Walking in Love – Part 4: Love Is the True Mark of a Disciple | John Giftah | Christian Sermon

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

0:48 Speaker 2: the Soul with John gift of podcast. And as you

0:50 Speaker 2: would have seen in the last couple of episodes, we've

0:52 Speaker 2: been doing a series on practically walking in Love. I've

0:56 Speaker 2: been sitting on the foundation for you to keep certain

0:59 Speaker 2: things in mind to how you and I call to

1:02 Speaker 2: walk in love, and I really challenge you to go

1:04 Speaker 2: back and check out each of those segments in depth.

1:07 Speaker 2: But today I'm going to talk about one of the

1:08 Speaker 2: important aspects to keep in mind with regard to love,

1:10 Speaker 2: because I want you to understand that you can do

1:13 Speaker 2: a lot of stuff in terms of ministry. You can say,

1:15 Speaker 2: you know what, I love people because I don't want

1:17 Speaker 2: them to go to hell, and you can say all

1:19 Speaker 2: of that with your words, But how do you formulate

1:22 Speaker 2: and how you demonstrate that love really really plays a

1:25 Speaker 2: key role. Because I want to share by telling you

1:28 Speaker 2: a personal story that happened to me maybe about a

1:31 Speaker 2: year or two ago. I happened to go to a

1:33 Speaker 2: friend's wedding where I was the best man at the wedding.

1:36 Speaker 2: And when I was in this wedding, what happened was

1:39 Speaker 2: there was this quote unquote a preacher. Okay, he was

1:43 Speaker 2: not a pastor, but he was an evangelist or a preacher,

1:47 Speaker 2: and he was really passionate about souls that had to

1:50 Speaker 2: be added to the Kingdom of God. I mean that

1:53 Speaker 2: was there, no doubt about it. But the thing is this,

1:55 Speaker 2: he suddenly caught me, my friend, and two others of

2:00 Speaker 2: God and then started preaching to us, you know, condemning.

2:03 Speaker 2: You know you're you're going straight to hell, and you

2:05 Speaker 2: know if you don't mend your ways and you will

2:09 Speaker 2: not come to the Lord, and all of these things

2:11 Speaker 2: without even getting to know who we were like in

2:13 Speaker 2: the sense he knew I was in ministry or even

2:17 Speaker 2: this friend of mine was growing in the Lord. I

2:19 Speaker 2: mean he was, you know, doing ministry and whenever he

2:22 Speaker 2: got opportunities and all of these things. So without even

2:25 Speaker 2: getting to know who we were, without even really concerned

2:29 Speaker 2: about what we were up to, what was going on

2:31 Speaker 2: in our life or anything like that, he started preaching

2:33 Speaker 2: and condemning to all of us. And he kept us

2:37 Speaker 2: up for almost thirty minutes, not leaving us. He was like,

2:43 Speaker 2: you know, trying to preach blah blah blah blah blah.

2:45 Speaker 2: And see, I mean, I'm all in for like I said,

2:47 Speaker 2: you know, if somebody is passionate about preaching or I mean,

2:50 Speaker 2: you know, that's the truth. I mean, each of us

2:52 Speaker 2: have to always guard ourselves to make sure that we

2:55 Speaker 2: are on the path of righteousness and we are in

2:57 Speaker 2: the salvation of the Lord. And and here's the thing, right,

3:01 Speaker 2: that's all fine, But what happened was this person did

3:05 Speaker 2: not care about us five minutes before as well, Like

3:08 Speaker 2: even when we were introduced or when we met prior

3:12 Speaker 2: to this particular incident, he didn't even care to check

3:16 Speaker 2: who we were, How are we what is going on.

3:18 Speaker 2: They had no smile. I mean, he was so cold,

3:21 Speaker 2: but he wanted to preach to us. And again after

3:24 Speaker 2: the preaching, all right, for the next couple of days,

3:28 Speaker 2: you know, as we were there for the whole wedding

3:30 Speaker 2: process and everything, he did not even look at us, like,

3:34 Speaker 2: you know, he didn't care about us. He was he

3:36 Speaker 2: was not bothered about us. Even when when we approached

3:40 Speaker 2: him he was he was so distant. And that is

3:44 Speaker 2: what I want to really remind you today. A lot

3:46 Speaker 2: of times what happens is we are passionate about the Gospel,

3:49 Speaker 2: we are passionate about preaching, we are passionate about winning souls,

3:53 Speaker 2: but we do not know how to do it the

3:55 Speaker 2: right way. I'm telling you. Even last week, I'm not kidding, Okay,

4:00 Speaker 2: last week I happened to go to a prayer meeting.

4:03 Speaker 2: And in this prayer meeting, the preacher happened to be

4:07 Speaker 2: a fiery evangelist who loos to win souls for Christ.

4:11 Speaker 2: And she she they introduced, and even she shard that,

4:14 Speaker 2: you know, she makes sure that every single day she

4:17 Speaker 2: leads somebody to the Lord, and she's passionate about Christ

4:20 Speaker 2: and all of these things. And then I'm thinking, honestly,

4:23 Speaker 2: I'm thinking honest conversation that I had. So after this meeting,

4:26 Speaker 2: I go to tell, you know, like and somebody introduces

4:29 Speaker 2: me to her, saying, you know, this guy is also

4:32 Speaker 2: passionate about winning souls and he's running his ministry. And

4:37 Speaker 2: the first thing she said, like, what's wrong with you?

4:39 Speaker 2: I'm like, what you knows? Like there's nothing wrong. She's like,

4:44 Speaker 2: I'm running my ministry, and she's like, what's wrong with

4:47 Speaker 2: the ministry? She didn't know how to approach, like to

4:51 Speaker 2: be gracious, and I mean, you know, the conversation was

4:55 Speaker 2: like so, I mean, like, how does say this? Like

5:00 Speaker 2: there was no flow and there was no grace, And

5:03 Speaker 2: at that point the person who wanted to introduce me

5:06 Speaker 2: to her felt like, oh my goodness, you know, why

5:08 Speaker 2: did I even introduce these two? You know, because this

5:12 Speaker 2: person showed that she was so passionate and was like,

5:16 Speaker 2: you know, I want to win souls and all of that.

5:18 Speaker 2: But see, you can have that passion, you can have

5:21 Speaker 2: all of that, but if you're not able to operate

5:24 Speaker 2: from the realm of loo to show grace and to

5:28 Speaker 2: actually have warm relationships with people, you're missing the mark

5:33 Speaker 2: you're missing the mark. You know what, I'm going to

5:35 Speaker 2: share a very important scripture. I always go back to

5:37 Speaker 2: John thirteen thirty five. It says, for by this shall

5:41 Speaker 2: all men know you're my disciples when you will love

5:45 Speaker 2: one for another. By this shall all men you know

5:48 Speaker 2: you're my disciples when you have loo one for another. See.

5:52 Speaker 2: I'm telling you, you can preach your best sermon. You

5:56 Speaker 2: can be eloquent. You can, you know, coach hundreds of

6:00 Speaker 2: scriptures in your sermons. You you can have a lot

6:03 Speaker 2: of amazing encounters. You see, even if you look at

6:06 Speaker 2: First Corinthians. Right, Chapter twelve talks about the gifts, right,

6:11 Speaker 2: gifts of the Holy Spirit. Chapter thirteen talks about love.

6:15 Speaker 2: Chapter fourteen talks about gifts again. Right. Here's the thing

6:19 Speaker 2: I wanted to understand. There's a reason why LAO chapter

6:24 Speaker 2: Chapter thirteen comes in between these two chapters about gifts,

6:28 Speaker 2: because a lot of people operate in the power, the anointing,

6:31 Speaker 2: the fire and the you know, the ministry and the

6:34 Speaker 2: and the position, the platform and all of this stuff

6:38 Speaker 2: without the filter of love. That's why the post part

6:41 Speaker 2: said in the middle of these two chapters, he says this,

6:46 Speaker 2: you know, but the greatest of these is love. You

6:49 Speaker 2: can you can have the power and the fire and

6:52 Speaker 2: all of that, but if you do not have love,

6:55 Speaker 2: what is the use of everything?

6:57 Speaker 1: What is if.

6:58 Speaker 2: You can speak in tongue, so if you can prophesy,

7:01 Speaker 2: you can do great miracles. But if you do not

7:04 Speaker 2: demonstrate loo, if you do not care for the person

7:07 Speaker 2: in front of you, if you're not able to make

7:09 Speaker 2: them feel at peace or at ease to even look

7:13 Speaker 2: at you, or to talk with you, or if you

7:15 Speaker 2: can't have a normal conversation with somebody, what is the problem?

7:20 Speaker 2: You are the problem. I'm sorry. I pray today that

7:25 Speaker 2: God will search your hearts and mend you and get

7:29 Speaker 2: you to the place where you realize the importance of

7:33 Speaker 2: the need to operate from that place of love, because

7:38 Speaker 2: without love, nothing will work. I pray that you will

7:43 Speaker 2: have love in the center of your evangelism, love in

7:46 Speaker 2: the center of your Christian life, and when you operate

7:51 Speaker 2: from the place of love. I want to close with

7:53 Speaker 2: another example. You know, in my life I've seen that

7:56 Speaker 2: when I go into corporate work structure, necrospace engineer, right,

8:01 Speaker 2: what happens? Sometimes people say, oh, these these preachers, because

8:04 Speaker 2: they know that I'm into preaching and stuff like that.

8:07 Speaker 2: So they're like, oh, they're here to convert, and you know,

8:09 Speaker 2: they want to keep away from us. And I'm telling you,

8:14 Speaker 2: you know what really broke the ice for me with

8:17 Speaker 2: most people was love to care for them, to genuinely

8:22 Speaker 2: take care of them or meet their needs or help

8:24 Speaker 2: them in some way, or to be there for them.

8:27 Speaker 2: And I'm telling you, after that, I've heard actually accounts

8:30 Speaker 2: of people saying, I did not expect this from you

8:33 Speaker 2: because I thought you were here only to convert us.

8:35 Speaker 2: You see, you, guys, by this, shall haulman know you,

8:39 Speaker 2: my disciples, when you have love, When you have love,

8:45 Speaker 2: let us operate in love. Amen. God bless you.

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