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00:00:02 the Christian and love very long passage right um and if you read it sometimes it's repetitive and also complex because there are many many points but I'm going to basically take three things out when we talk about love everybody is an expert in love isn't it right most of you are married uh if you look at the Collins's dictionary it's a strong feeling of Attraction towards someone when you're romantically or sexually attra attracted to and this goes back in the covers entire history of mankind the earliest
00:00:37 love poem recognize this one from suia it's called the world's oldest poem love poem The Love Song of shin very interesting father who is suin 2037 that's almost 4,000 years ago love is there understand love or we think we do but we got various definitions of love I love ch Al Ino um I love Roomba I love sports cars I love my friends so we got a lot of words for love uh to Define it uh we love our spouses and then the people who are of the same sex ask the question why can't we love too right so what actually is love the
00:01:29 Bible talks about about love in fact in an NIV 686 times NIV has the word love 425 in the Old Testament and 261 in the New Testament a lot of Greek words to describe the one word love we only got one word love all right and actually biblical concept of Love is actually is not alone it is tied to God's holiness God's Wrath God's sovereignty God's righteousness and God's Providence and what we have done in popular culture is that we've disconnected it all and we have sanitized democratized sentimentalized love until it defies
00:02:18 definition that famous song what the world needs now is love sweet love remember that it's the only thing that's too little of you know so we think we all need love uh and so therefore Jesus is the dispenser of love and we expect him to fill every corner of our lives with that love which we're missing but is that correct the context of our passage comes after John has preached previously on chapter 3: 10 by this is evident who are the children of God and who are the children of the devil so John is trying
00:02:58 to put a cont between children of God children of devil and the children of devil are described by negatives which means whoever does not practice righteousness is not gone of born of God and nor is the one who does not love his brother this is a definition of those who are of the children of devil and so therefore the imperative today is love the main imperative 1 John 3:11 for this is the message that you have heard from the beginning it's an old message it's as old as the poem all right we should
00:03:32 love one another and in one John there are six references on love all right so three points love is our new nature why should we love because it's our new nature why should we love love is our response to his love and thirdly our love completes his now we start off with verse 12 we should not be like Cain who was of the evil one and murdered his brother and why did he murder him because his own Deeds were evil and his brothers were righteous so we actually have love is actually born of righteousness we have one brother who
00:04:07 hates and who kills and another one who was righteous because we know in Hebrews by faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain through which he was commanded as righteous right uh Genesis 4 and the Lord had regard for Abel and his right offering but for Cain and his offering he had no regard so Cain was very angry and his face fell so that's very clear John is very clear when he writes he's got discret categories there's no in between for John it's either righteousness with love or
00:04:44 unrighteousness with hate we are either one there's no hybrid like your cars today now if you look here hate is the Hallmark of death he goes on because uh do not be surprised that the world hates you we know that we are passed out of death into life because we love the brothers whoever does not love abides in death everyone who hates his brother is a murderer and you know that no M has eternal life abiding in him so what he saying he's saying that if you hate someone your disposition of hate towards
00:05:18 someone is equivalent to murder which is really shocking and not only that do you know you can't sit on the fence he says whoever does not love abides in death that's shocking I know some of you don't hate but some of you say all right people in this church I you know walks one way I walk the other way that's called what indifference there is no place for indifference this is shocking whoever does not love abides in death you better repeat that to yourself I know guys that you don't like like and love two different
00:06:05 things what we can love let me explain now our understanding and experience of love comes from him by this we know love that he laid down his life for us and we are to lay down our lives for our brothers if anyone has the world's good that sees his brother need and closes his heart against you how does God's love abide in him so what he's saying is that by ourselves we don't really understand love the world doesn't really understand love we only know love when God reveals love to us when he lays down his life it's not
00:06:43 intrinsic to our fallen nature 1 John 4:10 and this is love not that we have loved God we never came up and say oh God you know before you die your son died I I love you we never did that in this is love not that we have loved God but he loved us it's not intrinsic to our fallen nature the Crux why should we love very important beloved let us love one another for love is from God and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God anyone who does not love does not know God because God is love so why
00:07:20 is our faith entirely based on love because our faith is based on the God who created us and we say we we are born of love our nature is love as God's nature is love you got to see it but what does it mean by God is love right da Carson very nicely puts it in his um book uh called the difficult doctrine of love if you got time please read it especially some of you Bible study leaders the Bible describes love in various ways there is H love within the godhead father Son and Holy Spirit which a pure kind of love and love for uh the
00:08:02 people of the world providing rain all right and crops then there's salivic love where God loves and wants everyone to know him and be saved then there's God special love for the church for people his people and then there's conditional love where is dependent on your obedience today we want to go and explore this topic of we love because God is love we're talking about intra trinitarian love what is that and the passage who really Zooms in on what the character of God's love is is actually written by John John writes the most
00:08:43 about love and it's actually taken from John five John 5 gives you a little bit of peak it's as it's as you go to God's house and then you open the curtain and check a bit or you put a security camera there and you see what what love is and he says Jesus says to them truly truly I say to you the father father can son can do nothing of his own accord but only what he sees the father doing for whatever the father does the son does likewise for the father loves the son and shows him all that he himself is
00:09:09 doing and Greater Works than this will he show him so that you may Marvel so let's start off let's break this down so Jesus said to them truly truly I say to him which means you better listen very carefully truly truly double all right the son can do nothing of his own accord but only what he sees the father doing which means Jesus perfectly replicates God's actions if God moves his left hand Jesus mov his left hand move God moves his right leg Jesus anthropomorphic language okay uh God moves his right leg Jesus
00:09:47 moves his right leg so it's a perfect replication of that he does only what he sees Father which means perfect obedience if that's perfect obedience you also see functional subordination you never say the father does exactly what the son does never in the Bible that means Jesus is functionally subordinate to the father now John 14:31 says I do as the father has commanded me so the world may know I love the father rise let us go from here so Jesus love is ex oppressed by obedience right his motive why do I obey
00:10:35 my father love the whole idea is love right now if you look if Jesus loves the father and the love is shown To Us by his perfect obedience this therefore allows him to be a perfect reflection of who God is and when Jesus says you go through me to go to the father you actually he's the exact replica as it were of his father right and the son St does it mean that a son is much lower than the father and and not quite God maybe second Lieutenant God for whatever the father does the son does likewise I came across the
00:11:15 interesting story uh where there was a young boy called Henry Hawking who always wanted to be a pilot as you can see standing in front of the door he's all dressed up in his father's clothes they don't W quite fit all right and and one day he actually went to flight school and and grew up and they had a fantastic reunion one day when they were both piloting the same plane you know to Cancun U you know both of them and they both one Captain one co-pilot as it were so the son when this stage cannot do
00:11:54 what the father does at this stage yes the son can do exactly what the father does but there's a difference Jesus says whatever the father does the son does likewise we should you know you are Son of God Yan when is the last time you created the universe the sunship that we have adopted it's a little bit different you cannot do all that God does but Jesus right from the beginning does everything whatever father can do he can do exactly uh that's the difference he's not inferior now how does the father father
00:12:29 Lov the son The Father loves the son and shows him all that he himself is doing and Greater Works than these will he show him so you may Marvel so the Father's Love For the son is expressed by full disclosure everything he tells the son all right and it's also based on why do I tell my son everything because I love him that's the father says right now then 22-23 the father judges no one but is given all judgment to the son so that all may honor the son just as they honor the father whoever does not honor
00:13:06 the son does not honor the father who sent him and here the Father's Love is focused entirely upon not his own Glory you know on the glory of his son and this somehow is like our human love isn't it you know uh I remember watching a show where we have in Singapore you know Singapore is not really noted for good food right I mean this only country let me explicate okay this only country in the world they put ketchup on onean mean I mean do they still do that ketchup on onean mean so but but a new generation of
00:13:49 singaporeans have come up and and they're so Innovative and if you ever go to Singapore at y uh uh uh Hawkers complex try the n do you know this is so good that he actually went on the Michelin guide Michelin to get a Michelin guide uh Andrew better take note when he goes there uh it's a nor Norman Mubarak and his wife they're both graduates they gave up their job to start this Hawker store and actually they got 10 branches and the interesting thing is that his father also was selling nasil Lama and
00:14:25 they sat down and the father is saying you know he did better than me as a father I feel proud because he did better than than me he must do better than me at the heart of every father it's not jealousy because the sun is better than me isn't it you actually strive for the glory of the Sun and that is the exact disposition of God the father so and then you can see that famous John 3:16 if that's what the son is to the father for God so loved the world that means we the object of his love love that he gave his only son
00:15:02 that's a standard of his love then you appreciate for God so Lov the world that he gave his only son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have eternal life so in trinitarian love is what the father and son is a standard for all other love relationships the father and son's love is always other orientated it is never focused on thems elves or their self fulfillment it is always for the other person Jonathan Edwards that great reformer uh American Theologian who actually led the Awakening says putting your happiness
00:15:44 love is putting your happiness in the happiness of the other so love is always other centeredness all right now then let's go on As the father loved me so have I loved you abide in my love if you keep my Commandments you will abide in my love just as I've kept my father's Commandments and abide in his love these things have spoken to you that my joy be in you and your joy may be full this is my commandment that you love one another as I have loved you so let me illustrate to you what he's saying he's saying
00:16:21 there's a father just as a father love me and he obeys the father by loving loving father is obey obeying the Father the same intr trinitarian Paradigm of Love is replicated in us uh just as my father has loved me I have loved you then the next point is abide in my love if you keep my Commandments you will abide in my love just as I kept my Comm father's Commandments and abide in his love which is us the circle is now completed what is this Commandment that you love one another as I have loved you which
00:17:04 means this is int trinitarian love God gives love to his son who loves us and we obey and when we obey and love others we fulfill his Commandments and what is the end point these things I've spoken to you that my joy will be in you and your joy will be full it has a problem I've seen many churches where people are very sad the the preacher ask you to come forward to be prayed and you sort of lay hands and then the sort of electricity goes through your hands and they come out very joyful wow if if Joy was like that
00:17:48 I'd come up every Sunday but unfortunately that's not how Joy works Joy works when we obey God's Commandments and what is God's Commandment that you love one another you want joy love others not yourself when you form relationships in church why do you sit with the guys who only like you because they love you you love them because you're actually loving yourself when you actually love is other person centered right when you love the person just because they are whatever and it's not you it's nothing back to
00:18:29 back to you that in the end brings Joy now obedience and Joy are two words which are very different isn't it when I was growing up as a young Catholic for much of my life you know obedience is a terrible word I always see the priest and the nun you know my goodness obedience very boring and sterile obedience the word is very cold hard unappealing love is warm and fuzzy and encouraging right but actually there is actually no difference in that this is Oliver Wendell Holmes the Supreme Court Justice one of the most famous ones they
00:19:04 actually had in the Supreme Court he actually said that before he actually became a a judge he was considering going full-time service the only problem was certain clergymen I knew had not looked and acted so much like Undertakers so apparently pastors at that time very somber never smiled and look obedience obedience obedience it was such there's no joy all right uh everyone who believes that Jesus is Christ has been born of God and everyone who loves the father loves whoever is born of him by this we know we love the
00:19:39 children of God when we obey love God and obey his Commandments for this is the love of God and we keep his Commandments and his Commandments are not burdensome they do not become burdensome when you actually love the Father which is why Jesus said to all you lambus come to me all you who labor and heavy laden I will give you rest take my yoke upon you and learn from me for I'm gentle and lowly or you will find rest for your souls so my yoke is easy and my burden light how is Jesus yoke light Jesus yoke is light
00:20:17 because of love if it's just obedience without love a lot of people obey without love but I've done that many times in my life just to get what I want but if you obey because of of love the burden becomes light that's what he means Dallas Willard a Christian uh philosopher actually said failure to achieve a deep satisfying life always has the effect of making sinful actions seem good herein lies the strength of Temptation if you are not obedient if you do not love then you don't get the joy if you don't get the joy you'll be
00:20:55 tempted by everything else to bring joy that's the problem that's why we are tempted right and we live in this age where we can do anything this is Alexander Stokes uh he's got very good relationship with Mimi who is the AI companion a doll perfectly programmed with the latest AI program and he's so happy he doesn't need a woman in his life all right and you know what he say he says the more you talk to your replica companion on the app as an avatar in human form the more it learns and becomes like you who is Alexander
00:21:36 Stokes loving himself how can you love that's not intr trinitarian love husbands and wives why you have to neag him to be like you I mean maybe it's about you rather than him sometimes you to think let him be what he supposed to be he's like that one start a lot of trouble eventually this will get back to my wife and then shouldn't have said that but but there's a grain of Truth there isn't it because God lets you marry people who are going to be very different from you and you're going to be blessed by all that richness of
00:22:27 diversity and complimentarity right if you only focus on the other person love is not one that turns inwards you know Timothy warns us uh Paul warns us understand this that the last days there will be times of difficulty for people be lovers of self love of self lovers of money proud all that is a reflection of love why do we have such difficulty with the corporate sector when you work at about 12:00 midnight my son still work works very very late at night even though he he went to the promised land
00:23:02 Melbourne he thinks they worked less there actually they don't they just work in a different way but still very bad why because we often love to too often love things and use people when we should be using things and loving people we got it tal that is the problem all right so everything we do is turned inwards as a matter of self-fulfillment whether we take drugs whether we drink alcohol and hide ourselves in the bottom of a bottle or we Chase power or we Chase sex and in fact this kind of inward query love not
00:23:41 really love has infected the church how many of you go to churches they give you the Fulfillment the the the the friends uh uh the the music the trappings that tell you that you are somebody right this is an interesting Church uh called The oakrid Church in Salisbury in Maryland which actually was very bad they dwindled down to 45 uh people and then they had a new pastor take over called Brian moss and immediately he turned around and he actually wrote an article which I read on on why why the church you know uh uh
00:24:22 isn't meeting my needs in this particular Church in Maryland a lot of folks have a similar concept as us they come and the church is a revolving door and the church doesn't meet my needs so therefore I find another church that will meet my need and this is what we call the Eternal Quest you will never find a church to meet your needs if that's your motive going to church and he actually laid down five principles in this particular article are five very useful what I've done is I adapted them and put FBC instead what is FBC FBC a
00:24:55 place to gather weekly for worship it's up to me whether I experience the love of God it's not up to them FBC is a family I can belong to but that's up to me to consider how to stir one another up in love and good works FBC is a place where gifted teachers will make the word clear and real but it's up to me to repent and grow FBC is place where I can use my gifts passions skills personality life experiences to love others but it's up to me whether I become a servant FBC a place where I have the chance to love
00:25:29 the world by sharing the ministry of the Gospel but it's up to me to actually become a person of impact this is not a church for consumers if you are a consumer you will never find a church that will meet your needs because we're all sinful human beings we are a place a gathering of people who will Faithfully accurately preach the word of God and live the word of God out but it's up to you to do that you know one of the most famous uh uh athletes politicians and actors I I actually saw a Netflix show
00:26:07 about him recently called Arnold very amazing this chap wins Mr Olympia like you know 10 times or something and then Mr Universe similar there's no other athlete like him and then he suddenly decides he wants to be an actor and he uh acts in The Terminator and all that and he's actually become very famous and after that he decided I well been there done that I think I'll be a politician and he actually managed to be a governor of America and he goes and discusses his life but towards the end of his life you
00:26:43 thought his life would be so full of people and satisfaction and and joy you know every day he wakes up you know who surrounds him his animals got a don monkey there's a horse there's a dog the greatest athlete in the world the greatest actor in the world the greatest governor in the world every morning he wakes up he to clean up their now what he doesn't have a servant to clean up the poop you know he say he very proudly you go and watch the show on N I clean up the poop myself empty isn't it you know why his
00:27:24 wife left him Maria sha because he had effect with the maid and his children aren't particularly close to him you can have everything in life but if you don't have love you have nothing so we should love you know why because love is in our nature you understand biblical Christian Christlike love it's other person centered the second thing is our love is a response to his love it's not intrinsic our love is a response he says by this we know love that he laid down his life for us and we ought to lay down
00:28:00 our lives for our brothers so therefore his love becomes the model and incentive for our love if anyone in the world has goods and sees his brother in need and closes his heart against him how does God love abide in him little children let's not love in word or talk but in deed and truth so first he says you know we ought to lay down our lies for each other all right a bit scary right my goodness can I can I lay down my life but then he explained I'm not asking you to lay down your life you just see a
00:28:32 brother who is in need and you reach out you help him that's what he means he's not asking you everybody is you know crucified on the cross maybe for some of you that will happen but he's asking you not to close your heart and the problem here with the world is that the world is telling you the opposite here he's saying we know love how by responding to his love you see I mean the world is telling you the only way you're going to have love is to selflove I don't know how many of you bought it this crap it is crap all right
00:29:10 you they the psychologist tell you you got feeling you got read up psychological journals feeling of worthlessness low self-esteem self-hatred unable to receive love they always negative in relationships so so they tell you oh you must love yourself if you love yourself then then you'll be powerful then you can love other people that's not true in fact the the gays have brought into this I've got the uh website which actually propagated lgbtq relationship and they said love is our power is the answer to the questions
00:29:44 inside us radical selflove liberates dismantles and bills radical self-love leads to happiness fulfillment and to each other we are when we radically love ourselves and refuse to accept anything less than what we deserve I don't know how that's going for them but in the end SE sex or or or gay love is not real love Real Love is a response this is the love of God made manifest Among Us God sent his only son to the world so that we might live through him in this is love not that we love God but that he loved us and sent his
00:30:25 son to be a propitiation of love so therefore if you have struggles with homosexual feelings you have a struggle with immoral feeling you struggle with everything else and you're feeling down that the world hates you you're not going to amount to anything the answer is not loving yourself the answer is seeing his love because his love is transformative and you can't love until you receive his love so if you're one sitting here and you don't know the love of Jesus Christ because you haven't taken him into your
00:30:55 life then I'm telling you you don't no love because the only manifestation of love that really matters is when God sent his son to die for each and every one of us because of that beloved if God so loved us we ought to love ourselves to love one another no one has ever seen God if we love one another God abides in us and his love is perfected in us this is how it works we get loved by God and because he loves us and dies for us then we respond to his love by loving others that's how it works so our love is a
00:31:33 response enabled and motivated by his love our love cannot be an intrinsic action on our own we're not capable here is a the Corinthian Church wacked by divisions um you know everybody following I follow Paul I follow Apollos I follow Keepers Paul talks about love he says if I speak the tongues of men and of angels and do not have love I'm a noisy gong or clanging symbol what does he mean what he's saying is that in those days the pagans always will be dancing around having all sorts of Ceremonies to look
00:32:08 as if they're very fervent and love God not very much different for us nowadays the more we jump up and down we sing and we dance you know throw some Flags here and then maybe we can show we love God more right was that a great worship religious fever misinterpret as spirituality there was a time when people wanted to be have the experience of being slain in the spirit holy laughter Gold Dust fillings animal cries there a time when some Churches had people you know barking as dogs intense weeping and wailing now they take you
00:32:42 back to 1730 1740s was the first Great Awakening in America uh where many people came to know Christ and Trum through the preaching of Jonathan Edwards and he actually wrote a book called the distinguishing marks of the work of the spirit of God which which one of those signs Gold Dust barking laughter being slain which one are the marks of the spirit of God and he wrote this book and this is the point he says they are neutral signs convulsing jerking laughing emotions immediate personal revelation someone coming up to
00:33:15 you say oh God told me yesterday yeah I must buy your car those basically are neutral signs they could be or could not be so Jonathan Edwards is not close-minded all right they're Neal but what are the real signs of Awakening the real signs is a deep and Abiding Love for the person and work of Jesus a deep love and desire to Feast on God's word an increased love for God and man a desire to kill sin and break the bonds of worldliness and an unshakable conviction of sound Doctrine those are the positive signs from the
00:33:52 1930 Awakening and it revolves around love for God and the fellow man if I have prophetic powers and understand all mystery and knowledge and have no love what's the point remember rabi zakarias menely intellectual clever man I learned a lot from him knowledge but the way he treated his underlings but not love it was a church somewhere around uh PJ Sunway area where great Focus was on preaching the word of God and you might know they you you go there you have to sit for 8 hours for the sermon thank God you are not there I
00:34:34 only go for 45 minutes all right uh and this person left his name was Kims and the data is on the website so I'm just taking data from the website uh and he's and then they turned on him they actually turned on him and and they actually used the verse the biggest hurt was the verse of throwing pearls to swine from Matthew 76 was directed at me essentially calling me a pig when I voed this and the verse is taken completely out of context ironic for a church where claims everyone else takes a Bible out
00:35:03 of context except them this is you know ironic leader leadership gifts and achievement is not love if I have all Faith as to remove mountains but not have love I am nothing you you could be a leader you could be someone standing up here praying for people and thinking the fact that you're praying for people are giving a fantastic sermon you're you're full of spirituality no if he has no love it's not worth it John MacArthur is a typical example during a fantastic Theologian a godly man but he's not a doctor and that's the problem
00:35:42 sometime we smart you think you're smart in everything he's a fantastic Theologian but when it came to covid he put on the doctor hat all right he says there's no pandemic there's another virus loose in the world the virus of deception and the one who's behind the virus is deception is the arch deceiver Satan himself that's what he said and he said in this church we meet in the middle of covid with no Hur immunity you know and no mas nothing until one of his parishioners Linda perz stood outside Love Thy
00:36:15 Neighbor wear a mask you you could be all that but you do not have love it's useless if I give away all I have and deliver my body to be burned but have no love I gain nothing a lot of people help others because we know there's a phenomenon called the helper High you got endorphins being released pleasure centers in the brain light up you got reduced premature death by 44% if you help others you reduces stress increases your self-esteem and sometimes we do good things in order to meet our own needs and this can be
00:36:51 misinterpreted as love we help others because we need affirmation when you go and visit the person in the hospital say oh good fellow very nice fellow he drive all the way to Chas to see me I'll need to matter I'll need to belong I'll need to be loved those are counterfeit signs of real love what is authentic love authentic love is very scary it's notice the word love is patient and kind love does not envy it's not arrogant it's not rude it's not insistence way it's not irritable or resentful it does not
00:37:26 rejoice in wrongdoing it rejoices in truth love bears all things believes all things hopes all things endures all things in fact Love Is A Verb because it's something that you do and Paul changed into a noun you know why put your name there p is patient my God and kind P does not envy or boast is not arrogant I got to hide my face somewhere this is unbelievable and and it it must strike Terror in your heart when you read this it does for me when you look at these kids not much different from that napol
00:38:06 young lady he was standing here and when she said her life was turned around by Christ and they needed you to buy the biscuit within 10 minutes all the biscuits were gone it's easy to show love there right what about this guy hanging out in Jolo uh uh in in maau do we love him no okay we we have one vote there okay so my question today is how do I love him all right and the whole point of int trinitarian love is is other centered we are responding to whom Christ and the King you know the parable of the sheep
00:38:53 and the goats and the King will answer them truly I say to you as you did it to the least of these my brothers you did it to me so we're not looking at the Merit of the person no one has ever seen God if we love one another God abides in us his love is perfected in us you know verse 19:21 we love because he first loved us if anyone says I love God and hate his brother he's a liar careful H for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen and this is a command that
00:39:28 we have from here whoever loves God must also love his brother a yo this is a big problem all right in in fact uh the there's this chap called Tim Harris who was arrested in 2014 because there was a a beautiful portrait of the queen and he went and splash pain on her face and after that he says sorry mate I got nothing against the queen but I go to splash face on his pain pain on his on her face do you believe that you don't splash paint on her face if you love her isn't it and that's what the Bible means when you look at someone
00:40:05 made in the image of God it is because he looks like Jesus we love because we love Jesus because we're responding to Christ's love and we love according to the need not the worth if anyone has the world's goods and sees brother in need so you must love indeed and in truth so going back to this picture here how do you love these two kids you give them what Asylum Asylum shelter food how do you love this guy ask him to come back to Malaysia that's the best solution come back to Malaysia because he will
00:40:48 continue to live a life of psychological emotional misery in maau he doesn't see it so we need to love love is not that fuzzy sentimentalized idea it is also linked with Justice as well and and the beautiful thing about our God's love he says behold the Lord has proclaimed to the ends of the Earth says to the daughter of Zion behold your salvation comes his reward is with him his recompense will come before him and they shall be called the holy people God's reward is his Joy when he sees all of
00:41:21 you walking in righteousness and in love it must be real whenever your dog looks at you like this can you read his mind is he looking at this because you are the source of all this food or does he really love you for you yourself which is what we're talking about other centered love right all right in fact they did a study in Emory University um uh Greg uh Burns and he trained his dog uh to took him a few months to climb into to an MRI machine to look at blood flow all right and uh then he put a
00:42:04 stick of a sweat somebody else's sweat and then he sweat and then they took the MRI the brain and that's the dog's brain and that's the human brain and that's a pleasure Center all right you really light up when you like that person right and when you put the sweat of the owner that area in the dog up which means he only loves his it's a pure love that's why Ana combines him is every day feeds his ponies and his dogs and the donkeys because this pure unadulterated love as it were coming from within even if the
00:42:43 dog looks at you do you know that the the dog's oxytocin levels which is a love hormone actually goes up so the point is that we cannot manufacture love we can only pass it on our response is the outworking of the emotional Capital which Jesus gives you if you got low self-esteem you think everybody hates you the Son of God came and died for you the aong won't do that for you ano won't do that for you but the Son of God came and died for you and that is the emotional Capital that fills your cup and you can walk
00:43:20 around FBC and love everybody else and not have your cup depleted because that love is endless Endless Love But if you walk around targeting that one slighted me that one didn't say hello to me that one whatever then you're walking around at a empty cup looking for love looking for appreciation looking for someone to have a compliment then you are very very poor you cannot love if you have a true experience of the wonderful love of Jesus Christ then you can truly love without expecting anything back in return the
00:44:01 fuel for loving your neighbor in a self-sacrificial way regardless of cost is my joy and satisfaction in God so when when when when Christ on the cross John says this love not that we love God but he loved us and sent his son to be a propitiation for our sins true love is cly propitiation is an offering to plate to satisfy anger and wrath which means what is he telling us it's not lovey doy you know you love me I love you do you know love is costly he's asking you to love like he love which means sacrifice it
00:44:40 will cost you imagine Wong drives his his sports car and bangs into your car and yours is only proton what do you do you scream at him it's okay to scream at first and then who pays he pays yeah if you say you're very benevolent on that day uh I pay somebody going to pay is either Wong pays or you pay love costs and the fact that God loves us and sent his son to propitiation which means there's a price being paid and when he ask us to love we have to pay love is costly that's why he says Romans 123 owe
00:45:32 no one anything except to love one another for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law the Commandments you shall not commit adultery you shall not murder you shall not steal you shall not cover basically we have an endless debt you know we have a debt like you go and buy a house you have an interest only debt it means whatever you pay is only interest the principal is never paid down because it's impossible because he died on the cross for you and you owe everybody that kind of love see
00:46:02 love also shines in messiness sometimes you look at other people's family you know other people's family always look better than yours you notice that they're like happy families you play the cards they love each other they like each other in real life most of our families are dysfunctional the other side you know most of our I won't ask you to put your hands up and say which of your families are dysfunctional we're all dysfunctional I believe you're all hiding it it's a fact we know why and then if our
00:46:32 idea of happy family is the one on the right then you have guilt and regret if we accept that most of our families are dysfunctional it means we have an opportunity to bring true love inside love bears all things believes all things hopes all things endures all things then in your dysfunctional family you suddenly see the magic of Jesus Christ being able to forgive each other I known our families we don't even speak to each other for 10 years I don't see the magic of Jesus Christ there when you see the cross that
00:47:10 magic comes into your dysfunctional family and you should be judged on how you bring that love into that family not on that picture how beautiful it is it may be beautiful in the end but we all come from difficult backgrounds and it's important to bring opportunity those dysfunctional fam is an opportunity for you to bring love little bit at a time lastly why should we love our love is a new nature our love a response to his love lastly our love completes his and my time is up I'm going to take extra 10
00:47:42 minutes sorry three verses here all these says whoever keeps his word toly love is perfected beloved if God so Lov us we ought to love one another no one has ever love seen God and if we love one another God abides in us his love is perfected in Us by this love is perfected with us so that we may have confidence on the day of judgment because as he is so also are we in this world you know Perfection how is his love perfect I mean means God's love is not perfect the word perfect is Teo in Greek and it's translated as complete
00:48:21 reaching one's goal finishing one's work it's not that God's love is imperfect that needs to be perfected it means that God's love is incomplete and purposely so because the last leg of the relay is you you need to complete the circuit before they they see the light of God's love you got to put on the conductor the conductor has your face there and if your face is fake there ain't no light that's what he's saying if y face is fake there ain't no light a beautiful show 20 years ago called paid forward of
00:49:04 a uh taken from a novel Katherine ride Hyde of a young man uh acted by Haley Jo Osman who decided class project to really bless the world change the world how going to change the world you know what he did he he did three kind things for three different people and he told them if you wanted to return to favor you do it to somebody else so that he had no gain at all and this started a movement actually started a movement all over the world where people would do do something for somebody else without expecting anything
00:49:41 in return and when they did that his project worked out in a sense it's like God isn't it he gives you love so that you could take that love and give it to somebody else not completely and in fact in 19 2014 St Petersburg USA Florida uh we a lady drove up and paid for her own latte and paid for the marato behind her and that person took the clue spontaneously and paid for the other person behind her and it that chain went on for 11 hours until the 379 customer hopefully that's not a China man say why should I pay for the fell behind
00:50:31 in my country and devil I pay for myself that's what love is being perfected why do we come to church to get a refill we come to church you know why let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works and not neglect meeting together as a habit of some but encouraging one another all the more as you see the day drawn your B why are you here not here to fill Patrol you can always go home and and zoom you know the the the internet you're here to stimulate each other to love and good
00:51:10 works you know there's a article in June 15 200 this year BBC by Rachel newk she actually found how a dose of MDMA MDMA is too complicated to translate it is actually ecstasy you all know ecstasy right yeah what had did what they gave ecstasy to a white supremacist nasty guy who hates and after he got the Ecstasy this is what he said love is the most important thing nothing matters without love for a guy his life is founded on hate he suddenly loved wow isn't that great in fact the the theory behind it
00:51:56 by humanistic uh uh scientists they're saying human capacity for compassion and kindness and empathy and gratitude and altruism fairness trust are core features of our nature if you actually see humanists they believe we are intrinsically good and so all you do is that the the the the drug removes that layer so that our true nature come out but for brandan the white supremacist his feelings changed but his attitude did not it did not change him of his Prejudice bigotry or hatred the way he thinks about other people it
00:52:32 changed his feelings but not how he thought that needs to change on only one place in the world it's on the cross and on the cross you have two kinds of people in the world one who hates and one who loves the one who hates stood up hung on on the cross and on the cross when he he actually dying and he looks at Jesus and he hurs himself are you not the Christ are you not the Christ come and save us life you're so good that's why he's saying translated Malaysian English right come and sa save us it's angry
00:53:18 he's probably angry the fact that he got caught angry at the judge angry at his family they all chabut don't care about him he's angry angry and he just hates and this describes half of humanity and the other half of humanity is the other Thief he hangs on the cross and he says and indeed we indeed justly for we are receiving the dire rewards of our Deeds he understands that he's hanging there because he deserves it that he is a sinner he has seen the light but this man has done nothing he sees that a man
00:53:59 who has done nothing totally innocent is hanging there and he's hanging for him because he says Jesus Remember me when you come into your kingdom the world is divided on our response to whether we learn to really love or we continue to hate brothers and sisters I'm going to ask you whoever does not love very powerful statement abides in death and by this love is perfected with us so that we may have confidence on the day of judgment because as he is so also are we in this world there is no fear in
00:54:43 love but perfect love casts out fear there fear can do with punishment and whoever fears has not been perfected in love what is it saying if you love are you looking forward to the coming of Jesus what would you do if Jesus appeared next to you today don't have to ask that question the question is what if you died today and many of you are circling eternity you know at our age it could happen at any time at any time in the fact a friend of our one of our opthalmologists in subang datino her husband very famous gastroenterologist
00:55:29 just suddenly just died we had a funeral for him we're all circling the age of Eternity what is your attitude are you looking forward to it or are you honestly fearful you know why you're fearful because love has not been perfected and you if you really love like Jesus lived then you would not have fear in fact perfection in love here involves a love for God which is based on our sense of God's love for us and this love relationship is what removes our fear when we Face the day of judgment when we
00:56:07 see God's love shine pure unadulterated other person kind of love did you know we are the real deal and when you know you're the real deal you have no fear when you look forward to meeting our Lord that what the world needs now is now love Christ love not sweet love it's the only thing that's just too little off in this church and this world so may God so touch your hearts to that we truly learn to love let's pray father Lord we commit all of us into your hands because as we read one Corinthians
00:56:55 chapter 13 it is with fear and trepidation when we say our own names is patient our own names are kind our own names believes all things hopes all things it's difficult the only way we can do this to have your love your spirit move within us that we may love you we pray a lot you transform us each day as we think that love is our nature we're born again love is our response we owe you a debt and by your love in our lives we complete the circuit so that the world will see your love we ask this for Jesus
00:57:37 sake amen church let us rise As we sing the closing song together [Music] the love of God is greater far then tongue open can never never tell it goes beyond the highest star and reaches to the lowest hell the guilty bow down with care God gave a son to win his child he reconcile and paron from his s oh love of God how rich and pure [Applause] how and strong it shall for more andure the Saints and Angel song [Music] o o [Music] o when near of time when of time shall pass away and Earthly Thrones and kingom
01:00:14 fall when men who he refuse to pray on rocks and hills and my mountains C God's love so sh shall still endure oh me and strong Redeeming Grace to Adam's race the Saints and oh love of God oh love of God how rich and pure how meure love and strong it shall forever more you the Saints and name just o [Music] [Music] ooh could we think the ocean F and the skies a parchment made where every Star on earth a quill and every man ascribe by TR to ride the love of God above would drain the old and dry no could the
01:02:31 Str contain the whole no stretch from Sky to Sky oh love of God oh love of God how rich and pure how [Music] meas and all it shall forever more Ure the sints Andel song oh love of God how rich and pure how mag is strong it shall more and pure the sa [Music] name [Music] voices rich and pure how [Music] me strong it sh forever for more and the Saints [Music] in I love the song which the choir sang and there's a line in that song that you know when you lift me up I catch a glimpse of Eternity and that's why what we need to
01:04:26 do brothers and sisters as we depart the word of God says let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works not neglecting to meet together as a habit of some but encouraging each other all the more as you see the day Drawing Near may you all disperse and go out to every corner of world so they can catch a glimpse of Eternity when his love is perfected in you and all God's people said am amen you may be seated after some meditation you are dismissed and people who want to would like to be prayed uh our elders
01:05:13 and our pastors are here to pray for you
