"LOVE: The Way To Victory" (Pt. 1/3) | Rev. Kenneth E. Hagin | * (Copyright Protected)

[Music] loving-kindnesses and tender mercies which are ours we thank you for all that you provided for us we thank you for your precious holy written word and as we approach that word tonight we approach it reverently and unbelief we trust the great mighty Holy Spirit whom thy was set to indwell us to live big in us tonight to think to our minds to speak to our lips to unveil the Word of God unto our spirits and we pray for all of us that we shall not just be hearers of the word only but that we'll be doers thereof in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ we pray amen amen praise God you may be seated if you have your Bibles how many of you have your Bibles here in this auditorium and wherever you're watching us hold your mind below amen that's a beautiful sign John Osteen said wave it met the devil man glory to God hey man beautiful beautiful all right open your Bibles to the thirteenth chapter of the Gospel according to st. John the thirteenth chapter of the Gospel according to st. John and we're going to read the 34th and 35th verses of this opening John's Gospel chapter 13 verse 34 and 35 Jesus is speaking he says a new commandment I give unto you that ye love one another as I have loved you that you also love one another by this shall all men know that you're my disciples if you have love one to another now won't you open your Bibles to the First Epistle of John the First Epistle of John 1st John chapter 3 and we want to read the 14 first John First Epistle of John chapter 3 verse 14 we know that's positive isn't it not we think so not maybe so not this is our theory you know a theory is a supposition established upon ignorance of the seventy kind of discussion this is not our theory this is not the way that we have it figured out this is not what we think about it this is what God said about it say it out loud the Bible is God speaking to me now turn to your neighbor and point to them and say the Bible is God speaking to you now part to yourself and say the Bible is God speaking to me a lot of folks won't God to speak to him but they won't listen to what he says and that's the reason you don't say anything else alright we know we know what is it we know John we know that we have passed from death unto life that spiritual death he's talking about we're born again and we pass some death from spiritual death unto eternal life how do we know it how you know you're saying well I've been baptized in water I believe in that but that's not the way you know you're saying well I belong to the church I believe in that we should belong to the church a local group you're born again you're in the church but you should belong to a local group and band together to work for God no we know that we pass of death unto life because we love the Brethren he that loveth not his brother abideth in death that is in spiritual death so on to talk to you about the new law of the new the new law in this scripture here in John's Gospel the thirty thirteenth chapter the 34th and 35th verses Jesus said a new commandment so the new law of the New Covenant you see the new law wants to take the place of the old law or in other words the new commandment is to take the place of the old Ten Commandments Jesus fulfilled the Old Covenant and he established a new covenant in his blood praise God there is no need for the Ten Commandments now for we who are in Christ because you see if you walk in love you're not gonna tell a lie on anybody are you I said are you if you walk in love you're not gonna steal from anybody are you know if you walk in love you're not going to break any commandment that was ever given to curb sin amen now I want you to notice let's go back to the Old Testament and see something that Ezekiel prophesied in Ezekiel the 36th chapter concerning the New Covenant Ezekiel in Ezekiel the 36th chapter and in the 25th through the 29th verses God said then well as sprinkle clean water upon you and ye shall be clean from all of your filthiness and from all your idols will I cleanse you a new heart also will I give you and a new spirit while I put within you and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh and I'll give you a heart of flesh and I will put my spirit within you and cause you to walk in my statutes and ye shall keep my judgments and do them now you'll notice also that Jerry and mine will look at it in a minute Jeremiah you can turn there while I'm talking to the 31st chapter of Jeremiah but let's notice what he said here you'll notice that jeremiah of course as you go on reading the chapter you'll notice that he goes on to say some things to israel and that they should dwell in the land which God gave them or gave to their fathers that they should be God's people he'd be their God and that clearly points to a blessing which is in store for the Jews and we wouldn't only interpret it otherwise but there is however an earlier application here that we just read two of the same to the church the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ what I want you to notice that when we come to the book of Hebrews how do we know it applies to the church well turned over to Hebrews the chapter and you'll find that the writer of the book of Hebrews is quoting this in the eighth chapter of the book of Hebrews you'll notice that he brings out this fact Hebrews the eighth chapter the eighth verse to the tenth verse for finding fault with them talking about the Old Covenant he said behold the days come saith the Lord when I will make a new covenant with Israel with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah not according to the Covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of egypt because they continued not in my covenant and i regarded them not saith the lord for this is the covenant that i will make with the house of israel after those days saith the lord i will put my laws into their mind and write them in their heart and i will be to them a god and they shall be to me a people hallelujah now notice i told you to turn to the 31st chapter of Jeremiah Jeremiah prophesied about the same thing that Ezekiel was prophesied about said these words the third the 31st chapter xxxiii and 34th verses but this shall be the Covenant that I will make with the house of Israel see we just got through reading that him--as quoting it in the book of Hebrews after those days saith the Lord I'll put my law in there in word parts and write it in their hearts and it will be their God and they shall be my people and they shall teach no more every man his neighbor never Amanda's brother send know the Lord for they shall all know me from the least of them under the greatest them saith the Lord for I will forgive their iniquity and I will remember their sin no more now I want you to notice this come back to the book of Hebrews again please that you see he's quoting the right of Hebrews is quoting the Old Testament the Old Covenant an orchard of notice that he said I read the King James translation I will put my laws into their mind now the margin said that the Greek says I'll give my laws until their mind you see he gave us the word and told us that there is a new commandment hallelujah for the New Covenant then he said I now write them in their heart the margin said into their heart now you remember Romans the fifth chapter the fifth verse said that the love of God has been shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost hallelujah so you see in in the Old Testament he wrote the Ten Commandments on tables of stone with his finger the finger of God in the New Testament he wrote the commandment in our hearts because that one commandment fills all of the commandments I said that one commandment fulfills all of the commandments now if you don't think so turn back real briefly to the thirteenth chapter of Romans and we'll find that the Bible says that and then we'll come back to this later but right now we just want to make this observation notice the eighth verse of the 13th chapter of Romans oh no man anything but to love one another for he that loveth another hath fulfilled what what's the next word the law let's go on reading for this thou shalt not commit adultery thou shalt not kill shalt not steal she's quoting the law he's quoting the tender a portion of the ten commands of each I shall not kill myself not steal thou shalt not bear false witness thou shalt not covet I notice and if there be any of the commandment besides these that he's named if there be any other commandment it is briefly comprehended in this saying namely thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself now look at the tenth verse love worketh no ill to his neighbor therefore love is the fulfilling of the law glory to God can you say Amen praise His name forever now come back to the book of Hebrews again we weren't there in the eighth chapter let's look into the tenth chapter of the book of Hebrews for just a moment let's look into the tenth chapter let's begin to read in this tenth chapter with the fifth verse and read down through the seventeenth verse of the tenth chapter of the book of Hebrews wherefore when he cometh into the world he saith sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not but a body and I has thou prepared me in burnt offerings and sacrifices for sins thou has no pleasure then said i lo i come in the volume of the book it's written to me to do thy will O God above when he said sacrifice and offering and Berta offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not neither had us not pleasure therein which are offered by the law then saith he lo I come to do thy will O God he taketh away the first talking about the Old Covenant which includes the ten commandments he taketh away the first that he might establish the second by the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all and every priest endeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices which can never take away sins but this man after he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever sat down on the right hand of God from henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool far about one offering he hath perfected forever them that are sanctified or of the Holy Ghost also is witness to us for after that he had said before this is the Covenant that I will make with them after those days saith the Lord I will put my laws into their hearts and in their minds will I write them and their sins and iniquities well I remember no more hallelujah praise God forevermore now then notice that the law of God - all the laws of God all the commandments of God are fulfilled in the one as Paul said writing to the Romans thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself amen and he that loveth his brother or his neighbor has fulfilled the law he has fulfilled the law and so then in the Old Testament they used the word plural Commandments but they're all we are find from the New Testament fulfilled in the one commandment and it's in our hearts but you see we weren't told and listened to our hearts it was in there all the time but our heads are cluttered up sometimes with religious thinking and our spirits and hearts suffer at the expense of our heads amen that's a reason we need to get into the word and get our minds renewed with the word amen now if we would just listen and if every believer was taught there if you just learned to listen to your heart just learn to listen to your spirit because that law is already in there amen I'll write it in their hearts he said and then he furnishes the me to practice it because the love of God what kind of love what kind of love the love of God has been shared abroad word in our heads no no that's where people get in trouble they go by the heads you know their head will get them in trouble or go by the flesh and the flesh will get him in trouble but when you go by your heart I'm talking about born-again people the love of God has been shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost and he's in there witnessing with our spirits that we are the children of God amen now look at this verse turn to the book of Ephesians the fourth chapter of the book of Ephesians and notice the the last verse of the chapter I want you to see something here Paul is writing to the Church of Ephesus it applies to the church at Tulsa or wherever you were from I like to put it this way the Holy Ghost said through the Apostle Paul and be kind one to another tender-hearted forgiving one another even as God notice that forgiving one another even as God forgives in other words now why can we forgive like God forgives because the same kind of love that God is remember the Bible said God is love the same kind of love that God is is shed abroad in our hearts that means our spirits the inner man by the Holy Ghost I can remember when I was born again nineteen hundred and thirty-three and I knew there's a change on the inside and there's a change on the inside of everyone when you were born again but I was on the bed of sickness then for 16 months before I was healed and then I was raised up and healed by the power God but my mind certainly wasn't renewed with the word I knew something about the word because I fed on it constantly but you see before I had gotten saved there on the bed of sickness and have become bed fast you know we were raised up our home was broken and I just had a chip on my shoulder so to speak now I'm old his brother dub who was here he was always bigger than me he grew up real fast I was real little to my age and actually when I was 12 years old I was still just real little small and and he used to tease me we had a fella in our town by the name of Beecher ball and beat your ball he ran around town with a big cowboy hat on the cowboy suit on and a leather champ you know those chaps away a lot leather chap and then gun belt around him and a gun on his hip and all of the regalia that he had on he waged 79 pounds so you know understand you understand he was a and so dub used to he knew exactly how to get me mad he'd say you're you'll never well he said put it this way he send up your time you get to be 12 he said you'll either turn into a girl or you'll never be into bigger than beat your ball and I meantime he got that out of his mouth he's all running because he knew I couldn't fight him with my fists I didn't wasn't that strong but he knew I'd hit it with whatever I could find and one time I did hit him in the head with the hammer and he's been addled ever since then I did I hit him in the head in ham but knocked him out I mean I throwed that hammer boy did he well anyway now he could the point I want to make that just throw that in next but the potent wonder hard to make is he was big enough to take care of himself but I wasn't I couldn't find because I'd give out and so I'd just make a mental note you know very subtle about slip up behind somebody knock him in the head then when they wasn't looking you see because when you go up and away you know I you come from broken home you're just you know and and and a lot of things have happened that you're just really mad at the whole world I didn't understand exactly how a lot of folks are nowadays but the only cure is to get the love of God in them well then if any of the kinfolks did something wrong well I didn't slip up behind him lock him in the head but I would just make a mental note of it and when I come off of my list I never speak to him again I mean they may be in the same room where I'm but I did ignore or if I see him walking down the street I may just talk across the street in the middle of the Bronx for meeting them or when they come by just turning my back on him and look in the store window see but now then I'm born again and I really didn't know I knew there's a change inside me but I didn't know I hadn't written that verse yet if I had it hadn't registered on me that the love of God shed abroad in my spirit in my heart by the Holy Ghost and so I'm just simply a someone with kinfolk did me wrong and I just said to myself see my mind not renewed with the word and that's what gets people in trouble I said well I'll give him the old treat just marking off malleus won't speak to him again longest day I live but a few days later I saw them coming down the street I was uptown I saw them coming toward to me now the thought flashed in my mind to give him the old treatment I started to cross the street in the middle of the block key for meeting them I thought about turning my back on him but something in here rose up no one told me to do it but I just did it automatic the Bible says in 2nd Corinthians 5:14 the love of christ constraineth us that love of christ is the love of god that's in it does what constrains us something inside me constrain me and I listen to it and instead of turning my back on them and in stood the cross of the street in the middle of the block I went to meet them reach my hand out to shake hands with them didn't take their hand and shake hands with him and said to them I want you to know that I love you I'm speaking out of my heart not my head my head going to knock him in the head I'm not talking about the flesh Paul said I keep under my body now some people think that just refers to sexual sins well of course it refers to sexual sins but that means other sins too I keep under my body that means you keep your tongue I mean you don't go talking about somebody and finding fault with people and peddling slander no sir not tend to get me in that tone of voice Amen I'm telling you the truth amen and that means you keep the flesh under because in your body you've still got that old nature that ol Adamic nature in your flesh your spirits anew but your flesh was head won't see you hit me I'll hit you you spit on me and I'll spit on you I won't let you get by with that and that's where carnal Christians are you see but we need to let the love of God constrain us and so I said to this this relative I want you to know that I love him I want you to know that I'm praying for you I want you to know that it would help you in it I just get out on my knees right here on the sidewalk see right down the main can't mean part down I just get on the knees here and kiss your feet and you know when I said that to that person they started crying and knelt down grab my hands they don't head and said pray for me I mean one on the street said pray for my god and Ken I need it well they did amen praise God love never fails love never fails I said love never fails you'll see that we'll get to it eventually in a thirteenth chapter first Corinthians you remember love never fails it's always victorious amen and that loves been a shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost I remember when dub had just gotten to the Lord and he was just a baby Christian he had advanced to far since then but I remember that we were there in Dallas holding a meeting and and I always took care of my mother's business and I'm preaching trying today teaching the morning preacher tonight and so he said well I'm going up there and I'm tend to it for you you won't have to go so he went up to McKenna 32 miles north of Dallas and got into it and I liked to God whip I mean they say if he had to change some he would have whipped somebody because they really got on him but he said well I'll tell you one thing you better be glad I'm not like I was because I'd already have you whip and they'd threaten the whipping but said if you do get on me I'm gonna do my best to get you off um and you just better pray that I won't hurt you in doing it so he come back and I said well did you tend to the business no I didn't get it tended to I said well I will you better not go up there man that'll they'll get you I said no they won't and so I went up the day or two well I got there my grandpa was right about ninety and right at the point of death and they're already a squabbling some of them over about who's going to get what and some of them always felt like because I went to live with my grandparents on my mother's side when I was 9 years old my grandmother always called me her boy and some of the rest said was afraid I'm going to put in for a child's part of the estate you see and and so uh I remember my aunt live right next door ain't by marriage so she called me out and I'll tell you she's just a rantin and everything and she said this and that all right you know how you cut I couldn't even repeat what she said publicly I mean she's a rantin and Ravin just going on and I never said a word never said a word never even looked on the mouth I just on the inside of me said thank God the love of God's in me in me is bigger than the hatred that's in her hallelujah and I so she's just a rant in the ring just to going on I'll tell you send some awful things and and so she looked up at me suddenly because she you know those what kind of folks won't look in I anyway and she suddenly looked at me and looked away and look back again and then their mouth is working but she wouldn't say anything never said a word I guess she saw the expression on my face of love I never said a word she grabbed my knelt down on the ground grabbed my hand and leading it on her head said on her head and said oh my god can pray for me said we you know we all need prayer I said yeah I know it and just start praying love always wins I said love always wins I said love always wins and that's our way that's the way of the New Covenant hallelujah praise God and so then she called her husband he came in you know and I knew I knew what he was talking about he wasn't talking about something that's dumb he's talking about what he's gonna do he's just feeling me out to see what I was going to do and he said to me you know it's awful poor old dad laying there right at the point of death just about to dine already squabbling about what's gonna getting one in fact he said I'll tell you right now I know this to be a fact that some of the family have already they just read as soon as he's died they're going to file suit and they're gonna try to take everything away from your poor old mama what are you gonna do about it I knew he is the one who's gonna do it why I said huh I want you to know something I've got to step a little closer I've got some inside information and I want you to know - I'm ready for it you are I said yes sir I'm ready I'll tell he's counting the same he said I'll tell you one thing I'm gonna see that Lilly gets her part since grandpa died they jumped over backwards trying to get you know what do you want be sure you get your part she had the inside information I had is greater he's in me than he is in them hallelujah I said they man love always wins now notice beanie kind one to another in that strange that the Holy Ghost that God the Holy Ghost should have to ride to a church and tell him to be kind to one another well he knew folks are human then just like they are now they let their flesh dominate him they left their natural human reasoning dominate them their minds be kind one to another tender-hearted now you can be that awake oh we just read from Ezekiel and from Jeremiah's prophecy that God said I'll take that old stony heart out of you put a new heart a new spirit in you and it's tender-hearted he meant not hard-hearted tender-hearted now notice forgiving see God is love and the scripture said God said I will not remember that iniquities hallelujah I said hallelujah love said I'll not remember that iniquities forgiving one another even as God we can forgive just as God forgives now why Kendrick because the same kind of love that God is dwells in us hallelujah see he not only tells us to love one another but he furnishes a love for us to love one another with he's not talking about natural human love natural human love is selfish natural human love it'll turn to hatred overnight amen but divine love is not selfish it's not self-seeking I remember a number of years ago my wife and I accepted the pastor actually June or 1939 little church there in North Texas and we preached on Sunday there in the church and then went away to a convinced I did at least she stayed home because that just did a little bit about three months before Ken was born and so then we preached the second Sunday there of June 1939 this pastor and on Monday then started getting what few belongings we had moving into the pastas you know they had a little parsley there we told my 1939 late Depression days you know nobody had much we had one chair in one Apple box to sit on you know had a wooden apple crates my wife sat in the chair and I said on the Apple box to eat yeah and we put out you know what little bit we had one or two plates it was cracked and I think a fork or two and we didn't how much didn't take long to unpack it really and that's the way we got started some folks want to start on top but you don't do that you start climbing the ladder on the bottom rung and climb up if you're not willing to do that you'll never make it I know ministers some are going to be with the Lord now some are still alive or what is I am an older said around Dallas there for years said to me Kenneth said if you run across any big churches that's open let me know they wanted to stop on the start on the top well I run across some big churches but I didn't let them know that never pastored anything they couldn't make it a success pastor you can't making a success past in a big church if you haven't passed at a little church amen that's absolutely the truth well you see they never made it they never made it they died and some of them still alive 75 80 years old never done anything never done anything and gonna have to give them to count under God for the call of God on their life for the gifts and callings of God they're without repentance but we started on the bottom I mean we had a three-room pasta CH shotgun you know what I mean shotgun all those rooms lined up you know right one side the other and the front wall was you know the thing had it just set up in that black line on box and it is shifted in the wall and pulled out and it's about four inches or five inches between our cat or dog could climb up between them that's our parsonage that we lived in amen no running water no baths only a path Amen but love compels you amen we love God love the people nonetheless that very first week we were there here came a lady to the pasta CH one of the members and she talked a little bit about something else and finally she got around to it said well brother Hagin said I'm ordered to come and tell you because I knew you'd hear about it I want to tell you how old sister so-and-so treated me what she did and she began with this long rigmarole about how sister so-and-so had done what she had done and so on and went on and on about it and finally I interrupted her and said that now when I thought here I was gone last weekend they got into trouble here and got into a spat and got into a fuss and so I said when did this happen and she counted off on her fingers one two three four five six seven eight I thought she's gonna say eight days ago that would be back the middle of the week we've gone you see she said that'll be eight years ago next Tuesday and I guess I had such a look on my face of astonishment that she said don't misunderstand me i forgiving her all right but you know I never will forget how that old devil treated me and I tell these students here don't don't don't pass the church like I did you liable to get well I mean but I'm thinking I appointed my putting my finger right in their face and said you're a liar in fact I said you were a bald-faced liar you haven't forgiven her because if you're the forgiving are you too forgotten it oh the devil may bring your picture of it but you won't entertain it if you forgiving her you've forgotten it because God said I'm even I'm he's a broad without thought transgressions and I will not remember what what vine iniquities and the text said the text said that be kind one toward another tender-hearted forgiving one another even as God forgiving one another even as God amen now the devil may bring you a picture of it but when he does you just laugh at it and say mister devil that's just a picture all you've gots a photo the thing doesn't exist anymore because I've forgiven them amen and if you was in the wrong well you've confessed it and God's forgiven you and it's all clear can you say Amen and love prevails and love wins and love never fails forgiving forgiving one another love forgives amen you know we all rejoice and just are thrilled and should be with mark the 11th chapter I guess I preached from mark the 11th chapter more than any other text in the Bible through these 53 years of ministry and we all rejoice that the words that fell from the lips of Jesus when he said for verily I say unto you that whosoever shall say unto this mountain be thou removed and be thou cast into the sea and shall not doubt in his heart but shall believe those things which he said shall come to pass he shall have whatsoever he said therefore I say unto you what things soever you desire when you pray believe that you receive them and you shall have them and we rejoice in that thank God for it but you know that's not all that he said that's not the whole story at all that's only a part of it the very next verse he said and and well and is a conjunction it joins what he's about to say to just what he's got through singing now notice what he just got through sin in mark 11:24 he said therefore I say unto you what things ever you desire when you pray everybody say when you pray when you pray so you see he's talking about praying isn't it when you pray believe you receive them and you shall have them and when you stand praying so he's still talking about praying and when you stand praying forgive if you have aught against any and when you stand praying forgive now what because your faith and your prayers won't work if you don't forgive amen now thank God for mark 11 23 and 24 I preached it for 24 fifty-three years still believing still know it so but I've also practiced verse 25 along with it I just always refused all my Christian life I have always refused to have the least bit of animosity the least bit of ill-will the least bit of wrong feeling won't entertain it for a moment I mean if any kind of the least bit of animosity the least bit of ill feeling or wrong feeling towards anybody if it comes up in me any way shape form or fashion I get after it as we say down here in Oklahoma tooth and toenail prays God didn't kill it I won't let it won't entertain it for a moment I wouldn't entertain that kind of thinking any more than I entertained for any moment to thought to kill you because it'll do me damage you can't walk in health you can't walk in healing I know from experience of course naturally the Bible talks about me and me perfect level we're going to get around to that and find out how to eventually I don't think we tonight but but I'm sure this that none of us are perfect in love but some of us have sure tried I had an advantage one time holding me a meeting well he did me wrong his note about I'm not going into detail about if I did you'd know it and the devil suggested to me when I say this the thought came to my mind and it didn't come up out of my spirit she thoughts will come into your mind from the inside up or they'll come from the outside in it sure didn't come out of my heart I wouldn't take him up another offering if I as you devil ever suggested the thing to you I just wouldn't take him up another offering now is our custom that's when we had a guest speaker and advantage we'd take him up on offering on Tuesday night Friday night and Sunday night we'd take their other offerings up for church expenses you know because we entertained him feeding him and advertisement and so on and so forth I wouldn't him I wouldn't receive him another offering if I was you I just wait till Sunday night because you got to Sunday night you know everybody wonder if you didn't and I wouldn't try to give him anything I just say this brother so-and-so is offering pass the plate and say no more about it now I said just for that mr. devil just for that I'm gonna take him up on offering every night see the Bible said to return good for evil amen I'm gonna take him up an offering every night and if you say anything else that might I'll take him up to offerings every night and I would too but the devil never said in another word he don't want any preacher to get two offerings at night that's a cinch he never said another word I took him up on offering every night then I asked him because my church wasn't in a large church just a medium-sized Church I asked him I said what do you average because he he went mostly to larger churches than mine most of the time I said what one day is your average he told me I paid him three times as much and she is getting on an average and gave 1/3 of it out of my own pocket I felt better he felt better glory to God and everything was fine now notice this the Word of God said we read it there I want to go from the thirteenth chapter Romans that love worketh no ill why don't you turn back there again notice this love worketh no ill to his neighbor in other words you could put it this way love worketh no ill to anyone that's a tenth verse to the thirteenth chapter love does want worketh no ill to his neighbor therefore love is the fulfilling of the law love worketh no ill to his neighbor you know what we need to do is before we do anything we especially when it comes to brothers and sisters in the Lord but this says to his neighbor that means to anyone anyone but we should ask yourself the question how is this going to affect them because love worketh no ill to his neighbor I remember I went to Pastor ones particularly Church the Lord sent me there and the the farmer pastor he had some difficulty there and about half the people was farm and about half the people weren't and so he couldn't stayed because they had an election he didn't get reelected and so he stayed there and lived there and he had visit this half of the people that's for him and they'd give him their tithes and offerings I noticed some of them didn't even come to church much they sent their members there alright but they never put in their ties here I never put in any offerings and and so we had a convention there that is sectional convention O'Reilly or fellowship meeting they're in our church and the head official of that predicted nomination said to me call me off and talk to me cuz I didn't tell him someone else told me and he said brother Hagin if you just say so all you got to do just say so will just take his papers away from him that is they would dismiss him from the fellowship they would not renew his kirtan in fact they would take his credentials away from him that says he's good as I said no I'm not gonna do it I'm not going to if he keeps going like he's going he's gonna not gonna make it anyway but I'm not going to contribute to his downfall because then I get involved it affects me spiritually it affects me physically and I don't like sickness my sick the first seventeen years of my life almost I don't like it and I said no I'm not going to do it I'm gonna pray for him and instead of contributed to his downfall I'm gonna contribute to him standing and endeavor to help him to stand well in the process of time I had the opportunity to do so he he was also a carpenter and he didn't have any meetings or anything and so he built a house those days we had a lot of paper in and so he wanted it but there's no paper hanger they're just after the war just after World War two and I said to him I don't canvas and paper your house for you I was fully equipped to do that and so I canvassed in paper this whole house when he got through when I got to he said how much do I owe you I said you don't owe me anything the Lord told me to give it to you and he and his wife broke down begin to cry and said brother Hagin well we want you to know one thing see he knew I knew he visited all these we want you to know you never did we never did speak against you I said I know you didn't you didn't have anything to speak against me about but I said they're brothers sister did you ever stop to think about I'm passed to the church when you spoke against the church then you're speaking against me because I'm pastor of the church God put me there I know God put me there well we were just wrong would you forgive us I said sure what now we didn't we didn't get into your tithe I said well all of these folks and I mentioned some of them have been ever since I've been they never put a dime into the church all he said well I guess they gave their money to us but said they didn't tell us it was their ties I said well that's what it was but don't let that bother you if they want to put them in a church I'd rather them give them to you or give them to somebody anyway don't let that bother you at all now before y'all leave because they sold us out early come back up there and preach in the church oh no we're not ago they don't like us I said I know better I wouldn't even let that happen didn't like him talk against him if they started on stop and say no no you don't speak against him you know when Saul was max then David wouldn't harm him David said touch do not mind in order to do my holy prophets no harm and I said come on back up there and preach I said and in fact I built up goodwill into people that didn't like him I built up goodwill to them and you see we're to be peacemakers love's a peacemaker so I persisted and both of them came back up and preached he preached in the morning she preached at night so I said to and and and he said to him when he got a pre-set folks I want all of you to forgive me I've been wronged and I would not a whole lot better praise God Love Wins love never fails I've been wrong I was wrong I want everybody know I was wrong and I want y'all to forgive me I said God couldn't bless the church I ought to still be here pastor I thought that but I his problem on thinking he said after all I see here God some blessing the church is full it was never full when I was here it was never full when I was pastor here over a three-year period the church is full I'm glad of it I want everybody to know that I'm thrilled with what God's doing Love Wins can you say you man well they didn't get out of the ministry they went on to build a church in another place eventually and to be blessed that's a whole lot better I'm not going to contribute to the downfall of anybody I tell folks all the time I wouldn't even deny it if they told on me that they killed my grandma I wouldn't even take time to deny I'm just gonna keep praising God and worship for the Lord hallelujah and going on enjoying the blessings of God let folks say what they want to and do what you want to a man love is the best way and it's our way now here's a verse over here and while I'm talking about you turn back over to first John the First Epistle of John real quickly First Epistle of John I want you to see something that maybe you've seen maybe you haven't seen before but here we read this 14th verse you know where they said we know that we passed from death unto life because we love the Brethren he goes on talking about love in this third chapter and in this fourth chapter he talks about love he talks about being made perfect love in the 18th verse there is no fear in love but perfect love casteth out fear because fear has torment he that feareth is not made perfect in love you see love is the fruit of the Spirit the very first fruit of the Spirit that shows up in our born-again spirit and fruit can grow hallelujah Amen now notice this look at the sixteenth verse of this fourth chapter of 1st John and we have known we have known and believed the love that God has to us God is love and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God and God in him herein is our love made perfect that we may have boldness in the day of judgment because as he is so are we in this world there is no fear in love but perfect love casteth out fear for fear hath torment he that feareth is not made perfect in love we love him because he first loved us if a man say I love God and hateth his brother he is a liar for he that loveth not his brother whom he has seen how can he love God whom he has not seen and this commandment we have from him that he who loveth God loveth his brother all soul hallelujah now I want you to notice this this very fact that we not only believe in God but we believe in love hallelujah do you believe in love well practice it then practice it because that's the only thing that's going to win out me and it looked like sometimes it's not win it love as we said before reading there from from Romans worketh no ill to his neighbor no ill any shape form or fashion if you're going to walk in hell if your faith is going to work and remember there's a scripture that said faith worketh by love that if you're not in love your faith won't work if my faith and prayers didn't work this would be the first place that I'd look I tell folks teaching constantly you go through the four Gospels and seek the Scriptures out write them down that Jesus said relative to faith and this is the only hindrance he ever mentioned that doesn't mean they're not other integers but that means he warned us where the greatest danger was amen I remember my wife and I were holding meat in the western part of the United States and there was a young couple their there their ministers both of them are ordained ministers actually with their Full Gospel denomination they're not past of the Church of just going to this church we had met them before preaching conventions for that particular Full Gospel denomination they invited us out we went to eat with them have a little sandwich after church and she said to me brother Hagin you've got me all confused well I said no I am a God she confused you just confused for I got here the Word of God just showed it up the light of God's Word but what's the matter well said you quoted in the scripture tonight in my message and you'll find that the fifteenth verse we read the fourteenth verse the first John three the fifteenth verse said he that hateth his brother is a murderer you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in it and when I quoted that the Spirit of God in inspired me to stop and say that means mother-in-law to I said well I said it out a plead guilty I sure did what's your problem she said I hate my mother-in-law now here's an ordained minister of the gospel but I hate my mother-in-law well I said if you do you're a murderer you know how eternal life abiding in you well I was born in a full gospel partnership her parents were pastor of a full gospel church brought up in the full gospel parsonage graduated from school went to Bible School one of the best Bible schools in the land of the day there she met her husband I said I don't care how many schools you graduated from if you hate your mother I knew she really didn't but I've got to get her located so she can see herself I said if you really do then you're a murderer but I said I saw I just about had her you know she's about outs you don't know what I said looked right across the table she's sitting right across from me look me in the eye and say I hate my mother-in-law and at the same time check down here in your spirit see the Bible didn't say the love of God said it brought in our heads it said it said it brought in our hearts check down here your heart in this case is your spirit check down here see what happens so she looked across the table right mind said I hate my mother-in-law I said what happened in there she said there's something down there scratching me I said I know it that's the love of God down there trying to get your attention trying to constrain you you won't listen to it what you don't listen to her head listen to her flesh well she said what am I going to do I said you're going to act just like you would if you didn't love your mother-in-law because you knew amen you're going to act just like you would if you didn't love your mother-in-law because you do love her that's what you're going to do that's the way out of the situation well we learned then that there they had three children the youngest and when it was two years old little better began to have epileptic seizures they had taken it to one of the leading specialists in the world and said it's worst case had never seen 38 years of practice they're trying to believe God for the healing so she phoned the motel to see if he on the way the church would stop by and pray with because the child's going into the preliminary attack and so we got in the car I said yes we go because the Lord told me to and so we got in the car my wife and they're setting the front nobody's in the backseat but it's just as real to me as there's somebody sitting back there I know it couldn't have been audible yet it's that's how real it was to me because my wife would hurt if he'd been older but she didn't have anything but I heard these words like somebody sat in the backseat don't pray for the child don't lay your hand on the child when you get there say to the mother under the Old Covenant I said it is we're walk in my statutes and keep my Commandments do that which is right in my sight and I'll take sickness away from the midst of you in the number of your days your fulfill paraphrasing that in New Testament language New Covenant language I said a new commandment I give you that's your love one another and if you walk in my commandment love and keep my statue of love and do that which is pleasing to my side we just to walk in love one toward another I'll take sickness away from the midst of you and the number of your days you'll fulfill say to the mother mother say to Satan Satan I'm walking in love take your hand off of my child I didn't get those words out of my mouth until she turned and pointed to that child in the beginning of the seizure and said Satan I'm walking in love take your hand off of my childhood fancy snap your fingers child all right just perfectly all right perfectly all right now that Chema's revelation to me I've never seen that before in that way I knew under the Old Covenant it said but you see the truth about the matter is that that belongs to us too are you listening to me that belongs to us too for the simple reason that we've got a better covenant established on better promises now if under the old come it's not as good as ours they can keep his statutes and Commandments and never be sick notice he said I'll take seconds away from the midst of you and the number of your days you shall fulfill now then he said love we read it in Romans he that loveth has fulfilled the law then if I fulfill the law and clean the same promise that's one reason I've been able to walk what I call divine health for the last 53 years nice headache I had was August 1933 it's too late start having them now amen I said amen well somebody said yeah brother egg and I haven't always walked enough that lady hadn't either I mean it's only recently this she's got it straightened up but she's over there in love now glory to God and she has a right to clean God's promises I'll tell you every step out of love is step into sin amen and if you get out get back in just fast you can just get back in as fast as you can and then you can live under God's provision and God's promises praise God forevermore and enjoy the blessings of God that belongs to you because you are a child of God you are born of God hallelujah amen and you belong to it notice then he said here in this first epistle of John beloved what manner of love this is the third chapter now the first verse what manner of love the father has bestowed upon us that we should be called the sons of God therefore the world north us not because it knew him not beloved now are we the sons of God we're not going to be the sons of God when we all get to heaven in the sweet bind by now are we the sons of God well now listen listen if we are the sons of God and God is love then we're sons of love hallelujah if we if God is love and we are children of God we're children of love when we are born again the life and the nature of God's imparted to our spirits lift that nature and that life dominates your being that's a reason that you have to do something with your body because it's not shed abroad in your body that's the reason you have to do something with your mind because your mind and flesh will dominate that inward man but Romans you remember twelfth chapter 1st and 2nd verses said wherefore I beseech you brethren by the mercies of God that you present your bodies you present your bodies unto God the living sacrifice holy acceptable the images or reasonable service and be not conformed to this world but be transformed how by the renewing of your mind that you may prove what is that good acceptable and perfect will of God hallelujah glory to God you know we need to get our minds renewed along this line we haven't as we should concerning the love of God I was holding a meeting one time one of the western states they were some fellow ministers that came to visit three of them pastors and the pastor where I'm holding meeting and myself and we all four went out to have lunch together now here are four resident pastors and myself and so we're eating and he got to talking and they got off on this subject of love and and they bout decided what we need to do is pray that God would send us a revival of love we need this and so on finally I just kept quiet and listened they said brother you know what do you think about nothing thing about what what we've been saying well I said I think all you fellows need to get saved I knew there was all pastors of full gospel churches and they looked at me in astonishment I said the way you talk we don't have the love of God none of us do and we need it yeah I said the Bible said we know we passed from death unto life because we love the Brethren and if you were saved you've got it I said the thing about this you need to find out that you do have it because the word says so and then you need to do something about it you need to practice it you need to find out what the Word of God says you need to preach on it's not a matter that we need God to send it to us because he's already given every saved person a measure of that kind of love just like he gave you a measure of faith I said if you were saved have a measure of that kind of love amen but you see instead of us accepting our responsibility we want God to do something you know on his own well thank God he has he's given everyone to us a measure of that God kind of love what have you done with it I said what have you done with it amen I think too many people like the man with the one talent he wrapped it up the napkin and hid it but find out what God's word has to say on the subject renew your mind on the subject of love love worketh what no ill no ill to whom his neighbor that means anybody love worketh no ill to his neighbor we need to so be soaked in God's Word and by so doing be soaked in love until that's the first thought that a jump into our mind no matter what we start to do is how is this going to affect the other fella I know on one occasion there was a church that God had really spoken to my heart about pastor and they wanted me somebody releases the kind of church that had congregation rule they would vote on it but then the pastor that was leaving I was there and preached the parents that was leaving his cousin came along and was without a church so he put him up and began to politic for him you know the love is never divided in the church I could take a half of those people cuz read it's the only four gospel church in town I get taken half up one across town built another church but I can't do that in love and nobody else can what astounds me is that born-again spirit fill Christians can become sheep thieves and take half another man's congregation doesn't bother them least bit Nora said God and then lay it off on God said God told me to well I don't mind telling they're liars I said because if they didn't lie then God is he's a lot well either God to them one lied about it because God said love worketh no ill to his neighbor and I listen to the inward man I'm listen to the love of God in me in the love and he said to me you just go your way don't you don't you divide the church don't you split a church you go your way just get up and leave right now I got up withdrew my name and left and I said Lord what about them though you see called love concerned well he said they'll have to suffer because they listened to the wrong people that church will suffer but I'll take care of you thank God he took care of me and grand style and then you know what before a year and come and gone God put me in that church and I didn't have a thing in the world to do with it see our problem is God may really speak to us sometimes but then we try to run other over other people to make it work and then we get out of love and so then we're where God can't bless us he wants to but he can't because we're out of his plan are you listening to me amen I don't know about you but I decided a long time ago I'm gonna walk in love when anybody else does or not because seeing to affect your health I know a minister he's now dead died at early age before he got to be aged forties dead I know I preached in the city and he's going to start a church there he said to a pastor the pastor said to him he came dim toasting I'm gonna start a church he said well now he'd held several of I before him said to Warren what are you gonna start with he said I'm gonna start this church on your church your members and brother so-and-so just told another and brother so and social members and brother so-and-so's members that's what he did he got oh I guess 102 members from this church because I guess it was the one the one of those well about the third largest Full Gospel Church he got to three hundred from another church and then from the largest Full Gospel Church I suppose he had three or four hundred back but you know how before he could enjoy his new church building he's dead I said he's dead I said he's dead God said to me you go tell him you go tell him you gonna die because he didn't judge himself and walk in love towards his fellow minister and he didn't love never fails I see some of you need to thinking solemnly aren't you well you need to praise God I said praise God I've had people that came seeking healing laid hands on me myself several times if other than eating healing evangelists in America I prayed form no healing I've seen them just as soon as they made some adjustment in this area here about walking in love and forgiveness they never had to have anybody their hands on them just automatically healed this is a side that healing that needs to be preached to how many of you folks would like to live your full length to time out down here below and never even be sick again did you know you can I said did you know you can I said did you know you can Amen absolutely the truth I want to because my times up tonight but I won't talk about that a little bit more tomorrow night go in a little more detail about it and show you just exactly how to get there and then if you don't get there it's not my fault it's yours amen if somebody wants to get to the post office and I tell them how to get that it's not my fault if they don't get to the post office if somebody's inquiring something somebody you know that's a stranger to us here come into the state and said well brother they get how do you get from Tulsa to Oklahoma City and I show them even drawing them out this is it and if they don't get to Oklahoma City it's not my fault amen and I'm gonna draw your mouth tomorrow night glory to God even and show you just exactly how to get there and if you don't get there it's not my fault and then then you won't ever have to get any other healing line again [Music] you

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