#148 LTLT S5 EP 22: Rebirth and Renewal: Loving His Way in Christ's Teachings

If you don't know who I am , my name is Catherine Amen . Sometimes you don't hear my husband on with me from time to time . It's been a while , amen . I just see that God is just turning this into my thing , amen . This is what he would have me to do , amen . So here we are , learning how to live in truth , learning how to do it Jesus' way , amen .

Learning how to love , learning how to forgive , learning how to , as Jesus would tell us , take on his yoke . Amen , that our walk would be light . Hallelujah , amen . You can find that right . I believe it's Matthew 11 , 28 through 30 , talks about that . Matthew 11 , 28 through 30 talks about the fact that our walk can be light .

We don't have to carry around all the burdens that we do Oftentimes . He said in exchange if you learn about him , that our walk will be light . Amen , and give him all of our stuff , amen . So here , amen . This is what we're doing . We're learning how to live by truth . Amen To God . Be the glory . All right , y'all ? Hope y'all are ready , because I am .

Let's go ahead and pray . Father , we thank you so much for your grace and your mercy . Thank you , god , for allowing us this day , another opportunity to be able to serve you . Father , we bless your name as we bless your people .

I pray for every diamond that is here , god , that as we go forth to learn what you have to teach us and reveal to us , god , that our light will shine . That every time the light hits us , amen , like a diamond , we would shine and reflect you .

I pray , in the name of Jesus , for anyone who's burned down with trouble , with trauma , with pain and so forth . God , that you would give them the deliverance that they desire . Pray , god , that folks will put all of their trust in you , including me . Hallelujah , amen . I just pray , lord , that you would just have your way in your children on today .

I pray , god , that we can do the things that are pleasing and acceptable in your sight . I pray that we can love each other rightly . Father , lead us and guide us . We bless your people , we bless your name . We pray this prayer in the mighty and matchless name of Jesus Christ . We do pray , amen , amen , amen , hallelujah , all right y'all ?

So I hope you checked out Monday's episode . I hope that you were here , amen , to listen to episode number 140 , I believe 147 . Yeah , as we go forth , journey , yep , episode number 147 . Amen . Yeah , as we go forth , journey Yep , episode number 147 . Amen . We are picking up 1 John , chapter 4 , at the 7th verse . Amen . 1 John , chapter 4 , the 7th verse .

It says Beloved . And notice , verse 1 starts out the same way . He says Beloved . Let us love one another , he said , for love is of God and everyone that loveth is born of God and knoweth God . So that's a threefold excuse me , actually , yeah , this is a threefold thing . So first he says Let us love one another .

So he says to us this is the command , this is what he's asking us to do Love one another , amen , and I oftentimes express the meaning of love is more than me saying I love you . People do it all the time , don't they ? Amen , they say , oh , I love you , I love you , I love you , I love you .

And the reality is how can you love me and you don't even know anything about me ? Yeah , hallelujah and man , we throw around those words all the time , don't we ? Hallelujah , amen , we throw around those words all the time , don't we ? Amen , especially in the church . Amen , I love you , but you don't know me .

Amen , you're not taking any time to know me at all . Hallelujah , I often say go to 1 Corinthians , chapter 13 . That is where you'll find out what real love is . I'm talking about what Jesus describes as love . Amen , what Jesus describes as love . That's how we find out , really , the definition . Hallelujah , amen .

I'm just going to quickly go there so that , for those of you that are kind of riding along , you can't get to your word in the moment . Amen , and just just a quick brief , like tell me real quick what love is based out of the word of God and what he says . It means Amen to him . Yes , I'm turning to it right now . Yes , I'm turning to it right now .

As you can hear , my page is flipping . Yeah , he says uh , first Corinthians , chapter uh , 13 . And verse uh , it really begins far as it telling us everything that it is a man and everything that it is not . One of the first things that teaches us is that it is not and everything that it is not .

One of the first things it teaches us is that it is not a sounding brass , it's it's . You say that you love me , but uh , at the end of the day , if you're not putting it into practice , it's just noise . Come on , hallelujah . It's just a whole bunch of noise . It's just words , it's just something that you're saying , but oh , oh , why ?

Because I'm supposed to , or because it's politically correct , or because of the environment that I'm in , or because you said it to me , so I feel obligated to say it to you . Come on , hallelujah , amen . But he says that love or charity verses 4 through 7 says it suffers long . It's there all the time , no matter what is going on . It is there .

He says it is kind , it doesn't envy anybody . Hallelujah . He said it doesn't try to make itself something that it is not . He said it is not puffed up , it's not angry , love is not angry , okay . And he said it does not behave in a way that is outside of it . I guess you could say , because it said it doeth not behave itself unseemly .

I mean , you say you love me but you're hurting me . Come on somebody , hallelujah . So he says it's not our own , it's not pride , it's not arrogant , it's not about itself . He said it's not easily provoked . You know , you don't get mad easily . If you truly love a person , he said , and it thinks no evil , you don't sit and premeditate anything .

But then at the same time you're saying that you love me . It is not that he said it does not rejoice in iniquity and it rejoices in truth . Yeah , I would rather you tell me a truth than to lie , hallelujah , because you say you love me . Tell me the truth , even if it hurt my feelings , hallelujah , even if it makes me look at you sideways .

Come on somebody . I know that you love me , regardless of what it might cost me .

Come on somebody , cause that's a whole lot of time while we kind of pat folks on the head or we lie to them or you know , we hide this , that and the other Because , look , I don't want to lose what I have with you , but if you love me , you will tell me the truth , amen .

And eventually you're going to see that I love you because I risked it all , I was willing to lose it all for you . Come on somebody . Look , he said it bears all things , believes all things , hopes all and endures all things . He didn't say some . He said all , hallelujah .

Now ask yourself am I loving folks the way I should , the way that Jesus tells me to ? Am I fulfilling what Jesus calls the love command ? Come on , he says charity or love , it never fails . He says there are going to be prophecies , they're going to fail . Come on somebody . He said there will be tongues , they will stop . That're going to fail .

Come on somebody . He said there will be tongues , they will stop . That's what seats mean . He said whether there be knowledge , he says it will be gone . It can be gone , but he lets us know . He says but we know in part , we prophesy in part . He says but when that which is perfect has come , then that which is in part shall be done away .

The last verse , he says . He says now , abide in faith , hope , charity , which is love . He says . And here's the thing charity is something you give away . Come on somebody , hallelujah , he says , whether there be faith , or rather no , excuse me y'all . He says abide in faith , hope and charity . Slash love , he says .

But out of the three , the greatest is charity Giving regardless . Come on somebody Loving , regardless of how they treat you , because we live in a world where you know , if you treat me one way , then I'm going to give you back the same thing you gave me . Come on , that's the way and that's the way of this world , hallelujah .

You give them what they give you . This is why Jesus said look , they slap you on one cheek , turn to the other Hallelujah , be there anyhow . This is what he says to us when he means when he says love one another , one another willing to be there , no matter what . Jesus , it ain't easy , is it ? Hallelujah , amen .

It ain't easy to smile when they done broke your heart , hallelujah .

It ain't easy to still stand and still be there when you know they walked away from you , hallelujah , when you know they talking about you , they laying you out , they cussing you out , they this , that and the other , they planning , they attacking , they're doing all these things toward you and you still stand there . And you stand there with a smile Amen .

It ain't easy . It's very difficult , hallelujah , but here's the thing when you're doing it for Jesus , hallelujah . Jesus gives us the ability to be able to endure whatever comes at us , hallelujah .

This is why he says to us that we cannot build a house on sand , he said , because the waves from the trouble that is going on in the sea , he said , when it comes to shore , the sand goes back into the vicious sea . Come on somebody , hallelujah .

And so , whenever the water comes to shore , it pulls that sand down and so , therefore , the beach gets further and further into the water . Come on somebody , hallelujah . You can become or or be drawn into the trouble , hallelujah . You can become mixed up in the trouble .

You can come mixed up in everything that is wrong , and no longer are you , and no longer are you a part of the solution , but you become a part of the problem , hallelujah . You don't want to become a part of the problem , hallelujah . So this is why you got to be in God . You got to be in His Word , amen , in order to do what he asked you to do .

The relationship Look , your relationship with him brings out what is within . If it's not rooted inside of you , then it becomes a performance . Come on somebody . I'm doing everything . I'm supposed somebody . I'm doing everything I'm supposed to . I'm doing and I'm saying the things that I need to say Amen . Meanwhile , my heart is broken , my heart is angry .

This is why it's more important than ever to get the relationship with Jesus first . Hallelujah . Folks wondering why , why come ? People don't see me ? Why don't people acknowledge me ? I didn't gave my life to Christ . Why they're not using me , why they're not calling on me ?

Look , I dare to say Jesus is working on the inside of you and it's because he's working on the inside of you . It's like planting that seed Amen , hallelujah . You've been planted in the ground and nobody can see you . You've been hidden for a reason , hallelujah , amen . He has hidden you From what ?

From the world , so they no longer see who they used to see . Amen . They see nothing but a . They see a body , hallelujah . They see your person , but they don't see what's really happening on the inside . This is why you got to be in the word .

Come on , hallelujah , he said , for love is of God , and everyone that loveth is born of God , and everyone that loveth is born of God and knoweth God . He said you're born of God . This is the next part of it . Amen , he says . Love is of God , so this love that he's asking you to give and be .

He said you got to be a part of him in order to be able to display it . In order to be able to give it , to be able to walk in it , you got to be a part of the source . Hallelujah , amen . We can use the equation of a plug in the wall the source is there , but you got to plug into the source . Amen , because the life comes from the source .

So the thing that he's asking you to give , you cannot give it outside of him , because he is it , he is the source of it .

He said you are born , the evidence that you are able to give it , the evidence that you are able to give it , the evidence that you are able to walk in it , the evidence that you are able to , the evidence that you are able to and the things that you are not to do .

In regard to love . He says the evidence that you've been reborn , that you are a child of God , hallelujah is the fact that you're able to do it . I feel like I just confused myself , but the devil is a liar . Amen , he says , and knoweth God . That means that you have a relationship with him , you have a relationship with God .

So I'm going to stop right there , because we could go further . Amen , a whole lot further , actually . Matter of fact , I'll go ahead and go to eight and then I'm going to stop there . Amen . We're going to pick up on Wednesday with the next portion of the text . But he said he that loveth not knoweth not God . He that loveth not knoweth .

He that loveth not knoweth not God . So he says if you don't know how to love , you're not loving the way that Jesus says for us to love . He says you don't know him , you're not in a relationship with him . He says because for God is love , because for God is love . So you cannot produce love without God . Because God is love . Okay , hallelujah .

This is why , again , I just say it over and over again no-transcript relationship , unique relationship , in order to be able to give the thing that God is asking you to give . Amen . This is why there's so much hatred in our world . This is why there's so much anger and so much killing and pridefulness and arrogance and things that are not like God .

Because people are professing Jesus but they're not getting to know him . Amen , you're not getting . Folks are not getting to know him . Hallelujah . Now somebody could be here in their first steps , baby steps of their salvation , baby steps of their relationship with God , amen , trying to understand who he is . I just encourage you to stay hallelujah .

I myself , I encourage you to stay in the arms of Jesus . How do you do that ? By staying in your word hallelujah , amen . John 8 , verse 31, . He talks about the fact that the truth will make you free , hallelujah . This word will make you free . Hallelujah , amen . It will deliver you from bondage . Amen . It will keep you out of bondage .

Hallelujah , because as long as you try to live up to the standards of this world , you are in a prison , hallelujah , and the world becomes the warden . Come on the ward of this world . You are in a prison . Hallelujah , and the world becomes the warden . Come on the warden , amen . The world becomes the warden . Hallelujah .

The world will decide when you come out to the yard . The world will decide what time you go to bed . The world will decide what time you get up . The world will decide what you eat and what you don't eat . Come on somebody . The word teaches us that he brings us freedom . We are able to love in spite of . That is a beautiful thing . Come on somebody .

Hallelujah , Amen . It is a beautiful thing , but you'll never know how that feels until you experience him . Amen , until you give it all , every last bit of it over to God , hallelujah , and he will show himself to be real . Hallelujah , he is , he'll always be , he'll be the love of your life .

You heard me Hallelujah , whether they come or go , as long as you got Jesus , you can be satisfied . I promise you that , amen . I promise you that because you're talking to somebody , you're listening to somebody who ran from the will of God for a very long time . But I got to the point I couldn't run no more , hallelujah .

I could not run no more Because then , once I got tired of running , I began to walk away from God , hallelujah . But God drew slowly in his own way . He got me to the point where I didn't want to walk anymore away from him . I didn't want to run away from him anymore , hallelujah . He showed me his goodness and he showed me his mercy .

He showed me that I'd have no life without him .

Hallelujah , let's pray . Father , we thank you so much for your grace and your mercy . Again , we thank you , god , for this , all that you're doing in this season of our lives . I pray for every diamond here , once again , that the blessings of the Lord will flow upon them , god , that they will receive the revelation you desire them to have .

God , I pray that everyone will open up their hearts and their minds to you . They might receive you . It's you , just you , father . You , father , we love you so much , so very grateful , so thankful . We pray that this prayer , all of our prayers , are pleasing in your sight . In Jesus Christ's name , I do pray , amen , amen and amen . Hallelujah .

I hope y'all will come on back with me on tomorrow as we go a little bit further . Amen , picking up in verse nine of this great book , first John , chapter four so excited , always glad to be before you Now . So many blessings and so much love from me to you . Y'all have a good one , amen , and we'll see you on the next time .

Amen , good day and good night .