Be Filled With God’s Love – Forgive and Go Free!

hello everybody I'm Gloria Copeland and welcome to the believers voice of victory this week we're going to talk about the fruit of the Spirit when you were born again your spirit was changed from death into life from hate into love all the good things that God has in himself he put in us when we were born again but we might not be yielding to it I mean if you're you could be born again and still not walking in love or patience or any of the fruit of the Spirit so we're going to talk about the fruit of the Spirit and it is an awesome thing to be able to have and yield to love joy peace patience goodness kindness faithfulness gentleness self-control think about think about it how would that change your life to be patient how would it change your life to have self-control well if you're born again you have all that fruit on the inside of your new nature which is on the inside of you but the fruit of the Spirit has to be yielded to and really the basis of all the fruit almost is the first one love we're going to talk about love today the love of God which is our commandment we are to love one another as Christ loved the church and so we don't have any option about whether well I don't know if I want to walk in love or not well if you're gonna obey God you're gonna walk in love so to walk in love the more we know about it and understand it the easier it'll be to fulfill the commandment of love love one another jesus said as I have loved to you so we're going to start today in John 12 44 I'll just pray before we start and then we'll we'll we'll flow with the spirit father in the name of Jesus we thank you we give you praise we love your word Lord and we intend to do and act on the Word of God so I'm asking you to reveal to us each one of us correct us teach us help us to do this help us to have and walk in the fruit of the Spirit the reborn spirit it's our desire to walk in those forces and we thank you for it reveal to us the very basis of all the fruit which is the love of God show us that today in Jesus name hallelujah it's an honor and a privilege to be taught the Word of God and so let's go to John 12:40 for will trust the Lord today and it says Jesus cried and said unto them he that believeth on me believeth not on me but on him who sent me and he that saith me see of him that sent me I am come alight into the world that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness and so God's it's God's will for us to do what's written the written word and to obey the promptings of our spirit and we know that Jesus told us don't reject the word so on the love of God it's not optional because that is our commandment as we'll find out let's look at Psalm 145 in verse 7 thank you Lord for helping us today he shall abundantly utter peace shall abundantly utter the memory of thy great goodness it says in verse 6 I will speak of the glorious honor of thy majesty this is what David the psalmist was saying and of thy wondrous works and men shall speak of thy might and the might of thy terrible acts and I will declare our or mighty acts in other words and I will declare thy greatness they shall utter abundantly utter the memory of thy great goodness and shall sing of thy righteousness now this is verse 8 this is where we're headed right here the Lord is gracious and full of compassion so if we're going to be in his image we have to be gracious we get to be gracious it's so much more pleasant to be gracious than to be grouchy so we get to be gracious and full of compassion slow to anger well that's a good description of love gracious full of compassion or mercy and slow to anger and of great mercy hallelujah glory to God and then it says in verse 9 the Lord is good to all and his tender mercies are over all his works hallelujah it says in verse 14 the Lord upholds all that fall and raised us up all those that are bowed down 16 says they'll open us thine hand the Lord opens his hand and satisfies the desires of every living thing the Lord is righteous in all of his ways and holy and all of his works the Lord is nigh unto all them that call upon him to all that call upon him in truth he will fulfill the desires of those that fear him and he also will hear their cry and will save them verse 20 says the Lord preserveth all those that love him but all the wicked will heat will be destroy my mouth shall speak the praise of the Lord that's my that's my determination that's my will that's my choice my mouth will speak the praises of the Lord let all flesh bless His Holy Name forever now look at the first of this verse 20 again the Lord preserves all them that love him now we'll see in the scripture that the Bible teaches us that those that that obey God and do his word are those that love him how so when we set ourselves to be word people and we set ourselves to obey God and his written word and the word he speaks to us in our heart and we do that then according to the Bible all the way through you could name so many scriptures about this will be blessed the blessing of God is manifest because of obedience if you look in the Old Testament they were given the blessing and the curse and they stand and God said to them if you'll do these things you will be blessed and he told a lot of things for them to do and then he said if you don't do these things and you do these things if you don't do the love things and you do these things then you'll be cursed so there's a blessing and there's the curse and the way we walk in the blessing is to walk in the love of God and so we're going to just study we're going to study in this teaching and it'll go on for a while the fruit of the Spirit love joy peace patience goodness kindness faithfulness gentleness and self-control but we're going to start out with love the love of God hallelujah and we're going to talk about walking in love that's our commandment I mean that is the most important thing in our lives is to walk in the love of God so we need to know what does love cover what does it what is it how do we walk in love so let's look at we looked at first John no we didn't let's look at first John wonderful that done no I'm I'm getting my mix scriptures mixed up first John for God is love as he is first John 4:17 says as he is so are we in this world think about that god is love first John 4:4 21 and then as he is so are we in this world let's just look over there let's read that first John it read it once we'll read it again first John four four four you are of God little children and have overcome them because greater is He that's in you than he that's in the world well if loves in us it's greater than what's in the world greater is He that's in you than he that's in the world they're not of the world there they are no way I got that mixed up he that is in you is greater than he that's in the world they are of the world therefore they speak of the world and the world hears them so this that's talking about the people outside of God outside of the Lord Jesus Christ we are of God and he that knows God hears us he that is not of God heareth not us so so if we know God we hear his word if we refuse his word were not of God that's what it says in verse six hereby know we the Spirit of Truth and the spirit of error beloved let us love one another for love is of God that's verse six or verse seven how plain is that let us love one another for love is of God and every one that loveth is born of God and knoweth God so we who have been born again we are born of God and we're born of love how do you get born again you make Jesus Christ the Lord of your life and you receive him as your Lord and Savior if you've done that then this scripture is talking to you let us love one another for love is of God and every one that loveth is born of God and knoweth God he that loveth not knoweth not God that is verse eight first John 4:8 he that loveth not knoweth not God for god is love so if we want to walk with God and we want the blessings and the benefit of God and and his bless everything the blessing is everything good and everything bad is under the curse of disobedience we want to do what God says so you you're not going to be able to please God we're not going to be able to walk with God and obey Him unless we walk in love so we're going to do a study of the love of God he that loveth not knoweth not God for god is love hallelujah glory to God verse 11 says beloved if God so loved us we ought also to love one another no man has seen God at any time if we love one another god dwelleth in US and his love is perfected in us so love walking in love is not optional it is our commandment it is the commandment for the church hereby know we that we dwell in him and he in us because he has given us of his spirit and we have seen and do testify that the father sent the son to be the Saviour of the world whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God God dwelleth in him and he in God now if you if you've wondered how do you get right with God how can I make things right I've you know maybe you've lived totally wrong in the past and and everybody lives wrong without the power of God you confess God you take Jesus as your Lord and Savior and you turn your life over to the Lord and it says God is love and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God and God in him so the love of God after we get born again when we get born again the love of God according to Scripture is shed abroad in our heart then we have to develop on the word put it in our eyes and our ears get it in our heart where it talks to us and obey it so that we walk out what God is has put into us and what we are to do in this life and the key is love if you're not walking in love you're missing the whole shebang I'm telling you you've got to walk in love it is the commandment for the church and what's more is so much more pleasant in life to walk in love than to walk in unforgiveness or hatred or any bad thing that's against God's love jealousy that's no peace hatreds no peace Strife's no peace love is peace so love is our privilege when you get right down to it it's a privilege to be born over again born of the Spirit righteousness put into our spirit the Holy Spirit be upon us and where we can walk in love and we can walk after that newborn spirit which is love God is love and we're in His image on the inside of us after we get born again is the force of love the spirit of love Jesus himself glory to God it's a privilege and what's more it's very very marvelous and pleasant to walk in love think about walking in love oh we'll talk about some of these things while we go along but think about if you are the kind of person who walks in love and love forgives it says the Bible says forgive if you have aught against any now that covers everything no matter what anybody's done to you you're to forgive if you're in Christ Jesus and what does that do for you that sets you free I mean you think well I don't want to forgive them because they did terrible things to me well they're still doing terrible things to me you as long as you're in unforgiveness so what do you have the power to do as a born-again believer you can forgive for now get this forgive if you have aught against any that covers everything in life that covers the little things that covers the big things everything in life well what if what if somebody murdered my family and and how could I forgive them that you can do it because the Bible says I mean that's the worst thing I can think of at the moment that somebody would have murdered family but what does the Bible tell you to do about it forgive if you have aught against any does that mean murderer yes does that mean thieves that perhaps have stolen from you yes does that mean people in your life that are cruel yes forgive them if you have aught against in it you don't have to put up with it but if you want to be scriptural you're gonna have to forgive them you could forgive them on your way out the scripture doesn't say you have to stay in a bad situation but on your way out forgive if you have ought against any because that's going to tie you up that's going against the love of God pray for those people who did you know what the Bible says pray for those who use and persecute you the scripture says so God is setting us up in the word obey in the word he's setting us up to where we can go free you'll know the truth the truth will make you free or set you free and that's what happens to us when we begin to love let's just say somebody did you wrong and it's keeping you up at night maybe they stole from you maybe they lied about you maybe they were cruel to you in some way and you're you're just thinking about it night and day it's just in your thoughts those people did me wrong they did me wrong I I was not doing one thing to them and they just did me wrong they're still doing you wrong but if you'll forgive you can go free glory to God and the love of God that shedder brought in our heart has the power to forgive anybody of anything hallelujah so God is love we're his children he forgives us of anything I'm telling you God will forgive you of anything he will forgive you of the worst crime that can be done he will forgive you of everything except blaspheming the Holy Ghost and I I don't I don't know about that because their scriptures that you could stand on if you wanted unforgiveness you could stand on but I believe knowing God like I do he would have mercy on you if you were truly repentant in your heart and we want to if you want to walk free do the word what Jesus say he said you'll know the truth and the truth will make you free just the truth that I've shared with you this morning if you have aught against any will make you free where you can go on through your life you can forgive those people after all think about it what's it hurting them if you hold unforgiveness but it wouldn't bother them they'll just go right on through their ugly life but it would bother you because now you're not obedient now you're not in love now you're creating things that are gonna bring about bad things so we love one another love one another love is our commandment you say well I just don't think I can do it you can do it if you're born again you can forgive if you're not warned again you can you can be born again and just say Jesus come into my life Lord I want to be right before you you don't have to say all the words that I say but I'm just giving you some examples you you I want to be right before you and so I see in the word that I must forgive and walk in love and I release that person of that situation in in your name I forgive so-and-so in the name of Jesus now you let go of every every time that thought comes to you or Satan brings you the thought of what they did to you and how bad they were to you you say I'm free I've forgiven them I'm not holding anything against anybody Jesus name that's the way we live that's why we love is so marvelous love's not touchy fretful or resentful the scripture says that's the amplified pays no attention to us suffered wrong somebody did you wrong you don't have to put up with it you can leave you can shut the door you can do this but as you go out forgive them if you have aught against any we have the power to forgive holy to God that's an awesome thing it's an awesome thing unforgiveness and strife keeps you bound up it gives a Satan a place to work in your life but if we obey the word and we walk in love and scripture says the love's not touchy fretful or resentful pays no attention to a suffered wrong does not rejoice that injustice but does rejoice when truth prevails love bears up under anything and everything that comes there's nothing that's been done to you in your life that love won't forgive the love of God think about what Jesus does for us when we make him the Lord of our lives you could be a murderer I I've known I've known the ex murderers who were precious and wonderful and now born again and turned onto God and preaching the gospel in prison glory to God they're not murderers anymore they've been cleansed they've been forgiven and they're and what's more they were peaceful and satisfied glory to isn't that awesome that no matter what's in our past the love of God will cleanse us from all unrighteousness if we'll confess it before him and take our deliverance did you know the love of God if you'll walk in the love of God you can walk free of anything glory to God free you don't have to hold resentment unforgiveness you don't have to think about things people did to you in the past you can go forward in your future with God hallelujah I want to read first John 4 starting with verse 4 and we're just going to talk about the love of God for a few days and as we do let it in let it change you let you know you think about somebody maybe you did wrong or somebody did you wrong and you're still holding it against them well they're still doing you wrong because that is the way to get into defeat your faith won't work what does the Bible say faith works by love and so if we don't walk in love we're not going to have powerful faith it's not going to be able to do for us what we need done so the scripture says in first John 4 you are of God little children and that a great scripture I'm of God you're of God we can do this thing you are of God little children and have overcome them because greater is He that is in you than he that is in the world that right there is a marvelous scripture and that covers a lot of territory you know there might be sickness in the world poverty in the world all kind of defeat in the world but you and I were born again we're not in the world we're in God we've been born out of the power of the world we live here in this natural world but now we have a way to overcome its curse you know the according to the scripture the curse came in the world when Adam and Eve sinned and there is a curse and there is a blessing you find that Deuteronomy 28 and it says if we'll do what God says we'll obey the commandments we can walk in the blessing even though we're still here in this natural world but if we don't do what God says we're going to be under the curse you say well I don't I don't like that well you didn't make the rules no God made the rules and those are scriptural rules so first for john besides that when you walk in the curse when you walk in unforgiveness when you walk in strife you're not happy you're you're not you can't live your life you're thinking about what somebody did to you somebody did me wrong song you know but when you walk in love and you forgive it's gone you don't have to think about it you don't have to dwell on it you don't have to get depressed over what somebody did to you you you have forgiven them and so you go free and they're not your problem anymore so first John 4 says you are of God little children and have overcome them talking about the evil spirits the spirits and he says in 4:1 beloved believe not every spirit but try the spirits whether they are of God because false prophets have gone out into the world the scripture says so you are of God little children and have overcome them because greater is He that is in you than he that is in the world now if we want to walk in the blessing and the power of the greater one we're going to have to live by His commandments and love is the commandment walk in love the scripture says they are of God those out there in the world they are of they are of the world therefore speak they of the world and the world hears them but we are of God if you're born again if you made Jesus the Lord of your life you're not you're not in the world so to speak you are born of God and you've been translated over into the kingdom of God so we could say the kingdom of the world and the kingdom of God and when you make Jesus the Lord of your life you're born again it's since your the Bible says you're translated out of darkness into the light into the kingdom of God hallelujah he that is you obviously greater is He that is in you greater is He that's in you than he that is in the world when you've been born again now before you get born again you're in the world and you're just subject to Satan or whatever he says but now you get born out of the out of the world the Bible calls it translated into the kingdom of God hallelujah from the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of light into the kingdom of God and you get that way because you receive Jesus Christ as the Lord of your life they are of the world the people in the darkness they are of the world therefore they speak of the world and the world hears them we are of God you have to be careful who you listen to we got all kind of voices we've got television we've got radio we've got this we've got that in this day but everything you hear you judge it by the Word of God is that true or is that my subject to that and my subject to this disease and my subject to that this terrible thing that's happening no I'm not of the world I'm of God if we're good disease is concern Jesus himself more my sicknesses and carried my diseases so during the flu epidemic or any other epidemic any other terrible thing sickness illness I don't have it I'm not going to have it I've been redeemed from the curse and I mean the more you stand for your Redemption the more you walk in the blessing of God they are of the world therefore they therefore speak they of the world the world hears them verse 6 we are of God who are we we are those who have made Jesus Christ the Lord of our lives we are of God two different situations in this earth he that knoweth God hears us and he that is not of God hears us not hereby know we the Spirit of Truth and the spirit of era so there is a spirit of truth the Holy Spirit there is a spirit of era his name is Satan and he has spirits that work for him verse seven says beloved let us love one another so this is our commandment if we don't walk after love we're not walking after God we have to walk in love if we want things to go well with us because that is our commandment love one another forgive if you have aught against any beloved let us love one another for love is of God and everyone that hears know every one that loveth is born of God and knoweth God so if you want to know are you born again are you walking in love do you know God that you talk to him does he talk to you you could be born again and now a fellowship with God and what do you do then will you repent and you get back into the word and you get back into places where they're preaching the word and you drop the things out of your life that are against God you know what's right and what's wrong so he that loveth not knoweth not God for god is love and this was manifested the love of God toward us because God sent His only begotten Son into the world that we might live through him if you've never made Jesus Christ the Lord of your life you're still living in darkness but when you make Jesus the Lord of your life and you receive him and you begin to walk with Him things change your darkness gets light hallelujah there's light there was light in the land of goshen and when you start making Jesus the Lord of your life finding out what he says to you in the word get in a good church that preaches the word things check you're in a whole different Kingdom there's the kingdom of light and the kingdom of darkness and the the Bible calls us being translated out of the kingdom of darkness and into the kingdom of God's dear son that's what helps happens to us and were born again he that beloved let us love one another for love is of God and every one that loves is born of God and knoweth God and he that loveth not knoweth not God for god is love in this was manifested the love of God toward us because that God sent His only begotten Son into the world that we might live through him Jesus was our only chance of being born over again and getting out from under the curse that came in the world when Adam sinned herein is love not that we loved God but that he loved us and sent his son when we didn't know God when we didn't love God he sent his son to be the substitute or the propitiation for our sins of it if God so loved us we ought also to love one another we've been forgiven much and we should be able to forgive much we should love one another as we've been loved no man has seen God is in anytime if we love one another god dwelleth in us see how big this is this is huge love is huge God dwells in us if we walk in love God dwells in US and his love is perfected in us or his love comes to full growth or comes to maturity in us when we love one another now if you're holding something against somebody somebody did you wrong it could have been a marriage situation it could have been a business situation it could have been any kind of family situation anytime somebody could have stolen from you the best thing that you can do if you want to live free its forgive them don't hold out against any the scripture says we don't we're not to hold anything against anybody what if you just keep holding that what if they did you wrong what if they stole your money and got your inheritance or whatever it was and you keep living in that they did me wrong they've got my money it's not right it's not right well it's not right but now it's getting worse you're holding it you're not forgiving and so it's getting worse since its opening the door to the devil our law our law is is to love this is our commandment to love one another we love and and God's love fortunately for us is very forgiving so if we're going to love with the love of God we're going to forgive those and we're not gonna hold out against anybody so if there's anybody in your life that wrinkles you up and you're holding something against the best thing you could do for yourself is to forgive them glory to God beloved if God so loved us we ought to love one another and we're not only to forgive according to the scripture but we're to love that person we're to love him as though sin had never been isn't that what God does for us aren't we grateful that God doesn't hold our sin against us and when we make Jesus the Lord of our lives or when we repent of a current situation and a sin where we know we did wrong we said wrong we weren't right God forgives us hallelujah beloved if God so loved beloved if God so loved us we ought also to love one another I'm telling you God will forgive anything he'll forgive murderers he'll forgive serial killers I've ministered to people who were serial killers at one time in their life and now they're blessed they're sweet they're kind their prayers they're in love with God what happened to those people they were born over again and they're not the same people so what about it they kill people and yet now they're forgiven that's not justice yeah it is justice why is it justice because Jesus took the sin for you and me and for them thank God none of us would make it if Jesus hadn't stepped in and said I'm I'll take the place father I'll pay the price of sin and then what and what happens when you make Jesus the Lord of your life you are forgiven everything and people might not forgive you but God's the one that counts anyway you can go on with your life but you know you have to keep walking that line of love straight keep things straight don't sin we don't have to sin we get born over again so we can walk in the light and not in the darkness but beloved if God so loved us we ought also to love one another no man has seen God at any time if we love one another god dwelleth in US and his love is perfected in us in other words we can't see God but we we know his presence we understand his word but if we love one another he'll dwell in us and his love will be brought to maturity and perfection in us glory to God verse 16 says we have known and believed the love of God that God has for us the love that God has for us god is love and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God and God in him isn't that an awesome scripture if you dwell in love God will dwell in you he that we have known and believed the love that God has for us god is love he is love and he that dwells in love dwells in God and God in him glory to God hallelujah now I'm going to leave my place right there and I'm gonna go to the Amplified Bible if I have it here and I'm gonna read you the scripture in second Corinthians about love this is I like it an amplified 13 [Applause] love the scripture says is not touchy or fretful are resentful pays no attention to a suffered wrong does not rejoice at unrighteousness and injustice but rejoices when right right and truth prevail now the amplified that helps me so much the way it says it love is not touchy fretful or resentful pays no attention to a suffered wrong does not rejoice that unrighteousness and in an injustice so we don't pay any attention to a suffered wrong okay say say Tim Fox over here on the camera he did me wrong now I'm gonna be mad about it I'm gonna get all bent out of shape about it I'm gonna let my love down and I'm gonna fret and I'm gonna hold it against him and I'm not gonna forgive him what's gonna happen to me well first thing you know I'll be sick first thing you know my my source of blessing will drop my income will drop things will change why I'm so in the wrong seat but what if Tim did me wrong course Tim had never do me wrong he's a sweet man what if he did me wrong and I said well thought I pray for Tim I'm asking you bless him help him help him to see what how he's living what he's doing help him to see Lord that that's not the right way to go and I forgive him of that and I'm asking you to forgive him of that what happens when you do that with somebody who did you wrong will you go for it and now you've sown good seed and you've prayed for that person that did you wrong and you're believing for them you're believing for them to to get straightened out for help you know whatever it is but in the meantime you're in peace you forgiving what does the scripture say I mean it's not hard to understand I've already told you I think once but forgive if you have alt against any now there's just no wiggle room in that scripture forgive if you have aught against any that your heavenly father may forgive you your trespasses glory to God hallelujah so you go free well what if you don't forgive well you let it get in you you stay over it it affects your faith it affects your love it affects everything in your life first thing you know things aren't going so well for you anymore love is our commandment and if we're not going to walk in love where you will not be blessed in the name of Jesus we just have to say I forgive that person yeah but they didn't they did terrible thing I forgive that person that cuts the tie that that breaks you off from it in Jesus name hallelujah glory to God so we walk in love and we forgive if we have Ault against any love it's not touchy fretful or resentful whoo that covers a lot of territory doesn't it pays no attention to a suffered wrong somebody does you're wrong pay no attention to it forgive it pays no attention to a suffered wrong does not rejoice it injustice our unrighteousness in other words if you see somebody doing something wrong you don't just get so excited about telling somebody that those people over there they're doing this they're doing that you you rejoice in their unrighteousness no love doesn't do that love covers the scripture says love covers and you know what if you'll now walk in love we can be free if somebody does is wrong we forgive them if we have ought against any we forgive and we go free glory to God hallelujah praise You Jesus and you know it doesn't matter in your life what you've done or what your past is this works between you and God and if you say Jesus I receive you as my Lord and Savior take my life and do something with it you'll be totally cleansed you'll be forgiven you'll be free glory to God and you can go free and you can go on and live a good life and have victory but if you hold on to those things that people have done to you and you stay and unforgiveness the blessing can't stay on you so I'm gonna pray for you right now father in the name of Jesus we release everything bad that anybody has ever done to us we release it we pray for them we ask you to forgive them of that and we thank you Lord that we can go free of any situation we don't have to think about it we don't have to hold it we don't have to resent it but we forgive as you forgive us in Jesus name forgive and it you shall be forgiven we're talking about walking in love this week and you know there's not anything more important than that because that is our commandment so I must start again today with first John 4 says you are of God first 44 says you are of God little children and have overcome them because greater is He that is in you than he that is in the world they are of the world therefore they speak of the world and of and they in the world hears them we are of God he that knoweth God hears us and he that is not of God heareth not us hereby know we his spirit of truth the spirit of error verse 7 says beloved let us love one another now that that is not an option is it didn't say if you can if it's convenient if nobody's done you wrong first John the Apostle John just said beloved let us love one another for love is of God and every one that loves is born of God and knoweth God and he that loveth not knoweth not God for god is love so that's pretty drastic those are pretty drastic words there if you're if you don't if you're not walking in love you're not walking in God he that loveth not knoweth not God for god is love in this was manifested the love of God toward us because that God sent His only begotten Son into the world that we might live through him herein is love not that we loved God but that he loved us and sent his son to be the substitute or the propitiation for our sins because of it if God so loved us enough I'm adding enough to send his own son in other words if God so loved us we are also to love one another and love is it's not optional if you're going to be obedient you're going to have to we are going to have to walk in love no man has seen God at any time if we love one another God dwells in US and his love is perfected in us so if we don't love one another we're not giving God any place to dwell if we love one another god dwelleth in US and his love is perfected in us hereby know we that we dwell in him and he in us because he has given us of his spirit verse 10 says well let's just read let's keep reading here and we have seen and and do testify that the father sent the son to be the savior of the world whoever whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God God dwelleth in him and he in God and we have known and believed the love so we have to know and believe it we have to obey it and believe it we have known and believed in the love God has for us god is love and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God and God in him glory to God he that dwelleth and I want to read the amplified bible of that first john 4 then this is very very vital to your life if you don't walking in love you're not obeying God if you're not walking in obey obedience you're not going to be blessed and that was first John four and verse let's just look at 16 if anyone sees his brother no that's not right I'm in the wrong chapter first John 4:16 and we know understand recognize and are conscious by observation and by experience and believe adhere to put faith in rely on the the love God cherishes for us God is love and he who dwells in love and continues in love dwells and continues in God God dwells and continues in him so love is absolutely vital to our walk down here if you want God involved in your life you're going to have to walk in love in this union and commit at least to the degree you'd like to have him do it you'll have to walk in love in this Union and communion with him love is brought to completion but in our union with God our love is perfected attains perfection with us that we may have confidence for the day of judgment with assurance and boldness to face him because as he is so are we in this world so as we be like God and we walk in love we have confidence and we know in the day judgment it'll will be judged right because we walk in love we walk like God because as he is so are we in this world there is no fair in love you don't have fear of the future you don't have fear of you know being afraid you know you're not afraid of God you know you trust him you walk in honor of him because as he is so are we in this world there is no fear in love dread does not exist but full grown complete perfect love turns fear out of doors so you and I if we're thinking right if we're trusting in the love of God we're not walking in fear we don't have anything to be afraid of we trust God we know he loves us we know we love Him we know we're obeying him you know sin brings fear fear and it brings fear of punishment it brings fear of not of things not working out for you because you know you haven't been doing right but when you obey God and you walk in his word then you're there's nothing between you and him and you you have a certain confidence this is the confidence of faith knowing I'm obeying God I'm walking in love things will work right for me it is our commandment I mean if we don't walk in love we're disobedient if we're disobedient the blessings not gonna work in our lives even though we might be born again I tell you I remember being born again and the blessing not working but when we begin to to change things and come into line with God's written word the blessing begin to work we've been born again for some time but we weren't walking with God we weren't believing God we weren't expecting God and we weren't giving love any any thought particularly but when you think of love is our commandment love is our commandment there is no fear in love dread does not exist but full grown complete perfect love turns fear out of doors and expels every trace of terror that's first John 4 verse 18 in the amplified for fear brings with it the thought of punishment and so who he who is afraid has not reached full maturity of love now if you're going if you live a life of sin and you know you're wrong and you beat your wife and you do this and you do that or you lie or you steal you can't have confidence toward God because you know you're not doing right but when you obey the word and when you speak the words God says and you don't speak other words and you don't curse like the world curses but you speak love words and you obey and you love one another you have confidence toward God that's that's what happens you have faith it's easy to have faith it's very you cannot have faith in being disobedient knowing I'm not doing right I did that wrong yesterday I did the same thing today you when you do something wrong what do you do you repent you know what that means that that means your forgiveness but to repent it's also to turn around you quit doing those things if you're having trouble with anger or unlovely Nisour or the stealing or whatever it is go to God repent of it make the restitution if you've been stealing take it back but don't stay in an ass in compromising position why because it lets your protection down you've let your guard down when you obey God is when the blessing is surrounding you when you speak right do right and when you fail to do right when you know you've done wrong get it right just say Lord forgive me of that I realize I sinned when I said that and I man can you to forgive me of it so you can get forgiven and you can go free but if you don't change and even if you do the same thing over and over and over God will still forgive you but that's not your plan what you want to do is get things straight keep it straight talk write love write and dwell on first Corinthians 13 which is what we're going to do next if we have time and not we'll go somewhere we'll do it tomorrow but first Corinthians 13 the love of God now that's our commandment bear that in mind and here is what the Bible says about the love of God and this when we were learning this we took this scripture and we we talked it we put it in our mouth we confessed it we did when we missed it we repented they've got things straight and but love can become a way of life the same way of negative things become a way of life you you repeat negative things they become a way of life you talk you curse you talk bad that's a way of life you can curse without even thinking about it but when you switch over and you get on the love of God and you get on what Jesus tells us to do it becomes a way of life and you walk in love without even thinking about it you know you're gonna walk in love you know you're going to keep 1st Corinthians 13:5 now let's look at this scripture this says you must start with I'm going to start with let's look at three it says even if I'm in the Amplified Bible even if I no longer my body to be burned I mean if you're if you are a martyr if I surrender my body to be burned in order that I may glory but lit but have not love if I become a martyr but I don't have love I'm nothing that's what that says but I've not loved God's love in me I gain nothing that's the amplified first Corinthians 13:4 or if that one was five law in here then he gives us the definition and the understanding of what God's love is I'm going to just read it slowly and let it enter into our eyes and our ears love endures long and is patient and kind love is never envious so when you envy you're not in love when you're not patient you're not in love when you're unkind you aren't in the love of God so what are you in you're in trouble you're in you're in out there in disobedience is not boastful love is not boastful or vainglorious so pride is not love it does not love does not display itself heartily it is not conceited so when you have if you were to be conceited and be stuck-up and think I'm something special and you know everybody bow down you're not in love love's not conceited love is not rude it's not arrogant inflated with pride love is not rude or unmannerly no it's not rude love does not become does not act unbecomingly love God's love in us does not insist on its own rights in its own waste y'all read again love God's love in us does not insist on its own rights or its own way for it is not self-seeking so when you're fighting over a situation maybe there's a will in the family that people are fighting over maybe there's just friction between men and wife children and parents love does not insist on its own rights or its own way for it is not self-seeking love it's lovely in other word it is not this is this is the one that got me I mean I had to really do some some work on this one love is not touchy fretful or resentful now think about that think about the time and effort people would save in life if when somebody did you wrong you just said lord I pray for them I forgive them and let it go but if you don't forgive and instead you become touchy fretful resentful easily easily riled up you could say you're in the wrong place you're not in love now you're out there in a in a disobedient lifestyle so what what we we were led to do was to go over these scriptures in first Corinthians 13 - to put them so in her eyes in their ears that they took control of our lives and so therefore I am married to the loveliest man he is kind he is sweet he is generous he is everything he should be glory to God and I hope I'm the same way with him he is a good man and Ken and I endeavor to walk in love and if something if we're in disagreement about something we talk about it we decide we don't get touchy or fretful or resentful about it and that's the way it should be so love is not it's not conceited it's not arrogant it's not prideful it's not rude a lot of there's just a lot of rudeness in the world today but the love of God's not rude the love of God is kind it's sweet its gentle God's love in us does not insist on its own right or its own way for it's not self-seeking boy that covers a lot of territory it is not this is the one you need to really sinner up on maybe maybe you do this is what I need to do it is not touchy our fretful are resentful it takes no account of the evil done - it pays no attention to a suffered wrong now when you take account of things done to you that maybe somebody actually did do you wrong you take account of it you think about it you fret over it you worry over it it messes up your life your thinking your day your well-being has that helped Jenny no did it hurt them any no it hurt you so if you've got something against somebody and you want to go free what do you do you forgive them if you have it art against any that's saying if you have anything against anybody forgive now if you don't do that you're not walking in love and you're not walking in obedience to God's Word and obedience is where the blessings manifest always in the scripture if they were disobedient the curse was manifest if they were obedient the blessing was manifest and we choose all right now verse six of first Corinthians 13 says love it does not rejoice at unrighteousness and injustice but rejoices when right and truth prevail verse seven says love bears up under anything and everything that comes so love is very powerful love is very strong it'll bear up under anything somebody can sue you somebody can mistreat you somebody can do this or do that but the love of God will rise up in you if you allow it to and it will forgive if you have aught against any so what happens to you well you can go free but what happens if you don't well you stay bound unforgiveness makes you sick it causes things to go wrong in your body you're not at peace you can't be in unforgiveness and peace at the same time and in peace there's health and blessing and reward and well-being but you can't be in peace and hold things against people so well you don't know what they're doing what they did to me well I know what they're doing now they're ruining your life so forgive this is now get this this leaves nothing out forgive if you have alt against any forgive if you have anything against anybody here's what love does that releases the love of God love bears up under anything and everything that comes it is ever ready to believe the best of every person it's hopes or fadeless under all circumstances and it endures everything without weakening glory to God then verse 8 this is the this is the final thing love never fails and if you and I walk in love and we won't get in unforgiveness we won't hold things we won't let things eat on us we will not fail either hallelujah but then the opposite is true if you get an unforgiving things not gonna go well with you just don't expect it it won't happen but love never fails never fades that's verse 8 love never fails love never fails love never fails and it won't fail in any situation in your life if hour comes love never fails or becomes obsolete or comes to an end prophecy the gift of interpreting the divine will and purpose if it prophecy I got to get this straight prophecy wolf could fail tongues they are destroyed and ceased for knowledge it will pass away it will lose its value and be superseded by truth but love will never fail other things might fail but love will never fail so if you think of anybody you can you know you can be holding things against somebody that happened years ago could happen you in high school or grade school or whatever you know I mean way back there then are are in your adult life in years past if you've got anything when you think of those people if it wrinkles you up you you know that you need to let them go for their sake no it's not hurting them for your sake so the Bible just says this to us forgive if you have aught against any that covers everything forgive if you have anything against anybody and what happens you can go free we're talking about the love of God which is an awesome thing God's love for us and yet we're supposed to love everybody so love is big hallelujah it is everything and we're going to look at Romans five again today in Romans 1 5:1 it says therefore since we are justified this is the amplified bible since we are justified declared righteous and given a right standing with God through faith let us grasp the fact that we have peace and reconciliation to hold on and we enjoy peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ through him we have joy access entrance introduction by faith into this grace which is favor of God in which we firmly and safely stand and let us rejoice and exult in our hope of experiencing and enjoying the love the glory of God verse 3 says in the amplified moreover let us also be full of joy now glory to God we have joy let us exult in triumph in our troubles and rejoice in our sufferings knowing that the pressure and affliction and hardship produced patient and unswerving endurance and endurance develops maturity of character approved faith and tried integrity and character of this sort produces the habit of joyful and confident hope in eternal salvation glory to God hallelujah in verse seven says an extraordinary thing for one to give his life even for an upright man though perhaps for a noble and lovable and generous benefactor someone might even die but God shows and clearly proves his own love for us by the fact that while we were still sinners Christ the Messiah The Anointed One died for us glory to God the land we when we make Jesus Christ the Lord of our lives we because Jesus died for us took our place we can be born over again from sin into life hallelujah and be what the Bible calls a new creature in Christ Jesus hallelujah a new creation born over again you're not the same old person you were your body looks the same but you're not the same you've been born over again in your spirit and that's what the scripture talks about when it talks about the new birth so if you've never been born again you haven't really lived yet because that's where eternal life comes into you and changes that old dead heart and you're never the same again now the Bible calls that being made a new creation in Christ Jesus and the scripture tells us that when this happened the love of God has been shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit so we have the ability and the capacity to love is God loves because we're new creatures since passed away all things are become new all things are of God the scripture says and we are new creatures in Christ Jesus so in walking in Love which is our commandment John 13 let's look at John 13 glory to god we've been commanded to walk in love we can do that now because we're born again john 13 says and i'm going to read it in the amplified bible assuming that I see it in here all right John 1333 for I believe let's look 34 jesus said this in John 13:34 I give you a new commandment i give you jesus said i'm giving you a new commandment this is not a commandment from of old this is a new commandment why because they were not able to keep this commandment before the love of God had not been shed abroad in their heart but now as a believer the love of God said abroad in our heart so Jesus says I give you a new commandment that you should love one another just as I have loved you in other words we can love God the way he loves us the way Jesus loved us how did he love us well he loved us enough to bear the cross for us to to die and take on sin and be raised from the dead hallelujah he loved us that much I give you a new commandment that you should love one another just as I have loved you so you too should love one another so we should love one another with the God kind of love hallelujah by this shall all men know that you are my disciples if you love one another if you keep on showing love among yourselves Pilate Simon Peter said to him Lord where are you going and Jesus said where you you are not able to follow me now where I'm going but you shall follow me afterwards so jesus said to the to the disciples Peter and to specifically he said that you this by this people are going to know that you're my disciple what was it by the love of God now the love of God so that's our commandment in John 15 34 it's it's very clean clear to us John 15 in 8 through 17 let's look at that if Jesus said if you live in me and verse seven he said if you live in me vile and abide vitally this amplified if you abide vitally United to me now and my words remain in you and continue to live in your hearts ask whatever you will and it shall be done unto you so what were the qualifications of that live in me abide in me remain in me continue to live in as I have said continue to live and I will continue to live in your hearts and ask whatever you will and it shall be done unto you how can that be Lord that we could ask whatever we desire and it will be done unto you of course that's according to the Word of God but it says that faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God so we get to pray with the god-kind of faith that comes right out of his word and when we do that and we're obedient you know you don't just get to receive all the answers to your prayer if you're not going to be obedient look at the verse jesus said in verse nine I've loved you just as the father has loved me abide in my love continue in his love with me verse 10 is our key to answered prayer if you keep my Commandments if you continue to obey my instructions you will abide in my love and live on in it just as I have obeyed my father's Commandments and live on in his love I have told you these things that my joy in delight may be in you and that your joy and gladness may be a full measure and complete and overflowing again he repeats this in verse 12 this is my commandment that you love one another everything in life where we're concerned depends on the love of God the love of God hallelujah this is my commandment that you love one another and just as I have loved you now first Corinthians 13 gives us insight into that kind of love and it's an awesome thing but you and I are born again to do this we're born again to walk in love one thing I'll just read it to you though make the thing that always comes up to me as it says love is not touchy fretful or resentful pays no attention to a suffered wrong think of that so what what does that mean that means we can go free if somebody does this wrong we don't have to pay attention to it we know that all things work together for good for those who love God and are called and obedient so listen to this definition of love this is saying the amplified bible and it says in verse 4 love endures long and it's patient and kind I mean this is a little self-test here love is our commandment and if we keep the commandments things go well with us and if we don't things don't go well with us so love endures long and is patient and kind that would be you you are patient and kind I know you are you endure long love never is envious nor balls over with jealousy love never says how come those people got that they didn't deserve that I should have that that's not love that's selfishness love never is envious nor boils over with jealousy and so jealousy is not of love jealousy is of the enemy and we rebuke it when it tries to come on us if you find yourself being sad at someone's good fortune or blessing you know that's jealousy love is not boastful or vainglorious does not display itself heartily it is not conceited arrogant and inflated with pride so love is not full of pride it is not rude love is not rude this amplified doesn't cut you any slack love does not act unbecomingly we know that when we act unbecomingly we get mad we fly off the handle we're rude we're not acting like we should we're not acting in love things aren't gonna work for us very well love God's love in us does not insist on its own rights or its own ways well what about me who's gonna take care of me God's gonna take care of me when I walk in love I don't have to fight for my own rights my own ways what do I have to do I have to walk in love if I want things to go well with me I can't be touchy fretfully sinful I can't pay attention to a suffered wrong I rejoice I forgive I obey the word I speak the right words in Jesus name God love God's love in us does not insist on its own rights through its own ways well you know this is this is mine it's mine you can't have it no you can't have it this is mine I have this that's the selfishness the selfishness is a very opposite of love love gives selfishness takes love does not act does not insist on its own rights or its own ways well if I don't do that how will I ever make it how will I ever succeed well God you're making room for God the move he can do far more than you can do in your own selfishness so you just know that I love I yield to love I don't resist I don't insist on my own rights or my own ways it says love is not self-seeking now this next one this is really uh this is really where the rubber meets the road here love is not touchy this the amplified love is not touchy our fretful are resentful Wow silence it takes no account of the evil done to it so somebody does you wrong love doesn't keep score what does love do well love forgives who else forgives God forgives that's where we get forgiveness we're being like our father hallelu you were taking after him so it's a really big good thing for you to forgive instead of let that thing fester in you build up in you get mad get angry speak angry words you know this discounts at home - between husband and wife be forgiving be kind to one another don't be touchy or fretful or resentful just say well I forgive them that's powerful you have the power to forgive I will not be touchy fretful or resentful I forgive love takes no account of the evil done - it pays no attention to a suffered wrong what happens when somebody does you wrong and you you don't pay any attention to it in fact when somebody uses and persecute you the scripture says pray for them so you pray for those who have done you wrong what happens well you you've got yourself still in a place of receiving your didn't enter into strife where the strife the Bible says there's confusion and every evil work so strife would be the opposite of love it opens the door to the devil he comes right in and takes over but with love what do you do you forgive Lord I forgive them forgive I ask you to forgive them I don't hold anything against them in Jesus name I forgive so you're being like God and you're keeping yourself in a place of receiving love receives strife doesn't receive it since we're there strife there's confusion and every evil work so there's opposites strife loses love wins hallelujah love does not in verse 6 and the amplified love does not rejoice but let me go back I need to say this one more time you know some people like people in family fight over money they fight over wills they fight over inheritance and the there comes a gap between them there comes a barrier between families because of money or this thing or that thing when if if the same people had forgiven there would be peace and love and joy so it's it's just that's just one instant in people's lives where where they fight for their own marriages are that way if you have a marriage that's full of strife it's it's going to be a long hard road to hoe but if you're forgiving if you're kind if you're lovely it'll be a blessing to you hallelujah it is love is not conceited infant and slated with pride it's not rude it's never unmannerly it does not act unbecomingly love God's love in us this is a big one does not insist on its own rights or its own ways I have a right to do this this is my right that's not love that's selfishness love does not insist on its own rights or its own ways for it is not self-seeking not this is this was this was my big one right here it is not touchy fretful or resentful it takes no account of the evil done to it you know it's it's kind of something to be married and to have usually they say opposites attract and then they get married well there's a reason for that I think it's because we balance one another out in the long run and so love pays no attention to a suffered wrong if you're going to get your feelings hurt and all that with your family maybe your brothers and your sisters are fussing and that's happening don't don't participate just walk in love and you'll have victory everywhere you go walk in love with one another in your the between children and parents refuse to be in strife you know the Bible says I've probably already said this once but I'm gonna say it to you again where there's strife and confusion there's evil work so in families that get torn apart if they get torn apart most of the time is over money or property or something like that that lets in strife first thing you know somebody will be dying young strife is a killer where their strife there's confusion and every evil work poverty is an evil work sickness and disease is an evil work unforgiveness is an evil work that opens the door to more strife and pain and agony so if you have all here's what the Bible says and we're running out time so I'm gonna give you the shortcut if you have aught against any the scripture says forgive ya but you don't know what they did to you yeah but I know what's happening now you're in trouble forgive you cannot have victory in this life without walking in love why because the Bible teaches us that faith works by love and we're going to need our faith we always need our faith we need to stay right on top of the love walk and the faith walk because things regardless in of what happens when things get bad when things are good we've got an answer we've got what we need our faith is working glory to God love does not rejoice that injustice or unrighteousness but rejoices when right and truth prevail love bears up under anything and everything that comes is ever ready to believe the best of every person it's hopes are faithless under all circumstances love's hopes are faithless love believes the best of every person people you've got and crosswise with in your family or at work or anybody forgive the Bible just says forgive if you have aught against any why is that because God wants you to be free you'll never go free unless you forgive love endures everything without weakening love that's not touchy fretful resentful pays no attention to a suburb right you need to memorize first Corinthians 13 in that portion where it talks about love so that you'll be able to to do combat when things begin to happen or somebody insults you what what difference does it make what somebody says about you see I forgive them Lord help them I forgive them what happens then will you go free well what happens to the other people well I don't know that's not our problem our problem is to forgive so that we go free we can't do their work for them they'll have to do that love here's the big deal right here love bears up under anything and everything that comes is ever ready to believe the best of every person we shouldn't be the kind of people that go around looking at faults well he's done this she's done that they're they're mean they're this they're that they're selfish if we would just turn that on ourselves and keep straight we'd be doing good we check ourselves out am i walking in love am I being touchy and regretful or resentful am I being hard to get along with that's where we need to shine the light hallelujah and did fix it change it love bears up under anything and everything that comes is ever ready love is ever ready to believe the best of every person now this is 1st Corinthians 13 and this is the amplified bible is ever ready to believe the best of every person we shouldn't be picking people apart criticizing saying they're this they're that we are not the judge if you just get a grip on that it had helped you a lot if I just get a grip on that it would help a lot I am NOT the judge I am not responsible for what they do if they're doing wrong then I should pray for them I should believe God that he would show them help them love is ever ready to believe the best of every person it's hopes are faithless under all circumstances listen to this love endures everything without weakening love is so powerful that no matter what it's up against it endures without becoming weak in endorsing victory in other words and here's verse eight this just finishes off right here love never fails never fails it never becomes obsolete or comes to an end glory to God and if you'll walk in love you won't fail either there is no subject more important than walking in love love is after all our commandment glory to God so we're going to start go to the scriptures and study some more about it we're going to reread the definition I think of love that comes the maybe the best definition of love you could ever think of that's in the scripture 13 for first Corinthians 13:4 says this about love love endures long and is patient and kind now as you read these things think about you know and my patient and kind if you're not patient and kind then you work on it work on it become patient in kind begin to say I'm patient kind of act out I'm patient in kind and kind love endures long so love is not a whimp thing I mean it'll take it and be patient and kind you know it's not just enduring here it's enduring and being patient and kind that's love love never is envious nor boils over with jealousy so any kind of strife that comes from envious is not of God it's not love it is not boastful or vainglorious does not display itself haughtily it this is the amplified in 1st Corinthians 13 it is not conceited arrogant inflated with pride it is not rude sometimes people think today you know we live in a rude world well we it probably is rude that's in the world you're not in the world you're in Christ Jesus we are not rude we do not act unbecomingly the God's love in us does not insist on its own rights and its own ways that's a big one for it is not self-seeking love it's not self-seeking if you walk in love you will have to be self seeking God will seek your blessing because you'll be in a position to receive it it is not touchy why this one's hard to get around right here it is not touchy or fretful are resentful they get your feelings hard easy do people have to walk on eggshells around you when you're not walking in love it is not touchy fretful or resentful it takes no account of the evil done to it you know people sometimes they get people do wrong to others and sometimes those that have been done wrong to will just hang on to it and hang on to it and not forgive maybe there's a will that people are fighting over somebody's inheritance they're fighting over whatever it is forgive if you have ought against any I mean if you just get that down in your renew your mind with that talk it and say take these scriptures and I like to take these scriptures and put myself in there and say I endure long and impatient kind I am never envious no ball over with jealousy why because you're getting that into your thinking of what love really is it is not conceited arrogant and inflated with pride it is not rude unmannerly God's love in us does not insist on its own rights or its own ways for it is not self-seeking it is not to chew fretful or resentful pays no attention to an evil done to it if you're hanging on to things that people have done to you let it go it's hurting you it's not hurting them pains no attention to a suffered wrong it does not rejoice that injustice and then right unrighteousness but rejoices when right and truth prevail now here's love here's how powerful it is it's an overcomer love bears up under anything and everything that comes glory to God it is ever ready to believe the best of every person it's hopes or fadeless under all circumstances and it endures everything without weakening verse eight says love never fails it won't pass away it says sit down here it will let's just read that whole thing love never fails never fades out or becomes obsolete or comes to an end as for prophecy the gift of interpreting the divine will and purpose it will be fulfilled and pass away as for tongues they will be destroyed and ceased as for knowledge it will pass away it will lose its value and be superseded by truth it will for our for our knowledge is fragmentary and incomplete and our prophecy and the teaching and so on is fragmentary incomplete and imperfect but love it will never pass away glory to God verse 13 says in so faith hope and love abide faith hope and love abide now the scripture says that faith works by love faith hope and love abide joyful and confident expectant of eternal salvation love true affection for God and man growing out of God's love for and in us these three faith hope and love but the greatest of these is love love is greater than faith I tell you if you'll walk in love things will go well with you and the Bible says in first Corinthians 14:1 eagerly pursue and seek to acquire this love and make it your aim you're a great quest I'm telling you the Bible tells us to go after the of God why because God is love he wants things to work well with us he he knows that love wins always love is triumphant and when you don't walk in love you walk in hate or unforgiveness or whatever it is that's pushing you away from somebody else things aren't going to go well with you so this this says eagerly pursue and seek to acquire this love make it your aim your great quest and earnestly see this is a big deal this is this is don't say you know if you can do it it would be if it's easy for you do it noise says eagerly pursue seek to acquire this love and make it your aim your great quest and earnestly desire cultivate the spiritual endowments are the gifts of the Spirit glory to God so we're to go after love and I feel I find that love you know it's think about what the things are it said not touchy fretful resentful pays no attention to a suffered wrong when you're touchy friend fuller is in for pay attention to somebody's done you wrong what are you doing to yourself you're just putting yourself into neutral or worse going downhill because you can't walk by faith without love faith works by love the Bible says so it you know if you're having problems in your life and you just can't seem to get a grip on your finances or your healing or whatever first of all go and meditate in first Corinthians 13 and see are you walking in love since faith works by love if you're not in love your face not going to be working you know you can be just doing everything stand in confessing you got your healing scriptures you got it all going for you there but since faith works by love you're not going to achieve you're not going to receive if you don't walk in love so so go go they're not touchy fat for a resentful don't get your feelings hurt what if somebody does you wrong well forgive them if you have aught against any the Bible says that's the solution to somebody doing you wrong but strife or strife is there's confusion in every evil work well what if somebody didn't be wrong they really did me wrong they really did me wrong what should I do well if I'm smart I'll forgive them and I'll go free from that but if I'm not Bible smart I'll stew over it I'll think over it I'll think of what they've done to me they stole that from me that should have been my position and they got in there and they got it what'll happen well the first thing you know you'll be getting sick or whatever the curse will come on you why because your defenses are down so everybody we should all be we should meditate and think about and read and put it in our eyes our ears and get it in our heart and in our mouth first Corinthians 13 4 through 8 for I like 4 through 13 and it's not touchy not fretful not resentful don't get your feelings hurt in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ 14:1 says after that it's it said you know faith hope love there about us love abides of love God's love true affection for God and man growing out of God's love for us therefore the greatest of these is love the greatest hope faith in love the greatest is love how come because if you don't walk in faith I mean if you don't want to love your faith won't work faith works by love when you get in a position through sin or or unloved leanness strife unforgiveness where your face not ready to work you're in trouble faith is our what is faith faith is believing what God says in his word saying it acting on it doing it and when your face not working you're at a terrible disposition and yo you're in a terrible position I should say and dangerous because when trouble comes you your faith won't be working so walking in love is a key to our our success in this life it's a key to divine health it's a key to prosperity so what do we do we walk in love we forgive if somebody does us wrong we forgive somebody sued you for this or that or the other forgive and walk away from it God can replenish whatever it costs you and much much more when you walk in love glory to God set up first Corinthians 13:14 one says eagerly pursue and seek to acquire this love let's just let me go back to 13 so faith hope love abide Faith Hope the joyful confidence of expectant eternal salvation love true affection for God and man growing out of God's love falling in us these three but the greatest of these is love why because faith works by love you won't if you don't have love you won't have any hope you won't have any faith so verse 14 says eagerly our chapter 14 eagerly pursue and seek to acquire this love make it your great quest and earnestly desire and cultivate the spiritual endowments so what I like to do is take that in first Corinthians 13 about love and in meditate on it think about it say it don't ever lose sight of it and you get to where your every action if you go against those things that right here in 1st Corinthians about love if you're tight if you just find yourself touchy fretful or resentful and immediately you repent and you get it straight and you forgive any that's done you wrong or whatever you'll go free so keep those things in the forefront of your thinking and you can live well and strong 14:1 says because of that the first queen eagerly pursued see that's not just well if it's convenient do it know eagerly pursue and seek to acquire this love make it your aim in your great quest and earnestly to desire and cultivate the spiritual gifts glory to God hallelujah so we we get it we get a grip on our love life and we we don't speak evil of people we forgive if we have all that somebody does you're wrong and you get in strife about it who does it hurt it hurts you I'm going to hurt them it hurts you because now you've let in strife confusion and every evil work so we just we just keep you know Ken all of us we keep this scripture at the forefront of our thinking if somebody does something to us we forgive it right away cuz why you know what it says faith works by love so we want our faith to be strong to work father I pray for all the people right now I especially pray for those that that are having problems with forgive unforgiveness that maybe people have actually done them very wrong and some of them just think people have done them wrong but whoever is holding unforgiveness right now I pray for them and I'm asking you to reveal to them exactly what to say and what to do right now to deliver them of unforgiveness and strife because we know where their strife there's confusion and every evil work and so I pray for them I pray for all of us too for you to keep us on top of this love walk help us to realize every time we speak out of love we get out of love or we act out of love and we thank you our will Lord is to walk pleasing to you and to walk Oh in love and not be touching your fretful or resentful not to take account of evil done to us but to forgive and to love and we thank you we believe we receive it in the name of Jesus we have it hallelujah we have it we forgive those of you now that if you've never made Jesus the Lord of your life you know you just you know you didn't even know you were supposed to the scripture Romans and Romans says that we are to receive him as our Lord and Savior we take him with our words Jesus I make you say this Jesus I receive you say that I receive you as my Lord and Savior I put myself in your hands take my life and do something with it give Jesus your future expect him to do things I'm telling you the day I got born again I didn't know anything much about anything spiritual but I did know to say that I said take my life and do something with it so he's not like the devil Satan is a liar he'll he'll maneuver you he'll trick you and all that to get into your affairs because he wants control but Jesus is Lord and he is good and he is love and unless you invite him into your situation he's not going to force his way in he'll help you all he can but you needed us let him in be born over again hallelujah you become Bible sense when you make Jesus the Lord of your life and you get born again you become a new creature in Christ Jesus what does that mean well you're not the same one you were just before you made Jesus the Lord of your life your spirit man when you come into this world you're not alive in your spirit and you have to be born over again because of what Adam did in the garden but thank God there is an answer make him the Lord of your life if you prayed that prayer with me let us know because we have some things we want to send you absolutely free you started now on a great and marvelous trip with the Lord and you got to have the Word of God continual died of the Word of God in order to stay victorious we'll send it to you absolutely free so just let us know [Music] the healthiest thing you can do for your spirit soul and body is to cultivate the fruit of the Spirit love never gives up and love never fails always be full of joy in the Lord let the peace of God rule in your hearts let patience have it's perfect work fulfill all the good pleasure of His goodness a faithful man shall abound with blessings but your gentleness be known to all men we practice self-control for an eternal prize there is so much peace and blessing in yielding to the fruit of the Spirit Gloria Copeland fruit of the Spirit CD series will teach you how these spiritual antioxidants can work in your life to renew your youth protect you from the effects of the fallen world and demonstrate God's heart of love to others every day strengthen your life from the inside out so you can live fully and freely keep the life of gods flowing through you order the fruit of the Spirit package today for just 69.95 a savings of over 60 percent go to KCMG org slash TV special or call eight hundred 676 lip I don't care how long you've been a believer or how long you've been practicing the principles of faith you can easily slip into unbelief about the promises of God Hebrews 4 11 tells us let us labor therefore to enter into that rest lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief we must labor not by struggling to get God to do something but by spending time in God's Word hanging on to the promises of God by faith day after day coming to a Kenneth Copeland ministries event the 2013 Venezuela victory campaign Kenneth Copeland will be in Maracaibo Venezuela August 30th through 31st hello everybody Kenneth and Gloria Copeland Kelly and I personally invite you to the living victory East Coast faith encounter September 13th and 14th in Atlanta Georgia please come and be refreshed by the word and build your faith for victory September 13th to 14th with Kenneth Copeland and dr. Steven and Kelly Swisher if you've never made Jesus the Lord of your life or are accepted his him as your Savior I want to help you today to do that I mean things will never change in your life for good until you switch and you make Jesus the Lord of your life and what happens to you well you get born over again and all that old bad stuff that was born into you and the natural is gone now you'll still have to walk it out and obey God get on the Word of God but if you've never made Jesus the Lord of your life the scripture just says Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone that believeth that's Romans 11 no that's Romans 10 for for Moses described the righteousness which is of the law that the man with the man which doeth these things shall live by them but the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise say not in your heart who's going to bring Christ down from from above or who shall descend into the earth but what does it say this righteousness that the word is near you now you in your mouth and in you heart that is the Word of Faith which we preach that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and shalt believe in his in your heart that God raised him from the dead you shall be saved so if you believe that just say Jesus I receive you as my Lord and Savior I believe you were raised from the dead and I take you now you see it's just a matter of making a choice in receiving Jesus into your heart then the scripture says for the heart for with the heart man believeth unto righteousness with the mouth confession is made unto salvation and verse 13 says whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved so if you call upon Jesus name right now and you just receive him as your Savior just say you know when I said I didn't know how to keep all the things you know you're supposed to do so I said Lord take my life and do something with it I just gave him my heart my life and you know he took it that day and I have never been the same since now if you did that today we have a free salvation package and we want to send it to you it's a book he did it all for you brochures to help you get started reading your Bible I'm telling you you're just getting started on a marvelous walk with God hallelujah so request the salvation package go to KCMG org let us know your testimony thrills us to know that you've been born again and will rejoice with you this is Gloria Copeland reminding you that Jesus is Lord partnership distributes God's anointings through partnership with Kenneth Copeland ministries you have access to the anointing and graces on Kenneth and Gloria Copeland and their partners and you become part of something bigger as your anointing and graces are now available to the Copeland's and their partners I know that they're annoying this on his own all his partners being partners with KCM and with Kenneth and Gloria and everyone it increases our faith also to know that do you know what they're out there doing it and what what God's doing for them he can also do for us here's one anointing here is another anointing but when the Spirit of God joins them together you've established an anointing that didn't exist but it's a combination of those two we allow him to join us in divine connections and so forth it increases the anointing and Bopha I was doing some volunteer work on a weekend and one of the people there asked me could you go up and please nail off the other side of that roof and I said sure so I I had my nail pouch full my tools hammers air hammers climbed up the ladder and I started walking up the wall there were two layers of tar paper they had put up I got on that second layer and I I went like a sled down the roof and then all that extra weight onto the ground and all I could think was tuck and roll like a paratrooper in that short of time so I did but the ground was very hard clay and with the extra weight I broke both of my heels at that time and one of them actually was they said exploded I went through surgery that night woke up the next day and they told me that they had transplanted bone into my left heel that was blown apart and it had a big skewer in it like 8-inch long pin probably to hold the Achilles tendon back in place it was a long process I could not walk occasionally I could crawl on my elbows and knees if I had to get to another room so I didn't know if I'd ever be able to run again and that was my dream in my ambition was I wanted to run again that was the desire my heart KCM partner Brian Mullins and his wife Vicky had been married for over 35 years making their home in Iowa Brian's recovery from the serious impairments caused by this accident was a gradual process that required faith commitment and a fresh revelation of the Word of God I've been associated with the teachings of Kenneth and Gloria for I would say 20 years or so and then within the last six years or so I've become a partner with their ministry Gloria pointed out in her book inconsistency lies to power and that really stuck with me I thought wow I can be consistent I can do this I can I can stick with it and so about five years ago the Lord instructed me to get on my bicycle and just start riding it and it's wacko as that may sound to some I got on that thing I wrote it 10 20 30 40 45 miles at a time and the Lord helped me be consistent in that and we woke up to it with the goal of one day being able to try to run again a year ago at this time I was able to I started running on a track I was able to get a full lap quarter of a mile and that was a big deal and eventually got four laps so when I came to the victory campaign last year I had done a mile I was so happy about it and we had prayed in the meeting that week I went home and I ran three miles two times that week without any excruciating pain I'm as healthy as I've ever been in my entire life when I was 16 I would run a lot but I feel like I'm even healthier now than I was then I can't explain how that works except that it is the Lord who is increasing giving us an increase in health an increase in our life and Lord he reminds me in his word he makes my feet like the feet of a deer that I might walk upon the high places it's all through God's Word he has good plans for his people plans to help you and not to harm you plans to lift you up and I really believe as it says in Jeremiah that he does have good plans for us and if you find yourself knocked on your back in a life-changing situation that alters your ability to do everything trust and obey cuz there's no other way to be happy in Jesus but trust in the bay Brian chose to believe God's Word what does that mean that means he had to have the word in him to make that choice and the bad report changed to a clean bill of health he stayed on God's promises for his healing he didn't quit he kept the word going in his eyes and in his ears filling his spirit with the truth of God's Word and today he lives in total victory we love hearing partner testimony aren't they great I'm telling you we have it we have so many good testimonies where people themselves have just stood on the Word of God and received miracles miracles and finances miracles and healings and Men and marriages today is offering day and I want to receive the offering today and I want to remind you of this scripture God is able to make all grace and that means every favor an earthly blessing come toward you in abundance that you always having sufficiency in all things that you always having see once you get in into the flow of sowing and reaping and tithing you're always having and that's the place that you want to stay you're always having all sufficiency in all things may abound in every good work glory to God and they'll be saying of you as it's written he has dispersed abroad he has given to the poor his righteousness remaineth forever and he that ministereth seed to the source and bread to the eater will multiply your seed sown in verse 11 is the outcome being enriched in every way to all bountifulness and I think the amplified says so that you can be generous glory to God hallelujah God's will for you to prosper Thank You partners being such good partners I know you're increasing and you'll continue to increase there's no limit on your increase as long as you walk with God and walk by faith get in a good church that preaches you the Word of God I'll be back on Monday please come back and see me this is Gloria Copeland reminding you that Jesus is Lord thank you for joining us today on the believers voice of victory to purchase this week's broadcasts on DVD or mp3 on CD go to our website or call us today remember this week's product offer these ministry tools are designed to help you live a happy and successful life in Christ get the word working in your life and experience all God has for you if you receive Jesus as your Lord and Savior today be sure to request your free salvation package this will help you understand who 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