Walking in Love – Part 2: Called to Walk in Love (Ephesians 5:2) John Giftah | Christian Sermon

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

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

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

0:50 Speaker 2: that you're here for this section where we are doing

0:54 Speaker 2: a series about walking in love. I challenge you to

0:57 Speaker 2: check out yesterday's episode where I the foundation of how

1:01 Speaker 2: the scripture says that you and I have to embrace

1:06 Speaker 2: the element of love because Jesus summed up the commandments

1:10 Speaker 2: and he said you need to love God and love

1:13 Speaker 2: one another. Love is the foundation, you know. I know

1:18 Speaker 2: we emphasize on a lot of other things, and there's

1:21 Speaker 2: a place for everything. But today, as we are doing

1:24 Speaker 2: the series on love, I really challenge you to stay

1:27 Speaker 2: plugged in because the next couple of days we're going

1:30 Speaker 2: to talk about the aspect of what it means to

1:33 Speaker 2: be in a place where we show love, walk in love,

1:36 Speaker 2: express love with one another, because I believe that this

1:40 Speaker 2: is such an instrumental commandment that has been given to

1:43 Speaker 2: us for the body of Christ. And today I want

1:46 Speaker 2: to talk about one important aspect that we need to

1:51 Speaker 2: look at regard to love, and it's found in Ephesians

1:55 Speaker 2: chapter five. Ers to it and it's a very simple phrase,

1:58 Speaker 2: but there's so much too un back from this, and

2:01 Speaker 2: it says you and I need to walk in love.

2:05 Speaker 2: The Bible says walk in love. Now, I want you

2:10 Speaker 2: to understand something here yesterday when I told you that

2:13 Speaker 2: love should be your foundation. You know, when you say

2:16 Speaker 2: you're doing ministry, are you doing it because of your

2:19 Speaker 2: love for God? Are you doing it just for your

2:21 Speaker 2: own pleasure, your own love for power? Or you just

2:25 Speaker 2: love the attitude of you know saying you know what,

2:27 Speaker 2: I am a very spiritually qualified person or something, or

2:32 Speaker 2: somebody who looks people look up to or things like that,

2:35 Speaker 2: like you can do things that are good, but you

2:39 Speaker 2: could do them not out of love. And I told

2:43 Speaker 2: you you need to always have love as your foundation.

2:47 Speaker 2: But today I want to talk about one aspect that

2:49 Speaker 2: a lot of times people say, yes, John, I understand

2:51 Speaker 2: everything should come from love. But yes, the thing what

2:53 Speaker 2: people do is they show love to certain people, okay,

3:00 Speaker 2: and they don't show loud to somebody else. But they said,

3:02 Speaker 2: you know what, I should love to this person. I

3:04 Speaker 2: should love you know. That's a great thing, that's a

3:08 Speaker 2: great quality. Or what did people do is they express

3:13 Speaker 2: love on a certain day, like you know, when you

3:14 Speaker 2: say Valentine's Day people express their love. Or on Mother's

3:18 Speaker 2: Day or Father's Day or on a birthday they express love.

3:22 Speaker 2: And the rest of the days they don't demonstrate love

3:26 Speaker 2: at all. And that's why you have to understand this verse.

3:30 Speaker 2: It doesn't say you and I need to show love.

3:33 Speaker 2: It doesn't say you and I need to express love.

3:36 Speaker 2: The Bible says you and I need to walk in love.

3:40 Speaker 2: Understand this important principle, guys. Walk in love is not

3:45 Speaker 2: like you show love to one person and do not

3:47 Speaker 2: show loved to the other and say I showed loud

3:50 Speaker 2: to somebody. No when you are walking in love, you

3:53 Speaker 2: show love to everybody. And I know there is this

3:58 Speaker 2: place for boundaries to be cap that that's another totally

4:02 Speaker 2: different aspect. But but you need to always walk in

4:05 Speaker 2: that unconditional pure love. Yes, to think when I talk

4:10 Speaker 2: about expressing love, like people say, oh, you know what,

4:13 Speaker 2: I should love to this person, or I gave them

4:18 Speaker 2: a big gift on the birthday, and that's it. You know,

4:21 Speaker 2: I don't. I don't. I don't care about them for

4:23 Speaker 2: the next one year. That is not called ex that's

4:28 Speaker 2: not called walking in love. You express love. You you

4:33 Speaker 2: did it as an obligation, but that's not love. If

4:37 Speaker 2: if you go by the thing that the Bible is saying,

4:41 Speaker 2: you need to walk in that unconditional love at all times.

4:46 Speaker 2: It should be your lifestyle. You know, when you look

4:49 Speaker 2: at the different translations, I just want to remind you

4:52 Speaker 2: it says in one of the translations walk in the

4:55 Speaker 2: way of love. In another one, live a life filled

4:58 Speaker 2: with love another translation. You know, it's just most of

5:04 Speaker 2: the translations says say, you know, walk in love, walk

5:06 Speaker 2: in love, which is what we are constantly saying. But

5:09 Speaker 2: here's the thing. I when you look at the amplified version.

5:12 Speaker 2: Walk continually in love. That is, value one another, practice

5:18 Speaker 2: empathy and compassion, unselfioushly, selfishly seeking the best for others. See,

5:28 Speaker 2: it's not something you do once and leave. It's not

5:30 Speaker 2: something you do when you're comfortable and leave. It's not

5:33 Speaker 2: something you do only when you feel like it. It

5:35 Speaker 2: should be a lifestyle. The Vible says, walk in love continually.

5:41 Speaker 2: I want you to have this as the pillar of

5:44 Speaker 2: your life. In every decision you make, from the time

5:48 Speaker 2: you wake up in the morning to the time you

5:50 Speaker 2: go to bed, I want you to check if everything

5:54 Speaker 2: you do is it out of love? Are you walking

5:59 Speaker 2: as an emblem of Christ's love? Are you walking in love?

6:05 Speaker 2: Or are you just walking in an outside thing and

6:08 Speaker 2: then just showing love sometimes or expressing love sometimes? Today,

6:14 Speaker 2: let this be the foundation even as we proceed and

6:17 Speaker 2: learn or look at different aspects for the curtil walking

6:20 Speaker 2: in love and that is to come. I want this

6:23 Speaker 2: to become your cornerstone to say, you know what I'm

6:27 Speaker 2: called to walk in love? Lord? Today, if there are

6:32 Speaker 2: areas where anybody who's watching listening from anywhere in the world,

6:38 Speaker 2: if they are struggling to walk in love Let this

6:41 Speaker 2: be a reminder. Let this be a reminder if they're thinking,

6:45 Speaker 2: you know, oh, I showed love, I express love and

6:47 Speaker 2: that's enough. Let this be a reminder that they are

6:51 Speaker 2: not called to just do it when they feel like it,

6:53 Speaker 2: or when the mood is right, or when circumstances right.

6:57 Speaker 2: But walking in love should be the default in their life.

7:01 Speaker 2: And I pray and release this in the name of Jesus.

7:05 Speaker 2: I pray all right. I hope to see you guys

7:08 Speaker 2: in the next segment tomorrow. God bless you.

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