Joyce Meyer: Loving People Who Are Hard to Love | Praise on TBN

I hope and pray that you'll remember that love is not just a feeling it can produce feelings but it's not just a feeling and you don't have to feel right to do what's right and the people that need to be loved the most that are desperate for love normally act in a way that makes it hard to love them father I thank you for the word tonight and this is very important to me and I believe it's very important to you and I talk about love a lot but we don't know anything until we're doing it it doesn't matter how many times we've heard it or how many times we've got it underlined in our Bible until we're doing it we need to hear it again and the world is full of just mean people today and I think they're that way because they're hurting and what they really need is love and there's nobody to show it to them except the Believers because you work through us so I pray that tonight that people have heard it and heard it but never really got it I pray tonight they'll get it that it'll not just be information but will become revelation and I ask it in Jesus name amen amen well Matthew 24 is a chapter in the Bible that talks about signs of the end times and I know every generation always thinks Jesus is coming back in their generation and I don't know exactly when he's coming back but I do know I want to be ready amen and more of the end time signs that Jesus talked about more the end time prophecies have been fulfilled than at any other time in history so Jesus could come back tonight could be another hundred years I don't know but one of the signs of the last days in Matthew 24 it says and then many will be offended boy people are touchy today and this is just not unbelievers I'm talking church people they will betray one another and will hate one another hate is such a nasty word I was sitting in a doctor's office the other day getting a vitamin drip trying to get all the strength I could for this weekend and whatever several people back there getting different treatments and somebody brought up a politician's name and another ladies that I hate him and just even when she said that it's just the whole feeling that filled the room was just like many will be offended will betray one another and will hate one another many false prophets will rise up and deceive many we have to be so careful today about deception you just because you read something online doesn't mean it's true [Music] amen and if you read something unkind about somebody else the first thing that should come out of your mouth is I don't believe it just because you said it the Bible says that every accusation should be proven in the mouth of two or three faithful Witnesses people that actually really know what they're talking about when you hear gossip Chris won't mind me sharing this three or four years ago somebody called me up and told me something not good about her and you know what I said I don't believe that I said I just do not believe that I know her and I don't believe it but I said I'll tell you what I am going to do when I hang this phone up I'm going to call her and ask her yeah you remember I called you and you said that's not true I called the girl back and I said it's not true and whoever told you you need to call them and tell them it's not true [Applause] you know how quick you can run somebody's reputation [Applause] just by passing stuff on that you've heard I just people who talk about other people they don't know anything about him it's just ridiculous I read online the other day I don't know why I did this but I decided I'd look me up [Laughter] I I normally don't do anything like that but I'll just say what they're see what they're saying about me today so I looked it up and the first thing I read is all of her clothes come from Gucci [Applause] I don't have one thing people just make stuff up just anything to try to make you look like your stealing people's money or the devil doesn't want people believing and so he tries to give a bad reputation to people that are trying to spread the gospel and you just thank you even if I had some Gucci clothes you'd still love me right but I don't [Applause] actually I bought most of my clothes for 30 some odd years at the same little Boutique here and St Louis and the girl that I bought him from was here last night and they're not Gucci but so people just lie they just lie about you one time they wrote about me in the paper that I had a twenty five thousand dollar toilet who in the world would have a twenty five thousand dollar toilet [Applause] I don't even think you can buy a 25 000 toilet I mean just stupid stuff so don't believe everything you hear and whatever you do don't spread it to somebody else because here's what happens when you tell somebody something even if they don't want to believe it they've still got it in them and they've got to try to get rid of it and it makes them just a little bit more suspicious of that person than they would have been one of the things we need to commit to tonight if we're going to walk in love is to say good things about each other [Applause] and let me just tell you what your mama told you if you can't say something good don't say anything at all amen [Applause] let's protect each other can we do that we're family let's protect each other and because of the lawlessness that will abound in the land the love of many will grow cold another translation says the love of the great body will grow cold and that means the church so what's happening because of all the trouble in the world people are focusing on that and that you know the more you focus on trouble the meaner the salary you're going to get we need to let the devil just do himself in and we need to focus on God and helping people and being a blessing to other people and Walking In Love sometimes we need a little help I had love tattooed on my ankle [Music] that way reminds me every time I see my foot to walk in love I need a little help I need to be reminded sometimes amen I got another one too right back here the guy said I Dave and I were the oldest people he'd ever tattooed and this one says I belong to Jesus [Music] see that devil I'm owned and bought with the blood and of course Dave got an American flag now I know some of you think getting the tattoo is demonic well in the Bible in Isaiah it says there were people who had tattooed on their hands I belonged to the Lord in Isaiah it says that God has a picture of us tattooed on the palms of his hands so before you get an opinion why don't you read the whole book amen so now all of you that have been wanting to get one but you wondered if it was right or not well there you go God commands us to love everyone Luke 6 32. if you love those who love you what credit is that to you even Sinners can love those who love them back so loving people that love you that doesn't really tell you anything about yourself if you really want to find out the kind of love God's talking about you got to love people that are mean to you people that aren't so good to you you say well that's just really hard to do well the first thing you need to do is stop saying it's hard that's one of our biggest excuses well it's just hard it's hard it's hard in Deuteronomy 30 it says nothing God has told us to do is too hard so we need to start saying I can do whatever God has told me to do not it's too hard in the Bible we see the word love a lot but there's four Greek words that are all translated love which is kind of a shame because then we just lump it all together and we love the cat next door and we love ice cream and we love our kids and we love our house and we love our car and all of that kind of love that we're talking about is connected to a warm fuzzy feeling and see when somebody mistreats you you're not going to have warm fuzzy feelings you're going to want to knock them across the room but you know what one of the things I've found out in my 45 years of studying the Bible you can feel like doing the wrong thing and still choose to do the right thing come on did you hear me walking in the flesh is walking according to your feelings or according to your own carnal mind so I'm going to say it again you can feel like doing the wrong thing and still choose to do the right thing and after all that is about Choice God has given us a free will you know what a chance he was taking when he gave us free will man every choice that we make has some kind of a an effect and I'm just going to go ahead and say this earlier we have way too many disobedient Christians thank you I guess I'll say it till I can get a better clap than that we have way too many disobedient Christians well everybody does it these days well you're not everybody [Applause] and if you're the only person that you know that does it right if you love God Jesus said if you love me you will obey me he did not say if you obey me I will love you he's already made up his mind to love us but one of the ways that we show our love for God Is by being obedient to him and I have found out that when you do the right thing while it's still hurting you that's when you're growing when it's easy to do the right thing then you've already grown you've already gone through the hard parts and now that has become part of you and the longer you walk with God there will be more of that and more in that of more of that so we just keep growing in our walk with God it's called spiritual maturity amen and as far as I'm concerned after you're born again that's the most important thing to do is start growing spiritually God sent the Holy Spirit to live inside of us and he's our teacher he quickly convicts us of wrongdoing and convinces us to do things right last night when we went out to the car after the meeting Dave is very protective of me and always has been and I'm not always a real careful person and a lot of times I got my mind on the next thing I'm going to do instead of the thing I'm doing and so we were getting into the van and part of this seat was brought forward for people to get in the back and I'm getting in my little space here and he's trying to tell me to be careful be careful don't you don't want to get that slammed on your hand well I'm in a hurry and I'm wanting to get going and I'm I'm like I've gotten in a car a million times I can do this well I knew like that it just wasn't the right way the right attitude to have and so first thing I did this morning couldn't hardly wait for him to wake up so I could go and apologize to him don't don't just know that you've done something wrong even if it's little if you can go make it right go make it right it's time for us to have some humility come on and so I just told him I said I'm sorry that I didn't have a good attitude last night I know you were just trying to help me and he's always so forgiving he just I mean man you talk about somebody that's forgiven somebody for the same thing over and over and over it's him patience is one of the first fruits of love and I'm still working on it but there's four words Greek words trans translated love there's Eros which is a romantic love it's the love you feel for this good-looking man that you've met you're just like whoo every time you see him your heart beats hard I love you I love you well I want to tell you you better get married on something other than that [Applause] because the way I love Dave now is so much deeper my god I didn't even know what love was when I married him you don't know what love is until you go through some things with people and you put up with some stuff and you forgive them over and over and over and you learn how the two can become one there's storage s-t-o-r-g-e and that's family love that's the kind of love you have for your kids or your mom and dad that kind of love phileo is brotherly love the fee the love that we all feel for one another and all those are good but the love that we're after is agape and that's Divine love the kind of love that God has for us now right away we think that's impossible but it's really not because the Bible says that the love of God is poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit when we're born again so anything we have in us we can give away if you have it in you and somebody needs it you can give it so God would not require us to love people with that Divine kind of love which means they didn't do anything to deserve it God is not just doing love he is love that's why while we were still yet in our sin he died for us that's why on the cross having had Nails driven into his hands and feet and been beaten he could say father forgive them for they know not what they do that's love when we can stop looking at what people are doing to us and understand what they're doing to themselves by what they're doing to us you understand me I must say it again we need to be more concerned about when you mistreat me it's I get I can get through that I've got the Healer living on the inside of me but you've hurt yourself and I need to pray for you because now you've you're messing up your life by not treating me right three of the four kinds of Love involve emotion but God's Divine love does not it may be there but it may not and God is requiring us to treat people the same way rather we have that fuzzy feeling or whether we don't now I know right away some of you are thinking well surely you're not just telling us that God wants us to be a doormat and let people walk all over us and mistreat us and abuse us blah blah blah well no and depending on how far I get which is usually not as far as I'd like to I will tell you that some people you have to love from a distance I had to love my father from a distance for a long time because he was a sexual abuser and it wasn't wise or safe to be around him nobody's asking you to be abused or beaten on or just let somebody totally trash talk you and downgrade you and disrespect you all the time but God is requiring us to love people and it's really not what God is asking us to do is not that hard but the one main thing I have to try to get across is love the kind of love God's asking for is not a feeling so we we have to get that through our heads or we're never going to be able to do this it's not a Feeling amen it's a God thing on the inside of you how many times should I forgive my brother for the same thing well however many times it takes love is long suffering let's say it like it should be said long suffering amen I would imagine those first five or six years Dave and I were married that he did a lot of long suffering and I can tell you one of the reasons why I'm here today is because Dave showed me this kind of love and he um man God had the right guy picked out for me and when I was still married to my first husband that was running around on me all the time and mistreating me I would lay in bed at night with him and pray that someday God would give me somebody that would really love me and I always said and make it somebody that'll take me to church I like re I was born again when I was nine and I really wanted to serve God but I just couldn't pull it off without some help and I just want to say a word about offering yourself to God to disciple other people when when people first received Christ they need a friend they need a Godly friend that will help them and not try to run their life and try to always tell them what God's saying they should do but this somebody that they can ask questions and somebody that can be an example to them and Dave would confront me but he only did it when he felt like God was telling him to where I on the other hand confronted everything that moved if you like you are not going to treat me that way if you think I'm gonna put up with this you've got another thing cut [Applause] come on anybody if I got any sisters out there well I hate to tell you this but that's one of the things that's got to go man I hope you still like me after night [Applause] you cannot imagine how happy and peaceful you will be when you stop letting everything make you mad it it's all Pride anyway bless God you are not going to treat me that way well you know Jesus didn't do that they just mistreated him and he just went on about his business kept his mind on what God had sent him to do when people accused him of things boy we get so defensive when somebody accuses us I am going to convince you that I am a good person let me convince you that you are wrong about me and I'm a good person Jesus just said well whatever you think you know why because he knew who he was and if we really know who we are and you know what I know I'm right with God so you can say whatever you want to about me and I'm not going to lose any sleep over it now I'd rather you like me [Applause] but if you don't it's between you and God I'm not going to compromise my morals to get you to like me amen you know you get old enough you just don't care what people think and I'm long past that care and what people think [Applause] because there's always going to be somebody thinking something so whatever I've been through enough with God I know where I stand with him and I know where I came from and I know what God's done and I know where I'm going Hallelujah amen and Dave would confront me and I want you to hear this part of this story because you're dealing with some stuff in relationships this will really help you he would confront me and anytime anybody confronts you about bad behavior it always makes you mad you never say oh thank you thank you for telling me that I'm a jerk [Applause] now the Bible says only a fool hates correction but there's a lot of fools running around out there because only one time in my whole life if I ever met anybody that has thanked me when I've corrected him and it's Mike Shepard our staff pastor and I don't know if he means it or not but he says it so but I would start trying to you know convince Dave how wrong he was about what he was saying about me and I always remember he would say look I'm just telling you what I believe God told me to tell you now it's between you and God you can do whatever you want to with it so you make a mistake when we try to convince people and then the the other thing he did that was so important is he would never mistreat me after that he didn't give me the silent treatment he would just go right on loving me just as if it never happened and it's amazing what happens when you just leave people with God just he just said I said what I believe God told me to say now the rest of it's between you and God if you want to listen to him fine if you don't that's fine oh and that would make me so mad because I wanted to have a good argument I'll tell you love real love the god kind of love has some characteristics that we don't know very much about there's a lot of prickly people in the world John ortberg calls them porcupine people you know a porcupine has thirty thousand quills comes out to protect them you know we give away every kind of stuffed animal but I've never given anybody a stuffed porcupine somehow they're just not real loving but you know what in mating season even porcupines find a way to get together which tells me that if desire is strong enough [Applause] you'll even put up with a little pain so you see I really want to do this love thing I mean I want to do it and so God help me I printed on my foot I confess it I read about it I preach about it and I am not going to shut up until I can do it amen now there's a tough love that's the word they call it and it really just means you know you're not helping somebody when you keep doing for them what they should be doing for themselves so if you've got a 40 year old kid that's still living off of you well then you might help them more if you ask them to move and I think the church is all mixed up about love well we just want to show them love what you know there was a guy in the church that was in incest and he wasn't repenting Paul put him out of the church and he said he did it to wake him up that he couldn't more or less have his cake and eat it too in other words if you want to be part of this Fellowship you can't keep living an incest but no we don't do that anymore today well we we just want to show them love well that's not always love sometimes you love somebody more if you do confront them but then continue [Music] having a loving attitude towards them what happens is a lot of times if we confront somebody then we shut them out of our lives and that was the thing that Dave never did I didn't know what love was and he showed it to me and a lot of people need to see it and that's why this message is so important to me and I thank God that I have an opportunity to speak to so many people and that this message tonight is being seen live all over the world and then when it goes on our program it'll be translated into 100 different languages and go all over the world because I'll tell you this is the answer to the world's problems and it just makes me so mad when I write a book on love and people don't buy it they told me the other day in the office well the pre-sales on this book are half of what the pre-sales were on the last book and I was just like [Music] people are going to get this I don't care how long I have to preach it they asked Jesus what is the most important commandment you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart soul mind and strength and a second is like it you shall love your neighbor as you love yourself that's it you say well Joyce what about faith well Galatians 5 6 says faith only works and is energized through love Jesus tells us in Mark 11 that we can ask for anything God will do it we can pray prayers that'll move mountains but we need to pay attention to the butts and ifs in the Bible if you have anything against anyone drop it leave it Let It Go all your prayers won't be answered so I'm going to say I don't care if you intercede five hours every day if you've got unforgiveness in your heart you're wasting your breath [Music] well I got a few people that like this and a bunch of you can't make your mind up yet you say what Joyce I'm hurting and I have personal problems and I've got a wounded soul and I I thought you'd minister to me tonight oh honey if you only knew how I am ministering to you Jesus said one new commandment I give unto you one everybody say one love love people the way God loves you it's so much fun to love people it is so much fun to love your enemies because they just don't get it they just it's like are you nuts they just don't get it but that's the thing that'll melt hard cold hearts let's just say that you have a waiter or a waitress that's waiting on you and they're being extremely rude you say Joyce should I just put up with it well no I think sometimes for the other person's benefit you need to say something but it's the way you say it and the attitude in which you say it that's important so you might say something like you know I realize you're probably having a really hard day and maybe you've got some hard things going on in your life but you know please don't take it out on me and uh I'll pray for you they'll get the point and then pray for them I'm not asking you to be a doormat and let everybody walk all over you but sometimes you might have to stand back and let it seem like people are taking advantage of you for a while we need to learn to move when God moves we it needs to be like it was in the Old Testament when the cloud moved they moved and when the cloud parked they parked amen I don't know about you but I don't have to have a dessert message when I when I go I want to hear something that's going to make me change all right well how does God tell us to treat our enemies well you've heard that it was said love your neighbor and hate your enemy but I'm telling you love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you so there's really only three simple things that God tells us to do to fulfill the requirements of Love pray for people that hurt you bless and do not curse them and that means to speak well of them and not evil so when somebody does hurt you that means you need to pray for them and you don't get to talk bad about them that means you don't get to tell somebody else what they did and boy isn't it hard when somebody's hurt you and you know bad stuff about them and you hear other people just say oh there's just such a great guy they're just so man it's so hard to keep your mouth shut you just want to say yeah well let me tell you a few things and then the Bible tells us if our enemy is hungry feed him and if he's thirsty give him something to drink so for me it's come down to a real simple formula you hurt me and the first thing I'm going to do is pray the second thing I'm going to do is make a commitment not to talk about you and the third thing I'm going to do is tell God if you need any help and he wants me to help you please let me know I know this maybe we're standing at a new gate tonight but that's okay I was on TBN advertising this book and I tell you Matt and Laurie and I had such a good time because Matt admitted right on TV he said I gotta I have a problem with this well you know what we all have a problem with this and it's that's why it has to be something that is prayed over especially and studied and you need to remind yourself you need to talk to yourself it's just not it's a challenging thing to do but I believe it's the only thing that's going to change this Sick Sad world that we're living in and you know there's enough of us who at least claim to be Christians if we would get out in the world and act like one and really start just loving people with the love of God with this agape I honestly believe and I maybe you think I'm nuts but I honestly believe that we could change the world you know Jesus turned the world upside down with this message amen Luke 6 27-29 really hard scriptures to swallow but I say to you who are listening now to me in order to heed and make it a practice to love your enemies treat well do good to act nobly toward those who detest you and pursue you with hatred my invoke blessings upon him pray for the happiness of those who curse you well I told God I don't want him to be happy [Applause] but see here's the thing that he showed me in order for somebody who's mistreated you to be happy they have to come to a place of repentance they have to deal with that with God so when somebody's hurt you and you pray for them to be happy what you're asking God to do is reveal to the truth to them about the way they are so they can repent when you ask God to bless your enemies you're not asking him to give him a new house and a new car you're really asking him to give them some truth to help them see the truth because of what they're doing to themselves listen I lived a life where I was full of hatred and bitterness and unforgiveness and I was miserable there was no way I could be happy I don't care what I owned I could not be happy until I got that poison out of me amen and when you forgive somebody you are you're helping yourself a whole lot more than you're helping them [Applause] and I just wonder standing here looking at you tonight who you're mad at I can honestly stand here and say that right now at this moment I'm not mad at anybody I don't have anything against anybody and I pray God then anytime something sneaks in there that he'll reveal it to me so I can get it out and deal with it because if I don't ever do anything else from now until I die I want to learn how to love people the way God wants me to love people amen we don't need to try to be famous we don't need to try to be rich we you know we we just need to learn how to love each other just love each other and you don't have to be like me for me to love you and I don't have to be like you and you don't have to be perfect you can make mistakes and the Bible says to bear with the failings of the weak because we all have to put up with our own little oppressive load of faults who do we think we are to shut somebody out of our life because they've got a couple of quirky things in their personality we're all quirky amen everybody seems normal till you really get to know them [Applause] then you find out you're a little weird [Applause] you know what's in your heart comes out of your mouth we got to stop this well I love her butt that is I never realized how silly that is we say that all the time well I love her but this just really irritates me so bad that's not what love is love says I love you enough that I'll put up with that if I have to because I know I'm not perfect either amen [Applause] let's just say your neighbor has been really hard to deal with now you find out that he's got cancer stage four [Music] and probably won't make it well if you really trying to do what God wants you to you won't say well you reap what you sow serves him right no what you're going to do is go mow his grass shoveled as snow and you're going to think I've got an opportunity now this guy's down and out I'm going to love him into the kingdom before he dies amen you offer to take him to his doctor's appointment you offered to go to the grocery store for him and he's not stupid he knows he's been a jerk and he's he's going to know that there's something really strange about you if you're offering to do all these things well why should I do that well why should Jesus do what he did for us can anybody in here think of any good reason why Jesus should have died for you I can't think of any good reason why he should have done it for me but he did while I didn't care anything about him at all you just don't know how tickled I am to preach this tonight your boss has passed you over for a promotion that you well deserved you really felt you should have had and man you are having a hard time getting over it I understand that some things are harder to get over than others I mean you're just really having a hard time letting it go I mean you've prayed about it you've asked other people to pray for you and you just still just like you're just full of all these bad nasty hateful feelings well now this is just something I've found and I believe it's biblical and you do what you want to but for me I have discovered that when I'm caught in a trap like that if I will do something nice for them send them a gift whatever it it breaks that power love overcomes evil amen and you can do it anonymously it's like this mysterious magical power that works I I tell pastors if you've got somebody in your church and you've been good to them and you they they came when they came to your church they were just a mess and you've helped them and prayed with them and loved them into wholeness and now they take about half your congregation and go two miles down the road and start their own church you know if you're smart well you'll do buy them a sound system now that went over big come on now this is 40 years help me a little bit and and of course the first well why should I do that well because you're like Jesus supposedly amen I don't know I feel like I know this Secret if I can just get people to understand this and I know you've heard my story but I can't preach this message without giving you the quick version of the thing with my mom and dad my dad sexually abused me started with molestation when I got old enough literally turned me into his mistress he didn't force me physically but he forced me with fear and there's so many terrible things and a couple things really that I've never even told anybody they just would be hard for me to even say and my mom knew what he was doing to me she caught him I told her and she didn't have the courage to deal with it and so naturally I just wanted to get away from him and stay away from them I did the thing you know I'd send them a little something on Christmas or I'd go to the house for 45 minutes and make some excuse to get out of there and a little birthday gift and they lived about 300 miles away from St Louis and I was just glad well as they got older and weren't able to take care of themselves there weren't any real good doctors in the area where they were at and they didn't have any money and I was praying one morning you got to be careful when you pray because God's liable to tell you to do something you don't want to do and I all of a sudden it came to my heart that I should move them to St Louis and buy them a house I rebuked that in Jesus name I said that is the devil buy them a house and take care of them until they die you know the first thing that that I well first I didn't think it was God but then it kept coming back to me and coming back and coming back and you know that stuff that just won't go away you might as well just go ahead and do what God wants because he is not going to shut up until you do and man I didn't want to do that well I did not want to do that I didn't want to give them it was going to take money to buy a house David and I didn't have that much money and so one of the first things I said is why should I do that they never did anything for me and you know God didn't cut me any slack he said you're breathing aren't you they fed you they sent you to school they put clothes on your back and a roof over your head well you know God wants us to find something good about somebody no matter how much bad there is and the Bible tells us if we don't take care of our relatives who are worse than an unbeliever and he doesn't say do it if they're nice or if they've been good to you just says do it well you so I thought I'm going to go ask Dave and he's going to tell me there's no way he's going to spend a little money we got buying them a house and Dave said well if God told you do it you better do it well thank you long story short we bought him a house we bought him a car we paid somebody to cut their grass we made sure they had groceries every week you know all the stuff it takes to live and of course they just we got longevity in my bloodline [Laughter] and [Applause] I kept thinking this has got to be over soon and nope they make it another year and well I'm just telling you the truth and uh so three years my father was still just as mean as a snake and no thank you no nothing and then one morning my mother called and said your dad's been crying for a week and he wants to know if you'll come over so I went over and now he's 80 years old 80. and he apologized to me finally and I asked him I said daddy would you like to be saved and so we prayed with him prayed the Prayer of Salvation with him and he asked us if we would baptize him and and I don't I hope this doesn't come across sounding wrong but I thought I was buying a house but I bought a soul amen and here's what I want you to understand I didn't even realize what an effect that was going to have on me and what I was going to learn out of that but I know that what I'm trying to tell you tonight is real and my father hurt me because he'd been hurt he had a lot of really warped ideas about sex and I think he put those ideas off on my mother and there was just a lot of weirdness in my family and I felt like I ended up taking care of all of them my brother my mother my father and my widowed aunt and at one time we were paying for my mom my dad and my aunt all to be in nursing home care and it I mean it was expensive for a while they lived in their house and then when they got too old we we put them in an assisted living apartment and then they went from there to the nursing home and what I'm going to tell you is the absolute truth for years I went every other week to that nursing home and visited them now listen to me there was not one time that I went that I wanted to go not one but I knew it was the right thing to do now somebody please get what I'm trying to say we got to come up higher and we got to do what's right because it's right not because we want to or it feels good this Agape kind of love you don't necessarily have the warm and fuzzies but you see it pleases me to know that my father is in heaven looking down tonight saying go get them girl amen so that's that story and I know from that this same thing works with everybody now Romans 12 20 says but if your enemy is hungry feed him if he's thirsty give him something to drink for if you do this you'll keep burning coals upon his head and we think yeah I like those burning coals [Applause] pour it on God well wait a minute let me tell you what those are footnote in the Amplified Bible under Proverbs 25 21 it says this is not to be understood as a revengeful act intended to embarrass your enemy but just the opposite it gives the picture of the high priest who on the day of atonement took a censor and filled it with burning coals of fire and put the hot Co put it on the hot coals and this incense produced a sweet smell every time we walk in love it's like this sweet smell goes up before God and The Cloud of smoke from the incense covered The Mercy Seat and became acceptable to God for atonement so yeah when you when when you love somebody that doesn't deserve it it's like keeping burning coals of fire on their head but you know what those burning coals do they melt those hard nasty mean hearts come on all right Colossians 3. clothe yourselves as God's Own chosen ones his own picked Representatives who are purified and holy and well beloved by God himself by putting on Behavior you ever think of that we put on Behavior you can put off Behavior you can put on Behavior marked by tenderhearted pity Mercy kind feelings a lowly opinion of yourselves gentle ways and patience which is tireless and long-suffering has the power to endure whatever comes with good temper verse 14 says and above all that you put on put on love now I don't know about you but when I'm getting dressed in the morning if I put on something I go and look at myself in the mirror some people I look at them and I think surely you did not look in the mirror before you left today [Applause] I'm like whoa always look at yourself in the mirror before you leave and if you look at yourself and it don't look right you'll take it off and try something else Penny told me tonight she put on four different things well I put this on and then I put on something else and I put on something else and I put this back on and so there are there are clothes that look good on us and clothes that don't and we are clothed spiritually as well as physically say and in the spirit world God and the devil see our spiritual clothes and in Revelation 16 15 and 17 it says behold I'm going to come like a thief it's Jesus saying I'm going to come quickly sneak up you're not going to be expecting me blessed happy and to be envied as he who stays awake and guards his clothes so that he may not be naked and have the shame of being seen exposed now that doesn't mean to sit in your closet with a shotgun and guard your clothes he's talking about be careful about the kind of behavior that you have because that's all the world can see is how we behave and I'll just tell you right now do not put a bumper sticker on your car if you're not going to behave like a Christian don't do it I am tired of people disrespecting the church and disrespecting Christians but in a way I understand why they feel about us the way that they do because there's so many phonies amen and I'm not playing games I'm either going to do this right or not do it amen so I had to make me these things and you know there's certain things that just don't look good on us I'm going to try this one on and see what I think [Applause] anger yeah nah that don't look good on them I'll have to try something else here let's see um oh how about this one I don't think this color looks good on me but maybe I could get by with it we'll see let's see ooh Envy well that don't look very good on me either does it I'll hang them up later oh how about this one woohoo wow by the way that's going to be my next book I'm going to write it what about me uh well we're gonna get on this one tomorrow afternoon that don't look good either man do I have anything in this closet that's going to look right let's try this one tried everything else see if this one works ah finally right now I'm ready to go for the day amen and what you got to do is you got to take time in the morning you know what if we took half of the time getting dressed spiritually I don't know about you but I don't look like this when I get up [Applause] I mean I've already got a plan I'll get up at six in the morning [Music] I'll pray spend some time with God study a little bit I got somebody coming to fix my hair I got somebody coming to do my makeup I've got my outfit picked out and it'll take me a couple hours to get this in order to show up over here looking right well you know what I figured out it takes me longer than that to get dressed spiritually and to look right now it's getting easier all the time but man in the beginning whoo it was hard are you understanding me all right now talk to yourself before you go out every day have a meeting with yourself and talk to yourself and tell yourself now with God's help today I'm gonna I'm gonna behave right I'm going to put on Behavior that's right the Bible says in Ephesians 6 to put on righteousness put on peace put on the helmet of salvation think like a Christian amen lift up the shield of faith will the two-edged sword of the Holy Spirit you know I don't think that clock's doing what it's supposed to it's telling me what time it is and I need to know how long I've been preaching because I'm just liable to go a long time as nobody tells me you guys have always got my clock right what what okay I'll just preach till I'm done man um I don't know maybe God doesn't want us preaching by the clock anyway just that's part of our problem okay we've worshiped 12 and a half minutes now we've got to go into something else who cares if there's a move of God it's time to move on amen I know you guys man Chris Tomlin is going to make you so happy when I'm done beating up on you laughs [Music] love is the most important thing in the world [Applause] now abides faith hope and love and the greatest of these is love will anybody make a commitment to buy everything you can get your hands on about love to find every scripture you can in the Bible about love read every book you can get your hands on about love pray about love ask the Holy Spirit to annoy you no end until you learn how to love people the way God does amen and go out prepared I'll tell you one little quick story and they finally told me what time it is so I'm doing good I got 51 seconds left I can say a lot that length of time my daughter went to the grocery store not too long ago and she was at the checkout she was checking out and she realized that she left her purse in the car and her credit card was in her person so she said I'm I'm gonna have to run to the car I'll be right back and quick the cashier whipped her own credit card out of her pocket I said no I'll take care of this now my daughter also many times has paid for other people's groceries when they've looked like they needed help or they came up short but the thing that I loved about that story is that girl had that card in her pocket she went to work that day prepared say I love that and that's what we need to do we need to go prepared we need to go out of our house looking for people while you're at this conference don't just hang out with your two buddies look for somebody by themselves you think it'd be easy to come to something like this by yourself and there's so many people that did I saw people last night walking by themselves going back to their hotels I respect that you're hungry for more of God and if you couldn't find somebody to come with you you're coming anyway amen let's get prepared ahead of time well you spend at least five minutes in the morning getting dressed spiritually and start praying about this thing God I want to walk in love oh I got man I've still got so far to go every time I preach on this I realize I'm still in kindergarten and I've got so far to go but I hope and pray that you'll remember that love is not just a feeling it can produce feelings but it's not just a feeling and you don't have to feel right to do what's right amen and the people that need to be loved the most that are desperate for love normally act in a way that makes it hard to love them amen I'm going to pray father I know if I said right now everybody who's going to commit to walking in more love stand up everybody get up so I'm not even going to bother doing it but I pray that by your grace and mercy that people heard me not just with ears on their head but the ones in their spirit and that they'll understand there's nothing more important than learning how to walk in love with everybody not just the people we like I thank you Lord for changing us I thank you for the people that love me the people that love me unconditionally and I just want us all to walk in love amen amen come on give God a praise

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Length: 71min 49sec (4309 seconds)

Published: Sun Jun 18 2023