Keith Moore - What Love Does - Pt.8 (What You Love More)

if it says open with me please to the gospel account of John the thirteenth chapter John 13 believe with me and let's release our faith together these times that we have together or precious will not always do this and different ones of us or you know people are arriving on the planet and departing the planet every day things are changing nothing down here stays the same but things that we do that are ordained of the Lord are eternal Malakai even talks about that the Lord recorded when his people talked to one another about him when something's done in the spirit and by faith it's eternal and I am I know from several different ways that the things that God does down here we will remember and know and it'll touch our life in the life to come eons into the future from now so this is these things bear weight they're very significant what's going on in the church and in the kingdom let's release our faith together father in the name of Jesus we agree together as touching this asking you to speak to us now speak through me Lord and speak directly to us keep me back help me not to say the wrong thing or go the wrong way but we ask for precise utterance strong and all of us to have eyes that see and ears that hear and hearts minds open to receive give us answers direction help you know what exactly what we need for right now and we ask for it we believe we receive it and we so will not be hearers only or forgetful hearers but by your grace and help we'll do it we'll put it into practice and when we do we are certain we'll be blessed because you always watch over your word and perform it in the lives of those who do it in Jesus name Amen amen means so be it so be it everybody said out loud be it unto me according to your word oh lord thank you lord thank you Lord in John 13 we've been on this for some weeks now and our text is the new testament commandment that Jesus gave us in John 13 and we're talking about what love does what love does John 13 and 34 jesus said a new commandment I give to you that you love one another as I have loved you now you might say well how is that a new commandment cuz in the Old Testament he told them to love your neighbor as yourself that's not what he said he said you love one another now one another refers to you fellow Christian your brother your sister in the Lord and you do it not just as yourself you love them the way Christ loves you that requires the new birth and the love of God being shed abroad in your heart by the Holy Spirit said out loud I have this love inside me I can and I do love others as Jesus loves me now if we're not doing it we're disobedient to the New Testament commandment don't argue it with what he said don't say well I don't know that I can well that's Jesus well we all fall short excuses are not the way to go on this you want to go with faith if he says do it you're supposed to say yes sir right and if you tell me to do it then I know you're not unjust if you tell me to do it you know whether I could do it or not so just you telling me to do it if you couldn't do it before he told you to do it after he told you you could because this word is empowerment right and enablement do you believe that saying so he goes on to say by this by you and I loving each other the way he has and does love us all men will know that we are his disciples not by our quoting scriptures not by our denominational doctrine statements not by our baptismal formulas not by speaking in tongues are you listening Saints by this this is how people outside the kingdom will know we're the real deal we are a real child of God because nobody can love this way except children of God look we've already gone over it how are you going to love like Jesus loves you got to be born again and have this love in your heart to love with now with that in mind over in the 14th chapter well let's see go to 15 for now and then we'll backup 15 and 9 Jesus said as the father has loved me so have I loved you continue ye in my love can you see the progression he loved us as the father loved him now we're gonna love others the way he loved us right and if they'll receive that love even if they don't know him and get born again what can happen then they can love somebody else the way we loved them the way Jesus loved us the way the father loved Jesus come on can you see that this love is from the highest place in the universe this love is from the father himself there is nothing greater never will be anything greater than this love that God is and all of a power that has created everything has come out of God who is love and as great as faith is as great as hope is loves the greatest in fact those these others work by it and we've been into this for some time now we've talked about this love that God is that's shed abroad in the hearts of believers by the Holy Spirit is not the OE gooey Valentine card come on over here listen to me people that are quite well I love apple pie and I love my car and I love pizza love has been so contorted and so twisted and so muddy up that most folks don't have much of an idea what it really is and a whole lot of what people call love has got nothing to do with the love of God and we're gonna tap into some more that now but if this is the first time you've been with us in this series we've already covered a lot of ground so take advantage of the materials get you a CD or a DVD go online download it all the previous messages won't cost you a penny and around here we got a sayin no charge means no excuse for not knowing it not having it not getting it you can't say you couldn't afford it well he goes on to say as the father has loved me so have I loved you continue ye in my love if you keep my Commandments you shall abide in my love even as I've kept my father's Commandments and abide in his love now if you love him you will do what he tells you to do if you don't do what he tells you to do then you love something else more than you love him I know folks don't like to hear it nobody's flesh likes to hear it but this is a fact and we need to look at it we need to be reminded of it continuously a lot of folks making the wrong choices is not as innocent as it appears to be in the 14th chapter back up to that you said you're believing with me right for for utterance you want to know the truth hmm what if the truth slaps you a couple of times first huh he because if you'll receive it and do it what will the truth do for you it will make you free it will make you free in John 14 verse 21 Jesus said he that has my Commandments and keeps them he it is that loves me if you do what I say the one who does what I say that's the one who loves me do you believe that it's red letters he that loves me shall be loved of my father you know when it comes to the father you cannot ignore Jesus the Bible says if you don't if you don't have the son you don't have the father either you can't reject the one the father sent and be okay with the father y'all with me Saints he that loves me shall be loved of my father and I will love him and will manifest myself to him well if if he manifests himself to you love is manifested to you he is loved keep going Judas said to him not Judas Iscariot a different Judas Lord how is it that you will manifest yourself to us and not to the world did you know God is not only a God who reveals himself he's also a God who hides himself Isaiah says that other scriptures talk about this you remember that jesus said on more than one occasion that to these it is given and revealed to these it's not given well that's obvious you look around the world there's all kind of people they don't believe there is a God and as far as they're concerned there's no evidence of it no proof of it and then you got folks like us we think God's all there is and that's right huh and we see we see him all over the place right and it's not that you know it's not a matter of intelligence it's a matter of do you love him how can you tell if you love him hmm that was three people how can you tell if you love him or not you'll do what he tells you to now what if you you don't do what he tells you to what does that show it shows that something else is bigger in your life than he is and you love something else more now keep reading jesus answered and said if a man loves me for the second time he says it if a man loves me because he had he asked him how you gonna do this how you going to show yourself to us without showing yourself to everybody he said again if somebody loves me they will keep my words and my father will love him and we will come to him and move in with him glory to God and show ourselves to him right he just got the same manifest yourself to him glory to God make our abode with him now who's going to get that not everybody the one that loves Seng and how do we know who those are folks don't like to add that part they like to say well I love the look with all my heart oh my son love you more than anything I know I hadn't got around and doing what he told me to do but but I love it well no you're kidding yourself you love something else more because if you loved him more you wouldn't be putting it off you'd have done it you me any of us Sayla think about that verse 24 case it wasn't plain enough he that loves me not does what keeps not my sayings and the words you hear is not mine but the fathers which sent me now the thing I want us to get into this evening and you said you're believing with me is what do you love more in talking about what love does we see numerous scriptures that use the comparative what do you love more what do you love most and this these decisions are determining what kind of life we have and our reward in the life to come it's not as complicated as people want to make it out to be sometime as the enemy is always trying to make it out to be it's not about being able to quote all the scriptures and give all the Hebrew and Greek definitions and it's not about crossing every T and not in every I do you love him that's what it's about he's always looking at the heart isn't he he's looking at heart and our choices in life are revealing if we love him or if we love something else more and how many have a desire at least to love him more then as we get get into this we've already prayed let's believe God then he opens this up to us in Matthew 10 go there please Matthew 10 you know people like to play games and people like for everything in church to just be nice and we all love the Lord of course well the truth is a lot of folks don't they don't and the truth is a lot of folks only love him this much other folks love him this much and the ones who love him more are going to see more of him and no more of him and get used in things that other people don't and be aware and be made a part of things that other people or not and it is completely just and fair hmm because they loved him more believed him more followed him further we're willing to sacrifice more more go further and that qualified him I said that qualified them in Matthew the tenth chapter and the 37th verse noticed this Jesus said Matthew 10:37 he that loves father our mother what more than me is not worthy of me he that loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me did you hear the phrase more than it's great to love your mother and father it's great to love your kids your sons and daughters you your grandkids and great-grandkids it's just wonderful but it must be very clear that you love him more are y'all with missings the truth is people are choosing their family above him right and lift you you secret I've had Christians get in my face and go well my family is first I said well God is not there's only one number one spot and if your family is first then what are you teaching your kids you're teaching them not to put God first but to put themselves and their kids first and they'll perpetuate your terrible mistake you've got to demonstrate in front of them times where you put God ahead of him don't listen to the Saints not just my talk but by action they need to see now you need to be there for them but there needs to be times and situations where they see mama and daddy put God ahead of them and ahead of each other they need to see it for else was they're not trained right now with me Saints who do you love more heath jesus said he that loves his father or mother more than me is not worthy of me he's not worthy of me it shows that the heart's not right what the person treasure what we treasure shows what kind of person we are what we value shows our heart where our treasure is it's where our heart is how many believe God should have the undisputed first place above all and that everybody around you should know don't make me pick between him and you because I won't even have to pray about it come owner hell with me I love you but don't make don't tell me I have to pick between him and you don't do that cuz everybody should know yeah I mean if he's Lord and Savior what does that mean Lord somebody say Lord is he your Lord sell a whole lot of folk he's their Savior but he's not their Lord they're counting on him for salvation and missin hell but he does not run their life they run their life so it's an here he brings up the issue of who do you love more and it's a question that we should ask ourselves in go with me the first John please the second chapter hmm stop by Luke on the way excuse me it's on the way Luke 9 y'all said you were believing with me right tell me tell me again why you love the truth it'll set you free if our priorities need to be adjusted don't we know do you want to know it if we need to make some adjustments do you want to know it yeah we don't want to live with blinders on presume that a bunch of stuff and it not be that way and having problems and not realizing why having the door open to the enemy and not realizing why in Luke did you stop by there Luke and the seventh chapter what did I say well let's try 7 no no no both of them is right but I won't nine right now that's what did it to me because they're both on there Luke nine and towards the end of the chapter here look 9 and 59 Jesus said to another follow me now if you love him what will you do hmm struck trying to see if you can hmm start trying to see how that's going to affect the kids and my tenure at my place of work and my retirement and you know Mom and them and come on are you listening well when you go into that mode what is being revealed your priorities and what you love most if we love him most there's no discussion we just begin to tell everybody we're about to follow him hmm well we're having fun tonight are we follow me and he said Lord I let me first go and bury my my dear old daddy what he's talking about is you know when daddy dies when daddy dies I need to I need to take care of that and Jesus said yeah you got to take care of your family I understand that you just called me when you get everything worked out and will hold your spot open to see that's not a lot of people believe but it's not Bible what Jesus say he said there's plenty of dead folks that are not aware of the kingdom of God and don't care there'll be plenty of folks we'll take care of that you need to come to what I told you right now come and preach the kingdom of God and another one said I will follow you but I got to go tell everybody by at my house but I'll do it I'll do it it's gonna cost me everything I know but I I'll do it but let me leave still mom and then body why he said like that because the next verse verse 62 jesus said no man putting his hand to the plow and looking back is he looking back what's he doing regretting what I'm having to leave and what I'm having to give up he said you're not fit for the kingdom we don't need people like that why because it is the greatest privilege in the world to follow him and for him to call you and say come over here I'm gonna use you I'm gonna do that all of us will be gone gone from the planet in a few more breaths come on do you know this and all the little fences you built around your house and all the stuff you did with everybody at the club it's not gonna mean a thing nobody's even gonna know it the greatest thing you ever did for momma NIM and Bubba and Sisson sis in them is to follow God all the way in the beginning it may look like you grow further apart and you're going one way and they're going the other way and you are but in time to come you'll be in a position to help them with your faith come on and with your resources do you believe it's a I've seen over and over again that's several people would fill us enough first left to go into the ministry we left home and we left everything and everybody and and some folks thought we're nuts and wondered about us and and and other folks tried to talk me out of it preachers preachers that I loved and respected one of them came to me and played with me he said that Keith you you feel like you need to be taught me I said yes sir he still wasn't the Holy Ghost the teacher I said yes sir he is he super Keenan why can't he teach you at home why you got to leave everybody why you got to go state's away people you don't know he said we need he said we don't have many young people like you in the church that love God want to serve I need you we need you man it pulled on me and some of the questions he's asking I couldn't answer because is the Holy Ghost the teacher yeah can he teach you here yeah guess so they want you got it I finally had to say I don't know why I just got to go and some of the same people that pulled on me 20 years later everybody say 20 years and I say wasn't fun in some of them early years but 20 years like some of the same people patted me on the back said boy you did the right thing I started to say if I'd listened to you I would now but I didn't but in the process of time the Lord put us in a place where we were able to bless them and have resources to help them and their ministry that we never would have had if we'd have stayed with them and not done what the Lord told us to do but that none of that is the big issue come on somebody tell me what the big issue is who do you love the most right how can you tell who you love the most you do what they say hmm according to Jesus right he said no man haven't put his hand to the plow and looking back looking back remorse regret I left everything I left home Mama's pot roast [Laughter] nothing down here is going to stay the same come on are you listening you can't you cannot be stuck in a time and space and live with a group of people all those people are going to go you're gonna go nothing's gonna stay the same how many think we ought to be finding out what we're supposed to be doing in the kingdom and doing that because precious time is ticking by and in a few more days we're not going to stand in front of the judgment seat among them we're not going to give an account to our kids of what we've done in this life hmm I don't want the Lord looking at me and saying Keith why didn't you do what I told you to do and me and sin well you know this one thought that and this one didn't want us to do that and then you know how this one isn't this one begged and pleaded and I did it just broke my heart and and I do you think he's gonna say oh I understand know it none of its gonna cut it none of us gonna hold water there is no acceptable excuse aren't you glad it's not over you still breathing come on breathe another breath still breathing got some time let's get this thing right before it's too late Saints and don't be led by people don't be led by times don't be led by flesh come on are you listening cuz you can caught up and doing get it and doing stuff just following your flesh following your hurts following the wrong drives and look up and 30 years has passed that you'll never get back come on in out with my sights and what you just proved is you love that more then you did the Lord cuz you left Church you left God and you did that no need say well you know you proved what you loved you picked what you loved don't you think about this Judas Iscariot was with Jesus closer than this for years heard him preach ate with him traveled with him ministered with him saw miracles and in the end he loved money more than he did Jesus even after being around him and hearing him and see that's just a fact he loved money I know the first several years of my ministry I believed that the biggest problem with mankind was ignorance darkness that if people would just hear the gospel and meet Jesus that'd be it and it is a big problem but it is not remotely the whole problem because there are people all over the planet seeing something of him and finding out something about him and still choosing something else and that is determining who is weet and who is chaff come on are you listening who is kept and who is not we've got an opportunity little brief moment down here on this planet to show that we are worthy of being in his family being a part of his eternal kingdom and it's not who's got the biggest head full of knowledge it's who loves him I said it's who loves email who really genuinely when nobody else is watching come on are you listening not based on what they think they're gonna get out of it who really loves him how can you tell who that is they do what he says he says go they go if he says stay they staff he says give they give pray they pray love they love write obey they obey quit it then they quit it start it then they started are you friend here's the command not just because you're scared of him because you love him because you want to please and come on are you set out loud at least my faith my lord I am yours I love you more than anybody or anything including myself you're number one above all I love you most and by your grace I'll prove it what does that mean you'll prove it whatever he says to me that's what we do cause we love him there in that um in John in that 14th chapter the Lord's answering our prayer about utterance you believe it I can tell 14th chapter John verse 28 now when Jesus told them that he was going away it upset them and it shook them and all of them said no no no we're going with you Peter made some really big statements he said if everybody leaves you I won't he was talking about the other disciples too though out though all leave I won't and that was challenged and he failed that test do you remember that Lord told him for the nights over you're gonna deny me three times and he had he argued with the Lord he said no I won't no I won't no never but he did and listen what Jesus says to them and this begins to open our eyes he said verse 28 you have heard how I said to you I go away and I'm coming back to you now when he told them that they're sad they're depressed and most of us don't see anything wrong with that hmm he says if you loved me you'd rejoice said out loud if you love me you'd rejoice are they rejoicing they're sad they're down what does that show they're not thinking about him they're thinking about them which is not the love of God now with Mercedes he said if you love me what would you do you'd quit moping around here you'd could cry you couldn't being said you'd start rejoicing because I told you I'm not just going into oblivion I'm going to the Father and the father is greater than I am so you want to be happy for me I know when my father in the faith Kenneth E Hagin Kenneth Hagin senior went home to be with the Lord a lot of folks were really distraught and and you know I couldn't mourn I couldn't grieve you know I figure five or six decades the service or to do it how long you got to serve I'm thinking about him he's done his tour of duty he obeyed the directive to teach my people faith I'm part of the bunchy talk right if I care about him I got to be happy if I'm if I'm sad it shows I'm not thinking about him I'm thinking about me mr. Willens normal no it's not for a child of God we're not we're supposed to operate on a higher level Saints we're not supposed to be thinking continuously about everything how everything affects moi I'll just be some loneliness I'll dismiss them so much we'll add this how does I need them we'll just forget about you and all that goes away yeah okay yes you can't but that's the wrong answer you said accurately you should say I choose nonsense Oh friend when you choose to live in this God kind of love Sahra has no grip on you depression cannot hold hmm you you won't yield to you won't you won't be fooled by the devil's tricks you'll have victory no matter what he said he said if you loved me you'd rejoiced hmm hallelujah go to first John thanks be to god who gives me the victory gives me the victory gives me the victory thanks be to God gives me the victory through my Lord Jesus Christ glory to God thank you lord first John - you got time for this this evening let help me out now if you get through before I do I'll need to quit it's the truth and of course on the other end of it I need to quit when I get through first John 2 verse 15 was it safe love not the world neither the things that are in the world if any man love the world what the love of the father is not in him she lovingly world replaces loving the father and it's a real thing many have loved the world after having seen something of God and known something of God they still were drawn by the allure of that lifestyle and they loved it more and they left him this has happened many many many many times and it is its deception read the next verse for all of its in the world the lust of the flesh the lust of the eyes the pride of life it's not of the Father loving that is not loving him it's of the world verse 17 and the world is doing what when you're loving that you're loving something you can't keep you're loving something that not not may not last will not last it is soon and very soon gone and over and you're gonna be broken and a shell and heartbroken because what you love is gonna have failed you and gone away and left you the world's passing away and all the stuff that people desire and long for is going away but he that does the will of God now why does he set like that when he's told my love because who is it that loves him the one that does what is the one that does his will is the one that loves him and that one's going to live in his love and God's going to move in with them and manifest himself to them and that's going to go on for ever you'll never be heartbroken cuz you lost him cuz he's not gonna leave you it's not gonna happen oh somebody say thank you lord thank you lord glory be to God what do you love more there are many creep many believers that have loved a lifestyle they've loved a place they've loved ungodly people and the things that they do the atmosphere of a certain kind of a party or promiscuity or drugs now qahal whatever you want to say the power of some kind of a you know feeling of of influence when somebody's scared of you think you carry weight people there are many people who have known something of God became acquainted with him and later on decided I love that more I want that and if you want it you can have it you can leave him he won't leave you but you can leave in you're a fool if you do because that stuff you're loving is going to leave you not mate it's certain to certainty it's a flash in the pan the Bible said Moses he chose to suffer with the people of God rather than the pleasures of sin for a season he knew what matter didn't he he could he could have lived in the palace with everything that any kind of money or stuff could buy but he saw that wasn't worth anything a lot of folks not that wise they grabbed it notice with me in 2nd Timothy 4 2nd Timothy 4 and 7 who do you love more who do you love more don't you want to be able to say this in a few days I have fought a good fight I have finished my course and I have kept the faith whoo I think you're I want you to practice that get ready sit out loud I have fought a good fight I have finished my course I have kept the faith that means you loved him more and you did what he told you to do and you kept doing it year after year and decade after decade and verse eight henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness which the Lord the righteous judge will give me at that day how many know that must be involved with that well done good and faithful servant you've been faithful over a few things be ruler over much enter into the joy of the Lord not me only but unto all them that what love his appearing there are those who dread his coming not us we love his appearing why cuz we love him we love him more than anything anybody so what's better than him showing up can you say Amen notice the very next verse or two here verse nine do your diligence to come shortly to me for demas has forsaken me why having loved this present world now you're telling me that somebody has traveled with Paul and worked with Paul and seen miracles and seeing whole cities turn to God and decide I'm done with this gospel business I'm going to Vegas I'm not slandering Vegas they named themselves Sin City having loved this present world that people were with Jesus what do you think's happening nowadays there are folks that did you know you can get used to anything you can get used to the most amazing anointings and miracles and revelation did you know the children of Israel in the wilderness they got so accustomed to manna falling out of the sky they despised it remember that look man it's men I'm sick of men who end up to here with men it's angels food that falls out of the sky every day you can get used to anything and take there were people that travel with Jesus Jesus and Judas came to the point where he wanted money more than this this life that he had with him Dimas he traveled with Paul and he wanted something else and and the surprising thing is how pitiful of a thing people settle for what glory people give up for the most trivial jock huh a little a little geographic place well that's my old home place it's about to be burnt with fire the whole thing is gonna melt yeah yours and mine nothing down here is gonna survive is that right or not elements are gonna melt with fervent Heat nothing down here is permanent everything down here is like a gallon of milk it's got a date on it and it's gonna go bad huh everything down here and to fall in love with this stuff and a little place and a little lifestyle and a little rabbit trail that you like to run through and say hi to the same people every day and then you got your little routine you know thing and and to not obey God because you want to cling to that shows you are not worthy of it because if you were you would know what an honor it was that he asked you to do it and ask you to be a part of it and you'd say leave that no problem when you want me gone Phyllis and I have done this repeatedly now over and over again so you know leave and leave what you you built and start over and and thank God that wood now we're seeing development of things that work together but uh and in your heart you got to live in a tent like Abraham he says strike it and do this or do that and this is not just for me [Music] heard somebody say no I'm glad not a preacher like he is Hey these were not preacher verses if you love him what will you do I'll go where he sends me I'll stay where he stations me I'll give him whatever he asked for I'll do whatever he directs right and be glad somebody say glad glad glad to do it glad to do it glad to do it go to the gospel count of John I'm thinking about closing but we love him more than a sandwich in the news right so am I right on that I thought I was writing yeah John 21 john 21 who do you love most I've seen people absolutely miss the plan of God over a house wouldn't leave their house over a place over a geographic area where they'd grew up or where they lived for 20 or 40 years I've seen people missed the plan of God oh I've seen people missed the plan of God over not being sure if they could see their grandbabies as much as they wanted to I've seen it absolutely mr. panner God I've seen people missed the plan of God because they wouldn't leave their financial security their tenure or I'm too close to retirement or I'm too this run to that and friend there's a lot more going on in retirement if God don't sustain you you won't need any retirement we're not just telling my making it for a few years quality of life is a very big deal and if we abide in this love he said that's how your joy will be full in John well I'm moving a little too fast go to John 15 that's close by and put up for us on the screen Hebrews well be ready how about that to put up Hebrews I'll tell you the rest of it a minute John 15 we've read this over and over again but Jesus said we started reading we didn't finish it he said verse 10 he if you keep my Commandments you will abide in my love even as I've kept my father's Commandments and abide in his love the love that God is is the most joyous place in the universe there is no place of greater joy than in the manifested love of God I'm talking about God loving you manifesting his love for you to you when you know that he's pleased with you cuz you did you did what he told you to do and he said the ones that love me they'll do that and I will come to them and I'll manifest myself to him when he does I'm telling you the sky is bluer and the grass is greener and you see and hear things through a different filter and this is not just mine did notice what Jesus said you'll abide in his love verse 11 these things I've spoken unto you why that my joy might remain in you and that your joy might be full if you love something more than him to the point that you won't do what he tells you to do you will never be happy with it you might experience temporary pleasures of sin and temporary moments of worldly glory but when that two hours is over you'll go home lonely come on are you listening and broken and it'll get worse and darker the further you go and the older you get did you hear me Saints but when you go his way even though people might mock you and it might look like you sacrificed and gave up what could have been a lucrative career to preach the gospel he could have done this she could yeah and been miserable they could have had a big house they could have made a lot of money yeah and what else they could have blowed their head off in that big mansion because assuming it happens a lot right at least poor people can't imagine that if they got it it would make them happy but see when you got everything and you're still miserable you figured I got nothing to live for oh but when you do what he told you to do cuz you love him and he's with you when you get up he's with you when you lay down his presence is with you and as you're walking out his plan he's revealing to you that he's pleased with you and he loves you it causes a joy to come up in you and over you that you can't find in a bottle or in appeal do you believe it you can't get with a new car a big house it's a joy hallelujah unspeakable and full of glory it's a joy it's a taste of heaviness what it is hmm my joy who is Jesus in heaven yes yeah and he's here by his Spirit but he said my joy is gonna be in you his joy and your joy might be full somebody say glory to God glory to God glory to God whoo we got excited and lost my place where where were you holding huh yeah keep holding it to put up the hebrews hebrews one and nine notice this hebrews 1:9 shows Jesus being the example of what he's just told us to be he said if you'll do what I tell you to you'll abide in the Father's love and my joy will be in you and your joy will be full do you believe he practiced what he told he's telling us to do did he love the father in fact yeah that's that's the scripture I didn't read to you and John that that's one of Paul's just a minute there Thank You Holy Ghost that he said that the world may know this is the end of John 14 that the world may know that I love the father let's go he was headed to the scourging post and to the cross to demonstrate to show everybody I love the father how do we know he loves him he will do what the father tells him to do you remember when he prays in the gardens our Father anything is possible with you you can do anything if it's possible let this cup pass from me what nevertheless I will do what you tell me to do why because I love you the father loved him like that he's loved us like that and we owe it to each other to love each other like that don't you agree and he said you tell my Jesus you've loved what did he love righteousness well that's God and his right ways of doing things and you hated iniquity and as a result what the devil are trying to tell you that if you love God with all of your heart and you don't do what he tells you not to do then you're sinning days are over and your fun is over and you may be a holy sanctified committed Christian but you'll be a grouchy old no fun no party person nothing could be further from the truth he was anointed with the oil of gladness above all his companions everybody that was around him that's why kids loved him because he was a continuous party he was joy joy owned sandals he was he was when he came in it's bad that religion has portrayed this picture did a lot of the pictures and statue you see this long gaunt drawn face and sarra and pain he did experience in our place at the cross not for his whole life and how many know he's not on the cross tonight and he's not in the tomb tonight and he's not sad and he's not down he took it all he paid the price he has joy hallelujah and he gave us this joy to those that love him enough to follow him fully that our joy might be full none of this looking back long it is because I don't love that more than I love this I got both hands on the plow let's do this thing let's go all the way there's nothing better right John 21 now John 21 Jesus has been raised from the dead in this chapter and he's shown himself to his disciples and down about verse fifteen when they had dined jesus said to Simon Peter Simon what did he ask you do you know he is the same yesterday today and forever right so if he asked that question then he had asked it now fasted of Peter he'd ask you to us he said Simon son of Jonas do you love me what what not just do you love me do you love me what more than these why would he say that well we've already talked about this in Matthew 26 and 33 Matthew 26 33 when Jesus told him he was going away and Peter answered him and said though all men shall be offended because of you yet will I never be offended the today's English version says Peter spoke up and said I will never leave you even though all the rest do well whose all the rest that's the rest of the twelve that's everybody around there what's he proclaiming nobody loves you like I do nobody and everybody else may leave you but I never will so now on the other side of this Jesus looks at him and says Peter you love me more than all these fuzzy say how many think it's a different tone this time now let's let's let's stop here I believe Peters a good man I'm looking forward to meeting him great man one of the pillars in the church that helped lay the foundation of the church we should greatly loved him in perspective and I believe when he told Jesus I will die with you I believe he meant it with every fiber of his being and when it all started coming down you know what he did big old lumbering fisherman whips out his blade how many know a fisherman fighting trained soldiers what do you figure is gonna happen next you bout to die right but he figures he's going to get a couple of good ones in on his way he planned to die with Jesus but the ovo friends learn a lesson Jesus said put up your sword put it up basically the things that have been prophesied they got to be fulfilled and I got to take the cup that's been given me and he let them take him and when that happened all of them just they were stupefied they were dumbstruck they thought they'd never imagined this could happen they've seen him walk through the midst of crowds and him trying to kill him they've seen miracles never did they imagine and here's the danger when things don't go the way you thought they would your faith will be tried your love will be tried and when you don't understand what's going on and why that's when people failed big tests and he stood out there and denied that he ever knew him because of fear and because of confusion but friend we can learn from these things and we can make a commitment in our hearts and minds that no matter what happens we know the correct response hmm there'll be there'll be a lot of things you don't understand there'll be things happen you don't know why there'll be things happen you didn't you were sure they weren't gonna go that way and they did go that way things happen you never imagined could happen what's going on down here but in the midst of the worst situations let me tell you how to get through you look up through here darkness you look up through your ignorance you look up through your tears you look up through the symptoms and problems and you say I don't know why but I know this I love you and I'm going nowhere in life in death I love you I believe in you and I'm trusting in you and I will do whatever you say Oh friend a man a woman like that will triumph will be graced will be helped will come out what the devil are trying to do is lie to you and say if God was real if God cared about you look what happened where is he now you prayed you did this where is it now he don't care about you or or this wouldn't happen it's not just about technicalities it's about getting you to doubt his love for you and if you do the only thing you prove is your lack of love for him how many made up your mind you want to be one of God's go-to guys you know you don't know everything you know you don't have all the answers and God might be able to find smarter faster prettier ones but he's not gonna find anybody that loves him anymore come on are y'all listening or not and the eyes of the Lord are searching to and fro throughout the whole earth what's he looking for not the smartest ones huh somebody whose heart it's perfect that means wholehearted complete toward him you love him with all your heart all your soul all your mind all in your strength not because somebody told you to it's your choice and what did he say here Peter do you love me more than these Peter said Lord you know you know I love you so what did Jesus say here's your chance to prove it man this is good news I said this is good news remember Peter has denied the Lord he cried out there and his hearts broke and you might think well boy he's done with you you got no place in this anymore you're the one said you didn't even know him Jesus looks at him and says Peter do you love me more than all these he said Lord I used to think I knew I'm gonna say you know yeah you know exactly if I do and if I don't and how far I do how far I don't thank God for the mercy and kindness of Jesus he says here's you an opportunity bud demonstrate it he knew his heart he knew what he meant to do fail to do feed my lambs 1 if you love him you love what he loves and there's nothing he loves more than his kids his lambs his sheep he said you love me Peter he's doing sitting to him again and again what he keep on saying feed my sheep boy do what I'm telling you I believe Peter did it don't you man he hit the axe - preaching like a house afire then thousands getting saved I believe for the next years and decades as long as he had breath he meant he's going to show the Lord that he does love him by taking care of his kids taking care of his lambs feeding his sheep and aren't you glad you and I still could have some time even if we've come short somewhere in the past we were still breathing God still on the throne we can have we could have days we could have months we can have years right to demonstrate this love stand on your feet everybody

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