From Thunder to Love: The Transformation of John
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### Quotes for Outreach
1. "Did you know that when we become a Christian, we become a child of God? Raise your hand if you know that. Now, the apostle Paul draws our attention to this in the book of Romans. It says that we receive a spirit of adoption, that we're adopted as his children. But John, who has a mirror truth to this, also talks about being sons and daughters of God." ([08:38] (31 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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2. "Have you been born again? Not, have you been a member of a church? Not, do you attend church? Not, have you read the Bible? Have you been born again? That is the way that you experience the personal love of God. Amen?" ([18:29] (17 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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3. "What I want you to hear is God loves the world, yes. He loves the church, yes, but he loves you specifically. And every time a child is born again into his family, that love always grows, and there are no oops kids in the family of God, amen? We are all chosen from the foundation of the world." ([21:36] (20 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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4. "Love is the litmus test whether we belong to God, whether we have the family likeness of God, right? You can usually spot your children and see some family likeness and say, okay, they got more of your hair. They got kind of got your nose. They got, but there's something that passes along from the parents to the child. And what John says is the most clearest marker that you have been born of God is that your love reflects his love both back to God, as our video said, and to other believers, and then finally to the world, but especially to other believers, other people who confess and profess the name of Jesus." ([24:30] (41 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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5. "The love of Christ is something that hits our lives at the front end. We become children of God, that natural birth or supernatural birth, as I shared earlier, where we now instinctively love Jesus. And Jesus, of course, loves us with an everlasting love. God the Father loves us. And then that extends to our life, that seed's been planted, it bursts and bears fruit in our life. The fruit of the Holy Spirit is love. We love other Christians. We love God more with this love in us. And that love endures with us to the very end of the age until Jesus comes back." ([34:29] (31 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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### Quotes for Members
1. "The impetuous one, the angry one, the one who's vying for power by the very end of his life is known as the most loving Apostle of all. He's the only Apostle that is not martyred. He's the only one who's not martyred. He's the only one who's not martyred. but actually dies a natural death and enters and slips into eternity. He is exiled on the Isles of Patmos. And also, the apostle John, next to Luke and Paul, wrote more of the New Testament than any other author." ([01:27] (26 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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2. "John in the natural is a competitive guy. He's a belligerent guy. He wants to destroy his enemies, and he's a sectarian. He's somebody who wants to be in the right team, and anybody else, our team wins, your team loses, you're out, unless you're part of us. That's not the spirit of Jesus Christ. Already before he's ascended, he's like, may my name be spread broadly and on the lips of all, if they're for me." ([28:40] (28 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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3. "What I want to challenge you under this second point is, are you growing in the love of God? Paul, picking up the language of the Holy Spirit, says that the love of God fills our hearts, is poured freshly into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, that outside love of God. And if you want to grow in love, don't look at your internal resources. If you want to grow in love, don't look at your internal resources. This thunderous, fallen heart, look to God, be aware of his love, and then extend it to everybody, including your enemies. Why? Because that's how God loved you, and that's how God loves us. Amen?" ([30:07] (38 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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4. "Great love is not just falling in love at the front end. Great love is celebrating the 50th anniversary. Amen? Great love is getting old and gray and walking into glory with Jesus. That is great love, and that is the sign of enduring love. And may you, my brothers and sisters, have the long view with the love of God. The new birth kickstarts it, but then we mature in it. And may you awaken this first love over and over and over again in your life to say, God, restore my first love." ([38:48] (34 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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5. "John died by most accounts around 98 AD, during the reign of Emperor Trajan. Jerome says in his commentary on Galatians that the aged Apostle John was so frail in his final days at Ephesus that he had to be carried into church. One phrase was constantly on his lips, my little children love one another. Asked why he always said this, he replied, it is the Lord's command. And if this alone be done, it is enough." ([40:32] (36 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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1. "Did you know that when we become a Christian, we become a child of God? Raise your hand if you know that. Now, the apostle Paul draws our attention to this in the book of Romans. It says that we receive a spirit of adoption, that we're adopted as his children. But John, who has a mirror truth to this, also talks about being sons and daughters of God." ([08:38] (31 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
)
2. "Have you been born again? Not, have you been a member of a church? Not, do you attend church? Not, have you read the Bible? Have you been born again? That is the way that you experience the personal love of God. Amen?" ([18:29] (17 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
)
3. "What I want you to hear is God loves the world, yes. He loves the church, yes, but he loves you specifically. And every time a child is born again into his family, that love always grows, and there are no oops kids in the family of God, amen? We are all chosen from the foundation of the world." ([21:36] (20 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
)
4. "Love is the litmus test whether we belong to God, whether we have the family likeness of God, right? You can usually spot your children and see some family likeness and say, okay, they got more of your hair. They got kind of got your nose. They got, but there's something that passes along from the parents to the child. And what John says is the most clearest marker that you have been born of God is that your love reflects his love both back to God, as our video said, and to other believers, and then finally to the world, but especially to other believers, other people who confess and profess the name of Jesus." ([24:30] (41 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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5. "The love of Christ is something that hits our lives at the front end. We become children of God, that natural birth or supernatural birth, as I shared earlier, where we now instinctively love Jesus. And Jesus, of course, loves us with an everlasting love. God the Father loves us. And then that extends to our life, that seed's been planted, it bursts and bears fruit in our life. The fruit of the Holy Spirit is love. We love other Christians. We love God more with this love in us. And that love endures with us to the very end of the age until Jesus comes back." ([34:29] (31 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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### Quotes for Members
1. "The impetuous one, the angry one, the one who's vying for power by the very end of his life is known as the most loving Apostle of all. He's the only Apostle that is not martyred. He's the only one who's not martyred. He's the only one who's not martyred. but actually dies a natural death and enters and slips into eternity. He is exiled on the Isles of Patmos. And also, the apostle John, next to Luke and Paul, wrote more of the New Testament than any other author." ([01:27] (26 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
)
2. "John in the natural is a competitive guy. He's a belligerent guy. He wants to destroy his enemies, and he's a sectarian. He's somebody who wants to be in the right team, and anybody else, our team wins, your team loses, you're out, unless you're part of us. That's not the spirit of Jesus Christ. Already before he's ascended, he's like, may my name be spread broadly and on the lips of all, if they're for me." ([28:40] (28 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
)
3. "What I want to challenge you under this second point is, are you growing in the love of God? Paul, picking up the language of the Holy Spirit, says that the love of God fills our hearts, is poured freshly into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, that outside love of God. And if you want to grow in love, don't look at your internal resources. If you want to grow in love, don't look at your internal resources. This thunderous, fallen heart, look to God, be aware of his love, and then extend it to everybody, including your enemies. Why? Because that's how God loved you, and that's how God loves us. Amen?" ([30:07] (38 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
)
4. "Great love is not just falling in love at the front end. Great love is celebrating the 50th anniversary. Amen? Great love is getting old and gray and walking into glory with Jesus. That is great love, and that is the sign of enduring love. And may you, my brothers and sisters, have the long view with the love of God. The new birth kickstarts it, but then we mature in it. And may you awaken this first love over and over and over again in your life to say, God, restore my first love." ([38:48] (34 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
)
5. "John died by most accounts around 98 AD, during the reign of Emperor Trajan. Jerome says in his commentary on Galatians that the aged Apostle John was so frail in his final days at Ephesus that he had to be carried into church. One phrase was constantly on his lips, my little children love one another. Asked why he always said this, he replied, it is the Lord's command. And if this alone be done, it is enough." ([40:32] (36 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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