Walking in Love – Part 6: Love Without Hidden Agenda | John Giftah | Christian Sermon

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0:46 Speaker 2: Hello everyone, and welcome to this edition of the Fuel

0:48 Speaker 2: for the Soul with John GIFTAP podcast. And as you

0:50 Speaker 2: would have seen that, we are doing a series on

0:54 Speaker 2: how you can practically walk in love. And all through

0:57 Speaker 2: last week I was doing the PA and sharing a

1:01 Speaker 2: lot of things that were like the foundation for us

1:04 Speaker 2: to understand about the kind of love that we are

1:06 Speaker 2: called to operate in. And I challenged you that it's

1:10 Speaker 2: not something that you just do once in a while.

1:12 Speaker 2: It's not something that's just put on once in a while,

1:15 Speaker 2: but it's supposed to be a life study or you

1:17 Speaker 2: and I need to walk in love. And also I

1:20 Speaker 2: shared an important important principle on Friday that I want

1:24 Speaker 2: you to go back and listen where I shared that

1:27 Speaker 2: you and I need to operate in unconditional love. Right

1:31 Speaker 2: Because I set out so many things, I really challenge

1:34 Speaker 2: you to go back and listen to them. But today onwards,

1:37 Speaker 2: we're going to look at some of the practical ways

1:39 Speaker 2: that you can actually operate in unconditional love. And I

1:43 Speaker 2: really challenge you to introspect and pray with the part

1:47 Speaker 2: of the Holy Spirit that you will look at areas

1:50 Speaker 2: in your life. Relationships in your life may be in

1:52 Speaker 2: your workplace, your school, your family or church, community, neighborhood,

1:56 Speaker 2: anywhere where you are not operating in unconditional love, and

2:01 Speaker 2: I want you to look at them through these lenses.

2:03 Speaker 2: And as your journey, we want to make sure that

2:07 Speaker 2: God will speak to you, minister to you, convict you

2:09 Speaker 2: in areas that need to be convicted, and help you

2:12 Speaker 2: live the life that you're called to live. So today

2:15 Speaker 2: one of the aspects I want to quickly start off

2:18 Speaker 2: is to remind you that unconditional love should have no agenda.

2:23 Speaker 2: It should not have any other agenda. I remember there's

2:26 Speaker 2: a moment where the minute it's a birthday, okay, when

2:31 Speaker 2: I was in college, I remember this, especially over the

2:33 Speaker 2: boarding and all of that, people would flock from everywhere. Oh,

2:37 Speaker 2: happy birthday, Happy birthday. But the truth of the matter,

2:40 Speaker 2: you realize is that some of them never care about you,

2:44 Speaker 2: But the reason why they wished you was only because

2:46 Speaker 2: they wanted something from you. They wanted the treat. They

2:49 Speaker 2: would come out and say, hey, I was your classmate,

2:51 Speaker 2: your benchmate, your roommate, your crush mat, your this made

2:54 Speaker 2: your that mate. They would say all sorts of flattery things,

2:58 Speaker 2: not because they care about you, but just because they

3:00 Speaker 2: wanted to treat from you. I still remember there was

3:03 Speaker 2: a moment when I was in college. So I was

3:05 Speaker 2: doing my aerospace engineering program in my third year, I

3:09 Speaker 2: took I think thirteen groups of people for giving them

3:14 Speaker 2: treat on my birthday, okay, thirteen. I was like, Wow,

3:18 Speaker 2: this was my twentieth birthday, I guess, I don't know,

3:20 Speaker 2: twenty eighth or nineteenth, I don't remember. I think twenty

3:22 Speaker 2: seth if I'm not wrong. So I remember that and

3:25 Speaker 2: I was like, oh, my gosh, you know what, it's

3:28 Speaker 2: a special, and so many people are so dear to me,

3:31 Speaker 2: and without any discernment, I was like, you know, taking

3:34 Speaker 2: them for giving them treat for my birthday. And what

3:38 Speaker 2: astonished me was some of those very people that I

3:40 Speaker 2: took for my birthday because they were like, you know,

3:44 Speaker 2: so nice and saying all these fancy words and all

3:46 Speaker 2: of this stuff. I realized some of them they didn't

3:50 Speaker 2: even look at me after that, didn't even talk to me.

3:52 Speaker 2: They would ignore me. And then I raised like, oh

3:55 Speaker 2: my gosh, so all that flattery was just because they

3:57 Speaker 2: wanted to treat from me, you know what I mean.

3:59 Speaker 2: I learned things the hard way. But here's the thing

4:02 Speaker 2: I want you to understand, right, this is an important

4:04 Speaker 2: principle you need to look at. I'm going to calle

4:06 Speaker 2: a couple of scriptures and I want to come back

4:08 Speaker 2: to the point. First Corinthians, chapter thirteen, verse five. It

4:11 Speaker 2: says loo should not be self seeking. You should not

4:14 Speaker 2: you know, unconditional love. He's not self seeking. It's not

4:18 Speaker 2: about what it can gain. It's not about like, oh,

4:20 Speaker 2: you know what I wish him, or I'm nice to

4:22 Speaker 2: this person I can get something. I remember there was

4:24 Speaker 2: a moment when a boy came to me and said,

4:27 Speaker 2: you know, I want you to use your influence and

4:29 Speaker 2: get this girl for me, and I said I can't

4:31 Speaker 2: do that. And then he said, you're not letting me

4:34 Speaker 2: follow the teachings of Jesus. I said, what do you mean.

4:36 Speaker 2: He said, Jesus said love your neighbor. I'm supposed to

4:39 Speaker 2: love this girl, and you're not letting me do that.

4:42 Speaker 2: You know, he had this agenda. He had this whole

4:45 Speaker 2: self seeking like trying to you know, trying to be

4:47 Speaker 2: nice to me, trying to get my favoritism. So try

4:49 Speaker 2: to say, oh, John, you're this your that, your influential

4:52 Speaker 2: and all of that just to get my attention so

4:54 Speaker 2: that he can use me as au pon to get

4:57 Speaker 2: something else. So loo should not be self seeking. Yeah,

5:02 Speaker 2: unconditional love should not be self seeking. When you also

5:04 Speaker 2: look at Philippines two verse four, it says something very

5:08 Speaker 2: important that you're not under call to just look into

5:11 Speaker 2: your own interests, but each of you should look into

5:14 Speaker 2: the interests of others. And the one most cripture I

5:16 Speaker 2: want to show you is Romans chapter twelve, verse nine,

5:20 Speaker 2: which says that love should be sincere. I want you

5:25 Speaker 2: to get these into your spirit. Guys, is your love

5:28 Speaker 2: sincere or is it having a secret agenda? Are you

5:31 Speaker 2: showing true love to people? Are you really operating from

5:34 Speaker 2: the place of love or are you having some agendas?

5:37 Speaker 2: Are you having something in the back of your mind?

5:39 Speaker 2: Are you having something and you're trying to cover things up.

5:43 Speaker 2: You're trying to put in a show that you're very

5:45 Speaker 2: caring and loving and you're trying to exploit somebody that

5:48 Speaker 2: is not unconditional love. If you're saying, oh, you know what,

5:52 Speaker 2: I am nice to this person so that this person

5:54 Speaker 2: will do this for me. I am going the extra

5:57 Speaker 2: mile for this person because I want this person to

5:58 Speaker 2: help me in something else, which you're not showing them

6:01 Speaker 2: right away or telling them about it right away. See,

6:04 Speaker 2: I wanted you to understand. You would have seen this

6:06 Speaker 2: in movies, and you know you're seeing this in a

6:08 Speaker 2: lot of shows, but a lot of people are actually

6:11 Speaker 2: doing this in their life. And today this is a

6:13 Speaker 2: wake up call for you. If you are in some

6:15 Speaker 2: way having a secret agenda, if you're not operating people

6:19 Speaker 2: operating in unconditional love, if you're not having sincere love,

6:24 Speaker 2: if you're not putting other people's interests over yourself if

6:27 Speaker 2: you're not actually you know, if you're self seeking in

6:32 Speaker 2: your sense of showing love to people. I challenge you

6:35 Speaker 2: let this be your reminder and a wake up call

6:38 Speaker 2: that you will get back on track, get back to

6:40 Speaker 2: unconditional love and love and walk with people and care

6:44 Speaker 2: for people unconditionally, and then you'll see a change in

6:48 Speaker 2: your life. Amen, I really challenge you to stay connected

6:52 Speaker 2: for the next couple of days because there's so much

6:54 Speaker 2: to unpack and learn, and I believe that these practical

6:57 Speaker 2: tips will help you as you make the journey in

7:00 Speaker 2: getting better at your relationships that God has blessed you

7:03 Speaker 2: with Immen, God.

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