Truth and Love (Part C)

The first evidence of the spirit filled life. What is if you say tongs you have failed. If you say prophecy you failed it is law truth brings us to law relations 523 but the fruit of the Spirit is love, and then, without effort. The Holy Spirit Paul writing Holy Spirit says this love has this it has joy. This piece of this is cross reference radio with our pastor and teacher. Rick asked Rick is the pastor of Calvary Chapel Mechanicsville.

Pastor Rick is currently teaching through a special series called truth, love testimony, please stay with us after today's message to hear more information about cross reference radio, specifically how you can get a free copy of this teaching. Second John is the book Pastor Rick will be teaching from today the message is called truth and love. Many Christians profess Christians a half-truth they could quote Bible verses. They can slam you upside your head very quickly with a Bible risk at unit back with a Bible verse is I have a love and you say how do you have this truth without love because of you got the truth from Scripture, you can miss the love is not something is hidden under a rock somewhere not low-profile. In fact, is bold and in your face. This is how they know you follow me. Jesus said you love each other at EMS that well. Grace, mercy, and peace, truth and love. These attributes of God that we are allowed to share through his Holy Spirit is a governing principle of how we roll grace, peace, mercy, truth, love, that is what Satan is up against when he deals with us as I supposed to be so were not again hunted as these defenseless little fairies. We are supposed to be the church militant. We got an attitude against sin. Whether we find it in our own lives or the lives of others the Lord and not in a judgmental, self-righteous way. But if we're not going to look the other way when we got a deal with these things and again, grace, peace, mercy, truth, love, this is what Satan has to face when he faces us, but we forget we forget about God's grace and God's peace we have peace with God's mercy is just new all time itself.

It's a current the mercy of God is like a river that just constantly flows throughout life what with that. That's a vein that's an artery that's that's what's in the blood of Jesus Christ as the following spiritually through us. Jacob had, of course, 12 sons, two of them they had no grace and peace and mercy and truth flowing through their lives. Genesis 49. Here is Jacob Simeon and Levi are brothers instruments of cruelty and in their dwelling place in their dwelling place cruelty. That's what's in them.

Levi and Simeon instruments of cruelty and a Christian should look at that and say to himself, I don't want to be an instrument of cruelty. I want to grace the piece to truth the love said that about her son's will – that about ourselves.

Try not to get into the flesh, the piece that he speaks about is our relationship with God knowing that God does not change does not waiver, and we are very grateful for these things.

He says from God the father and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the origins, the source deliberately. John joins together the father and the son as coequal coexistent and coeternal.

That means not only eternity future, which we have, but eternity past, which we don't have. We cannot say that we have always been.

That's which was which is which is to come. This Christ is the one that fulfills that not us, but then he says well maybe Paul go back a second recess from God the father and from the Lord Jesus Christ is grace and peace and truth. You can't say that with somebody else you can say from God the father and Isaiah the prophet or Jeremiah or Baldy or Johnny Gale put your name is only Jesus, explosive, and then he says this, the son of the father that appears nowhere else in all the Bible that phrase just here in third John is why just can't pass over these things. The temptations is a little letter to supposed start happy five minutes on this one I get back in all three of them together. I just wanted to recite the most light on those who have different approaches the speed permit myself, the son of the father not to deny the meaning of that that the sun is equal with the father because it was the whole Scripture backs this up to deny the meaning is to refuse God's offer of salvation for breaking his commandments which is hell. Why is the serpent of old, determined to lie and to deceive and to kill my father with us. What is his incentive does he get something out of this. Yes he does he get's the rush of hatred. He hates mankind so much that it it's like he takes its nectar to him. It's the trunk of the gods.

It gives them such a thrill to make us suffer because he's insane is the father of liars and murderers and thieves and the insane. And I mean all of those who are troubled mentally, but those who are out of their minds. He offers these things in the Christ trajectories are useful to him and he hates them to believe it, but is just a little jump this little apprentice running around is insignificant being that quantity due to jealous Judas. When Alan hung himself and even that failed he killed himself. The branch broke.

He fell and wasn't ugly ending.

That's the message from the Bible it ugly ending.

If you're going to be used by this devil that hates you devils are committed to swing every single soul you save you every single soul that if they can go out of there.

They went look Satan like Lucifer himself confronted Christ in the wilderness as nobody is going to get a pass from his meddling and seductions efforts to and hell has a militia frozen everything is God and humanity to block humans from the truth and love of Christ. And so God has dispatched an army whom he loves. He loves as a husband should love a bride and we are outnumbered but we are not outgunned. Don't you think for one moment you're outgunned, or else you wouldn't be saved if that were the case. First Corinthians 1 God has chosen the foolish things of the world would shame the wise God's children. We think the world put to shame the things which are mighty although scary things. The world has God's as I deal with this and as we see in the lives of Stephen Peter and Paul. They put to shame the sword of the mighty those three men were martyred.

They were killed for Christ and they live forever, and not only that the work they did on earth continues to work, they being dead still speak.

We are in the face of powerful things. When we mentioned the word eternity under the well connected with the truth and love of the Bible so the world it has truth, but not about salvation and the Gnostics targeted the elect hell-bent on reshaping the gospel of Jesus Christ. They're very serious about this, their motives, they want to be right. It wanted the benefits they wanted whatever they can get materialistically speaking or carnally Sandor Connolly speaking but behind them was a Satan who hated them their message and everybody.

It came in touch with.

Nonetheless, and so Paul says, but even if we or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached you, let him be accursed to sick and always will love our enemies are going to get to that in a minute.

We also love to point. Believe it or not, that you deal with someone that is actively sending people to how Paul seldom let them be accursed. Let him run that course to hell that they are determined to run. You have to move on.

Of course the option is there for them to activate the loving come due, and repent for or to find out the truth that repenting to you depending to Lord through you. Something to do with Jesus speaking of judges all make them come to your feet and bow down to you know that's what he says to the churches in Revelation, where we got other things to talk about here. So this blending truth with lies is what Satan does till Christ returns is not going to stop knuckle that up to look for it on a global scale. Individual scale certainly can be dealt with. The Bible is relevant as long as hell is relevant and hell is redolent all the way to the millennial reign of Christ, he says, in truth in love. Here in verse I had to pick up the pace you're going to the verse six is in truth in love and so love must be exercised in the context of truth. Zechariah 8 God says this amongst other things. He ends this verse with I will be there God in truth and righteousness seeing if you say laugh truth, but I'm righteousness, then, is not God's. That love is not under God's truth and it is therefore null and void and that is one of the signature moves medic prices he will be unrighteous. There is no middle ground there. There is no lasting benefit to God's love without God's truth. Ephesians 4 verse 15 speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into him who is the head, Christ the dramatic move musicals right there. Did you know that if you have truth without love your likely a brute mentioned that earlier but if you have love without truth you now entering into hypocrisy because that love is not true.

It is a false love, the dams, souls, what love could be in that which damaged souls under these terms. Love without truth is bewildered sentimentality. Rose is mesmerizing saying to not arise delusional and unstable. It is false love in the world is loaded with it and it feels so good. It just dies when you die because of further is nothing wrong with the you know the Greek words Arrow's agape stroke a lover family love things love romantic love is nothing wrong with those things in their proper places. When they fall into sin, that the big become wrong and that is when they call run contrary to Jesus Christ and his word and world hates this. We love it and that is a distinguishing factor of who's who and who is not who or the wills and the will not stoop wills and the wants and maintaining false beliefs when confronted with the truth leaves you embracing spiritualized at spiritual illness, sick, spiritually. When truth and love come into conflict with each other. Truth. Truth must overrule the truth is not without love.

And that's the part that we can get somebody we understand you have God's truth. You have love in their is no little we just have the truth particles love a secondary it's deeper than that. And this is to know why I have an idea why so difficult for some summer just panic stricken kind of people they just get if they don't feel that they don't want it.

That's a dangerous bait way to be the truth has preeminence and we cannot receive false teachers or even our own children if they reject the truth of Jesus Christ we can have love for them, but it is a sober love. If you are ecumenical you're going to get clobbered from God's word and that's why ecumenical cysts.

Try not to use the Bible or explain it away and I want to believe. To believe in the virgin birth or the miracles of the Bible is then that would give God power interviews. If he has power. That means I should be concerned about. Amberly has control over my future. That's right.

It's what God does miracles, flexes his muscles to us and says I am God.

You are accountable and without that, why would we believe in him. Why would we worry about his judgment. If you are an ecumenical cyst. God want you to stop it and stand for truth in love, based on his true they W torches as we are too nice. Listen to this. Some of you Christians are just you just think the world needs to be apologized to. We are too nice. We are too tolerant. We are too anxious to be popular. We are too quick to make excuses for sin in its many forms, but I think what would you get that with Eitan, when did you get that AW Tojo got that from the Scripture that is the outcome of a life in Christ, only some walking in truth verse four, I rejoice greatly that I have found some of your children walking in truth. As we receive commandment from the father, only some and that is the proper understanding, you know, in the word. Some is italicized, or some way marked out in your Bibles to say what it's not there in the original Greek, the word some but the tense of the word is in all the translators get that in all of them include that and that is a proper translation of this sentence, I rejoice greatly that I have found some of your children walking in the truth, I have another AW" the enemy of souls has persuaded us to Christianity should be a rather casual thing, certainly not something to get excited about seeing Satan he puts in the counterfeit excitements also excited without truth and that waters down the gospel makes anomalies on one part apology. With this with tongue reasonably unbelievers coming to see this.

Tongues are assigned to the deal with that with them. Just as I rejoice greatly because I'm excited about my faith and I'm excited about those who walk in truth.

And he says to the believers that I want you to get this this is not a small point another thing. AW is the third AW toast for our response to the truth should be eager an instant, the servant of truth will be penalized for his devotion your stand up God's truth is going to cost you frowns and dirty looks, and maybe even a knuckle sandwich or two. He may be death. But we rejoice greatly in this gospel that we have an it's a false comfort to tell Christians that experiences matter more than truth. You can experience a lie that feels very good. Seems right, but it's not doesn't match what the Bible has to say and if you follow that you can find yourself in Helen so he says here in verse four, at the bottom as we receive commandment from the father says we get it from the father's love that we have the truth. In all these things that he's doing is under the power of God.

The Godhead and so important is truth and love the God commands it so important to God's truth that he commands it. Joseph Parker long gone pastor in London city Temple above London. This what he says.

He says we are not now in the hands of a man who would lull us into false peace or permit us in but to indulge in fallacy that we have only to be sentimental and self considering and religiously content a contemplative in order to be the followers of Christ. In the examples of divine grace. Jesus saying that we not into false peace would not into just our feelings, and self consideration and being religious truth in love has to find his way in action will gotta speed up your verse five, and now I plead with you, lady.

Not as though I wrote a new commandment to you, but that which we have had from the beginning that we love one another. The first evidence of the spirit filled life. What is it, if you say tongues you have failed.

If you say prophecy you failed. It is love truth brings us to love. Galatians 523 but the fruit of the Spirit is love, and then, without effort. The Holy Spirit Paul writing the Holy Spirit says this love has this it has joy. This piece but then he puts in these things that seem to contradict what they're not a contradiction. There an inclusion, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law. Depaul again is writing to get the Judaizers leasing is no law that coming up with all of these rules and he's either beating down but what uses faith without love what you who needs that I've got faith and I hate you mean that Islam runs like that. Not us. Not supposed to.

What kind of love. When we have without long-suffering what would that with the beloved inside China put up a full one second number loving kindness. If you not kind to Simeone usually turn signal to use your exercising kindness and I know this a long time. We we we do church sales turn signal fluid.

For those of you who need to be helped out with kindness is part of love goodness and faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. If you don't have those you better be chasing them. We are to love people. To the extent of taking them to the gospel of Jesus Christ. Galatians 1.

But even if we are an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you than we have preached to you. Let them be a curse as I read earlier we are to love them as God rough three loves love for God. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind strength, that is just a constant, then his love for the body of Christ for believers which which is to be the dominant love with people reckon I don't have the time I'll read the verses you can write them and look them up because allotted you can handle that. You think that the were supposed to have. Just as love for every body that is just equally as intense, and that is not what the New Testament is the other is an intense love is a more intense love for the body of Christ. It is if you do not love the body of Christ and you have nothing to give the unbelievers that you love to is the so to put the accident oxygen mask on your own face first before you take care the person next to you and that's why you come to first Peter 122 first Peter 217. I'm just going to be some of a couple of freedom. Galatians 610 is especially to those who are of the household of faith. Paul says it has to be this way doesn't work the other way doesn't mean you do not love unbelievers, but it is a cautious love is according to Scripture, Luke 627 but I say to you who hear, love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, but there's still in a different category. Loving enemies does not mean you help them against the gospel in any way, you do not help them against Jesus Christ or God or righteousness in any way because you love them, you have to stand up to them. This is illustrated in the Old Testament the prophet Jay who the son of Hannah and I the seer went to the king, and said to him, this is King Jehoshaphat, should you help the wicked, and love those who hate Yahweh. Therefore, the wrath of Yahweh is upon you and so what we get out of that New Testament theology is there is a distinction that we must make on how we treat believers and unbelievers with love. In both cases, all I'm not saying were not the love but I am saying this if you want to act like you love unbelievers more and you don't love the body of Christ.

You got a problem with the Scripture. That's what I'm telling your understanding of love is skewed and needs to be fixed and running long verse six. This is love that we walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment that as you have heard from the beginning. You should walk in it.

One of the greatest failures of the Pharisees that they had the child and did nothing with truth understood must must have action and if you can get the action you chase for this truth and love that we been considering for the individual and the assembly alike for the loss.

Of course, for God it is the truth and the love is the head and the heart.

And just as the head and heart are essential to life. So are these two truth in love, and Satan.

Therefore targets these two as a sniper target your area are two shots to the chest will take him down a shot that would take him down. Satan has that same philosophy and that's why we have to be on guard and have that helmet of salvation that breastplate of righteousness fight back.

Hold to the truth and hold to love at the same time not one without the other. A close with this verse. Colossians 2 Paul dealing with the rise of Gnosticism. As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord's own walk in him, rooted and built and established in the faith, as you have been taught. Then he says pounding in it with thanksgiving. God let that BS.

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