Ken Styles – Class 6: A More Excellent Way

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Is the North Battleford November
2010 study weekend.

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Our speaker is our brother Ken
Styles is topic being Godly

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love.
This is our fifth class the

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title for this class being a
more.

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Excellent way.
Our reading was taken from first

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of Corinthians chapter 13 for
the chem, please.

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Thank you, brother.
Nathan.

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I am delinquent brothers and
sisters and failing to convey

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the love and greetings of your
brother and sisters in the Royal

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Oak.
Ecclesia back in Detroit and

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apologize for Waiting for the
End to do so, but very much want

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to convey their eternal love.
We were appreciative of the

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participation we had during the
class this morning and going

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through the life of Abigail and
that incident and hopefully you

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will see that is the purpose of
that exercise was to help all of

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us.
Begin to do a better job of

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identifying.
The aspects of Godly love in the

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lives of these faithful Bible
characters again because the

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word love doesn’t always appear
in connection with the incident

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or with the individual sometimes
we fail to miss it, but

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hopefully between Checklist, you
have in between the notes will

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be, will be begin to do a better
job of being able to identify

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it.
Just one other point before we

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get into the class and brother
Skip and mentioned to me during

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one of the breaks today, and I
thought it was a good

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observation on his part that
we’ve talked often times about

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one of the key characteristics
of human lungs is it has this

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reciprocating expectation that
if I do for you then you will do

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for me.
But that isn’t to say that all

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love, that has a reciprocating
expectation is human long

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because as he rightly pointed
out, God loves us with a

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reciprocating expectation.
That we will turn around and

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serve him.
That’s why he gave us his son.

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He forgives us as we saw in Luke
7, yesterday in the incident,

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with the woman who came to the
meal, with Simon the Pharisee,

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and with the Lord Jesus Christ,
we are forgiven.

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One with the Divine expectation
that we will, then go out and

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love God, even more and be
obedient to him.

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So, if we’ve left you with the
wrong impression that every time

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there was a reciprocating
expectation, it must be human

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love.
We want to clarify that, that

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situation.
God rightfully has an

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expectation from us out of the
love that he shows to us.

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We’re going to look at a couple
more characters.

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Very briefly in this afternoon
session before turning our

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attention to First Corinthians
13 again just to reinforce this

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ability.
Hopefully this newfound skill to

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identify what Godly love looks
like in the life of faithful men

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and women and if you recall the
incident of Joseph you don’t

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necessarily have to turn up his
life but just now think through

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those incredible events in
Genesis 37 because here is a

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young man at a very early age.
So if there are any young people

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here, this received this
afternoon, Joseph is only 17.

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When he isn’t just learning
about Godly love, he is already

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manifesting Godly love at a very
high level.

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We know from the events of
Genesis 37, that his Brethren

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hate him.
The Jacob, then makes a special

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code for him to acknowledge his
spirituality because Jacob can

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see the spirituality of his of
his young son and the Brethren

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hate him even more Fort and
can’t speak peaceably to him.

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God gives then gives him a dream
which reinforces Jacobs.

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So election of Joseph as the
spiritual leader of the family

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and in response to brother and
hate him even more.

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God, then gives Joseph a second
dream to underscore the

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certainty of Joseph being the
spiritual leader of this family.

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And of course, this only results
in his brother and hating him

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even further.
So life would have been

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miserable for Joseph in that
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Surrounded by Brethren older
Brethren, whose hatred was

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obvious, but of Greater concern
to Joseph, was that he could

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see, they were ungodly and
wicked men back in chapter 37,

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and they didn’t just hate
Joseph.

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They hated God’s word.
So when God’s word came in the

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form of these dreams, they hated
the dreams and they hated God

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and they despise the promises.
So, how does Godly love react to

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that kind of a situation?
If you find yourself in the

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situation that Joseph was in,
what does it do?

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But what does Godly love look
like in that situation and the

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answer of course is what we have
seen this weekend.

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It does all it can even to the
point of putting your life at

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risk and laying down your life
out of a desire and doing it

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willingly to save those who are
in need of Your Love.

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That’s what Godly love looks
like in that kind of a situation

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so that you can save them and
help them to overcome sin.

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So that all that Joseph does in
the various counts of his

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accounts of his interactions
with the Brethren.

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It’s all motivated by Godly
love, whether it’s chapter 37 in

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their, dealings with him.
Whether it’s later on in the

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events, when they come down the
Egypt, it is all Godly love

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that.
Joseph is showing to them.

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Because Godly love will bring an
evil report to Jacob in the

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spirit of Matthew 18.
When he sees his Brethren out in

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the field, doing whatever they
were doing back in chapter 37,

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and it brings the evil report
out of a desire to win them back

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to righteousness.
It is Godly love, that will

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Faithfully relay the dream, the
first dream that God gave him

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out of a desire to convey to the
Brethren.

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This is God speaking to us as a
sir.

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As a family Godly love will
Faithfully convey.

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The second dream, even though
you’re, you know, for certainty

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that this second dream is not
going to endear your brethren to

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you.
It’s going to intensify their

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hatred.
But Godly loves says, we convey

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the word of God because that is
our responsibility Godly love

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goes out in search of one’s
Brethren.

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Even though you know they hate
you, he’s not a naive 17 year

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old who goes out seeking his
brother and chapter 37 and is

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surprised to find that, they
hate him to the point where

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they’re thinking of killing him.
But you see when Godly love is

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our motivation.
You seek them out which are the

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words of Joseph in that chapter.
I seek my brother.

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Because it perseveres even when
it would appear, there is no

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hope for their salvation.
It doesn’t matter what their

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past mistreatment of you, is Ben
That doesn’t diminish your

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efforts in the slightest, it
continues to return, good for

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evil because the power of Godly
love is greater than the power

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of sin, and the power of evil,
it continues to love ones

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neighbor, as oneself.
Even when The Neighbor 10, not

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speak peaceably about you Godly,
knob Godly love is not confined

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to those people that really love
you.

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It speaks highly of you Godly
love extends to all All even our

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neighbors.
Who may treat us in the, in the

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vein of how Jacob Joseph was
treated by his brother.

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Joseph put himself in their
position and realized they were

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men going in the wrong
direction.

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And he said, what would I need?
If I was in their situation and

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I was as ungodly in my Outlook
as I as they were and they

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certainly wouldn’t need Joseph
to turn on them.

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They certainly wouldn’t need
Joseph to shun them and say I’ll

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have nothing to do with them,
they would need Joseph to do.

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All he could to win them back to
righteousness to save them from

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sin.
It wouldn’t matter if Joseph

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will be successful or not, that
is not what God asks us to,

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determine we don’t love.
Because we think our efforts

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will be successful in whatever
it is.

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We’re trying to achieve we love
because that’s how God loves

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There won’t be a single person
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Who is rejected not a single
one.

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That can ever with any
justification, say God, if you

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had done more in my life I might
have turned out differently.

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Because God will have done
everything possible in his power

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to win over those.
He is called that’s the god that

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we worship.
And that’s the love that he

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shows.
Even when he knows those to whom

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he shows, love will not all
respond the way they should.

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Because Godly love doesn’t try
and figure out the end. and then

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only extend itself to those who
we are certain will be on the

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right side and the final day of
judgement His suffering of a

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bare hands, did not stop.
Joseph from loving his brother,

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the wonderful outcome.
In this case, as we all know as

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it in the end. 22 years later,
it was Joseph.

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Love for his Brethren back in
chapter 37, that helped win them

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back to righteousness by causing
them to forsake, their former

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ways.
The key point, and we have found

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this helpful personally,
especially in working within the

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Brotherhood, and within the
occlusal world, Joseph never saw

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his Brethren as false Brethren
even in the darkest of days.

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He saw them as lost Brethren and
there is a world of difference

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scripturally between those two
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God gave him a dream right up
front that said one day you will

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be their spiritual head and they
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Not because they’re forced to do
so but because they choose to do

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so and God gave Joseph, the
Assurance upfront that one day,

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this situation will come to
pass.

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And that would have steeled in
Joseph’s mind that these

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Brethren is evil as they are,
are lost Brethren.

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Because God has now revealed to
me that one day and we see it

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come to fruition in chapter 50
when they come and willingly bow

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down to him.
It doesn’t happen when they come

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to Egypt and they don’t even
know who he is.

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That is not the Fulfillment of
the dream, but when they come

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and they know who he is, and
they willingly give themselves

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over to him and in chapter 50
recognized, he is the spiritual

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leader of this family, and
rightfully.

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So, God’s promise God’s
prophecy.

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So to speak, comes to
fulfillment.

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For Godly love, continues to
love, lost brethren in order to

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try and win them back to
righteousness.

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And if Joseph could continue to
show Godly, love to his brother

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who hated him and who could not
speak peaceably to him and who

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sold him into slavery and
deceive their father into

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leading him to grieve.
Joseph’s death for so long.

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What does that teach us?
About the level of mistreatment,

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we might receive in a cliche
life.

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And what we shouldn’t be willing
to endure.

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No one in the Ecclesia will ever
mistreat us, never mistreat us

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like Joseph was mistreated by
his brother and if he could

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maintain his Godly love in those
circumstances That’s The Power

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of what this love can do for us.
Is there ever a situation in?

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Which a brother can Soul?
Mistreat me to justify my

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ceasing to love him with Godly
love and according to the story

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and the example of Joseph, he
would teach me that there is

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never never a situation in my
life where I can ever turn to

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any of my brothers and sisters.
And say your mistreatment of me.

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You’re shaming of me at the last
meeting.

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Your publicly exposing of me in
the last exhortation.

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You get whatever it is.
The email you sent about me,

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doesn’t matter.
There is never a situation when

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I can turn to that brother or
sister and say, I can turn off

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my Godly love for you.
That’s the power brothers and

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sisters.
There is no situation.

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Probably love keeps loving.
You see the same example in the

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situation of Judah, again will
try to go through this briefly,

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remember the setting, the ten
Brothers have waited a long time

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before returning to Egypt a
second time Joseph, Jacob was

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extremely reluctant to send
Benjamin and it’s not until

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Judah offered himself as
personal Surety to Jacob.

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The Jacob agrees to send Jake
to, to allow Benjamin to, to go

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down to Egypt.
And when the ten Brethren

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arrived in Egypt, the events of
the next 24 hours leaves them

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ecstatic.
They have come to Egypt

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concerned over the fact that
when they went the home, the

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last time they still had their
money.

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So they’re going to have to
explain how it is.

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We came down, we paid for the
money and we got home.

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It was in our sacks.
We don’t know how it happened

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but we we brought that money
we’re going to make do and they

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don’t know what’s become of
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They don’t know how they’ll be
treated, but almost from the

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moment they arrived, Let me see
one good piece of news.

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After another, the money from
the first trip, the servant says

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your God.
Must have put it back in the

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stacks.
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In good health.
They were extended the rare

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privilege of being invited to
dine with the governor in his

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house and the governor sits with
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And he puts them in order of
birth order, they sit here and

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eat and he sits in his own
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When they went to sleep, that
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in these situations to see what
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The Brethren couldn’t have, had
felt any better about the

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situation than they did.
They had had a great day.

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If they had called home to Jacob
that night, they were to said,

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you would not believe what
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It’s been a tremendous day and
he would have recounted all the

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wonderful things and we’re
heading home tomorrow morning,

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God willing.
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they would leave to return home
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And the governor’s servants
catches up with him and he drops

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a bombshell.
One of you has the Governor’s

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Cup and they are so convinced
that that is an impossibility

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that they declare that all of
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governor.
They are so sure of their

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innocence.
The servant changes the focus to

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be solely on the individual with
whom the cup is found, he is to

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be a lifelong slave.
He searches their bags and

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there’s to come with Benjamin’s
possessions and the Brethren

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immediately unite as one without
hesitation and they returned to

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sort out the matter.
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Benjamin is overwhelmingly
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pronounced.
And Judah steps forward to talk

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to the governor.
And chapter 44 is all about The

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Godly love of Judah.
It, it shows what happens when

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Godly Love Takes Over the life
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He willingly lays down his life.
So that another, his brother in

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his dad, will be able to
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He loves Benjamin in deed and in
truth, not in word, or in

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tongue.
His, his love has sprung from

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his faith.
He doesn’t know what chapter 45

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is about.
All he knows, is he is about to

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become a lifelong slave of this
Governor because he is not going

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to allow his younger brother.
Whom his father loves Pretty

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kept in prison when he has given
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When he said to his father that
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lad, these were not throw away
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Judah had reached that point in
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the absolute Assurance.
If it comes to the point where

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it’s Benjamin’s life or my life,
you see that becomes his

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Declaration of Godly lungs.
You don’t see the word love in

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his declaration, but that’s what
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I will become Surety for
Benjamin and then God puts him

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into that position where he has
to test whether or not.

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Judah’s declaration will be
followed by his action and sure

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enough to If it isn’t.
And you notice he doesn’t just

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love God.
This is Judah when everything is

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going fine, he shall fall.
He shows forth his Godly love

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when everything is falling apart
because he is trusting that God

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will see him through.
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He puts himself in the pit
because that’s where Joseph had

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watched.
It brought the Brethren back to

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the pit of chapter 37.
Now, becomes the pit of chapter

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44 and Judah looks down at
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symbolically in the pit.
And he says if I was in the pits

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and I am now facing a lifetime
of servitude and slavery in

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Egypt, never to return home.
What would I need?

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And Benjamin in that pit has
Judah, reach down and lift him

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out.
And he takes his place.

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That’s what loving our neighbor
as ourself is all about.

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There’s that kind of power in
this principle, if we will allow

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it to take.
Hold of our life.

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Judith certainly wasn’t born
with his Godly love without

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doubt.
He had to learn his Godly love,

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and it took a long time to teach
him, we need to forbear with one

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another brother and sisters.
It took Judah a long time to

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learn his Godly love, but once
he had it, and once he

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understood the power of it, God
was able to work.

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Marvelous things in his life.
And it is so marvelous, that God

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wants this incident in chapter
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So for every subsequent
generation They can see how most

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of us don’t start out of Joseph.
Most of us start out as Judah.

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But if we will observe The Godly
love of Jacob and become

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sympathetic to it and realize
that is really a better way to

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live.
The power and principles of

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Godly love can take over in our
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And Rule our thoughts and
actions and decisions, just like

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they did in the case of Judah.
So that Godly love transformed.

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Judah’s character.
He really was a new person as a

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result of the power of Godly
love in his life.

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And it’s obvious.
It goes without saying almost

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that the power of Godly love in
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power of sin.
It would have been so easy from

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a natural standpoint.
To Simply leave Benjamin so to

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speak in the pit and return home
and tell.

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Jacob, you’ll never believe what
happened.

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There was the cup in the sack,
who would have ever thought of

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Benjamin.
We can’t believe it.

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But what will we to do the cup?
Was there the servant found it?

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It would have been so easy to be
a hireling and to flee

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temptation.
For Judah had become a Good

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Shepherd.
His love was to Love Of Christ.

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You couldn’t have loved Benjamin
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Then Judah love Benjamin that
day.

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Judah’s love was a greater love
hath.

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No, man than this, that a man
lay down his life for his

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friends.
His love United, the two key

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principles of crucifying the
Flesh, on the one hand and

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serving others in order to save
them on the other.

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And judah’s life, his Godly love
had produced in him a power that

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enabled him to become a hyper or
a super conquer as Paul speaks

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of in Romans 8.
Because he added his love to the

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Divine love and that created a
power in judah’s life.

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It is not a mystical power, it
is not a magical power.

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It is the power of principles
that come to an understanding in

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our mind and we say I am going
to stand behind and live by

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those principles because they
are a better way to live and

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that power that we see evidence
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Was not going to prevent him.
It was not going to separate him

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from the love of God.
Sin had been overcome in judah’s

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life by love, so that chapter 44
is a wonderful Declaration of

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the love of Judah, and it shows
us if we will believe it.

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It shows us how far love will
take us in the development of

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our discipleship.
Not to our glory and credits.

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But God is saying, look, I need
you to embrace my lungs and if

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you will, there are great things
I can do in your life, for the

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sake of others, not to your own
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That’s not what this is about.
We can become his workmanship

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for good works to his glory, but
until we Embrace his love, we

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severely restrict God’s ability
to work in our life.

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Esther is another example of the
power of Godly love and how it

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changes her life.
She begins chapter 4 and she

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does not have Godly love if you
turn to the events, you don’t

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need to.
If you’re familiar with them,

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she is not prepared to lay down
her life for her Brethren.

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You see we’re not born with
gobbly loved as we’ve pointed

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out.
It doesn’t happen naturally,

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it’s a love that must be learned
and it’s not an easy love to

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learn to put into practice.
Has been has been echoed in the

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prayers and no down in the
conversations among us.

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This is a love that we have to
work at it.

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It is not easy to crucify the
flesh.

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It’s easy to understand how it
is to be done, but to actually

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put it in practice.
I think one of the reasons the

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story of Esther it is recorded
for us and especially the events

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of chapter 4 is to show us, it
isn’t easy, but once it’s

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embraced, God can do great
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The setting, of course is
haman’s, life-ending sentence.

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Of death has been signed
deceitfully.

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The Kings approval, was secured.
Third deceitfully.

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And that sentence of death will
wipe out the Jews in a single

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day.
All because mortar Ki is refusal

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to Bow Down and Worship this.
Wicked man Heyman.

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The Persian law published
throughout the Empire calls for

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all Jews to die and the Jews in
every city in every Province.

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As the decree comes forth are
Weeping and wailing in sackcloth

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and Ashes.
And Esther does not know what’s

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happened.
She’s not aware of the deadly

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decree, she learns of the decree
because she learns.

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That Mordecai is openly sitting
in the square in sackcloth and

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Ashes grieving and wailing
publicly.

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So see she says, Hey Tech to
find out what the reason is

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mordecai.
Sends hate to act right back and

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he’s got two things in his hand.
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One thing in his hand, actually
in the second is the

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instructions for Esther to go to
the king and appeal to the king.

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On behalf of her people and
Esther sends word back to

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Mordecai.
I won’t go.

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I am not going to go before they
came because every Persian knows

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that.
If you go before the king, the

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Royal law says that you are to
be slain.

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Unless he extends the scepter
verse 11 of chapter for all the

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king’s Servants of the people of
the king’s provinces do know

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that whosoever whether man or
woman shall come unto the king

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into the inner Court who is not
called, there is one law of his

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to put him to death, except such
to whom the king, shall lay,

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hold shall Hold out the golden
scepter that he may live, but I

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have not been called to come in
under the king.

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These 30 days at the outset, she
is unwilling to risk her life

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for her people.
The love she has.

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At the outset of these events is
not godly loved.

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It is Human lungs.
How do we know that?

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Because who does she love in
this chapter at the beginning of

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these events?
She loves her family.

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And Mordecai exposes her human
love.

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He goes on to say, don’t think
that your love for your family

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and your desire to protect them
is going to keep them.

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From coming under the deadly
curse of this law of Haman.

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You are not going to protect
your family by remaining silent.

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He doesn’t use the words but he
might as well have said.

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Esther, you have human lung and
he challenges her human love.

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This is not what the situation
calls for.

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Esther, you need to be willing
to lay down your life.

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For your people.
But he won’t force her.

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You cannot force Godly love on
anyone.

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Because the death to sin that we
must die has got to be done

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willingly.
The Marvel of all of this is

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Esther and Mordecai.
As we know, never talked person

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to person.
It’s all done through

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Messengers, but Mordecai sends
word back to Esther.

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You need to go before the king
and let me remind you as stir

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that God is going to save Israel
of that.

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I have no doubt.
But the way to overcome Heyman

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is not the approach.
You use it.

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You see back in chapter 3, more
Decay, I had already stood up to

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Haven.
And he laid down his life when

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he told Heyman.
I am not going to bow down to

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you and he did it in a very
public setting because you don’t

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Bow Down and Worship men like
Heyman.

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Mordecai was not just
disrespecting royalty payment

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wanted to be worshipped if you
trace the words through both in

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chapter 3 and chapter 5, And
Mordecai said, I am not going to

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bow down to this man.
But Esther is not yet where

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Mordecai was, she is still
loving with a human love.

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The way you stand up to Haman
the way, you overcome Haman, the

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way you overcome sin, and recall
that Haman.

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And Esther in the Book of Esther
represents, all the

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manifestations of sin, whether
they are political, whether it’s

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the human nature, whatever it
is.

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That’s what Heyman represents
for us in the Book of Esther and

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Mordecai is encouraging her to
stand up to him, by being

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willing to lay down her life.
And the question in chapter 4

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for Esther to decide is which Of
will govern your life.

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Is it human love?
And which we put our family

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above all else, which can be
deadly in an occlusal setting.

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And I know from personal
experience, I haven’t a clue

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what’s going on out here?
Will it be human love?

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Or will it be Godly love?
and when Mordecai sends back

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that second time and challenges,
Esther, Her Love Changes.

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Because her response to Mordecai
is I will go before the king.

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I will lay down my life for my
people.

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It doesn’t say it.
But we know she did it by faith.

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Because her love sprung from her
faith.

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What changes between the
beginning of chapter 4?

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In the end of chapter 4?
Has the decree that if you go

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before the king, and he doesn’t
extend the scepter.

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You die.
Has that changed?

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No has haman’s decree that the
Jews are to die.

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Change know what has changed
between the beginning of chapter

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4 and the end of chapter 4.
Is that Esther has embraced

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Godly love?
When she says, if I perish, I

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perish that is not a statement
of her fatalism that is a

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statement of her Godly love.
Take another look later on.

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If you’ve read it before, as I
did for many years that she was

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just being fatalistic.
Oh, well, if I die, I die.

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We sell her.
So short.

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We are not to read the chapter.
That is a declaration of her

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Godly love.
You don’t ask people to fast for

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you.
And you don’t declare that you

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will Fast for three days and
asked the entire community in

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shushan to get behind you.
So to speak spiritually.

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If your view is, well, if I die,
I die.

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This is a remarkably faithful
young woman, who has embraced

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Godly love, and The Wonder of
Godly love brother and sisters

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in young people is that she
stands up to Haman in her

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commitment to go before him.
And she Embraces, Godly love.

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And within four days, the
Redemption of her people will

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begin because Heyman will be
dead.

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God can do marvelous things
working through us when we

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embrace the principles and the
power of Godly laws in our life.

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That’s what we’re being
instructed.

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That’s what movie were being
taught.

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One of the many lovely things
were being taught by the example

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of this young woman. the moral
power of the doctrine of the

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atonement is to encourage us to
embrace love, is our way of life

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and she Embraces that love And
it becomes a powerful influence

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and a power and her life.
Just briefly we’ve given you a

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couple examples because things
can work the other way.

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We won’t take the time to go
through it.

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Sorry, we’ve included the
example of Eli Sad situation.

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What love.
Dominated Eli’s life was it

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Godly love or was it human love?
He is the high priest.

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00:32:16,100 –> 00:32:24,400
Who did he Love More?
God, or his family. he is cursed

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00:32:25,200 –> 00:32:30,800
in terms of when the man of God
comes to him and says You have

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00:32:30,800 –> 00:32:34,500
placed your love for your son’s
above God.

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He is condemned in chapter 3,
Samuel has to relate to him.

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That there is no kafar.
There is no covering.

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00:32:42,300 –> 00:32:47,300
There is no atonement for you
rely and your household because

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your love has been a human love.
Now he doesn’t use those words.

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You won’t find the words, human
love and Eli in the same chapter

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00:32:56,400 –> 00:33:01,300
but that’s what he exhibited.
His love for his sons was

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greater than his love for God
and brother and sisters moms and

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dads.
If our love for our children is

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greater than our love for God.
And somehow we have that mixed

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00:33:17,000 –> 00:33:22,300
up Eli becomes a warning to us
that we can place the love of

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00:33:22,300 –> 00:33:27,900
our children above our love, for
God, and we can so want them to

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00:33:27,900 –> 00:33:31,300
enjoy themselves in the truth
that we turn a blind eye, to

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00:33:31,300 –> 00:33:35,300
whatever it is, they’re doing.
Because at least they’re still

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00:33:35,300 –> 00:33:39,700
in the truth as hophni and
phinehas were so to speak.

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00:33:42,900 –> 00:33:47,300
We stopped, requiring our
children to obey God’s commands

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00:33:47,300 –> 00:33:50,100
when we stopped practicing Godly
love and raising them.

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00:33:52,100 –> 00:33:55,800
The warning of Eli is that we
Face the same Danger.

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He didn’t leave the community of
Believers.

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He stayed right there in the
Ecclesia, so to speak.

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So we don’t have to leave the
troops to turn a blind eye to

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the iniquity in our kids. but we
can’t raise our kids on human

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00:34:13,199 –> 00:34:16,400
love and then somehow expect
them when they grow up to all of

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a sudden, understand and embrace
Godly love Now, I speak as a

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parent who struggles.
With all of the aspects of

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00:34:27,000 –> 00:34:31,800
raising a Godly seed.
We don’t have all the answers.

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00:34:31,800 –> 00:34:34,500
We have struggled like the rest
of you but one of the lessons we

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00:34:34,500 –> 00:34:39,300
see in this is that the solution
When our children challenge us

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00:34:39,300 –> 00:34:44,100
in their behavior in conduct is
not to say, well, we’ll just let

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00:34:44,100 –> 00:34:47,600
that go.
Now, I’m not saying we have to

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00:34:47,600 –> 00:34:51,600
nitpick our kids because this
the same Godly love that says we

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00:34:51,600 –> 00:34:56,500
should stand up to wrongdoing.
Also condemns us the same Godly

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00:34:56,500 –> 00:34:58,600
love if we provoke them to
anger.

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00:34:59,400 –> 00:35:02,500
So if we are ruling them with a
rod of iron, we are equally

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00:35:02,500 –> 00:35:05,600
condemned as if we are turning a
blind eye to sin.

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We want to exclude both of those
extremes but there are examples

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in scripture of those who
followed Godly love and the

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00:35:14,408 –> 00:35:18,300
raising of our children and
those that didn’t We’ve

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included, I think one or two
comments from 2nd Chronicles 18.

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We won’t go further there, but
Josh attack with all his good

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00:35:25,800 –> 00:35:29,900
intentions to unite the North
and the South and they were good

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00:35:29,900 –> 00:35:33,400
intentions and he was sincere in
his efforts.

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But he didn’t have Godly love
because if you take the time

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later to read in chapter 19 and
verse two, that ghg who visits

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00:35:42,000 –> 00:35:48,800
him and he says you love
yahweh’s enemy and you disobey

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00:35:48,800 –> 00:35:52,200
Yahweh Your Love Jehoshaphat is
upside down.

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So it isn’t just sincerity that
God is looking for.

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We have got to remain
consistent.

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And we have to remain within the
parameters of what God defines

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as righteousness.
If we don’t, we may be

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practicing love, but it is not
godly love.

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Come with me.
If you would the First

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Corinthians 13, again, we’ve
left many of the notes for many

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00:36:20,200 –> 00:36:25,500
of our thoughts in the notes,
but we see at the end of chapter

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12, all of the difficulties that
the Ecclesia was suffering

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through.
Some would say you could say it

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00:36:34,500 –> 00:36:37,400
was a dysfunctional Ecclesia in
some respects because they

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needed to learn how to get
along.

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They had these Spirit gifts and
one was this, and one was that,

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00:36:43,300 –> 00:36:46,100
and they had all these gifts,
but it wasn’t bringing about a

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00:36:46,107 –> 00:36:49,900
cohesion in the Ecclesia, they
weren’t functioning as an

554
00:36:49,900 –> 00:36:53,200
Ecclesia should function as one
body with arms, and the legs,

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and the hands, and the feet, and
the ears, and the eyes, and

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00:36:55,900 –> 00:37:00,200
everybody working together.
And Paul says, I’m going to show

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you how To work together.
Because in chapter 12, he’s

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00:37:05,700 –> 00:37:09,200
exposed to things one.
This is how the Ecclesia should

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00:37:09,200 –> 00:37:12,500
work.
And secondly, this isn’t how

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00:37:12,500 –> 00:37:15,800
you’re working.
And now he says, I’m going to

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00:37:15,800 –> 00:37:20,700
show you how the Ecclesia can
work together. and we won’t take

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00:37:20,700 –> 00:37:24,700
the time to develop all the
points, but the answer he says,

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00:37:25,900 –> 00:37:28,600
The answer is through Godly
love.

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It’s learning to put into
practice the principles of Godly

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00:37:34,200 –> 00:37:35,800
love.
And that’s why he says, it

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00:37:35,800 –> 00:37:41,100
really is a better way to live.
It’s a better way to build a

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00:37:41,107 –> 00:37:44,200
marriage and behave as a
husband.

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It is a better way to behave as
a wife.

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It’s a better way to raise our
family and to teach our kids,

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00:37:52,300 –> 00:37:56,800
how to live, and how to act, and
how to learn to love with Godly

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00:37:56,800 –> 00:37:59,100
love.
It’s a better way to behave in

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00:37:59,100 –> 00:38:04,600
the occasion with each member
being personally devoted to love

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00:38:04,600 –> 00:38:07,200
in a building the household in
Godly love.

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It’s a better way to conduct
ourselves in our employment

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regardless of how Others May
treat us.

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But there’s always the danger
that we can know about it and

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00:38:20,100 –> 00:38:22,300
failed to live it and Paul
Menses.

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No words as we know in First
Corinthians 13, if we know it

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and we’re not living it, he says
we are nothing.

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Nothing.
He says.

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00:38:35,200 –> 00:38:39,900
Chapter 13 describes just how
important it is to learn to

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develop Godly love is Hebrews.
11 is a chapter that describes

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what faith will lead to in the
lives of Believers.

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00:38:47,900 –> 00:38:50,800
First Corinthians 13 as a
description of what love will

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lead to in the lives of the
Believers and verse one, he goes

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00:38:54,900 –> 00:38:59,400
right at the problem in Corinth,
those with the spirit gifts were

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using them, not for the
edification of the body.

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00:39:04,400 –> 00:39:08,100
But in ways that were unhelpful
though, I speak with the tongues

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of men and angels, He says, and
have not love charity love.

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It’s the same word.
I am becoming a sounding as

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sounding brass, or a tinkling
cymbal, to have a spirit gift

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00:39:21,800 –> 00:39:25,400
without practicing Godly love.
He says, is worse than being

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00:39:25,400 –> 00:39:29,200
meaningless.
And the only thing that is worse

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00:39:29,200 –> 00:39:32,800
than being meaningless is to be
obnoxious.

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00:39:34,200 –> 00:39:37,800
And that’s how he describes
those with a spirit gift who

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00:39:37,800 –> 00:39:41,200
were not practicing Godly love
in our day.

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00:39:41,200 –> 00:39:44,500
It’s akin to a brother being an
eloquent speaker, but using his

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00:39:44,500 –> 00:39:48,700
talent for his own edification
call says, it’s like a person

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00:39:49,100 –> 00:39:52,800
standing in the corner
continuously banging a symbol or

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00:39:52,800 –> 00:39:55,900
blowing a horn.
And his point is, if you do not

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00:39:55,900 –> 00:39:58,100
have love, don’t try to use your
talent.

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00:39:58,900 –> 00:40:02,900
If you do not have love, don’t
try to use your talent because

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00:40:02,900 –> 00:40:04,500
you won’t be helpful to the
body.

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It’s better to remain.
Silent in verse 2, we exposes

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00:40:09,100 –> 00:40:12,500
the danger of having knowledge
without Godly lung and though I

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00:40:12,508 –> 00:40:15,500
have the gift of Prophecy and
prophecy, there is the ability

607
00:40:15,500 –> 00:40:19,200
to expound God’s word and
understand all Mysteries and all

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00:40:19,200 –> 00:40:20,900
knowledge.
And though I have all Faith so

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00:40:20,900 –> 00:40:24,200
that I could remove mountains
and have not love.

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I am nothing and he paints an
extreme position.

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But a brother who knows
everything he has a you

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00:40:32,508 –> 00:40:36,600
understands all Mysteries and
all knowledge and he has

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00:40:36,600 –> 00:40:39,400
unlimited Faith.
Paul says, this brother knows

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00:40:39,400 –> 00:40:42,200
everything.
He understands everything he

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00:40:42,200 –> 00:40:48,000
believes everything, But he
doesn’t have love despite all

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00:40:48,000 –> 00:40:50,900
his knowledge, all his
understanding, all his faith.

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00:40:50,900 –> 00:40:56,600
Paul says, he is nothing because
knowledge and understanding is

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00:40:56,600 –> 00:41:00,800
not the aim of discipleship.
Faith is not the aim of

619
00:41:00,800 –> 00:41:03,900
discipleship.
They are all intended to bring

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00:41:03,900 –> 00:41:07,400
us to love.
Until we have love.

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We are nothing.
And you see how Paul is now

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00:41:10,000 –> 00:41:13,900
lining up with God.
Who said his expectation is that

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00:41:13,900 –> 00:41:18,600
we will learn to love with his
lung and his love will dwell in

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00:41:18,600 –> 00:41:20,600
us and he lines up with the
Lord.

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00:41:20,600 –> 00:41:22,900
Jesus Christ who says you are my
friends.

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Only only if you learn to love
is I love.

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00:41:27,100 –> 00:41:32,900
And Paul says, if we don’t have
this love we are nothing We can

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00:41:32,900 –> 00:41:35,500
spend an entire life and the
Ecclesia.

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We can learn great deal about
the scriptures.

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But if we don’t learn to develop
this love, we are nothing.

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So, in verse 13, either verse 3,
rather, he goes on to paint

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00:41:48,400 –> 00:41:51,400
another extreme position and
though I bestow all my goods to

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00:41:51,400 –> 00:41:54,600
feed the poor, and though I give
my body to be burned and have

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00:41:54,800 –> 00:41:57,800
not love it.
Profiteth me, nothing.

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00:41:58,400 –> 00:42:01,000
You see, he again sites to
extreme situations.

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00:42:01,000 –> 00:42:04,800
We can give away all that we
have and then we can turn around

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00:42:04,800 –> 00:42:09,300
and allow our body to be burned.
We can give away our very life.

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00:42:11,100 –> 00:42:15,400
And we can have nothing else to
give. but if we haven’t given it

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00:42:15,400 –> 00:42:19,800
out of love, Rand Paul says it
profiteth us.

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00:42:19,800 –> 00:42:23,800
Nothing the thinking of the
flesh is so deceitful that we

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00:42:23,800 –> 00:42:26,800
can do what appears to be
spiritual fees.

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00:42:27,700 –> 00:42:29,700
But Paul said it is all for
nothing.

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00:42:29,700 –> 00:42:34,100
It’s worth circling.
The all in verse two and three

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00:42:35,200 –> 00:42:39,500
all Mysteries, all knowledge,
all Faith, all my goods.

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00:42:40,800 –> 00:42:43,500
And it’s worth underlying in
verse 2.

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I am nothing.
It profiteth me nothing.

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00:42:49,000 –> 00:42:52,800
So how do we know if we have
Godly love or human love?

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How do we know it?
Godly love is what governs, our

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00:42:56,200 –> 00:43:00,700
actions and the simple answer is
Verses 4 to 7.

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It’s not difficult.
To assess what our love is and

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whether or not we have it, this
is what Godly love.

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Looks like it’s how it acts and
how it looks how it refrains

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from acting, regardless of the
situation that we find ourselves

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in.
He’s not just describing in

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these verses what Godly love is.
He’s also citing eight things.

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That Godly love is not godly.
Love does not envy.

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It does not bond to itself or
boast.

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It is not proud.
It is not puffed up.

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He says it does not behave
itself on Ryu unseemly or

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rudely.
It doesn’t seek its own

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Advantage.
It isn’t easily provoked or an

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irritable.
It doesn’t think evil of others.

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Other words, it’s not resentful.
It does not rejoice in Senate is

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not happy to see a brother who
continues to malign Us in the

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Ecclesia, be overcome by sin.
That is not loved pulses.

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He also provides 7 positive ways
in which Godly love manifests

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itself.
This is what love is.

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This is what Godly love.
Does It suffers long?

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It’s kind rejoices in truth.
There’s all things believes all

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things, hopes all things and
endures all things.

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And it never fails.
It never fails it.

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Never fails because the spicket
is never turned off.

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It keeps going and going and
going and going.

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That’s what Godly love does.
When we reflect these qualities

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in our life this is what Godly
Love The Godly love.

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God is bringing us to one
brother has suggested that you

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can reinsert the word Christ and
Verses 4 to 7 and you have a

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condensed picture of his
character.

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Because this is what he
reflected in his love, just a

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couple of quick comments about
some of these aspects that Paul

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brings to light.
When he says, love suffers long

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and is patient, it’s patient
because God is long-suffering

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and patient with us.
We haven’t taken a time this

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weekend, but if you go back to
Exodus 34 when God reveals the

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glory of his character to Moses,
those characteristics are all

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about the character of Godly
loves.

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In this case, God is
long-suffering to us.

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So he asks us to, for bear, with
each other for bear with each

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other.
It takes God a very, very, very,

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very long time to get angry with
us.

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Because that’s what forbearance
means.

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A very, very, very long time.
And sometimes we can have such a

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short fuse with each other.
That is not for bearings.

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That is not godly love.
Why does God for bear with us?

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Because he’s got other things to
do.

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And he can’t attend to our
situation though because he’s

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giving us broad scope and lots
of room to repent and the

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change.
All of us, I guarantee without

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having had these conversations
with you, all of us have

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characteristics in our life that
we are.

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So thankful that God for for was
for bearing towards us.

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As he worked patiently with me
to get rid of this aspect of the

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old man, in some cases, it has
taken years in my life.

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And some cases, I am still a
work in progress and he is for

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bearing with me and brother and
sisters, and young people.

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We need the treat each.
Other equally Ephesians 4 says,

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with all lowliness and meekness
with long-suffering forbearing

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one another in love.
Why?

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Because he goes on to say in
verse 3, endeavoring to keep the

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unity of the spirit in the bond
of Peace, you want to blow up in

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Ecclesia and divide it tomorrow,
just eliminate forbearance.

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You want to preserve the unity
of an Ecclesia.

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When it’s going through
difficulties, which all of our

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closures are in these.
This Is Us days.

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Then insist upon forbearance
with one another.

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These are these are God’s
principles.

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This is Paul’s wisdom.
The wisdom of God that he’s

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sharing with us.
Love is kind.

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Paul says the Greek means to be
useful to be helpful to others.

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So he’s not saying love, is
simply restricted to a warm

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smile for a great, big handshake
or a hug on a Sunday morning.

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Morning or to bible class and
Ephesians 4 verse 32.

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Paul connects this same,
kindness with forgiveness and be

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ye kind one to another
tender-hearted forgiving one

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another.
Even as God for Christ’s sake,

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hath forgiven you, if you want
to show this, kindness to

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someone.
The kindness that Paul speaks of

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as being part of Godly love than
forgive them.

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Regardless of what they have
done to you regardless of what

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they have done to you.
Forgive them and forgive them

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today.
If you haven’t already. and if

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you’re not sure why go back and
look at the parable of the ten

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dollars, which is the value of
the sins of others committed

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against me and that 10 million
dollars.

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Which is the value that God
places on my sins against him.

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Be kind to one another, forgive
one, another, that’s not

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possible with human lungs.
But with Godly love, forgiveness

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is possible.
And first Peter for he says

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above all things.
And verse 8, have fervent Love

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For Love covers, a multitude of
sins.

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It’s a nun, it’s an evil spirit
that is Unleashed.

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There’s no other way to describe
it.

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When a brother sins against
another brother.

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It’s an evil spirit that is
Unleashed.

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We’re not talking about some
Demon or Some mystical power but

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it is an evil spirit that is
Unleashed.

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You had Godly love to that
situation as the brother against

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whom the sin was committed.
And you will prove that the

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power of Godly love is greater
than the power of the evil.

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That was Unleashed when the sin
was committed against you.

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I’m not talking about the sin
when somebody stepped on your

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toes.
I’m talking about the kind of

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sin where natural mind would
want to hang on to that, for a

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long, long, long time, until the
brother does this.

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This, this and this.
And let’s have a little public

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shame in there, too.
That is not godly love.

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Paul says, love is not puffed
up.

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It means it’s not arrogant.
There’s no room for Pride with

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Godly love.
Godly love cannot exist,

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alongside Pride.
If we have decided, we’re just

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going to have a measure of pride
in our life for whatever reason.

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We decide we’re going to have
that.

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Godly love will not be able to
take hold it doesn’t behave

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itself unseemly.
Another one of those good

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authorized version words.
It means it doesn’t behave

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itself.
Rudely and we’re not

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disparaging, the AV It’s just,
sometimes we have to do an extra

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step of understanding.
What does it mean here?

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Jot down the reference, if you
don’t have it in 7:36, where it

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talks about a young man will not
put a young woman.

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In a dangerous situation, he
won’t risk compromising her

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reputation.
He won’t allow her to be

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disgrace because Godly love will
never put a brother or sister in

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a situation in which they may
send.

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So if I’m in a discussion with
my brother and I know he has hot

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buttons and I remain nice and
cool and calm.

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I’m getting ready to push it.
And he blows up and everybody

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00:51:09,900 –> 00:51:14,200
sees it.
Who is responsible for his

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00:51:14,200 –> 00:51:17,800
behavior.
I am.

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Now, he has issues to deal with
but I dare not walk away from

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that conversation.
Thinking that I am not also

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guilty of having behaved
unseemly to mourn my brother,

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because my actions have caused
him to send.

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Love will never push the hot
button of another person.

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It doesn’t it’s not easily
provoked.

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Paul says it’s not irritable,
the Greek means literally to

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sharpen.
Figuratively means it is to

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exasperate.
What love isn’t easily

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exasperated is what Paul is
saying.

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Love will not allow someone else
to get in under our skin.

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It will not be short-tempered.
It’s thinketh no evil again.

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It’s not quite what it appears.
What it means is, it is not

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resentful.
If you haven’t taken a look at

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that word for thinketh, no evil,
it means it will not take an

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inventory.
At does not keep count.

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Love doesn’t.
You know, and just this morning,

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brother Simon.
We don’t have a brother Simon

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00:52:22,100 –> 00:52:25,200
here, do we?
That’s good brother.

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Simon did something to me.
It’s a fifth time.

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He’s done it in the last four
weeks to normal fifth time.

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Love doesn’t keep count.
It doesn’t take an inventory, it

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00:52:36,000 –> 00:52:39,100
forgives when it’s sinned
against, but if we are keeping

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00:52:39,100 –> 00:52:42,800
count, see that stage, one of
Grudge.

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I was okay with the third or
fourth time, before we got to

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the fifth time.
Now, now, it’s time to hold a

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grudge love, doesn’t act that
way.

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It doesn’t rejoice in iniquity,
it doesn’t feel good when

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someone else has been overcome
by sin, it believes all things,

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hopes all things and endures all
things.

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Yesterday, we made the comment
that there is no limit to Godly

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love.
Today, we can add to that from

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First Corinthians 13.
There is no situation in which

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we can find ourselves.
That should prevent us from

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showing Godly Love in.
This is why Paul says, it really

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is a better way to live, and
it’s better than having a spirit

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00:53:25,000 –> 00:53:28,700
gift.
If I could give you one of the

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spirit gifts today and say look
you can have this the rest of

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00:53:32,000 –> 00:53:35,200
you life or you can develop
Godly love.

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Hopefully by the end of this
weekend, you’re beginning to

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understand and see the wisdom of
what Paul is saying.

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It is far better to have the
power of Godly love at work in

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our life.
Then it is to be able to speak

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in tongues or whatever else
gifts they had in the first

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00:53:51,900 –> 00:53:55,000
century.
It really is a more powerful

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00:53:56,500 –> 00:53:59,000
aspect of our discipleship to
have in our life.

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It really is Godly love versus
speaking in tongues or healing

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or prophesying whatever they
could do.

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It’s better for Ecclesia life.
It’s better for marriage.

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The love of God.
Really is a more excellent way.

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We’ve given you a couple
examples in the handout, which

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we won’t look at that for lack
of time.

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00:54:18,200 –> 00:54:22,400
That’s that directly identify
how Godly love in a marriage and

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00:54:22,400 –> 00:54:24,200
raising a family is a better
way.

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00:54:25,600 –> 00:54:29,100
We mentioned yesterday, we
cannot Place upon our marriage.

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00:54:29,100 –> 00:54:32,800
A human love aspect, in which we
are waiting for each other to do

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for us before.
We will do for the other.

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But we’ll leave that for your
own consideration.

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00:54:38,000 –> 00:54:45,500
We will conclude in John 11.
Sorry, John 15, we’ve been here.

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Many times this weekend.
But Christ wants to make sure

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00:54:51,300 –> 00:54:54,000
that we all know Godly love is
not a burden.

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00:54:55,000 –> 00:54:57,100
If you’re anything like me, when
you begin to see these

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00:54:57,100 –> 00:55:00,200
principles and how I’m living my
life, it was like how in the

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00:55:00,207 –> 00:55:02,200
world am I going to be able to
do this?

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And this and every time a new
principle of Godly Love Comes

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forward.
It’s another burden brother and

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sisters.
We are if we have left you with

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00:55:11,400 –> 00:55:17,900
that impression, it really is a
better way to live, but notice

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what Jesus says, in John 15.
This Godly love this laying down

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00:55:22,900 –> 00:55:25,900
our life to save.
Others was a joy to Christ.

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00:55:25,900 –> 00:55:33,900
It was, it was not a burden.
He’s describing his love for the

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disciples in chapter 15, as we
have seen.

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00:55:36,800 –> 00:55:39,100
And in verse 10, he speaks of
love.

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00:55:39,400 –> 00:55:42,200
If you keep my Commandments, you
shall abide in my love.

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00:55:42,200 –> 00:55:45,600
Even as I have, kept my father’s
Commandments and abide in his

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00:55:45,600 –> 00:55:50,600
love and then in verse 11, he
describes his love as being a

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joy.
These things have I spoken unto

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00:55:53,000 –> 00:55:57,900
you that my joy might remain in
you and that your joy might be

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00:55:57,900 –> 00:56:01,300
full.
You see, this is what we have to

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00:56:01,300 –> 00:56:05,100
remember when we devote
ourselves to living with Godly

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00:56:05,100 –> 00:56:07,900
love and making that a power in
our life.

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00:56:07,900 –> 00:56:15,000
Yes, it’s difficult to do.
But the joy associated with it

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00:56:15,500 –> 00:56:19,600
is what we don’t want to lose
fighter because when we devote

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00:56:19,600 –> 00:56:26,200
ourselves to Godly love and to
the saving of others, and being

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00:56:26,200 –> 00:56:29,900
willing to tolerate, whatever it
is, they may bring into our life

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00:56:30,500 –> 00:56:33,500
and being willing to forgo,
whatever it is in this life that

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we could have had without Godly.
Love it all pales by comparison

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with The Joy of knowing That we
will help people live forever.

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And you see that’s the outcome
of Godly love that.

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It doesn’t matter what we have
to sacrifice in this life, it

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doesn’t matter what’s required
of us.

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According to First Corinthians
13, the outcome, Of the joy of

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knowing that our brothers and
sisters can live forever and

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that we can help overcome sin in
a Brother’s Life by showing him,

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the love that he needs.
That’s the joy that Christ

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speaks him when he laid down his
life.

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Sure it was painful and it was
shameful and there were extreme

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difficulties to endure but the
pain and the shame, and the

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suffering is not what he’s in.
He’s drawing our attention to,

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he was drawing our attention to
in verse 11 with the Joy or to

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the Joy associated with the love
and knowing that not only would

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a multitude of sins be covered.
But a multitude of Sinners would

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be saved, may we learn to love
with Godly Joy.

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Sorry, may we learn to love with
Godly love and made the joy that

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is associated with that lung.
Teach us all that it really is a

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more excellent way to live.