Love - unconditional love swells up inside a true Christian

``But Agape Love says, Jimmy just spit in my face and I love him anyways. Jimmy treats me badly, and I care enough about him to pray for him. Agape love says this, I know that the ultimate goal of agape love is to bring Jimmy into the kingdom of God. It's to give compassion to him in such a way that he sees the love of Christ split out before him and he falls on his knees and cries out to the god of heaven for mercy and receives the grace of god and receives salvation. Because no matter what Jimmy does to me, I want him to know Jesus. I want him to know salvation. [00:10:47] (48 seconds)  #AgapeLoveInAction

Though he be the creator of the universe, he allowed man to hang him on a cross. And though men mocked him and made fun of him and ridiculed him, he cried out to the father, father, forgive them for they know not what they do. And he gave up the ghost so that by his death, we may be healed. Church, too many times, we overlook the agape love Christ showed. Though he was equal with God, humbled himself and allowed others to take him and place him on a cross. And I want you to be careful. He handed his own life over. He gave it up sacrificially, but here's the reality. He had to hand it physically into the hands of unworthy men. [00:27:50] (57 seconds)  #ChristsAgapeLove

Is there somebody in your life that frustrates you, has harmed you, has done wrong by you? How are you loving them? How are you loving them? I I I don't mean that you go out and buy them flowers and welcome them to your home and dance around it. They're gonna think you're a nut job. How do you love them? You pray for him. You open your hearts and your minds to the God of heaven. I'm gonna tell you this. Don't even pray for him yet. I want you to. But let's let's not even get there yet because sometimes we start halfway through and we don't even know how to get there. Let's start at the beginning. Here's the beginning. God revealed to me the people that I need to show love to. [00:40:46] (55 seconds)  #PrayForYourEnemies

In that moment, I realized that I needed God in this moment more than I could possibly imagine. And if I walked away from God, I would be hopeless. I would be lost. I would be destitute without reason. And so I cling to the anchor. I cling to the rock. I cling to the fortress. I cling to the high place. There was my security in a place that I could run to. This is why I understand the Psalm of David when he says, you are a mighty fortress. I run into you, and I'm safe. Church, agape love is loving God no matter what. [00:16:40] (48 seconds)  #ClingToGod

But for everyone for everyone, this last one, you're not capable of. I don't care how hard you try. I don't care how much think you can com comprehend it that you figured it out. Maybe you're the guy that's like, well, I love everybody. Trust me. You ain't got it figured out. I promise you. You ain't got a clue. Because this love only comes from god. Yes. Yes. And it does not come from you being able to say, well, I'm going to, you know, figure it out. You can't figure it out. It goes completely in contradiction to the sin nature of humanity. [00:04:56] (45 seconds)  #AgapeComesFromGod

It is different. And there's a reason why brotherly love is mentioned first because that is emotion. That's compassion. That's gut level compassion. That's a desire to love your brother as yourself. See, we don't have a hard time sitting in this room and going, it's too cold. It's too hot. The music's too loud. It's too low. It's too We're good at loving ourselves. What I like, how I like it. Right? God says, take that, flip it on its end, and start loving your neighbor like that. Start loving your brother like that. That's not the love we're talking about. We're talking about God centered, God fulfilled, and God provided agape love, unconditional love. [00:05:49] (45 seconds)  #UnconditionalAgapeLove

In other words, don't you ever get to a place where you think I got it all figured out? I have all the virtue I could possibly have. You're kinda missing humility there, buddy. This is a constant progress of practice in the life of a disciple of Christ. This is the foundational principle of discipleship in the life of a follower of Jesus Christ. Here's what I mean. If you are a follower of Jesus Christ, then at the very foundation of your discipleship, the start of your understanding of who Jesus is, who God is in your life, these principles need to start being implemented or practiced on a daily basis. [00:01:39] (47 seconds)  #DiscipleshipIsPractice

Now as we said before, there are a progressive aspect of these principles. In other words, don't don't you dare think for a second you're gonna get the last one love if you haven't started implementing the other ones first. Okay? It's gonna be very hard for you to comprehend the knowledge of God's word and what the holy spirit has to do in the hearts of men. That's conviction of the holy spirit in the heart of men, if you haven't implemented virtue into your life. And and if you don't implement knowledge into your life, don't you dare think for a second that you're gonna understand the concept of self control. [00:02:26] (38 seconds)  #BuildFaithStepByStep