Love One Another

What does it mean to love without hypocrisy? First, he says it means to love purely. If we're to love one another, we have to cling to what is good and abhor what's evil. That's that's hard. Parents, listen to me real quick. Listen as someone who's gotten it wrong, not as somebody who is an example. Loving our kids means teaching them what is right, not just giving in to what they want. [00:09:26] (35 seconds)  #LoveWithoutHypocrisy

About five or six years ago, my brother was sitting in bed, his wife was in the kitchen cooking, and he hollered for her, and she came in the room, and all he had time to say was, I'm sorry, and he fell over dead from a heart attack. I didn't understand what my grandparents meant when they said love your brother because he might not always be here. [00:12:12] (30 seconds)  #LoveWhileYouCan

And and to love each other means to be devoted to each other. That means that involves a choice and sometimes a hard choice. Right? Sometimes it's a hard choice because you say, I have such little time, so little time to myself, so little family time, so little this time, so little that time that this week, I just wanna I don't wanna gather together with other believers, but that's when you choose to do that, and that's when you know you're loving. You say, well, I don't feel like it. Well, don't let your emotions be God. [00:16:37] (31 seconds)  #LoveIsAChoice

See, here's what here's where it really gets down to what love is. What is love? Love is seeing someone's need and choosing to meet it regardless regardless of how you feel about them. Think about what that means. That means that a group of people that ought to love each other. Right? I mean, we're on the same team. We ought to love each other and see a need. Now here, I know what you're thinking because I was thinking the same thing when I was preparing this. [00:19:17] (35 seconds)  #LoveMeetsNeed

As a matter of fact, even people that have claimed to gone to heaven and come back to tell us the story. What's their story about heaven? It's all about me. Can I tell you I don't read that in the book of Revelation? I see people from every tribe, tongue, and nation gathered around the throne. And what is the focus of heaven? It is him. But the world wants to tell us it's all about us. That's why when we get serious about loving each other, it shows the world that something has changed. [00:22:47] (45 seconds)  #HeavenIsAboutHim

So we're gonna just put some crosses up outside and we'll just start nailing some people up there? No. But what if we what if we saw and heard the call of God in this command to set aside our busy schedules, to set aside our pursuit of position and degree and all the things that we're running after. What if we took time out from that and said, you know what? I choose to get to know somebody in this church, to get to know somebody and serve somebody. Because, by the way, this is one another. Right? The I don't know if you realize this, but one another, there has to be another to be one another. [00:24:50] (50 seconds)  #MakeTimeForOneAnother

And so I guess I'm making the assumption that you already know that there's you were born in sin, separated from God. And God loved you so much that he sent his only begotten son to live a perfection that you could never live and die on the cross in your place. And if you will stop trying to make your own way and place your faith in what he has done to make you acceptable to god, you will be. That's the first step in becoming church family. [00:27:46] (42 seconds)  #FaithFirstBecomeFamily

Then following that decision with a baptism that publicly says, I'm turning my back on all of my sin and placing all of my faith on Jesus. Are you gonna do that perfectly? No. But is it your heart to want to? It has to be if the holy spirit's at work. But then you know what comes after that? This. Love one another. Love one another like Christ loved you. [00:28:28] (38 seconds)  #FollowJesusLoveOthers