True Love

We experienced some technical difficulties Sunday during our live video stream of Jubilee T.V. so the message is cut into 3 segments. True Love 1, True Love 2, and True Love 3. Click on each respective title to watch the video.

A small group Bible Study:
Discuss the Greatest Commandment:

Mark 12:28-31
28One of the teachers of the law came and heard them debating. Noticing that Jesus had given them a good answer, he asked him, "Of all the commandments, which is the most important?" 29"The most important one," answered Jesus, "is this: 'Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. 30Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.' 31The second is this: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no commandment greater than these."

Understanding Love from
1 Corinthians 13:1-13
Love is superior
1. Love is superior to human and angelic tongues
2. Love is superior to prophecy and words of knowledge
3. Love is superior to mountain moving faith
4. Love is superior to sacrificial giving
5. Love is superior to dying a martyrs death in flames

1. Love is superior to human and angelic tongues
The apostle Paul says in scripture …
1 Corinthians 14:18
I thank God that I speak in tongues more than all of you.

If the Apostle says this, how much more does he thank God that he loves?

I believe humans are fairly bankrupt in the area of Godly love without first having received the tangible Love of God for them. I believe we’re good at saying we love when we’re really in a mutually advantageous relationship. Just stop meeting that persons need and see what happens to the “love”. If it doesn’t last it was only lust.
Discuss a mutually advantageous relationship and how when the back scratching stops so does the relationship.

1 John 4:19-21
19We love because he first loved us. 20If anyone says, "I love God," yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen. 21And he has given us this command: Whoever loves God must also love his brother.
Can we love God’s way if we haven’t received the tangible love of God?

2. Love is superior to prophecy and words of knowledge.
When you think how incredible prophecy and words of knowledge are, think that Love is superior. What good does it do if you prophecy without love? Your prophecies can take on the wrong direction. Even hard prophecies should be clothed in love and redemption.
1 Corinthians 14:1
Follow the way of love and eagerly desire spiritual gifts, especially the gift of prophecy.

Holy Spirit says that we should eagerly desire and covet spiritual gifts.
If we should covet spiritual gifts, how much more should we covet the desire to truly love?


3. Love is superior to mountain moving faith!
When you think about all the sermons on faith, all the ministries build around faith, all the emphasis put on faith. I’m glad for it and know that faith is something that we should have.
However something is superior to real mountain moving faith!
If you don’t have Love your mountain moving faith is nothing.

4. Love is superior to sacrificial giving
Think about someone that gives everything they have to the poor. If they don’t do it in love they’ve wasted their time. If they do it with wrong motives they will not receive a reward.
1 Corinthians 3:12-15
12If any man builds on this foundation using gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay or straw, 13his work will be shown for what it is, because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test the quality of each man's work. 14If what he has built survives, he will receive his reward. 15If it is burned up, he will suffer loss; he himself will be saved, but only as one escaping through the flames.

Discuss right and wrong motives when it comes to Christian Works. Have someone describe a work that is Gold and have someone also describe a work that is hay or stubble.

5. Love is superior to dying a martyr’s death in flames.
Revelation 12:11
They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony; they did not love their lives so much as to shrink from death.
One of the often forgotten components to having overcoming power is not loving your own life so much as to shrink from death. It’s very powerful and impressive

Love is superior

The 16 facets to God’s Love

1. Love is
Patient –
1: bearing pains or trials calmly or without complaint
2: manifesting forbearance under provocation or strain
3: not hasty or impetuous
4: steadfast despite opposition, difficulty, or adversity
5: able or willing to bear

2. Love is
Kind –
1: affectionate, loving
2 a: of a sympathetic or helpful nature
b: of a forbearing nature : gentle
c: arising from or characterized by sympathy or forbearance such as a kind act

3. Love is not
Envious
1: painful or resentful awareness of an advantage enjoyed by another joined with a desire to possess the same advantage

4. Love is not
Boastful
1: to puff oneself up in speech: speak vaingloriously
2: glory, exult
1: to speak of or assert with excessive pride

5. Love is not
Proud
1: feeling or showing pride:
a: having or displaying excessive self-esteem
b: much pleased : exultant

6. Love is not
Rude –
c: offensive in manner or action : discourteous
d: uncivilized , savage
e: coarse , vulgar

7. Love is Not
Self Seeking
: the act or practice of selfishly advancing one's own ends

8. Love is not
Easily angered
1 : a strong feeling of displeasure and usually of antagonism
2 : rage
an intense emotional state induced by displeasure.

9. Love Keeps no record of wrongs
Conscious or unconscious
The only way to keep no record of wrongs is to surrender your personal rights. When you do this you have lost the right to keep track and make things “fair”. This blind love is truly love. With this type of love bitterness doesn’t have a chance to spring up. With bitterness you don’t have God’s kind of love in action.

10. Love does not delight in Evil
Someone would delight in evil if they had a corrupt heart. This heart needs to be renewed by the Lord.
False realities aren’t a part of true love.
Someone who likes to see people hurting, that’s not love.

11. Love Rejoices with the Truth
John 14:6
6Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
John 17:17
Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth.
Truth –
a: the property of being in accord with fact or reality
b: fidelity to an original or to a standard

12. Love Always
Protects-
1 a: to cover or shield from exposure, injury, damage, or destruction
: To guard and defend

13. Love Always
Trusts-
1 a: assured reliance on the character, ability, strength, or truth of someone or something
b: one in which confidence is placed

14. Love Always
Hopes-
1a: to cherish a desire with anticipation
1b: to desire with expectation of obtainment
2: to expect with confidence

15. Love always
Perseveres –
: to persist in a state, enterprise, or undertaking in spite of counterinfluences, opposition, or discouragement

16. Love never
Fails –
a: to fall short
b: to be or become absent or inadequate
c: to be unsuccessful

1 John 4:8
whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.

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In God We Trust

at least 85% of us do!


I received an e-mail from Carlotta Brown telling me NBC was doing an informal survey to see if "In God We Trust" should be removed from U.S. currency. I voted on February 11th, 2009 at approximately 2:00 PM and there were 11,107,521 people who had voted at that time. Seemed to me that there were a large number of people polled.

Below are the results

Should the motto "In God We Trust" be removed from U.S. currency?

11107521 responses

Yes. It's a violation of the principle of separation of church and state. 15%

No. The motto has historical and patriotic significance and does nothing to establish a state religion. 85%

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Discipleship

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How God uses people to change lives for the better.

David and his Disciples
The Disciples before they caught David’s Spirit.
1 Samuel 22:1
1 David left Gath and escaped to the cave of Adullam. When his brothers and his father's household heard about it, they went down to him there. 2 All those who were in distress or in debt or discontented gathered around him, and he became their leader. About four hundred men were with him.

Who does David’s leadership anointing attract?
People just like him.

David’s background
He’s fleeing from Saul who’s determined to kill him because his family line is going to be cut of from the kingdom and David is in line to inherit the kingship instead of Jonathan, his son.
He just finishes pretending being insane in front of Achish the king of Gath because Achish’s heard about David’s reputation of killing 10’s of thousands.

The 400 “D” people
1. Distress
2. Debt
3. Discontent

The People God’s sending you may be less than desirable in your opinion, however if you have the presence of God in you perhaps God is sending them to you so you can minister life where there had been death? Hope where there had been hopelessness. Courage where there had been fear?

Norman Schwarzkopf
Was known as a man who could go into a dysfunctional army unit and turn it around. He liked the challenge and was successful in his efforts. His record somewhat speaks for itself.

When People Join their hearts with a Godly Leader like David
But what happens to the 400 “D” people if they hook up with David? They listen to him, honor him and submit to his leadership? Sometimes it’s easy to go with someone else’s plan when you’ve come to the end of your own. The 3 D’s can get you to that place.

It’s important that we embrace the 3 “D” people! Don’t turn them away because there is an excellent chance that God is in it. Perfect people might not be interested in submitting to your leadership but people who are struggling and looking for answers are more willing to recognize that they don’t know everything and need some help with life.

Let’s look one book and one chapter ahead to see what is now going on in the life of the 400 “D” people who were attracted to David.

David’s 3 “D” people became mighty!
2 Samuel 23:39
Only 37 Made the journey with David. Of the 400; 363 fell by the wayside but 37 caught the spirit that was on David and began to do the things David did. Around 9% survived David’s discipleship school.

Wouldn’t it be wonderful to have 37 mighty men though! Especially after we see what these men have done.

Let’s open our Bibles and take a look at the exploits of David’s 37 mighty men.
2 Samuel 23:8-23

Jesus and his Disciples
The Disciples before the caught Jesus Spirit.
Some of the Personality Traits of the Disciples

Some of Jesus Disciples could’ve been momma’s boys.
Matthew 20:20,21
The Sons of Thunder?
20Then the mother of Zebedee's sons came to Jesus with her sons and, kneeling down, asked a favor of him. 21"What is it you want?" he asked. She said, "Grant that one of these two sons of mine may sit at your right and the other at your left in your kingdom."

Jesus Disciples were slow to learn
Matthew 15:15,16
15Peter said, "Explain the parable to us.“ 16"Are you still so dull?" Jesus asked them.

Jesus Disciples didn’t have his Heart
Matthew 19:13Then little children were brought to Jesus for him to place his hands on them and pray for them. But the disciples rebuked those who brought them.

The Disciples had Political Agendas
Mark 8:33But when Jesus turned and looked at his disciples, he rebuked Peter. "Get behind me, Satan!" he said. "You do not have in mind the things of God, but the things of men."

Jesus Disciples Didn’t meet his expectations.
Luke 8:25He got up and rebuked the wind and the raging waters; the storm subsided, and all was calm. "Where is your faith?" he asked his disciples. In fear and amazement they asked one another, "Who is this? He commands even the winds and the water, and they obey him."

Jesus understood the concept of fruit production
Matthew 13:23But the one who received the seed that fell on good soil is the man who hears the word and understands it. He produces a crop, yielding a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown."

The work Jesus Did with his disciples ultimately produced fruit! Even though Jesus didn’t see it with his Earthly eyes his disciples turned the world upside down with His teaching and the Holy Spirit equipped them to do amazing things.

What the disciples were like after they caught Jesus spirit.
Acts 17:6
6But when they did not find them, they dragged Jason and some other brothers before the city officials, shouting: "These men who have caused trouble all over the world have now come here,

Map of Modern Day Turkey, Greece and part of Syria

The Disciples were effectively delivering the message of the Gospel.
Acts 1:8
But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth."

Concentric Rings of Influence
· City
· Region
· Country
· Ends of the Earth

Jesus Disciples were
· Healing the Sick
· Casting out Demons
· Raising the Dead
Sound Familiar? They were doing what Jesus was doing because they caught the spirit that was on Jesus
1. Healing
Acts 5:15 As a result, people brought the sick into the streets and laid them on beds and mats so that at least Peter's shadow might fall on some of them as he passed by.
2. Deliverance
Acts 16:18 She kept this up for many days. Finally Paul became so troubled that he turned around and said to the spirit, "In the name of Jesus Christ I command you to come out of her!" At that moment the spirit left her.
3. Raising the Dead
Acts 20:9-12
9Seated in a window was a young man named Eutychus, who was sinking into a deep sleep as Paul talked on and on. When he was sound asleep, he fell to the ground from the third story and was picked up dead. 10Paul went down, threw himself on the young man and put his arms around him. "Don't be alarmed," he said. "He's alive!" 11Then he went upstairs again and broke bread and ate. After talking until daylight, he left. 12The people took the young man home alive and were greatly comforted.

4 Levels of Discipleship
2 Timothy 2:2
2And the things you have heard me say in the presence of many witnesses entrust to reliable men who will also be qualified to teach others.
Paul’s Teaching in a group setting, Timothy in the group.
Timothy understanding and then entrusting the same words to reliable men.
Reliable men are also qualified to teach others.

In Conclusion
However you receive people is what you get out of them.
Matthew 10:41
41Anyone who receives a prophet because he is a prophet will receive a prophet's reward, and anyone who receives a righteous man because he is a righteous man will receive a righteous man's reward.

If you rightly recognize and receive people for who they are you are in line to receive what they have!
If you break away in heart and miss the dimension of God the people around you are carrying you won’t receive what they’ve got.
This is one reason why the Bible tells us to Honor our Father and Mother.

Missing Church?

A member of a certain church, who previously had been attending services regularly, stopped going. After a few weeks, the preacher decided to visit him. It was a chilly evening. The preacher found the man at home alone, sitting before a blazing fire. Guessing the reason for his preachers visit, the man welcomed him, led him to a comfortable chair near the fireplace and waited. The preacher made himself at home but said nothing. In the grave silence, he contemplated the dance of the flames around the burning logs. After some minutes, the preacher took the fire tongs, carefully picked up a brightly burning ember and placed it to one side of the hearth all alone then he sat back in his chair, still silent. The host watched all this in quiet contemplation. As the one lone ember's flame flickered and diminished, there was a momentary glow and then its fire was no more. Soon it was cold and dead. Not a word had been spoken since the initial greeting. The preacher glanced at his watch and realized it was time to leave. He slowly stood up, picked up the cold, dead ember and placed it back in the middle of the fire. Immediately it began to glow,once more with the light and warmth of the burning coals around it. As the preacher reached the door to leave, his host said with a tear running down his cheek, "Thank you so much for your visit and especially for the fiery sermon. I shall be back in church next Sunday."

Hebrews 10:25
Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.

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