Radical Love: Living the Example of the Cross

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In Matthew chapter 5 verse 38, ye have heard that it hath been said, an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, but I say unto you, love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you and persecute you, that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven. [00:00:03]

The example of the cross: He was oppressed and He was afflicted, yet He opened not His mouth. He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so He openeth not His mouth. 1 Peter 2 verse 21, leaving us an example that ye should follow His steps. [00:03:46]

My father was saved late in life at the age of 51. He had had many grave sorrows as a result of alcohol in his life. The night he was saved, he got up weeping from his knees, took my mother's hand, took her through to where all the alcohol in our home was stored, and he threw the bottles down the drain. [00:05:20]

Now, this old friend of my father was so taken aback that he lost control. He got angry, began to scream at my father, and he cursed and even used God's name in bad language. He took his hand and hit my father on the face, hit him hard. Now, my father before would have hurt a man very badly. [00:07:20]

Dudley said they were to leave early in the morning with the big lorry with beds, tents, etc., all the things that were vital. The young workers, lady pilgrims, had to go, lady missionaries had to go in the vehicle for them ahead and try and get things going here as the people were arriving and would be arriving very soon. [00:11:24]

The fruit of the Spirit, the more excellent way than gifts, the things that have to be first before we think of those things. This man began to get everybody to come in the room and you're preaching to them and pretty hands on them and trying to get everybody, all the young people especially, to do with these things of manifestations and tongues. [00:16:07]

I asked God to give me grace here not to defend myself and fight back because then all I have is what he's got, nothing more. And I said to him, I just changed the whole subject. I didn't defend myself. I said, so I read in the newspapers that your wife has been gravely ill. [00:27:52]

Love suffereth long and is kind. He's quite a standard but attainable as a saved person, but especially if a person is totally yielded to God and filled with God the Holy Ghost because the fruits, the evidence that the Holy Ghost has taken control to the degree he has controlled, is your reaction, your spontaneous reaction to wrong against you. [00:31:59]

Say not I will recompense evil, I'll pay back, will repay for evil done to me. No, wait on the Lord and He shall save thee. Don't recompense evil. Wait for God's grace to be given to you. Always leave the fighting to God. Men are going to fight you till the day you die. [00:38:17]

Their strength is to sit still. God says always remember this: He openeth not His mouth. He left an example that we should follow His steps. We have come to the end of the series here in South Africa, and I'm grateful to those who have listened. [00:40:04]

May God bless you as you seek Him through the messages you've heard and find a walk with Him that will stagger the powers of hell. God wonderfully bless you now and thank you from my heart, but please pray for us as a mission and as speakers. [00:42:06]

In the lips of him that hath understanding, wisdom is found, Proverbs 10 verse 13 says. Even a woman that feareth the Lord, Proverbs 31 verse 26 says, she openeth her mouth with wisdom, and in her tongue is the law of kindness. It's not just the man; in her tongue, she opens her mouth in wisdom. [00:36:45]

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