Mid-Week Manna: "What The World Needs Most" - Bishop Rudolph McKissick, Sr.

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other things that are needed within this season of our lives down the number below to join us remember 7 14 am every morning monday through friday so y'all already know what to do tag text and tell somebody that the bethel experience has begun good evening everyone it's a delight for me to be with you this evening and i have to thank my pastor for this opportunity to teach which i feel is absolutely needed and he knows that in most abuse some of you may know that in these latter days one of the plaguing things upon me is that business that we carry out call love and so i want to um spend a few few moments with you just trying to encourage us to do something that i feel that will make a difference in our living here in these united states of america and for all of those who might be listening looking elsewhere i want to just throw this out as a sort of a subject matter i'm going to talk about what the world needs most and i will be going from my favorite passage on that from the third chapter of john the 16th verse i want to go there so that i can the third chapter i'm going to go there so that i can round out what i feel [Music] the world needs most and when i say that i mean the world of people i have almost refused to keep up with the current news i've almost decided that i for a while i would just not look because whether it's national whether it's international whether it's local we are getting news that reflecting the hearts of people and their hatred and in their mental illnesses and it's just getting to the point that it keeps you in us in a very state of depression if you aren't careful because we are getting nothing but news that is destroying the very fiber of our living and i mean living soundly so there's so much happening around the world every time you turn up there's something that's just you just can't understand why this would occur why why would a person do this how could a nation do that last monday in russia or just a youngster in in high school goes in kills some students and injures others just there this week in texas to look at what's going on under the bridge there where you get a scene and a flashback of what uh four parents and four parents went through there you see the white masters on their horses and they're whipping their slaves that's what comes to your mind those of us who know what i'm talking about that that that that slave master kind of relationship and they're whipping them and these are the haitian immigrants what the world needs most for the national setting of our politicians doing what they do in order to remain empowered regardless of how it affects the lives of people the injustices and then when i think about the nations around the world that are spending billions of dollars developing nuclear warheads that can do nothing other than destroy the lives of children and people i don't know where we're going i don't know what kind of future we're looking forward to so that's why i want to label what we really need most not money not jobs not incomes what we need most is agape agape love and i say that over and over again because this is something we do every day we love every day but the kind of love [Music] that we exude or allow to permeate to others is not the kind of love that's going to make a difference in a world in which we live in this day and time eros won't do it for leo won't do it sturgeon will not do it those are loves but they as i have said before are temporary and too conditional what the world needs most is in this present day is god's love that's the acape john 13 i intended to say verses 34 and 35 a new commandment i give to you that you love one another as i have loved you that you also love one another by this all will know that you are my disciples if you love one another god is not god is not anything else but love and he he is love john says god is love and i've always tried to figure that out and spirit just said that means he's never unloving he we couldn't get that label we are loved because there are times that we are unloving but god is never like ever unloving and i firmly believe that that that agape love the divine love of god god's style of loving god's style of lovely i believe that if god's style of loving is practiced day by day we would keep in place all of the other loves arrows for leo family romance story friend valeo if if we would just keep practicing every day god's love as we relate to people all of the other loves will fall in place and under control i'm discovering more and more that every human being saved or unsaved expresses every day some kind of love every day saved and unsaved expresses express some kind of love we love animals we love things and we love people and that kind of love is impermanent and conditional hear me now every day we are expressing every day all of us are expressing in one way or another putting into action love and we can love things and we do we can love animals we even love people some of us love some animals more than we love some people some things more than we love some people that's not a copy that fits in more with the other three because agape love is for god and people only the other loves can be applied in a measure to things animals people but agape love applies only about people to people only and it's permanent and non-conditional beloved with the present attitudes and behaviors and mentalities that we are experiencing today i'm not sure about our being ready to return to the moment because if we return to the long with a love that will not last with a love that can't take it with a love that will not make it i mean that's what's happening with today that's why people care less about our lives i tell guys that fellows that there's no more fisk fights no more fist fights no more of that it's a shoot to kill there's the hurting aspect more than the helping aspect and we took if we return back to what might be what's wrong and if we return with the same kind of loving that we have been exercising or practicing we're going to be in big trouble we've got to return with a love that can take it a love that will last we've got to return to with a love that encompasses every aspect of a person despite the person we've got to have a new language we've got to love those as bishops talked sunday we know we don't like or they don't like us we've got to learn more about practicing god's kind of love very serious we've got to put get it into our children you know parents you've got the examples husbands and wives you've got to be examples for marriages we've got to get to the point that we believe what paul says in that eighth chapter of romans in that 38th verse of the new living translation nothing can separate us from god's love nothing neither death nor life no demons no angels fears for today and worse about tomorrow nothing even powers of hell nothing shall separate us from the love of god we've got to say to ourselves that's the love that's going to bring us into the unity of living with one another god's way we can't we're not making it through these days because we're not caring for one another as god would have us to do i thought attitudes really i thought attitudes our attitudes and i thought that our behaviors and our respects for one another i thought they were bad enough before the pandemic before the restrictions i thought they were getting to be terrible then but now i feel that we are at our worst with our attitudes our behaviors our respect for one another even in our congregations all around the world and what i love about what jesus is addressing is that he is addressing these disciples at that time his church and it is as relevant today and needed to date as it was needed in that day in which jesus lived the world has always needed the church to set the pace for righteousness and for kindness and for peace the church has always looked out among and help those to try to live the righteous life and the peaceful life and people even in the world especially out there in the world unsafe still look to the congregations the churches they're looking to them for the kind of peace and the kind of joy and the kind of happiness long-suffering and patience and kindness and even the kind of love that we ought to practice i learned more about these qualities of life in the church than i did at home and if we tell the truth we did too i'm positive that jesus was saying to them and to us that if we don't love one another as he has loved us how do we expect love to really permeate in this world in which we live two things i know that god wants us to do for him one he wants us to believe in jesus christ god wants us to believe in jesus christ when we read something that jesus says god wants us to believe in what jesus is saying he gave his only begotten son he loved us so much that he gave us his only begotten son that whoever would believe in him in christ in jesus would not perish but have everlasting life now believing is a powerful tool [Music] for us as it relates to our spiritual life it is not so much about what you don't do or what you do that you shouldn't do that counts with christ with god is it's what you believe because belief can control your actions and jesus is the person that god wants us the person like the only person he wants us to ultimately believe in he loved us so much that he gave his only begotten son that whoever believed and this takes to me this takes president over any other passage of scripture about salvation it's expressing agape god's love for us that all he's requiring is that we believe jesus christ believe in him believe what he says believe what he does and i know this is so but the other thing he wants us to do is to hear him hear jesus christ and hearing him calls for action you believe him and you become a doer of what you believe but you hear him and you become a doer of what you hear from him jesus took peter and james and john upon the mountain to pray while there he was transfigured right there and elijah and moses appeared and they were in conversation and john and peter and james were asleep and when when they woke up and they saw moses elijah and jesus i don't know whether they interrupted them they're talking or when when they woke up from this heavy sleep peter said to jesus let's build three tabernacles let us build three tabernacles telling jesus suggesting to jesus one moses one for elijah and one for you and a cloud the bible says covered peter and god spoke this is my beloved son you hear him believers let's not fail to hear him jesus what jesus says is what leads and guides us into our success in life he's never failed us yet and here jesus says and he says it to each of us that i'm giving you a new commandment we need that new commandment as we get in and hopefully a new style of living after all of this i just don't think and believe that things are going to be like they used to be and it's almost like christ speaks today because he's getting us prepared for what is forthcoming and i'm giving you a new commandment we should have had it but he's giving it now that you love one another now that's that's us churchill that we love one another we're not gonna be we're not gonna be effective loving others if we can't love one another if the world sees nothing other than the church or the believers accounting one another what a an impact i will have on them loving one another he wants us to believe he wants us to hear him and he says everything he says you shall love the lord your god with all your heart with all your mind with all your strength this is the first and great commandment and the second is like unto the first you shall love your neighbor people as you love yourself on these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets hear him say you have heard that it has been said you shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy but i say love your enemies bless them that curse you do good to them who hate you pray for those who despitefully use you and persecute you hear him say to us his disciples that i'm giving you a new commandment it's not throwing anything aside there's no all commandment he didn't come to destroy any of the commandments he came to fulfill them but he knows exactly what we need and he supplies us of our every need and he he knows that what the world needs most in our homes in our schools in our institutions in our congregations we need a god page and so he is saying to us a new commandment and he wants us to practice this day by day i'm giving you a new one that you love agape one another what a marriage that would be what a family that would be a congregation that would be what a community that would be what a nation that would be what a world that would be if we were loving one another and since we are his church and he is speaking to us as his disciples we have the opportunity to make the difference in the world i'm praying that pastors and preachers will take advantage in the pulpit to get us to loving one another as we have been loved and you know we don't have to go to school we don't have to develop a ministry to teach us how to love we can teach ourselves and it's right in what jesus says you just love like you're being loved by me no one has to teach me that i know how the lord has loved me and i ought to have some witnesses out there to say i know how the lord has loved me after all these things that i've done that displeased him i know how he loves me i tell folk every day anytime i get an opportunity you're looking at someone going on 94 years old who knows that i have come through many dangers toils and snares and who knows that could no one bring me out of these except a god who loved me despite me i wish i had about 10 of you out there to say i know that's right well just as he has loved us is how he wants us to love one another and there's no money there's no funds [Music] that the world or the nation can give to get people to get along with one another there's no legislature that can be a past that can get people to get along with one another there is nothing that man has or can offer that can get us to live quality lives of love except god when the bible says that god is love and when god says to us who is love through his son jesus christ jesus says as i have loved you but no he's saying as the father has loved me so have i loved you continue in my love my heart desire my prayer is that when this pandemic has come to pass and it is coming to pass god has his own timing it is coming to pass but he is so fixed it that we can i believe most of us have been better students of the word of god than you have ever been because god got our attention and we don't know we we don't know we don't know where this world is going in and coming we don't know how this world is going to develop the only thing we know as the whole spiritual said he's got the whole world in his hand you and me brother in his hand and we know that we've got a god who's able to do exceeding abundantly above all we could ask or think and he is able i said he is able i said god is able and this god who is omnipresent this god who's omniscient is this god who's omnipotent is the god who so loved us that he gave us his only begotten son that whoever would believe in him would not perish but have everlasting life and this son he sent into this world not to condemn us but that the world through him could be delivered could be saved and hear his son hear his son who is carrying out the love that the father has loved him with as much as we've done and the world has done against him he has loved the world the of people as the father has loved him he's never been unloving to us christ has always us the opportunity by the measure of forgiveness to the father from the father to have another chance at living his way going and knowing his truth and [Music] becoming learners and followers of him and here his concern is for us this day so that we can have better living better thinking better believing better loving better giving by loving one another as he has loved us and continuing in that love i thank god i thank god that we have this opportunity i thank god that we're coming up you know love is is is nothing but action and it's action not based on how you feel about a person is based on how you love a person and having a lesson like tonight i hope has been a help to us i'm thinking about what's coming up on sunday and i like that we are going to express our love to our pastor on his 56th birthday i have the blessed privilege of saying a son in whom i am well pleased i'm going to be in that parade we're going to be in it and i hope you're going to be inappropriate it ought to be a display to all who will be watching how we are loving one another as christ has loved us he's given us despite us and he forgives us despite us he meets our every knee and he who knew no sin became sin for us in that while we were yet sinners he died for us so life is is about love and love is about giving so let's love one another bethel and other congregations i'm praying that we will let the world see what it is like when we love one another as christ has loved us we also love one another and the world will know that we are his disciples see at the parade may the lord now bless us and keep us may the lord use us to his glory may the lord keep us for his use i pray in jesus

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Published: Wed Sep 22 2021