Walking in Love – Part 5: Understanding Unconditional Love | John Giftah | Christian Sermon

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0:41 Speaker 1: Welcome to Fuel for the Soul with John Gifta.

0:46 Speaker 2: Hello everyone, Welcome to this edition of the Fuel for the Soul with John Gifta podcast. And I'm so glad to join you here today because I believe that as we're doing the series on how you and I are called to walk in Love, I believe that each of these segments will be really, really helpful to you as you really reconsider are you truly walking in the kind of love that God has called each one of us to live. I want you to understand something. One of the things that I established in the past couple of episodes.

1:12 Speaker 2: One of the thing is that you and I are called to walk in love. Love should be a lifestyle. Loo should be a default mode, and from that should everything come out. You know, you're in your ministry, your life, your choices, and your you know, decisions, everything should be stemming from love. You should be rooted in love. Even if you're ministering to people, you should be rooted in love. Because yesterday I had a very important word with you from John thirteen thirty five. I'm just going to start from there and remind you of something, and then I want to take you forward.

1:48 Speaker 2: And this is what it says. By this, shall or may know your my disciples, if you love one another, you know, love is the way you need to evangelize, minister to people, to show them that you are the light in the darkness, or to build the Kingdom of God. To be the true Christian, you need to be in love. You need to operate in love. Love should be your root or your skeleton from which everything stems out. But I want to tell you something. If you look at the worst prior to verse thirty five. In verse thirty four, this is what it says a new commandment I give you.

2:23 Speaker 2: Listen. This is not me giving you this commandment. It is not just a random person giving but it is Jesus giving you this commandment. And listen to what he's saying. He says, love one another as I have loved you, so you must love one another. This is from the nim version. Love one another as I have loved you. You must love one another. Listen to this cafe. A lot of times people say, oh, I can't love people like the way God does. Of course, we are all humans, but we should strive and we should have, you know, a sense of knowing what is our standard expected of our in terms of walking in love.

3:01 Speaker 2: I want you to understand very importantly, right, I understand that we cannot love the way God loved us or loves us. We are humans. We fall, we make mistakes, we have our shortcomings. But we should know what is our standard or what is our expectation and strive to move in that direction. Instead of saying you know what, I'll just be myself and I want to live my life the way I want to live. But I want to tell you something more today because I believe I want to introduce you to you know the extent of that love or the cult nature of that love, because I want you to understand the New Testament was predominantly written in Greek, and when you look at the Greek, there are four words for the word lau.

3:44 Speaker 2: And I'm sure some of you may be aware of this, but if you not, I want to remind you of it. And one is how you have a compassionate kind of love, the love between you know, parents towards children or family members. You know, that's called storage. You know, that's compassionate kind of low. There's another love that is predominantly between friends or mutual you know, associations and all of that. That is kind of like a give or take away kind of a love that is called a feelure's kind of love. You know you're supposed to have like a obligation or you know, you have the mutual respect, reach mutual love for each other.

4:23 Speaker 2: So that is like a friendship kind of a love, which is kind of like dependent in the sense like you love me, I love you, you don't show kindness towards me, I'm going to keep my distance, you know, kind of like you know, kind of that kind of a love. And then there's another one which is the erotic love. You know, the love between you know, the romantic love basically, and the greatest of these is a gapey love, which is unconditional love. Now, when you look at the scripture John thirteen, right when you look at Us thirty four, it says we love because He first loved us, right like he's saying, you know, as I have loved you, you must love one another.

5:04 Speaker 2: The word love used here is it's not filios. It's not give or take away love. It's not if they are good to me, I will be showing love to them. If not, I don't care about them. Right. See, there is a place for boundaries, there's a place for you know, not getting into toxic things and all of that. We'll talk about it in the future, but in today's context, I wanted to understand the standard for us here. When the Bible says that you need to love one another, and when the Bible says that we need to love because God loves us, the kind of love that God shows us is what is expected of us.

5:38 Speaker 2: That's the standard expected of us. And that love is not felios. It's not give or take away, it's not conditional, it's not ero take of course, even though Jesus is you know, the bridegroom and where the bride. It's not supposed to be taken in the wrong context, that there are people who teach bad teachings like oh, I'm married to Jesus and all of the stuff that's that's not right. Uh. And at the same time, when when when you look at people saying, you know, compassionate love. Of course God is compassionate towards us.

6:09 Speaker 2: Compassion flows from him, and out of his compassion he is healed people and all of that, the Bible says. But but the through is he did not just do it out of the compassionate love like you know, feeling pity or down or you know, not like that. But his love was unconditional because if you see in the original translation, when you read the same verse from the original translation, what does it say. It's not it's talking about unconditional love. Today, my challenge to each one of you, and that is one of my voices.

6:40 Speaker 2: Are you operating in that unconditional love? Is unconditional love the standard.

6:46 Speaker 1: Of your life?

6:48 Speaker 2: Are you? Are you loving people without any agenda? Are you loving people without any conditions attached to it? Are you loving people just the way they are. Are you able to accept See I understand. I wanted to understand. There's a difference between accepting people you know or of their sin and accepting people for who they are. You have to understand the two, right. I'm not asking you to accept the sin. I'm not saying you know what you need to agree with every person's decision, But I'm saying you need to accept the sinner.

7:20 Speaker 2: You need to show loud to the sinner. You need to show loud to the person, even if you're not able to agree with them on theological grounds or on their faith, or on their background or their decisions or whatever it is. Where the point is, you need to show that loud to the person because of who they are. They're made in the image of God. They are a masterpiece of God. They are here for a purpose, and you and I need to lead them, guide them, pray for them so that they will experience the unconditional love of God.

7:47 Speaker 2: And then the Bible says for by this will all men know you're My disciples when you have a guppy the unconditional love one for another. My challenge to each one of you under the sound of my voice today is if you have any kind of a relationship where your love is not unconditional, where you are putting conditions, or you have something maybe some biases in your relationship with them, Today is your wake up call. But I'm saying it's time for you to let go of those biases. It's time for you to let go of your agendas, It's time for you to let go of any kind of conditional parameters and say, you know what, I'm going to choose to love this person because they are made in the image of God.

8:29 Speaker 2: And I know that if God called me and chose me, and he set out a plan for me, even though I have made mistakes, even though I don't deserve it, then I should show that same kind of love towards other people. And let today be the wake up call for you to do it. And I challenge you to do it in Jesus Mighty Name. Amen, God bless you.

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