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⁸ Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law. ⁹ For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” ¹⁰ Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law. ~ Romans 13:8-10

The entire law and all of the prophets are summed up and fulfilled in love. Why? Because if you love your God and your neighbor, you won’t do wrong. You’ll put others first. You’ll change your actions, even your beliefs, in order to help those you love.

Now, I understand that this could be difficult to understand but think about it this way. If you love someone, it changes who you are. When you love someone, you can’t help but show it. As a young teen, the Twilight saga was huge. I mean, everybody knew about Twilight, even if you didn’t like it or wanna admit it, you knew what Twilight and at least the three main characters.

Now, I was a big Twilight fan. And I was Team Jacob. But anyways, love is like imprinting in the series. Jacob describes imprinting as this,

It’s like gravity. Your whole center shifts. Suddenly it’s not the Earth keeping you here. You would do anything. Be anything she needs. A friend. A brother. A protector.

Jacob Black

I think that’s a really good description of love. You’ll do whatever it takes, become whoever it takes to be with that person. Love isn’t just a phrase. Love is an action. It’s the way you live your life. God sees love this way as well. He said that because He loved us, He sent His only Son to die for us to save us. Now it is our turn to show God that we love Him with our actions by sacrificing our desires and wants for His desires and wants.

Peace. Love. Go Forth and Show Your Love.

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³ And Pharisees came up to him and tested him by asking, “Is it lawful to divorce one’s wife for any cause?” ⁴ He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, ⁵ and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? ⁶ So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.” ~ Matthew 19:3-6

God instituted marriage from the very beginning. He intended for man and woman to be together, not just physically but spiritually. In a sense, He created man to complete woman and woman to complete man because everything woman isn’t man is, and everything man isn’t woman is. But today, 50% of marriages end in divorce.

Why? Because we bought into the lie, that marriage is a 50/50 arrangement. That will only give you a 50% chance to win. It is a 100% effort on both sides. Both of you will need to put in 100%. Husbands, it’s your job to keep the love in the marriage. It’s your responsibility to foster a safe and loving home. You must love your wife as Christ loves the Church. You have to be willing to give up everything, including your own life, for her.

Wives, it’s your responsibility to nurture respect. Today, we live in a society that tries to make women feel demeaned for the man being the head of the household. We turn it into a feminist problem, but just like the hand is not more important than the head, neither is the husband more important than the wife. We have different roles, and that’s okay. Don’t allow the world to turn you into a victim or ruin your marriage.

Don’t give up on your marriage. Fight for the one you love.

Peace. Love. Go Forth and Fight For Your Marriage.

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¹ The word of the LORD came to Jonah son of Amittai: ² “Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before me.” ~ Jonah 1:1-12

God was concerned about Nineveh. He was going to destroy it because of the wickedness of the people. But He remembered that there were more than a hundred and twenty thousand persons who did not know their right hand from their left, and also much cattle living in Nineveh.

God wanted someone to stand in the gap and go and warm them for Him so that He would not have to destroy the whole city. But Jonah ran away and wouldn’t go.

I wonder, is God calling you to a great revival in your family? Has He asked you to stand in the gap so that He doesn’t have to bring about the threat He has threatened?

Well, God has called each one of us to a specific task and a specific work. But in general, He wants you to witness so that those who we witness to will have an opportunity to hear and believe.

Do not do as Jonah did and run away from your God-given mandate. God wants to be merciful, so help Him to be by witnessing to as many people as possible.

Dear Heaven, thank You that we can be a part of what you are doing in the earth. Thank You that allow us to stand in the gap and see many of our loved ones and friends saved. Pour out Your conviction and your mercy, oh LORD! Touch and save the lost, in Jesus’ name, amen.

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³⁷ As he was drawing near—already on the way down the Mount of Olives—the whole multitude of his disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works that they had seen, ³⁸ saying, “Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!” ³⁹ And some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to him, “Teacher, rebuke your disciples.” ⁴⁰ He answered, “I tell you, if these were silent, the very stones would cry out.” ~ Luke 19:37–40

The Scripture says, ‘as Jesus was drawing near.’ I believe He is drawing near again. This time it’s for keeps. Jesus said that He was coming back to get us. And we would know His return is near when we see the things happening that we see are happening now. We will know that His return is near, even at the door.

No one is saying the day nor the hour. All I’m saying is, it is at the door. All you have to do is open up your eyes and see. Let him who has ears to hear, hear and let him who has eyes to see, see. Jesus’ return is drawing near.

We’ve had 2,000 years to proclaim His word, to win soul, to make disciples. This is the last dance, per se. It is the 11^th hour, and the minutes are quickly rushing to strike 12.

Make no mistake, Jesus is coming back soon.

And the nearer He return is, the more they will try to shut us up. Just like the Pharisees were trying to get Jesus to hush up His disciples, the elite is trying to shut us up. But if we are quiet, the stones will cry out. And we don’t want any stone crying out in our place.

Peace. Love. Go Forth and Cry Out To Jesus.

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¹⁷ And in the last days it shall be, God declares, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions,  and your old men shall dream dreams; ¹⁸ even on my male servants and female servants in those days I will pour out my Spirit, and they shall prophesy. ²¹ And it shall come to pass that everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. ~ Acts 2:17-18, 21

At Pentecost, after the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, Peter stood up and quoting the prophet Joel; he told the people that in the last days, God would pour out His Spirit on all flesh and all who call on the name of the LORD shall be saved.

So, it is the belief in that name, the Name of Jesus, that we are now able to call upon the LORD, and He hears us. If we look and consider, it’s the name that was preached, it’s the name that was feared, it’s the name that has the power and authority, it was the name that healed, it was the name that raised the dead, and it’s the name that saves.

• • It was the name that was preached and taught – Acts 4:17-18; 5,28
  • It was the name that was feared – Acts 5:11
  • It’s the name that has the power and authority – Acts 4:7
  • It was the name that healed – Acts 3:6; 4:30
  • It was the name that raised the dead – Hebrews 11:35a
  • It’s the name that saves – Acts 4:12

So, what are we talking about here? We’re talking about the most powerful name of Jesus and the authority it carries. There is no other name like it.

At the name of Jesus:

• • Demons flee
  • Darkness runs away
  • Diseases are healed
  • Marriages are put back together
  • Breeches are repaired
  • Relationships are mended
  • Souls are saved

So, why are Christians so fearful and filled with disease? We, the Church, can no longer be distinguished from the world because we look and act just like them. Why? Has the name of Jesus lost its power and authority? Of course not. Christians have become lukewarm because we refuse to draw a line in the sand and stand for and live by Truth. We want to be comfortable, so we trade in the power of God and the authority that comes in the very name of Jesus for a few more years of living in our comfort zone.

God has not changed; the Church has. We’ve become lukewarm, lazy Christians. The power of God is still in His name; it’s still in His Spirit; it’s still in His people; we just have to take the time to unlock that power as the first Church did. We have spent time in prayer and worship. We have to remove the constant filth and distractions from our lives. We have to press in and draw near to God so that He will draw near to us.

Peace. Love. Go Forth and Tap Into The Power.

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⁵ The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. ~ John 1:5

I have never seen a struggle between light and darkness. As you walk into a dark room and flick the switch, quicker than the eye can see, the darkness changes to light because it no longer lacks light. We are the light in this present darkness. And as the light, we have to overcome the darkness in our communities, workplaces, schools, etc., by acting as light.

How we treat others and how we live our lives is the only way to be the light. Our actions are what lead others to the light.

¹⁶ In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.

Matthew 5:16

We can’t be miserable, difficult to work with, easily angered, sexually immoral, and still have a testimony for Christ. We have to live as the light, not as the darkness. And when we do, we will begin to see the change in the world around us because the darkness cannot overcome the light.

Peace. Love. Go Forth and Shine in the Darkness.

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¹⁰⁵ Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. ~ Psalms 119:105

When we preach and teach God’s Word, it lights our path, and it lights the path of our hearers. Light does not struggle with darkness. Darkness never overcomes light. And in a world filled with much darkness, it is crucial to understand where our light comes from. Our light comes from the Holy Spirit that lives within us.

This light can only grow and strengthen if it is fed. It’s like a fire. A fire will die out if it isn’t tended to and given more fuel to consume. The Holy Spirit within us is the same way; that is why the Psalmist wrote that the Word of God is like a lamp to our feet and a light to our path. We are in a dark world, and if we don’t have the Holy Spirit like a roaring fire within us feeding on the Word of God that we are pumping into our mind and spirit, then we will be overcome by darkness. The light will not be overcome by darkness, but we will be overcome by darkness because without feeding the light, the light will die within us.

So, spend time in the Word. Spend time in worship. Spend time in prayer. You have to feed the Holy Spirit within you, or you will run cold and dark.

Peace. Love. Go Forth and Feed the Flame.

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³⁴ Salt is good, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? ³⁵ It is of no use either for the soil or for the manure pile. It is thrown away. He who has ears to hear, let him hear. ~ Luke 14:34-35

So, what does all of that mean to us as Christians, the salt of the earth?

Well, like Potash-salt fertilizes the land and causes good things to grow, we as the salt of the earth should fertilize our small plot of the world, like our workplaces, our communities, our neighborhoods, our government, and cause good things to grow.

But instead of disinfecting the swamp, saltless salts facilitate the swamp and cause nasty infectious filth to permeate the whole world.

Pastor David Pawson said that statics show that in any community with 5% salt, the social trends reverse for the better, and it’s not by anything that the 5% is saying or doing, but just by being.

Now, if that is accurate, how much more could be achieved if the 5% salt influenced by doing and saying? Remember what Edmund Burke said, “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”

Therefore, it is my strong belief that salt has to be an active influence. Jesus didn’t call us to separate us from the world; He called us to go out into the world. We have to be active in our communities, workplaces, government, schools. We have to be the change we want to see in the world.

Peace. Love. Go Forth and Be Active Salt.

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³⁴ But when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together. ³⁵ And one of them, a lawyer, asked Him a question to test Him. ³⁶ “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” ³⁷ And He said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. ³⁸ This is the great and first commandment. ³⁹ And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. ⁴⁰ On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.” ~ Matthew 22:34-40

Jesus died for His enemies. He didn’t have to, but because He saw that there was no other way for us to be with Him other than Him dying on the cross for our sins and taking our punishment upon Himself. He didn’t have to take our sin. He didn’t have to take our punishment, but He did. Jesus set aside His own feelings, desires, and wants so that He could focus on saving us. He followed the will of His Father and gave Himself as the perfect and final sacrifice for our sins.

Jesus stated that the greatest commandment given is to love the Lord with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. He then says the second greatest is to love your neighbor as yourself. The reason love is the greatest commandment is because love is a sign of unity with God. If God is love, and we are transforming into the image of God, then we would have to bear fruit that is of God.

As Jesus said,

¹⁷ So, every healthy tree bears good fruit, but the diseased tree bears bad fruit.

Mathew 7:17

And the greatest fruit, as we explained in our video The Power of The Holy Spirit under our Nuggets of Truth category, is love. Therefore, we must love everyone, even our enemies.

Peace. Love. Go Forth and Love Your Enemies.

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³⁴ Salt is good, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? ³⁵ It is of no use either for the soil or for the manure pile. It is thrown away. He who has ears to hear, let him hear. ~ Luke 14:34-35

Jesus says that we are the salt of the earth. So, if we are to be the salt of the earth, we had better know what that means. Wouldn’t you agree?

Because Jesus goes on to say that if salt loses its taste, and we will come back to that later on in this message, so keep a finger there. But, if salt loses its taste, it’s no longer useful either for the soil, or for the manure pile, or in other words, the dunghill.

Salt is good. Therefore, salt is healthy, fit, useful, and serviceable. That is what Jesus wants us to be: Healthy, fit, useable, and serviceable. There are many reasons, I believe, why Jesus chose this analogy for us to be salt of the earth.

Salt is:

1. 1. Immutable – unchanging
   2. Salt has a high melting point of 801° C and boils at 1413° C
   3. Has very low freezing point of −1.8°C
   4. Salts are good conductors of electricity

Jesus is saying, you are the salt of the earth, and the salt of the earth is organically healthy and useful, but if it, or more precisely, if you, become a fool, how can you get back your influence? Who, or what can make you influential or wise again? Don’t throw away the salt for the fake table salt of the world.

Peace. Love. Go Forth and Be the Salt of the Earth.

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