Beloved Community: Marriages as Salt and Light

He says, you are the salt of the earth, but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? In other words, you got to guard this vision. Because if you lose this vision, you become worthless to to flavoring the world. You become worthless to preserving the world. You got to you got to hold on to the vision of a community of love, a people of love, a not like everybody else, but but not because we're better, but because we've been forgiven. [00:39:58] (35 seconds)  #SaltOfTheEarthVision

But love is like a light on a hill that when people see it, they choose to come to it. Yeah. That's why Jesus said, by this, all men would know that you're my disciples. He wanted this to be the light. He says, if you will have love one toward another. That's what the world is looking for. [00:42:40] (30 seconds)  #LoveLikeALight

that's what Jesus he he's saying. He says that you're gonna be like a city that's lit up. You're gonna be like a light on a lampstand and people and cities and nations are gonna be drawn to you because people want love. Yeah. People are looking for love. People are hungry for love. Everything people are trying to do for themselves and this is what messes it all up. We're trying to get love for myself. [00:41:36] (34 seconds)  #BeALightOnAHill

You are not a distant god. You are not an uncaring god but that you can't you came among us so that you could you could know what we go through so that you can be you can be sensitive to our needs. Today, we cast all of our cares upon you. Today, we made the decision to cast our cares on you because you care about us. You care about how we feel. You care about what we go through. You care about our future. [00:11:25] (42 seconds)  #GodWithUs

Jesus wants to help you make your marriage like a city set upon a hill. Not through your own perfection, but through the power of his goodness and grace to to transform each of you into a vessel through which his love can flow. See, when his love is flowing in a marriage, then it you still have your faults. Yeah. Amen. But it's it's able to overcome your faults. [00:51:05] (40 seconds)  #MarriageVesselOfLove

Satan launched a counterfeit movement. It was a counterfeit love movement. It it was people referred to it as the love revolution. Around the same time, around the sixties, this love revolution kinda touted and and and supported and lifted up sex outside of marriage. Around the same, see, when god is moving, you can expect the devil to start moving too. Yeah. And when god sends a a a a revival of love to the nation, you can expect the devil's gonna send a a rev a sex revolution to kind of counterfeit what god is doing. [00:46:52] (49 seconds)  #CounterfeitLove

This sexual revolution paraded free love without marriage commitment. It was fueled by move movies showing images of men leaving their families and their marriages for younger women. And this is the picture of masculinity portrayed portrayed to many young boys from that time on. Men were culturally encouraged to be unfeeling, demanding, unfaithful, and even abusive. This movement of sexual liberation swept the nation through the media and caused pain and separation between men and women. [00:47:42] (52 seconds)  #SexRevolutionHurts

To draw people to God, to Jesus, so that their marriages and their lives and their children can have a home with a daddy and a mama in it. God's will is for everybody to have a daddy and a mama at home. And it ought to be our will too. Yeah. And that's why god wants to get inside of our lives so that we're not doing things with our own selfish ways, but we're doing things his way. And when we start doing things his way, we can start changing our future. Amen. Amen. [00:52:20] (38 seconds)  #TwoParentHomes