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00:36 Amen, welcome to the cafe. Good to have you here today. We are going through God’s Holy Word.
00:43 We thank God for the opportunity to go through His Word. You know some people in some parts of the world don’t have free access to the Bible and I’m so thankful here today that we can study His Word and I’m so thankful that you’ve joined us here today. I don’t take it for granted one bit and I’m so thankful for everything that God has done through this ministry to reveal the truth in His Word.
01:04 Today we are talking about brotherly love, the idea that we show God brotherly love when we love each other. I mean think about it, if you love somebody, I love my wife Sue.
01:16 I love her more than anybody here on earth though I love God more than her because I’m commanded to do that and I can honestly say that amen and she’s okay with that because she does very well being second Amen to God only because guess what God does to our marriage He makes it wonderful when we put Him first
01:32 and that’s a whole other message and I should preach that soon because it is coming up here on Valentine’s Day but for clarity’s sake I love Sue she’s my wife she’s the love of my life all the soulmate
01:45 and all we just been very blessed we got married a little bit later on in life and I just I feel like I appreciate her more being a little bit older when we got married
01:56 I got married in my 30s people out here in the country hey they could be married in their teens early 20s and so we got married a little bit later and I just appreciate her so much
02:06 and I say okay Sue I love you I want to do something for you and I’m thinking okay to show her I love her I could take her to a restaurant that she really likes Italian food I could take her to an Italian restaurant or I could get her flowers or I
02:23 she likes pictures especially of the kids so I could you know make a collage do you see how to show her that I love her I’m looking at ways to give something to her right to give something spend time with her give her something material right goodness with God he says you want to show me you love me love each other love the brothers and sisters in Christ you want to show me that you love me
02:45 okay well you go ahead and love sister so-and-so and brother so-and-so that may be a little difficult to love sometimes did you go ahead and love them like you love yourself
02:53 now you love to have a great meal and you treat yourself to a great meal are you treating brother or sister so-and-so to a great meal we say brother Clark I don’t have a whole lot okay well are you spending time with them are you telling them that you care about them
03:07 are they in your prayers are you encouraging them are you looking for ways that you can help I mean God blesses everybody with unique talents and skills and gifts and we can help each other out Amen.
03:19 and I could give a lot of examples of that that we show that we love each other by being present by trying to be helpful by celebrating when somebody is doing well think about this maybe you have a talent or skill there was a lady in our church the old church we used to go to before Lord had called me out to plant one Amen
03:38 in Lincoln to North Carolina and this young lady could sing like nobody could sing and she just had this incredible voice and I had some computer equipment and had some knowledge of how to record stuff definitely not an expert but could get something down and she had asked if I would help her make a CD for her mom
03:56 well that’s Christian love in action right I can use my computer skills she uses her tremendous voice makes a CD to give to her mom to show her mom that she loves her and so we’re all helping each other Amen
04:09 and I’m bragging on God there it is a simple thing but it means a lot and it shows when we do those things someone will say well what does brother Clark get out of making so-and-so a CD nothing you know I mean I think I might have gotten a CD I’m sure I can look up the file somewhere but I didn’t get anything out of it well what does she get from giving your mom a CD well probably just make her mom smile Amen.
04:32 make her mom proud but what does God get out of that God is then seeing us put into action the principle in which He loves us because God loves us with His sacrificial love Amen.
04:45 God’s love is very calculated God’s love is very much perfect and God’s love is very tremendous and sometimes hard to describe but one thing I can say is that it’s sacrificial that He sent His only Son Jesus
05:00 His only begotten son is beloved Jesus I believe that God loves Jesus with all His heart and soul and He’s got Jesus up there in heaven and Jesus is His prize and Jesus is just thrilling Him
05:12 I got a little son named CJ CJ’s birthday is tomorrow Amen he’s about to turn five and I know what it feels like you worry about your son every little thing you know I see him you know across the street with his mom or his brother and I’m worried I see him you know playing soccer and everything and I’m I’m happy for him
05:29 but I’m constantly my eyes on him and if the idea that God said you know the son that I love so much not that Jesus was five and time is transcended over there but he’ll the son that I love so much I care for so much that I have a heart for that when that son hurts I heard Amen
05:44 I’m gonna take that son I’m gonna go ahead and send him to earth to die for sinners that that need a Savior Amen and some of which will never accept his free gift of salvation and they’re gonna spit on him they’re gonna mock Him they’re gonna ridicule Him even though I made everything and I have all power and all sovereignty
06:00 I’m gonna let it happen so that that remnant that few few might believe on the blood of Jesus Christ might believe on his great sacrifice on the cross and I’m gonna raise Him up from the dead and He’ll be highly exalted for an eternity He will be King of Kings and Lord of Lords Amen
06:14 and we will have the honor of calling him our brother that’s sacrificial love and God saying I did it for you and I want you to exhibit it to one another to help you to help me understand that you get what I did Amen
06:27 that’s why I believe part of this is about we show God we love him by loving one another to help others and ourselves understand what he did for us you understand because if we never sacrificially give then we won’t understand the hurt and the stress the pain the struggle that comes with sacrificial giving you say
06:47 brother Clark did God hurt well I believe the cross was the worst death of all time and the physical pain and humiliation and dread and can you imagine that just all of it the the whipping the accusations walking down that via de la Rosa with that unbearable cross on His shoulder which is a symbol the cross that He bore for all humanity being abused having
07:10 His beard plucked out one by one be having vinegar put on his tongue being ridiculed casting lots for his clothes absolutely disgusting when he had all power to do whatever he wanted he could have blinked an eye and I believe a million angels could have come and wiped these people out
07:26 and what did he do he said no no I love them I love them too much I’ll bear that iniquity and he drank the Bible says he drank that bitter cup of sin on the cross at Calvary for our sins he took the sin of the world on His shoulders you know the sin is of the world is unbelievably heavy Amen our own sin is more than we can bear Amen
07:49 that’s why we need a Savior because we can’t work it out on our own and he took all sin for all mankind past present and future and he bore it on his shoulders on the cross at Calvary to die for you and to die for me and what do we do we walk around mad at people we walk around with a chip on our shoulder Oh God help us today we need to love one another we need to have great love for the brothers and sisters in Christ
08:12 Christ loved us was Christ petty no He wasn’t was he puffed up no He wasn’t was He thinking evil no he wasn’t he was beyond all things wonderful and good and we must be like Christ today we love Him
08:26 because he first loved us 1 John 4-19 through 1 John 5: 3 we love Him because he first loved us if a man say I love God and hateth his brother he is a liar for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen how can he love God whom he hath not seen
08:45 again 1 John 4:20 God saying prove it to me you say you love me you say that you’ve made me Savior but how come you don’t even love your own brother and this commandment have we from Him that he who loveth God love his brother also whosoever believe it that Jesus is the Christ is born of God and everyone that loveth him that be that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him by this we know that we love the children of God when we love God and keep his commandments
09:12 for this is the love of God that we keep his commandments and his commandments are not grievous or difficult Amen
09:18 and so we see here the love God the Father and Jesus the begotten Son is a commandment we are to show God we love Him the begotten is Jesus John 1:14 and the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us and we beheld His glory the glory as of the only begotten of the Father full of grace and truth
09:37 so we are to love Jesus Jesus is how we see God John 1:18 no man hath seen God at any time the only begotten son which is in the bosom of the Father he hath declared him so the way that we see God is Jesus and that’s both literal the angels beheld him Amen
09:56 it’s both literal when the angels they had not seen God God’s a spirit so when they see Jesus that’s the first time they see God in human form I should say okay they’ve seen God in spirit form maybe but not in human form and so they beheld him saying wow there is Jesus right
10:08 and we see God through Jesus and that’s both literal right so we will see God through Jesus but also that’s figurative in the way that with the way Jesus lived is how we see God how He wants us to live right the same kind of way we are commanded to do that and to love God we see the Holy Trinity at work the Godhead the three-in-one God
10:30 it is a cooperation so when we’re saved with the Holy Spirit living within us and that Holy Spirit is indwelling us amen and when we live for God we are obeying the Holy Spirit and the Holy Spirit is not grieved right and we pray to God and so forth Jesus is the mediator and Jesus is our example Amen
10:50 and so we live for God as Jesus has shown us how to live and then we please God the Father because we show him that we love him and so we see the Holy Trinity at work all three the three-in-one Godhead are at work when we love each other the Holy Spirit leading and guiding us and convicting us Jesus Christ our example and our mediator and God the Father the one
11:14 that we’re showing that we understand his great gift of salvation to the way that we love each other Amen and that by the way the scripture says will show others that he is the true God but why love God and then to begin with I mean maybe some people are saying oh why should I love God well number one he created you and then secondly he redeemed you he bought you back for a great price by giving Jesus so that we can have life.
11:36 1Peter 1:3 blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ which according to his abundant mercy have begotten us again unto a lively hope by theresurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
11:50 key word here being abundant mercy He didn’t have to do it he didn’t do it at the time of Noah Amen time of Noah they were all living wickedly he wiped them all out except for Noah and his family one family that’s the only one in the ark and that is an example who sealed the ark God sealed the ark.
12:06 that’s an example of when we accept Christ as Savior we are sealed into the day of redemption amen and so we see this great love that God has for us that we need to exhibit to others by understanding who he is and what he gave to us we can then be better in our walk with the Lord and better serve and love others
12:27 because there’s nothing like a big piece of humble pie to make us live better than if we think we are something and we think our righteousness amounts to something and we think that we’re owed something and we talked to our kids here in this house about accountability and about not blaming others not making excuses but being accountable for ourselves and owning problems and that’s how you can have success in life.
12:50 well guess what when we hold ourself accountable for our sin debt and realize there was no way that we could repay that sin debt and that we need Jesus Christ as Lord Savior
12:59 and we realize that that whole plan was activated in heaven before humanity was even formed and that God the Father deserves all the glory Amen what did Jesus say someone said good master to Jesus in the New Testament and he said there’s none good but one and that is God the Father Amen
13:14 and so we see that God the Father gets the glory and we give him glory by loving our brothers and sisters in Christ and when we do that it shows God that we understand the sacrificial love and it also shows others truly who the real God is
13:29 because most people would never do that and I encourage you today to love your brothers and sisters do something unexpected for somebody show great love pray for them fervently a love on them encourage them forgive them
13:43 be a great Christian example for them and you never know what that love to them will then inspire in them to show to others and when they ask you why’d you do that you could tell them God told me to in his word in 1st John 4 and 5
13:59 God told me to that if we love one another Amen it will show Him God that we love Him that we love God and that’s what we want to do Amen
14:10 we love the Lord here today thank you for listening take care of God bless and Amen