Love Withholds the Just to Give the Beneficial

The same way, think of it like this, we say in first John four six and seven, god is We're not saying that love is an attribute of god. We are saying in his ontological being, his essence, his nature, god is love. He can never be separated from love. He can never not love because he is the embodiment of love. He don't put on love. He is love. [00:44:00] (24 seconds)  #GodIsLove

In the same way, love doesn't put on patient. Love is patient. Love doesn't put on kindness. It doesn't put on forgiveness. It's not these are not attributes that you pick which one you like. Which one is easy for you? Patience is the ontological being of love. It can never be separated from love. It can never be separated from kindness. It can never be separated from forgiveness. It can never be separated from not thinking of yourself more highly than another. It can never be separated from envy not being envious and jealous. It can never be separated from it. And it's not this one or that one. It's all of this list. It's the definition of love. [00:44:24] (40 seconds)  #LoveIsNotOptional

So in the same way, when Paul says love is, he's not giving attributes. He is saying what love is, meaning that these things belong to love always. Love is patient. It is kind. And the rest of the list that follows the same pattern, it's the nature of love. Right? And the reason this matters is because if the list to describe attributes only, then they're optional. But when the list is understood as is ontology, then you cannot separate them. Why? Because it is this being. Can't separate being. [00:45:04] (30 seconds)  #LoveIsOntological

And and think of it even like with Christ. Right? So we know that Christ put on humanity, but when he put on humanity, his divinity never stopped. Why? Because it's his essence. It's his nature. It's his being. So it didn't matter what he put on, he can never stop being deity. Right? Because it is who he is. And in the same way, love can never stop being patient. We can stop walking in it, but that's called being unloving. We can't we our unloving walk does not redefine what love is. We just aren't loving. [00:45:35] (30 seconds)  #LoveRemainsPatient

Like like like like, I know God was calling me to extend a hand of compassion to this person when I walked past him, but I was having a bad day today. So I ain't feel like being obedient to what god has called me to do as a child of god. And, god, it's okay. Right? Because the world tells us it's okay. It's okay. No. It's not. All this weird, worldly garden mess garbage stuff that we bring into the church, just nonsensical ridiculousness. It's ridiculous. [00:48:59] (31 seconds)  #LoveBeyondMood

Right. Right. The world teaches us to just throw everybody away to protect your peace because we made an idol of peace. We made an idol of protecting our security. We made an idol of us. And anything that doesn't make us feel good, we've allowed the language of the culture to tell us protect it. Yeah. That's right. Imagine if God protected his peace. [00:49:54] (23 seconds)  #DontIdolizePeace

The purpose of patience, though, was about the delay of rightful judgment and consequence. Here it is for the purpose of process and sanctification. It says, understand that we are in process, and in process, we might not always get it right. But my love for you understands sanctification and does not immediately respond in my flesh to your response, in your flesh. It disagrees with that weird thing, right, they showed you is, no. We Christians. We believe that people can change by through discipleship and surrender to the holy spirit. Now it don't mean they will, but that's the risk of love. [01:01:47] (31 seconds)  #PatienceForSanctification

Let me make it plain. Biblical love does not throw people away who are in process. It is patient. It continues to use their gift and time to continue to help build them up. Right? We're still talking about spiritual gifts. Right? And gifts are what? For the building up and the maturing of what? The saints. Okay. Let me ask you a question. How can you mature a person if you throw them away in their immaturity? [01:08:26] (24 seconds)  #LoveBuildsNotAbandons