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Protect The Harvest Pt.6

Hallelujah! I love that song, don’t you? Those were my nails, my cross. That last phrase, "He took my shame and my blame" [lyrics from song, On My Cross]—He was made sin with our sin. Think about that. The holy Lamb of God, perfect, sinless, made sin with our sin that we, the Scripture says, might be made righteous with His righteousness. What manner of love—Amen?—to be called the sons of God.

We’re going to talk about the love of God some again this morning, and there’s nothing like the cross that reveals the love of God to us. The Scripture says while we were sinners He loved us. How much more now that we’re the sons of God. But while we were sinners He loved us. The Scripture says we didn’t seek Him. None of us were out looking for God saying, "I just want to know God; I want to be like God." We were all out about serving ourselves—some of us just partying, some of us boasting in our successes and our gifts and skills, but, basically, as the children of Adam, we were all living for ourselves, trusting in ourselves.

We remember what the ultimate, the original, sin was. [It] was just the sin of independence. "I will be like [or I will replace] the Most High God" is what Adam was saying as he parroted Satan, in Isaiah 14. "I’m going to be my own God" is basically what he was saying. The moment you say that, the moment you eat of that fruit of independence, you will die, was God’s promise. When he did partake of it, of course, and spiritual death came in and he became independent, along with independence came this thing that we all have to face on a daily basis. "And he heard the voice of God, and he was afraid and hid himself" (Genesis 3:10). Everybody who’s not right with God wants to hide from the Word of God, from the presence of God.

You’ll know yourself when you’re not walking in the spirit and you’re out living, again, those areas where carnality, as we’ve talked about, and the cares of this world and deceitfulness of riches and the lust of things begin to choke the Word of God out of our hearts. We’re not comfortable with the unadulterated purity of the light of God through His Word, through His people, so we start hanging on the fringe a little bit. We kind of start dodging one another, the ones that we know are going to speak the truth to us.

Because, see, as we talk about the love of God this morning, what I want to talk about has to do with that ability to receive the love of God without any type of a preconceived notion of how you should be loved. Now, listen to me, this next statement, because if you want to dictate how you should be loved, you’re operating off a false premise, and that’s that you deserve to be loved. Amen? Love is not deserved; love is a gift that someone gives to us. Because in ourselves there is no intrinsic value; there is no innate goodness in us. We’re all sinners. None of us deserve anything but a devil’s hell, and when God loves us and when God gives us the gift of love through others, we need to receive it with thanksgiving and gladness and not try to determine how we want to be loved. And everybody said, [congregants responded with] "Amen." Praise God. Because this self-love, this selfishness, that wants to dictate those things is an indicator—listen—that we’re not moving in or accepting freely the love of God. We’re thinking that there is some merit involved, that I’ve done something that deserves this, and we all know that our righteousness is as—say it—[congregants responded with] "filthy rags." (Isaiah 64:6)

There are none of us that do good, no, not one. (Romans 3:12) So it’s the grace of God, it’s the mercy of God, as He expresses His love to us through His Word, through redemption in the blood of Jesus, through our brothers and sisters. You don’t deserve love; it’s a gift! It’s the most precious gift that anyone can have: to be loved. "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son . . . " Everybody knows John 3:16. Even [at] the football games [we see signs with] John 3:16.

Thank God for John 3:16. Amen? But the thing that we want to talk about is the true expression of God’s love, not only in the person of Jesus Christ for the remission of our sins, but to realize that love also is expressed often through God’s working of sanctification in our lives and through bringing about correction and instruction through rebuke so that the man of God may be perfect and thoroughly furnished, the Scripture says, unto all good works. (2 Timothy 3:16-17) "As many as the Lord loves He [chastens]" (Hebrews 12:6). See, most of us don’t like to put chastening with love, but they are so absolutely closely related you cannot separate chastisement, correction, reproof, rebuke, instruction, from love. "Well, I want you to love me, but just accept me and tolerate me. Accept me as I am. That’s love." That is not love. That is self-love. It is selfishness; it is idolatry, and it is not the love of God. Amen?

So we’ve got to be very careful here that we don’t embrace the world’s definition of love. See, love is that way. Love—and we hear it spoken in society this way: love is tolerance. Tolerance is compromise. "I’ll tolerate you if you’ll tolerate me, and we’ll just both pretend like everything’s okay." God demands righteousness and holiness and truth and light, if we’re going to live in a way that’s pleasing to Him.

So we’ve been talking about how we can continue in this move of God that we’ve been experiencing in our midst. We were sharing last session that what we really need, to see it evidenced in our lives as the Spirit of God is moving—and we dealt a couple of weeks ago with the fact that when the Holy Spirit comes into our midst, one of the things that’s going to happen (Acts 1:8) is we’re going to receive power to be witnesses to Him. Amen? The other one that’s going to happen is, as we’re Spirit-filled people, we should be filled with the Spirit and be able, then, to pray in other tongues as the initial physical evidence of the baptism in the Holy Spirit. "He that prays in an unknown tongue speaketh not unto men but unto God" (1 Corinthians 14:2) "and gives thanks well" (1 Corinthians 14:17). So when we’re filled with the Spirit, we worship better. We give thanks to God in a supernatural way that nobody in their natural mind can.

That’s one leg up that those of us that are charismatic, Spirit-filled, have on a lot of our fundamentalist brothers. I didn’t say we were better than them; I said we’re able to praise God in a realm that they don’t have the capacity to praise in. "Well, praise God, that sure makes us spiritual." No, it’s a gift, and thank God for it. Amen? None of us deserve it; none of us merited it. We received it because it was God’s free gift to us, and I want it for all of my brothers and sisters. Those of you that are Spirit-filled, don’t diminish what you have. Exercise it, because you’re giving thanks—say it—well. It enhances your prayer life, because those that pray in the spirit pray according to the will of God. We don’t know what to pray for as we ought, Paul said, but the Holy Ghost prays through us with groanings which cannot be uttered, and we pray according to the will of God. (Romans 8:26-27)

So this Spirit-filled life is one that’s not only able to worship, but it’s one that’s able to intercede for others, to pray according to the will of God. Praying for brothers’ and sisters’ needs—[those] that need healing, that need deliverance, those whose arms are hanging down and they’re depressed and beat up—and as we pray not knowing what the need is exactly, the Holy Spirit prays through us, the Scripture says, according to the will of God. Hallelujah! This is what the Holy Spirit is doing in our lives, this move. So we receive power, praise, the ability to pray.

So then we saw that along with that, of course, came the power of God and the demonstration of the Holy Spirit. We heard some testimony here, to be able to pray for the sick and see them recover, according to God’s will and sovereign purposes. So we need to be bold in our outreach, in our witnessing, and use that ministry of intercession, because to he that has, the Scripture says—What?—shall more be given. (Mark 4:25) In other words, if you don’t use it, you can lose it. And the more you use it, to he that has, shall more be given, the Scripture says. God will give you more grace and more capacity to love and to intercede. But it’s done according to the will of God, or the Word of God, because it all operates by faith, and faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God.

Then we started last session, and we said one of the other ways we can protect this move that God is doing in our lives—and we’ve talked about the fact, or asked the question, actually: what we experienced a number of months ago, was that just sovereign, was that something that God just chose to do? I’ve studied the sovereignty of God a lot, and God is absolutely sovereign and is not dependent upon man whatsoever, and nothing that we do or don’t do can compromise His will and His purpose. But I believe that much of what we see from our finite perspective, God infinitely, through prayer and intercessions and sacrifices that have been made, prepares us for moments like this, praise God. We’ve talked about that cultivating and breaking up the fallow ground and the Lord reigning righteousness upon us. We see that it becomes the fruit of repentance in our lives, and yes, beyond that, sovereignly God does what needs to be done to effect that.

We said, how do we keep this; how do we continue to walk in this refreshing and the excitement of what God is doing in this day? The world is coming apart, man. It’s reeling like a drunk man, the prophet said, prior to the coming of Jesus. The Lord is coming back. I’ve always believed that, since I accepted Jesus as my Savior over forty years ago now, and every day I expect the Rapture. Do you? Even so, come quickly, Lord Jesus. This isn’t our home, man! We’re pilgrims here. Jesus said, "If I go to prepare a place for you, I shall surely come again and receive you unto myself that where I am there you may be also" (John 14:3), praise God! It’s prepared (a place prepared for us), and He’s coming back.

He said one of these days the trumpet of God will sound, the dead in Christ shall rise, and those of us that remain will be changed in a moment, in a twinkling of an eye. (1 Corinthians 15:52) Think about it. Before this service is over that trumpet could blast. We know what the trumpet is. When you see the word "trumpet," it’s used many times symbolically of the voice of God. And Revelation tells us what that trumpet sound is going to be. You want to know what it is? "Come up hither," praise God! Amen? Are you listening? "Come up hither." Instantly changed! Corruption takes on incorruption; mortality takes on immortality. And Jesus said, "Just as you saw Me ascend into heaven so [shall you see Me come again—Acts 1:9-11]," praise God! And it’s coming. How cool is that going to be? I’ve often said jokingly—I heard a guy say it actually when I was a kid, right after I got saved, and he said—I think it was Ken Poor teaching at one of the first youth conferences. Kenny Poor was a great teacher. I liked—he used to say—he’d take up an offering, and he’d say, "I just want you all to know this is not for me. This is for the Poor children." So he’d take offerings for the "poor" children—his name was Ken Poor.

He was teaching one time along these lines, and he said he’s always thought that was cool. He said, "Now, I know that materially we’re not going to be able to take anything with us, but [he said] I just kind of always envision myself being able to—hearing the trumpet of God, and I’m changed and my body is transformed, and it becomes a spiritual body"—you know, just like Jesus after the resurrection. He could walk through walls. He was transported in time, and yet He was able to be handled. He said, "Touch the nail prints in My hands. Put your hand here in My side, Thomas. See if it’s not Me" (John 20:27).

If it happens during the daytime, how cool—think of all the accidents that are going to happen out there on the roads when Christians just blast off. We used to call—when I was first saved and they had just come out with sunroofs, we used to call them Rapture roofs. Just leave it back for the Rapture—whoop, you go [up]. But we’re talking about the fact of just being lifted up—now watch this—and what he [Ken Poor] said was, he said he could always envision himself as he was changed, just begun to ascend up—remember, when Jesus ascended He didn’t just disappear. It says then they watched Him—in Acts—and they watched Him go up into heaven and be received into the clouds. Is that going to blow people away or what? And here we go, and he said, "I’ve just always believed as you start ascending up and people are watching, [and he said] I’ve always just believed I’d have my Bible with me and say, ‘Here! Turn to Revelation, Chapter 4! That’s where you are.’"

We’ve got a word to get out: Jesus is coming. Amen? What God is doing here in our midst is not for us just to consume upon ourselves and say, "Oh, isn’t it great that some of our young people got their lives straightened out, and they’re really on fire for God now, and families are being put back together and marriages healed, praise God?" That’s part of it, and thank God for it, but we’re called to be witnesses that Jesus is coming back. Amen? Have you been bold lately? Have you been out sharing it? What you’ve heard in your prayer closet shout from the housetops. That’s where we are today.

Now, how do we keep this thing moving in our lives? One is by exhibiting the fruit of the spirit. If you walk in the spirit, you will not—What?—fulfill the lust of the flesh. When I say the fruit of the spirit—and we’re going to look at a number of the different aspects of the fruit of the spirit in Galatians, but I want to talk about the first phrase. The fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, and we might think it’s strange, with ourselves being the kind of fellowship we are, so close knit. Many of us here for years. How many of you have been here all of your lives? Let me see your hands. Hold them real high. How many of you have been here all of your lives? Okay, now keep those up. How many of you have been here over twenty years? Okay. Look at that. That’s a lot of folks. Some of you have never been anywhere else; this is where you’ve spent all of your lives. Some of you twenty years, twenty-five years, thirty years, and in that time there’s a love that’s developed and a commitment to one another. The downside is what? There becomes a familiarity, and it’s so typical. We get frustrated with one another periodically, and we might even say things that we shouldn’t have said. And we have good friendships, and we’ll go back and say "I’m sorry" or whatever, and that’s fine. We may be irritated by somebody or maybe a little overcritical at this time, but let somebody talk about them, and we’re there for them, praise God.

But we want to talk about not giving place to those natural tendencies of being critical or overfamiliar, taking one another for granted, because love never takes for granted the relationship to which it’s expressing its care, and [it’s] always promoting the good of the object loved. See, that’s what love is. Love is just the desire for the ultimate good of that object. We want the best for them at all times. Now, where love has been misunderstood is, we’ve interpreted what’s best. "What’s best for them is we just want them to be set for life, and when I die I want to have something laid up for my kids so they can be millionaires and take life easy." That could be the worst thing you do for your kids. And none of the kids said "Amen." [Laughter] What I’m sharing with you this morning is we don’t always know what’s the best, do we? But love assumes the best is the path of ease and abundance. What we need to understand is that love, to express the love of God, places the eternal value preeminent in the relationship. What is best for my children, for my spouse, for my friends, eternally? How will this affect them in preparing them for that trumpet to blast, to be ready when Jesus comes back—or to be ready when you go to the grave?

The young man who was most influential in affecting my life for Jesus died just a couple of days ago of pancreatic cancer. That’s too young to die. Janet dying in her fifties is too young to die, but you know what? It happens all the time. Amen? It’s appointed unto men once to die and after that, judgment. Are we ready? No other chances. Judgment based on, not what most people today— If you took a survey in America today and you asked, "What do you believe would make you ready for heaven?"—because most Americans believe in God—they would say, "Well, you know, I’m not a bad person, and I think my good outweighs my bad." That has nothing to do with acceptance into the presence of God. Your good can be 99.9%—I’ve never met that person yet, but it could be—and it’s as filthy rags. There’s only one name under heaven given whereby men can be saved: the name of Jesus. Amen? Accepting Him as Lord and Savior is the only way we can get in.

People need to hear that! We run into people [in] the malls, on our jobs, and they believe that just being good [is sufficient]. It’s not about [being] good; it’s about godliness. It’s about Jesus as Lord and Savior, Who was made sin with our sin. If you believe in your heart and confess with your mouth that God has raised Jesus from the dead, you will be saved, praise God! (Roman 10:9) It’s about believing in God’s free gift of righteousness and sonship and the resurrection of Jesus from the dead that brings salvation. We’re living in a society that confesses to be Christian and doesn’t know that (the gospel).

But there’s one other thing that ministers to these people very loudly, and frankly, we do a pretty good job of that. We were talking about it—turn over to John’s gospel—in our last session. That’s probably enough introduction. In John’s gospel, as we look at the thirteenth chapter, verse 35—keep your finger there and go to Matthew also, [Chapter] 22. We’ve talked about this numerous times, and here’s the one thing that we don’t want to allow to happen in our midst. We’re living in a society—and Paul said it this way, in Romans 1, talking about the depravity of man. Now, you see, society today would not see this as depraved. They would not see it as evil. They would not see it as offensive, and [thus] making them, then, enemies of God.

They would see it as something that is commendable. It’s called the spirit of philanthropy, the brotherhood of man—farm aid: "Let’s send help to the Ethiopians," when they were starving. And there’s nothing wrong with any of that, and, in fact, it’s a good thing to do. But how and why was it done? Most of that is done so that people would feel good about themselves. It’s done in their own strength, and it’s done because of the value that they put upon the need. Starving children in Ethiopia—name whatever tragedies there might be. What we need to understand is Paul says this: that there’s the time that comes when men worship the creature more than the Creator. See, we’re living in a society that worships the creation, the creature, men; it’s all about men. Jesus said, "Give a cup of cold water in My name." Amen? Don’t just give a cup of cold water. "Do it in My name. Do it by My strength." Do it because of the grace of God that you’ve received into your life. Freely you have received—say it—freely give. You see, you can do good things and it blasphemes God! It focuses on the creature! It focuses on the man instead of the Creator, God. Everything is done by Him and for Him, the epistles say.

We’ve got to be very careful, then, that we don’t flip-flop the great commandments. The greatest commandment: "Thou shall love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, soul, body, mind, strength. The second is like unto it: you shall love your neighbor as yourself" (Matthew 22:37-39). Now, if you focus on the second commandment, you’re breaking the first one. If this is preeminent, the second commandment, of which so many people boast in today, you’re breaking the first and greatest commandment. And in that commandment all of the law and the prophets are fulfilled, the Scripture says. So we can’t get overbalanced in trusting in the relationships and in focusing on our commitment and faithfulness to one another. Our faithfulness and our commitment is to God, and because of that, we can love one another.

Now, the Scripture says it this way in John’s passage. Look over at John 13 for just a moment. In John 13 [verse 35], as the Lord is speaking, He says, "By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, [What?] if ye have [say it] love one to another." The Scripture talks about them being able to look into this fellowship and say, "Behold how they love one another." But, you know, they can say that about the Mormons; they can say that about other secular groups. What is it that we love about one another? What is it that we love about one another? It’s very important that we understand this. You know what I love most about Greer [my wife]? She loves Jesus more than me. That’s what I love about her. You want to know what I love most—I call them my babies; that starts with Kimberly [my daughter, followed by my grandchildren]? They love Jesus more than they love me.

You see, when people look into this place and say, "Behold how they love one another"—and we do; we’re a family. We’re people committed to one another. We’ve laid our lives down for one another. It’s because I love you because you’re about exalting the Lord Jesus Christ, and you’re living for Him and for His glory. And your testimony is this: for me to live is Christ—say it—and to die is gain, praise God. That’s what I love about you. That’s what I love about every one of you—John, Tom, Bill, Randy. We could go on down the list. You always get in trouble when you start [giving] names and don’t finish. Tough luck for the rest of you.

That’s when people start thinking we’re weird. You know, love is great, and society is like, "Oh, yeah, love! Praise God." We get little songs and poems—[like the saying,] "Love is never having to say you’re sorry," [or] "Can’t buy me love," the Beatles’ [song]. The world doesn’t have a clue what love is. " . . . God is love" (1 John 4:8). Now, see, what happens is the secular world flips that thing around and thinks, then, that love is God. No, God is love, but love is not God. So our testimony is, then, that our love, our commitment to one another, is not based upon the worth of the individual but on the worth they put on Jesus. "How can two walk together except they be agreed" (Amos 3:3)—that Jesus is Lord. Amen? [He is] all in all.

So as we talk about this love and "Behold how they love one another," and then in John 15:12, "This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you." Man, what a mandate. You know, it wouldn’t be kind of—the commandments of God are always weighty. "This is my commandment, That ye love one another . . . " If it stopped right there, most of us would be in pretty good shape. Amen? "Praise God. I love my brothers and sisters. I love my wife and my kids." " . . . as I have loved you." Unconditionally. When I am at my absolute best, [it’s as] filthy rags, held up to the infinite pureness, holiness, of our God. We’re undone. Amen? There’s nothing in us [that’s] lovely, and God loved us! So why do we, then, demand that other people perform, meet some kind of a standard, before we can love them? "Oh, yeah, I love them, but they just really irritate me." Can I tell you something? God is not irritated with you this morning. Your wife might be, but God is not. You’re wife is going, "Why are you turning this on me?"

See, what we’re going to look at here in just a moment, as we start understanding what it means to love as God loved, is the removal, or I should say the dominance of the love of God in us that becomes preeminent, then, over our natural tendencies that are in our flesh to be selfish, to be self-serving. But beloved, as we grow in the spirit our love needs to become more supernatural, and we need to be less self-assuming, less irritable, all of those things, and we’re going to go over some of those items in the teaching. We cannot behave ourselves unseemly. We are not puffed up. We do not boast ourselves or vaunt ourselves. "No greater love has any man than this, that he would lay down his life"—psuchē is the Greek, not zōē life. Psuchē, soul—"that a man would lay down his [psuchē, his soul] for his friends" (John 15:13).

When I lay down my psuchē for my friends, I’m laying down my emotions, my intellect, and my will, because that’s what comprises the soul of a human being. Emotion, intellect, and will. I relate to you without intellect. Well, you know, I relate to most people without intellect. [Pastor’s humor.] I’m not going to try to figure this out. I’m not going to try to figure you out. I’m not going to try to control your life through my understanding and presuppose that I know what’s best for you. God knows what’s best for you. Amen? And I’m going to love you with what God is doing in your life right now, how He’s ordering your steps right now. I’m going to get my emotions out of it, and dear God, we need to do that when it comes to relating to those closest to us. Get your emotions out of how you deal with your children. Get your emotions out of how you deal with your spouses, and bring them the unadulterated love of God—the truth, the Word of God—and love them unconditionally, but purely, accepting nothing less in their lives than God’s Word requires of them.

What I’m talking about there is positionally—wives being in submission to your husbands. Functionally, you love them unconditionally. That doesn’t mean you just let them do whatever they want to do. You’re the head of your house; you’re the overseer. That’s what God’s Word demands of you. Then the greatest commandment, men, that He’s [given] you is not [to] be a provider, the great provider for your home, and you’re not lord and master, because the greatest among us is what? Servant of all. What does the Scripture require of the man, the husband? Love your wives, how? As Christ loved the church and died for them! Men, we die for our wives! We die to our own lust. We die to our own selfishness. We die to our own ambitions. We die to our own intellect. But we know what our role is, we know what their role is, we know what the requirements are, and that’s what we walk in. That’s the love of God.

The world is going to again try to tell us, "Well, you know, love is more. Just kind of accept people the way they are." No, love loves unconditionally, but not without biblical standard. I can’t accept less than what God accepts. That’s not in my realm of authority. So to love you properly I have to love you as I have been loved. Unconditionally and yet a standard of obedience to the commandants of God, of holiness, of fulfilling the mandate of the Apostle Paul: "For to me to live is [say it again] Christ . . . " (Philippians 1:21). That’s love. Love isn’t letting people do what they want. I’m not going to get into it this morning, but we create so much tension in relationships when we start demanding how we’re going to be loved. You don’t have that right, and it’s a reproach on the love of God to start thinking you merit [love]. "Hey, if you’re going to love me—if you’re going to have the privilege of loving me, this is how you’re going to do it." Amen? "Hey, because not everybody gets to love me. I just want you to know they’re standing in line; they’re taking numbers out there. I don’t know what your number is, but if you’re going to love me, this is how you’re going to do it." How many of you would say that? We think it; we do it.

So as we finish for this morning, most of us are going to take just as much work—it’s going to take just as much work and grace and faith to be able to be loved as it does to love, as we deal with the sin that’s in our members. "This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you." So we’ll pick it up here as we go on in the next session.

Anybody too warm this morning? Anybody who has been complaining that’s it too cold, [are you] too warm this morning? We’ve been getting complaint after complaint after complaint, "It’s too cold! My nose is frozen; my teeth are chatting. I’ve gone into [a] coma. I’m not getting anything out of the service because all of my bodily function—all of my blood has just rushed to my core to keep me alive, and my brain is—" Okay, I’m talking to you this morning. Perfect. It’s perfect, right? Anybody who would like to hit Katherine after the service [for complaining], Tom will hold her. [Pastor’s humor.] We’re going to try to strike a balance. It’s pretty tough, but I know that some have been cold, and today it feels a little warm. It’s going to be a tough thing to do, and so everybody pray for Mike [as he tries to find a temperature setting that accommodates everyone]. Don’t speak evil about him. Amen? Lay down your life. But we’ll try to get that fixed.

What a precious gift we have in one another. Amen? What a precious gift you have in that husband, in that wife. Don’t start demanding how you’re to be loved. Just thank God that He’s put somebody in your life that will love you, because you ain’t all that! When we can begin to do that in the right balance of the first commandment, of loving them with the Word of God—"Well, I know you were trying to love me, but you really hurt my feelings when you quoted the Bible to me." Stop being so irritable and so touchy. Amen? Somebody’s loving you, praise God. "Yeah, but not the way I like it, because, you know, I’m special." We are blessed, and the fact that somebody cares enough, rejoice in it, praise God. And then care enough about others to help those whose hands are hanging down, those that are warring with their own flesh, and Father will be made big in our midst.

Father, we thank You for Your Word this morning, and we just ask that You would strength us and give us grace to walk this out. We are such ugly creatures, or as the Apostle Paul said, "In me (that is, in my flesh,) dwells nothing good" (Romans 7:18). But while we were sinners, You’ve loved us, and You’ve come to live in us, and You’ve made us accepted in the Beloved, and for that we rejoice, Father. We just ask that You would continue that work. Give us grace. Give us a testimony in this community that people would look and say, "You know what? Look at the commitment those people have to one another, and you know what it is? It’s because they love Jesus. It’s not a common goal of saving the whales. These people love Jesus. He’s number one in their lives." John 15, bear much fruit that the Father might be glorified in the Son. That’s our prayer, Father, in Jesus’ name. Amen.

Let’s stand before the Lord this morning, as Katie plays for us for just a moment. The one thing we don’t want to do is love in the flesh, in our own strength. "This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you" [emphasis added].

Let’s sing it together. "In moments . . . " Just worship Him this morning. Oh, we love You, Lord. We love You, Jesus. Oh, Father, You’re so good to us.

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