Let Love Be Without Hypocrisy: Living the Christian Battle

You may not have you may not feel like moving, but you ought to feel him. You ought to feel his presence in this place today because he's here today. And where the spirit of the Lord is, there's liberty. [00:01:19]

They may be physical pain and your the pain may be even deeper than that. It may be emotional. It may be mental. Um the pain could originate and im emanate from your family from your workplace from your own spirit and heart today. This is why it's so important to to know that the spirit of the lord is present. [00:02:58]

We have to create that environment for him in order for him to come in. And when he come in, the Bible said where he is there is freedom. There's deliverance. from wherever you are. In your life, there is deliverance. I'm just only or we're just only his tools to create that environment so that he can come in. [00:04:18]

Because a lot of us think that we will get to heaven based upon our righteousness, based upon our goodness, and based upon the length of time that we have spent in church. Servant of God. Well done. Been in the church all your life. may end up going to hell while the man on the cross who never gone to church end up going home with Jesus. [00:11:13]

And so Rome clearly helps us to understand our connection with God through salvation and redemption is not from our righteousness. And so Paul starts off early in chapter 3 verse 10. He says, "There is none righteous. No, not one. Yeah. And in verse 23, he says, "For we all have sinned." [00:12:17]

But you ain't no better than nobody else in his sight. I'm talking about the book today. If you'll read Romans, particularly through chapter 11, Paul lays out plainly to the saints, their connection and how we are connected with Christ. And it ain't through your righteousness. That's right. It ain't through your righteousness. [00:13:08]

He tells us how to be redeemed. He tells us tells us what happened to be redeemed. Then chapter 12, he starts to talk to us as the redeemed. You're preaching. And he start off with the word therefore. Therefore mean since that happened. Since he saved you. Consequently after he saved you. After he done done that. [00:17:21]

Present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reason. for service and be not conformed. Don't be bonded with the world. Be not attached to the world. Connected to the world. Don't let the world dictate to you what you do or what you say, but be transformed. [00:19:33]

You can't change overnight. Be ye transformed. Start with the mind by the renewing of your mind that you may prove what is that good and acceptable will of God. And then he moves into how we ought to act as a collective body by saying to us, we are all members of one body. [00:20:38]

There's a way that we ought to act as a collective body of believers working together. I pastor six churches and there have been some situation that I said the these folk ain't going to never I have said that I show hope whenever let me see if I can say I I've been sitting there at the funeral and said to myself Lord don't let me die in the next few days I don't want to be there when that didn't come to you that been fighting Ever since I've been here, he been fighting against He been fighting everybody. He don't agree with nobody. [00:21:04]

You may not be able to be a preacher. You may not be able, you may not have the God may not have anointed you with the gift of being a a musician may not given you. Listen, I grew up around folk who know how to sing, who could sing and they just kind of put up with me. They kind of laughed at me. I didn't care. That ain't my gift. [00:22:00]

Let love be without dissimilation. Dissimilation just a Greek word that goes back to the word hypocrite. And if you go back further than that, it just simply mean let love be without acting. Because in the he in the in the in the Jew uh the in the Greek language, that word hypocrite goes back to just one word, actor. [00:26:12]

Let love be clean, pure. Mean that you love somebody. So many times we have misused this word. We have messed this word up. Love. I sometimes we mess it up in our music. I love you. I love you. I love you, Lord. Today we get sensual with it. When you don't love, that whole sensuality suggests that you don't even love him because of what you're doing. [00:28:27]

Bless those what? Bless those who persecute you, who talk about you, who lie on you. Bless and don't curse him. Rejoice. Verse 15, rejoice with them that rejoice. Weep with them who weeps. Good God Almighty. Treat everybody the same. That's verse 16. Treat everybody. [00:30:24]

Don't try to lie on them cuz they lied on you. Yes. All right. Your transformation took the fight out of you. Yes, sir. Listen. Don't you wish everybody were nice? All right. Don't you wish everybody was kind and gentle? Don't you wish that all your co-workers were just nice and honest and respectful? Don't you wish that all your family members were considerate and not greedy and not jealous? [00:33:06]

Sometime the Lord will stand back and let they do what they do. When they fulfilled the prophecy. Yes sir. When they took him down and put him in a grave. Yes, sir. Sometime you got to wait on God to handle it. When they did what they planned to do, they did what God or what what what we wouldn't believe that God would allow him to do. [00:41:49]