then to know God is to love God. And
then to love God is to serve God. It's
to serve him. It's to serve him. The
wonderful thing that I love about trust
brings us into a realm
You are not even qualified for God to
show up and do something miraculous
until you're put in a position of trust
>> when you don't have all of the money and
God has just told you, you go and I'll
go with you.
>> God will tell you to go and do
something, go and build something and
you don't have the money.
>> You don't have the manpower. You don't
know how this thing is going to work
out. But the moment you come into the
realm of trust,
>> you're stepped now into an atmosphere
where the miraculous can happen. THE
MIRACULOUS WILL NEVER happen in a
comfort zone.
>> YOU DON'T GET A miracle unless you got a mess.
mess.
>> Something you got to be desperate.
>> You got to be out of your comfort zone.
So when things are all haywire in your
life AND YOU TRUST THEM IN SPITE of it,
you realize it's not what it looks like
that I'm going to trust it. THOUGH YOU
SLAY ME, YET WILL I. WHEN YOU'RE AT THE
HOSPITAL AND YOU HAVE TO BURY somebody
and you didn't see this coming and your
heart is broken and you're wondering,
Lord, I can't even GO ON. BUT I'VE GOT
TO TRUST YOU. THE MOMENT THAT I TRUST
them and says, JESUS, I TRUST YOU.
Somehow I step into the realm of the
miraculous. I've just created an
atmosphere now for God to step in and
show up.
>> YOU GOT TO BE PUT IN A POSITION TO HAVE
TO TRUST HIM. It is not comfortable. Not
by long shot. It's I've got to trust
you. The relationship falls apart and
I'm out here by myself now. And Lord, I
got to trust you. I've got TO TRUST YOU.
THE DOCTORS HAVE GIVEN YOU A BAD REPORT.
They've told you some bad news and and
you don't have the money for all of the
exams and and to put you through MRIs.
that stuff is expensive and you don't
have the the money and sometimes the
doctors don't have the medicine and
there's a limited amount of what they
can do. They are not God and AND NOW
IT'S LIKE GOD IF YOU DON'T TOUCH ME, IF
YOU DON'T heal me, IF YOU DON'T GO INTO
EVERY CELL IN MY BODY, IF YOU DON'T DEAL
WITH MY BACK issue and my hip issues and
my knee issues and MY DIGESTIVE ISSUES
AND MY RESPIRATORY ISSUES, JESUS, I NEED
YOU TO TOUCH MY BLOOD. I NEED YOU TO
DEAL WITH MY PANCREAS, MY HEART. LORD,
I'M TRUSTING YOU. I KNOW WHAT THEY SAID.
BUT WHOSE REPORT WILL YOU BELIEVE? My my
God. When I said that I don't care what
happens, that I'm going to trust you,
Lord. I will trust in the Lord. BACK IN
THE DAY, THAT'S WHAT THE OLD SLAVES WHEN
THEY DIDN'T HAVE MONEY AND THEY DIDN'T
HAVE ACCESS TO DOCTORS AND HEALTH CARE.
THEY HAD TO SAY, "I WILL TRUST in the
Lord. I WILL TRUST in the Lord. I WILL
TRUST IN the Lord all of the days of MY
LIFE." AND THEY DIDN'T. THEY WOULD SAY,
"I'M GOING TO TREAT EVERYBODY RIGHT
BECAUSE I'M JUST TRUSTING IN HIM. NOT
BECAUSE THEY ARE GOOD, BUT BECAUSE HE IS
GOOD. I I'M TRUSTING NOT BECAUSE I SEE
THINGS WORKING OUT. I'M TRUSTING BECAUSE
I DON'T HAVE ANY OTHER CHOICE. MY BACK
IS AGAINST THE WALL. JESUS, I'M OUT HERE
BY MYSELF. IT'S JUST ME AND YOU NOW. I
GOT TO TRUST YOU. I I WHO AM I TALKING
TO IN THIS PLACE?" WELL, you realize I
have got to trust you, Jesus. I'VE GOT
TO TRUST YOU. I NEED YOU. I NEED YOU,
LORD. I'M TRUSTING YOU. I CAN'T SEE MY
WAY OUT OF THIS. I'M TRUSTING YOU. BUT
EVERY TIME YOU TRUST GOD, YOU HAVE JUST
OPENED THE DOOR TO THE MIRACULOUS.
YOU'VE JUST PUT YOURSELF IN POSITION FOR
A MIRACLE TO HAPPEN. YOU GOT TO BE IN
TROUBLE TO TO GET A MIRACLE. YOU CAN'T
GET A MIRACLE IN THE COMFORT ZONE. YOU
GOT TO BE DESPERATE. DESPERATE.
DESPERATE.
I JUST WONDER TODAY, ARE THERE ANY
DESPERATE PEOPLE FOR GOD in this house
today? ARE YOU DESPERATE FOR GOD TO STEP
INTO YOUR SITUATION? Are you desperate
for God TO TURN THE LEGAL SYSTEM AROUND?
ARE ARE YOU ARE YOU DESPERATE FOR THE
DEAL TO GO THROUGH? MY GOD, ARE YOU
YOU KNOW WHAT TRUST IS? TRUST IS SAYING,
"LORD, I CAN'T HANDLE THAT. THIS IS
ABOVE MY pay grade." TRUST LITERALLY
MEANS, HERE'S WHAT IT MEANS TO YOU. It
means returning control back over to
God. When you say, "LORD, I TRUST YOU."
It means I'm turning control back over
to you. I can't CONTROL IT ANYWAY. YOU
CAN'T CONTROL YOUR HUSBAND. YOU CAN'T
CONTROL YOUR WIFE. YOU CAN'T CONTROL
YOUR MASCARA. YOU CAN'T CONTROL YOUR
STOCKINGS GETTING RUN IN THEM. MY GOD,
THERE'S SO MUCH THAT YOU CANNOT CONTROL.
TURN THE CONTROL BACK OVER TO GOD. WHEN
WE TRUST HIM, WE'RE SAYING, "JESUS, YOU
TAKE THE WHEEL. You take THE WHEEL. I'VE
ALREADY SHIPWRECKED. I'VE ALREADY MESSED
IT UP. JESUS, you take THE WHEEL. I'VE
ALREADY MADE BAD DECISION THAT I CAN'T
EVEN GET MYSELF UP OUT OF THIS. JESUS,
YOU TAKE THE WHEEL. JESUS, TURN THE
CONTROL BACK OVER TO GOD. EVERY TIME WE
TRUST HIM, WE ARE SAYING, "GOD, I MESSED
IT UP. FIX IT, JESUS. FIX IT, JESUS. FIX
IT, JESUS. FIX IT, JESUS. I TURN THE
CONTROL BACK OVER TO YOU, LORD. DEAL
WITH MY CHILD. DEAL WITH MY SON. DEAL
WITH MY DAUGHTER. DEAL WITH MY NIECE.
DEAL WITH MY NEPHEW. DEAL WITH MY
GRANDDAUGHTER. DEAL WITH MY SISTER. DEAL
WITH MY BROTHER. DEAL WITH IT, JESUS. I
TURN THE CONTROL BACK OVER TO YOU, JESUS.
JESUS.
I TURN IT BACK OVER. I TURN IT. JESUS,
TAKE THE WHEEL. JESUS. I CAN'T DO it by
myself. I can't do it by myself. I can't
Difficulty is the classroom where trust
is taught. DIFFICULTY. IT IS A CLASSROOM
WHERE TRUST is taught. And God's got
some of you in the classroom of difficulty.
difficulty.
He's got you enrolled in the university
of adversity.
He's got you in a difficult place right
now. But that's the place where trust is
cultivated. You will never cultivate
trust until you get in trouble. You will
never cultivate trust until you get on a
dark situation in your life. You've got
to be able to get into the dark place to
where you can trust God when you cannot
see anything. It was my friend Rick
Warren who said that the ultimate test
of faith IS NOT HOW LOUDLY YOU PRAISE
God in happy times, but how deeply you
trust him in dark times. My God, my God,
my God. IT'S NOT ABOUT HOW PRAISE HOW
YOU CAN PRAISE HIM IN THE HAPPY TIME.
It's when I'm in a deep low valley. It's
when I'm in the walking THROUGH THE
VALLEY OF THE SHADOW OF DEATH THAT I
HAVE TO TRUST HIM. THAT'S THE PLACE
WHERE I'M UNDER THE CRUCIBLE OF GOD
BEING ABLE TO CRUSH ME AND MOLD ME and
make me and remake me into who and what
I need to be to be. And so I just say
that we've got to trust him. We've got
to be able to trust him. To trust him.
To trust him. Jesus doesn't ever force
anybody. He never coerces a person who
doesn't know him to follow him. He never
coerces us. He simply says to us, "Come
and see. Come and see." He bids us,
"Come." He will always invite the heart
before he ever commands your feet. He
invites the heart before he commands the
feet. And so our response is just to him
is to say, "The door is open." Jesus
says, "The door is open. I'm giving you
an opportunity." Your response is
voluntary. And let me just tell you
this, love never drags. Love draws.
When love, when somebody has worked
their love spell on you, they're just
drawing you. You can't even resist it.
You can try not to think about it. You
sit down to pick up a book and you read
love on every page. Love in every
paragraph. Love has a drawing power.
Love can draw you when nothing else is
working in your life. Love has the
capacity to be able to draw us and it
brings us back to where God ultimately
wants us to be. Love draws. He draws us
with bands of love. And I just want you
to realize that when God delivered the
children of Israel out of Egypt.
Moses was having a struggle in his
relationship with God.
And God wanted him to know who he was.
Cuz Moses didn't know God. He was led by
a God that he didn't know.
>> And he said, "God, show me yourself."
>> Manifest yourself to me. Show me your glory.
glory.
>> He asked God, "Lord, show me your
glory." And I'm just telling you,
there's glory in every story.
>> Don't you give up until you get to the
There's glory in every story. Glory in
every story. There is glory in every
story. And because God wants us to know
him, just because he wants us to know
him, God doesn't begin with his power.
He doesn't begin with his judgment. He
doesn't begin with his demands, but he
begins with his character. I want you to
just hear what he said to Moses in
Exodus 34:4-7.
So Moses chisel out the two tablets of
stone like the first one. He's chiseling
those things out. And early in the
morning, he climbed Mount Si as the Lord
had commanded him. And he carried the
two sto stone tablets in his hands. And
then the Lord came down in a cloud and
stood there with him. And he called out
his own name.
>> God called out his own name Yahweh. And
the Lord passed in front of Moses,
calling out Yahweh. Yahweh the Lord, the
God of compassion and mercy. I am slow
to anger and filled with unfailing love.
I am fail. He's God is telling him who
he is. HE IS NOT TELLING HIM WHAT HE
DOES. HE'S TELLING HIM WHO HE IS. I'M
THE GOD OF COMPASSION. I'M THE GOD OF
MERCY. I AM SLOW TO ANGER. I am filled
with unfailing LOVE AND FAITHFULNESS. HE
DOESN'T KNOW GOD. SO GOD IS TELLING HIM,
I'M YAHWEH. I'M THE LORD. I'M THE LORD
OF UNFAILING LOVE. I'M THE LORD OF
FAITHFULNESS. I lavish unfailing love to
A THOUSAND GENERATION. I FORGIVE
INIQUITY. I FORGIVE REBELLION. I FORGIVE
SIN. BUT I DO not excuse the guilty. I
lay the sins of the parent upon the
children and the grandchildren and the
entire family has affected even children
to the third and fourth generation. But
over in the book of Ezekiel, he even
reversed that
>> and he says no longer will it be to
where the children's
the parents will eat and the children's
teeth will be set on edge. He says, "The
soul that sins shall die. And nobody
else is going to pay for somebody else's sin."
sin."
>> But God in his mercy, in his loving
kindness, he loves us. He loves us. He
loves us. He loves us. He loves us.
And he loves you.
And he's just calling us
to be able to manifest his love because
the world becomes wicked
because of the absence of love. Where
there's no love is dark. Where there's
no love is cold.
Love warms the place. Love lights the place.
place.
And some of you have just been existing
and you need God's love to come
turn on light. Turn on the furnace. It's
a furnace.
It warms the atmosphere.
And he tells us in a final scripture in
Galatians chapter 5 and:e 13, you were
called to freedom,
brothers and sisters. He said, only
don't let this freedom be an opportunity
to indulge your selfish impulses. But
notice what he said. God said, I set you
free not for you to do what you want to
do. I set you free to be able to serve
each other through love. Serve each
other through love. Serve each other
through love. Serve each other through
love. Serve each other through love.
Love heals.
>> Love corrects.
>> Love directs.
>> Love comforts. Love confirms. Love
Love confronts.
confronts.
>> It brings us into a place where we need
to be. But he says, "I wanted to forgive
you, give you a fresh start. I want to
set you free from your addictions, from
all of the sin of your past,
to make you free to be able to serve
others through love."
And I just wanted to give you just a a
video clip to see what that looks like
in action. Take a look.
In China, a long-distance truck driver
traveled more than 4,500 km with his
paralyzed wife in the cabin because he
refused to leave her behind. In 2020,
Cao Yingying collapsed on the street due
to a brain hemorrhage. After surgery,
she was completely paralyzed. She
couldn't speak and couldn't move. The
doctors said there was nothing more they
could do and that it would be better to
place her in a nursing home or in
paliotative care. Even his wife tried to
let him go. She made it clear she didn't
want to be a burden, but her husband
said, "No, I will not abandon you." He
rebuilt the truck cabin like a mobile
home and spent the next four years
traveling across China with his wife by
his side. Every day, he fed her with a
spoon, bathed her, and did
rehabilitation exercises at every stop.
With patience, he taught her how to walk
again. When people asked why he didn't
leave, he replied, "She was my first
school love." For 10 years, she
supported our family alone while I was
on the road. How could I leave her now?
After 2 years, she began to speak,
started walking, and fully recovered.
The doctors couldn't believe it. Her
first words after years of silence were,
"My husband is a great man who never
gives up." Sometimes love is not just
words. It is staying when the whole
world tells you to let go. We share
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>> Love serves.
Love doesn't walk out when somebody gets
sick. Love rolls up its sleeves and
begins to serve.
And remember, people are impressed with
power, but love transforms.
>> Love transformed her when doctors
couldn't because somebody showed up and
he looked like love.
>> That's God.
>> That's religion undefiled. when you show
up and let God's love shine through you
in a way that is indisputable. And this
is where we are. And I want to encourage
you to just bow your head and just ask
God, Lord, show me how to love like you love.
love.
Show me people that are in my sphere of influence
influence
that I can influence and allow to feel
your love of people who may have never
known your love.
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