Walking in Love – Part 3: True Love Is Demonstrated, Not Just Declared | 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

0:49 Speaker 2: the Soul with John gift of podcast. And I'm so

0:51 Speaker 2: glad that you're joining in as we're doing the series

0:53 Speaker 2: on how you and I can Walk in Love, because

0:57 Speaker 2: as we celebrate Valentine's Day coming up next week, a

1:01 Speaker 2: lot of emphasis on the aspect of how do you

1:03 Speaker 2: walk in love? It can be love with a partner

1:07 Speaker 2: or a spouse, or a family member or maybe a

1:09 Speaker 2: colleague or your siblings, or in your church, in your community,

1:13 Speaker 2: in your neighborhood, or in your workplace, or in your school,

1:15 Speaker 2: or your college, everywhere. You and I are not called

1:18 Speaker 2: to live as an island, but we're called to live

1:20 Speaker 2: in community, in fellowship. And the most important thing the

1:24 Speaker 2: Bible says is that about everything else, love should be

1:29 Speaker 2: the foundation. The greatest of these is love. We've been

1:34 Speaker 2: talking about various aspects, and today I'm going to talk

1:36 Speaker 2: about one important aspect we record to love, and that

1:40 Speaker 2: is that a lot of times I've seen this practically,

1:44 Speaker 2: and you might have seen this as well, where a

1:45 Speaker 2: lot of people, you know, find it so easy to say,

1:49 Speaker 2: you know what, I'm there for you, I love you,

1:51 Speaker 2: I care about you, I really mean the best for you.

1:55 Speaker 2: They seem to speak words that entice you to believe

2:02 Speaker 2: that they actually love you, that they really care for you,

2:05 Speaker 2: that they have affectionate towards you. But I want to

2:09 Speaker 2: remind you of something very very important here that true

2:13 Speaker 2: love is not just what you say. True love is

2:16 Speaker 2: what you do. Love is not something that can be

2:20 Speaker 2: just spoken. It has to be demonstrated. You know the

2:24 Speaker 2: popular verse John three sixteen, God so loved the world.

2:29 Speaker 2: It doesn't end by just saying that God loves you.

2:32 Speaker 2: The Bible doesn't say that God just loves you. It's

2:35 Speaker 2: not just God's saying, oh, Jesus saying hey, I love you, dude.

2:40 Speaker 2: The Bible says God so loved the world that he

2:44 Speaker 2: demonstrated that love by sending his only son, Jesus Christ,

2:52 Speaker 2: so that whoever believes in him shall not perish it.

2:54 Speaker 2: But I have it anal life. The Bible again says

2:57 Speaker 2: in the Book of Romans that God monstrated his love

3:02 Speaker 2: that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

3:06 Speaker 2: He didn't just say I love you. He didn't just

3:08 Speaker 2: say I care for you. He didn't just say I'm

3:11 Speaker 2: you know, you're so dear to me. He didn't just

3:14 Speaker 2: say it. He demonstrated it. It was not just in

3:19 Speaker 2: his words, it was in his actions that we know

3:22 Speaker 2: that God truly loved us. My question to you today

3:26 Speaker 2: is when you say that you love people, When you

3:28 Speaker 2: say that you love some people or somebody or you're

3:32 Speaker 2: walking in love, my question is is it something that

3:35 Speaker 2: you just say or are you actually showing it with

3:39 Speaker 2: your words. I think I've shared this several times on

3:44 Speaker 2: the podcast or even on YouTube that since last year

3:48 Speaker 2: I had a lot of turbulence in my life. A

3:50 Speaker 2: lot of things went out of hand and a lot

3:54 Speaker 2: of a lot of things just went to a place

3:56 Speaker 2: where it went beyond my control. Okay, there was huge

4:00 Speaker 2: financial laws and a job loss, and uh, attacks on

4:04 Speaker 2: my health and some family members who are unwell, and

4:07 Speaker 2: there's there's so much of fun predictability and so many

4:10 Speaker 2: attacks after attacks and so many uh you know, like

4:14 Speaker 2: abusive words that I had to deal with and had

4:17 Speaker 2: a lot of discouragement and a lot of times the

4:20 Speaker 2: enemy attacked me, you know with suicidal depression. And I

4:23 Speaker 2: had a lot going on since uh with in fact,

4:26 Speaker 2: with the February we're finishing. It's it's been a year

4:31 Speaker 2: of turbulence for me when it all started. But here's

4:33 Speaker 2: the thing I wanted to understand. A lot of times

4:36 Speaker 2: people used to say like, you know what, I'm there

4:39 Speaker 2: for you. I'm you know, why do you worry? I'm

4:42 Speaker 2: there for you. I love you, or I care about you,

4:46 Speaker 2: or you know why you wanted I mean, there were

4:48 Speaker 2: preachers or pastors who were like, oh, you know, when

4:51 Speaker 2: you stap in the ministry, you know you can count

4:53 Speaker 2: on me or count on our ministry, or they were

4:56 Speaker 2: close friends who said, you know what, I will be

4:59 Speaker 2: with you I'm going to be your greatest cheerleader. But

5:02 Speaker 2: can I tell you something. When I went through those

5:04 Speaker 2: hard times, I realized that ninety nine point nine percent

5:08 Speaker 2: of the people who said that they're there for me,

5:11 Speaker 2: or they care for me, or they were you know,

5:13 Speaker 2: truly loving me or whatever, realized that it was all

5:17 Speaker 2: just words that came out of them out where nothing

5:20 Speaker 2: turned into works that would actually translate into actually helping

5:24 Speaker 2: me in my time of need. The people I least

5:29 Speaker 2: expected were the ones who were actually standing by me.

5:32 Speaker 2: It was not just words that helped me, because at

5:35 Speaker 2: that point I needed actual works of people standing by me,

5:39 Speaker 2: supporting and cheering and encouraging. And sometimes there were moments where,

5:43 Speaker 2: especially when my account went to zero and I had

5:45 Speaker 2: to rebuild from the scratch. At that point, just somebody saying, oh,

5:51 Speaker 2: I'm praying for you, or you don't worry, everything will

5:55 Speaker 2: be fine was not enough because I needed somebody to

5:58 Speaker 2: actually put action behind that action behind those words, to say,

6:02 Speaker 2: you know what, I'm helping you financially. I'm supporting you

6:06 Speaker 2: at this point because I understand the place you're in

6:10 Speaker 2: and you need support. You see, that is so important,

6:16 Speaker 2: and that made me realize that you know how many

6:19 Speaker 2: people who say that they truly love you actually don't

6:22 Speaker 2: care about you because when you hit a rock bottom,

6:25 Speaker 2: when you are in troubled waters, are they actually putting

6:29 Speaker 2: action behind their words or are they just giving you

6:31 Speaker 2: empty words saying, don't worry, everything will be fine. Oh,

6:34 Speaker 2: I'm just praying for you, and then they don't care

6:36 Speaker 2: to even check up if you're okay. You know that

6:39 Speaker 2: is what I want to really challenge each one of

6:42 Speaker 2: you today with to think about this. Are you just

6:46 Speaker 2: saying that you are working in love? Are you just

6:52 Speaker 2: saying some empty words or is it actually translating into action?

6:58 Speaker 2: Is your words translating into who works? Because God didn't

7:03 Speaker 2: just say he loves you, He showed that he loves you.

7:06 Speaker 2: My challenge to each one of you under the sound

7:08 Speaker 2: of my voice is that you won't just say that

7:10 Speaker 2: you love someone, or you won't just say that you

7:13 Speaker 2: care for people, that you actually show it by your action.

7:17 Speaker 2: And I believe dicrean Dickla that when you walk in

7:20 Speaker 2: that kind of allow I believe that you will actually

7:24 Speaker 2: be the one drawing people closer to the Lord. Emmen,

7:28 Speaker 2: God bless you.

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