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Hello, friend. I'm Denise Renner.
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Welcome to time with
Denise Renner, my program.
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I'm so glad that you're here with me today
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and we've been talking about
how we can love others better.
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And this is our last
lesson on this series.
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And I've been hearing from
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how we can love others better.
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It's Time with Denise Renner.
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So friends, we're talking about
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how we can love others better.
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And I wanna thank you
again for your responses
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and how this teaching is helping you.
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This is our last session in this series,
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and today I'm calling this lesson,
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How Can I Love Others Better? -
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and what is my highest pursuit?
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What is My Highest Pursuit?
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Well, I looked up the word, pursuit, several times in the
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New Testament and in 1 Corinthians
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14, it says that
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verse 1 - Pursue love.
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And that word, pursue,
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in the Greek language it is the word, dioko.
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That word means to hunt down.
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Actually it means to hunt down habitually.
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Always be hunting down love.
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I know some friends, they're
pretty dear friends too, Rick
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and I, and they love to go deer hunting.
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So they share with us
how they go deer hunting.
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And even the wife goes deer
hunting. Can you imagine?
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And so she goes up there with her husband
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and she puts on clothes
that look like a tree,
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and he's got on clothes
that look like a tree.
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And they sit up there for hours.
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They told me they sit there for hours,
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they don't say a word.
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I don't know if they even have water.
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And they are totally silent.
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So they're waiting for
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that one moment when they
can shoot their deer.
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They've hunted down their dear.
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Well, this is the very word, dioko.
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It means to pursue, to hunt down.
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It actually means to persecute.
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Well, no one persecutes
anyone by accident.
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They do it on purpose.
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No one sits in a tree for hours and hours
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and says nothing by accident.
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It is on purpose.
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So the Bible's telling us that we've got
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to pursue on purpose habitually,
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this love.
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And so I want to show you that
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we have to hunt this down and,
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and so let's go to 1 Corinthians 13,
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and we'll just, we'll just start
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with the 1st verse - Though
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I speak with the tongues of men and of angels,
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but have not love,
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I have become a sounding brass and a clanging symbol.
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And I always think about that
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and think, you know,
people who pray in tongues,
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we're supposed to be the
the more spiritual ones.
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But if we're just praying in tongues
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and we don't love people,
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then it's like a clanging symbol to the ears of God.
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That's so - pretty serious,
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I think a warning for us to love
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and not just pray in tongues.
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And though I have the gift of prophecy
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and understand all mysteries
and all knowledge and,
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and though I have all faith - Oh, we all just want
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to move by faith and honor God with our faith -
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But if we have all faith
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and it says that I can even remove mountains - now
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that's a faith giant -
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but have not love, I am nothing.
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You know, the Apostle Paul, he
could have been even talking
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to himself as he was writing this
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because he was a great preacher.
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He understood mysteries,
he had all knowledge,
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he had great faith.
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But if he didn't have love,
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and the Bible says he prayed
in tongues more than all the
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people around him put together.
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So he prayed in tongues,
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but if he prayed in tongues, had all knowledge,
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great faith to move mountains, but he didn't have love,
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it was nothing. This is our highest pursuit.
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Look at verse 3.
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And though I bestow all
my goods to feed the poor,
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and though I give my body to be burned
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but have not love, it profits me nothing.
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You would think a person who
gave their life to be burned,
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that they would be the most loving.
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But the Bible says, even if I
do that, even if I give away
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so many of my goods and I give away money,
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and I support this ministry
and I support that ministry,
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and I give this money,
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but I don't have love, it profits me nothing.
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That's what the Bible says.
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But look at verse 4: then it describes this love.
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Love suffers long and is kind.
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And you know, when I read that, I think to myself - Well,
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I can suffer kind of long, but am I still kind?
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Maybe you're asking yourself
that question. Maybe.
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Maybe you're even a place right now where you are suffering
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and you're going - when is this going
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to end?
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And your kindness is getting smaller and smaller?
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Well, this kind of love even suffers long,
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but remains kind.
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Then it says - Does not envy
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and does not parade itself and is not puffed up.
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Now, I wanna talk about, envy, for a minute
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because in James 4, we have some scripture
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that really talks about envy.
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Because envy is not only do you
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want what that person has,
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but you also don't want them to have it.
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So envy is really self-seeking.
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So this is what we find in James 3
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and it's a verse 14.
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But if you have bitter envying
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and self-seeking in your hearts, do not boast
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and lie against the truth.
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This wisdom does not descend from above,
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but is earthly, sensual,
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and demonic for where envy
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and self-seeking exist, confusion
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and every evil thing is there.
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How we need to keep envy out of our hearts
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and dig way down inside of
that agape love that's on the
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inside of us.
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And love that person, not be
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so self-seeking.
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I know myself, I have definitely been self-seeking.
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I have definitely been tempted with self-seeking.
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I'm not doing this perfectly.
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I'm not where I was,
but I have not arrived.
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I'm teaching this purely from,
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I'm preaching it to myself as
I preach it to you. Friend
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this is the highest level of love we're talking about.
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This is what God, through the Apostle Paul,
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the inspiration of the Holy Spirit,
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it's telling us if you want to pursue something,
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this is the highest pursuit - is love.
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The highest pursuit is not that, oh,
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that you give to the poor or
that you give to this person,
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or that you have the greatest faith
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or your faith can even move mountains.
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Or that you pray in tongues
more than anybody else,
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or you give more than anybody else.
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That is not the highest pursuit.
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The highest pursuit is love
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and envy is in direct,
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is a direct opposite of love.
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And it even says that it is devilish.
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If we envy and are self seeking, it's devilish.
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So then it says, for the wisdom that is from
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above is first pure, then peaceable,
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gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy
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and good fruits, without partiality
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and without hypocrisy.
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So this love that's on the inside
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of us is able to produce this.
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The next verse says - Now, the fruit
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of righteousness is sown in
peace by those who make peace.
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So that fruit of righteousness
is in your heart.
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You are righteous by Christ Jesus.
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You are a brand new creature
by Christ Jesus on the inside.
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And on the inside of you
is that perfect love.
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But we gotta get our minds
renewed to what is on the
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inside of us.
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And instead of envying,
instead of just self seeking
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to give from the deepest part of us,
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which is our spirit,
mingled with the Holy Spirit
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and give out that love.
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Oh, it's so powerful - it is so powerful.
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I just wanna read you just
a little bit more about envy
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because we have the
equipment on the inside
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to not do this.
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So listen to this. Envy
is jealousy, resentment,
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a strong feeling of resentment against someone.
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The idea is a fierce desire
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to promote one's own opinion to the exclusion
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of others: to have a bitter jealousy in one's heart.
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And this envy, even as in
in this Greek language,
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is even described as having a smell
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and the smell is bad, it's foul
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and it's vile.
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Oh, we don't want to give
ourselves to bitter envying
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and self-seeking.
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And so our ultimate pursuit is love.
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And that love is is the love that's on the
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inside of you.
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First Corinthians 13 goes on to say,
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and I just wanna read it for us,
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and it says - Love
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does not behave rudely, does not seek its own,
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is not provoked,
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thinks no evil does not
rejoice in iniquity,
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but rejoices in truth, bears all things,
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believes all things, hopes all things,
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endures all things.
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Now, I just wanna give you a story of,
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I believe this is a
very powerful love story
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of a woman who was moving in that kind of love
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that cast out all fear.
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So at this time, this
woman was just, you know,
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driving her car, going her way.
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And so she stopped
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and this man flung up, open her door,
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he was armed with a knife
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and he got in her passenger seat
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and he was threatening her with the knife
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and speaking to her, keep
driving and drive faster.
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And you know, he was in command.
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He felt that he was in command.
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Well, she was listening
in her car to a teaching
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and, but he, you can imagine
how man, how mad this man is
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and how consumed this man is of evil
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because he's already
murdered several women
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and already raped several women.
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This man is very bad and
has not been caught yet.
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And now this woman, filled with the love of God,
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finds him in her car
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and he's threatening her for her life.
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She's listening to a teaching
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and he's threatening her.
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And she says to him, his name's Steven,
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she says, Steven, you don't wanna kill me.
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I'm the only one right now that loves you.
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Oh, he got so angry. He just said, shut up,
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shut up and just keep driving.
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And she said, well, can
I just keep listening
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to this teaching?
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Well, she was listening to
Brother Kenneth Copeland.
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And so now he's got this knife at her neck
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and she's listening to this
teaching by Brother Copeland
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and this killer,
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all of a sudden, he hears a voice and it's the voice of God.
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And God says to Steven, he says, son,
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this is your last chance.
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Well, Steven got so
angry, he starts screaming
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and he says, what was that?
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Who's talking to me? And she
said, I didn't say anything.
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And he was so angry,
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and he heard it one more time - Son,
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this is your last chance.
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And he said to her, he said,
somebody's talking to me.
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She said, it's God, he's
talking to you. He loves you.
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And that woman filled with the love of God
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and the love that cast
out fear, perfect love,
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cast out fear,
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she led him to Jesus.
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Steven turned himself into the police.
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Well, I wanna finish this part of the story
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because it's so amazing.
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So Brother Copeland, he would often go
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and visit Steven in prison.
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And so it was time for
Steven to be electrocuted.
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He had to, you know, face the
death penalty for his crime.
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And so Brother Copeland
came there on that day.
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He wanted to support Steven
in this moment in his
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life of his home going.
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And so Steven is laying
there, getting ready
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to be electrocuted.
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He's witnessing to everybody around him.
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He's telling everybody about Jesus.
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Finally the guard says,
Steven, I'm sorry we, we got
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to do this.
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And so Brother Copeland is standing outside of that glass,
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and he had said to Steven, he said, now Steven,
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the Bible says that when, when we go to heaven,
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that the glory of God comes right there.
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And so he said, I just
want you to give me a sign
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and show me that the glory
came to you while you were
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going to die.
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And so Brother Copeland's
standing outside of you know
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of this execution room, it's glass
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and Steven's laying there
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and they get ready to pull the lever.
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They pull the lever,
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the electricity goes into Steven's body,
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but he does two thumbs
up to Brother Copeland
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and tells Brother Copeland,
the glory of God is with me.
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Oh, friend: what open the door for this miraculous story.
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It was the love of God that was inside of
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that woman's heart: that perfect love that cast out fear:
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that love that is our highest pursuit.
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Why is it our highest pursuit?
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It's the most powerful thing on the earth.
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The love of God is the most powerful thing
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that we can experience and that we can give to one another.
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It was the love of God in her heart, that perfect love,
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that cast out fear, that
opened the door for Stephen
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to hear God's voice
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and to save him from an eternal hell.
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I'm sure some of you listening
to me, maybe there's someone
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that you need to reach down on the inside of you
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and agree with that love of God that's on the inside of you.
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And give that to one of your enemies
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or somebody who's persecuting you,
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like we talked about on the last program.
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Give that to someone who doesn't deserve it.
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God gave his love to us.
We did not deserve it.
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We deserved hell, but he gave us his mercy
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and he saved us.
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And now it's our turn to give the love
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that He's given us on the inside
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to someone else: to give that same mercy
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that you've been given to someone else.
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That's our highest pursuit, friend.
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How can we love others better? By making love
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our highest pursuit.
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We started this program talking about
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that you don't accidentally love people.
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You love people on purpose.
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The Bible says to pursue
it, to hunt it down.
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Oh friend, when we hunt down love,
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when we take the initiative,
when we take the energy
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that it takes, when we take
the prayer that it takes,
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the time that it takes to seek God
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and recognize the power
that's on the inside of us.
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The Bible says in 1st Corinthians 13,
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and I believe it's it's verse 8.
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It says - Love never fails.
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If you are giving love, it's working
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and it never fails.
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I can just hear someone saying, well,
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I've been loving this person
and loving this person,
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and nothing has happened yet.
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Well continue
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because the Bible promises
you that the love of God
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that you're giving that
person, they don't deserve it.
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It's mercy you give to them.
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It never fails. Well, I
want you to stay with me.
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I'm coming right back and
we're gonna pray together.
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Friend, is that an amazing story.
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That's an amazing story.
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I think about that woman
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and I think about the love
of God that she operated in
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that day, and the freedom that it gave
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to Steven and the place that
it opened up in Steven's heart
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and mind and life.
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To hear God speak to him. Oh - so powerful.
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He's in heaven right now forever
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because of the love of God that operated through that woman.
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I just wanna pray with you
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Father Lord, I thank you
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that if my friend who's
listening, they're born again,
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then the love of God has been
shed abroad in their heart
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by the Holy Ghost. The powerful love of God.
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And Lord, that we can go, that can be our highest pursuit,
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is to pursue habitually the love of God on the inside
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of us to love others with.
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Lord, I thank you for your presence there.
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Thank you, Father. Thank you Lord.
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There's somebody, and you have not been able
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to move your arm very freely like this.
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You. You can't move your arm like this.
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Oh, you can't move your arm like this.
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And the love of God, the
power of God, the Holy Spirit,
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the miracle working power of
God is touching you right now.
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Let us know. Oh, we love you
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and I'll see you on the next program.
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I repent of my sin and receive you as my Savior
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and Lord. Wash away my sin
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and make me completely new.
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I thank you that my sin is removed
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and Satan no longer has any
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I faithfully promise that
I will serve you as my Lord
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for the rest of my life.
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Amen.
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