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

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0:46 Speaker 2: Hello everyone, Welcome to this edition of the Fuel for

0:48 Speaker 2: the Soul with John Gifta podcast. And I'm so glad

0:51 Speaker 2: to join you here today because I believe that as

0:53 Speaker 2: we're doing the series on how you and I are

0:56 Speaker 2: called to walk in Love, I believe that each of

0:59 Speaker 2: these segments will be really, really helpful to you as

1:02 Speaker 2: you really reconsider are you truly walking in the kind

1:06 Speaker 2: of love that God has called each one of us

1:08 Speaker 2: to live. I want you to understand something. One of

1:10 Speaker 2: 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

1:15 Speaker 2: called to walk in love. Love should be a lifestyle.

1:18 Speaker 2: Loo should be a default mode, and from that should

1:22 Speaker 2: everything come out. You know, you're in your ministry, your life,

1:26 Speaker 2: your choices, and your you know, decisions, everything should be

1:31 Speaker 2: stemming from love. You should be rooted in love. Even

1:35 Speaker 2: if you're ministering to people, you should be rooted in love.

1:37 Speaker 2: Because yesterday I had a very important word with you

1:41 Speaker 2: from John thirteen thirty five. I'm just going to start

1:44 Speaker 2: from there and remind you of something, and then I

1:47 Speaker 2: want to take you forward. And this is what it says.

1:50 Speaker 2: By this, shall or may know your my disciples, if

1:53 Speaker 2: you love one another, you know, love is the way

1:56 Speaker 2: you need to evangelize, minister to people, to show them

2:00 Speaker 2: that you are the light in the darkness, or to

2:01 Speaker 2: build the Kingdom of God. To be the true Christian,

2:04 Speaker 2: you need to be in love. You need to operate

2:08 Speaker 2: in love. Love should be your root or your skeleton

2:11 Speaker 2: from which everything stems out. But I want to tell

2:14 Speaker 2: you something. If you look at the worst prior to

2:18 Speaker 2: verse thirty five. In verse thirty four, this is what

2:20 Speaker 2: it says a new commandment I give you. Listen. This

2:23 Speaker 2: is not me giving you this commandment. It is not

2:27 Speaker 2: just a random person giving but it is Jesus giving

2:29 Speaker 2: you this commandment. And listen to what he's saying. He says,

2:32 Speaker 2: love one another as I have loved you, so you

2:37 Speaker 2: must love one another. This is from the nim version.

2:41 Speaker 2: Love one another as I have loved you. You must

2:45 Speaker 2: love one another. Listen to this cafe. A lot of

2:48 Speaker 2: times people say, oh, I can't love people like the

2:50 Speaker 2: way God does. Of course, we are all humans, but

2:53 Speaker 2: we should strive and we should have, you know, a

2:56 Speaker 2: sense of knowing what is our standard expected of our

3:00 Speaker 2: in terms of walking in love. I want you to

3:02 Speaker 2: understand very importantly, right, I understand that we cannot love

3:07 Speaker 2: the way God loved us or loves us. We are humans.

3:10 Speaker 2: We fall, we make mistakes, we have our shortcomings. But

3:13 Speaker 2: we should know what is our standard or what is

3:16 Speaker 2: our expectation and strive to move in that direction. Instead

3:21 Speaker 2: of saying you know what, I'll just be myself and

3:23 Speaker 2: I want to live my life the way I want

3:25 Speaker 2: to live. But I want to tell you something more

3:27 Speaker 2: today because I believe I want to introduce you to

3:31 Speaker 2: you know the extent of that love or the cult

3:35 Speaker 2: nature of that love, because I want you to understand

3:37 Speaker 2: the New Testament was predominantly written in Greek, and when

3:41 Speaker 2: you look at the Greek, there are four words for

3:43 Speaker 2: the word lau. And I'm sure some of you may

3:46 Speaker 2: be aware of this, but if you not, I want

3:47 Speaker 2: to remind you of it. And one is how you

3:50 Speaker 2: have a compassionate kind of love, the love between you know,

3:55 Speaker 2: parents towards children or family members. You know, that's called storage.

4:00 Speaker 2: You know, that's compassionate kind of low. There's another love

4:03 Speaker 2: that is predominantly between friends or mutual you know, associations

4:09 Speaker 2: and all of that. That is kind of like a

4:11 Speaker 2: give or take away kind of a love that is

4:13 Speaker 2: called a feelure's kind of love. You know you're supposed

4:17 Speaker 2: to have like a obligation or you know, you have

4:20 Speaker 2: the mutual respect, reach mutual love for each other. So

4:23 Speaker 2: that is like a friendship kind of a love, which

4:26 Speaker 2: is kind of like dependent in the sense like you

4:29 Speaker 2: love me, I love you, you don't show kindness towards me,

4:33 Speaker 2: I'm going to keep my distance, you know, kind of

4:35 Speaker 2: like you know, kind of that kind of a love.

4:37 Speaker 2: And then there's another one which is the erotic love.

4:40 Speaker 2: You know, the love between you know, the romantic love basically,

4:45 Speaker 2: and the greatest of these is a gapey love, which

4:49 Speaker 2: is unconditional love. Now, when you look at the scripture

4:52 Speaker 2: John thirteen, right when you look at Us thirty four,

4:56 Speaker 2: it says we love because He first loved us, right

4:59 Speaker 2: like he's saying, you know, as I have loved you,

5:03 Speaker 2: you must love one another. The word love used here

5:07 Speaker 2: is it's not filios. It's not give or take away love.

5:12 Speaker 2: It's not if they are good to me, I will

5:14 Speaker 2: be showing love to them. If not, I don't care

5:16 Speaker 2: about them. Right. See, there is a place for boundaries,

5:19 Speaker 2: there's a place for you know, not getting into toxic

5:22 Speaker 2: things and all of that. We'll talk about it in

5:24 Speaker 2: the future, but in today's context, I wanted to understand

5:27 Speaker 2: the standard for us here. When the Bible says that

5:29 Speaker 2: you need to love one another, and when the Bible

5:32 Speaker 2: says that we need to love because God loves us,

5:35 Speaker 2: the kind of love that God shows us is what

5:37 Speaker 2: is expected of us. That's the standard expected of us.

5:40 Speaker 2: And that love is not felios. It's not give or

5:43 Speaker 2: take away, it's not conditional, it's not ero take of course,

5:48 Speaker 2: even though Jesus is you know, the bridegroom and where

5:51 Speaker 2: the bride. It's not supposed to be taken in the

5:53 Speaker 2: wrong context, that there are people who teach bad teachings

5:57 Speaker 2: like oh, I'm married to Jesus and all of the

6:00 Speaker 2: stuff that's that's not right. Uh. And at the same time,

6:03 Speaker 2: when when when you look at people saying, you know,

6:06 Speaker 2: compassionate love. Of course God is compassionate towards us. Compassion

6:09 Speaker 2: flows from him, and out of his compassion he is

6:12 Speaker 2: healed people and all of that, the Bible says. But

6:14 Speaker 2: but the through is he did not just do it

6:18 Speaker 2: out of the compassionate love like you know, feeling pity

6:20 Speaker 2: or down or you know, not like that. But his

6:23 Speaker 2: love was unconditional because if you see in the original translation,

6:28 Speaker 2: when you read the same verse from the original translation,

6:31 Speaker 2: what does it say. It's not it's talking about unconditional love. Today,

6:37 Speaker 2: my challenge to each one of you, and that is

6:39 Speaker 2: one of my voices. Are you operating in that unconditional love?

6:44 Speaker 2: 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

6:52 Speaker 2: you loving people without any conditions attached to it? Are

6:57 Speaker 2: you loving people just the way they are. Are you

6:59 Speaker 2: able to accept See I understand. I wanted to understand.

7:02 Speaker 2: There's a difference between accepting people you know or of

7:05 Speaker 2: their sin and accepting people for who they are. You

7:09 Speaker 2: have to understand the two, right. I'm not asking you

7:12 Speaker 2: to accept the sin. I'm not saying you know what

7:15 Speaker 2: you need to agree with every person's decision, But I'm

7:18 Speaker 2: saying you need to accept the sinner. You need to

7:20 Speaker 2: show loud to the sinner. You need to show loud

7:23 Speaker 2: to the person, even if you're not able to agree

7:25 Speaker 2: with them on theological grounds or on their faith, or

7:28 Speaker 2: on their background or their decisions or whatever it is.

7:31 Speaker 2: Where the point is, you need to show that loud

7:33 Speaker 2: to the person because of who they are. They're made

7:36 Speaker 2: in the image of God. They are a masterpiece of God.

7:39 Speaker 2: They are here for a purpose, and you and I

7:41 Speaker 2: need to lead them, guide them, pray for them so

7:44 Speaker 2: that they will experience the unconditional love of God. And

7:47 Speaker 2: then the Bible says for by this will all men

7:50 Speaker 2: know you're My disciples when you have a guppy the

7:53 Speaker 2: unconditional love one for another. My challenge to each one

7:57 Speaker 2: of you under the sound of my voice today is

7:59 Speaker 2: if you have any kind of a relationship where your

8:03 Speaker 2: love is not unconditional, where you are putting conditions, or

8:07 Speaker 2: you have something maybe some biases in your relationship with them,

8:12 Speaker 2: Today is your wake up call. But I'm saying it's

8:15 Speaker 2: time for you to let go of those biases. It's

8:17 Speaker 2: time for you to let go of your agendas, It's

8:20 Speaker 2: time for you to let go of any kind of

8:22 Speaker 2: conditional parameters and say, you know what, I'm going to

8:25 Speaker 2: choose to love this person because they are made in

8:28 Speaker 2: the image of God. And I know that if God

8:31 Speaker 2: called me and chose me, and he set out a

8:33 Speaker 2: plan for me, even though I have made mistakes, even

8:37 Speaker 2: though I don't deserve it, then I should show that

8:40 Speaker 2: same kind of love towards other people. And let today

8:43 Speaker 2: be the wake up call for you to do it.

8:45 Speaker 2: And I challenge you to do it in Jesus Mighty Name. Amen,

8:49 Speaker 2: God bless you.

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