Unbothered | Dr. Matthew Stevenson | Incomprehensible Love Of God

moving on from honor cuz honor is still very important we we're just expanding our our kingdom vernacular and our kingdom vocabulary and I had to lay a powerful foundation in this how many of you know that the Church of Jesus Christ is the only place on earth that he authorized to pull people out of the past I'm going to say that again the Church of Jesus Christ is the only place on earth that he personally authorized to pull people out of the past this has motivated this series because when you start your walk in Christianity you do good until you join a church and you join a church or a a model of church and you realize that there are so many people who almost sentence you because of what they think about your past or what they can assume about your past you almost always run into speculation sometimes criticism and judgment and I want to be very clear that the standards of God's Word are clear holiness is holiness sin is sin heaven is heaven hell as hell demons a demon angels angels but there is a missing power and a part of that missing power in the body of Christ is acceptance we are a people by virtue of who we are in travail Gnaeus Li this church was born on the back of deliverance and spiritual warfare it's who we are it beats in our blood it comes out in our songs it is who we are we are people who fight but I think it's time to teach us who we're fighting and what we're fighting for we need to refocus this and often when you preach the grace message people get very very very afraid that people are looking for license to sin but if you preach grace right what actually is born in you as a hatred for sin and what is produced in you is the ability to break the power of sin the Bible says shall we continue in sin that grace may abound but where sin did about my god that gets me grace did much more about and so I have a heart for broken people I have a heart for decorative stories I have a heart for dramatic storylines and one of my grievances is that people for generations have had to suppress what's happened to them what they live with what they face to try to rent because it ain't even real acceptance from church people and I think the devil has done a powerful job at making us mask facade and start to pretend like we're somewhere we're not because we don't want the judgment of other church people but we're on the road to Damascus it should be that if God could look at a person's issue but if God could see a person struggle that if God could be aware of where person has been and he be unbounded we should be able to sit with engage with love on all of what God knows about a person and remain Romans the eighth chapter no that's that's 10:30 because I'm gonna scream a lot on that one first John chapter four first John chapter four I started preaching in 1999 and when I was studying for this I realize I've never preached a message on the love of God I preached a message on people learning to love but I've never really taken a whole approach to teaching people God's love and what it means to receive God's love and what it means to demonstrate God's love now when you are dealing with this this is going to be part one of a two-part thing I'm gonna finish the rest of 10:30 I'm calling this the in comprehensible love of God the in comprehensible love of God and I call it incomprehensible because that is one of the limits of the human mind you will die still trying to fathom the love of God it is something that we were not created to understand and I believe that one of Satan's ultimate goals in Eden was to blot Adams view of God love for him and he perverted something that God did and said in love to make it feel like a restriction so that Adam would repel instead of obey because when you don't realize God limits God's knows God's restrictions God's anything he employs to take care of you and you don't see it through the love of God what's born in you is rebellion was born in you is defiance and so what I'm learning is because many people don't understand God's love they don't accept it those very same principles interact with people to people if I don't understand you I will not accept you but a major fundament of Christianity is we listen we don't put understanding above acceptance that was a very presbyterian applause I want that to sink into your soul how many of us have spent you're not supposed to be preaching like this yet our lives and our energies at the realm of understanding I obey what I understand I embrace what I understand I pursue what I understand but all of your life as a Christian the majority of your foundation is going to be calling you out of what you understood the whole reason you have a Bible is to change what you understand and you must be willing to engage what you don't understand - you have got to change the leadership of your life and allow your understanding to catch up to your decisions until we can accept people that we don't understand the love of God has not had it's perfect work in us now you're religious you come up at holiness your tongue talking demon chasing whatever you is and so what you just heard was agreement how many of you know you can't accept people that you do not agree with look at somebody's how I have to agree with you now I hear you devil how can two walk together the devil is alive that is inappropriate hermeneutical application and a mystery when the Bible says how can two walk together it's not talking about you human beings it talking about God and a prophet that is not applicable to you in the person next to you what makes real unity is deliberate difference there can be no real diversity without your unity without real diversity so we are supposed to have varying levels of agreement but again understanding is the safety of those that are free now this is juicy and I even read my scripture I said when you are bound with the spirit of fear your only refuge is your understanding yet when you are bound with a spirit of fear it you need proof you need symptom you need similarity you need safety but in the kingdom of God the first thing that you get called out of is a riskless life my god a life of a predictability your life is not going to be predictable if you are obedient when you are obedient there are all kinds of twists and turn if you don't want to obey God or if you don't want to be on a roller coaster stop telling the Lord yes you're going to give some rises some dips some twists some turns sometimes it'll be slow other times it'll be fast but your commitment ought to be I am NOT going to incarcerate my destiny to my understanding there going to be things that I don't understand and when you really love him for real you get to the problem you I don't have to understand I'm gonna follow it because I know your character and I'm not gonna act like my comprehension is above your character I don't have to comprehend it now that that principle must be applicable to your brother people come in the house of God looking for acceptance and immediately find rejection are you listening to me you tomato I said they come looking desirous of acceptance bound with the torments the torrents of a speckle pass and if they don't look like us sound like us if they don't dress like us if they don't believe like us cuz I know they're like that we immediately make the distinction at the door when the door is not what should make distinction you religious thank you the altar is what makes the difference the door is supposed to be open for everybody we don't expect you to change at the door you change at the altar our problem is Jay in my life in your life we were never really taught God's love so we don't know how to give it [Applause] intelligent people cerebral people people who are philosophical and nature struggle with understanding the range of God's love and then when we get further ingrained in church Bree they say God is holy he's a holy God and you like yeah so then you start spending your devotion and your efforts and you're tired to be holy but you still don't feel loved so the devil puts us on a rat race to be what we can never be without a foundation of the love of God and the reason is if we strive to be unhuman without divine origin then we're going to always end up in the depths of our wickedness cuz we're not running to something we're running from something and the love of God determines why we want to be like him but I can't tell you if I've ever heard a series in my entire Christian life on the love of God jesus loves me this I know for the Bible tells me so little ones to him being something and all they are weak but he is strong yes Jesus we heard it in song but it never really pricked us and the reason it in prick us is because the devil rehearses even before you know is him why you are unlovable you don't know what it is but insecurity low self-esteem comparison judgment offense expectations wound dates they are all the voice of an agenda that's trying to make you doubt the fact that you can be loved watch me watch me here's where maxes out irrespective of what you do this is a major theological debate because there are people like if God is a loving God why do people go to hell because your definition of love is northern and you see love without consequence [Applause] human beings have tempered by God they have altered the real meaning of love and made it agreement which is the whole essence of conditional love conditions and agreement are synonymous so when you think about a being who is holy and got all kinds of creatures and civilizations and systems bowing worshiping him calling him holy and he's looking at something dirty unlike him untransformed Tombaugh he loves you with an everlasting love it produces conflict in the heart and so there are people I really believe who live in that trying to really believe that God loves him now there are others that believe that God loves him enough to save them just not to change him he ba-ba-ba-ba-ba there are people that believe that God loves them enough to to spend time with him in heaven but not to do any dramatic rehabilitations on my life and story in the earth but God God's love is active and not only is it active it's violent its hostile its aggressive but look at first John 4 let me read this to prove it first John chapter 4 verse 17 I'm reading this in the NIV because this is the foundation of a culture that is unbothered that can take anybody and receive anybody love anybody whether we agree with who they are or what they've done or not verse 17 this is how love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment in this world we are like Jesus there is no fear in love but perfect love drives out fear because fear has to do with what now think about how how reverse it is for people to come into the house of God and find punishment and here's the ironic part about it they find punishment before they are even transparent about everything that's happened what many people call testimony is only a percentage of who they really are what they've been through they would never go deep to give you details because they fear what punishment and it's also demonic for people to live acts be preached posts as if they have the right to punish others the one who fears is not made perfect in love look at me think about how powerful a culture would be that not only pull people out of their past but also pulled them out of their fears 80% of you in here is scary cats either of the future failure your own self affection you've got a lot of fear I can tell it because we do deliver us all the time you're bound with different levels of phobos fear of all kinds of stuff fear of judgment fear of wasting time just fear of everything fear of everything but God [Applause] but think about what could stir in an environment where when you came in and laid your heart down your sin down you'll be leashed down to know this Jesus that one of the things that came out of you is every realm of fear and you were flooded with the love of God in every angle on your story do you know what you would do do you know how powerful you could be and do you know how much of a threat you would be to hell cuz if hell is nervous about anything watch me watch me it's a well-loved people whoo hell shakes at a man or a woman that's been loved well and the reason hell shakes at that type of person is because they don't believe lies and they can't be controlled by fear and everything in the kingdom of darkness is governed by the spirit of fear maybe the real problem behind your stagnation is you've not been loved well or maybe the real issue in your relational inconsistencies is is you're actually afraid of the possibility of real love so you settle for the fake kind we love look at this 19 now in my good Baptist days if I was in the mood this would be where I started tuning up because I love this here we love not because we know how to do it we love not because we completely see the benefits of it we love not even because we believe everything about who he is some of us still doubt his character but we love because he loved us scream that word scream that word listen to me sire the love of God will determine what you're willing to do first this is how I know we don't have it we are living in a very reactionary Christianity I'll forgive if I'm certain you're going to accept my apology I'll forgive if it looks like you're having a good day we are very reactionary people but the love of God will make you initiate a thing because the love of God is an initiative power you didn't have it in you I'm trying not to go there Romans 5 says but this is our confidence 5:8 to be except that while we were sinners God through Christ loved us he didn't wait for us to be in a position to receive it he did it and then he allowed what he did to talk for him [Applause] God always Robert loves people who can't love him back [Applause] and he does not use a person's ability to love him as the barometer for how willing he is to love them we love because he loved us and whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or a sister or a democrat or republican or a white man or a black man or a gay person or a straight person or a cross-gender person or a crack addict or alcoholic because you think that this is talking about Christians but it's talking about the human condition and it's the one reason many Christians have no authority now they are only effective to people who believe like them but jesus said all power so yourself all power has been given unto me the power of God the authority of God the grace of God was set for people who needed the heal and I can't do nothing about the rest of the churches in the world but in my culture we're going to keep it as the premise of all we do that they heal don't need a physician I am NOT interested in trying to fix you before I know you I'm not interested in making you more acquainted about what's wrong with you without ever stirring up what's right with you we have a backwards gospel repent and die and go to hell because otherwise God won't like you know the gospel is actually the reverse there is something so powerful in you that Jesus doesn't want you to die without ever seeing the type a lot he wanted you to live so in order to get the best out of people we need the blood to take the worst off of them that's why we cast out devils that's why we call for repentance that's why we cry holy it's to get the good out of people [Applause] whoever does not love their brother look at these parameters whom they have not gone they have seen cannot love God whom they have not seen and he has given us this command anyone who loves God must love their brother and sister this is a part of the incomprehensible love of God is because although you can't understand it fully you can still see it in demonstration and I know that the Church of Jesus Christ is struggling hard in our love walk because of how unloving we are that is an honor issue you can't be honorable and unloving and so a part of our real issue the core of this is that we are limited in what love is and then the devil came up with several synonyms for what love looks like and we think love has to like and love has to agree in love can never say no and but but this morning almost bust my head in the shower because I was you know I'm very expressive I'm a worship I'm appraiser and I just don't care I was thinking about this and a part of what I realized was we are so backwards if I say right now God is about to do something 24 hours for you design acceleration is coming in your life things were about to move up most of you would come up here and help me dance and be honest you really will you I've been waiting on this thing I mean you do some tricks and everything with you but I was looking at one of the songs that David was talking about how unfailing the love of God is which means that it is constant your constant unfailing love and the next verse pastor talked about how he was slow to anger and I started thinking about how I was grateful that he withheld his anger and we love the stuff he did fast I love the fact that he did that slow and in his love he restrained consequence in the hope that I would respond to how good he loved me he is slow to anger and that doesn't mean he doesn't ever get angry it means that he's slow to anger his love restrains his anger he'll look at it and say that's awful that's wrong that's not like me but I know what I put in there and I'm not confident in what you see I'm confident in what I see he that had begun a good work ethic for to perform it so as long as you are following me eventually my love is going to surgically remove the parts of you that are unlike me and I'm going to contact that deep potential that is Christ in you the hope of glory but it is active battle of condemnation crushes people my heart breaks as a father as a as a leader in the body of Christ without committed we are to put in shame on people my heart breaks it breaks my heart it grieves God that the church would rather put on people what Jesus died to take off surely he hath borne surely he hath borne our part of his clothing the reason he died naked let me just give you some theology he could have died fully rolled he couldn't they were mocking him and historically they were mocking him for being or alleging that he was the King of the Jews and so in order to mock him thoroughly they should have put Kings garments on one of the synoptic Gospels mocks him for being unruly not having the garments of chains but a crown of thorns do you know why he died naked he died with improper clothing because he had to die in shame so that you wouldn't die from it Lord just sent me to people that's grateful I just want two people that will be honest that they've done some things that they are ashamed of and they had some things that they are ashamed of it although they are anointed and although they are praised or every now and then the thing they regret says look at you who do you think you are and the devil likes to imply that he got dirt on you but I wish I had five people that's grateful that he bore my shame and he died naked so he could pose me and make me wear the garb of Prince as I am the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus and he hid me as long as you live your life in shame not rebellion but shame you don't have a reliable inroad for real strength shame drains shame makes people who eat and the love of God strengthens people it makes them very very very constant you show me the inconsistent you show me that the shy the timid you show me the the person who is always hesitant to obey God now show you somebody who is still living their life under the penalty of the Old Testament law and if it did not work for Israel what makes you think is gonna work for you who call on the name of the Lord we've been preached into shame judged him to shame he ejected into shame alienated into shame and we've just learned how to function very well under levels of shame to imply or to set I'm holy sounds proud to you you're ok we're saying I'm working on it or I'm almost there and for some of us that may be true but it's easier to comprehend that he does not love us because of what we are aware of about ourselves and but comprehending that he still loves even the soul that Christ from hell because the Bible says he's not willing that any should perish but it all would come to repentance so why if God loves me does he imply consequence upon me because without a consequence you really won't know the detriment of your own defiance against love so even God's chastise oh god I wish you could get the book of Hebrews every son whom he receives he's gorgeous so him his his reproof his rebuke his chastisement is his acceptance look at you you think it's rejection alienation outcast when you are a person that is always on the recipient end of the corrective measures of God whether it's through the Holy Ghost or through other people God is demonstrating his active love toward you through every realm of your personality your emotions your adversaries he's trying to love you hard but because many of us are so unused to that we respond in fear even when we were shown love this is where we got it wrong a lot of us learned a lot of stuff before we learned the love of God and I mean on an individual level God loves me God loves me many of us were gonna happen I get it right he loves you doesn't mean he liked what you did doesn't mean he agreed with it and that doesn't mean he wants you to do it again it means he loves you and if he had to die all over again and it were just you in the world you were worth every ounce of blood he shared most of you don't even believe when he died he had you on his mind it took him that long to die cuz in his mind he had to consider everything that would ever come alive and decide that they were worth it with everything he knew and the high possibility that they may not ever receive me but I'm not going to allow their in ability to receive me to change my decision to love them when you are loved well it changes your capacity God entrusts you with heavier responsibilities he entrusts you with greater authority in the kingdom when you are a person well loved now God once said for all of us will tell you what this is gonna challenge us will you endure the level of deliverance it takes for you to see God's love in everything that's the difficulty because you're gonna have to be free enough to receive it that's why sin flesh demons and bondage is is what it is is because a part of what it does is prevents us from really seeing and receiving God's love and here is the cycle if we can't receive it we cannot give it because you can only give what you've been the recipient of that's part one I'm ago in part two at 10:30 but this is the unbothered culture it is a culture where the love of God is the bottom line deliverance is the love of God healing is the love of God correction is the love of God you've got to be very careful of judgmental practices and then calling people into freedom and there are people in if you like I really want to be but I'm so scared that if you knew the truth and if you understood it we we we have got to stop disqualified [Music] [Applause] the love of God is the only way to bring people out of the past you can't preach em out I've tried you can't sing them out you can't even rebuke him out the pass you have got to love people out of where they've been and when people have been a place and they found the love of God it changes them it changes them what is man that thou art mindful of him even the son of man now this is a simple principle but you need to join me on a journey of just meditating on that every day you love me you have to knowing what you know and how I am and what I think and what I've done what I feel presently you've got to love me and you are constant and in your love you overlook my foolishness things that I do to try to please you things that I consistently do on accident many of you I'm looking at your face you have never really sat even for a month in the truth that God loves you you don't know how to study it it's so foreign you're not to receive it and sit in it and worship you you don't realize that that is a love thing where you're able to respond because of his love toward you and what it's produced is a performance anxiety in you where you think God is the parent of an athletic child watching you and only rooting when you shoot it and when you hit it he's not that type of God he's the type of God that'll watch you miss it how many of you were watching a game this week I'm about to weep I'm trying to hold this thing in I mean you were watching the game this week and and i'ma just be honest with you use it against me later I was I was Derrick Rose's master prophet I was his chief intercessor he just wouldn't stop breaking though so I just finally resolved that whatever curse whoever put on him was more powerful than me so I backed up okay sue me I'm dealing with a lot of disappointment from the Bulls right now so I'll ship it to bron-bron cuz it'd be very transparent I understand his dilemma they're people who don't love you just don't like because you're just that good that's why I didn't like him he was just too good not not and I'm the last one to hug Sid netsy I get it so me and him share similar of wars if you will I was watching a game my wife and I were watching it and last week's game cracked me up so bad when old boy I was at Harding James JR Smith didn't realize that he needed to shoot the ball and he was holding it and you know Bron Bron is so dramatic he's doing everything but cease he's like just MIT was the only person on the floor that didn't realize if you do this right we'll win so we held the ball everybody else knew it everybody else slowly it was public and it cost him leverage had he won it would have given them the upper hand do you think God would be on the side like you dumb stupid idiot I've trained you I shared my blood your doof No that's your mama that's your daddy that's your theology doing that to you God is the direct opposite he would have walked up on junior took the ball from him shot it went back to the locker room I feel I run it and said next time don't do it without me I realize you didn't do it this time but i'ma show you how to do it with me I love you we've got to start to see that type of God that even when we miss it he sees the opportunity to teach us how not to miss it he don't just love us if and he done just love us win he doesn't just love us on this premise he loves you no matter how good you do how bad you do no matter how good you are he loves you now many of you as you meditate on this you're going to run into a very interesting emotion it's called conviction but God has given us provision for conviction it's called repentance that's the answer to conviction when you get convicted and either how unloving you are or how much of God's love you just have not really received the response is to repent in the sense that you've got to add to the Lord Lord help me deal with me so I can realize how much you really love me I don't I'm tired of obeying you for heaven [Music] I'm tired of obeying here for me I want to pay and I want to love to obey because I can never repay you ah and I'm talking to people I feel the heart of God on this that have lived their whole lives trying to repay God trying to use your holiness or your rightness or your giftedness as a form of payment to him a part of being routine means that you don't have to pay [Music] if that'll make a worshipper happen and even if you had the ability to pay him he would take it because he just loves us it's just unfathomable father we worship you this we worship you this morning than you are to our love but we're asking that you would open our eyes and open our hearts nor we've been steeped we've been steeped in generations of shame we've been immersed in generations of guilt and condemnation and judgment lured from family and from other Christians and from peers and from people and I'm asking that in the mother to Lourdes we'll pull people from out of the power of shame I'm asking that you afraid to power of condemnation by God I'm asking that you would help them to see that your love was shed abroad not to just hug people and rub them but to break the powers of Hell and to destroy the works of darkness what I'm asking for every all nations worship assembly that you would release your love so violently in this place release it so furiously in this place Lord from heaven to earth begin to reveal the depths of your love toward us and deliver us from ignorance deliver us from shame deliver us from guilt deliver us from embarrassment deliver us from regret deliver us from remorse deliver us from bitterness deliver us from fear of every form fear and allow your love to stir with inertia such a great confidence and such a great courage heal us Lord help us to develop develop a whole focus to love you with all of our hearts and all of our soul and all of our Mylar we're tired of fighting your love toward us with our excuses and without running and without a consistency looking at every idol let every altar let every demonic encampment in our hearts then our beliefs in our stories be brought down because he loved us and helped us to say yes because you love us that was to forgive because you love us help us to yield because you love us help us to submit because you love us and help us to honor because you love us and help us to endure because you love us love us to throw because you develop a strong resistance against the powers of lire hello we renounce right now the power every area and I pray right now in the same way that we proud in years of regret nation of many shame we are this road dr. white every denomination like Invictus don't bring your words upon our hearts like a snore and deliver Antichrist changed Risto back to the god I'm not here to do Oh Chicago [Music]

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Published: Mon Jun 04 2018