The Call to Love: Living God's Love Daily

know him. When it says, depart from me, I never knew you. That was a word that was transliterated from the Hebrew to the Greek, which literally meant to consummate a marriage. So when he talks about to know God, he doesn't mean just to know about God. He doesn't mean that we just we just memorize, you know, we know the books of the Bible or we know about God or we've been to church. He literally means that we have an intimate abiding living relationship with God. We know him. [01:09:42] (28 seconds)  #KnowGodIntimately

Guys, I believe with all my heart that God has amazing days ahead for Highland High. We need to continue to love. Jump in the middle not to criticize because we we let so much of the political culture of our nature, of our nation, and everything else in our world today just color how we respond. And the only thing that should color how we respond is the word of God. We need to love. We need to care for people. Because why? Because we are all sinners. And if we have received Christ, then we have all received that love. And if we have received that love, how could we possibly receive that love without also wanting to give that away to others? That is the very essence of the gospel. Again, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. He loved us so much. Let us do the same. Amen? [01:25:52] (65 seconds)  #HighlandHearts

One commentator said, the ancient Greek sinners begins with a striking way. Here here's what it means. Those who are loved, let us love. In other words, let us love one another. Literally, it means those who are loved. So I'm gonna stop Raise your hand up real high. Wave it. Let's be charismatic for a minute. Come on right now. You are loved. What he's saying is that we are to love others. Let us love. [01:06:05] (30 seconds)  #LovedLetUsLove

The idea of salvation to be adopted into his family is this idea that we're grafted, that God puts us together and we're brought into his family. And literally when you graft, you can't tell where one starts and the other stops because we are welcomed to to his family. Do we deserve it? No. Are we worthy? No. But God loved us so because we don't have a right to receive God's love. [01:09:06] (32 seconds)  #GraftedIntoFamily

The you know, the world's definition of love is some kinda it it's it's kinda like it includes extreme feelings of attachment, affection. It's kinda dramatic, sudden feelings of attraction, a fleeting emotion of care and affection. You know what the world's kind of love is? Mean, if we go back to the sixties where I began to write all these songs about love, love, love, love, love, love, and it was all about emotions and all that kind of stuff. Is love more than an emotion church? Yes or no? Yes, it is. [00:58:44] (29 seconds)  #LoveIsMoreThanFeeling

It's a continuing thing. Why? Because the ramifications of Jesus being sent into the world and the impact on our life continues to live through us every single day. And it was meant to live through us through the power of the Holy Spirit. Means that he says to satisfy the wrath of God against sin. Just judgment and righteous anger against us and our sin. And I want you I wanna notes note something here too. The propitiation for our sin. In other words, he satisfies the justice of God. Why? Because he literally is our forgiveness. That there's again, I'm gonna go back that he died for us. [01:17:34] (62 seconds)  #ForgivenByChrist

Spurgeon said this, never let it be thought that any sinner is beyond the reach of divine mercy and love so long as he is in the land of the living because God loved him. He died for him, and and we are the messengers of that love. [01:13:29] (18 seconds)  #MercyReachesAll

The action people cut us off in traffic is that we wave with them with one finger. We need to change that. If we treat people that wait on us at a restaurant horribly rather than loving them ago, I had a flight that got canceled, and I got all frustrated and mad. And I jumped on and I thought later on, what I'm saying, I'm so sorry. Your fault that that plane broke down as We live with our emotions like someone's pouring salt on a wound. [01:21:48] (47 seconds)  #ChooseKindness