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00:00:00 this passage is taken from 1 John 2: 3-1 love and hatred for fellow Believers we know that we have come to know him if we keep his commands whoever says I know him but does not do what he commands is a liar and the truth is not in that person but if anyone obeys his word love for God is truly made complete in them this is how we know we are in him whoever claims to live in him must live as Jesus did dear friends I am not writing you a new command but an old one which you have had since the beginning this old command is the
00:00:47 message you have heard yet I am writing you a new command its truth is seen in him and in you because the darkness is passing and the True Light is already Shining anyone who claims to be in the light but hates a brother or sister is still in darkness anyone who loves their brother and sister lives in the light and there is nothing in them to make them stumble but anyone who hates a brother or sister is in the darkness and walks around in the darkness they do not know where they are going because the darkness has
00:01:25 blinded them this is the word of God good morning are we going to show the uh future U sermons line up or St we go for this ah here we go uh good morning again my name is joash uh next week William is preaching uh we are going to book of First John and then we have pastor Raymond also and then uh Arnold is preaching from Exodus wow so uh today we're going to look at uh 1 John 23-1 uh before that I want to say a thanks to those who were praying for me this week uh I've been having a cough for like very very long and once I asked
00:02:48 the church to pray for me on the next day I felt way way better already so I really thank you for those who fervently pray and now I invite you to pray along with me Holy Spirit work in our hearts search our heart and reveal anything that is wicked and offensive and hurtful to you if necessary Holy Spirit awaken lives uh regenerate hearts hearts that will love Jesus will see him as awesome as beautiful and wonderful help us in this time in Jesus name I pray amen if someone were to ask you this question how would you
00:03:52 respond are you sure that you are saved are you sure that you have eternal life are you sure when you leave here today and you unfortunately meet your demise are you sure you will end up at the Pearly Gates of Heaven are you sure that you are saved the two common reactions to this question there are those who confidently say yes they point to the time that they said the sinners prayer or they had their baptism M they mention a time where they had a miraculous encounter with God or a series of miraculous
00:04:38 events it's like I can't explain it I just know that it is God and God is working in my life they may talk about their affiliation with church I come to FBC I uh I've been serving I've been attending for how many how many years but their life has no fruit they are not like Jesus apart from coming to church on Sunday how they spend their Sunday apart from praying before meals there's no indication that they are actually Christians they live most of their life no different than someone who doesn't believe in
00:05:19 Jesus then there are those who think there's no one that can be sure about salvation if you ask them the question are you sure you are they say it's up to Jesus to judge it's up to God you cannot really know until the end and so they live in uncertainty about God's acceptance towards them their prayer life is lacking because they are not sure about their standing with God does God accept me or not and they they fluctuate between self-righteousness because I fulfill all the the commands or guilt because they they conscious is
00:06:00 killing them because they of their inability to fight their sin so they fluctuate so they are those who are very confident and those who say you can never be sure which one do you belong to today one of the reasons why John writes this letter is to address these two groups of people there are people in the church who have a f false sense of assurance and John wants to disprove them these people they claim that they have no sin they say they know God they say that they walking in the light but their actions show
00:06:46 otherwise then there's another group who are genuinely saved but they're not sure they feel unsure and John wants them to have the Assurance of their salvation 1 John 5:13 he write I write these things to you who believe in the name of the son of God that you may know that you have eternal life I write so that you may know that you have eternal life and in our text today John gives us a diagnostic tool there is a way that you can find out if you are indeed saved and here's the big idea for today people who know Jesus obey him by
00:07:37 loving others people who know Jesus obey him by loving others let's look at the first part people who know Jesus obey him verse three and four we know that we have come to know him if we keep his commands whoever says I know him but does not do what he commands is a liar and the true truth is not in that person John says if you know Jesus you will surely obey him it is a guarantee there is no way that someone knows Jesus and do not obey his commands John says it as aurity why why John why does knowledge of Jesus
00:08:25 guarantee obedience to Jesus and the answer is because of who Jesus is we see in chapter 1 verse one he is called The Word of Life uh John chap 1 John 2 verse one Jesus Christ the righteous one he is the word of life he is the righteous one if the Word of Life comes to you and tells you how to live life are you going to ignore him hey man you know you know what's the best way to make the most out of your life to live the most fulfilling life need to listen to me I'm the word of life and you're like nah I got this it's
00:09:13 okay I can handle this it's like uh you know Stephan Curry Michael Jordan okay okay more people know Michael Jordan okay if you're playing basketball and then Michael Jordan comes to your neighborhood and says hey uh you need to work on your elbow okay and this is how you should okay trust me I score a lot of two pointers and you look at him and say now it's okay I got this or Stephan Curry comes to you the the the man who changed the game of basketball forever he comes to you and say hey man you want to shoot three-
00:09:51 pointers let me let me teach you and you're like I don't think that's right or uh you don't like basketball you know you know Messi oh Mary thank you all your yeses uh um Messi the the one the guy who just won a World Cup right he he wants to teach you how to dribble how to dribble past people and you tell him it's okay uh uh you're left footed anyway I I use my right so uh yeah you you do it your way I'll do mine is that that's strange isn't it uh uh uh the youth nowadays say you mad bro you you got to listen if the Word of
00:10:36 Life comes before you if the righteous one the one who does all things right the ones who has the word of Life come to you and say this is how you should live it's weird if you say you're going to reject him you're going to ignore him you're going to ignore his Commandments if you truly know Jesus as the word of life if you truly know Jesus as the righteous one there is no way you're going to ignore him and the truth is we have fashioned Jesus into our own making our own liking we have made Jesus
00:11:17 in into somebody that agrees with us that is like us who says everything that we say who believes everything that we believe who agrees with everything we agree who likes what we like who don't like what we don't like we make God into whatever we want him to be and we don't like to have a God who disagrees with us when someone judges us we remember but Jesus you know how Jesus deal with the Pharisees he's very harsh towards them you know and this person judging me uhuh if Jesus were here he would defend
00:11:49 me or when you feel like you need to judge someone right someone did something really horrible in church today you're thinking about you're thinking about what you're thinking about uh Jesus he he he took the law and he he went to the heart of the law and says You must obey say Jesus is like that so I'm like that we we shape Jesus into whoever we want him to be we shaped Jesus and to be like us it's The Way We Gather teachers for ourselves oh Dr Peter got got uh uh 200 sles yes he's the one we should we
00:12:28 should listen to this joash only got 20 something likes oh no no no let's not listen to him Let's ignore him right oh oh who's who's preaching today who's preaching next week oh I'm not going to come next week oh why huh because we like to gather for ourselves teachers who can tickle our ears who say the things that we want to say yeah I'm so glad that person is listening ha the yeah the preacher you're right haha that person need to change we prefer to have a nice little God that we can control the one with whom we can be most
00:13:09 comfortable with but John says if we really know the real Jesus we know that we cannot Define him however we want no instead Jesus defines what is right and wrong good and evil what's truth and what's lying he defines us we don't shape Jesus into whoever we want him to be Jesus shapes us into whoever he wants us to be the knowledge of Jesus guarantees obedience to Jesus because of who Jesus is and the knowledge of Jesus guarantees obedience to Jesus because of how he loves let's look at the same verses
00:14:01 you see that the word of life became Flesh and Blood we have heard we have seen with our eyes we have looked at our hands have touched he became Flesh and Blood why to become atoning sacrifice for our sins our sins our Disobedience our refusal to listen to God ignore his commands incurs the Wrath and the Judgment of God but she Jesus Took on mortal flesh so that he could receive our punishment in our place Jesus died in our place Jesus was our atoning sacrifice and and he died loving us and he after he resurrected he still loving
00:14:52 us now he is our Advocate with the father he is our representative before the Throne of Heaven in life he's loving us in death is he's loving us in Resurrection he is loving us what does it mean it means Jesus is on our side he loves us so why would you not obey the commands of someone who is completely on your side who completely cares for your good someone who loves you and wants the best for you unless you don't believe he loves you unless you you're not really sure that Jesus Loves You Why did why did Eve sin why did she
00:15:41 eat from the Tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil she looked at it and said it was good for food it was good to make me wise why would God reject me this pleasure this goodness maybe he doesn't love me maybe he doesn't have my best interest at heart maybe he's withholding something good from me maybe he doesn't love me why do we choose to sin why do we see a command of Jesus and we see a sin and then we we look at the sin and say this is good this will make me happy this will bring me satisfaction and
00:16:21 fulfillment but Jesus tells me not to do it I love myself I know myself and so if I see that this is good but Jesus sees that this is bad maybe he doesn't love me and so maybe I should ignore him so what if he's the word of life so what if he's the righteous one he doesn't care about me at the root of our disobedience is our unbelief we don't believe that he loves us we don't trust God's love for us because we don't think it's really love if you really love me you will let me go if you really love me you'll let me
00:17:05 do whatever I want you want me to be happy right if you believe that Jesus loves you and is completely for you and wants the best for you then you will believe all his Commandments were the best things for you and you will follow them when we turn away from the commands of God in effect we are saying I don't think he l loves me I don't trust in his love for me if he really loved me he wouldn't ask me to do that so our Disobedience displays our lack of trust which displays our lack of knowledge of
00:17:43 who Jesus is if you really know who Jesus is you will know how much he loves us and we will surely obey his commands John presses the issue even further if anyone obeys his word love for God is truly made complete in him John tells us that knowing Jesus doesn't just result in Behavior change it's more than just subscribing to a set of values and following a set of lifestyle changes or it's more than just submitting to Jesus Authority it's more than outward Behavior it's a transformation of our affection
00:18:30 if you really know who Jesus is you can't help but love him Jesus is not after our begrudging submission he is after our heart our love and if you say that you really know Jesus you didn't just exchange a set of religious beliefs for another you gave your heart to another you gave your heart to love him if you really know who Jesus is you will love him you will know that he loves you and you will love him back and you do what he says the word complete here it might make people worry some of us worry in
00:19:17 the ESV is the love of God is perfected in us and we worry that John is calling for perfect obedience you mean to say if sometimes I don't love Jes Jesus you mean if sometimes I fail to obey his commands you mean I have no Assurance of my salvation I cannot be sure that I'm am saved is John telling us if you don't believe in Jesus if you don't obey him completely perfectly you cannot claim to be in relationship with him if that is your worry you need to listen back to Uncle Victor's sermon few weeks
00:19:55 ago if we claim to be without sin we deceive ourselves the truth is not in us if we claim we have not sinned we make him out to be a liar if you believe God demands sinless Perfection you either are full of self-righteousness or you completely lack selfawareness because John says Christians will sin if you claim to be without sin you you're a liar you accuse who God of lying you have sinned if you believe that the Christian Life is supposed to be perfect obedience you'll be in total despair because in
00:20:39 this life you'll never reach sinless Perfection Christians do sin that's why we need Jesus as our Advocate at the throne room of God saying yes I know he fell but remember what I did remember what I did for the cross I paid for his sin John is not calling for sinless Perfection he's calling for Progressive Holiness the Christian is not perfect but his posture his attitude is one of imitating the perfect one this is how we know we are in him whoever claims to live in him must live as Jesus did uh last year I attended a leadership
00:21:28 class because I need to up my game in leadership and uh the first class the lecturer gave a a exercise he lists uh he he made a list of Godly characteristics uh spiritual growth Integrity Purity all these listed in the Bible knowing god in the Bible wisdom gentleness good reputation consistency faithfulness commitment humility repentance submission contentment a teachable spirit self discipline ability to cope with hardship endurance a Godly example okay he lists down all these qualities of a Godly Christian what God
00:22:15 demands of his his followers and then he he asked this question okay pick four characteristics among all of that that you think a church leader does not need to have if you can pick four that you can survive or this leader let's say don't have faithfulness don't have Gentle Spirit it's not self-disciplined don't have endurance if you can pick four and you can live with this church leader big four we couldn't do the exercise why because a church leader should be gentle should be faithful should be humble
00:22:59 should have endurance the moral of the story for me I've been too focused on my skills I've been too focused on preaching well leadership skills communication skills I've been too focused on my core competencies that I neglected my character I neglected character development I neglected Christ likeness these are the things I should have been focusing on if I want to be a good leader I need to be Godly maybe you have been focusing too much on getting church ministry done right that you neglected your spiritual health you
00:23:51 forgot about becoming more and more like Jesus maybe you say I settled the big things I'm doing this is my responsibility as a father as a mother as a husband as a wife I'm doing all these things why I'm not doing bad towards you but you neglected being like Jesus to your spouse becoming like Jesus to your children or maybe you're contented with avoiding the big sins oh I sto I sto watching porn already I don't commit adultery but we neglected developing a relationship with the Holy Spirit asking
00:24:29 him to search our hearts to see if there's anything Wicked or offensive towards God if you truly know Jesus you will obey his Commandments you will love him and you'll grow to be like Jesus people who know Jesus obey him so at this halfway point let's do some reflection what command have you been ignoring have you been growing in your love and affection and admiration to Jesus when was the last time you were in church service and you were really moved your heart was moved emotionally or when you read your Bible
00:25:18 when you listen to a song When you pray when was the last time when you felt oh Jesus I'm loving you thank you thank you for this relationship I have with with you are you becoming more and more like Jesus have you been growing in your Christ likeness if you're not sure check with someone who lives with you stays with you check with your child am I becoming more and more a Jesus son daughter what a humbling thing to do I'll check with the youth today if you all going do are you more patient more kind more
00:26:03 generous than before people who know Jesus obey him love him and become more and more like him next Point people who know Jesus obey him by loving others so John gives a starting premise people who know Jesus obey him follow his commands and then John prepares this is the command that we should obey dear friends I not writing you a new command but an old one which you have had since the beginning this old command is the message you have heard what is this all yet new command well from our text is very clear
00:26:51 is to love brother and love sister uh second John is more obvious and now dear lady I'm not writing you a new command but one we have had from the beginning I ask that we love one another in what way is this command all and in one way is this command new uh it's old in the sense that it's a command that came with the proclamation of the Gospel from the beginning of their faith they already heard this command the man to love one another is a natural consequences of God's love for us when you know God's
00:27:36 love the natural consequences the natural implications is that we should love one another and you can hear it this is how John preach the gospel and immediately talk about loving one another okay I'm going to drink water now and I'm going to ask all of youall to read this verse together okay this is what I do in the youth service so that I can drink water ready one two go okay okay let's try again let's try again practice ready one two go this is how dear friends since God love loved us we also ought to love one another Well
00:28:31 Done y y did it like the youths it's just like the youth service now you see it is not an additional command loving fellow Believers naturally flows out of our understanding of the Gospel dear friends since God loved us we also ought to love one another that's why John says is an old command I'm not adding a new burden to you children but it's a old command because if you understand the love of Jesus for you naturally you will love one another now how is it a new command that's verse eight yet I am writing to you a new
00:29:23 command his truth is seen in him and in you because darkness is passing and True Light is already shining anyone here like nasil so you imagine right you go to New Zealand and and you see someone eating nasil and then you're like hey he also got Nas say yeah it's really nice I really like this nasil and then you have a taste right and like what's this is this this is not n what's going on they like you know you know no no no no I'll take you to Australia okay I'll take you to Australia because Australia got more
00:30:07 Malaysians they like to migrate there and so maybe they got more authentic n let me take you there to the chinat town maybe sorry I don't know the Australia China Town but take you there try nil then you're like oh yeah this is better this is better and then you take a t like what's this so weird these Malaysians they have betrayed their heritage he really triggered and upset you're like come let me take you to Singapore and you go Singapore you take and he like oh wow you're right this n really
00:30:39 tastes good and then you take a bite and it's like how can singaporeans claim that their food is better than ours let me take you to Malaysia come to ss15 near in front of the KFC there there's a there's a van there that's the best Nama you can have and he's like this is true nasil I've never tasted Nasi Lama before I thought that one was Nama it's not it's not nas Allama I told you this one whoa John uses not nasil he used the metaphor of light so imagine a uh you're out camping and it's just dark and it's
00:31:27 so cool and romantic there's no lights you know and your your eyes are adjusted to the the brightness or the darkness right you can see you can see things you know somewhat you can you can move around somewhat sometimes you treatment fall and then and then someone likes a candle like wow thanks I can see more clearly now oh this thing on my feet is a bug it's not some it's not it's not a a stone it's a bug and then someone comes and bring a torch light oh yeah it's much clearer now thank you and then someone comes
00:32:05 with a car it drives the headlight are on like whoa that's really bright oh now I can see more clearly now oh you're not wearing makeup today and then the sun comes up it's totally different there's nothing that can compare and then John says Jesus is True Light True Light it's like he has never seen light before this is what light should be the sun drowns out all other inferior lights it's like John has been seeing fake lights all this while until Jesus showed up the True Light is AR shining and the Darkness is passing
00:33:04 away what is John trying to say why is this command to love on and a new because no one has loved like Jesus before no one has ever loved like Jesus before you don't know love until you experience and encounter the love of Jesus no one has loved God the Father Like Jesus before you know God says to us obey me love me and I'll give you life but God says to Jesus obey me love me and I'll give you death but Jesus says yes anyway in the garden he knew what he would suffer he was praying if if it's possible but not my will
00:34:03 yours be done nobody has loved God Like Jesus on the cross he he he suffered right my God my God why have Thou forsaken me he felt he didn't feel welcome he didn't feel love because he received the condemnation the Judgment of of sin and he was forsaken he felt forsaken by the father and he knew it he knew what he was about to go through and he did it anyway no one has loved us like Jesus has on the cross the righteous one the righteous one took our place and became the guilty one all crimes against
00:34:50 humanity all offenses against God Jesus took it upon himself as though he was the one who did it it was all pinned on Jesus and instead of praise and thanks what he received on the cross he received mocking scorning spitting hum humiliation on the cross and now in Malaysia what did what does he receive from people some some some people even in church right sometimes we say right I didn't ask Jesus die for me you know we we we say you know sometimes I wish Jesus didn't give everything because if
00:35:35 Jesus didn't give everything right at least it's still transactional a bit know I can I can tell Jesus I come to church already don't ask me to come to Dawn prayer okay if it's afternoon I'll come okay I don't owe you anything H Jesus if if Jesus love for us was transactional was have some limitation then we were like then we feel better about our relationship with him we complain like that this what Jesus received for doing that for us on the cross instead of thanks and praise we just Grumble and
00:36:13 complain he knew he did it anyway to offer us love eternal life off us relationship with God to offer us new life no one has loved Jesus before if you are dreaming of a true love's kiss make no mistake true love is found in Jesus John says this this love is true in him and in you if you know Jesus if Jesus lives in you if you live in Jesus This Love love has come true in your life we have been loved like no one else have been loved We Have Been Loved by true love everything else is fake inferior
00:37:14 love and we are called to love fellow brother and sister in Christ in the new way that Jesus has demonstrated that's why Jesus say right I give you a new commandment love one another as I have love you anyone who claims to be in the light but hates a brother or sister is still in the darkness anyone who loves their brother and sister lives in the light and there's nothing in them to make them stumble but anyone who hates a brother or sister is in the darkness and walks around in the darkness they don't know
00:37:53 where they are going because Darkness has blinded them if you know Jesus the True Light the true love you will love your brother and sister and you will not hate you cannot hate your brother while remembering the gospel and you may say hat hate is such a strong word right I wish John will say you know if you if you love your brother and sister you in the light but if you don't love them you need to do better no John says there's only love or hate John don't give any Middle Ground you know and we might feel like
00:38:37 hate is such a strong word I don't hate anybody in church there are some people that I would like to avoid there are some people that I rather not talk to or I rather not deal with but I don't hate them I can eat with them I can eat with them I rather not but I can eat with them if I would to take SS I think Singapore I love them I take Singapore I don't hate but John says I give you no middle ground if if you don't love if you don't actively love your brother and sister in Christ you are withholding love from
00:39:18 them withholding love is hate if you're not loving you are hating remember the words of Jesus if you if you if you are angry with your brother you have murder in your heart if if you call him a fool you are in danger of Hell Fire why because of the love that Jesus has loved us is if if if you know if you have received my love how can you treat your brother like that if you Harbor hatred or unforgiveness or Grudge you're forgetting the great love you receive you are not applying the gospel you're
00:39:57 not living according to the light of God's love if you truly know Jesus who he is how he loved you you will love your brother and sister in Christ people who know Jesus obey him by loving others loving his people oh I don't want it's so difficult that's why it's a command it's a command you have do Reflection Point are there relationships you need to men Jesus say right before you come to the altar to offer if there's any anything in between you and your brother go and make a men's first thing come
00:40:51 right have you been growing in your love and fellowship with church members you cannot do that if you're online you cannot if you can come you should come otherwise you cannot grow in your love and fellowship with church members oh this one is hard how can you actively show love to a church member today how can you actively show love to a church member today not just not just think about your own business what you what needs to be done what's the next thing on the schedule but Lord how can I love someone
00:41:38 today if there's someone that you can bring into my eyesight that can help me enable me to love them to show the love of God to them okay in my notes H I say if I got time I'll say things that people might be uncomfortable with are you ready I got five minutes uh last week H we had Easter yeah and uh the Sunday School teachers had a break do you all realize we we had children among us I think that's such a good idea uh props the teacher Vicki other idian for giving the Sunday School teachers a break they they
00:42:27 all year round they they love our children and care for them it's not easy to handle a group of children right some of youall haven't experienced you can go and sign up to be Sunday school teacher and experience it it's it's no joke it's very difficult uh VBS coming right in November try try one week and see how they then you know the great love that the Sunday School teachers have for our children that's amazing and to give them a holiday yes I'm so for it that's such a great way to love our teachers and then the children are here
00:43:10 I was here I wish I was coughing last week I wish I could approach them but I couldn't because I was coughing uh but they were here do you all Noti this yeah they were so good they they were they were quiet they were listening 200 over likes you know sorry it was it 80 over SLI they were listening no uh and uh there was there was one there was one mother at the back with a child and yeah he he made noise and I I couldn't say anything but I wanted to I wanted to tell her it's okay it's okay children
00:43:46 make noise it's normal if they don't make noise we worry it's it's okay I wanted to tell her it's okay I couldn't you know I and I think for us right even if they make noise right and if we are still okay with the children here I think there such a beautiful gift of love to the young families and and I think props to us you did such a good job I commend you thank you for welcoming children into our midst thank you for not saying that they are burden are you the noise the whole reason I have Sunday
00:44:26 school is so that no but you but you love them you you welcome them and I think that's so fantastic there are young families that are unable to come back still because a second second uh service the we we still need more Sunday school children right and and so uh what are ways we can love these young families you know uh not everybody is called to be Sunday school teacher okay some of some of us don't have the temperament some of us are not trained some some of us don't have time but if you do if you meet all these
00:45:10 qualifications you know maybe that's how you can love the church today maybe that's how you can show love to the young families today the crash I wish the crash was inside you know the nursing home the nursing the nursing mothers right they are like just outside the gallery I wish they will at least be able to be in the gallery you know so if I ask them to say hi right it's not a 30second delay that's what that's what they're facing they come to church right but they're not with us you know like my heart goes out to them I
00:45:43 want to love them I want them to be at least here here here go space What can we have space for young families let say getting uncomfortable uh young families please come back even if there's no Sunday school you know we wait we wait we pray and we wait for Sunday school teachers to come but even if not it's okay we welcome you we are okay with some disturbance right yeah they Hur you H they heard you you say yes a bit reluctant but okay yes please please come back uh I got one more minute I I'll share mine on I think last year
00:46:30 right I went on sabatical I feel so loved by the church because I had two months sabatical thank you so much for that it's really helpful really helped me what the one of the key lessons I learned right was that as a pastor as a full-time Church worker right sometimes uh I'm really desperate for help that when I see people and what they can do I immediately want them to do something for me you understand I want to serve in something you can play the piano can you come and help us we need more drama can
00:47:01 you come and help us uh uh and God convicted me it's like I'm not saying it's wrong to ask people to serve but for me there was a there was a shade of using people instead of loving them that I had to withhold myself that I must how can I genuinely love this person if all I can is about what they can do for me I should know them well I should love them well and I should pray and ask God God what what uh how can I lead them how can I love them what areas in their life that they need to grow in how can maybe
00:47:37 they need to grow in their relationship with their parents maybe they need to learn to evangelize to their school schoolmates instead of coming to Friday night and playing drums maybe they didn't do these things so I need to think about how I can love people differently and so I I submit to you this command to love it it there's a wide range of responses that you can have maybe you do need to take up some Ministry maybe you need to withdraw from Ministry so that you can do better at home and I pray that the holy spirit
00:48:16 will lead you to make the right response all eyes closed and all hit B we're going to we're going to sing a song called uh forgiven it's a song of repentance is coming to to Jesus and asking him for forgiveness for our wrongs so maybe the the reflection questions have helped you think true and the Holy Spirit has led you to think through uh areas in your life in which you need to repent maybe there's some Commandment that you are ignoring that you are downplaying that you're refusing to let go Jesus wants your
00:49:19 heart Jesus wants you to love him with all your heart soul mind and strength and love nobody else as Jesus wants you to love your brother and sister as he has loved you and so in this one minute or so let there be silence and let us ask the Holy Spirit to speak to us and work in our lives for [Music] Church let's arise and respond to God in some [Music] oh forgive us for our pride when our faith becomes dress and rightous needs to hard all the things we we have t your sons and daughters for the
00:51:23 [Music] same May now forgive sh and lay down my [Music] St [Laughter] forg for to the blood of Christ we are for [Music] for give us for our love of the things we wish to we forsake the above for all the youve made Sons and Daughters we do not the world is may we find our greatest treasure is in you alone forg for through the blood of Christ we are forgiv for forgi to the blood of Christ we are forg the forgive us all our shame when we car the we to take the BL we're free at last we avoid your sons
00:53:17 and daughters for the fear we don't the give us eyes to see each other to your heart holy son for fori through the blood of Christ we are for forg forgive through the blood of Christ we are for the blood of Christ we are for Lord help us to remember the Forgiveness we have received and the love that you have given us and by your spirit and enable us Empower us to see the needs of our church members around us and to love them well church if you need prayer if you need to confess your sin and repent you need someone alongside
00:54:48 with you if you're struggling with unforgiveness or if you feel unloved or neglected by the church if there's anything you're dealing with you can come the elders and the pastors are in front to pray with you as we close but now receive the benediction from Romans 15 May the God who gives endurance and encouragement give you the same attitude of Mind toward each other that Christ Jesus had so that with one mind and one voice you may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ amen
