Manifesting God's Love: The True Evidence of Faith
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"No one has seen God at any time if we love one another God abides in us and his love has been perfected in us now again John begins with a very simple statement very straightforward but a lot of times we don't really believe it he says no one has seen God at any time John's relating for us there are a very basic principle about God the father that no one that no one has seen God at any time and anybody who claims to have seen God the father is speaking at best from their own imagination because as the Bible plainly says no one has seen God at any time." [00:00:55]
"Some people think that the greatest evidence of God's presence or God's work is power and maybe you've seen it on television folks who kind of tend to think along those lines they think where you have an arena full of people and the preacher waves his jacket and everybody falls over and it's wow that's power God must really be there you know and the preacher starts talking funny and his voice gets us on this F that's power wow the Lord must really be there but you know friends that's not the evidence of God's presence that's not the evidence of God's work." [00:05:27]
"Think about the ministry of Jesus were there times in the ministry of Jesus where he didn't seem all that powerful yeah that's true think of Jesus exhausted after a day of ministry sleeping on a boat that's not powerful there's nothing powerful about anybody when they're asleep think about Jesus hanging on the cross subjecting his back to be whipped to to bear that ground of thorns upon his head is that power not really friends there were times when Jesus didn't seem very powerful but can anybody tell me a time when Jesus didn't seem loving no always love not always power power is not the real evidence that God is present and working." [00:06:53]
"Where God is present where God is working there is going to be love that's the evidence that's how you know I mean there can be things present that we cannot see they're invisible to our own eyes but you can tell that they're there you can tell that they're working when you examine for evidence right now this room is filled with radio waves all over the place they're bouncing around everywhere you can't see them there's radio waves and and going all over the place but if you had a radio and pull up the antenna and turn it on you can capture those radio waves and give evidence that they're there they're invisible but here's the evidence." [00:08:59]
"How can you tell a mature Christian how can you tell a complete Christian by Power by popularity by passionate feelings no you can tell it by love that's how you're going to tell a mature Christian the mature Christian will be marked by love and we can be spiritual dwarfs spiritual midgets because we lack love oh you can know the word you can never miss a service you can pray with ferency you can demonstrate marvelous gifts of the Spirit but if love isn't there that's the measure for maturity that's what God looks at and that's what we should look at." [00:10:00]
"God wants to do this great work in our lives of developing and maturing love but what I think is significant is that it's such a big job I don't know about you but it's a big job for God to develop that kind of love in me he needs every member of the Holy Trinity to work on it in my life and that's what he's talking about here look at verse 13 by this we know that we abide in him and he in us because he has given us of his spirit I need God the Holy Spirit to be working that love in my life." [00:11:33]
"Whoever confesses that Jesus is the son of God God abides in him and he and God I need Jesus to be working that love in my life but how do they do it well again go back to the beginning of verse 13 He says by this we know that we abide in him okay now let me help you with that word abide it's not a word that we use very often it's kind of a religious sounding word right let's just substitute another word for it just in your understanding live by this we know that we live in him how do you know that your life is in Jesus Christ John tells us he says by this we can know that we live in him." [00:12:48]
"Do you know what it means to confess that Jesus is the son of God it's not the same as merely knowing it as a fact listen carefully to me there are many people who know the fact that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and the savior of the world they know that fact but they're going to go to hell nonetheless there are people who know that but there are other people who do more than know that it is a fact that Jesus is the son of God they confess it do you know what it means to confess that Jesus is the son of God the idea behind that word confess is to agree with you're agreeing with it now you can know a fact without agreeing with it right without saying in your heart yes I agree yes that's for me yes I'm in support of that yes I'm putting my fate in that fact's hands friends that's what it means to confess it isn't just knowing that Jesus is the son of God it's confessing it and John is saying that's what we must do it isn't enough to know the facts behind who Jesus is we must confess the truth." [00:22:32]
"Friends you might know that God loves you but do you know the love of God do you believe it is it in your life how do you respond to the love of God you know some people respond with a sense of selfs superiority you know I'm so great even God loves me everybody loves me even God friends that's not the way to receive the love of God other people receive the love of God with doubt they said well can God really love even me that's not how we're to respond to God's love some people respond to God's love with wickedness they say well hey God loves me I can do whatever I want to do he loves me just as I am so just whatever I want to do that's what I'm going to do and God loves me but God wants us to respond to his love not with selfs superiority not with doubt not with wickedness but with knowing by experience and believing the love God has for us do you believe that God loves you." [00:27:01]
"Love has been perfected Among Us in this that we we may have boldness in the day of judgment because as he is so are we in this world friends the completeness of God's work in us will be demonstrated in the day of judgment now maybe this morning you're sitting here saying oh David just preach it I'm with you brother yeah I believe it man oh just go for it yeah I believe it I know God nothing could separate me from love of God yes yes yes you might say I know the love of God you don't know it at all compared to how you will know it on the day of judgment well you may think you know it now and praise God if you do all the more so on the day of judgment." [00:34:13]
"Friends the Bible says that one day all of humanity will gather before God's Great White throne and face judgment that day is coming that the day of judgment is just as fixed in God's Eternal timetable as any other day just as surely as there's a a May 17th 1998 there's a day of judgment that's on God's calendar and it's approaching I don't know when but we're one day closer to it today than we were yesterday and friends it's real and you and I and everybody we going to stand before that throne and some people think that when they stand before that Throne they think that they're going to judge God oh have you heard people maybe you've said it yourself at some time maybe you said well you know when I come before God there's a few questions I want to ask him and maybe they're asking that out of some deep pain or hurt in their life you know why did you let my baby be born deformed why did you allow this to happen why did you that to happen I'm going to ask him a few questions friends I plead with you I plead with anybody who's ever asked that question you're not going to ask any questions of God in that day you're going to realize that God is God and you are not and that he has every right in the world to sit in Judgment of you and if you do not have this issue settled before and if you don't have boldness now because of the love of God and its work in your life you're not going to have that boldness in the day of judgment." [00:36:11]
"Love has been Among Us in this that we may have boldness in the day of judgment because okay because I guess he's going to tell us right because as he is so are we in this world okay let's think about that for a minute as he is who's the he what's Jesus Christ do you understand what this means it means that as Jesus is well how is Jesus right now how is Jesus seated at the right hand of God the Father in Heaven do you think he's filled with total peace and total assurance and total com do you think he's afraid that God the father's going to be mad at him something total boldness total righteousness total Purity total justification his status is is one of complete rightness before God and friends as he is so are we in the world I don't understand it I understand it how I can have the standing of Jesus Christ in this world but I do and it's by faith and it's because he's given me that standing because I trust in him and you also too I trust friends certainly this glory is in us now just in seed form it's not fully developed into what it will be but it's demonstrated its presence in Us by our love for one another and our agreement with God's with truth and that gives us the ability to serve him with boldness." [00:41:13]
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"Some people think that the greatest evidence of God's presence or God's work is power and maybe you've seen it on television folks who kind of tend to think along those lines they think where you have an arena full of people and the preacher waves his jacket and everybody falls over and it's wow that's power God must really be there you know and the preacher starts talking funny and his voice gets us on this F that's power wow the Lord must really be there but you know friends that's not the evidence of God's presence that's not the evidence of God's work." [00:05:27]
"Think about the ministry of Jesus were there times in the ministry of Jesus where he didn't seem all that powerful yeah that's true think of Jesus exhausted after a day of ministry sleeping on a boat that's not powerful there's nothing powerful about anybody when they're asleep think about Jesus hanging on the cross subjecting his back to be whipped to to bear that ground of thorns upon his head is that power not really friends there were times when Jesus didn't seem very powerful but can anybody tell me a time when Jesus didn't seem loving no always love not always power power is not the real evidence that God is present and working." [00:06:53]
"Where God is present where God is working there is going to be love that's the evidence that's how you know I mean there can be things present that we cannot see they're invisible to our own eyes but you can tell that they're there you can tell that they're working when you examine for evidence right now this room is filled with radio waves all over the place they're bouncing around everywhere you can't see them there's radio waves and and going all over the place but if you had a radio and pull up the antenna and turn it on you can capture those radio waves and give evidence that they're there they're invisible but here's the evidence." [00:08:59]
"How can you tell a mature Christian how can you tell a complete Christian by Power by popularity by passionate feelings no you can tell it by love that's how you're going to tell a mature Christian the mature Christian will be marked by love and we can be spiritual dwarfs spiritual midgets because we lack love oh you can know the word you can never miss a service you can pray with ferency you can demonstrate marvelous gifts of the Spirit but if love isn't there that's the measure for maturity that's what God looks at and that's what we should look at." [00:10:00]
"God wants to do this great work in our lives of developing and maturing love but what I think is significant is that it's such a big job I don't know about you but it's a big job for God to develop that kind of love in me he needs every member of the Holy Trinity to work on it in my life and that's what he's talking about here look at verse 13 by this we know that we abide in him and he in us because he has given us of his spirit I need God the Holy Spirit to be working that love in my life." [00:11:33]
"Whoever confesses that Jesus is the son of God God abides in him and he and God I need Jesus to be working that love in my life but how do they do it well again go back to the beginning of verse 13 He says by this we know that we abide in him okay now let me help you with that word abide it's not a word that we use very often it's kind of a religious sounding word right let's just substitute another word for it just in your understanding live by this we know that we live in him how do you know that your life is in Jesus Christ John tells us he says by this we can know that we live in him." [00:12:48]
"Do you know what it means to confess that Jesus is the son of God it's not the same as merely knowing it as a fact listen carefully to me there are many people who know the fact that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and the savior of the world they know that fact but they're going to go to hell nonetheless there are people who know that but there are other people who do more than know that it is a fact that Jesus is the son of God they confess it do you know what it means to confess that Jesus is the son of God the idea behind that word confess is to agree with you're agreeing with it now you can know a fact without agreeing with it right without saying in your heart yes I agree yes that's for me yes I'm in support of that yes I'm putting my fate in that fact's hands friends that's what it means to confess it isn't just knowing that Jesus is the son of God it's confessing it and John is saying that's what we must do it isn't enough to know the facts behind who Jesus is we must confess the truth." [00:22:32]
"Friends you might know that God loves you but do you know the love of God do you believe it is it in your life how do you respond to the love of God you know some people respond with a sense of selfs superiority you know I'm so great even God loves me everybody loves me even God friends that's not the way to receive the love of God other people receive the love of God with doubt they said well can God really love even me that's not how we're to respond to God's love some people respond to God's love with wickedness they say well hey God loves me I can do whatever I want to do he loves me just as I am so just whatever I want to do that's what I'm going to do and God loves me but God wants us to respond to his love not with selfs superiority not with doubt not with wickedness but with knowing by experience and believing the love God has for us do you believe that God loves you." [00:27:01]
"Love has been perfected Among Us in this that we we may have boldness in the day of judgment because as he is so are we in this world friends the completeness of God's work in us will be demonstrated in the day of judgment now maybe this morning you're sitting here saying oh David just preach it I'm with you brother yeah I believe it man oh just go for it yeah I believe it I know God nothing could separate me from love of God yes yes yes you might say I know the love of God you don't know it at all compared to how you will know it on the day of judgment well you may think you know it now and praise God if you do all the more so on the day of judgment." [00:34:13]
"Friends the Bible says that one day all of humanity will gather before God's Great White throne and face judgment that day is coming that the day of judgment is just as fixed in God's Eternal timetable as any other day just as surely as there's a a May 17th 1998 there's a day of judgment that's on God's calendar and it's approaching I don't know when but we're one day closer to it today than we were yesterday and friends it's real and you and I and everybody we going to stand before that throne and some people think that when they stand before that Throne they think that they're going to judge God oh have you heard people maybe you've said it yourself at some time maybe you said well you know when I come before God there's a few questions I want to ask him and maybe they're asking that out of some deep pain or hurt in their life you know why did you let my baby be born deformed why did you allow this to happen why did you that to happen I'm going to ask him a few questions friends I plead with you I plead with anybody who's ever asked that question you're not going to ask any questions of God in that day you're going to realize that God is God and you are not and that he has every right in the world to sit in Judgment of you and if you do not have this issue settled before and if you don't have boldness now because of the love of God and its work in your life you're not going to have that boldness in the day of judgment." [00:36:11]
"Love has been Among Us in this that we may have boldness in the day of judgment because okay because I guess he's going to tell us right because as he is so are we in this world okay let's think about that for a minute as he is who's the he what's Jesus Christ do you understand what this means it means that as Jesus is well how is Jesus right now how is Jesus seated at the right hand of God the Father in Heaven do you think he's filled with total peace and total assurance and total com do you think he's afraid that God the father's going to be mad at him something total boldness total righteousness total Purity total justification his status is is one of complete rightness before God and friends as he is so are we in the world I don't understand it I understand it how I can have the standing of Jesus Christ in this world but I do and it's by faith and it's because he's given me that standing because I trust in him and you also too I trust friends certainly this glory is in us now just in seed form it's not fully developed into what it will be but it's demonstrated its presence in Us by our love for one another and our agreement with God's with truth and that gives us the ability to serve him with boldness." [00:41:13]
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