Ministering to the Lord: God is Love (Part 7) (Feb 16, 2018) Keith Moore

chapter on Friday nights we've been on this subject we're calling ministering to the Lord and I want us to continue this evening that okay with you as we talk about it some and then we do it it's only doers that get results you know you should only talk about prayer so long and then you should pray right he should only talk about your authority in Christ and then it comes a point where you should exercise your authority and ministering to the Lord is this way in acts 13 verse 1 this is sometimes people talk about the early church but this is the same church we're a part of this is not a different church it's not a different dispensation we got that we're part of the same church they were in our and we have same gospel same Great Commission same Holy Spirit everything and so we should the book of Acts shouldn't just be read as history it should be read and then we should check what's happening with us because the same things should be happening with us today right and even more in greater thank you for those two knots there were it says in the church there was an Antioch certain prophets and teachers Barnabas Simeon Lucius men in and saw verse two as they ministered to the Lord and fasted the Holy Spirit said separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work we're into I have call them let's just stay right there for a moment what were they doing these five ministers got together in what not debating doctrine right and not just prophesy and each other what were they doing now there this was not horizontal ministry this is vertical ministry and a whole lot of good people Christian people they only know horizontal ministry they there used to come in and being ministered to but this is not what what this is talking about at all this is them ministering to the Lord not ministering to each other not trying to get the Lord to minister to them there with me friends and notice what kind of environment it created one in which the Holy Spirit spoke and gave direction that changed thousands of lives because the narrative in the book of Acts follows Barnabas and Saul in these subsequent chapters and you see churches founded you see thousands people saved you see signs and wonders and miracles and amazing things the fruit of it's still going on today and where can you trace it's beginning to come on can you see this is this significant or what when they not trying to get the Lord to minister to them not just looking at each other any other watch about just going to people and asking them what they think asking for their counsel for their wisdom for their direction there are times the Lord will help you through other people but it can be lack of faith and spiritual laziness I always try to get other people to do you praying for you seeking God for you hearing from God for you I mean you know if you're really in a bad way it needs some help I might help you wash your clothes or cut your grass but if there's nothing wrong with you don't ask me to wash your clothes is that right don't ask me to cut your grass why can't you oh that's going on over real big Eddy go to the book of James you need some scripture I said at least some people do then they need some scripture on that one some folks have a habit and it's not a good one I've always asking people to pray for them what yeah you heard them always asking people to pray if you're asking somebody to pray for you and they're not just gonna do an empty religious thing that's not going to make any difference anyway then you're asking for something substantial from them you're asking for them to use their faith come on hang out with me and to stand with you and not be moved by circumstance well I'm sure they got some other things they're already dealing with using their faith and are you using yours and in a lot of situations if you're not using your faith it'll do 0 good for them to try to use their faith for you they can't believe something for you that you're not even believing for yourself if you believe in contrary to it your words carry more weight in your life than anybody's including God's surely you didn't say that you heard me Malachi's the Lord said your words have been stout against me what what would he care because he has given us a completely free will and if we want to say something contrary to what he said it's not gonna change him it's not gonna change what he said but it will change what happens for you are y'all with me friends yeah there's the prayer of agreement and it's a great thing but don't be so quick to ask everybody to pray for you and live for you if it's something you should be taking care of yourself and a lot of things people don't need to be bothered with knowing about it they're already dealing with a lot of things come on with me or not and a lot of folks they're already so loaded in their faith and spirits already weak they're not going to be in faith all they're gonna do is worry and be upset and you've been better off just waiting and giving them the testimony after it's done now there are there are times when it's it's good to have the prayer of agreement and especially married folks husbands and wives you know but even there there are some things you can believe for personally and not bother the other person [Laughter] James 5:13 well I didn't intend to say any of this I mean this was this is nowhere near what I had in mind James 5:13 is any among you afflicted let him turn in prayer request huh and call hotlines huh read read the scripture for me let him who who him pray you mean do your own pray what a thought he's any Mary let him sing son now you know you wouldn't tell me I'm Mary you sing no if you married go ahead and sing yourself well how is it different to say I'm afflicted you pray no let him pray let her pray okay well let's go back to acts 13 verse 2 what were they doing they weren't trying to get somebody to minister to them they were ministering to the Lord now this word minister if you look it up it's akin to the word serve like a waiter might wait on a table and so a couple of things ministering to the Lord is not begging him for something is not ministering to him right pulling and pleading and crying and whining and complaining that certainly that's not ministering to him he cares but he's not just moved by how pitiful you are if God was moved by folks acting pitiful miracles be popping all over the planet is that right it's faith that causes him to respond not whining and crying and begging but they weren't doing any of that what were they doing come on help me out now what were they doing ministering to the Lord and they did it more than 10 to 15 minutes said they fasted so that have to be at least long enough to miss one meal right maybe more so we're talking two hours here we're talking two hours some I say hours hours now this is an area that we need mine renewal because we live in an instant generation somebody's telling me the other day they design web pages and stuff and they found out that they their thing they go by is traffic looking at these things if they don't like something they see within the first few seconds people would jump to somewhere else so fully grown adults attention span has diminished to less than 20 seconds on average because you've got a thousand channels you've got drive-through everything microwave microwave everything instant messaging not quick messaging I mean when I grew up there was no messaging you'd be going all day not hear from people imagine that all day not even talk to them at all now a lot of folks if they text you if you don't answer immediately they're like what's wrong where are you this is not good because the things of the Lord you can't do this would we there are things you need to do to come in and be still and know that He is God for hours look at your neighbor some of ours and just minister to the Lord worship Him thank you not not begging not trying to move a mountain not trying to get the greatest revelation anybody's ever had just worshiping him and praising him and thanking him and being still before him even for hours it's a mess of hours this is what what do you need to do that for to actually hear from God because there's a whole lot of folks there saying the Lord said this and the Lord said that and the truth is they didn't take time to hear from him they just made up their mind luckily like we were talking about this past week they they decide what they want to do and they signed it Jesus is a forgery a lot of folks said the Lord told me and he never told him any such thing they never took the time to hear what he had to say God is real and you can really hear from him not just make up something in your mind you can really hear from me but you got to turn stuff off and in our generation we got a lot of stuff to turn off right we got stuff everywhere that's beeping and buzzing and flashing right and it's okay to turn it off for hours oh no did I lose somebody with it well I can't I can't do it people made it for thousands of years it's okay to turn these things off for hours somebody say hours if you need to let people know I'm going dark I'm gonna have zero cyber presence for the next three hours just just letting you know it was every time it dings what are you gonna do feel like you have to see that's not good that's not good have I digressed or are we talking about the same thing in what they do ministered to the Lord for hours they're not doing anything else and in the midst of that they heard from the head of the church through the Holy Spirit glory to God very spotty telomers two very specific call these men's names separate to me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them these these men are not called by some committee our denomination or spouse or mother the Holy Spirit is had already called them see I have call them there they were already called and being prepared they're just getting launched and verse three and when they had fasted didn't prayed hold on that takes more time right enough time to miss a meal you begin to see why we haven't gotten some things too impatient too big a rush got too many things going on when they had fasted and prayed and laid their hands on them they send them away verse 4 so they being sent forth by the Holy Spirit glory to God not a man and you see their amazing wonderful things that happened look with me tonight in mark 12th chapter I believe we it be good for us to minister to the Lord in this area tonight mark chapter 12 the first commandment in the Old Covenant and it ties in and affects the New Testament it said I should say affected it ties to the New Testament command is you'll have no other gods before you and with that you'll love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might Deuteronomy 6:5 said well jesus said this to him in mark 12 and 29 mark 12:29 when they asked him some somebody asked him what was the greatest commandment he said the first of all the commandments is hear o Israel the Lord our God is one Lord and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and Deuteronomy said with all your might and the Greek to the English says strength this is the first commandment and the second is like namely this you'll love your neighbor as yourself there none other commandment greater than these well then in introducing the New Covenant Jesus said a new commandment I give you not just that you love your neighbor as yourself but that you love your brother as I have loved you which wasn't possible until the new birth now you are with me friends so these are not identical commands at all but it's it's a development from the first covenant to the second because the reason we can love believers can love other even as God has loved us and as Jesus has loved us is because the love of God has been shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit only born again people can do this somebody not born again you can love somebody obviously and you can love them as yourself but you can't love them with the God kind of love the God kind of love can love you when you hate me the God kind of love can love your enemies and do good to those that hurt you that takes something beyond natural love but have you been born again then it's in you don't say you can't it's a choice and it's not based on feelings you don't have to feel like you love somebody to love them it's a choice and it's an act and if you choose to act on the God kind of love your feelings will change it's love first then feelings just like it's faith first then feelings the spirit first then the flesh then the mind can you say Amen is that okay now in John the fourth chapter and 23rd verse I think we need to take a little time tonight on this see are you okay John 4:23 Jesus said the hour comes and now is when true worshipers well if you got true worshipers that means you got other kinds in other words you could use is real real worshipers shall worship the father how in spirit and in truth for the father seeks such to worship Him God is a spirit they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and says it again and in truth everybody say in truth why would he emphasize this in spirit and in truth because you can do it other ways than this mark the 7th chapter just put it on the screen for us please mark 7 6 Jesus said well has Isaiah prophesied of you hypocrites as it is written this people honor me with their lips but their heart is far from me howbeit in vain do they worship Me so this is obviously not true worship this is vain so they did it but for all the good it did they might as well have not done it it was vain teaching for doctrines the commandments of men go to first Corinthians 13 please the great love chapter you'll love the Lord your God with all your heart all your soul I tell you what you're going to 1st Corinthians 13 stop by chapter 8 on your ways on the way chapter 8 verse 1 he said as touching things offered to idols we know that we all have knowledge knowledge puffs up but charity our love builds up our edifies what is knowledge do you watch any knowledge intensive vocation or thing there's a lot of pride associated with that but the truth is verse 2 if any man think he knows something he doesn't know anything yet as he ought to know compared to what God knows it is a half of a trip barely cover the bottom of the Fennville thimble knows nothing yet as he ought to know so you're not going to impress God with your knowledge about him or about scriptures come on ER with me nobody is verse 3 but but if what you can get his attention if you what if you genuinely love him remember jesus said there are those that they honor me with their lips but their hearts far from me so that's not worshipping Him in spirit and in truth that's worshiping him by ritual and by form and by outward show the thing about him in spirit man sees that word appearance but God is looking he's not just listening to how good your pitch is when you're singing the song they've said that's good he's not just listening to how accurate your quoting the scripture are how you know well you're using the name of Jesus in prayer he's looking at what come on help me out Saints he's your heart and what's the big deal do you love him and do you trust him love and faith the it's all with him Saints am i telling truth that have walked with him for a while with him it's always about the heart always and that means it's always about love and faith and truth honesty humility heart heart heart you start getting phony with him then you just pray in with yourself now you have disconnected and you may other people may think it looks and sounds great but it's vain worship because its mouth and lip service but it's not heart and thing is you may fool some other people but you can't fool him he knows whether you're genuine or whether you're playing what what your reasons are for what you're doing so if we're going to worship Him and minister to him we must get rid of all the falseness and all the phone enos and all the junk all the religious tradition of men junk how many want to do it how many want to do come on pray it out loud then father God reveal to me what's real what's not real what's true what's phony what's you what's just men what's just religion reveal it to me I ask in Jesus name Amen one thing that'll help you a bunch is to put your nose in this book is that right cuz this is him this is him cover to cover and of course the Spirit who authored it through all these human agencies lives right on the inside of you he'll let you know Thank You Lord verse three did you see this verse 3 if you mean any man does what loves God the same is known of him this word know also includes the idea of experience experience hallelujah this is just one of the biggest questions you could ever answer now next year 100 years from now do you really love God when I tell my love going to church I said do you I loved reading the Bible now I said do you really love him you love him not talking about him with somebody I'm talking about you when there's nobody around but you and him there's nobody to see what you're doing or hear what you're saying there's nobody to impress or not impress do you talk to him that's a little bit weak do you talk to him hmm do you have a heart for him do you care do you love him if you really do you're not ashamed of it don't care who sees or knows either because if they don't love him they're the ones with the problem not you nothing ever to be embarrassed about because you love God why don't you just said out loud I love God I love God I love my father hallelujah father I love you now what are we talking about now we're talking about ministering to him can you see this when you tell him you love him and it's not empty words he knows if you do or not right and if you do will that minister to him just like a little child telling their great father or mother telling them I love you if they know it's real with that blessing Oh few things in the world would bless you more hallelujah Oh somebody say glory to God thank you Father I love you glory to God go to first John I need to read some more scripture first John 3 and verse 1 John 3:1 says behold behold means look what manner or what kind of love the father has bestowed on us look how he loves you the three things we need to get in this son in this area in order to have it right in order to minister to him in a way he'd enjoy it and receive it and just this this is your whole life we're talking about one I'm gonna sit in just a moment we need to believe his love for us you don't get this right you forget the rest of it we need to believe what he has told us how he loves us and take it personally and receive it you know it's because somebody loves you doesn't mean you have to receive it somebody loves you greatly don't mean you have to receive it look what manner of love the father has bestowed upon us that we should be called the sons of God that's who we are forever angels are not other created beings or not we're in a special category we are family no you you didn't hear what do you know what family I'm talking about I'm talking about the family of Al should I the creator of the heavens and the earth calls you his child that is love we don't fully comprehend you you'll never be an angel and beard emotion model said will judge angels we are sons of God therefore the world don't know who we are because we don't exactly look like it right now even a lot of the time but we will it didn't recognize him he even came to his own in what happened this is the greatest tragedy of the history of planet Earth that by and large the population of this planet and successive generations of the population have rejected his love he so loved the world that he he refused to just leave mankind in their death and in their separation from them he could not justly just say it's ok and receive us to himself but he had a way Jesus him who knew no sin was made to be sin for us in our place and the full judgment fell on him and he paid the price so that God could express the fullness of his great love for us hallelujah and the terrible sadness is that billions of people on the earth have said no thanks don't want you it's awful they have no idea what they're doing but are you thankful for the mercy of God that you don't you don't see it all but you knew enough you know enough to know that you believed him and you believe that he sent his son come only with me and you received him do you receive the love that he has given to us in sending Jesus and paying the price and becoming a son of the Living God somebody say what love what love what love I receive it I receive it I receive it who go to first John four well I excuse me I'm moving too quick verse two of first John three - we'd better read that - beloved now are we the sons of God not when we get to heaven now and it does not yet appear what we shall be but we know that when he shall appear we will be like him for we will see him as he is another place said as he is so are we in this world when he comes you're going to be amazed because you're going to see him as he is and you're gonna see yourself as he's made you and you're gonna go what and he's gonna say I told you I recreated you in my likeness and image I told you we are joint heirs we don't know what that means joint heirs with who the head of the church Jesus set out like what love what what we didn't earn any of it we haven't deserved any of it he just gave it to us because he loved us have you received it do you believe it in first John 4:7 said beloved let us love one another for love is of God and every one that loves is what so when you're born of God the love of God is shed abroad in your heart and if you know when you're born again when you know this love that is knowing God have you experienced the love of God then to that degree you know him why because it goes on to say verse 8 he that loves not knows not God if you haven't experienced that love then you don't know him because why for God is love love is not just a feeling loves a person keep going in this was manifested the love of God toward us because God sent His only begotten Son into the world that we might live through him do you believe how much he loves you come on help me I'm talking to everybody through the camera I'm talking to everybody in serozha do you believe do you believe what we're reading about go ahead and set out loud I believe father I believe how much you love me I receive it then don't you ever dare get mad or upset or depressed and say nobody loves me it's a it's an insult hmm the psalmist said when my mother and father forsake me then the Lord will take me up jesus said on the night he was betrayed he said all of your gonna leave me he said but I'm not alone man this'll do something for your insides come on say it out loud I am loved beyond anything on earth I will never be alone I will never be unloved you need to forget about who didn't love you and who wasn't there for you I mean you hobble alone emotionally crippled your whole life a lot of people been hurt forgive them get past it and talk about how loved you are come on you got family I grew up without a family not anymore nobody loved me that's a lie he loved you when you didn't know it I'll never be alone not in life not in death I will never be alone I'll never be unloved you talk about loved we are loved behind anything that a man and a woman could imagine because it's the love of the father he said I have loved you with an ever lasting love didn't he say you believe that and you receive that it will make you secure and you could be in needy you'll quit being so insecure you could being needy you quit pulling on people love me love me acknowledge my gift make me feel important you you will find an anchor to your soul in this turbulent sea of life people are people you live through this life you deal with enough people you're gonna be disappointed people are gonna let you down here and there why cuz they're like you they're human we make mistakes they don't only do it they should they do but they shouldn't they can fail a little they can fail a lot and I'm not saying that you won't feel it when people are close to you but you don't just have to fall apart and you don't have to get despondent of life because you are not alone and you are loved it's my sound loved I'm loved I'm loved and never alone it'll make you strong it'll make you stroll you can get through anything faith operates by love and faith is the victory that overcomes the world hallelujah can you see that and a big part of that love is knowing how much he loves me where are you skip down to verse 16 we have known and believed the love that God has to us he says it again god is love and he that dwells in love dwells in God and God in him and herein is our love made perfect that we may have boldness in the day of judgment how in the world could you have boldness in the day of judgment when mountains are sliding off into the ocean when unbelievers are screaming to the rocks to fall on them when all this kind of stuff might be happening how could you be bold only one way you know who's sitting on the throne you know who here and you know what what do you know come on what do you know he loves me he loves me and so no matter what happens if the mountain slide off into the sea if the earth is removed I'm gonna be fine because I'll never we made it I'm with him so much I'm with him I'm with I'm with him I'm with him look at verse 16 again I want you to confess this out loud if you if you mean it say I have known and I believe the love that God has for me since this is a choice I've experienced it I know about it I've experienced some of it and I believe it I choose to believe it there's a lot of things we won't know and understand in this life but especially if you've walked with the Lord for a while and you've seen him do things for you never is it okay to shake a fist and go why God why because there's more going on there than asking a question what's in that tone you're questioning his love you're questioning his justice and fairness you're questioning some cases his reality which is dumb why are you shouting at somebody that don't exist [Laughter] you see people are you know far as they're concerned they are dyed-in-the-wool atheist get in trouble and go oh god don't you mean oh nothing what do you mean who you call it thing is you get pressed hard enough it'll pop right out of your spirit without you even thinking about it you can try to rationalize and raise it but your spirit has more sense than you're educated hit [Laughter] hallelujah Oh somebody say thank you Father thank you Father thank you Father three things one believe his love for you second thing I won't take time to teach all this because we're just gonna act on this but second thing return his love he returned it love him not just for what you can get out of it right you just love him how many would raise their hand and say if he'd never did another thing for me I'll love him forever is that right of course he is he's going to do something for you for the rest of existence but but you're not just in it to try to see what you can get out of him you love he loves you and you love him for him for who he is hmm somebody say I love your Lord I loved you and then thirdly this is big to him if you love him this has to go along with it you must love what he loves which is all his kids yeah is that right which is the commandment right love each other your brothers and your sisters the rest of the family the way I have loved you hallelujah and that's first John five you're right there by it first John five well let me just let me just read the rest of it it all flows together verse 17 of chapter four 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 I told you you wouldn't be needing neediness and I'm being unstable and depressed and all that all the time that's fair it's just different manifestations of fear and you you you realize how much God loves you that'll leave you it's miraculous is something no pealed can do and no endless amounts of counseling can do you just realize how much he loves you receive that let it fill you it will push fear out of you it'll push it out of you or reading the scriptures how much fear is in look not not fear has torment love doesn't want you to be tormented like no parent wants to see their child tormented you got to remember when you tell them I love you tell them out a person got to remind yourself of that you can say like this there's no fear in God but full of God cast out fear because fear has torment he that fears is not made perfect in God can you see this god is love verse 19 what we love him why because we're responding to his number one you got to believe he loves you number two return that love love him if a man say here's number three I love God but hates his brother uh-oh he's a liar a liar about what he doesn't love God those are those honoring with your lips but your hearts far from him it's not worship in spirit and in truth it's phone enos it's religion men's religion he that loves not his brother whom he has seen how can he love God whom he's not seen one because even though there's a lot of flesh and a lot of other junk if somebody's really born again there's some God in them right the born of him and if you love God you got to love that I love somebody you don't have to love all of their junk they don't have to love all your junk but you got to love them number one because God loves them right they're his baby and he's patient with them you better be glad he is because he's the same way with you right this is the commandment we have from him that he who loves God love his brother also and in 1st John 5 and 1 whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God everyone that loves him that begat loves him also that is begotten of him you loved him you must love what he loves what does he love above everything his kids he loves his kids even the crazy ones huh even the ones that take forever to figure it out and repent and get right he loves them too he didn't love all the junk they're doing but he loves them and how about you come on how about you so sometimes I do too I do too you'd like to love their sin you shouldn't you don't have to love all their disrespect and all their disobedience no you shouldn't but you can love them by faith you can see past all the junk and see that the one you love so much he's their child they're his child too and he loves them just like he loves you and so if you love him you got to love them and you do by this we know that we love the children of God when we love God and keep his Commandments for this is the love of God are for God that we keep his Commandments and His commandments are not Grievous somebody's say God loves me and I love him and I love his kids too hallelujah thank your Lord stand on your feet

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Published: Sun Feb 25 2018