{"id":804,"date":"2019-09-23T00:14:34","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T00:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goodchristadelphiantalks.com\/index.php\/podcast\/ken-styles-class-6-a-more-excellent-way\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T07:49:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T07:49:12","slug":"ken-styles-class-6-a-more-excellent-way","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/goodchristadelphiantalks.com\/index.php\/podcast\/ken-styles-class-6-a-more-excellent-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Ken Styles – Class 6: A More Excellent Way"},"content":{"rendered":"

Class 6 from Bro. Ken Styles\u2019 series on \u201cGodly Love\u201d.<\/p>\n

Class 1 from this series was used for GCT Episode 040.<\/p>\n

Link to the notes Bro. Ken refers to: LINK<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nIs the North Battleford November
\n2010 study weekend. <\/p>\n

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\nOur speaker is our brother Ken
\nStyles is topic being Godly <\/p>\n

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\nlove.
\nThis is our fifth class the <\/p>\n

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\ntitle for this class being a
\nmore. <\/p>\n

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\nExcellent way.
\nOur reading was taken from first<\/p>\n

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\nof Corinthians chapter 13 for
\nthe chem, please. <\/p>\n

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\nThank you, brother.
\nNathan. <\/p>\n

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\nI am delinquent brothers and
\nsisters and failing to convey <\/p>\n

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\nthe love and greetings of your
\nbrother and sisters in the Royal<\/p>\n

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\nOak.
\nEcclesia back in Detroit and <\/p>\n

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\napologize for Waiting for the
\nEnd to do so, but very much want<\/p>\n

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\nto convey their eternal love.
\nWe were appreciative of the <\/p>\n

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\nparticipation we had during the
\nclass this morning and going <\/p>\n

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\nthrough the life of Abigail and
\nthat incident and hopefully you <\/p>\n

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\nwill see that is the purpose of
\nthat exercise was to help all of<\/p>\n

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\nus.
\nBegin to do a better job of <\/p>\n

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\nidentifying.
\nThe aspects of Godly love in the<\/p>\n

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\nlives of these faithful Bible
\ncharacters again because the <\/p>\n

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\nword love doesn’t always appear
\nin connection with the incident <\/p>\n

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\nor with the individual sometimes
\nwe fail to miss it, but <\/p>\n

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\nhopefully between Checklist, you
\nhave in between the notes will <\/p>\n

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\nbe, will be begin to do a better
\njob of being able to identify <\/p>\n

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\nit.
\nJust one other point before we <\/p>\n

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\nget into the class and brother
\nSkip and mentioned to me during <\/p>\n

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\none of the breaks today, and I
\nthought it was a good <\/p>\n

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\nobservation on his part that
\nwe’ve talked often times about <\/p>\n

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\none of the key characteristics
\nof human lungs is it has this <\/p>\n

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\nreciprocating expectation that
\nif I do for you then you will do<\/p>\n

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\nfor me.
\nBut that isn’t to say that all <\/p>\n

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\nlove, that has a reciprocating
\nexpectation is human long <\/p>\n

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\nbecause as he rightly pointed
\nout, God loves us with a <\/p>\n

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\nreciprocating expectation.
\nThat we will turn around and <\/p>\n

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\nserve him.
\nThat’s why he gave us his son. <\/p>\n

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\nHe forgives us as we saw in Luke
\n7, yesterday in the incident, <\/p>\n

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\nwith the woman who came to the
\nmeal, with Simon the Pharisee, <\/p>\n

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\nand with the Lord Jesus Christ,
\nwe are forgiven. <\/p>\n

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\nOne with the Divine expectation
\nthat we will, then go out and <\/p>\n

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\nlove God, even more and be
\nobedient to him. <\/p>\n

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\nSo, if we’ve left you with the
\nwrong impression that every time<\/p>\n

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\nthere was a reciprocating
\nexpectation, it must be human <\/p>\n

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\nlove.
\nWe want to clarify that, that <\/p>\n

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\nsituation.
\nGod rightfully has an <\/p>\n

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\nexpectation from us out of the
\nlove that he shows to us. <\/p>\n

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\nWe’re going to look at a couple
\nmore characters. <\/p>\n

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\nVery briefly in this afternoon
\nsession before turning our <\/p>\n

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\nattention to First Corinthians
\n13 again just to reinforce this <\/p>\n

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\nability.
\nHopefully this newfound skill to<\/p>\n

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\nidentify what Godly love looks
\nlike in the life of faithful men<\/p>\n

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\nand women and if you recall the
\nincident of Joseph you don’t <\/p>\n

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\nnecessarily have to turn up his
\nlife but just now think through <\/p>\n

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\nthose incredible events in
\nGenesis 37 because here is a <\/p>\n

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\nyoung man at a very early age.
\nSo if there are any young people<\/p>\n

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\nhere, this received this
\nafternoon, Joseph is only 17. <\/p>\n

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\nWhen he isn’t just learning
\nabout Godly love, he is already <\/p>\n

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\nmanifesting Godly love at a very
\nhigh level. <\/p>\n

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\nWe know from the events of
\nGenesis 37, that his Brethren <\/p>\n

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\nhate him.
\nThe Jacob, then makes a special <\/p>\n

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\ncode for him to acknowledge his
\nspirituality because Jacob can <\/p>\n

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\nsee the spirituality of his of
\nhis young son and the Brethren <\/p>\n

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\nhate him even more Fort and
\ncan’t speak peaceably to him. <\/p>\n

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\nGod gives then gives him a dream
\nwhich reinforces Jacobs. <\/p>\n

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\nSo election of Joseph as the
\nspiritual leader of the family <\/p>\n

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\nand in response to brother and
\nhate him even more. <\/p>\n

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\nGod, then gives Joseph a second
\ndream to underscore the <\/p>\n

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\ncertainty of Joseph being the
\nspiritual leader of this family.<\/p>\n

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\nAnd of course, this only results
\nin his brother and hating him <\/p>\n

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\neven further.
\nSo life would have been <\/p>\n

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\nmiserable for Joseph in that
\nhousehold. <\/p>\n

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\nSurrounded by Brethren older
\nBrethren, whose hatred was <\/p>\n

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\nobvious, but of Greater concern
\nto Joseph, was that he could <\/p>\n

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\nsee, they were ungodly and
\nwicked men back in chapter 37, <\/p>\n

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\nand they didn’t just hate
\nJoseph. <\/p>\n

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\nThey hated God’s word.
\nSo when God’s word came in the <\/p>\n

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\nform of these dreams, they hated
\nthe dreams and they hated God <\/p>\n

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\nand they despise the promises.
\nSo, how does Godly love react to<\/p>\n

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\nthat kind of a situation?
\nIf you find yourself in the <\/p>\n

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\nsituation that Joseph was in,
\nwhat does it do? <\/p>\n

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\nBut what does Godly love look
\nlike in that situation and the <\/p>\n

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\nanswer of course is what we have
\nseen this weekend. <\/p>\n

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\nIt does all it can even to the
\npoint of putting your life at <\/p>\n

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\nrisk and laying down your life
\nout of a desire and doing it <\/p>\n

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\nwillingly to save those who are
\nin need of Your Love. <\/p>\n

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\nThat’s what Godly love looks
\nlike in that kind of a situation<\/p>\n

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\nso that you can save them and
\nhelp them to overcome sin. <\/p>\n

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\nSo that all that Joseph does in
\nthe various counts of his <\/p>\n

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\naccounts of his interactions
\nwith the Brethren. <\/p>\n

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\nIt’s all motivated by Godly
\nlove, whether it’s chapter 37 in<\/p>\n

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\ntheir, dealings with him.
\nWhether it’s later on in the <\/p>\n

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\nevents, when they come down the
\nEgypt, it is all Godly love <\/p>\n

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\nthat.
\nJoseph is showing to them. <\/p>\n

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\nBecause Godly love will bring an
\nevil report to Jacob in the <\/p>\n

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\nspirit of Matthew 18.
\nWhen he sees his Brethren out in<\/p>\n

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\nthe field, doing whatever they
\nwere doing back in chapter 37, <\/p>\n

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\nand it brings the evil report
\nout of a desire to win them back<\/p>\n

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\nto righteousness.
\nIt is Godly love, that will <\/p>\n

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\nFaithfully relay the dream, the
\nfirst dream that God gave him <\/p>\n

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\nout of a desire to convey to the
\nBrethren. <\/p>\n

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\nThis is God speaking to us as a
\nsir. <\/p>\n

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\nAs a family Godly love will
\nFaithfully convey. <\/p>\n

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\nThe second dream, even though
\nyou’re, you know, for certainty <\/p>\n

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\nthat this second dream is not
\ngoing to endear your brethren to<\/p>\n

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\nyou.
\nIt’s going to intensify their <\/p>\n

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\nhatred.
\nBut Godly loves says, we convey <\/p>\n

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\nthe word of God because that is
\nour responsibility Godly love <\/p>\n

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\ngoes out in search of one’s
\nBrethren. <\/p>\n

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\nEven though you know they hate
\nyou, he’s not a naive 17 year <\/p>\n

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\nold who goes out seeking his
\nbrother and chapter 37 and is <\/p>\n

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\nsurprised to find that, they
\nhate him to the point where <\/p>\n

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\nthey’re thinking of killing him.
\nBut you see when Godly love is <\/p>\n

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\nour motivation.
\nYou seek them out which are the <\/p>\n

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\nwords of Joseph in that chapter.
\nI seek my brother. <\/p>\n

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\nBecause it perseveres even when
\nit would appear, there is no <\/p>\n

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\nhope for their salvation.
\nIt doesn’t matter what their <\/p>\n

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\npast mistreatment of you, is Ben
\nThat doesn’t diminish your <\/p>\n

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\nefforts in the slightest, it
\ncontinues to return, good for <\/p>\n

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\nevil because the power of Godly
\nlove is greater than the power <\/p>\n

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\nof sin, and the power of evil,
\nit continues to love ones <\/p>\n

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\nneighbor, as oneself.
\nEven when The Neighbor 10, not <\/p>\n

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\nspeak peaceably about you Godly,
\nknob Godly love is not confined <\/p>\n

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\nto those people that really love
\nyou. <\/p>\n

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\nIt speaks highly of you Godly
\nlove extends to all All even our<\/p>\n

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\nneighbors.
\nWho may treat us in the, in the <\/p>\n

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\nvein of how Jacob Joseph was
\ntreated by his brother. <\/p>\n

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\nJoseph put himself in their
\nposition and realized they were <\/p>\n

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\nmen going in the wrong
\ndirection. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd he said, what would I need?
\nIf I was in their situation and <\/p>\n

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\nI was as ungodly in my Outlook
\nas I as they were and they <\/p>\n

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\ncertainly wouldn’t need Joseph
\nto turn on them. <\/p>\n

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\nThey certainly wouldn’t need
\nJoseph to shun them and say I’ll<\/p>\n

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\nhave nothing to do with them,
\nthey would need Joseph to do. <\/p>\n

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\nAll he could to win them back to
\nrighteousness to save them from <\/p>\n

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\nsin.
\nIt wouldn’t matter if Joseph <\/p>\n

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\nwill be successful or not, that
\nis not what God asks us to, <\/p>\n

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\ndetermine we don’t love.
\nBecause we think our efforts <\/p>\n

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\nwill be successful in whatever
\nit is. <\/p>\n

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\nWe’re trying to achieve we love
\nbecause that’s how God loves <\/p>\n

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\nThere won’t be a single person
\nat the Judgment seat. <\/p>\n

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\nWho is rejected not a single
\none. <\/p>\n

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\nThat can ever with any
\njustification, say God, if you <\/p>\n

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\nhad done more in my life I might
\nhave turned out differently. <\/p>\n

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\nBecause God will have done
\neverything possible in his power<\/p>\n

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\nto win over those.
\nHe is called that’s the god that<\/p>\n

143
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\nwe worship.
\nAnd that’s the love that he <\/p>\n

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\nshows.
\nEven when he knows those to whom<\/p>\n

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\nhe shows, love will not all
\nrespond the way they should. <\/p>\n

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\nBecause Godly love doesn’t try
\nand figure out the end. and then<\/p>\n

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\nonly extend itself to those who
\nwe are certain will be on the <\/p>\n

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\nright side and the final day of
\njudgement His suffering of a <\/p>\n

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\nbare hands, did not stop.
\nJoseph from loving his brother, <\/p>\n

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\nthe wonderful outcome.
\nIn this case, as we all know as <\/p>\n

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\nit in the end. 22 years later,
\nit was Joseph. <\/p>\n

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\nLove for his Brethren back in
\nchapter 37, that helped win them<\/p>\n

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\nback to righteousness by causing
\nthem to forsake, their former <\/p>\n

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\nways.
\nThe key point, and we have found<\/p>\n

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\nthis helpful personally,
\nespecially in working within the<\/p>\n

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\nBrotherhood, and within the
\nocclusal world, Joseph never saw<\/p>\n

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\nhis Brethren as false Brethren
\neven in the darkest of days. <\/p>\n

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\nHe saw them as lost Brethren and
\nthere is a world of difference <\/p>\n

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\nscripturally between those two
\nterms. <\/p>\n

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\nGod gave him a dream right up
\nfront that said one day you will<\/p>\n

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\nbe their spiritual head and they
\nwill bow down to you willingly. <\/p>\n

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\nNot because they’re forced to do
\nso but because they choose to do<\/p>\n

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\nso and God gave Joseph, the
\nAssurance upfront that one day, <\/p>\n

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\nthis situation will come to
\npass. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd that would have steeled in
\nJoseph’s mind that these <\/p>\n

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\nBrethren is evil as they are,
\nare lost Brethren. <\/p>\n

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\nBecause God has now revealed to
\nme that one day and we see it <\/p>\n

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\ncome to fruition in chapter 50
\nwhen they come and willingly bow<\/p>\n

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\ndown to him.
\nIt doesn’t happen when they come<\/p>\n

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\nto Egypt and they don’t even
\nknow who he is. <\/p>\n

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\nThat is not the Fulfillment of
\nthe dream, but when they come <\/p>\n

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\nand they know who he is, and
\nthey willingly give themselves <\/p>\n

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\nover to him and in chapter 50
\nrecognized, he is the spiritual <\/p>\n

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\nleader of this family, and
\nrightfully. <\/p>\n

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\nSo, God’s promise God’s
\nprophecy. <\/p>\n

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\nSo to speak, comes to
\nfulfillment. <\/p>\n

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\nFor Godly love, continues to
\nlove, lost brethren in order to <\/p>\n

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\ntry and win them back to
\nrighteousness. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd if Joseph could continue to
\nshow Godly, love to his brother <\/p>\n

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\nwho hated him and who could not
\nspeak peaceably to him and who <\/p>\n

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\nsold him into slavery and
\ndeceive their father into <\/p>\n

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\nleading him to grieve.
\nJoseph’s death for so long. <\/p>\n

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\nWhat does that teach us?
\nAbout the level of mistreatment,<\/p>\n

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\nwe might receive in a cliche
\nlife. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd what we shouldn’t be willing
\nto endure. <\/p>\n

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\nNo one in the Ecclesia will ever
\nmistreat us, never mistreat us <\/p>\n

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\nlike Joseph was mistreated by
\nhis brother and if he could <\/p>\n

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\nmaintain his Godly love in those
\ncircumstances That’s The Power <\/p>\n

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\nof what this love can do for us.
\nIs there ever a situation in? <\/p>\n

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\nWhich a brother can Soul?
\nMistreat me to justify my <\/p>\n

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\nceasing to love him with Godly
\nlove and according to the story <\/p>\n

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\nand the example of Joseph, he
\nwould teach me that there is <\/p>\n

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\nnever never a situation in my
\nlife where I can ever turn to <\/p>\n

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\nany of my brothers and sisters.
\nAnd say your mistreatment of me.<\/p>\n

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\nYou’re shaming of me at the last
\nmeeting. <\/p>\n

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\nYour publicly exposing of me in
\nthe last exhortation. <\/p>\n

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\nYou get whatever it is.
\nThe email you sent about me, <\/p>\n

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\ndoesn’t matter.
\nThere is never a situation when <\/p>\n

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\nI can turn to that brother or
\nsister and say, I can turn off <\/p>\n

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\nmy Godly love for you.
\nThat’s the power brothers and <\/p>\n

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\nsisters.
\nThere is no situation. <\/p>\n

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\nProbably love keeps loving.
\nYou see the same example in the <\/p>\n

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\nsituation of Judah, again will
\ntry to go through this briefly, <\/p>\n

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\nremember the setting, the ten
\nBrothers have waited a long time<\/p>\n

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\nbefore returning to Egypt a
\nsecond time Joseph, Jacob was <\/p>\n

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\nextremely reluctant to send
\nBenjamin and it’s not until <\/p>\n

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\nJudah offered himself as
\npersonal Surety to Jacob. <\/p>\n

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\nThe Jacob agrees to send Jake
\nto, to allow Benjamin to, to go <\/p>\n

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\ndown to Egypt.
\nAnd when the ten Brethren <\/p>\n

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\narrived in Egypt, the events of
\nthe next 24 hours leaves them <\/p>\n

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\necstatic.
\nThey have come to Egypt <\/p>\n

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\nconcerned over the fact that
\nwhen they went the home, the <\/p>\n

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\nlast time they still had their
\nmoney. <\/p>\n

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\nSo they’re going to have to
\nexplain how it is. <\/p>\n

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\nWe came down, we paid for the
\nmoney and we got home. <\/p>\n

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\nIt was in our sacks.
\nWe don’t know how it happened <\/p>\n

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\nbut we we brought that money
\nwe’re going to make do and they <\/p>\n

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\ndon’t know what’s become of
\nSimeon. <\/p>\n

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\nThey don’t know how they’ll be
\ntreated, but almost from the <\/p>\n

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\nmoment they arrived, Let me see
\none good piece of news. <\/p>\n

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\nAfter another, the money from
\nthe first trip, the servant says<\/p>\n

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\nyour God.
\nMust have put it back in the <\/p>\n

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\nstacks.
\nIt’s a non-issue here is Simeon.<\/p>\n

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\nIn good health.
\nThey were extended the rare <\/p>\n

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\nprivilege of being invited to
\ndine with the governor in his <\/p>\n

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\nhouse and the governor sits with
\nthem. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd he puts them in order of
\nbirth order, they sit here and <\/p>\n

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\neat and he sits in his own
\nplace. <\/p>\n

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\nWhen they went to sleep, that
\nnight, you have to put yourself <\/p>\n

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\nin these situations to see what
\nGod is teaching us. <\/p>\n

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\nThe Brethren couldn’t have, had
\nfelt any better about the <\/p>\n

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\nsituation than they did.
\nThey had had a great day. <\/p>\n

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\nIf they had called home to Jacob
\nthat night, they were to said, <\/p>\n

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\nyou would not believe what
\nhappened. <\/p>\n

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\nIt’s been a tremendous day and
\nhe would have recounted all the <\/p>\n

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\nwonderful things and we’re
\nheading home tomorrow morning, <\/p>\n

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\nGod willing.
\nAnd they get up the next day and<\/p>\n

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\nthey would leave to return home
\nwith great joy in their heart. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd the governor’s servants
\ncatches up with him and he drops<\/p>\n

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\na bombshell.
\nOne of you has the Governor’s <\/p>\n

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\nCup and they are so convinced
\nthat that is an impossibility <\/p>\n

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\nthat they declare that all of
\nthem will become slaves of the <\/p>\n

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\ngovernor.
\nThey are so sure of their <\/p>\n

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\ninnocence.
\nThe servant changes the focus to<\/p>\n

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\nbe solely on the individual with
\nwhom the cup is found, he is to <\/p>\n

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\nbe a lifelong slave.
\nHe searches their bags and <\/p>\n

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\nthere’s to come with Benjamin’s
\npossessions and the Brethren <\/p>\n

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\nimmediately unite as one without
\nhesitation and they returned to <\/p>\n

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\nsort out the matter.
\nAnd when the evidence is weighed<\/p>\n

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\nBenjamin is overwhelmingly
\nguilty, and the sentence is <\/p>\n

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\npronounced.
\nAnd Judah steps forward to talk <\/p>\n

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\nto the governor.
\nAnd chapter 44 is all about The <\/p>\n

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\nGodly love of Judah.
\nIt, it shows what happens when <\/p>\n

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\nGodly Love Takes Over the life
\nof an individual. <\/p>\n

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\nHe willingly lays down his life.
\nSo that another, his brother in <\/p>\n

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\nhis dad, will be able to
\nbenefit. <\/p>\n

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\nHe loves Benjamin in deed and in
\ntruth, not in word, or in <\/p>\n

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\ntongue.
\nHis, his love has sprung from <\/p>\n

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\nhis faith.
\nHe doesn’t know what chapter 45 <\/p>\n

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\nis about.
\nAll he knows, is he is about to <\/p>\n

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\nbecome a lifelong slave of this
\nGovernor because he is not going<\/p>\n

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\nto allow his younger brother.
\nWhom his father loves Pretty <\/p>\n

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\nkept in prison when he has given
\nhimself as Surety to his dad. <\/p>\n

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\nWhen he said to his father that
\nI will become Surety for the <\/p>\n

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\nlad, these were not throw away
\nwords. <\/p>\n

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\nJudah had reached that point in
\nhis life where he gave Jacob, <\/p>\n

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\nthe absolute Assurance.
\nIf it comes to the point where <\/p>\n

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\nit’s Benjamin’s life or my life,
\nyou see that becomes his <\/p>\n

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\nDeclaration of Godly lungs.
\nYou don’t see the word love in <\/p>\n

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\nhis declaration, but that’s what
\nit is. <\/p>\n

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\nI will become Surety for
\nBenjamin and then God puts him <\/p>\n

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\ninto that position where he has
\nto test whether or not. <\/p>\n

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\nJudah’s declaration will be
\nfollowed by his action and sure <\/p>\n

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\nenough to If it isn’t.
\nAnd you notice he doesn’t just <\/p>\n

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\nlove God.
\nThis is Judah when everything is<\/p>\n

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\ngoing fine, he shall fall.
\nHe shows forth his Godly love <\/p>\n

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\nwhen everything is falling apart
\nbecause he is trusting that God <\/p>\n

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\nwill see him through.
\nHe loved Benjamin and himself. <\/p>\n

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\nHe puts himself in the pit
\nbecause that’s where Joseph had <\/p>\n

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\nwatched.
\nIt brought the Brethren back to <\/p>\n

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\nthe pit of chapter 37.
\nNow, becomes the pit of chapter <\/p>\n

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\n44 and Judah looks down at
\nBenjamin, proverbially or <\/p>\n

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\nsymbolically in the pit.
\nAnd he says if I was in the pits<\/p>\n

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\nand I am now facing a lifetime
\nof servitude and slavery in <\/p>\n

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\nEgypt, never to return home.
\nWhat would I need? <\/p>\n

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\nAnd Benjamin in that pit has
\nJudah, reach down and lift him <\/p>\n

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\nout.
\nAnd he takes his place. <\/p>\n

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\nThat’s what loving our neighbor
\nas ourself is all about. <\/p>\n

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\nThere’s that kind of power in
\nthis principle, if we will allow<\/p>\n

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\nit to take.
\nHold of our life. <\/p>\n

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\nJudith certainly wasn’t born
\nwith his Godly love without <\/p>\n

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\ndoubt.
\nHe had to learn his Godly love, <\/p>\n

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\nand it took a long time to teach
\nhim, we need to forbear with one<\/p>\n

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\nanother brother and sisters.
\nIt took Judah a long time to <\/p>\n

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\nlearn his Godly love, but once
\nhe had it, and once he <\/p>\n

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\nunderstood the power of it, God
\nwas able to work. <\/p>\n

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\nMarvelous things in his life.
\nAnd it is so marvelous, that God<\/p>\n

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\nwants this incident in chapter
\n44 recorded. <\/p>\n

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\nSo for every subsequent
\ngeneration They can see how most<\/p>\n

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\nof us don’t start out of Joseph.
\nMost of us start out as Judah. <\/p>\n

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\nBut if we will observe The Godly
\nlove of Jacob and become <\/p>\n

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\nsympathetic to it and realize
\nthat is really a better way to <\/p>\n

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\nlive.
\nThe power and principles of <\/p>\n

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\nGodly love can take over in our
\nlife. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd Rule our thoughts and
\nactions and decisions, just like<\/p>\n

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\nthey did in the case of Judah.
\nSo that Godly love transformed. <\/p>\n

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\nJudah’s character.
\nHe really was a new person as a <\/p>\n

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\nresult of the power of Godly
\nlove in his life. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd it’s obvious.
\nIt goes without saying almost <\/p>\n

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\nthat the power of Godly love in
\nhis life was greater than the <\/p>\n

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\npower of sin.
\nIt would have been so easy from <\/p>\n

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\na natural standpoint.
\nTo Simply leave Benjamin so to <\/p>\n

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\nspeak in the pit and return home
\nand tell. <\/p>\n

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\nJacob, you’ll never believe what
\nhappened. <\/p>\n

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\nThere was the cup in the sack,
\nwho would have ever thought of <\/p>\n

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\nBenjamin.
\nWe can’t believe it. <\/p>\n

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\nBut what will we to do the cup?
\nWas there the servant found it? <\/p>\n

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\nIt would have been so easy to be
\na hireling and to flee <\/p>\n

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\ntemptation.
\nFor Judah had become a Good <\/p>\n

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\nShepherd.
\nHis love was to Love Of Christ. <\/p>\n

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\nYou couldn’t have loved Benjamin
\nMoore. <\/p>\n

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\nThen Judah love Benjamin that
\nday. <\/p>\n

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\nJudah’s love was a greater love
\nhath. <\/p>\n

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\nNo, man than this, that a man
\nlay down his life for his <\/p>\n

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\nfriends.
\nHis love United, the two key <\/p>\n

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\nprinciples of crucifying the
\nFlesh, on the one hand and <\/p>\n

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\nserving others in order to save
\nthem on the other. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd judah’s life, his Godly love
\nhad produced in him a power that<\/p>\n

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\nenabled him to become a hyper or
\na super conquer as Paul speaks <\/p>\n

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\nof in Romans 8.
\nBecause he added his love to the<\/p>\n

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\nDivine love and that created a
\npower in judah’s life. <\/p>\n

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\nIt is not a mystical power, it
\nis not a magical power. <\/p>\n

333
\n00:21:42,000 –> 00:21:46,200
\nIt is the power of principles
\nthat come to an understanding in<\/p>\n

334
\n00:21:46,200 –> 00:21:49,900
\nour mind and we say I am going
\nto stand behind and live by <\/p>\n

335
\n00:21:49,900 –> 00:21:55,000
\nthose principles because they
\nare a better way to live and <\/p>\n

336
\n00:21:55,000 –> 00:21:58,800
\nthat power that we see evidence
\nin judah’s life. <\/p>\n

337
\n00:21:59,900 –> 00:22:03,600
\nWas not going to prevent him.
\nIt was not going to separate him<\/p>\n

338
\n00:22:03,600 –> 00:22:09,500
\nfrom the love of God.
\nSin had been overcome in judah’s<\/p>\n

339
\n00:22:09,500 –> 00:22:15,900
\nlife by love, so that chapter 44
\nis a wonderful Declaration of <\/p>\n

340
\n00:22:15,900 –> 00:22:20,100
\nthe love of Judah, and it shows
\nus if we will believe it. <\/p>\n

341
\n00:22:20,600 –> 00:22:25,900
\nIt shows us how far love will
\ntake us in the development of <\/p>\n

342
\n00:22:25,900 –> 00:22:28,700
\nour discipleship.
\nNot to our glory and credits. <\/p>\n

343
\n00:22:29,700 –> 00:22:33,900
\nBut God is saying, look, I need
\nyou to embrace my lungs and if <\/p>\n

344
\n00:22:33,900 –> 00:22:38,200
\nyou will, there are great things
\nI can do in your life, for the <\/p>\n

345
\n00:22:38,200 –> 00:22:40,400
\nsake of others, not to your own
\nGlory. <\/p>\n

346
\n00:22:40,400 –> 00:22:44,500
\nThat’s not what this is about.
\nWe can become his workmanship <\/p>\n

347
\n00:22:44,500 –> 00:22:50,400
\nfor good works to his glory, but
\nuntil we Embrace his love, we <\/p>\n

348
\n00:22:50,400 –> 00:22:54,500
\nseverely restrict God’s ability
\nto work in our life. <\/p>\n

349
\n00:22:55,100 –> 00:22:59,500
\nEsther is another example of the
\npower of Godly love and how it <\/p>\n

350
\n00:22:59,500 –> 00:23:03,700
\nchanges her life.
\nShe begins chapter 4 and she <\/p>\n

351
\n00:23:03,700 –> 00:23:07,700
\ndoes not have Godly love if you
\nturn to the events, you don’t <\/p>\n

352
\n00:23:07,700 –> 00:23:09,500
\nneed to.
\nIf you’re familiar with them, <\/p>\n

353
\n00:23:09,900 –> 00:23:13,500
\nshe is not prepared to lay down
\nher life for her Brethren. <\/p>\n

354
\n00:23:14,400 –> 00:23:17,300
\nYou see we’re not born with
\ngobbly loved as we’ve pointed <\/p>\n

355
\n00:23:17,300 –> 00:23:19,000
\nout.
\nIt doesn’t happen naturally, <\/p>\n

356
\n00:23:19,000 –> 00:23:23,500
\nit’s a love that must be learned
\nand it’s not an easy love to <\/p>\n

357
\n00:23:23,500 –> 00:23:27,600
\nlearn to put into practice.
\nHas been has been echoed in the <\/p>\n

358
\n00:23:27,600 –> 00:23:30,000
\nprayers and no down in the
\nconversations among us. <\/p>\n

359
\n00:23:30,000 –> 00:23:33,300
\nThis is a love that we have to
\nwork at it. <\/p>\n

360
\n00:23:34,700 –> 00:23:37,100
\nIt is not easy to crucify the
\nflesh. <\/p>\n

361
\n00:23:38,300 –> 00:23:41,600
\nIt’s easy to understand how it
\nis to be done, but to actually <\/p>\n

362
\n00:23:41,600 –> 00:23:44,800
\nput it in practice.
\nI think one of the reasons the <\/p>\n

363
\n00:23:44,800 –> 00:23:48,000
\nstory of Esther it is recorded
\nfor us and especially the events<\/p>\n

364
\n00:23:48,000 –> 00:23:52,500
\nof chapter 4 is to show us, it
\nisn’t easy, but once it’s <\/p>\n

365
\n00:23:52,500 –> 00:23:55,000
\nembraced, God can do great
\nthings. <\/p>\n

366
\n00:23:55,600 –> 00:23:59,200
\nThe setting, of course is
\nhaman’s, life-ending sentence. <\/p>\n

367
\n00:23:59,200 –> 00:24:02,400
\nOf death has been signed
\ndeceitfully. <\/p>\n

368
\n00:24:02,800 –> 00:24:05,600
\nThe Kings approval, was secured.
\nThird deceitfully. <\/p>\n

369
\n00:24:05,600 –> 00:24:09,300
\nAnd that sentence of death will
\nwipe out the Jews in a single <\/p>\n

370
\n00:24:09,300 –> 00:24:13,400
\nday.
\nAll because mortar Ki is refusal<\/p>\n

371
\n00:24:13,400 –> 00:24:16,700
\nto Bow Down and Worship this.
\nWicked man Heyman. <\/p>\n

372
\n00:24:17,300 –> 00:24:20,400
\nThe Persian law published
\nthroughout the Empire calls for <\/p>\n

373
\n00:24:20,400 –> 00:24:24,800
\nall Jews to die and the Jews in
\nevery city in every Province. <\/p>\n

374
\n00:24:24,800 –> 00:24:28,500
\nAs the decree comes forth are
\nWeeping and wailing in sackcloth<\/p>\n

375
\n00:24:28,500 –> 00:24:31,900
\nand Ashes.
\nAnd Esther does not know what’s <\/p>\n

376
\n00:24:31,900 –> 00:24:35,200
\nhappened.
\nShe’s not aware of the deadly <\/p>\n

377
\n00:24:35,200 –> 00:24:38,700
\ndecree, she learns of the decree
\nbecause she learns. <\/p>\n

378
\n00:24:38,700 –> 00:24:43,100
\nThat Mordecai is openly sitting
\nin the square in sackcloth and <\/p>\n

379
\n00:24:43,100 –> 00:24:45,800
\nAshes grieving and wailing
\npublicly. <\/p>\n

380
\n00:24:46,400 –> 00:24:49,600
\nSo see she says, Hey Tech to
\nfind out what the reason is <\/p>\n

381
\n00:24:49,600 –> 00:24:52,500
\nmordecai.
\nSends hate to act right back and<\/p>\n

382
\n00:24:52,500 –> 00:24:56,400
\nhe’s got two things in his hand.
\nOne is a copy of haman’s decree.<\/p>\n

383
\n00:24:57,100 –> 00:24:59,400
\nOne thing in his hand, actually
\nin the second is the <\/p>\n

384
\n00:24:59,400 –> 00:25:03,200
\ninstructions for Esther to go to
\nthe king and appeal to the king.<\/p>\n

385
\n00:25:03,300 –> 00:25:06,700
\nOn behalf of her people and
\nEsther sends word back to <\/p>\n

386
\n00:25:06,700 –> 00:25:08,900
\nMordecai.
\nI won’t go. <\/p>\n

387
\n00:25:11,000 –> 00:25:15,200
\nI am not going to go before they
\ncame because every Persian knows<\/p>\n

388
\n00:25:15,200 –> 00:25:17,500
\nthat.
\nIf you go before the king, the <\/p>\n

389
\n00:25:17,500 –> 00:25:20,000
\nRoyal law says that you are to
\nbe slain. <\/p>\n

390
\n00:25:20,000 –> 00:25:26,100
\nUnless he extends the scepter
\nverse 11 of chapter for all the <\/p>\n

391
\n00:25:26,100 –> 00:25:28,800
\nking’s Servants of the people of
\nthe king’s provinces do know <\/p>\n

392
\n00:25:28,800 –> 00:25:32,200
\nthat whosoever whether man or
\nwoman shall come unto the king <\/p>\n

393
\n00:25:32,200 –> 00:25:36,000
\ninto the inner Court who is not
\ncalled, there is one law of his <\/p>\n

394
\n00:25:36,000 –> 00:25:39,400
\nto put him to death, except such
\nto whom the king, shall lay, <\/p>\n

395
\n00:25:39,400 –> 00:25:43,500
\nhold shall Hold out the golden
\nscepter that he may live, but I <\/p>\n

396
\n00:25:43,500 –> 00:25:45,700
\nhave not been called to come in
\nunder the king. <\/p>\n

397
\n00:25:45,700 –> 00:25:50,600
\nThese 30 days at the outset, she
\nis unwilling to risk her life <\/p>\n

398
\n00:25:51,100 –> 00:25:53,800
\nfor her people.
\nThe love she has. <\/p>\n

399
\n00:25:53,800 –> 00:25:56,500
\nAt the outset of these events is
\nnot godly loved. <\/p>\n

400
\n00:25:57,800 –> 00:26:03,000
\nIt is Human lungs.
\nHow do we know that? <\/p>\n

401
\n00:26:03,000 –> 00:26:05,600
\nBecause who does she love in
\nthis chapter at the beginning of<\/p>\n

402
\n00:26:05,608 –> 00:26:08,800
\nthese events?
\nShe loves her family. <\/p>\n

403
\n00:26:10,000 –> 00:26:12,600
\nAnd Mordecai exposes her human
\nlove. <\/p>\n

404
\n00:26:13,800 –> 00:26:17,400
\nHe goes on to say, don’t think
\nthat your love for your family <\/p>\n

405
\n00:26:17,400 –> 00:26:21,000
\nand your desire to protect them
\nis going to keep them. <\/p>\n

406
\n00:26:22,400 –> 00:26:26,500
\nFrom coming under the deadly
\ncurse of this law of Haman. <\/p>\n

407
\n00:26:26,600 –> 00:26:29,600
\nYou are not going to protect
\nyour family by remaining silent.<\/p>\n

408
\n00:26:30,600 –> 00:26:33,200
\nHe doesn’t use the words but he
\nmight as well have said. <\/p>\n

409
\n00:26:33,200 –> 00:26:38,100
\nEsther, you have human lung and
\nhe challenges her human love. <\/p>\n

410
\n00:26:38,700 –> 00:26:41,700
\nThis is not what the situation
\ncalls for. <\/p>\n

411
\n00:26:42,900 –> 00:26:47,400
\nEsther, you need to be willing
\nto lay down your life. <\/p>\n

412
\n00:26:48,500 –> 00:26:52,900
\nFor your people.
\nBut he won’t force her. <\/p>\n

413
\n00:26:53,600 –> 00:26:57,400
\nYou cannot force Godly love on
\nanyone. <\/p>\n

414
\n00:26:58,700 –> 00:27:03,800
\nBecause the death to sin that we
\nmust die has got to be done <\/p>\n

415
\n00:27:03,900 –> 00:27:07,600
\nwillingly.
\nThe Marvel of all of this is <\/p>\n

416
\n00:27:07,600 –> 00:27:10,300
\nEsther and Mordecai.
\nAs we know, never talked person <\/p>\n

417
\n00:27:10,300 –> 00:27:11,400
\nto person.
\nIt’s all done through <\/p>\n

418
\n00:27:11,400 –> 00:27:14,800
\nMessengers, but Mordecai sends
\nword back to Esther. <\/p>\n

419
\n00:27:14,800 –> 00:27:17,800
\nYou need to go before the king
\nand let me remind you as stir <\/p>\n

420
\n00:27:18,200 –> 00:27:21,100
\nthat God is going to save Israel
\nof that. <\/p>\n

421
\n00:27:21,100 –> 00:27:26,100
\nI have no doubt.
\nBut the way to overcome Heyman <\/p>\n

422
\n00:27:26,100 –> 00:27:27,700
\nis not the approach.
\nYou use it. <\/p>\n

423
\n00:27:27,700 –> 00:27:31,900
\nYou see back in chapter 3, more
\nDecay, I had already stood up to<\/p>\n

424
\n00:27:31,900 –> 00:27:35,900
\nHaven.
\nAnd he laid down his life when <\/p>\n

425
\n00:27:35,900 –> 00:27:38,400
\nhe told Heyman.
\nI am not going to bow down to <\/p>\n

426
\n00:27:38,400 –> 00:27:42,600
\nyou and he did it in a very
\npublic setting because you don’t<\/p>\n

427
\n00:27:42,700 –> 00:27:45,600
\nBow Down and Worship men like
\nHeyman. <\/p>\n

428
\n00:27:47,000 –> 00:27:50,600
\nMordecai was not just
\ndisrespecting royalty payment <\/p>\n

429
\n00:27:50,600 –> 00:27:53,600
\nwanted to be worshipped if you
\ntrace the words through both in <\/p>\n

430
\n00:27:53,600 –> 00:27:58,700
\nchapter 3 and chapter 5, And
\nMordecai said, I am not going to<\/p>\n

431
\n00:27:58,700 –> 00:28:02,900
\nbow down to this man.
\nBut Esther is not yet where <\/p>\n

432
\n00:28:02,900 –> 00:28:07,400
\nMordecai was, she is still
\nloving with a human love. <\/p>\n

433
\n00:28:08,800 –> 00:28:12,300
\nThe way you stand up to Haman
\nthe way, you overcome Haman, the<\/p>\n

434
\n00:28:12,300 –> 00:28:14,800
\nway you overcome sin, and recall
\nthat Haman. <\/p>\n

435
\n00:28:14,800 –> 00:28:17,800
\nAnd Esther in the Book of Esther
\nrepresents, all the <\/p>\n

436
\n00:28:17,800 –> 00:28:21,800
\nmanifestations of sin, whether
\nthey are political, whether it’s<\/p>\n

437
\n00:28:21,800 –> 00:28:23,800
\nthe human nature, whatever it
\nis. <\/p>\n

438
\n00:28:24,200 –> 00:28:27,900
\nThat’s what Heyman represents
\nfor us in the Book of Esther and<\/p>\n

439
\n00:28:27,900 –> 00:28:32,400
\nMordecai is encouraging her to
\nstand up to him, by being <\/p>\n

440
\n00:28:32,400 –> 00:28:36,000
\nwilling to lay down her life.
\nAnd the question in chapter 4 <\/p>\n

441
\n00:28:36,000 –> 00:28:40,200
\nfor Esther to decide is which Of
\nwill govern your life. <\/p>\n

442
\n00:28:40,800 –> 00:28:43,200
\nIs it human love?
\nAnd which we put our family <\/p>\n

443
\n00:28:43,200 –> 00:28:47,200
\nabove all else, which can be
\ndeadly in an occlusal setting. <\/p>\n

444
\n00:28:47,700 –> 00:28:50,100
\nAnd I know from personal
\nexperience, I haven’t a clue <\/p>\n

445
\n00:28:50,100 –> 00:28:52,600
\nwhat’s going on out here?
\nWill it be human love? <\/p>\n

446
\n00:28:52,600 –> 00:28:57,700
\nOr will it be Godly love?
\nand when Mordecai sends back <\/p>\n

447
\n00:28:57,700 –> 00:29:05,200
\nthat second time and challenges,
\nEsther, Her Love Changes. <\/p>\n

448
\n00:29:08,100 –> 00:29:12,600
\nBecause her response to Mordecai
\nis I will go before the king. <\/p>\n

449
\n00:29:14,100 –> 00:29:17,900
\nI will lay down my life for my
\npeople. <\/p>\n

450
\n00:29:19,600 –> 00:29:24,000
\nIt doesn’t say it.
\nBut we know she did it by faith.<\/p>\n

451
\n00:29:25,400 –> 00:29:28,300
\nBecause her love sprung from her
\nfaith. <\/p>\n

452
\n00:29:30,900 –> 00:29:33,300
\nWhat changes between the
\nbeginning of chapter 4? <\/p>\n

453
\n00:29:33,300 –> 00:29:36,500
\nIn the end of chapter 4?
\nHas the decree that if you go <\/p>\n

454
\n00:29:36,500 –> 00:29:38,800
\nbefore the king, and he doesn’t
\nextend the scepter. <\/p>\n

455
\n00:29:39,300 –> 00:29:40,800
\nYou die.
\nHas that changed? <\/p>\n

456
\n00:29:40,800 –> 00:29:44,200
\nNo has haman’s decree that the
\nJews are to die. <\/p>\n

457
\n00:29:44,200 –> 00:29:47,900
\nChange know what has changed
\nbetween the beginning of chapter<\/p>\n

458
\n00:29:47,900 –> 00:29:53,800
\n4 and the end of chapter 4.
\nIs that Esther has embraced <\/p>\n

459
\n00:29:53,800 –> 00:29:58,200
\nGodly love?
\nWhen she says, if I perish, I <\/p>\n

460
\n00:29:58,200 –> 00:30:03,300
\nperish that is not a statement
\nof her fatalism that is a <\/p>\n

461
\n00:30:03,300 –> 00:30:08,600
\nstatement of her Godly love.
\nTake another look later on. <\/p>\n

462
\n00:30:09,000 –> 00:30:12,000
\nIf you’ve read it before, as I
\ndid for many years that she was <\/p>\n

463
\n00:30:12,000 –> 00:30:16,000
\njust being fatalistic.
\nOh, well, if I die, I die. <\/p>\n

464
\n00:30:16,600 –> 00:30:18,300
\nWe sell her.
\nSo short. <\/p>\n

465
\n00:30:18,300 –> 00:30:23,500
\nWe are not to read the chapter.
\nThat is a declaration of her <\/p>\n

466
\n00:30:23,500 –> 00:30:27,900
\nGodly love.
\nYou don’t ask people to fast for<\/p>\n

467
\n00:30:27,900 –> 00:30:31,100
\nyou.
\nAnd you don’t declare that you <\/p>\n

468
\n00:30:31,100 –> 00:30:35,000
\nwill Fast for three days and
\nasked the entire community in <\/p>\n

469
\n00:30:35,000 –> 00:30:39,300
\nshushan to get behind you.
\nSo to speak spiritually. <\/p>\n

470
\n00:30:40,400 –> 00:30:43,000
\nIf your view is, well, if I die,
\nI die. <\/p>\n

471
\n00:30:43,100 –> 00:30:47,800
\nThis is a remarkably faithful
\nyoung woman, who has embraced <\/p>\n

472
\n00:30:47,800 –> 00:30:51,500
\nGodly love, and The Wonder of
\nGodly love brother and sisters <\/p>\n

473
\n00:30:51,500 –> 00:30:55,700
\nin young people is that she
\nstands up to Haman in her <\/p>\n

474
\n00:30:55,700 –> 00:31:00,400
\ncommitment to go before him.
\nAnd she Embraces, Godly love. <\/p>\n

475
\n00:31:00,700 –> 00:31:05,400
\nAnd within four days, the
\nRedemption of her people will <\/p>\n

476
\n00:31:05,400 –> 00:31:07,900
\nbegin because Heyman will be
\ndead. <\/p>\n

477
\n00:31:10,200 –> 00:31:15,200
\nGod can do marvelous things
\nworking through us when we <\/p>\n

478
\n00:31:15,200 –> 00:31:20,400
\nembrace the principles and the
\npower of Godly laws in our life.<\/p>\n

479
\n00:31:22,400 –> 00:31:24,100
\nThat’s what we’re being
\ninstructed. <\/p>\n

480
\n00:31:24,300 –> 00:31:25,900
\nThat’s what movie were being
\ntaught. <\/p>\n

481
\n00:31:25,900 –> 00:31:30,000
\nOne of the many lovely things
\nwere being taught by the example<\/p>\n

482
\n00:31:30,000 –> 00:31:35,000
\nof this young woman. the moral
\npower of the doctrine of the <\/p>\n

483
\n00:31:35,000 –> 00:31:40,400
\natonement is to encourage us to
\nembrace love, is our way of life<\/p>\n

484
\n00:31:41,300 –> 00:31:47,000
\nand she Embraces that love And
\nit becomes a powerful influence <\/p>\n

485
\n00:31:47,000 –> 00:31:50,900
\nand a power and her life.
\nJust briefly we’ve given you a <\/p>\n

486
\n00:31:50,900 –> 00:31:54,100
\ncouple examples because things
\ncan work the other way. <\/p>\n

487
\n00:31:54,100 –> 00:31:55,900
\nWe won’t take the time to go
\nthrough it. <\/p>\n

488
\n00:31:57,800 –> 00:32:04,100
\nSorry, we’ve included the
\nexample of Eli Sad situation. <\/p>\n

489
\n00:32:04,900 –> 00:32:08,900
\nWhat love.
\nDominated Eli’s life was it <\/p>\n

490
\n00:32:08,900 –> 00:32:14,100
\nGodly love or was it human love?
\nHe is the high priest. <\/p>\n

491
\n00:32:16,100 –> 00:32:24,400
\nWho did he Love More?
\nGod, or his family. he is cursed<\/p>\n

492
\n00:32:25,200 –> 00:32:30,800
\nin terms of when the man of God
\ncomes to him and says You have <\/p>\n

493
\n00:32:30,800 –> 00:32:34,500
\nplaced your love for your son’s
\nabove God. <\/p>\n

494
\n00:32:35,200 –> 00:32:39,800
\nHe is condemned in chapter 3,
\nSamuel has to relate to him. <\/p>\n

495
\n00:32:39,800 –> 00:32:42,300
\nThat there is no kafar.
\nThere is no covering. <\/p>\n

496
\n00:32:42,300 –> 00:32:47,300
\nThere is no atonement for you
\nrely and your household because <\/p>\n

497
\n00:32:47,300 –> 00:32:51,300
\nyour love has been a human love.
\nNow he doesn’t use those words. <\/p>\n

498
\n00:32:51,300 –> 00:32:56,400
\nYou won’t find the words, human
\nlove and Eli in the same chapter<\/p>\n

499
\n00:32:56,400 –> 00:33:01,300
\nbut that’s what he exhibited.
\nHis love for his sons was <\/p>\n

500
\n00:33:01,300 –> 00:33:05,900
\ngreater than his love for God
\nand brother and sisters moms and<\/p>\n

501
\n00:33:05,900 –> 00:33:11,600
\ndads.
\nIf our love for our children is <\/p>\n

502
\n00:33:11,600 –> 00:33:17,000
\ngreater than our love for God.
\nAnd somehow we have that mixed <\/p>\n

503
\n00:33:17,000 –> 00:33:22,300
\nup Eli becomes a warning to us
\nthat we can place the love of <\/p>\n

504
\n00:33:22,300 –> 00:33:27,900
\nour children above our love, for
\nGod, and we can so want them to <\/p>\n

505
\n00:33:27,900 –> 00:33:31,300
\nenjoy themselves in the truth
\nthat we turn a blind eye, to <\/p>\n

506
\n00:33:31,300 –> 00:33:35,300
\nwhatever it is, they’re doing.
\nBecause at least they’re still <\/p>\n

507
\n00:33:35,300 –> 00:33:39,700
\nin the truth as hophni and
\nphinehas were so to speak. <\/p>\n

508
\n00:33:42,900 –> 00:33:47,300
\nWe stopped, requiring our
\nchildren to obey God’s commands <\/p>\n

509
\n00:33:47,300 –> 00:33:50,100
\nwhen we stopped practicing Godly
\nlove and raising them. <\/p>\n

510
\n00:33:52,100 –> 00:33:55,800
\nThe warning of Eli is that we
\nFace the same Danger. <\/p>\n

511
\n00:33:57,300 –> 00:33:59,800
\nHe didn’t leave the community of
\nBelievers. <\/p>\n

512
\n00:33:59,900 –> 00:34:03,700
\nHe stayed right there in the
\nEcclesia, so to speak. <\/p>\n

513
\n00:34:03,700 –> 00:34:07,800
\nSo we don’t have to leave the
\ntroops to turn a blind eye to <\/p>\n

514
\n00:34:07,800 –> 00:34:13,199
\nthe iniquity in our kids. but we
\ncan’t raise our kids on human <\/p>\n

515
\n00:34:13,199 –> 00:34:16,400
\nlove and then somehow expect
\nthem when they grow up to all of<\/p>\n

516
\n00:34:16,400 –> 00:34:22,000
\na sudden, understand and embrace
\nGodly love Now, I speak as a <\/p>\n

517
\n00:34:22,000 –> 00:34:27,000
\nparent who struggles.
\nWith all of the aspects of <\/p>\n

518
\n00:34:27,000 –> 00:34:31,800
\nraising a Godly seed.
\nWe don’t have all the answers. <\/p>\n

519
\n00:34:31,800 –> 00:34:34,500
\nWe have struggled like the rest
\nof you but one of the lessons we<\/p>\n

520
\n00:34:34,500 –> 00:34:39,300
\nsee in this is that the solution
\nWhen our children challenge us <\/p>\n

521
\n00:34:39,300 –> 00:34:44,100
\nin their behavior in conduct is
\nnot to say, well, we’ll just let<\/p>\n

522
\n00:34:44,100 –> 00:34:47,600
\nthat go.
\nNow, I’m not saying we have to <\/p>\n

523
\n00:34:47,600 –> 00:34:51,600
\nnitpick our kids because this
\nthe same Godly love that says we<\/p>\n

524
\n00:34:51,600 –> 00:34:56,500
\nshould stand up to wrongdoing.
\nAlso condemns us the same Godly <\/p>\n

525
\n00:34:56,500 –> 00:34:58,600
\nlove if we provoke them to
\nanger. <\/p>\n

526
\n00:34:59,400 –> 00:35:02,500
\nSo if we are ruling them with a
\nrod of iron, we are equally <\/p>\n

527
\n00:35:02,500 –> 00:35:05,600
\ncondemned as if we are turning a
\nblind eye to sin. <\/p>\n

528
\n00:35:07,500 –> 00:35:11,300
\nWe want to exclude both of those
\nextremes but there are examples <\/p>\n

529
\n00:35:11,300 –> 00:35:14,400
\nin scripture of those who
\nfollowed Godly love and the <\/p>\n

530
\n00:35:14,408 –> 00:35:18,300
\nraising of our children and
\nthose that didn’t We’ve <\/p>\n

531
\n00:35:18,300 –> 00:35:21,700
\nincluded, I think one or two
\ncomments from 2nd Chronicles 18.<\/p>\n

532
\n00:35:21,800 –> 00:35:25,800
\nWe won’t go further there, but
\nJosh attack with all his good <\/p>\n

533
\n00:35:25,800 –> 00:35:29,900
\nintentions to unite the North
\nand the South and they were good<\/p>\n

534
\n00:35:29,900 –> 00:35:33,400
\nintentions and he was sincere in
\nhis efforts. <\/p>\n

535
\n00:35:34,600 –> 00:35:38,400
\nBut he didn’t have Godly love
\nbecause if you take the time <\/p>\n

536
\n00:35:38,400 –> 00:35:42,000
\nlater to read in chapter 19 and
\nverse two, that ghg who visits <\/p>\n

537
\n00:35:42,000 –> 00:35:48,800
\nhim and he says you love
\nyahweh’s enemy and you disobey <\/p>\n

538
\n00:35:48,800 –> 00:35:52,200
\nYahweh Your Love Jehoshaphat is
\nupside down. <\/p>\n

539
\n00:35:53,600 –> 00:35:56,600
\nSo it isn’t just sincerity that
\nGod is looking for. <\/p>\n

540
\n00:35:56,600 –> 00:35:58,900
\nWe have got to remain
\nconsistent. <\/p>\n

541
\n00:35:59,900 –> 00:36:04,400
\nAnd we have to remain within the
\nparameters of what God defines <\/p>\n

542
\n00:36:04,400 –> 00:36:07,900
\nas righteousness.
\nIf we don’t, we may be <\/p>\n

543
\n00:36:07,900 –> 00:36:10,300
\npracticing love, but it is not
\ngodly love. <\/p>\n

544
\n00:36:12,800 –> 00:36:14,100
\nCome with me.
\nIf you would the First <\/p>\n

545
\n00:36:14,100 –> 00:36:20,200
\nCorinthians 13, again, we’ve
\nleft many of the notes for many <\/p>\n

546
\n00:36:20,200 –> 00:36:25,500
\nof our thoughts in the notes,
\nbut we see at the end of chapter<\/p>\n

547
\n00:36:25,500 –> 00:36:30,400
\n12, all of the difficulties that
\nthe Ecclesia was suffering <\/p>\n

548
\n00:36:30,400 –> 00:36:34,500
\nthrough.
\nSome would say you could say it <\/p>\n

549
\n00:36:34,500 –> 00:36:37,400
\nwas a dysfunctional Ecclesia in
\nsome respects because they <\/p>\n

550
\n00:36:37,400 –> 00:36:39,300
\nneeded to learn how to get
\nalong. <\/p>\n

551
\n00:36:40,400 –> 00:36:43,300
\nThey had these Spirit gifts and
\none was this, and one was that, <\/p>\n

552
\n00:36:43,300 –> 00:36:46,100
\nand they had all these gifts,
\nbut it wasn’t bringing about a <\/p>\n

553
\n00:36:46,107 –> 00:36:49,900
\ncohesion in the Ecclesia, they
\nweren’t functioning as an <\/p>\n

554
\n00:36:49,900 –> 00:36:53,200
\nEcclesia should function as one
\nbody with arms, and the legs, <\/p>\n

555
\n00:36:53,200 –> 00:36:55,900
\nand the hands, and the feet, and
\nthe ears, and the eyes, and <\/p>\n

556
\n00:36:55,900 –> 00:37:00,200
\neverybody working together.
\nAnd Paul says, I’m going to show<\/p>\n

557
\n00:37:00,200 –> 00:37:05,700
\nyou how To work together.
\nBecause in chapter 12, he’s <\/p>\n

558
\n00:37:05,700 –> 00:37:09,200
\nexposed to things one.
\nThis is how the Ecclesia should <\/p>\n

559
\n00:37:09,200 –> 00:37:12,500
\nwork.
\nAnd secondly, this isn’t how <\/p>\n

560
\n00:37:12,500 –> 00:37:15,800
\nyou’re working.
\nAnd now he says, I’m going to <\/p>\n

561
\n00:37:15,800 –> 00:37:20,700
\nshow you how the Ecclesia can
\nwork together. and we won’t take<\/p>\n

562
\n00:37:20,700 –> 00:37:24,700
\nthe time to develop all the
\npoints, but the answer he says, <\/p>\n

563
\n00:37:25,900 –> 00:37:28,600
\nThe answer is through Godly
\nlove. <\/p>\n

564
\n00:37:29,400 –> 00:37:34,200
\nIt’s learning to put into
\npractice the principles of Godly<\/p>\n

565
\n00:37:34,200 –> 00:37:35,800
\nlove.
\nAnd that’s why he says, it <\/p>\n

566
\n00:37:35,800 –> 00:37:41,100
\nreally is a better way to live.
\nIt’s a better way to build a <\/p>\n

567
\n00:37:41,107 –> 00:37:44,200
\nmarriage and behave as a
\nhusband. <\/p>\n

568
\n00:37:44,500 –> 00:37:47,900
\nIt is a better way to behave as
\na wife. <\/p>\n

569
\n00:37:48,900 –> 00:37:52,300
\nIt’s a better way to raise our
\nfamily and to teach our kids, <\/p>\n

570
\n00:37:52,300 –> 00:37:56,800
\nhow to live, and how to act, and
\nhow to learn to love with Godly <\/p>\n

571
\n00:37:56,800 –> 00:37:59,100
\nlove.
\nIt’s a better way to behave in <\/p>\n

572
\n00:37:59,100 –> 00:38:04,600
\nthe occasion with each member
\nbeing personally devoted to love<\/p>\n

573
\n00:38:04,600 –> 00:38:07,200
\nin a building the household in
\nGodly love. <\/p>\n

574
\n00:38:08,300 –> 00:38:11,200
\nIt’s a better way to conduct
\nourselves in our employment <\/p>\n

575
\n00:38:11,200 –> 00:38:13,800
\nregardless of how Others May
\ntreat us. <\/p>\n

576
\n00:38:15,500 –> 00:38:20,100
\nBut there’s always the danger
\nthat we can know about it and <\/p>\n

577
\n00:38:20,100 –> 00:38:22,300
\nfailed to live it and Paul
\nMenses. <\/p>\n

578
\n00:38:22,300 –> 00:38:27,000
\nNo words as we know in First
\nCorinthians 13, if we know it <\/p>\n

579
\n00:38:27,100 –> 00:38:30,700
\nand we’re not living it, he says
\nwe are nothing. <\/p>\n

580
\n00:38:32,100 –> 00:38:33,400
\nNothing.
\nHe says. <\/p>\n

581
\n00:38:35,200 –> 00:38:39,900
\nChapter 13 describes just how
\nimportant it is to learn to <\/p>\n

582
\n00:38:39,900 –> 00:38:43,800
\ndevelop Godly love is Hebrews.
\n11 is a chapter that describes <\/p>\n

583
\n00:38:43,800 –> 00:38:47,500
\nwhat faith will lead to in the
\nlives of Believers. <\/p>\n

584
\n00:38:47,900 –> 00:38:50,800
\nFirst Corinthians 13 as a
\ndescription of what love will <\/p>\n

585
\n00:38:50,800 –> 00:38:54,900
\nlead to in the lives of the
\nBelievers and verse one, he goes<\/p>\n

586
\n00:38:54,900 –> 00:38:59,400
\nright at the problem in Corinth,
\nthose with the spirit gifts were<\/p>\n

587
\n00:38:59,400 –> 00:39:03,200
\nusing them, not for the
\nedification of the body. <\/p>\n

588
\n00:39:04,400 –> 00:39:08,100
\nBut in ways that were unhelpful
\nthough, I speak with the tongues<\/p>\n

589
\n00:39:08,100 –> 00:39:13,100
\nof men and angels, He says, and
\nhave not love charity love. <\/p>\n

590
\n00:39:13,100 –> 00:39:16,600
\nIt’s the same word.
\nI am becoming a sounding as <\/p>\n

591
\n00:39:16,600 –> 00:39:21,500
\nsounding brass, or a tinkling
\ncymbal, to have a spirit gift <\/p>\n

592
\n00:39:21,800 –> 00:39:25,400
\nwithout practicing Godly love.
\nHe says, is worse than being <\/p>\n

593
\n00:39:25,400 –> 00:39:29,200
\nmeaningless.
\nAnd the only thing that is worse<\/p>\n

594
\n00:39:29,200 –> 00:39:32,800
\nthan being meaningless is to be
\nobnoxious. <\/p>\n

595
\n00:39:34,200 –> 00:39:37,800
\nAnd that’s how he describes
\nthose with a spirit gift who <\/p>\n

596
\n00:39:37,800 –> 00:39:41,200
\nwere not practicing Godly love
\nin our day. <\/p>\n

597
\n00:39:41,200 –> 00:39:44,500
\nIt’s akin to a brother being an
\neloquent speaker, but using his <\/p>\n

598
\n00:39:44,500 –> 00:39:48,700
\ntalent for his own edification
\ncall says, it’s like a person <\/p>\n

599
\n00:39:49,100 –> 00:39:52,800
\nstanding in the corner
\ncontinuously banging a symbol or<\/p>\n

600
\n00:39:52,800 –> 00:39:55,900
\nblowing a horn.
\nAnd his point is, if you do not <\/p>\n

601
\n00:39:55,900 –> 00:39:58,100
\nhave love, don’t try to use your
\ntalent. <\/p>\n

602
\n00:39:58,900 –> 00:40:02,900
\nIf you do not have love, don’t
\ntry to use your talent because <\/p>\n

603
\n00:40:02,900 –> 00:40:04,500
\nyou won’t be helpful to the
\nbody. <\/p>\n

604
\n00:40:05,100 –> 00:40:09,100
\nIt’s better to remain.
\nSilent in verse 2, we exposes <\/p>\n

605
\n00:40:09,100 –> 00:40:12,500
\nthe danger of having knowledge
\nwithout Godly lung and though I <\/p>\n

606
\n00:40:12,508 –> 00:40:15,500
\nhave the gift of Prophecy and
\nprophecy, there is the ability <\/p>\n

607
\n00:40:15,500 –> 00:40:19,200
\nto expound God’s word and
\nunderstand all Mysteries and all<\/p>\n

608
\n00:40:19,200 –> 00:40:20,900
\nknowledge.
\nAnd though I have all Faith so <\/p>\n

609
\n00:40:20,900 –> 00:40:24,200
\nthat I could remove mountains
\nand have not love. <\/p>\n

610
\n00:40:24,200 –> 00:40:27,800
\nI am nothing and he paints an
\nextreme position. <\/p>\n

611
\n00:40:28,600 –> 00:40:32,500
\nBut a brother who knows
\neverything he has a you <\/p>\n

612
\n00:40:32,508 –> 00:40:36,600
\nunderstands all Mysteries and
\nall knowledge and he has <\/p>\n

613
\n00:40:36,600 –> 00:40:39,400
\nunlimited Faith.
\nPaul says, this brother knows <\/p>\n

614
\n00:40:39,400 –> 00:40:42,200
\neverything.
\nHe understands everything he <\/p>\n

615
\n00:40:42,200 –> 00:40:48,000
\nbelieves everything, But he
\ndoesn’t have love despite all <\/p>\n

616
\n00:40:48,000 –> 00:40:50,900
\nhis knowledge, all his
\nunderstanding, all his faith. <\/p>\n

617
\n00:40:50,900 –> 00:40:56,600
\nPaul says, he is nothing because
\nknowledge and understanding is <\/p>\n

618
\n00:40:56,600 –> 00:41:00,800
\nnot the aim of discipleship.
\nFaith is not the aim of <\/p>\n

619
\n00:41:00,800 –> 00:41:03,900
\ndiscipleship.
\nThey are all intended to bring <\/p>\n

620
\n00:41:03,900 –> 00:41:07,400
\nus to love.
\nUntil we have love. <\/p>\n

621
\n00:41:07,400 –> 00:41:10,000
\nWe are nothing.
\nAnd you see how Paul is now <\/p>\n

622
\n00:41:10,000 –> 00:41:13,900
\nlining up with God.
\nWho said his expectation is that<\/p>\n

623
\n00:41:13,900 –> 00:41:18,600
\nwe will learn to love with his
\nlung and his love will dwell in <\/p>\n

624
\n00:41:18,600 –> 00:41:20,600
\nus and he lines up with the
\nLord. <\/p>\n

625
\n00:41:20,600 –> 00:41:22,900
\nJesus Christ who says you are my
\nfriends. <\/p>\n

626
\n00:41:22,900 –> 00:41:27,000
\nOnly only if you learn to love
\nis I love. <\/p>\n

627
\n00:41:27,100 –> 00:41:32,900
\nAnd Paul says, if we don’t have
\nthis love we are nothing We can <\/p>\n

628
\n00:41:32,900 –> 00:41:35,500
\nspend an entire life and the
\nEcclesia. <\/p>\n

629
\n00:41:35,900 –> 00:41:39,100
\nWe can learn great deal about
\nthe scriptures. <\/p>\n

630
\n00:41:40,000 –> 00:41:44,700
\nBut if we don’t learn to develop
\nthis love, we are nothing. <\/p>\n

631
\n00:41:45,400 –> 00:41:48,400
\nSo, in verse 13, either verse 3,
\nrather, he goes on to paint <\/p>\n

632
\n00:41:48,400 –> 00:41:51,400
\nanother extreme position and
\nthough I bestow all my goods to <\/p>\n

633
\n00:41:51,400 –> 00:41:54,600
\nfeed the poor, and though I give
\nmy body to be burned and have <\/p>\n

634
\n00:41:54,800 –> 00:41:57,800
\nnot love it.
\nProfiteth me, nothing. <\/p>\n

635
\n00:41:58,400 –> 00:42:01,000
\nYou see, he again sites to
\nextreme situations. <\/p>\n

636
\n00:42:01,000 –> 00:42:04,800
\nWe can give away all that we
\nhave and then we can turn around<\/p>\n

637
\n00:42:04,800 –> 00:42:09,300
\nand allow our body to be burned.
\nWe can give away our very life. <\/p>\n

638
\n00:42:11,100 –> 00:42:15,400
\nAnd we can have nothing else to
\ngive. but if we haven’t given it<\/p>\n

639
\n00:42:15,400 –> 00:42:19,800
\nout of love, Rand Paul says it
\nprofiteth us. <\/p>\n

640
\n00:42:19,800 –> 00:42:23,800
\nNothing the thinking of the
\nflesh is so deceitful that we <\/p>\n

641
\n00:42:23,800 –> 00:42:26,800
\ncan do what appears to be
\nspiritual fees. <\/p>\n

642
\n00:42:27,700 –> 00:42:29,700
\nBut Paul said it is all for
\nnothing. <\/p>\n

643
\n00:42:29,700 –> 00:42:34,100
\nIt’s worth circling.
\nThe all in verse two and three <\/p>\n

644
\n00:42:35,200 –> 00:42:39,500
\nall Mysteries, all knowledge,
\nall Faith, all my goods. <\/p>\n

645
\n00:42:40,800 –> 00:42:43,500
\nAnd it’s worth underlying in
\nverse 2. <\/p>\n

646
\n00:42:44,200 –> 00:42:47,700
\nI am nothing.
\nIt profiteth me nothing. <\/p>\n

647
\n00:42:49,000 –> 00:42:52,800
\nSo how do we know if we have
\nGodly love or human love? <\/p>\n

648
\n00:42:53,900 –> 00:42:56,200
\nHow do we know it?
\nGodly love is what governs, our <\/p>\n

649
\n00:42:56,200 –> 00:43:00,700
\nactions and the simple answer is
\nVerses 4 to 7. <\/p>\n

650
\n00:43:03,100 –> 00:43:08,000
\nIt’s not difficult.
\nTo assess what our love is and <\/p>\n

651
\n00:43:08,000 –> 00:43:10,600
\nwhether or not we have it, this
\nis what Godly love. <\/p>\n

652
\n00:43:10,600 –> 00:43:14,100
\nLooks like it’s how it acts and
\nhow it looks how it refrains <\/p>\n

653
\n00:43:14,100 –> 00:43:17,200
\nfrom acting, regardless of the
\nsituation that we find ourselves<\/p>\n

654
\n00:43:17,200 –> 00:43:20,200
\nin.
\nHe’s not just describing in <\/p>\n

655
\n00:43:20,200 –> 00:43:24,200
\nthese verses what Godly love is.
\nHe’s also citing eight things. <\/p>\n

656
\n00:43:24,200 –> 00:43:28,500
\nThat Godly love is not godly.
\nLove does not envy. <\/p>\n

657
\n00:43:29,100 –> 00:43:31,700
\nIt does not bond to itself or
\nboast. <\/p>\n

658
\n00:43:31,700 –> 00:43:35,200
\nIt is not proud.
\nIt is not puffed up. <\/p>\n

659
\n00:43:35,200 –> 00:43:38,700
\nHe says it does not behave
\nitself on Ryu unseemly or <\/p>\n

660
\n00:43:38,700 –> 00:43:41,400
\nrudely.
\nIt doesn’t seek its own <\/p>\n

661
\n00:43:41,400 –> 00:43:44,000
\nAdvantage.
\nIt isn’t easily provoked or an <\/p>\n

662
\n00:43:44,000 –> 00:43:47,900
\nirritable.
\nIt doesn’t think evil of others.<\/p>\n

663
\n00:43:48,000 –> 00:43:52,100
\nOther words, it’s not resentful.
\nIt does not rejoice in Senate is<\/p>\n

664
\n00:43:52,100 –> 00:43:56,400
\nnot happy to see a brother who
\ncontinues to malign Us in the <\/p>\n

665
\n00:43:56,400 –> 00:44:00,700
\nEcclesia, be overcome by sin.
\nThat is not loved pulses. <\/p>\n

666
\n00:44:01,600 –> 00:44:05,100
\nHe also provides 7 positive ways
\nin which Godly love manifests <\/p>\n

667
\n00:44:05,100 –> 00:44:07,100
\nitself.
\nThis is what love is. <\/p>\n

668
\n00:44:07,100 –> 00:44:11,400
\nThis is what Godly love.
\nDoes It suffers long? <\/p>\n

669
\n00:44:11,400 –> 00:44:16,200
\nIt’s kind rejoices in truth.
\nThere’s all things believes all <\/p>\n

670
\n00:44:16,200 –> 00:44:20,000
\nthings, hopes all things and
\nendures all things. <\/p>\n

671
\n00:44:20,900 –> 00:44:24,000
\nAnd it never fails.
\nIt never fails it. <\/p>\n

672
\n00:44:24,000 –> 00:44:27,400
\nNever fails because the spicket
\nis never turned off. <\/p>\n

673
\n00:44:28,000 –> 00:44:32,100
\nIt keeps going and going and
\ngoing and going. <\/p>\n

674
\n00:44:33,400 –> 00:44:37,800
\nThat’s what Godly love does.
\nWhen we reflect these qualities <\/p>\n

675
\n00:44:37,800 –> 00:44:41,400
\nin our life this is what Godly
\nLove The Godly love. <\/p>\n

676
\n00:44:41,400 –> 00:44:45,000
\nGod is bringing us to one
\nbrother has suggested that you <\/p>\n

677
\n00:44:45,000 –> 00:44:50,200
\ncan reinsert the word Christ and
\nVerses 4 to 7 and you have a <\/p>\n

678
\n00:44:50,207 –> 00:44:52,700
\ncondensed picture of his
\ncharacter. <\/p>\n

679
\n00:44:54,200 –> 00:44:57,400
\nBecause this is what he
\nreflected in his love, just a <\/p>\n

680
\n00:44:57,408 –> 00:45:00,200
\ncouple of quick comments about
\nsome of these aspects that Paul <\/p>\n

681
\n00:45:00,200 –> 00:45:02,300
\nbrings to light.
\nWhen he says, love suffers long <\/p>\n

682
\n00:45:02,300 –> 00:45:06,800
\nand is patient, it’s patient
\nbecause God is long-suffering <\/p>\n

683
\n00:45:06,800 –> 00:45:10,000
\nand patient with us.
\nWe haven’t taken a time this <\/p>\n

684
\n00:45:10,000 –> 00:45:13,500
\nweekend, but if you go back to
\nExodus 34 when God reveals the <\/p>\n

685
\n00:45:13,500 –> 00:45:19,400
\nglory of his character to Moses,
\nthose characteristics are all <\/p>\n

686
\n00:45:19,400 –> 00:45:21,900
\nabout the character of Godly
\nloves. <\/p>\n

687
\n00:45:22,600 –> 00:45:25,500
\nIn this case, God is
\nlong-suffering to us. <\/p>\n

688
\n00:45:25,500 –> 00:45:30,100
\nSo he asks us to, for bear, with
\neach other for bear with each <\/p>\n

689
\n00:45:30,100 –> 00:45:35,000
\nother.
\nIt takes God a very, very, very,<\/p>\n

690
\n00:45:35,300 –> 00:45:38,400
\nvery long time to get angry with
\nus. <\/p>\n

691
\n00:45:39,400 –> 00:45:41,500
\nBecause that’s what forbearance
\nmeans. <\/p>\n

692
\n00:45:42,000 –> 00:45:48,100
\nA very, very, very long time.
\nAnd sometimes we can have such a<\/p>\n

693
\n00:45:48,100 –> 00:45:51,500
\nshort fuse with each other.
\nThat is not for bearings. <\/p>\n

694
\n00:45:52,000 –> 00:45:55,400
\nThat is not godly love.
\nWhy does God for bear with us? <\/p>\n

695
\n00:45:56,100 –> 00:45:57,900
\nBecause he’s got other things to
\ndo. <\/p>\n

696
\n00:45:57,900 –> 00:46:01,800
\nAnd he can’t attend to our
\nsituation though because he’s <\/p>\n

697
\n00:46:01,800 –> 00:46:05,600
\ngiving us broad scope and lots
\nof room to repent and the <\/p>\n

698
\n00:46:05,600 –> 00:46:09,600
\nchange.
\nAll of us, I guarantee without <\/p>\n

699
\n00:46:09,600 –> 00:46:12,200
\nhaving had these conversations
\nwith you, all of us have <\/p>\n

700
\n00:46:12,200 –> 00:46:14,700
\ncharacteristics in our life that
\nwe are. <\/p>\n

701
\n00:46:14,700 –> 00:46:20,100
\nSo thankful that God for for was
\nfor bearing towards us. <\/p>\n

702
\n00:46:20,900 –> 00:46:24,900
\nAs he worked patiently with me
\nto get rid of this aspect of the<\/p>\n

703
\n00:46:24,900 –> 00:46:29,400
\nold man, in some cases, it has
\ntaken years in my life. <\/p>\n

704
\n00:46:30,500 –> 00:46:34,700
\nAnd some cases, I am still a
\nwork in progress and he is for <\/p>\n

705
\n00:46:34,700 –> 00:46:38,000
\nbearing with me and brother and
\nsisters, and young people. <\/p>\n

706
\n00:46:38,000 –> 00:46:41,600
\nWe need the treat each.
\nOther equally Ephesians 4 says, <\/p>\n

707
\n00:46:41,600 –> 00:46:45,100
\nwith all lowliness and meekness
\nwith long-suffering forbearing <\/p>\n

708
\n00:46:45,100 –> 00:46:48,300
\none another in love.
\nWhy? <\/p>\n

709
\n00:46:48,500 –> 00:46:51,600
\nBecause he goes on to say in
\nverse 3, endeavoring to keep the<\/p>\n

710
\n00:46:51,600 –> 00:46:55,400
\nunity of the spirit in the bond
\nof Peace, you want to blow up in<\/p>\n

711
\n00:46:55,408 –> 00:46:59,700
\nEcclesia and divide it tomorrow,
\njust eliminate forbearance. <\/p>\n

712
\n00:47:00,900 –> 00:47:03,500
\nYou want to preserve the unity
\nof an Ecclesia. <\/p>\n

713
\n00:47:03,500 –> 00:47:05,800
\nWhen it’s going through
\ndifficulties, which all of our <\/p>\n

714
\n00:47:05,800 –> 00:47:08,100
\nclosures are in these.
\nThis Is Us days. <\/p>\n

715
\n00:47:08,800 –> 00:47:11,400
\nThen insist upon forbearance
\nwith one another. <\/p>\n

716
\n00:47:11,400 –> 00:47:13,500
\nThese are these are God’s
\nprinciples. <\/p>\n

717
\n00:47:13,500 –> 00:47:16,800
\nThis is Paul’s wisdom.
\nThe wisdom of God that he’s <\/p>\n

718
\n00:47:16,800 –> 00:47:19,200
\nsharing with us.
\nLove is kind. <\/p>\n

719
\n00:47:19,200 –> 00:47:23,600
\nPaul says the Greek means to be
\nuseful to be helpful to others. <\/p>\n

720
\n00:47:23,600 –> 00:47:27,100
\nSo he’s not saying love, is
\nsimply restricted to a warm <\/p>\n

721
\n00:47:27,100 –> 00:47:30,600
\nsmile for a great, big handshake
\nor a hug on a Sunday morning. <\/p>\n

722
\n00:47:30,700 –> 00:47:34,500
\nMorning or to bible class and
\nEphesians 4 verse 32. <\/p>\n

723
\n00:47:34,500 –> 00:47:38,700
\nPaul connects this same,
\nkindness with forgiveness and be<\/p>\n

724
\n00:47:38,700 –> 00:47:42,600
\nye kind one to another
\ntender-hearted forgiving one <\/p>\n

725
\n00:47:42,600 –> 00:47:45,200
\nanother.
\nEven as God for Christ’s sake, <\/p>\n

726
\n00:47:45,200 –> 00:47:49,600
\nhath forgiven you, if you want
\nto show this, kindness to <\/p>\n

727
\n00:47:49,600 –> 00:47:52,500
\nsomeone.
\nThe kindness that Paul speaks of<\/p>\n

728
\n00:47:52,600 –> 00:47:55,700
\nas being part of Godly love than
\nforgive them. <\/p>\n

729
\n00:47:57,300 –> 00:48:03,500
\nRegardless of what they have
\ndone to you regardless of what <\/p>\n

730
\n00:48:03,500 –> 00:48:08,600
\nthey have done to you.
\nForgive them and forgive them <\/p>\n

731
\n00:48:08,600 –> 00:48:13,700
\ntoday.
\nIf you haven’t already. and if <\/p>\n

732
\n00:48:13,700 –> 00:48:16,700
\nyou’re not sure why go back and
\nlook at the parable of the ten <\/p>\n

733
\n00:48:16,700 –> 00:48:20,900
\ndollars, which is the value of
\nthe sins of others committed <\/p>\n

734
\n00:48:20,900 –> 00:48:23,800
\nagainst me and that 10 million
\ndollars. <\/p>\n

735
\n00:48:24,700 –> 00:48:27,900
\nWhich is the value that God
\nplaces on my sins against him. <\/p>\n

736
\n00:48:29,600 –> 00:48:34,200
\nBe kind to one another, forgive
\none, another, that’s not <\/p>\n

737
\n00:48:34,200 –> 00:48:38,100
\npossible with human lungs.
\nBut with Godly love, forgiveness<\/p>\n

738
\n00:48:38,100 –> 00:48:41,000
\nis possible.
\nAnd first Peter for he says <\/p>\n

739
\n00:48:41,000 –> 00:48:43,600
\nabove all things.
\nAnd verse 8, have fervent Love <\/p>\n

740
\n00:48:43,600 –> 00:48:46,200
\nFor Love covers, a multitude of
\nsins. <\/p>\n

741
\n00:48:46,800 –> 00:48:50,300
\nIt’s a nun, it’s an evil spirit
\nthat is Unleashed. <\/p>\n

742
\n00:48:50,900 –> 00:48:52,500
\nThere’s no other way to describe
\nit. <\/p>\n

743
\n00:48:52,500 –> 00:48:54,400
\nWhen a brother sins against
\nanother brother. <\/p>\n

744
\n00:48:54,400 –> 00:48:57,000
\nIt’s an evil spirit that is
\nUnleashed. <\/p>\n

745
\n00:48:57,400 –> 00:49:01,500
\nWe’re not talking about some
\nDemon or Some mystical power but<\/p>\n

746
\n00:49:01,500 –> 00:49:04,600
\nit is an evil spirit that is
\nUnleashed. <\/p>\n

747
\n00:49:07,300 –> 00:49:11,000
\nYou had Godly love to that
\nsituation as the brother against<\/p>\n

748
\n00:49:11,000 –> 00:49:16,000
\nwhom the sin was committed.
\nAnd you will prove that the <\/p>\n

749
\n00:49:16,000 –> 00:49:20,100
\npower of Godly love is greater
\nthan the power of the evil. <\/p>\n

750
\n00:49:20,100 –> 00:49:23,300
\nThat was Unleashed when the sin
\nwas committed against you. <\/p>\n

751
\n00:49:25,200 –> 00:49:27,900
\nI’m not talking about the sin
\nwhen somebody stepped on your <\/p>\n

752
\n00:49:27,900 –> 00:49:31,600
\ntoes.
\nI’m talking about the kind of <\/p>\n

753
\n00:49:31,600 –> 00:49:34,700
\nsin where natural mind would
\nwant to hang on to that, for a <\/p>\n

754
\n00:49:34,700 –> 00:49:39,100
\nlong, long, long time, until the
\nbrother does this. <\/p>\n

755
\n00:49:39,100 –> 00:49:41,500
\nThis, this and this.
\nAnd let’s have a little public <\/p>\n

756
\n00:49:41,500 –> 00:49:45,200
\nshame in there, too.
\nThat is not godly love. <\/p>\n

757
\n00:49:48,000 –> 00:49:49,800
\nPaul says, love is not puffed
\nup. <\/p>\n

758
\n00:49:49,800 –> 00:49:54,400
\nIt means it’s not arrogant.
\nThere’s no room for Pride with <\/p>\n

759
\n00:49:54,400 –> 00:49:58,000
\nGodly love.
\nGodly love cannot exist, <\/p>\n

760
\n00:49:58,000 –> 00:50:00,400
\nalongside Pride.
\nIf we have decided, we’re just <\/p>\n

761
\n00:50:00,400 –> 00:50:03,700
\ngoing to have a measure of pride
\nin our life for whatever reason.<\/p>\n

762
\n00:50:03,900 –> 00:50:05,400
\nWe decide we’re going to have
\nthat. <\/p>\n

763
\n00:50:06,600 –> 00:50:10,400
\nGodly love will not be able to
\ntake hold it doesn’t behave <\/p>\n

764
\n00:50:10,400 –> 00:50:13,200
\nitself unseemly.
\nAnother one of those good <\/p>\n

765
\n00:50:13,200 –> 00:50:15,800
\nauthorized version words.
\nIt means it doesn’t behave <\/p>\n

766
\n00:50:15,800 –> 00:50:17,700
\nitself.
\nRudely and we’re not <\/p>\n

767
\n00:50:17,700 –> 00:50:20,600
\ndisparaging, the AV It’s just,
\nsometimes we have to do an extra<\/p>\n

768
\n00:50:20,600 –> 00:50:23,300
\nstep of understanding.
\nWhat does it mean here? <\/p>\n

769
\n00:50:24,100 –> 00:50:28,700
\nJot down the reference, if you
\ndon’t have it in 7:36, where it <\/p>\n

770
\n00:50:28,700 –> 00:50:31,800
\ntalks about a young man will not
\nput a young woman. <\/p>\n

771
\n00:50:32,800 –> 00:50:38,000
\nIn a dangerous situation, he
\nwon’t risk compromising her <\/p>\n

772
\n00:50:38,000 –> 00:50:41,500
\nreputation.
\nHe won’t allow her to be <\/p>\n

773
\n00:50:41,500 –> 00:50:47,000
\ndisgrace because Godly love will
\nnever put a brother or sister in<\/p>\n

774
\n00:50:47,000 –> 00:50:49,500
\na situation in which they may
\nsend. <\/p>\n

775
\n00:50:50,900 –> 00:50:54,600
\nSo if I’m in a discussion with
\nmy brother and I know he has hot<\/p>\n

776
\n00:50:54,600 –> 00:50:57,700
\nbuttons and I remain nice and
\ncool and calm. <\/p>\n

777
\n00:50:59,600 –> 00:51:09,900
\nI’m getting ready to push it.
\nAnd he blows up and everybody <\/p>\n

778
\n00:51:09,900 –> 00:51:14,200
\nsees it.
\nWho is responsible for his <\/p>\n

779
\n00:51:14,200 –> 00:51:17,800
\nbehavior.
\nI am. <\/p>\n

780
\n00:51:19,600 –> 00:51:23,600
\nNow, he has issues to deal with
\nbut I dare not walk away from <\/p>\n

781
\n00:51:23,600 –> 00:51:27,400
\nthat conversation.
\nThinking that I am not also <\/p>\n

782
\n00:51:27,400 –> 00:51:32,500
\nguilty of having behaved
\nunseemly to mourn my brother, <\/p>\n

783
\n00:51:32,500 –> 00:51:35,900
\nbecause my actions have caused
\nhim to send. <\/p>\n

784
\n00:51:35,900 –> 00:51:40,600
\nLove will never push the hot
\nbutton of another person. <\/p>\n

785
\n00:51:41,400 –> 00:51:43,700
\nIt doesn’t it’s not easily
\nprovoked. <\/p>\n

786
\n00:51:43,700 –> 00:51:47,500
\nPaul says it’s not irritable,
\nthe Greek means literally to <\/p>\n

787
\n00:51:47,500 –> 00:51:50,700
\nsharpen.
\nFiguratively means it is to <\/p>\n

788
\n00:51:50,700 –> 00:51:53,500
\nexasperate.
\nWhat love isn’t easily <\/p>\n

789
\n00:51:53,500 –> 00:51:55,500
\nexasperated is what Paul is
\nsaying. <\/p>\n

790
\n00:51:55,600 –> 00:52:00,300
\nLove will not allow someone else
\nto get in under our skin. <\/p>\n

791
\n00:52:00,900 –> 00:52:05,000
\nIt will not be short-tempered.
\nIt’s thinketh no evil again. <\/p>\n

792
\n00:52:05,000 –> 00:52:07,900
\nIt’s not quite what it appears.
\nWhat it means is, it is not <\/p>\n

793
\n00:52:07,900 –> 00:52:10,400
\nresentful.
\nIf you haven’t taken a look at <\/p>\n

794
\n00:52:10,400 –> 00:52:13,700
\nthat word for thinketh, no evil,
\nit means it will not take an <\/p>\n

795
\n00:52:13,700 –> 00:52:15,700
\ninventory.
\nAt does not keep count. <\/p>\n

796
\n00:52:15,700 –> 00:52:19,600
\nLove doesn’t.
\nYou know, and just this morning,<\/p>\n

797
\n00:52:19,600 –> 00:52:22,100
\nbrother Simon.
\nWe don’t have a brother Simon <\/p>\n

798
\n00:52:22,100 –> 00:52:25,200
\nhere, do we?
\nThat’s good brother. <\/p>\n

799
\n00:52:25,200 –> 00:52:27,300
\nSimon did something to me.
\nIt’s a fifth time. <\/p>\n

800
\n00:52:27,300 –> 00:52:30,500
\nHe’s done it in the last four
\nweeks to normal fifth time. <\/p>\n

801
\n00:52:31,800 –> 00:52:36,000
\nLove doesn’t keep count.
\nIt doesn’t take an inventory, it<\/p>\n

802
\n00:52:36,000 –> 00:52:39,100
\nforgives when it’s sinned
\nagainst, but if we are keeping <\/p>\n

803
\n00:52:39,100 –> 00:52:42,800
\ncount, see that stage, one of
\nGrudge. <\/p>\n

804
\n00:52:43,800 –> 00:52:45,900
\nI was okay with the third or
\nfourth time, before we got to <\/p>\n

805
\n00:52:45,900 –> 00:52:48,500
\nthe fifth time.
\nNow, now, it’s time to hold a <\/p>\n

806
\n00:52:48,508 –> 00:52:50,800
\ngrudge love, doesn’t act that
\nway. <\/p>\n

807
\n00:52:50,800 –> 00:52:54,300
\nIt doesn’t rejoice in iniquity,
\nit doesn’t feel good when <\/p>\n

808
\n00:52:54,300 –> 00:52:58,300
\nsomeone else has been overcome
\nby sin, it believes all things, <\/p>\n

809
\n00:52:58,300 –> 00:53:01,100
\nhopes all things and endures all
\nthings. <\/p>\n

810
\n00:53:01,600 –> 00:53:05,300
\nYesterday, we made the comment
\nthat there is no limit to Godly <\/p>\n

811
\n00:53:05,300 –> 00:53:08,100
\nlove.
\nToday, we can add to that from <\/p>\n

812
\n00:53:08,100 –> 00:53:11,500
\nFirst Corinthians 13.
\nThere is no situation in which <\/p>\n

813
\n00:53:11,500 –> 00:53:15,600
\nwe can find ourselves.
\nThat should prevent us from <\/p>\n

814
\n00:53:15,600 –> 00:53:20,700
\nshowing Godly Love in.
\nThis is why Paul says, it really<\/p>\n

815
\n00:53:20,700 –> 00:53:25,000
\nis a better way to live, and
\nit’s better than having a spirit<\/p>\n

816
\n00:53:25,000 –> 00:53:28,700
\ngift.
\nIf I could give you one of the <\/p>\n

817
\n00:53:28,700 –> 00:53:32,000
\nspirit gifts today and say look
\nyou can have this the rest of <\/p>\n

818
\n00:53:32,000 –> 00:53:35,200
\nyou life or you can develop
\nGodly love. <\/p>\n

819
\n00:53:36,700 –> 00:53:38,800
\nHopefully by the end of this
\nweekend, you’re beginning to <\/p>\n

820
\n00:53:38,800 –> 00:53:41,600
\nunderstand and see the wisdom of
\nwhat Paul is saying. <\/p>\n

821
\n00:53:41,600 –> 00:53:46,300
\nIt is far better to have the
\npower of Godly love at work in <\/p>\n

822
\n00:53:46,300 –> 00:53:48,600
\nour life.
\nThen it is to be able to speak <\/p>\n

823
\n00:53:48,600 –> 00:53:51,900
\nin tongues or whatever else
\ngifts they had in the first <\/p>\n

824
\n00:53:51,900 –> 00:53:55,000
\ncentury.
\nIt really is a more powerful <\/p>\n

825
\n00:53:56,500 –> 00:53:59,000
\naspect of our discipleship to
\nhave in our life. <\/p>\n

826
\n00:53:59,100 –> 00:54:03,400
\nIt really is Godly love versus
\nspeaking in tongues or healing <\/p>\n

827
\n00:54:03,400 –> 00:54:05,000
\nor prophesying whatever they
\ncould do. <\/p>\n

828
\n00:54:05,700 –> 00:54:08,000
\nIt’s better for Ecclesia life.
\nIt’s better for marriage. <\/p>\n

829
\n00:54:08,000 –> 00:54:10,800
\nThe love of God.
\nReally is a more excellent way. <\/p>\n

830
\n00:54:12,300 –> 00:54:15,600
\nWe’ve given you a couple
\nexamples in the handout, which <\/p>\n

831
\n00:54:15,600 –> 00:54:18,200
\nwe won’t look at that for lack
\nof time. <\/p>\n

832
\n00:54:18,200 –> 00:54:22,400
\nThat’s that directly identify
\nhow Godly love in a marriage and<\/p>\n

833
\n00:54:22,400 –> 00:54:24,200
\nraising a family is a better
\nway. <\/p>\n

834
\n00:54:25,600 –> 00:54:29,100
\nWe mentioned yesterday, we
\ncannot Place upon our marriage. <\/p>\n

835
\n00:54:29,100 –> 00:54:32,800
\nA human love aspect, in which we
\nare waiting for each other to do<\/p>\n

836
\n00:54:32,800 –> 00:54:35,000
\nfor us before.
\nWe will do for the other. <\/p>\n

837
\n00:54:36,100 –> 00:54:38,000
\nBut we’ll leave that for your
\nown consideration. <\/p>\n

838
\n00:54:38,000 –> 00:54:45,500
\nWe will conclude in John 11.
\nSorry, John 15, we’ve been here.<\/p>\n

839
\n00:54:45,500 –> 00:54:51,300
\nMany times this weekend.
\nBut Christ wants to make sure <\/p>\n

840
\n00:54:51,300 –> 00:54:54,000
\nthat we all know Godly love is
\nnot a burden. <\/p>\n

841
\n00:54:55,000 –> 00:54:57,100
\nIf you’re anything like me, when
\nyou begin to see these <\/p>\n

842
\n00:54:57,100 –> 00:55:00,200
\nprinciples and how I’m living my
\nlife, it was like how in the <\/p>\n

843
\n00:55:00,207 –> 00:55:02,200
\nworld am I going to be able to
\ndo this? <\/p>\n

844
\n00:55:03,200 –> 00:55:06,300
\nAnd this and every time a new
\nprinciple of Godly Love Comes <\/p>\n

845
\n00:55:06,300 –> 00:55:09,000
\nforward.
\nIt’s another burden brother and <\/p>\n

846
\n00:55:09,000 –> 00:55:11,400
\nsisters.
\nWe are if we have left you with <\/p>\n

847
\n00:55:11,400 –> 00:55:17,900
\nthat impression, it really is a
\nbetter way to live, but notice <\/p>\n

848
\n00:55:17,900 –> 00:55:22,900
\nwhat Jesus says, in John 15.
\nThis Godly love this laying down<\/p>\n

849
\n00:55:22,900 –> 00:55:25,900
\nour life to save.
\nOthers was a joy to Christ. <\/p>\n

850
\n00:55:25,900 –> 00:55:33,900
\nIt was, it was not a burden.
\nHe’s describing his love for the<\/p>\n

851
\n00:55:33,900 –> 00:55:36,800
\ndisciples in chapter 15, as we
\nhave seen. <\/p>\n

852
\n00:55:36,800 –> 00:55:39,100
\nAnd in verse 10, he speaks of
\nlove. <\/p>\n

853
\n00:55:39,400 –> 00:55:42,200
\nIf you keep my Commandments, you
\nshall abide in my love. <\/p>\n

854
\n00:55:42,200 –> 00:55:45,600
\nEven as I have, kept my father’s
\nCommandments and abide in his <\/p>\n

855
\n00:55:45,600 –> 00:55:50,600
\nlove and then in verse 11, he
\ndescribes his love as being a <\/p>\n

856
\n00:55:50,600 –> 00:55:53,000
\njoy.
\nThese things have I spoken unto <\/p>\n

857
\n00:55:53,000 –> 00:55:57,900
\nyou that my joy might remain in
\nyou and that your joy might be <\/p>\n

858
\n00:55:57,900 –> 00:56:01,300
\nfull.
\nYou see, this is what we have to<\/p>\n

859
\n00:56:01,300 –> 00:56:05,100
\nremember when we devote
\nourselves to living with Godly <\/p>\n

860
\n00:56:05,100 –> 00:56:07,900
\nlove and making that a power in
\nour life. <\/p>\n

861
\n00:56:07,900 –> 00:56:15,000
\nYes, it’s difficult to do.
\nBut the joy associated with it <\/p>\n

862
\n00:56:15,500 –> 00:56:19,600
\nis what we don’t want to lose
\nfighter because when we devote <\/p>\n

863
\n00:56:19,600 –> 00:56:26,200
\nourselves to Godly love and to
\nthe saving of others, and being <\/p>\n

864
\n00:56:26,200 –> 00:56:29,900
\nwilling to tolerate, whatever it
\nis, they may bring into our life<\/p>\n

865
\n00:56:30,500 –> 00:56:33,500
\nand being willing to forgo,
\nwhatever it is in this life that<\/p>\n

866
\n00:56:33,500 –> 00:56:39,200
\nwe could have had without Godly.
\nLove it all pales by comparison <\/p>\n

867
\n00:56:39,500 –> 00:56:46,900
\nwith The Joy of knowing That we
\nwill help people live forever. <\/p>\n

868
\n00:56:48,500 –> 00:56:53,500
\nAnd you see that’s the outcome
\nof Godly love that. <\/p>\n

869
\n00:56:53,500 –> 00:56:59,000
\nIt doesn’t matter what we have
\nto sacrifice in this life, it <\/p>\n

870
\n00:56:59,000 –> 00:57:01,700
\ndoesn’t matter what’s required
\nof us. <\/p>\n

871
\n00:57:01,700 –> 00:57:08,500
\nAccording to First Corinthians
\n13, the outcome, Of the joy of <\/p>\n

872
\n00:57:08,500 –> 00:57:13,200
\nknowing that our brothers and
\nsisters can live forever and <\/p>\n

873
\n00:57:13,200 –> 00:57:17,100
\nthat we can help overcome sin in
\na Brother’s Life by showing him,<\/p>\n

874
\n00:57:17,100 –> 00:57:21,500
\nthe love that he needs.
\nThat’s the joy that Christ <\/p>\n

875
\n00:57:21,500 –> 00:57:24,500
\nspeaks him when he laid down his
\nlife. <\/p>\n

876
\n00:57:24,500 –> 00:57:28,200
\nSure it was painful and it was
\nshameful and there were extreme <\/p>\n

877
\n00:57:28,200 –> 00:57:32,500
\ndifficulties to endure but the
\npain and the shame, and the <\/p>\n

878
\n00:57:32,500 –> 00:57:36,300
\nsuffering is not what he’s in.
\nHe’s drawing our attention to, <\/p>\n

879
\n00:57:37,100 –> 00:57:42,300
\nhe was drawing our attention to
\nin verse 11 with the Joy or to <\/p>\n

880
\n00:57:42,300 –> 00:57:46,600
\nthe Joy associated with the love
\nand knowing that not only would <\/p>\n

881
\n00:57:46,600 –> 00:57:51,200
\na multitude of sins be covered.
\nBut a multitude of Sinners would<\/p>\n

882
\n00:57:51,200 –> 00:57:55,700
\nbe saved, may we learn to love
\nwith Godly Joy. <\/p>\n

883
\n00:57:56,000 –> 00:58:00,400
\nSorry, may we learn to love with
\nGodly love and made the joy that<\/p>\n

884
\n00:58:00,400 –> 00:58:05,100
\nis associated with that lung.
\nTeach us all that it really is a<\/p>\n

885
\n00:58:05,100 –> 00:58:07,400
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Ken Styles – Class 6: A More Excellent Way<\/a><\/blockquote>