🎧 Provoking on to love, Part A | By Rev. (Mrs.) Adelaide Mills

I pray that the way that I speak unto your people shall be acceptable unto you in other words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart O God be acceptable to you and let lives be transformed lets lives be touched in reality and above all let Jesus be magnified in Jesus name Amen hallelujah is take your seats well we thank God for our second day of daughter you can make it and we thank him for his many messes amen yesterday we started to speak about consider and consider as to quietly and attentively think about something meditate on it and allow it to influence your actions amen and I believe that in the Church of God many of us are not considering and that is why many things are preached but they don't affect us and we continue to remain the same and the essence of Christ being in our lives is to transform us it's not just to make God happy vice to help you yourself to even navigate the waters of this life but we always feel that God is trying to take something from us God is trying to give us restrictions that's not his intention his intention is that he would give his people abundant life through the way that he knows is the right way and the Bible calls on us to consider so many things it says that go to the ant sluggard consider her ways and be wise most of us are not humble enough to look at an ant or to consider the ways of an ant and working on and teach me but Bishop says that everybody you meet is your teacher and every situation on experience is your classroom and if we will have that spirit of humility we can even learn from ants because the Bible says that we should consider the way of the ant all that you know about as the ant comes on your kitchen table and you crash it but you do you never knew that it was wiser than you my consideration will bring us a kind of wisdom in the Book of Jeremiah we are told a consider and call for the wailing women that they will come and mourn so there's a lot of things that if we will consider our lives would be the way God planned them to be and this morning I want to speak to you about another consideration in Hebrews chapter 10 verse 24 Hebrews 10 Hebrews is not in the Old Testament please amen and let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together as the manner of some is but exhorting one another and so much the more as you see the Day approaching amen the Bible says we should consider one another not to compare and see whether you are higher than somebody in the station of life not to compare and stir up envy and jealousy not to consider one another and say this one's husband does this for her why don't you do this for me for the Bible says that and they comparing themselves with themselves and not wise not to compare and say that since I came to the church I was with this sister look at how her life has blossomed not to consider one another to see whether the competition is on and wish I had a wish behind who is flying and we is crawling those are the things that the world does and unfortunately we allow ourselves to walk in the flesh and what we consider one another not unto anything good but you consider the presence of a house a marriage does it has my love a are they getting on well is he proud of her I wonder why is it are they in love why the when they come he sits and she said when I was happening in their marriage you are considering the wrong things and [Applause] in the church we may not speak but we are major gossips [Applause] amen some of us we don't know any ves but we know all the latest beloved's the latest breakups and the latest crisis but a word we don't know oh she went out with brother Freeman after that she went out with Lewis and then because of this a mother said and the one down cook came they did this and nothing doesn't matter but you don't have anything spiritual to shame all your contributions in life are very kind of very fleshly so what the Bible says and let us consider one another you stop there you are just considering one another with your own topics but the Bible says let us consider one another why to provoke unto love and unto good works now there are many different types of provocation some of us are very good at provoking to anger I mean you are very good everything that comes out of your mouth we get provoked in the wrong way so we don't get provoked unto love and in unto good works but unto anger wrath jealousy and in the Bible God was provoked many times let's look at numbers chapter 16 verse 30 that yeah 30 hmm are we there but if the Lord make a new thing and the earth opened her mouth and swallowed them up with all that up attained unto them and they go down quick into the pit then ye shall understand that these men have provoked the Lord it's saying that if God does something new the earth opens him mouth swallows them and all that belongs to them and they go down into the pits then you will understand that these men have provoked the Lord so even God can be provoked to anger and when you read the history of the Israelites Nathan and Abraham and so they said to Moses that has God spoken only by you God has spoken also by us and they raised the whole rebellion and when Moses called the Mount of the attendant said we will not come what are you calling us for we will not come and what happened this the earth opened and swallowed all the people up it's not Moses we pray that that will happen but the people provoked God by their actions and if God can be provoked to anger then we in the church we can also be provoked Amen to provoke is to stare up so that a certain reaction comes up and some of us even by our speech alone we can provoke to anger sometimes in marriage we are good at provoking to anger as ladies and the way we are beaten we call the police that there's been domestic abuse I am NOT saying that it's defensible but I'm saying that what brought the provocation is not addressed it is the act that is addressed by actually our words are sharper than the blues and the slaps and sometimes more painful and it's the same in the church sometimes by our our trances the things we see we rather provoked to anger then provoked to something good you know and even God when you provoke him to anger he opens the yet and it swallows not just you but everything that uh pertains to you so what the Bible is saying is that we can all provoke unto different things but this time let us provoke one another consider one another to provoke unto love and unto good works think about it consider sit down and look at your posture how can I provoke him to love how can I provoke him to love the church more to love God more how can i provoke but sometimes you provoke him in such a way that he rather wants to leave the ministry think about what you are doing think about the effects what is it bringing some of us will provoke unto scattering like yesterday the different types of women who came she had a problem with everything why do we wear long skirts why do we wear hats why do we when I was at the UK daughter during the question-and-answer time somebody wrote how do they want us to dress in the church when you wear this they say this do they want us to dress like what frosty old women and I said excuse me in the world when you work in a bank they tell you come in a suit you don't say it's hot I feel like wearing a bikini so I'm coming in a bikini it doesn't even know catch you buy in the temple of God you think you can just come and wear anything and we shouldn't have record of dressing you just feel that you can be happy I mean you just provoke us to anger to sin to backslide into falling instead of the brothers concentrating on God they are concentrating on what type of propagation is that consider one another in the Church of God we are considering one another but for the wrong reasons a lady brought a gentleman to church a gentleman was a stark unbeliever gave his life to Christ and then repeatedly the lady was sleeping with him repeatedly as he came to church he had the Word of God he decided that no this thing must stop because the person who brought me to the church is the one seducing me all that time something must change so again I was in high school so he wrote to the girl when you come home on vacation no more have to live a purer life like I did not reply then she came during the vacation you said what I said oh I want to fully SAP God I don't like what's going on hmm so what are you proposing I'm proposing that we break up we stop living like that I mean it's on it's on DVD in his own City he said it other company so the girl started to provoke him unto lusts and unto bad wax satyr to undress do whatever and then he started to fight the girl physically and he said the type of power that the girl had a certain physical strength that know that she's bigger than him oh but in the course of the thing her powers were more than him so he fell flat Oh brothers easy provocation he just fell flat he went back to God confess Lord I don't want this other one and God told him that this thing that you are struggling with it's more demonic than you know so again the girl went over Kay she came back and this time he fought a widow but let me ask you why do you even stay in the room and fight with okay I don't get it the Bible says flee and then you are there negotiating I don't know if I've told you a story of a pastor I met who went to visit a lady and the lady said pastor come in and Oh every booth Toria top there was a and the pasta hot Bible study with a lady in that states doesn't work sometimes the brothers I mean you see sometimes my story sound like like films or movies or but they are not they are real I faced him I didn't know what to do I said you did what he said that I opened the bag why today you see what you are doing is not Scripture so anyway the girl came and said and he said again I've told you that whatever and this time it was a big physical whatever and that's he wrestled with a girl the eyes of her the color of her eyes and everything changed and she went like hahaha I am the princess of darkness in the Church of God in the church princess of darkness come out in Jesus name come out what a it was not as simple in the end he prevailed and the girl like the one that girl was living she turned and said that you are leaving me and those eyes he's never seen before and incidentally the demon began to confess brother whatever you think you had only one Oh I've slept with your big brother your best friend your neighbor your this your dad what is shop and since that incident ago has just disappeared from the church my point is there are people considering people in the church but not for the right reasons but this one the Bible says to provoke unto love and to good works you have to consider think about ways think about the person what is the need in the person's life initiate but we don't consider and that is why usually we don't even appreciate people because we don't consider you don't set out to consider that what does my mother done for me oh my mother she didn't do anything for me we really struggled when going up but she sold her everything to raise you you have forgotten about that because you are not considering one another to provoke you are provoking on to other things last inordinate affection jealousy the Bible says we provoke God to jealousy the Israelites the Bible kept saying you are going under every tree you are sacrificing to all sorts of things I don't grieve and images and you have provoked the Lord to jealousy so we are provoking one another to also generous in the church jealousy not love oh love is not jealous but the opposite of that is jealousy and we provoke you see Paul said that the same cup the cup of blessing you see then you sacrifice something else to demons you say are you trying to provoke the Lord to jealousy [Music] do you understand so sometimes instead of provoking love you bring jealousy envy competition and these are things that you can't easily see fornication you can see lies you can tell but these hidden sins they are worse than the ovett sins that we see a gentleman told me came in to change my friend again another you see I'm so young man void of understanding so since then I've seen that many brothers are void of understanding so you don't have to keep your whole lifetime trying to explain with diagrams see understand can't you see can't you see is my void void it's not the same brothers they invent rockets they go to space they achieve a lot of things they are great but understanding void void of understanding my mother-in-law said to me somebody was with us and the press was saying that is when I explained this to my husband he doesn't understand my mother-in-law said never try to tell a man that another woman is not good he would never believe you so he experiences it himself he will never believe it Boyd Boyd Boyd Boyd they can't get it juicy they can't get it and if he sometimes in that church people say lady first that I'm not interested in her and she's firstly away on me whatever all I'm not interested in and I've told it when I said what did you tell her I told him you should try and see that it's awake you see I said women don't get such messages but they also don't want to have that sister so there are no false rights to tell you I'm not interested in you I don't want they can say hey so were you thinking so he came to church on his Sunday and they said turn to your neighbor and if your neighbor doesn't have an offering give the neighbor and offering to put in the book so he turned and by him was said a lady he says I don't want to say is that because mm-hmm so he turned and then he was quite a wealthy man so he just asked the sister don't you have an offering said oh no he just gave her 50 CDs put it in the offering immediately he gave her the 50 CDs she began to provoke him to love and good works to rub his thighs in the Kadesh then later I was not within his other buck later he came to tell me to somebody they are very bad girls in the church oh I think they have just targeted people and whatever I said what happened then he told me the story I said so what did you do well connect after you come move from that seat you could not fight right and he told me that the reason why I'm coming to tell you is she has been calling me too much how does she get your number how did she get your phone up was it by descendants oh well she just asked me I thought that she said sheep so I gave her the number but after that she has been calling me saying all sorts of things in fact the girl he said exactly she was provoked me just and I said but void why did you give her your number in the first place I didn't think about it Hey so he told that girl I would tell sister mommy and I said we all think she even knows me what I saw there's a lot of provocation both open and hidden in the church some people are bored to bring their proposals and some people 11 but if this type of provocation can be turned to the right things to the god kind of love I think that the Church of God you have to consider one another pasta - sheep sheep - pasta shepherd - sheep sheep to shepherd sheep among themselves sisters amongst themselves sisters we are good at pretending [Applause] even my young sons were now late in their late teens they said to me that you ladies you can travel together eat together and look like you are flowing together by doesn't mean you trust each other I said you know sir we have lady friends and it's true when a man sees two ladies first who come do you have some cakes have some that's oh they are flowing / don't be deceived there's a lot of Cosmetology make up we are very good at it but we need to consider one another in spite of the peasants weaknesses in spite of the peasants some weenus in spite of whatever the person is struggling with you are supposed to take all that and consider with that in mind so that you'll be able to provoke unto love and unto good works sometimes I have also been provoked to anger in the Church of God people do all sorts of things what do they mean what do they think you're also provoked but beyond the provocation please do not manifest I love the provocation not to become a manifestation for provocation can be so volatile that you want to open the earth and swallow everybody like how God behaves when he's provoked let us consider one another even in the home we don't consider one another we don't sit down and think profoundly through with that what is it that makes my wife cry so much so we just like crying you open you won't control me with your tears it's not like that and when she says I don't like this well this thing rubs me the wrong way because it is your strong point you don't see it so she's just being immature grow up what's this but if you sit down and consider you see that since you were married this particular spot it seems to be an actual issue for her as soft spots it seems to be a place of struggle even sometimes it may not be a place of strength it may be a place of weakness that why does she always overreact about this or that she always cry over the but you are supposed to comfort the weak and strengthen the weak hands you don't just say you are weak too you know once I said to my husband I don't want to be special I just want to be like a sheep that's all just a sheep nothing special and he went and preached about it in church hey my wife said she doesn't want to be special she just wants to be a sheep because when pastors come to church they really give their all to the ship and when the ship is crying you don't say buckle up behave this is what is wrong really wipe your tears is everything okay you will live in pattern on the show that God will do it it's as well but your wife you have not considered if you considered if we considered each other in the home we will understand our weaknesses you sometimes understand that your wife lived with only her mother she doesn't even know how to treat a man how to serve a man how to look after a man it's not that she doesn't want to know but she's never seen it in her life of course you should have a teachable spirit to learn but when you consider it will bring a certain understanding what you also provoke your love in the right direction if we were to consider one another that this is male and this is female and they are different I believe that it will help us in the provoking of our love but many of us is less true we want the men to process and to be programmed like us for instance brothers are more moved by sites amen and we are more moved by touch relationships and words with that's why we are deceived by where the men are deceived by looks so if we were just consider that this is a man do you understand sometimes the brothers will say that they are sick lady Reverend I've been very sick for three days cui then you must be very weak away but I have a complaint my wife has not been dry for us but you are sick not knowing that even if they are sick that area is not sick it has been a revelation to me because most of that's when we are sick we are sick in every area and the last thing on our minds is that something should happen in the bed at all you are sick you are weak you are not thinking like that but the brothers they say they are sick later ever have not even gone to wait visit the nurses visit but speak to your ship as what ishida she has not been trashed but you have been sick that area is not sick one of my greatest surprises has been this it surprises me but we need we need to consider one another consider that the man is different from you and instead of trying to understand it that is how it is it could be and then also sometimes you get very surprised that when a lady says no that type of business it can bring when you are a woman you are very surprised this small this inconsequential because why should it affect how he treats me why is he angry over what this money I said no was it brought about second world war because you are not considering that he is a man and not a woman and if we consider that he's a man you will think about how do I provoke a man to love and to good works beloved it is not by wearing a batik 90 [Applause] Bishop always says that most ladies they just dress good for the outside world but in the house there is no provocation and to love and unto good works and you think that because the man is godly he should just stay with me he should just obey God he should just but you can provoke him and to love and unto good works hallelujah then 90 you had five years ago you have never changed it but as for your dress and your every year you buy new things for your wardrobe but as for night where is not part of your thinking lingerie what is under is not part of it's all done there's massive creative about it there's nothing provocative about what you wear as a wife but it's time to provoke your husband and to love a man to good works [Applause] amen ladies some of you single ladies you don't want any worries in your life you don't want anybody to worry you in the nights you don't want to change what is nice to me there's nothing wrong with it even your underwear are like boxer shorts it is not provocative but when you are in the world we always want provocative things but now that the Lord has given you a godly man you are wearing boxer shorts [Applause] do you do you suppose that as they walk in the department stores in Macy's and all that and they walk through the female section do you suppose that they are just stones and wood walking through them their minds are very active their eyes are very unless the only things that they don't share it with you so we need to consider who they are do you understand when they are preaching and they say that brothers we know that our thoughts minds are no good it amazes me what are you thinking about what are you thinking about because and then those thinking is dangerous is this you know if you are not a man you don't have certain temptations and you may not have certain trials to a certain extent but you just have to consider that he's a man and that's how God made him and therefore you should consider my husband what makes him happy how long is life now you always think about yourself they'd remember me I want to be happy it's what I want and it's what one thing I've noticed is that we all go into marriage with very selfish reasons and I never knew that so God showed me that through my posture awake and all that and lately I've been asking people so why do you like her Oh lady Reverend she respects me she's very kind she gives me good advice she's a good cook she loves God and I asked the woman why do you like him he gives me a sense of security he's very kind I can see that he's a visionary the one we put our lives together we'll go far so when they finish us your reasons are selfish what the person would do for you she's a good cook she cares for me she talks and honestly took me and then the woman - he gives me security he has a vision to take both of us fuh everything is about us it is when we married that we it is revealed to us that is not about us and it's a rude awakening when we wake us ain't so it's not about me why it's not be wise in a being kind like I wanted to be why is it not being as romantic as I wanted to be God uses all that to show us how selfish we are we need to consider sit down think through it what makes my husband happy and just do it and forget about yourself me myself and I because God will use that as a seed to turn things around amen but if you're always looking out for yourself my people my things my money my this my that might you will not consider what type of dish does your husband like consider some of you you don't consider just give him what you have what do I have I have TN to savage that's what I have so my goal Hawaiian and what I have give I D in the name of Jesus receiveth but what makes him happy what food is it that when he eats he is very happy you don't consider you know what's in the fridge let me see let me throw this in and throw does he have it once in a while yes but habitually no consider consider how long is it to make him happy yeah sometimes you speak to him in a way and he says I don't like that don't raise your voice and don't use gestures on me have I used gestures Hawaii you are using I just consider that when I raise my voice the two tempers coming together it doesn't work so let me consider not to provoke him to anger to provoke him to love and to good works what provokes your wife to love and good will you help them with their chores at home but you wanted to do this that's a Lindsay has come back for you [Applause] found that we don't wish to please many men when you come home you expect to see a loving wife a sweet wife who has made a lot of innovations you want to see a lovely loving role in your bedroom you want somebody who has a lot of variety for you but she has been tired the whole day you have not even bothered to call to say how is your day or how are you doing you may not be there but the fact that you call and ask a it shoots a woman's hearts that we are in this together the only time you call is where you need a certain phone number or you will have to ask a question but never that oh hello how is it so are you coping at home and what are you doing that alone will let your wife feel that you have considered when you are coming home from work so she's been stuck at home all this well what we need at home then you call is any grocery shopping I can do before I get home you will provoke hair and to love and unto good works the room is quieter when you come the house is dead see that's what you always see when the day that the flow has been mopped that dishes have been done ever it is wow what an utterly house you are a great woman you don't say that when things are wrong you say when things are right you are dumb consider one another to provoke unto love and unto good works I always say that doesn't take much to please a woman I mean you may give her a new house Benz whatever okay she receives it but what really touches her you must learn it appreciation and gratitude appreciation and gratitude it does so much you know my favorite are you coming up a to-do list have you done this where the children's gonna be this have you done that Avedon doesn't provoke you it provokes her to anger and bitterness but you can choose to provoke a to love into good works you haven't been romantic for months and then when you finish you accuse her of being cadaveric in the bedroom she is not only sexually cadaveric emotionally she is also cadaveric but because you are only interested in the bedroom you don't know that you have been living with the cops emotionally all these years all these months but Sir Francis why you Nagi your wife like that oh you are not on your feet like when I was speaking for the brother and it is the emotional cadaver ISM that translates into the bedroom Calaveras but because you never consider every time she talks everyday excuses you don't want to flow you adjust this another but if you will consider you will see that you don't make any emotional inputs at all and you just want to be fulfilled in the bedroom because your gratification is a few minutes and is gone we say in our marriage counseling that a man is like a light bulb as soon as you put him on he comes home and the woman is like a present iron takes time takes time and that is what you don't have brothers time time to invest in her time to be a friend we married because we were looking for friends we were not looking for sexual partners per se amen ladies we were looking for people who were stand with us we will share their lives with us but now we have become strangers in our own homes we don't know what is happening in your life when your bank statements come your wife doesn't even know what is this what is he doing I know he's Asian she's very problematical but the Bible says consider one another to provoke unto love and unto good works amen when was the last time you even held your wife's hand when was the last time you put your arms around her it's only in the bedroom that she knows that she's related to you because of their children the children have to see the mummy and daddy can be in love when was the last time you are going to work and you gave your wife I think you just slammed they're going you are going consider one another when I was invited by the Pentecost University men's fellowship and they brought the topic how to handle the wickedest I say a this one I didn't choose the topic they have brought themselves it was easy like the disciples as Jesus if it be so who can marry but if we will consider one another to provoke unto love and good words our homes will be different divorce costs more than building your marriage taking lawyers cost more you see lawyers are pooling account one is pulling yeah one is pulling here know that two people fighting one is pulling a one's good and the lawyers and the milk in the cow that's what happens and divorces boys not only the monetary value about all that goes into it and sometimes if we were to just consider one another even your children to consider them sometimes we get so busy so we are doing this we are working for God we are doing this it's true but you must be balanced and before you know from the age of 10 upwards they become involved in other things are going for club they're going for soccer they are going yet in the end you don't have time for them not because you don't want to but the seasons have changed and they have moved on but if we were to consider them that these children these are the formative years from 0 to 5 after that 5 to 10 or 11 after that they go into different seasons then we will consider and we will provoke them to love but sometimes we rather provoke them to turn against the things of God and not to let Bible says that fathers do not provoke your children I'm too rough so sometimes we come provoke them the wrong way and sometimes it's true yes you are busy whatever but we have learned to go with our children on the ministry trail whoever we are going if it's a village we go with them if it's a town we'll go with them if it is to fly we're good so this vacation my husband took one daughter one son to Zimbabwe MB roots and the night trip the other daughter and the son we came to Canada and then I did some meetings in Europe and then I brought my little daughter here because I realized that as you leave them leave them leave them leave them you will never and even they see an aspects of you in ministry that they don't know because they always go to children's ministry or something so when they sit in a camp meeting and they hear you ministry ministry ministry and also they see how people have received their father and all that it's affects them and it gives them a certain heart for ministry when I look at so many men of God and all that I know that it's just by the mercy of God that your child who even be born again it's not because you are so fantastically godly or anything is just the grace of God and sometimes you may be a very good parent but your children just feel I mean the gorge um don't make the choices you would like them to make you know and somebody said that even God was the first parent to feel so he had Adam and Eve he gave them everything he raised them well but they still fell and they still rebelled against him but you can consider you know we leave them to television we leave them to computers to train them we are busy with housework and we leave them to watch anything once I got to know through a child that a class that they were going to which was an ICT class a computer class a child said Little River when we go a child typed in pornography and then all sorts of bad pictures came and then the others were watch that teacher didn't know what was going on when he's coming then these are switch it off so I went to the school I told the teacher this is what is happening did you know he didn't know so we should just consider you see there are so many things calling the attention of children that before you know you are overwhelmed so consider them to provoke them to love and to good works and it takes efforts it's not easy to preach to be a wife to run an orphanage to run a primary school to be a pastor to have guests and to still look after yourself look after your children look after your home you have to balance all it takes the grace of God but at least try amen consider one another sometimes I feel that Lizzie you came very often now tell Bishop sometimes I feel that we should be even grateful to God for the kind of church we are in because you may try to raise your children I can't do it alone and when I see Reverend oku you should have seen that Shon calm the whole Kadesh was filled from upstairs downstairs everywhere and when they said how many of you are coming through TV and radio you should have seen the children coming giving their lives to Christ and they are worship alone was something and you sit in lighthouse the organize comes for you me they can't come it cost this and it cost that it costs more for your child to be in jail it costs more for pornography and other things but we don't see I always tell never no coke I appreciate you and I don't just want to appreciate you with my mouth I also want to appreciate you with my substance I want to sow into your life and the ministry that God has given you because it has transformed my family we may be pastors we may be found us but we cannot do everything God sends many people to help you consider consider how do you provoke your children to love God how do you provoke them to good works when everyday in your house you are gossiping about pastors constabie about church folk they did this and they did that and they went yeah and they did they are listening what will they value in the end all saying that church is not real and you say I don't know why they on that path is because of your talking you didn't create a provocative atmosphere to love and good works you created an environment of criticism around wisdom they did this they are like this did you see how she looked at me visit that is your constant conversation and they hear it all you live your lives before them and they know that when you come to church and you smile this posture you don't believe him this one is fake this one is this this one is that it's all getting into them and they are turning away from the church gradually because you are not considering when they get older they say we are not coming you say why they said the church is phony see where did you learn that from they learnt it from you [Music] your presentation of the church your presentation of God sevens your presentation of the body of Christ led to all that consider one another to provoke to love in two good ways I think that before your children you are also a Christian we are supposed to be a Christian every day of your life including to your children now that when we are home then you put on another whatever in us our children have grown up they have come to appreciate a lot of things they ask us oh where is this pastor who used to be why is that what a fool they left why there was some difficulty or whatever and then now my children asked me so mommy how do you feel I was surprised II know they can think how do you feel I said oh I feel okay I feel that the church is God's Way and that even in secular life you also have temptations you just have to press on in everything and God ministered to be that all those who see you are not sitting down to give them as salmon but all those are gems you are dropping into their lives and it doesn't make them turn away from the ministry and everybody's fake everybody is false everybody is bad everybody is not true consider one another to love and to good works amen now the Bible says that the best example of love is Jesus Christ and so how what are some of the things that we can do to provoke to love and to good works first John chapter 4 are you there let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good wakes us 10 herein is love not that we loved God but that he loved us and sent his son to be the propitiation for ppreciate and for sins beloved if God so loved us we ought also to love one another herein is love not that we loved God but that he loved us the reason why we don't consider one another to provoke unto love is we are waiting to be loved fists and then we will retain it but the Bible says here in this love not that we loved God but that he first loved us take the initiative to love take the initiative to show love to somebody but we often said when she sees me she doesn't mind me when I greeted she does or if she behaves like that I will also behave like that but no that is not godly love herein is love not that we loved God but I he first loved us because when you love people without their taking the initiative you are teaching them what love is so here in this love not that we loved God we did not we're doing our own things away show some way he just came to us and said I love you and I'm sending my son Jesus anyway for God so loved the world and I'm giving you my best anyway I know that some of you will know respond I know some of you even reject my love I know that some of you will not even care about me but I'll send my love anyway and that is how to provoke to love and good works but often in that church we say when I call it she doesn't retain it so I've also left it when I do this she doesn't this but if you would take the initiative to walk in love then you will be behaving like Jesus herein is love not that we first loved him but that he loved us most of our relationships in the church don't work because we feel that is not being reciprocated but you just love that's God some will bear fruit others may not others may bear a later fruit but it is still worth walking in love the greatest place of unforgiveness is in the Church of God Christians cannot forgive the greatest place of criticism is the Church of God Christians always feel justified and when you I Chris you know somebody was telling me that his general oversee I defended him whatever Ana cousin mommy Juno when I came here he said this he did this and it I said I am NOT here in your house at dawn to hold brief for that posture I'm here to proclaim the Word of God you

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Published: Fri Oct 05 2018