Walking in Love – Part 10: Loving People Beyond Filters | John Giftah | Christian Sermon

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0:46 Speaker 2: Hello everyone, Welcome to this session of the Fuel for the Soul with John gift of podcast. I'm going to talk to you today as we are doing the series. Today's part ten of the series on how you can practically Walk in Love. Really challenge you to check out other segments in the city because I believe that there's so much truth to look at. And today I'm going to talk about another aspect that we look at from a different perspective. We look at a aspect that is found in John chapter thirteen, when Jesus washes the feet of his disciples.

1:14 Speaker 2: Now, a lot of times when we talk about this passage, we talk about it from the sense of, see, Jesus was humble, Jesus was you know, in a place of serving servant toward or eid in mind, touching the feet of the disciples, and you know, he stooped down and all of these things. There's so much truth over there, and we have a lot to unpack from this. But in the line or the light of what we are talking about with regard to walking in unconditional love, walking in that love. And I was really intrigued when I saw about this revelation.

1:48 Speaker 2: That really caught my attention was See, I'll be honest with you, right, Like, I'm on media, so I'm really obsessed about flawless skin. I I do a lot of photo shoots, video shoots, and make sure that especially if you check out my part my videos on YouTube or Instagram, I try to do these high quality stuff because I want to. And I also take care of my you know, my physic and I make sure that to the best of my ability. You know, like this this flawless skin or whatever, you know, like it should look really good.

2:22 Speaker 2: It looks polished, it looks attractive. This is something that I really admire in other people. And I also love to make sure that I'm to the best of my ability. Following all of that, but here's the thing I wanted to understand when I looked at it in that angle. Great. Sometimes, you know, even my feet Sometimes I'll be like, you know what, how can I make my feet look more attractive on this camera angle or in this video, even if I'm wearing a sneaker or a shoe, or if I'm bearing maybe floaters or sandals, or if I'm barefoot.

2:55 Speaker 2: You know, I want to make sure that, you know, my feet look good, you know what I mean. And I was thinking that Jesus washing the feet of the disciples. Now, the disciples were of different kinds right somewhere really rich, like you know, Matthew the tax collector, somewhere like Judas who were already rich by cheating. Uh. There was also uh uh you know these fishermen, uh, you know the ones in you know, like the local low low uh. You know, positions of life, for statuses of life. And we look at all of these people.

3:31 Speaker 2: They were in different groups and categories or status. Go right now, just imagine the feet of these men, like first starters, like some of them, maybe they kept their feet you know, clean and healthy. Uh maybe for some of them it would have been messy, fungus in it or smelly, sweaty. I mean just imagine like rugged, like for like I mean, if you ask me, like if I were to maybe you know, Jesus touch the feet of someone you know, like over kept their feet clean and you know, beautiful, attractive, I mean I wouldn't mind, right, But think about this, A love that goes to a place which in which you can't predict, Like maybe if somebody's feet is attractive, great, but somebody else is maybe smelling somebody else's maybe so rugged and rough.

4:24 Speaker 2: Somebody else's may look very unimpressive. But I want you to understand that is a kind of love that doesn't filter people. That love that just stays pure, A love that goes beyond what you can see on the outside, A llaw that says, you know what, even if this looks messy a minute, because you know what, I walk by law. I was dead in sin, but Christ died for me. How much more should I be in a place where if somebody is feet is dead in stinkiness? Or it's smelly, messy? How much more should I be willing to get into the crux of people like because we love to associate with people or help people as long as they're in an okay position.

5:17 Speaker 2: But what if they're in a messy situation? What if they're in a smelly season of their life? Would you just write them off? Would you just say, hey, you know what your feet, I'm sorry, I'm not going to clean this. Would you do that? Or would you be like Jesus? Because I remember there was I think I've shared this many times, but even last year, I had, you know, a lot of series of attacks over my life. And one of the things is I still remember when I went through when things were fine, there were people who said, you know, I'm going to be there for you, We're there for your, rooting for you, all of these and anytime you're in trouble, be able there for you.

6:04 Speaker 2: But when I was actually in trouble, when things were smelly, things didn't look good, all these people just oh sorry, not now smelly feet and distance themselves. That's not unconditional low, that's not allow that God is called a still live. Why today my challenge to each one of you under the sound of my voices? Will you go without filters? Will you love people without filters? Will you love people even if it doesn't make any sense, even if it doesn't look good, even if it smells bad. Will you still choose to be by their side?

6:47 Speaker 2: I challenge you to do that. Amen, God bless you.

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