Long Suffering Love The Key To Lasting Relationships

I want to talk to you tonight about something that the Bible talks about quite often but I don't know that we really understand up on the screen for me first Corinthians chapter 13 verse 1 we hear a lot of messages about love but tonight I want to talk to you about long-suffering love long-suffering love the problem is when people say to me all the time pastor I preach awareness that was a life-changing word and so my question to the people is a life-changing word but is your life changing it's not a life changing word of your life ain't changing and so and so what I'm what I'm what I want to talk about tonight is something that I want you to put into practice absolutely immediately I believe by the Spirit of God and I say this because I was up from 3 o'clock this morning I was awakened to this and it had been in my heart but the Lord gave me just a crystal clarity of it is it in first Corinthians 13 verse 1 Paul said if I could if I could speak with all the languages of the earth of Earth and of angels but didn't love others I would only be in noisy gong or a clanging cymbal now when we were love is still thrown around I've given you the Greek of love and some Hebrew about love I'm not gonna do it tonight but I want to I want to point some things out to you because there are a couple things that that are in the air when we talk about love number one is God loves you when I tell you that how much God loves you many people having a point of reference for love you don't you don't know what love does you don't know how it looks in real life because many of us have never been really loved for example every time you've ever messed up in life someone made sure that you paid for it many people learned how to lie and to fabricate and to hide because the truth is more expensive to them than a lie they will risk a lie before they reach the truth because they've never experienced love and we are very very careful many of us not not to or trust ourselves to people because we know how people are you got it so we try to pretend to be what we think they would accept because we won't risk them accepting us as we really are now you could talk back to me not dare you out there I can see you okay now look I want to show you this appalled says he's setting up in first Corinthians 13 he's taught me 1 over the gifts of the Spirit 1st Corinthians 12 and now in first Corinthians 13 he's setting up this thing that you don't understand and you have to understand it's tough to walk with God because that's what Jesus said jesus said mom he said I need you to keep yourself in my love that's where the power is if you live if you live a love life he said powers there as a matter of fact you find the will of God for your life when you live the love life because you're not always trying to protect yourself and many times when God is transitioning you he takes you through the valley of the shadow of death if you don't understand his love you won't trust him to go as dark so his paul says he says now he starts to talk about love and he sees i'm making it personal but i want you to follow this with me in verse 2 he says if i if i had the gift of prophecy if i understood all the all of God's secrets give me King James I want I want what I understood there you go and though I have the gift of prophecy and understand all mysteries and all knowledge and though I have all faith so that I could remove mountains and have not this word charity is the word love it's actually the Latin word for affection he said I am nothing look at verse 3 he said though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor now look what he's talking about he's I could give away all my stuff to feed the poor and I could give my body to be burned on behalf of my faith and if I have not loved he said it all that profits me nothing when we read this it sounds really good pull up in a poetic setting but what is he saying he's saying that you could do all the right things in life and not walk in love not live a love life and he says you won't benefit you won't receive the reward you're supposed to get love it's a very it's vertical first but the thing about this vertical love is it doesn't go up it comes down you got it and as soon as it touches your life it's supposed to go horizontal the problem is we don't understand it because we're so protective of ourselves and love is really a wide-open life where people can do anything they want to tell you without you protecting yourself that's what he asked us to do i'ma show you why it works it's the one thing that's missing from your life and you have you have experience being on the business end of being cut off being thrown away by people that you thought loved you and you said well I thought they loved me they did but this there's a part of love that they didn't understand here's what it says in verse 4 put verse 4 for me um it says charity charity suffereth long give me new living translation read that out loud what does it say love is okay give me any other translation I want to roll through this let's see what they say really read this one tonight I don't want to teach you I could teach you from the whole thing and we can just go through it like we always do I want to take these first three words of verse 4 that's what we're teaching from say those three words out loud having our everybody together now really slow that aspect of love is the part of love we don't understand so I want to talk to you tonight about the love that suffers long long suffering love long suffering love I'm the Holy Spirit according to Galatians 5 and 2 and I want y'all to flow with me back in the booth I'm gonna tell you where I am and just put it up there real quick Galatians 5:22 real quickly I want to show you this it says but the Holy Spirit produces this kind of food in our lives you see this right here now give me King James I want to show you because it's important you said what this but the fruit of the Spirit is what and and it what's the next one now here's what I want you to understand about this the Bible says the fruit of the Spirit is love and he says it goes down the fruit of the Spirit is long-suffering let me explain to you what fruit is okay when the Bible talks about fruit but it's speaking of is something that's produced in you I has a better word if you're taking notes um fruit fruit is dealing with the results of something it says the result of the Holy Spirit in your life is this ability to love with long-suffering here's another word the reward the reward of the spirit in your life is to be able to love people with long suffering now what you mean by reward I want to show you something go back to Galatians 5 and 16 let me show you this it says so let's I say let the Holy Spirit guide your lives then you won't be doing with your sinful nature that nature craves now when we see this we think of lust and we think of going after different things and doing things wrong but in this case the sinful nature is the flesh everybody say it's the flesh that's that's the old you and what he's saying is if the Holy Spirit Guides my life in the context that we're speaking about we won't be so quick to cut people off you got it now you say pastor wait a minute so some people could just do me anything they want to they're different rules that play into this but I want to start in the ground floor and build a house and show you what this looks like because until you understand long-suffering love you don't understand God's love for you and what happens to you is when you get things wrong you revert back to the law the Bible says that the strength of sin is the law what it means is whenever I get into rule keeping the moment I default back to I did something wrong so i'ma try to do better I lose what Christ did for me everything that he died for goes out the window and I'm back to working for myself but the difficult thing is whenever we messed up it's a natural knee-jerk response to try to work our way back correct even even when we mess up with people we're trying to do two things to get back in their good graces but that's not the way this thing is set up okay so now I'm going to show you a couple things but let's start here so so long-suffering love is patience - it's difficult disobedience and disobedient rather than struggling people it is as a fruit we said of the Spirit as opposed to the a legalistic relationship okay it's something produced in you it's not something you do and here's the challenge with love is that you think that when the Bible tells you to love one another you think God is saying I need you to conjure up this love and feel good not what he's saying he's saying yield yourself to me and what will happen is I would love people through you as long as you're not putting up defenses as long as your mind doesn't go to work thinking what I can just do me one guy says nod and I just need you to be available and I will I would produce some things in you that will turn the tide helping you yet all right so I want to show you this um look at Galatians 5:16 so I say let the Holy Spirit guide your lives let the Holy Spirit guide your lives and the reward of letting the Holy Spirit guide your life is that he produces his fruit in you and one of the fully produces in you is this thing we're talking about called long-suffering love it is the key to lasting relationships if you have any friends there are real friends that you've known over a decade you have at one time or another had to forgive and put your hand up you've ever had to make you forgive a friend how many of you put your hand on I want to see this real quick me you had a friend that that um you have to count you felt you have to let him go put your interview I can do it no more okay good now how many of you be honest at some point regretted that decision or thought man I saw mister person put the hand up okay let me ask you again how many of you have ever cut off a friend and thought you said man I really miss blank because we always did blank together good now let me show you something about that here's what you missed about friendship you need to quit calling folk friend because once you say a person is your friend the Bible says a friend loveth at that means in every single season as matter of fact how we become friends it's too difficult times and I want to say as I said it before best friends aren't chosen they made you how we become best friends is when we go through hell together if you have never cussed each other out and you may not use for fancy but you're never totally talk if you never hung up on a person if you never swore to get off you temper I don't appreciate that if you never had one appreciate statements but you you're not friends what you are are people who are hiding yourselves from one another for whatever benefit you think you can get from the person I'm all on your face like I'm just starting let me get back up here am i helping you yet okay so watch us now so if we go down to go to Romans chapter 8 verse 3 I want to get my flow going because I have to do this it says the law of Moses watches now was unable to save us because of what because of what and that class I need you out loud because of what the weakness of our sinful nature here's what the Bible says that God's God had to get rid of the law not because anything was wrong with the law but something was wrong with us the law is perfect but we aren't who never would be the law straightening with crooked so God brought in a different system he says so God did what the law could not do he sent his own son in the body why she's what it says now like bodies we sinners have and in that body which body the body of Jesus God declared an end to sins what control over us now everybody said is that like say in the body of Jesus God declared an end to sins control control over me do you know what you just said what you just said is is that you believe that were when God judged us in in Jesus he declared that sins control over the believers over but it says now watch this now he declared it in the sense control over us by giving his son as a sacrifice for our sins next verse and it says this he did this so that the just requirements of the law will be fully satisfied for us Jesus did it for us who no longer follow our sinful nature but instead follow what so here's the thing he said if my life is guided by the spirit he would there be results in my life that thinks he wants to do he said pastor I've been with a lot a long time I don't see any fluid of the Spirit I'm gonna tell you why your mind is in the way your mind is still processing all values in your new life and there's so many things that God want to do but he can't do cuz your mind is in the way you think you don't have enough faith no you got too much mind you're thinking too much this is a reckless life this that the Christian life is a life that is so listen it is literally out of your control the you try to manipulate and control it and you start you try lining stuff up you can always going to look at at the beginning and it's gonna be devastating at the end you got it what God needs from us what he needs from us is us to trust him and in this era right he have long-suffering love I believe that many of us have burned bridges that God built first because we will need them in the future you have friends right now that well former friends that's prospering and you will be partaking in that some of the thing the prosperity that you're experiencing your friends was put to partake of it but you burnt the bridge or they broke the bridge because you don't understand how love works okay and sometimes when i'm mateus right now I'm a minute statement I've been making it the last couple of days I'm reading a book call off and I recommended by dr. Henry cloud is called on change that he changed at heals he made a statement he said he said truth is intended to divide it does what truth does accept it puts a separation or division between what's right and what's wrong on what what's what's what's garden and what's good it puts a separation between what's flesh and what's the spirit but what truth does it gives clear distinction because I tell you the truth doesn't mean I don't love you and watch this and if you're on the wrong side of truth and I said I can't get on that side with you and I'm gonna deal with you after I'm not burned the bridge all I'm saying is I'm not getting on the side with you because it was just now it's like you get on a boat that has a hole in it I'm not getting on the boat with you because it means start out good but you get out there far enough you gonna drown I ain't drowning with you I'm staying on land where truth is it's a you sir I just love this my friend I'm rolling my friend right I died here's my question where we right into it why we got to die I don't mind being there for you but I just need I have question everybody I have questions yeah what we're at into why we got to die is there another way all right now look at this so this is gonna help you also go to hell now I want to skip over some things let me define real quickly for you these three categories of people we said that long-suffering love is patient - it's difficult disobedient or struggling people I want to show you the distinction between the three disobedient people of people who are stubborn and strong-willed but they are members of gods family and what it means is that they want to do their only thing they think they got to figure it out and they're trying to live a spirit-filled life in the flesh they disobey that they're gonna do what they want to do and God doesn't run away they're being dealt with by the holy spirit difficult people are those watches now who for whatever reason they're having a hard time so they always give you a hard time whatever they go into a community that is seen that they create unrest and dysfunction that's is because it's not because they they want to give you a hard time is that something on the inside is a little off-kilter they traveling with their they're taking their dysfunction with them and recreating it not on purpose but it seemed like everywhere they go and those people they struggle they become very depressed because it seemed like people don't love them but it's just that they just Nick prickly and like a porcupine you know it's hard to hug a cactus right and so this long-suffering love is the kind of love that we employ for those kind of people there's a way to hug a capped a cactus by the way there's a way to pick up a porcupine struggling people are those who are making a determined effort under serpent or under difficult circumstances to be what God wanted to be but the problem is is that it's difficult you got it and so now they struggling now there's a difference between people so I'm just struggling is that if you if you're not making a determined effort on a difficult circumstance are you not struggling you're settling and there's a difference between struggling and settling I struggle with all things aren't either around me or within me are not lined up properly but I'm still trying I'm still trusting God that's struggling settling is when I'm when I'm saying I'm glad this is where I am I'm just gonna sin and get forgive that's settling dust settles people shouldn't okay now so now in in the scripture there are three different types of enough talk eaters before three different types of patience I want to cover quickly take note the first one is from the word the Greek word hypo or Hoopoe means under or arm or sub and so the first word read is that is Hoopoe Meno HUP om e in or Hoople Meno I'm gonna give you all three and then we gonna come back and cover them so the first ones who perma no the second one sounds like the first one but it's different it's Hoopoe mone h o hup or mo and ii look at the first one in the second when Tim was different notice the same letters basically and in a different order did two different words and the third word for patience is the word mackerel flute music it's a compound word macro you know macro means come on it's big or long and thuvia means spirit or breathing our passion is another word for it it's translated in English long-suffering okay let me go to the first one so Hooper Meno is the kind of patience that that has the ability to stay in a place and wait the bus didn't come but I ain't going nowhere i'ma wait for the bus that's Hooper Meno open Meno is the kind of patience where where I can sit in my car and wait for the rain to end before I go inside the building I'll sit out there all day that's Hooper Meno Hooper Monet is different because who Pomona is patience also but it's a different kind of patience and Hooper Meno I said in wait for the rain to be ended two or three finish but in Hooper Monet I go I'm said nothing stops me from getting to the building I will go in the rain I'm gonna snug on the hill sit if they're both patients but one is waiting patient and once it's pushing through patients 1 1 1 is arm is are the kind of patients that we're cousins the waiting kind the other one is the persistent persevering going through the hard part kind come you see that and and and it's good to know which one the Bible is talking about because sometime the Bible will actually translate the word as wait but the word is patients Mecca Thule is different macrosomia is the kind of patients where you understand that the person you're dealing with is not all they're going to become you're dealing with a version of them it's not even developed yet yes and this is good for parents dealing with kids what we tend to do is at the dumbest time of our children's lives we throw them away you're not gonna ever be dumber than you are between 13 and 18 no no no anybody had between 13 18 forgive me viewer I'm sorry but but but good news is this the dumbest you ever be how do you run be a dumb days now I have to warn you there's another time where cycles or run is when you hit midlife when you hit midlife it tries to come back on you you gotta be really you gotta be resilient and you got to tell yourself the truth because when you get around maybe 40 45 you start acting dumb again trying to wear clothes you wouldn't know baby you can't do that no more I don't leave they look okay so watch it there's no judgment get up let it get up off you okay now let me show you this so so Mac assume you listen to this um macrosomia is is the long-suffering it's the frame of mind that makes a person watch it's not for things right is their number one slow to anger say that out loud slow to anger is the case that it puts you in a frame of mind when the Holy Spirit begins to work on this kind of love in you it makes it where you're slow to anger and other people notices it does not make you mad and you go yeah but you know what it's not that deep you find yourself saying philosophical stuff real wise deep stuff they don't mean that and you're wondering like what I read what I would try to wring the neck when the Holy Spirit begins to work on your long-suffering love all of a sudden you don't take things they don't sting as much at first it takes a devil come and suck around your head tell you you won't let them get to you because when they first did you go you gotta laugh at them and you wonder well I remember what I ought to try to punch him out that's the Holy Spirit working on you so it makes you slow to anger number two it makes you slow to draw conclusions that means I'm slow to judge folks number three long-suffering love is the puts me in the frame of mind that makes me where I'm sloped to right other people also number two number one I'm slow to anger number - I'm slow to draw conclusion of the judgement number three I'm slow to write people off and then number four I'm slow to react I'm slow to react which is to retaliate or even sometimes to respond what's the difference between reacting and responding reaction is a retaliation or event a vengeful mindset and responding to what respond there a in Latin means to answer so it makes me where not only am i slow to react but I'm also slow to respond and someone will write you something for example and before all you you know you read it you go what are you typing like you behind your computer like a mad person I don't care but now what happens to you is you really go out you walking around you you pray in tongues you come on you go back to computer you go you know what ever happened to you know listen have you ever God had your phone in your hand and you typed it you look at it there you go uh-huh you throw it on the bed you walk around God you have to help me tongue it come out of tongues if you're not really delivered it you cut a little bit what's just let me show you something no no you you judge yourself God forgive me but here's the thing the fact that you don't respond immediately means the Holy Spirit is working on your long-suffering love and it's critical to your relationships because I'm telling you right now how many you married put your hand up I'm you still waiting to get my agenda up how you don't care about getting married put your hand up let me help you out if you are thinking about you and we're gonna do this tonight we're gonna be serious in Jesus name we can we say okay if you are thinking about getting married let the Lord work on your long-suffering love because once she is imagine is once you say I do is being like a lock is like being locked in the cage and all the married peoples okay sometimes I got a good good husband it I'm gonna say whether you're good or bad it doesn't make a difference marriage is good so uh it's all good I'm just saying if your love if your long-suffering love is not developed it's gonna test you all right now I want to show you this and and I want to I think I want I want to spend some time on this tonight our God is a long-suffering God and it's gonna explain to you why it seems like sometimes God takes a long time to answer your prayers and someone ever done something to you are you waiting on God to just kind of settle the score and it seemed like he never did anything about it I'm gonna tell you something that you need to know make a note of this God prefers mercy to judgment and if and if you go to it lest you get offended with God I want you to understand something if given the option and he has the option because he's God he will choose long-suffering love over judgment every time okay now I want to show you something promise me Revelation chapter 1 verse 15 and this is interesting um go back to give me two verses back go to verse 13 so John is on out of tackles he's in the spirit on the Lord's that he's having a vision and the Bible says go to verse 12 I'm trying to find a jumping-off place he said um he was in the spirit on the Lord's Day verse 12 if you don't mind um he said when I turned he said I heard a voice behind me now let everybody look at me for a minute so the way the tabernacle is set up you I've done this before you before you come in the gate and you're out of court everything that I record is made out of bronze everybody say bronze because bronze that bronze is the middle of humanity but in Scripture it represents the judgment so everything in the outer Court where the sacrifices are done on the it's a brazen altar the bronze altar and then you come up that the Laver is bronze but once you go into the door you're into a different part of the tabernacle on the combination is is would mix with some gold and so to your right you have the arm the table of showbread to your left you have the golden candlestick in front of you have the arm there are altar of incense and that that is the inner the inner arm sanctuary of the inner court the outer court on the holy place or in the sanctuary and then inside the veil is the Holy of Holies that's the Old Testament Tabernacle so the Bible says John in the vision he said he heard behind me he's in the Holy of Holies he said but I heard behind me speak he said when I said someone's talking and when I try to see who the speaker who's speaking to me I saw what so in the tabernacle where is he now he said he's in the holy place because remember to this side is the showbread to this side is the golden lampstand in front of him is altar of incense he said I looked behind me for us before God God's throne the most holy place and I heard a voice behind me when I looked behind in the holy place he said heard this voice and when I looked there was a man standing there next verse he said standing in the middle of the lampstand was someone like the Son of Man he was wearing watch this a long robe with a gold sash across his chest and the way that worked back then is the higher you wore the sash this is the higher rank you had his head and his hair were white like wool which represents on age and wisdom and just seniority and his eyes were like like flames of fire on a gaze that could not be resisted he could see through anything anything even darkness his feet not watches now his feet were like what now what I've picked the NIV because I want to show you something flip the NIV it says his feet were like bronze glowing in a furnace it was just now sorry so when you read my read as he read the King James the King James makes it seem like his feet were just shining polished brass but that's not what the original language said this is closer that's why I picked it he said when I looked at his feet something stuck out at me it was like his feet were like bronze alone is that it was it looked like it was it just come out the fire now if you know anything about metal and and and metal works when you want to shape metal you put it in fire and when you take it out it's very pliable you could bend it you could you could shape it you could make design out of it we said when I saw the man standing behind his feet was just now warlike bronze is that a coincidence no because also scripture when the Bible talks about the judgment of God it's always like he stomps out Rebell he stomps out so did the feet of Jesus represents judgment but what he saw was a couple of things I want to point out to you number one it wasn't like it was it was set it was still pliable which means which means watches now and then when you look at the word of the before for this arm for that refers to the middle it's a straight word it's part of the word means means bronze metal but the other part means frankincense and what it points to is this now this is crazy um frankincense is the fragrance of mercy stay with me because I want to show you something have you ever picked up anything made out of brass is it heavy so I can imagine this imagine of all the metals that he's the Lord he didn't have to have bronze on him but the feet which represents judgment watch this now him treading out the wrath of God that's what about say he does with his feet it's made out of bronze which also represents judgment but not set of all hardened bronze it was still pliable which means watches now two things if he's feeling made out of bronze he can't just walk fast I get to pick his feet up and walk so he's going to judge the situation but he can't he's not going fast because it's heavy watch this and and and he if the situation is that far where he's taking his time he's taking his time and it sits on the judgment is not set so repentance happens it repentance happens he's willing because it's still pliable he's willing to amend what he was going to do now I'm assure you there's not what I just showed you it's just a depiction this is every picture in the Bible has every image or the imagery in the Bible has an interpretation of it I just showed you what that's about the feet of Jesus represents him going to judgment to shred out the wrath of God something you need to understand and about this is that the Lord takes the decision to bring judgment in a situation very very seriously and so his long-suffering moves slowly to judgment and what he's doing this is that he's giving time to what repent put revelation to 2101 shoulder real quickly and this is interesting it says but I have this complaint against you your permitting that woman that Jezebel who calls herself a prophet to lead my servers astray she teaches him to commit sexual sin and to eat food offered to idols now this sexual sin has to do with the King James says fornication in the in the Greek it speaks of allegiances to other religions okay look at verse 21 I gave her what I gave her time to repent but she doesn't want to turn for more immorality this is interesting he says watch this now he said this we called her Jezebel he called the Spirit he called the spear Jezebel but as we said I even gave that spirit of time to repent God is he's a long-suffering garden I want to move from there so what so God loves us with a long-suffering and tolerant heart and the goal of long-suffering is not to excuse and enable the guilty but the purpose is to give space for repentance right now in your life God will not God would never judge you he will never now I want to explain something to you about judgment because I'm going a million miles a minute but I want to get it all out so I want to help you something the Bible says in Scripture I told you Sunday about two judgments but they're really seven in Scripture I might you know that yes said let me see can I remember all the first judgment was God judging the believer on the cross in the body of Jesus Christ the second judgment is the Bema seat of Christ who would judge fireworks I'm missing one already the third judgment is the judgment of nations and the judge know is the believer judging ourselves that's three so far okay the fourth one is the judgment of nations the fifth one is the judgment of Israel the sixth one is a joke how am i up to I did 5 is 6 1 the judgment the judgment of angels I did that one ok so that's it the judgment of angels and the seventh one is a great white throne judgment saying back to me they wrote him down but the first one okay the believers judge in the body of Jesus Christ even like you know the that's the first one the believers since a judge in the body of Jesus that's number one number two is what ok the Bema seat of Christ is the judgment of works vest is that okay that in 1st Corinthians 11 is a judgment of what we call self judgement about says if we judge ourselves we won't be judged with the world what's the next one the judgement of nations and the next person judgment of Israel then the sixth one of the judgment of angels and the seventh one is the judgment of one great white throne judgment 7 you got him no it's not important okay the reason I want to give this to you is because there's the one what's the one judgment on himself judgment which one is that ok as 1st Corinthians 11 is the what happens is when the lord delays his judgment of his people or he delays are chastening because he doesn't judge us as like he judges the world he chastens us he takes things away from us he would come in and shut our world down he would it would to other people look like oh my god God is judging him and all he's doing is chasing us he gives us space and sometimes what people misinterpret is because God is not doing anything about our lifestyle or whatever it is we're into we act like well I guess we're cool no he's giving you space see Jesus is walking towards you and he will stand there and love you and teach you and then at some point he begins to pick up those heavy feet and walk towards you the good part is they fresh out the fire so it's not set in stone if at some point and while he's why he's doing is he's trying every means necessary to get you to make the self correction for you to say man you know it's not he would visit you in dreams he will show you other people going through different things he'll take things little small things away from you he won't you near-miss and show you you need me in your life and if you and watch this now and if you continue to resist him the closer he gets the harder the metal that comes and my time he gets to your plan this metal is hard and when he picks his foot up and puts it on it he crushes the whole plan and it feels like your life is over but it's just your plan is over everybody said we serve a long-suffering god is this too much now I want to show you this so Moses wants to see God I love this story Moses is in this thing that God he says to God he said if you're not gonna come with us don't send us up from this place for how else would people know that we belong to you if you're not with us we need you among us and God says okay I'll go with you and when God acquiescence to Moses respond a request Moses girls he said show me your glory and God says well I'll tell you what he said you can't see me he said yeah actually at least I want to see your face and Gus in the word I'll show you my glory and God calls him up into the mountain and put some in the cleft of the rock but as the Lord passes by Moses he declares himself cuz if he says most of you came to my face he pushed his hand over Moses his face and he declares him 7 here's what he said in Exodus 34 verse 6 it says the Lord passed in front of Moses calling out Yahweh the Lord has we call himself the god of compassion and mercy I'm slow to anger fill with unfailing love and what now let me explain something to you 5 designations God gives Moses and each one of them is a different expression of love he told him nothing else about himself but the different ways he loves his people how many wondered definitions that's what God says he said I lavish unfailing love to a thousand generations I forgive iniquity rebellion and sin he said don't excuse the guilty that this is the airbase in the Old Covenant I'm gonna all come in his word God says I don't excuse the guilty because my brushes now my righteousness my holiness won't let me do it but I figured out a way how to do it here's what guy said I do he says I don't use the guilty he said take the sins that they put lay on animals heads he said I rolled it forward the sins of the parents upon the children and the grandchildren he said the entire families affected even children in the third or fourth generation what is God doing he's rolling the sinful ways he wrote a to what do you think God is rolling into if you seek God in the Old Covenant rolling rolling a ball of sin down through generations where's he going he's gone to the cross he's rolling the sin to the cross and and but he can't just do it it has to because it's in the earth it has to come through generation after generation after generation and you say oh my god got is a generational curse no is what God was trying to get it through the bloodline through the cross because once it made it to Jesus and he took on the body of human flesh once deep listen once that thing hit him then God judge sent in the flesh and when he did that was it that he eradicated since control over you sin it's present in your life but it's not powerful the best that sin can do right now to suggest to you it can't make you do it the past I'm addicted you only addicted because your mind is in the way don't get me started hand will tell you when you settle your heart when you set your heart regardless the value what God show you tonight what God wants you to become you'll see how easy it is to walk in love and I'll show you something I want to define these words for you give me King James real fast put verse 6 on the screen um the King James says and the Lord passed by before him and proclaimed the Lord God merciful say those words out loud merciful gracious long-suffering okay so they translate to these words merciful compassionate slow to anger unfailing love and faithfulness let me tell you what they are because I got excited studying this God described himself as the loving God in His mercy watch us now make a note of this he withholds the judgment we deserve and chooses instead instead of giving us judgment he gives us development so the mercy of God when God says I'm a merciful God he says he says I'll never give you what you deserve he said but what I'll do is I hold out until I could grow you up when he calls himself the compassionate garden flip the New Living Translation again please I want to show the flesh on this when he calls himself the god of compassion that he says I'm the God who enters into your struggle with you what's the thing here's what that is saying God says I would look at in my mercy I would withhold judgment commit to helping you develop and if you ask me to everybody said you asked me to Gus if you ask me to our step out of my environment and come into your struggle with you and I won't listen I will show you compassion in the military I was I worked in the personnel office I was a personal sergeant and there's a thing that we did call how many were ever in the military okay you ever heard of a thing called compassionate reassignment what a compassionate reassignment was if you were stationed somewhere and your family was struggling in another part of the world the military would relax their rules shorten your your assignment and and have compassion on you and send you back to your family it's called compassionate reassignment in order to do that though you had to tell us that you had a problem and then what we will do is our personnel office will enter into your struggle with you we said if your flight will do everything for you real sometime we even pay you the extra money to get you home in the compassion of God what God is he enters into your struggle with you and all of a sudden you you're swinging fists of the devil and you realize you are having resolved before what you have a results now why because it's not just you swinging by yourself not God is in there swinging with you the garlic listen don't let the party that your God is so persistent judges know it feels what you're giving people lies in the sin shut up let me just work my business because see you obviously don't know the Lord this is not someone introducing God this is God introducing himself and here's what he said he said number one I'm gonna compassionate God he said I will in turn you struggle with you I'm merciful I'll choose development of a judgment he said I'm slow to anger which means I exercised a long-suffering love he sounds slow to correct but when I do it it's gonna be with love some giving you space to judge yourself and say the thing that I'm doing is not working it's not good for me it's not right the next thing he uses was unfailing love unfailing love is the word has said AHA Saturday and I love this out I could go on all night about this but God says I will show you undeserved favor not only would I not give you what you deserve in judgment he said but I'll give you things that you couldn't earn and every once in a while I'm gonna tell you something so everyone's know why God will do a little thing to show you that he's mindful of you you need to be very very extravagant with your worship you don't have to be you have to cut a fool but something depend on the situation if they call you I just got a thing on I prophesied maybe I only was a year or so ago I gave two prophetic words one was about a legal case that alone was a medical case well the person wrote me I sailed past you know I went in and the doctor just like you said pull up the thing and the cancer was gone praise the Lord okay I'm not a dancer but there's a time when in the doctor says we can't find it to be totally undignified it's proper for you to get up and do cartwheels and spin around his office bounce off it's totally acceptable you see because what happened he gave you a death sentence and got canceled it and when God does that he's what he's doing he's revealing and shown himself to be the God it shows unfailing love okay the last one is faithfulness if you read this in the Hebrew the word it translates his truth and I love this one so the first one merciful he withholds judgment the judgment we deserve and chooses development instead compassion he enters into the struggle with us he slow to anger now he slow to correct or even chasing us give us a chance to get a revelation unfailing love he gives us what we don't deserve the good good things we don't deserve and I love this he refuses to abandon us he refuses to abet he prefers watches now he to repeat I will remain true to you and truthful to you I'll never stop telling you when you're wrong and I'll never stop telling you what you're doing is displeasing to me but I will always be there true to you - that's us to the point where you can trust what I say that's what and he in those five and he five the number of grace he gives five descriptions of himself to Moses when Moses want to see my show me your glory what's the big deal about you and God said the five things about me he said I am the God of perfect love and the thing about it is Martin the love is tailored for whatever situation you find yourself in when you talked about long suffering love though that love is right in the middle because that's the one that holds it together because if he ever gives up and shortens his time concerning you all the other ones make no difference even right now you think God is finished he's not finished with you surpassed you to mr. funny and you don't know what I did listen do you think God you think our God by surprise you think that you freak God out how arrogant of you to think that you are the chief of sinners you think that no one has God God will do a very weekend why can't he do for you what makes you special see we got this a thing this is against what everybody says say this out loud say I'm not special I'm one of God's children what do you does for everyone he has obligated himself to do for me you know you're in special God you understand I do mister you don't understand you know you understand how I've been what I've done you don't hear some stories I went to I went to prison I went to I went to first I gotta say that right I went to a prison they think the Saints would be like a favorite paper he passed or at the prison I was I went to prison right I'm not kidding this a powerful story I went with the prison ministry to the woods I was Eric what does Eric work in ventures I went this is a true story so I went then and I was the guest speaking out you know back that I'm wearing tailors and I I come in and I'm and there's a guy on the platform in this in the worship service playing the fool out of a saxophone then he pulled a saxophone down hit and he was sing and it was time for me to breathe he get a sit on the piano plate he did everything else after service I said man you anointed man and he said think he has a great spirit bottom I said put you in here for man he said oh no I'm not getting I'm in here for murder but he said it with a smile and I said oh I said I said well something accident he said oh no he said no it's a long story so I was a missionary overseas and I wish I walked into a situation and I just killed both of them he just said it what do you so what do you say do you say well that's nice no I said oh really and I'm like and I said I literally said I don't know what to say and here's what he told me he said but when I came to jail it was the best thing that happened to me he says I was a missionary because my parents wanted me to be a missionary he said but I met the Lord when I came to prison and when I tell you I can sense the presence of Jesus Christ on him and he said I killed two people like like you like I dropped to dying I mean he was it was like I was like what you killed but the glory of God what happened he met the God all unfailing love and what it's something and listen and you could sense it when he 20 sang when he played you could sense the presence of God on him and all the prisoners around you asked about him they said oh man that's a good dude okay all right so I want to show you this so go to first Timothy chapter 1 method go to Psalm 86 15 I want to show them something real quick David I believe this is a psalm of David he said but you O Lord and I want to show you something are a guard of what compassion a God of mercy slow to get angry fare with unfailing love the same five things it's a different person saying this he says you're the guard with holds judgment when we deserve it and choose the developers instead you're the guard that enters into the struggle with us you're the guard that shows me long-suffering love you're slow to correct me or slow to judge me you're the God that shows me undeserved favor you give me what I don't deserve and you're the God that refuses to abandon me until you know God like that you when people mess up with you you're gonna burn bridges how can you be so quick to throw people away when God refuses to throw you away now I want to reiterate it did not that I want to be clear if folk wanna they don't want to live in truth and they want to live in a lie I'm not getting on that sinking boat with you you got it but I'm not gonna throw you away if someone comes to me and say you know what man I'm sorry I got it wrong we resume the relationship in our capacity I just can't trust them again but we're lacking but God can trust you so let's talk about you for a minute should God trust you because here's my argument you are fool this is a natural argument if you trust a person that proves himself to be untrustworthy then whatever they do to you you shouldn't be surprised right does the same hold true with God you know what God does he makes adjustments he won't abandon you he just makes adjustments you can't harm him but he would withhold certain things for your protection you can make adjustments to relationships without throwing people away if someone goes off on your phone when they call them on you don't have to always answer as a pastor over the year I don't learn how to deal with difficult people something I just stopped talking to him I'm tell you said you passed you can you do it yes I can here's the thing the purpose of talking is for people to hear if a person is not listening why are you talking so I just stopped talking Peter I think pastor Matt me I'm not mad at you you just get here Jesus said let him that hath ears to hear let him hear if you can't hear I'm not gonna talk we said we're supposed to go to hear you what let's push that's presupposing i'm god's only prophet he told it's all of elijah he said i got seven times that they never bowed their knee God got a lot of people you can use and here's a crazy partner if the ones that understand the Lord will tell the same thing to the person until God gets them right you see how this works you have to throw people away it's especially your children but you always tell them the truth surpasses the truth that makes a man this says sometimes the truth makes you mad before it gets you right a little time left okay we almost done you're good so what I guess what I want to do real quickly um let me show you how much the people of God used to matter fact if I go there before God gets you to the place we can use you he employs long-suffering love on you look at first Timothy chapter 51 verse 15 real fast it says this is a trustworthy saying everyone should accept it Jesus Christ came into the world of safe sinners and Paul said I mean Paul tells Timothy I am the worst of them all what arrogance but because you sound the worst of them all but God had mercy on me so that Christ Jesus could use me as a prime example of his great what now flip them to live I mean first the King James I want to show him something hobbie it for this cause I obtained mercy that in me first Jesus Christ must show forth all what long-suffering for a pattern to them which should be he should he have to believe on him to life everlasting hell Paul said Paul said the reason that God was long-suffering towards me and he showed me such amazing long-suffering love was to show you that this and there's no not just a one-time thing I'd do it for everybody it's my pattern everybody says his pattern um you know one of the one the worst thing that people do is when especially when church leaders failed we throw him away and we rob ourselves of seeing what God does with people after he restores them and they're amazing no um this is Paul's testimony he said he considered him the worst sinner now go down to I got a couple more yogurt okay but the Lord uses long-suffering love as a part of his goodness package to draw sinners or sitting Saints to Him in repentance I want to show you just a couple scriptures and I'm trying to get to a part and for us to close down tonight it says gold would move your mind to Romans two and four there one more two and four here's what it says it says don't you see how wonderfully kind tolerant and patient the word patient is the word microphone your God is with you give me King James it says or despises thou the riches of His goodness and forbearance the word forbearance means to put up with and what long-suffering not knowing that the goodness of God leads to repentance well that's really saying give me amplified let me see could get some amplified knowledge here or are you so blind to trifle with and presume and despise and underestimate the wealth of his kindness look at the word the wealth of his kindness and forbearance and longsuffering patience he said he said God doesn't have a little bit of it he's dead that's it he's full of it he I mean he's he's wealthy with it what would you do if you believe that God is as passionate about you today as when you were a wide-eyed bushy-tailed young person dreaming about a life that you thought will manifest suppose I told you that God that you may be finished but God isn't your nose missing from your life no you hurt you know why you you're disappointed you know I used your drained because there's no love in your life can I get personal the married people live at home like strangers like like roommates most and I'm told I'm not talking unsafe even from a Christian people hardly pray together couples don't hardly pray together don't don't have administer long-suffering to one another what when you argue that you don't even make up you just wait till it wears off and start talking again never even discuss it what would happen if someone took the chance and went to and just started the conversation I'm sorry I lost it with you that's not the love of God what will start to happen to our connections if we start emphasizing the love of God just the five things and then a heart is only five to remember you do you write them down sit him back to me what are they number one is what what's number two okay not you you whispering I won't just say my loud number one is what number two number three slow to anger number four unfailing love number five one day it didn't it hard to remember how many could remember five addresses or five phone numbers you could remember that I remember what it means and begin to emphasize it who would benefit in your life right now what family member what friend will benefit from a phone call from you saying you know what you are my heart although the last time you all talk but I took my by but you reach out to them and tell them I was thinking about you because you have and say this watches you can't get rid of me that easy No I'm not going anywhere no any person well well I still believe I'll you know you you still believe in you still wrong but I'm gonna be here what about what about the other thing you reach out to and say you know what I was wrong I was wrong and not this now if I did anything - no that's not apology what about what about this what about this one I was wrong but you were wrong - no even if they were wrong - they're wrong is that your business when you reestablish the relationship when you building the bridge you build from your end I was wrong say that loud Oh Lord look at somebody look at him look at look at myself I was wrong some of you have never done it in your entire life you've never looked at another human being I've said those words cuz I'm sure do you I was wrong I was wrong no look at them I was wrong watch this now God is doing something in me and I'm committed to this let me show you something I'm gonna cover this next week but it's doing the Bible that blesses me I want to show it to you go to Jonah chapter 4 verse 1 so how many of you know why Jonah did not want to go to Nineveh anybody know okay I'm sure you in the scripture why he didn't go okay when God told Jonah to go to Nineveh uh-uh nope I'm not going because you know Jonah said it's a waste of my time to go here's the Bible says go back to the last verse of the previous chapter when God saw what they had done and how they put a stop to the evil ways watch this he changed his mind and did not carry out the destruction he threatened look at the next verse this change of plans blessed Jonah and Jonah said guard what I say if the bible's of this janitor that you know what I've been through I got thrown overboard any storm swallowed by a freaking fish vomited up on this beach and you would change your mind the change of plans greatly upset Jonah and he became very angry verse 2 it says so he complained to the Lord about it and the Kree said it did not say before I left home that you would do this that is why I ran the Tosh's I knew that you are merciful and I knew your compassionate God slow to get angry fill with a feeler he's listening to very same things he's I knew it he said as we said you are eager to turn back from destroy people and that's a problem with me cuz I want people destroy what I read that I had a like a little laugh break I thought to myself there's a demented prophet I want to show you this someone wrong Jeremiah Jeremiah 15 to 50 people I'm gonna end here I wanna I want to get some time in the presence of Lord Jeremiah was somebody did him wrong and he was praying to God by he says then I said Lord um he says um you you know what's happening to me right in other words you pay attention to this he says please step in and help me he said punish my persecutors he said please give me he's a please give me time don't let me die young it's for the is for your sake that I'm suffering not give me King James I want to show you something he says a lot of that knowest remember me and visit me and and revenge me of my persecutors take me not away in by what here's what he was saying he said God I know how you are your long suffering but he's folk trying to kill me so you can't win he was actually praying as the guy you I know how you are to know your left folk but they tried to kill me so you gotta do something quickly or my die young that's what he's saying this sometimes washes now when you appeal to God to see like he's taking a while has what you say to God this did you tell him I know what you're doing you're being long-suffering to somebody you've been long suffering and I know what you're doing but don't forget about me he loves when you interact with him according to who he is and not who folks he is tonight I want you I pray that you heard and you will continue to hear what is that the Holy Spirit is producing this same kind of love in you long-suffering there are people who have no other friend no other Christian friend would you this on people that don't like themselves and the only hope they have is that you haven't given up on them yet everybody said they say I'm designed by God filled with the Holy Spirit to show love to show compassion to show mercy to be long-suffering to show unfailing love what's the last one and faithfulness faithfulness I would abandon people and this is the will of God for you lift your hands to the Lord tonight did that stick makes you a question how many of you could say pastor you know what some of that love you mentioned and that I need that I need to sense that you need sense that in your life the best way to send something that God promised it's the praising for it and I'm not talking my cutting the food I'm talking literally saying God I thank you and you start listening before him I think you that your God of compassion that you step into my situation with me I think you that your merciful God that you slow to judgment and you commit to development I think you that your slow to anger so I have to worry about you nor being quick to get mad at me remaining mad at me I thank you Lord are you beginning to thank God for all the things that we that we just showed in this in the scriptures and over and over again and as you do it and you pray you could be the sense of presence of God and some of you what is gonna do is it's gonna it's gonna soften your hardened hearts because what you have done you build walls around your heart cuz your life hurts and people have hurt you and the people that you expected to be there burned the bridge with you and they abandoned you and you think that everything and everyone is set up for your demise but God is saying to you tonight I am here and here's God told Paul one time God says he said you preach freely cuz I got people in this city and I'm here to tell you God got people for you everybody said God has people for me now say I'll I said God has people for me say God has friends for me that has a new family for me said God can do anything and I claim tonight from my heavenly father the people fare with mirth and kindness that he has for me I received from God unfailing love the compassion mercy long-suffering faithfulness faithfulness come on he's my dad and I receive it in Jesus name hallelujah

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Published: Wed Apr 25 2018