A Life of Love
November 20, 2020
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Discover what it means to love others the way God loves us.
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- Dr. David Jeremiah: Each of ushas just one life to live.
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- Our life should count.
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- It should matter.
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- It should have purpose and,frankly, it should be amazing.
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- But as I look around me,I see lives lived in disarray,
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- in defeat, and discouragement.
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- I've been deeply burdenedabout this because, you see,
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- an unfulfilled lifeis just no way to exist.
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- And from what I read in theScripture, God promises us
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- a life of blessings beyondour comprehension, literally
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- a life beyond amazing.
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- So I asked a few friendsof mine, friends who I believe
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- demonstrate a life beyondamazing, to sit down together
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- with me and discuss whatit takes to live a vibrant
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- and victorious life.
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- We gathered together for a mealin San Diego and what you're
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- about to see is a partof our amazing conversation.
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- ♪♪♪
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- Dr. Jeremiah: I wannathank you for joining me today.
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- We're gonna talk about lovefor a few minutes.
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- It's kind of like,where it all began.
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- So, you know, if you readin the Scripture, love
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- is at the top of every list.
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- But most peopledon't know what it is.
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- Bobby Schuller: That's right.
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- Dr. Jeremiah: I believe loveis the key ingredient
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- to a relationship not onlywith God but with others.
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- Why do you thinkit's the cornerstone
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- of the Christian faith?
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- Kirk Cousins: Well, the Biblesays, you know, we love
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- because he first loved us.
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- You know, he set the example, hedisplayed that on the cross, and
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- so it is the cornerstone, as yousaid, because it's what it's all
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- about and because of his lovefor us is the only reason
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- we even have the opportunityto relate to him
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- in the first place.
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- Dr. Jeremiah: Is therea place for love in the business
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- world, David?
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- David Green: You know,I think in the business world
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- we ought to see ourselves--asemployers, we ought to see
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- ourselves as caring aboutour people and their families.
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- And this is one of the thingsthat we want to do
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- at Hobby Lobby,is we want to make sure
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- that we do the very bestwe can for our employees.
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- We love our families and wenurture them and care about them
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- but we should also careabout our employees' families.
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- Dr. Jeremiah: You know,somebody told me once, David,
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- that the difference betweenleadership in the world and in
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- the church is like this: in theworld it's the triangle and you
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- try to make your way to the top.
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- Most people say, "Step onwhoever you have to to get there
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- and when you're at the top youlook down and here's all these
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- people that are serving you.
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- But when you become a Christianthe triangle's turned upside
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- down and it's no longer how manypeople are serving you, it's how
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- many people are you serving,"and you model that
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- at Hobby Lobby andit's really cool to watch that.
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- Do you sing about love?
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- Mandisa: Well, I thinkI do in a different way.
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- For me, love is reflectedin a lot of different ways and
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- I try to pray 1 Corinthians 13and so I pray, "Lord, help me
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- to grow in patience.
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- Help me to grow in kindness."
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- And I heard you once say, "Don'tpray for patience because you're
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- gonna have to be in situationsthat are gonna be testing your
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- patience," but I try to growin my love in praying Scripture
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- over myself and then asking Godto help me to be
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- a 1 Corinthians 13kind of a person where I am
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- displaying loveto everybody that I meet.
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- Bobby: You know,for Christians, well, for human
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- beings, the greatest needis to bond deeply with others.
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- And that's what you seeis that when people get saved
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- in the acts church, they don't,just like, get saved and then go
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- on a personal journey alone.
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- They get saved into a community
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- where they're doing life withother people and then the church
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- just says, "Yeah, come here,we love you, you know,
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- we'll take you in."
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- When Paul calls us the body ofChrist, he means it literally.
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- We put skin on God.We're the new temple.
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- That means, Dr. J., when yougive me a hug or a handshake,
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- that's Jesus giving that to me.
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- When you pray for me,that's Christ praying for me.
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- And so what you're teaching andyou're right on is that love,
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- it means you care about people.
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- Dr. Jeremiah:And so what is love?
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- It's what you do.
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- And like you said, Bobby,it's a lifestyle.
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- It's letting the love of Godbe shed abroad in your hearts
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- so that you touch other people.
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- And if we could learn that,we could change a lot that goes
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- on in our churches, in ourcommunities, in our world.
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- Dr. Jeremiah: As I sat withmy friends and reflected on what
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- was shared, I was once againreminded that love is a
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- decision, a decision thattransforms one's life and in the
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- next few minutes I will sharewith you how a life of love
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- is necessary in orderto live a life beyond amazing.
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- ♪♪♪
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- announcer: What are the signsof a life beyond amazing?
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- Among them, joy that is notdependent on circumstance,
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- integrity that settlesfor no exceptions,
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- and self-disciplinethat stands firm.
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- But how do you get theminto your life?
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- It takes a decision; actually,nine decisions each day
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- to commit these into your heartand actions.
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- ♪♪♪
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- Dr. Jeremiah: Countrysuperstar Alan Jackson made
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- a fortune singing love songswith words like this:
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- "When somebody loves youthere's nothing you can't do.
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- When somebody loves youit's easy to get through."
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- That sentiment may not beabsolutely true but it's a whole
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- lot better than the old countryclassic that goes like this:
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- "I went back to my fourth wifefor the third time and gave her
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- a second chance to makea first-class fool out of me."
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- That actually is a song.
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- I gotta tell you that aftera lifetime of ministry, I've
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- observed that the whole ideaof love makes fools
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- out of a lot of people.
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- When you talk about love,you are talking about something
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- that people write, talk,and sing about so much
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- and I believe thatone of the reasons that's true
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- is because there's a holein the human heart and we need
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- reassurance and affectionand fellowship.
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- Love is the oxygen of the soul
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- and we have to have it.
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- The first thing that an infantneeds at birth is to be held
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- and hugged by a loving parent,and the presence of love brings
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- a lifetime of blessing.
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- When we receive Jesus Christas our personal Savior,
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- the very love of Godis poured into our hearts.
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- Did you know that?
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- The Bible tells us that he pourshis love into our hearts by his
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- Holy Spirit and that love growswithin us just like grapes grow
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- on a vine and the fruitof the Spirit is love.
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- And this loveisn't just a sensation.
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- It's not just a warm feelingaround here, in your body.
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- This love wears work glovesand handles the everyday nuts
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- and bolts of life.
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- It's very practical.
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- It hugs the lonely, it feeds thehungry, it tends the sick, it
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- comforts the sorrowful, and itputs up with the insufferable.
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- It's kind and long-suffering,it's pure and perceptive
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- and positive in its outlook.
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- It is truly oneof the foundations of a life
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- beyond amazing.
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- And here's the interesting thingabout it, folks.
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- Until Jesus came to this earth,nobody ever had experienced
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- that kind of love.
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- The world's conceptof love before that
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- was very self-centered.
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- It was love that demandedsomething in return.
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- It was love for what you couldget out of love but when God
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- sent his Son as a love giftto this world, his special
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- other-centered love was put ondisplay in Jesus Christ for all
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- of us to watch and they calledthat love agape.
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- That's the word in John 3:16:"For God so agape the world."
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- Now let me tell you somethingthat will surprise some of you.
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- Love is not an option.
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- Love is a command.
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- The command of loveis everywhere on display
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- in the New Testamentand I find many believers
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- are quite shockedat this because they've bought
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- into the ideathat you can't command love.
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- Love is something that's gonnakind of overtake you.
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- You know, we talkabout it this way.
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- We fell in love, like you'rewalking down the street
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- and you fall into it, you know?
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- Like something happens to you,you didn't have anything to do
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- with it, you don't knowanything about it.
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- I just--what happened to you?
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- "Oh, I just fell in love."
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- Well, the Bible tells usthat we are responsible
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- to love one another.
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- And I'm gonna read theseScriptures and I want you
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- to notice how oftenthe word "command"
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- or "commandment" shows up.
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- The command to love.
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- Here's what the Scripture says.
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- John 13:34: "A new commandmentI give to you, that you love one
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- another; as I have loved you,that you also love one another."
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- John 15:12: "This is Mycommandment, that you love one
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- another as I have loved you."
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- John 15:17: "These thingsI command,
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- that you love one another."
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- 1 John 3:23: "And this isHis commandment: that we should
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- believe on the name of the Sonof God and love one another,
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- just as He gave us commandment."
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- Now here's the questionthat you and I have to answer.
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- Is it possible for usto obey that commandment?
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- Can love be commanded?
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- Can we love each otheras he has loved us?
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- And based on the evidence thatyou observe today, you would
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- have to see that most peoplehave taken that option
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- off the table.
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- No, love is not something theytake as a responsibility but
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- something they get to do if itso happens to be right for them.
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- I hear guys all thetime--earlier when I was doing
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- a lot more counseling than I donow, guys would say,
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- "Well, Pastor Jeremiah, I justgotta tell you, I don't love her
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- anymore," like they have anoption not to love her anymore.
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- The Bible says,"Husbands, love your wives."
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- What part of that don't we get?
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- "Well, what if I don't feellike it?"
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- That isn't anythingto do with it.
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- Love her anyway.
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- Because love isn't a feeling;love is an action.
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- Love is a response.Love is a verb.
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- Love is what we do morethan what we feel.
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- The feelings comeafter the action.
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- In the New Testament bookof Revelation when the Ephesian
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- church had lost its first love,
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- what is it that God told themto do?
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- "Go backand do the first works."
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- He didn't say, "Go back and sitaround and see if the feeling
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- comes back."
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- He said, "Go back and dothe first works."
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- In fact, inthe New Testament Scriptures--
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- listen to this--we are commanded55 different times to love.
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- And all of these commandsare given to us in different
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- contexts, in different settings.
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- They affect us as parents,they affect us as children,
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- they affect us as individuals.
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- These commands affect us asmembers of the local church.
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- Even the New Testament holds outfor us what seems to be
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- impossible, that we should loveour enemies, and Jesus Christ
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- apparently thought that wasimportant enough to leave us
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- with a vivid illustration as hehung on the cross and forgave
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- the people that put him there.
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- Of those 55 commands to love,21 of them are commands
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- for us to love one another.
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- God commands the impossibleand then he gives us his ability
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- to accomplish this love.
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- So how do we cultivatethis love in our lives?
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- How do we cultivatethis command?
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- As with all the character traitswe are studying in this series,
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- let me tell you we areresponsible for developing
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- God's gift to us of love.
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- Remember now, God pours outhis love to us when we're saved.
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- He gives us this depositof love.
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- But he doesn't give that to usjust so that it can sit there
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- and not be responded to by us.
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- We're to take that loveand take it to the next level.
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- We are to say, "This is God'sgift to me and I'm gonna take
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- this and give a gift back to himout of what he's given to me."
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- Paul summarized the wordsof 1 Corinthians 13
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- in this statementat the end of the love chapter.
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- You know it well.
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- "And now abideth faith, hope,love, these three; but the
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- greatest of these is love."
- 00:13:23.953 --> 00:13:26.889
- Now, that seems like that's theend of the discussion of love.
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- But unfortunately, there isa chapter division between
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- 13 and 14 which I thinkshouldn't be there.
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- It's arbitrary.
- 00:13:38.200 --> 00:13:39.501
- By the way, the chapterdivisions in the Bible
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- are not inspired.
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- They were put there by peoplewho wanted to make the Bible
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- easier for us to read.
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- So you hear the summarystatement of what love
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- is at the end of chapter 13.
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- Do you know what the first verseof chapter 14 says?
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- It says: "Pursue love."
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- Here is what love looks like,the love that God
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- has given to you.
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- Accept it, rejoice in it,be thankful for it.
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- Now pursue it.
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- In other words, take control of
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- your own life and begin to askGod to help you learn
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- how to love better.
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- That's what I want in my life.
- 00:14:15.738 --> 00:14:17.873
- And here we have this primeexample of that seeming paradox
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- that stands at the centerof all of these traits.
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- The fruit is always a giftbut it is still something
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- that requires hard workon our behalf.
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- So that brings usto how we do this.
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- How do I becomea more loving person?
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- I've been commanded to love.
- 00:14:37.192 --> 00:14:38.661
- I hear people say this, "I justwasn't born with much love."
- 00:14:38.694 --> 00:14:42.097
- Or "I don't have--I'm just nota loving person," like once you
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- say that you're off the hook.
- 00:14:46.268 --> 00:14:48.404
- No, you just admittedwhere you are but you're really
- 00:14:48.437 --> 00:14:50.539
- on the hook now.
- 00:14:50.572 --> 00:14:52.308
- Nobody has a right to say,"Well, I know we're supposed to
- 00:14:52.341 --> 00:14:54.443
- do this but I just wasn't bornthat way."
- 00:14:54.476 --> 00:14:57.246
- I know some of you weren't bornwith a loving attitude
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- but that doesn't mean youaren't responsible to love.
- 00:15:00.215 --> 00:15:03.185
- So since love is both a giftand a task, here's the question
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- that challenges us in every oneof these discussions.
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- How can we becomemore loving people?
- 00:15:09.792 --> 00:15:14.063
- I'm a Christian.I know God.
- 00:15:14.096 --> 00:15:16.065
- I know that he pouredhis love into my heart.
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- I'm confident that God loves me.
- 00:15:17.933 --> 00:15:19.234
- John 3:16 is somethingI know well, but do you know
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- 1 John 3:16?
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- We all know John 3:16.
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- Do you know what 1 John 3:16looks like?
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- The 3:16s are kind of therefor us to remember.
- 00:15:30.479 --> 00:15:33.682
- "By this we know love, becauseHe laid down His life for us.
- 00:15:33.716 --> 00:15:37.353
- And we also ought to lay downour lives for the brethren."
- 00:15:37.386 --> 00:15:42.825
- That's 1 John 3:16.
- 00:15:42.858 --> 00:15:45.461
- And 1 John 4:11-12 is similarbecause "if God so loved us, we
- 00:15:45.494 --> 00:15:50.299
- also ought to love one another."
- 00:15:50.332 --> 00:15:53.736
- So let me just laythis principle out so
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- that we can all grab hold of it.
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- One of the ways you learn how tolove one another is by learning
- 00:15:57.339 --> 00:16:00.576
- how much God loved you in thefirst place, because if we're
- 00:16:00.609 --> 00:16:04.413
- supposed to love one another asGod has loved us, then we need
- 00:16:04.446 --> 00:16:08.250
- to learn more about how God hasloved us so that we can pattern
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- that in our lovefor one another.
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- Because God loved us,we are to love one another.
- 00:16:15.758 --> 00:16:21.830
- October 22, 2007, the firstmedal of honor was awarded
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- for combat in Afghanistan.
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- It was presented to the familyof Lieutenant Michael Murphy,
- 00:16:28.704 --> 00:16:32.107
- a Navy SEAL who gave his lifeto make a radio call
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- for help for his team.
- 00:16:35.377 --> 00:16:38.180
- Murphy and three other SEALswere sent on a mission
- 00:16:38.213 --> 00:16:41.016
- in June of 2005 into the rugged10.000 foot Afghan mountains,
- 00:16:41.050 --> 00:16:45.287
- searching for a known terroristand they apparently
- 00:16:45.320 --> 00:16:48.023
- were spotted by local tribesmenwho reported them to
- 00:16:48.057 --> 00:16:51.226
- the Taliban and Murphy's teamwas trapped by 50 enemy troops
- 00:16:51.260 --> 00:16:55.497
- who surrounded them on 3 sides,forced them into a ravine
- 00:16:55.531 --> 00:16:58.700
- and all 4 men began to sustainwounds and were out
- 00:16:58.734 --> 00:17:02.237
- of ammunition.
- 00:17:02.271 --> 00:17:04.339
- "We were hurting,"said the team's sole survivor,
- 00:17:04.373 --> 00:17:07.609
- Petty Officer 2nd ClassMarcus Luttrell.
- 00:17:07.643 --> 00:17:10.479
- "We were out of ammoand it was bad.
- 00:17:10.512 --> 00:17:12.481
- It was real bad.
- 00:17:12.514 --> 00:17:14.783
- But Murphy moved from man to manto keep his team together,
- 00:17:14.817 --> 00:17:18.220
- though he had to expose himselfto enemy fire to do it.
- 00:17:18.253 --> 00:17:21.723
- Then because the mountainousterrain blocked communications,
- 00:17:21.757 --> 00:17:24.526
- he had to move into the openarea and call for help.
- 00:17:24.560 --> 00:17:27.162
- Despite incoming fire, he calmlyprovided his unit's location
- 00:17:27.196 --> 00:17:30.699
- and informationabout opposing force.
- 00:17:30.732 --> 00:17:34.169
- While making the call, he tooktwo rounds in the back
- 00:17:34.203 --> 00:17:37.606
- and dropped the handset buthe managed to retrieve it and
- 00:17:37.639 --> 00:17:41.610
- complete the call, even tellingthe person at the other end,
- 00:17:41.643 --> 00:17:45.614
- "Thank you," while he wasin this wounded condition.
- 00:17:45.647 --> 00:17:49.551
- His dad, speaking to reportersafter his son had been killed in
- 00:17:49.585 --> 00:17:53.956
- action, said, "Here is a man whohad been shot in the stomach.
- 00:17:53.989 --> 00:17:58.427
- He'd been fightingwith this wound.
- 00:17:58.460 --> 00:18:00.329
- Then he gets shot in the backand then he still has the
- 00:18:00.362 --> 00:18:02.865
- presence of mind to say,'Thank you.'"
- 00:18:02.898 --> 00:18:06.235
- Petty Officer Luttrell survivedthe firestorm because
- 00:18:06.268 --> 00:18:08.770
- he was blasted over the ridge bya rocket-propelled grenade,
- 00:18:08.804 --> 00:18:11.507
- knocked unconscious,and rescued by local villagers
- 00:18:11.540 --> 00:18:15.077
- who refused to turn himover to the Taliban.
- 00:18:15.110 --> 00:18:18.113
- He was later transported toa Marine outpost and he owed
- 00:18:18.147 --> 00:18:21.350
- his life to Lieutenant Murphy.
- 00:18:21.383 --> 00:18:25.020
- I can't imagine the love,respect, and gratitude that
- 00:18:25.053 --> 00:18:26.955
- he feels today for his fallencompanion, to know that a buddy
- 00:18:26.989 --> 00:18:31.093
- willingly and without hesitationexposed himself to enemy fire
- 00:18:31.126 --> 00:18:34.796
- to save him.
- 00:18:34.830 --> 00:18:36.632
- That must bea lifelong appreciation.
- 00:18:36.665 --> 00:18:40.369
- Not many of us will ever seethat kind of courage or love in
- 00:18:40.402 --> 00:18:43.172
- our own personal lives 'cause itdoesn't happen that often.
- 00:18:43.205 --> 00:18:46.575
- The "me" generation has turnedinto "it's all about me"
- 00:18:46.608 --> 00:18:50.145
- generation and, if we're notcareful, even in our churches,
- 00:18:50.179 --> 00:18:53.582
- we become consumer centerswhere everyone wants his
- 00:18:53.615 --> 00:18:56.919
- or her own style of worshipor set of programs.
- 00:18:56.952 --> 00:19:01.723
- But the Bible says this:"While we were yet sinners,
- 00:19:01.757 --> 00:19:05.394
- Christ died for us."
- 00:19:05.427 --> 00:19:08.764
- There's only one symbol that Ithink is greater than the medal
- 00:19:08.797 --> 00:19:11.166
- of honor and that's the crossof Calvary.
- 00:19:11.200 --> 00:19:15.170
- And I think it would help usif we used our imagination once
- 00:19:15.204 --> 00:19:17.739
- in a while just to consider howsimilar our plight was to that
- 00:19:17.773 --> 00:19:21.143
- of Murphy's team, trapped by theenemy, outnumbered, wounded and
- 00:19:21.176 --> 00:19:24.346
- hopeless, and yet one man stoodup and stretched out his arms
- 00:19:24.379 --> 00:19:29.618
- and saved us.
- 00:19:29.651 --> 00:19:32.120
- There's something aboutthat picture that moves us and
- 00:19:32.154 --> 00:19:35.524
- I think it's no accident thatJesus died
- 00:19:35.557 --> 00:19:37.859
- with outstretched arms.
- 00:19:37.893 --> 00:19:39.962
- It was his way of embracingthe whole world and reaching out
- 00:19:39.995 --> 00:19:44.833
- for you and me.
- 00:19:44.866 --> 00:19:46.835
- The second thing we need to dois pursue genuine love.
- 00:19:46.868 --> 00:19:51.373
- Did you know that in
- 00:19:51.406 --> 00:19:53.375
- John 13:35 it says: "By this thewhole world will know whether
- 00:19:53.408 --> 00:19:57.679
- or not we are Christiansif we love one another."
- 00:19:57.713 --> 00:20:00.349
- You expect that to say, "By thisthe whole world will know we are
- 00:20:00.382 --> 00:20:02.818
- Christians if we come to churchor if we pray or if we give
- 00:20:02.851 --> 00:20:06.188
- to the offering."
- 00:20:06.221 --> 00:20:07.522
- Doesn't say any of that.
- 00:20:07.556 --> 00:20:08.857
- It says: "By this shall everyone
- 00:20:08.890 --> 00:20:10.292
- know that youand I are a Christian
- 00:20:10.325 --> 00:20:12.628
- by how we love one another."
- 00:20:12.661 --> 00:20:14.596
- That's the badge of ourdiscipleship and it's no wonder
- 00:20:14.630 --> 00:20:17.866
- that the watching world lookssometimes at the church which
- 00:20:17.899 --> 00:20:21.403
- seems to be more about fightingand griping and complaining and
- 00:20:21.436 --> 00:20:24.673
- all of that, and they don't wantany part of it because it
- 00:20:24.706 --> 00:20:27.376
- doesn't seem genuine.
- 00:20:27.409 --> 00:20:28.710
- It doesn't seem real.
- 00:20:28.744 --> 00:20:30.812
- This was very much of a problemin the New Testament.
- 00:20:30.846 --> 00:20:33.982
- Here's the third thing I wantto share with you and I'll just
- 00:20:34.016 --> 00:20:35.717
- give you this principle:"Pray for greater love."
- 00:20:35.751 --> 00:20:40.289
- If you don't feel like you'rereally as loving as you ought
- 00:20:40.322 --> 00:20:42.491
- to be, ask God to help you.
- 00:20:42.524 --> 00:20:43.825
- God wants us to be loving peopleand he doesn't mind if we come
- 00:20:43.859 --> 00:20:47.162
- and ask him to help us.
- 00:20:47.195 --> 00:20:49.064
- And if you have somebody inyour life who's not very loving
- 00:20:49.097 --> 00:20:51.900
- toward you and others, you mightwant to pray for them that God
- 00:20:51.933 --> 00:20:54.970
- would give them somemore love, too.
- 00:20:55.003 --> 00:20:58.473
- Then don't be afraid to risk.
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- That's number four.
- 00:21:01.009 --> 00:21:02.611
- If you want to grow in your lovefor others, don't think
- 00:21:02.644 --> 00:21:05.147
- it's a safe way to go.
- 00:21:05.180 --> 00:21:07.149
- How many of you know it's neversafe to love anybody
- 00:21:07.182 --> 00:21:09.351
- 'cause they can hurt you?
- 00:21:09.384 --> 00:21:10.819
- We've often said in ourdiscussions at home, that
- 00:21:10.852 --> 00:21:14.189
- sometimes the people you helpthe most are the ones
- 00:21:14.222 --> 00:21:16.391
- who hurt you the worst.
- 00:21:16.425 --> 00:21:18.126
- Isn't that something?
- 00:21:18.160 --> 00:21:19.728
- But that's one of the thingsyou have to guard against.
- 00:21:19.761 --> 00:21:21.997
- You cannot stop loving simplybecause you're afraid
- 00:21:22.030 --> 00:21:25.233
- that if you love you'll be hurt.
- 00:21:25.267 --> 00:21:26.868
- Maybe you've gone througha relationship and it just ended
- 00:21:26.902 --> 00:21:29.504
- up so bad and you've saidin your heart,
- 00:21:29.538 --> 00:21:31.973
- "I'm never getting involvedwith anybody else again.
- 00:21:32.007 --> 00:21:34.376
- This was so awful."
- 00:21:34.409 --> 00:21:36.144
- Let me read to you whatC.S. Lewis said about this.
- 00:21:36.178 --> 00:21:39.147
- He said, "To love at allis to be vulnerable.
- 00:21:39.181 --> 00:21:41.550
- Love anything and your heartwill certainly be wrung
- 00:21:41.583 --> 00:21:44.286
- and possibly broken.
- 00:21:44.319 --> 00:21:46.221
- If you want to make sure ofkeeping it intact, you must give
- 00:21:46.254 --> 00:21:48.623
- your heart to no one,not even an animal.
- 00:21:48.657 --> 00:21:52.561
- Wrap it carefully around withhobbies and little luxuries.
- 00:21:52.594 --> 00:21:55.731
- Avoid all entanglements.
- 00:21:55.764 --> 00:21:57.065
- Lock it up safe in the casketor coffin of your selfishness,
- 00:21:57.099 --> 00:22:00.001
- but in that casket, safe, dark,motionless, airless,
- 00:22:00.035 --> 00:22:03.538
- it will change.
- 00:22:03.572 --> 00:22:04.873
- It will not be broken,it will become unbreakable,
- 00:22:04.906 --> 00:22:07.576
- impenetrable, irredeemable.
- 00:22:07.609 --> 00:22:10.212
- The alternative to tragedy orat least to the risk of tragedy
- 00:22:10.245 --> 00:22:13.882
- is damnation.
- 00:22:13.915 --> 00:22:15.851
- The only place outside of heavenwhere you can be perfectly
- 00:22:15.884 --> 00:22:18.754
- safe from all the dangers andperturbations of love is hell."
- 00:22:18.787 --> 00:22:25.360
- You've got to be willing to riskand then here's the last one
- 00:22:25.394 --> 00:22:29.464
- and we're done.
- 00:22:29.498 --> 00:22:31.466
- Practice love every day.
- 00:22:31.500 --> 00:22:35.904
- "Therefore be imitatorsof God as dear children,"
- 00:22:35.937 --> 00:22:38.173
- the Scripture says.
- 00:22:38.206 --> 00:22:39.508
- "And walk in love."
- 00:22:39.541 --> 00:22:40.842
- How many of you know walkingis one step at a time?
- 00:22:40.876 --> 00:22:43.111
- Just as we learn to walk onestep at a time, we learn to
- 00:22:43.145 --> 00:22:45.380
- love, one loving act at a time.
- 00:22:45.414 --> 00:22:47.816
- 1 Corinthians 16:14 says:"Let everything you
- 00:22:47.849 --> 00:22:50.719
- do be done with love."
- 00:22:50.752 --> 00:22:53.522
- So here's the essenceof the message.
- 00:22:53.555 --> 00:22:58.660
- Find out how much God loves youand take that love
- 00:22:58.693 --> 00:23:04.232
- and be a distributor.
- 00:23:04.266 --> 00:23:06.735
- Take that love and love others.
- 00:23:06.768 --> 00:23:09.604
- Every time you think, "I don'tknow if I can love that person,"
- 00:23:09.638 --> 00:23:12.174
- stop for a moment and rememberhow much God loved you, what
- 00:23:12.207 --> 00:23:16.611
- he not only saved you from inthe past, but what he might have
- 00:23:16.645 --> 00:23:19.815
- saved you from in the future.
- 00:23:19.848 --> 00:23:21.450
- Remember, the Bible says Godloved us when we were
- 00:23:21.483 --> 00:23:24.186
- without any reason to be loved,sinful, rebellious.
- 00:23:24.219 --> 00:23:29.724
- Not looking for love,God reached out to us.
- 00:23:29.758 --> 00:23:33.061
- That's the quality of lovehe wants us
- 00:23:33.094 --> 00:23:35.864
- to develop as believers.
- 00:23:35.897 --> 00:23:37.232
- And when we do, I want to tellyou if you've ever experienced
- 00:23:37.265 --> 00:23:40.168
- even a little bit of this,it's an amazing life.
- 00:23:40.202 --> 00:23:44.072
- To love others isthe greatest reward you will
- 00:23:44.105 --> 00:23:47.509
- ever get in your life.
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- announcer: And now, with onelast word for today's program,
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- here is Dr. Jeremiah.
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- Dr. Jeremiah: It's ironic,isn't it, that the thing the
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- world needs most, love,is the thing the world
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- understands the least.
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- Our culture has an abundanceof counterfeit love that
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- is incapable of satisfyingthe longing of the soul.
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- If you and I are going to livea life beyond amazing
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- we must first learn to lovethe way God loves.
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- Fortunately, we have thegreatest illustration of perfect
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- love modeled for usby Jesus Christ
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- when he died to provide usan abundant life today
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- and heaven in the future.
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- Understanding true loveultimately begins when we commit
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- our life to Christ by faith.
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- So to encourage you as you growin your knowledge of God's love,
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- I would like to send youthree free gifts.
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- First, "Life Beyond Amazing"Scripture cards to help you stay
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- focused every day on the amazinglife we have in Christ.
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- Second, a booklet about knowingand living for Christ called,
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- "Your Greatest Turning Point,"and third, our monthly
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- devotional magazine,"Turning Points," to encourage
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- you with inspiring articlesand devotionals.
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- And we'll send all these giftsto you, free of charge,
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- if you will contact us hereat Turning Point today.
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- announcer:Next time on "Turning Point."
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- announcer: Dr. Jeremiahcontinues his conversation with
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- Bobby Schuller, Mandisa,David Green, and Kirk Cousins.
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- And he teaches howwe can make the decision
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- to live a life of joy.
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- Dr. Jeremiah: The Bible says,"Commit your way
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- unto the Lord and he," what?
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- "Gives you the desiresof your heart."
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- But it doesn't start until yousay, "Yes," until you say,
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- "Lord God, I want your joy.
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- I know I'm not gonna get itmy way so here I am.
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- Here's the page of my life.
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- I've signed the bottom,you fill in the details."
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- announcer: Thank youfor being with us today
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- for Dr. Jeremiah's series,"A Life Beyond Amazing."
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- Join us next timefor Dr. Jeremiah's message,
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- "A Life of Joy,"here on "Turning Point."
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