Truth and Love (Part B)

Because of the truth which abides in us and will be with us forever is that Jesus, I love the church as social others because of the truth. That's why we love it if it was a lie. We would love it would be away from the stop. This why so important for Christians to not become caught up in his stereo and false things were to stand our ground that is not true or this is true, as the case may be. 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 today. Pastor Rick continues in second John one in his message called truth in love you to stand and fight for what you believe on every level.

Revelation 2217 and the Spirit and the bride is the church says, let him who hears say, and let him who thirsts, who ever desires, let him take the water of life freely. Those other wells.

I will take the water of life versus the loan speak elect in this context is the church, the bride of Christ. He looked down at verse 13, John says the children of your elect sister greet you.

Amen the children is there is a multitude on one side reading the multitude a Congregational once I greeted the congregation on the other side, and easy puts that any says the church that where I'm at right now we all saying to you hello we greets you we salute you is friend hailing friend from one congregation to another. Not one individual to another. Now I'm passionate about. My point, I think the others are all but certainly again. I will continue to review Noah.

See what they have a sale, and other issues that I have utmost respect for their wrong opinion for them and the kittens. It's kind of a cute little thing again in the early days of someone if I was reading is a commentary on something and he didn't agree with the point that I was passionate about not essential, I would have a tough time forgiving them. Not really. I will read them anymore. You grow up here grow often you find out that you know not everybody can be right. Like you, Rick. Did you just going to have to be humble and you doing it for the first time I'm kidding about that. Anyway, we come back to this section of Scripture and of the last verdicts versus I just read makes it difficult to believe that this was written to an individual in verse eight he says. Look at verse eight. Now look to yourselves not saying lady look to yourself singular but deplorable look to yourselves that we do not lose those things which we work for, and what we receive the full reward so the field is Congregational, not personal. And now he says whom I love to this elect church bride is how is this elder to the bride. I love you.

Your John after all these you you know you stuff you put up with the church you still love the church.

Yes, I do.

It is the body of Christ. It is no other body and the fact that it is Christ body is enough for me to love it.

You know, we have a we have a saying any friend of Joe is a friend of mine holy apostles blue that limit. They just expanded it just blew it away if you belong to Christ.

We belong to each other so he emphasizes love under the authority of truth when love gets out whittles out from the authority of truth. You have problems that you should not have and they can be very serious. Psalm 119 through your precepts.

I get understanding. Therefore I hate every false way, I get it I get it in my noggin from your word rules of your word.

Your commandment your guidelines. Your examples and illustrations in your metaphors, your types symbols if I love some teaching that is false and what does that say about me but it makes me feel so good.

It is false, but true. The second love is far as that's not love its being sentimental, being led away by how something makes you you feel your experience and not the revelation of God's word so does anyone have to spell the folly of this out as anyone have to say listen truth comes before love otherwise. If you have love in front of truth and truth doesn't count love count more, even if it's fault of anybody at a spell that out. Evidently, we do and we must not get tired of doing it and we have a saying we save our kids quite often. How many times I have to tell you the answer is very simple enough enough times I had a friend who's not a believer. Years ago years older than me and influenced me in many ways my life and he had a saying is that you know enough ants will eat an elephant. How many answers a take it out of and he would say in his authority enough, enough of them brilliant. He was a little eccentric, but he had these flashes of brilliance when it came to such things like that and so do we have to espouse how much we have to know me that we have the say he, the wife of Adam for at a critical moment she fell in love with something that was false.

So much so she took it home to Moonstruck Adam and he went for to she.

He didn't believe it would.

He was so Moonstruck by Harry doing the she say he did listen to this. The Bible is God's word about man and not man's word about God, the Bible is God's word to man and not man's word about God and those who turn away Bible was written by man got nonsense. What are you going to restrict guns that he can use men to communicate what he what what what what should you use have on a donkey, or what you will believe that God spoke to a donkey. So what else about the rocks, as Jesus said, you stones will cry out you cannot satisfy someone who is determined to not be satisfied. So you knock the dust off your shoes and you move on because there are those who will receive the truth, we just don't know who they are until God brings them to the surface and so he says to the elect lay John the the elder to the elect lady whom I love and truth and not only I would also all those who have known the truth. The truth lovers of the body of Christ, the judge doesn't want to love somebody great authors and they are known by their love for truth from God. God's truth about himself is salvation. Mankind, the devil, that's the kind of truth were talking about again talking about the truth on on how to heat up a TV dinner or something like that and they make TV dinners anymore analogous.

There you two dinners. But whatever the other instructions are that are out there that's fine there truth concerning those things, but not spiritual truth concerning such the words I speak you Jesus at our spirit, they are spirit, and those who come to God must worship him in spirit and in truth, I was not playing with this. We are not either.

That's why we are attacked and hounded when I hunted. We shouldn't be no Christian should be hunted. There's a difference between being hunted and being attacked being hunted means you're just defenseless trying to flee for your life. The church is an outpost of heaven on earth. And she is fortified and she has weapons and she fights back. She attacks back. This was a winner. Just as vulnerable bunch of Christ lovers that have no defense prices. IV. Should you gear you got body armor, put it to work. John says I love the church and all who love the church love Christ of the church. It is his body. Paul said and savage wolves will come in from you yourself and try to keep that body and you have a say so in that matter. Verse two because of the truth which abides in us and will be with us forever, then that's the case of I love the church and so others because of the truth. That's why we love it if it was a lie. We would love it would be away from this stuff.

This was so important for Christians to not become caught up in hysteria and false things were to stand our ground that is not true or this is true, as the case may be truth lovers of the body of Christ because of the truth which abides in us and will be with us forever, which abides with us and will be with us forever truth triumphs through eternity. In other words, you start you start embracing truth. Now you never lose it in less use, full and one Broadway to the Gnostics. That's why he's writing this letter. There was no threat, he would have to write the letter it with me all you say the word about this to say anything now he says listen you little. Here are just rewards you better man up arm up woman up Christian up as we might say today get all excited and don't apologize either okay, but some of the points I want to make about this truth, the triumph through eternity, church and Christian life doesn't always seem to seem triumphant seems defeated many times one guy you know you just look at Jeremiah.

Jeremiah believes it is a working here Paul in all again in that second Caribbean letter that 11 chapter he lays it out as all things I've suffered for Christ and yet I am Victoria Rice intimidates as you saw how God delivered me from the beatings that I did get what Baldwin got a dictionary or using heaven's dictionary. I don't let Satan write my script. Matthew chapter 16 on this rock I will build my church and the gates of hell shall not prevail as SLI someone being hunted to you hounded in the center looking for us find will be waiting for them that have some sort of an attitude of faith that does more than just try to survive, we have to have an attitude that actually infiltrates enemy territory or stay isolated lockdown in your own house and your family know never to preach the gospel anybody outside our only priest of God will be with you like. We have to learn to attack and we we do it is by being ready, we set ambushes against the world.

You know the ambush goes out and just weights, it's got an idea with tracks going to cover it, just weights and when that when the bad boy show up. It pounces and it pounces knowing what it's doing blessed shoot itself and as Christians we weights what where are we ready we have the gospel we have a desire to preach it. Matthew 13 the Son of Man will send out his angels, and will gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and those who practice lawlessness, and will cast them into the furnace of fire.

There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Then the righteous will shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their father.

You, as he is here, let them hear, see, that's the eternal benefit from the truth. It's forever as is.

John says, which abides in us forever and there it is ascending on the weather shine forth in the kingdom of God. We are soldiers of truth, eternal truth which can only be established by God's word and not some private interpretation or private revelation.

I've got that's what the Gnostics, I've got this inside information arcane stop. We reject those who drag into the church. Contradictions of the truth we receive from the Lord is what makes occult or that's what makes an apostate church. Even water down churches watered down because she's dragged then and blocked out she's blocked out what God says but she's dragged and what the world says there they want to be so cool, so acceptable to the world that they from righteousness away. Holiness is a mean holiness of the Lord does not enter their thoughts is like what we just want to look cold weather cool say I'm a Christian.

I believe in Jesus will look cool they look like you like it. We set the pace. Sometimes and not not too legalistic self-righteous way. But yes not try to be cool. Try to be faithful and then we can declare it is God's truth and not all truth is God's truth. In other words, as I mentioned earlier, a manual on how to repair or replace the fuel injector in your vehicle can be true, but has nothing to do with salvation of souls were able to make that distinction very comfortably. Jeremiah and his difficult ministry.

He said in Jeremiah 9 and like their bow they have bent their tongues for lives a pretty good picture there that she's here using the tongue is a blow to suit our lives.

He says they are not valid for the truth on the earth, for they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know me, says Yahweh is powerful, real Jeremiah so locked into this prophecy is startup speaking and ends up says Yahweh speaking verse two is his grace, mercy and peace be with you from God the father and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the son of the father in truth and love that self payment truth in love is handed to us is not something will. I think sometimes I get the lien with the emphasis is. But here it is handed to us. Many Christians or professed Christians. A half-truth they could quote Bible verses. They can slam you upside your head very quickly with a Bible rest at unit back with a Bible verse is I have a love and you say how you have this truth without love because of you got the truth from Scripture, you can miss the love is not something that is hidden under a rock somewhere not low-profile effect 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 principles of how we roll grace, peace, mercy, truth, love, that is what Satan is up against when he deals with us. That's I supposed to be somewhere 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 lives or lives of others. The Lord not in a judgmental, self-righteous way, but it will 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 the time. It's if 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 the blood of Jesus Christ as the following spiritually through us Jake up had, of course, 12 sons, two of them they had no grace and peace in 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 he said that about the signs with asset 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 of 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 call this Christ is the one that fulfills that not us, but then he says will I mimic Paul go back a second recess from God the father and from the Lord Jesus Christ is grace and peace in truth, you can't say that with somebody else you can say from God the father and Isaiah the prophet or Jeremiah or Paulie or John. You can 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 says whites can pass over these things. The temptations is a little letter to supposed start happy five minutes on this one.

I could packet all three of them together. I just wanted to recite the most light on those who have different approach to this being 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, why bother 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 God's. It gives them such a thrill to make us suffer because he's insane is the father of liars and murderers and thieves and 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 ejectors are useful to him and he hates them to believe it, but is just a little child is little apprentice running around is insignificant being that quantity due to generalist. Judas went out and hung himself and even that failed to kill himself.

The branch broke. He fell and wasn't ugly ending.

That's the message from the Bible it ugly ending. If you going to be used by this devil that hates you devils are committed to swing every single soul you save you every single so that if they can go out there they went look Satan like Lucifer himself confronted Christ in the wilderness is 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 bright 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 will 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 one of 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, so Paul says, but even if we or an angel from heaven to preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached you, let him be accursed to sick and respond to love our enemies going to get to that in a minute.

We also love and two point believe it or not, but how do you deal with someone that is actively sending people to how thanks for listening to cross reference radio today cross reference is the teaching ministry of Pastor Rick Gaston of Calvary Chapel Mechanicsville, Virginia.

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