Share the Love - Why It's Hard to Share the Love, Part 2

Do you know the every day. We tend to believe lies that keep us from sharing God's love on this program will expose those lies to give you tools that you need. So the people that you love can hear the good news about Jesus in a way that they can actually understand you don't want to stay with.

Thanks for joining us for this Edition of Living on the Edge trips are vital to international discipleship program and Winship series called share the love to talk to anyone about God is continuing his message from our previous program talking about the lies we believe hard to talk about Jesus didn't get to hear part one map online the edge.if you have a Bible now the second chapter 10 let's join Chip for stronghold number five is message why it's hard to share the love stronghold number five. He or she will never come to Christ versus God desires all people to be saved. Is there anyone that just comes your mind right now that you think yourself into something I hear what you're saying but I mean you don't know my dad. He's been an atheist.

All he does is rip me all the time or you don't know my boss who's that person. Who do you think could never come to Christ and as a result he used to pray for Herman, you, don't because why they never will I how many people if the if Saul of Tarsus after murdering a bunch of people would say I think this guy's a real potential. But I think you know what is murdering electricians right now. I think you make a great Christian someday. I'm thinking most people think it's all a lot of people I follow Jesus, but this guy never and instead he goes from Saul to Paul and he writes 13 books in the New Testament. Don't give up if you would've asked me who do you think will never come to Christ, we prayed we shared we prayed we shared.

We've acted, we've loved we've forgiven. We've was Teresa's dad 87 years old and I mean every place I've ever been elite.

He would come to church night, I'd make sure I change my message when he came to the gospel in there somewhere that he heard it know from Teresa.

We loved him and prayed and everything you can do and then you know when your kids they start getting older and you know they love the Lord and community are praying as a family for granddad and then pretty soon you're kidding a 10 1112-year-old granddad. Our whole family wants you to be with us in heaven. You do understand that Christ died for you in tears in their eyes we were, I made a sincere little child in you know you dislike, he can't not respond to this right now our brochure on thinker units. Good for you and it's going is is yeah that's one knocking out and anime my heart of hearts I watch my wife never ever give up.

Never ever give up. Never ever give up.

Guess what granddad came to Christ. Why how you guess what, I have no idea.

It was the right place at the right time was sewing and watering in it and I as I look back I think it revolved around some deep pains and wounds.

He heard the gospel through someone he could identify with and the lights came on, don't you ever assume that anybody's outside what God might do, don't give up look at the Scripture says this is good and pleases God our Savior. This is his desire who wants all men to be saved and come to knowledge of the truth.

Stronghold number six is I'm just not bold enough that's alive versus I don't care enough see that a lot of times I thought to myself, you know what, I'm just not bold enough and then I think you got your kinda bold with other stuff that's true. Don't confuse me with the facts.

Listen to Paul's motivation. Second Corinthians 514 of 15. He says for Christ love compels me. The word means. I was hemmed in the picture of Indiana Jones. You know the walls are coming in.

There's no way out that's that's that word Paul saying how much God has loved me what he's delivered me from what he's given me. It tells me but is not just an emotional love response its objective truth because notice what he says because were convinced that one died for all that Jesus therefore all died and he died for all, that those who live should no live live no longer for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again where it says he died for all, that little word for means for the sake of and in the place of the apostle Paul had this conviction is conviction was there's a real heaven. There's a real eternity. And there's a real priceless eternity, and he says I'm compelled by what Christ has done for me and I realized he died for all this unlimited grace of God. This work on the cross this resurrection. This offer of eternal life. It's for everyone who ever would respond, but the conduit and the link between fat truth and that reality in people's hearts and souls and lives are people like us and so he says we don't live any longer for ourselves but for him who died and gave his life so that where his ambassadors were his agents were his conduit of grace and see what happens is I think I'm not bold enough, but when I'm really honest when I realizes I just get consumed too much with me in my world and I am not convinced. I'm not convinced what's on the line.

I don't think about eternity. I don't think about lost people to what God thinks about with compassion. I get intimidated by some things that they bring or what they say instead of looking past that and seeing the need and the hurt in the way God looks at sometimes God gives you great opportunities to two learning II taught a little today seminar for a group down in orange county is always flying back a young gal from Dubai was there. She works for Google as a project manager in unites, sort of my daughter's age look like one of those mid to late 20s and I we got talking little bit and had a conversation and I'm reviewing my notes mean the very notes right now to give distresses to you I'm I'm reviewing them and I always rewrite him on on Saturday and so I we get talking and so I'm very aware this would be a great opportunity to tell her about the love of God.

Since I've been thinking and praying and talking about this and so we talked and I sort of six go around it this way and rounded this way and have you ever gotten where you sort have the slump in your throat like you can tell I don't think I don't think it really be closed but there is don't quite get it out to have anybody else and so in I keep waiting. I keep waiting and then what God gives me like opportunity women opportunity to opportunity three hi just weaning out just sit there and I'm thinking about this and have an outgoing personality, and then she starts reading a magazine. I just saw man, I blew it on amine. There was an opportunity.

There's a window. She was it's up with my headphones on and it's okay I better finish my coat so that's what I'm on this one. I'm writing on the plane with her next meeting. I'm writing down Paul's convinced.

I can tell him are they are.

You really can fenced that eternity is real how much God actually loves when I realized afresh was the stronghold is about whether I'm bold or not it gets to be all about me and what I'm doing or not doing, and as I read that just all I can tell you how it works, but something of the almost physical like the spirit of God came in in a fresh way and said I lover can we get offer you right now. I just love her and so I thought all John Seibel what the heck I turned to her and said hey how's that magazine gone to great as I can I see something I said is anyone ever explain to you how much Jesus loves you and thinking okay and she does know I said will, would you mind if I just told you little bit about that sure and pretty soon I find out she's only been married a year and you and I draw a little triangle with God of the top in men and women at the bottom and how we need physical intimacy and emotional intimacy but also spiritual intimacy call my husband he's very spiritual. I'm not at all and I talked about how you get closer to God than you get closer to each other because I know she's real motivated her marriage and then I had a book with me called good to great in God's eyes and you know she's from Google such that if you read Collins book good to great.

All yeah we went through, you know, getting the right people on the bus and all the jazz and I said I was with an organization trying to do that God showed me that you know there's practices that people that really get close to God. Have I opened it up and I went through each of them. She's like wow I so would you like this.

Yeah. So I signed it for her and you know we as here's my email if you have any questions at all and so we get up and okay she did not pray to receive Christ. She didn't share it with the rest of the unit. We were getting done.

I mean it was like line number one she's not open line number two. It's a superstar.

I get outgoing personality and I was hedging and then it was just a process and what happened was I loved her I saw her the way Jesus saw her, and I just wanted to help her and even if she would've not responded positively. It's okay because this isn't about me and is not about you just about extending the love of God and so we get done. I mean this really cracked me up. So it's all over you know what I've written the book note so you know how when you get off you go up the ramp and want to get off the wrap she was ahead of me little bit and she stopped to turn like this, you are hard you could to see people long to be loved in the Jesus that we serve. We just need to get rid of the lies stronghold number seven is actually something I've never taught before. Usually when you get to this point in the message.

My experience for me and many others is okay, I'm gonna really try harder to love him to try her love him to be more loving.

I'm gonna really work we love love love love love love Michael got home we love and depending on your personality you do that for two days two weeks or two months and is not many to mother's and then you'll be right back to where you are right now. Stronghold number seven is I need to try harder to love people versus I need to experience more of God's love personally see.

We don't need to try harder. We need to experience God's love it such a fresh and new depth that we could just not not share and as I thought of this. I was thought of the passage here where Jesus says to a woman whose wiping his feet with her hair, her tears dripping in a Pharisee, thinking that she's an immoral person and he couldn't be a prophet because he would know about this woman and you can see the passage there in Luke, Jesus turns to the Pharisee and casino.

This woman has responded in ways because she's been forgiven much in your sins.

They are many. But those who been forgiven much love much and he wasn't saying that the Pharisee needed less forgiveness than the woman what is really saying is she actually gets and is experiencing what I've done for her and you don't get it when you experience God's love.

You can't not share that one of the greatest qualities and my wife has seen her experience God's love and my testimony is is that I'm so oriented toward performance, but I often struggle with. I think God loves me when I'm doing good. I don't think he loves me as much and I'm doing bad and that's not true. And so I thought it would be more helpful and more powerful for you to hear from someone who because of her life story.

She really grass how to experience God's love.

So honey you come share with us.

Good morning. I am excited to share with you how I experience God's love and I encountered real love for the first time when I was 25 years old and I accepted Christ as my Savior and I realize now as I look back God had been drawing me with his love for quite a while that it was when I actually came to a point where I understood and I recognized his love that I accepted Christ as my Savior and it was a real turning point in my life.

In first John 410 says this is real love is not that we loved God but that he loved us and sent his son as a sacrifice to take away our sins so that's what real lobbyists minutes God and his son to die for us to take away our sins because he loved us so much and he wanted us to be close to him. While this love that I experienced at age 25 was different from any love that I had known point I had never thought of love and God in the same which to me seems odd now but I really never did. When I thought about love. It was romantic love between a man and a woman, not about God and man and a woman and I think a Christian home and I never heard my parents say to each other that they love each other. They never told me they love me verbally. I never heard that word expressed in my home and so this learned that I was strange experience so different for me and it was wonderful. By the time I was 25 I realize that there was being whole in my heart and that there was a very long to be filled and I tried to fill it up with so many things that didn't work and I made lots of bad decisions in my early adult years just trying to make life work out and trying to fill a hole in my heart and all growing up. I can never please my dad so I always felt like a failure and I felt like I was not very lovable and so I was trying to find that my client is not getting married and it was not a good situation and it was just the dream of my life that that somebody would love me and care for me and it just did not work out well and by the time I was 25 I was a single mom had been abandoned by my husband. I had twin baby boys and I was just in a desperate situation. I was lonely. I was depressed.

I didn't have any money. I found a pandan and he didn't have any help, but it was at this time that I experienced God's love for me in an amazing way, the Lord led me to work with them. The director of admissions at Fairmont State College and this man was a very godly me and he seemed to not be shy at all sharing his faith even on a secular campus which I'm so thankful for now, that is, we work together and is timely permit. He began to share with me about the love of God, and he share with me things I have never heard before. He told me God's love is a love that lasts forever that it will and that God's love is a love that will never change his love is unconditional. It doesn't matter what I gave it doesn't matter what I did in the past that his love never changes for me and that his love will care for me, that through his love, he will provide for my children and that he has hope for my future for my kids and so I began to listen to what my friend was saying to me and it started on makes and I realize that's what the need in my heart for its real and I've been longing for this time and on a Sunday evening in August when my two little boys just turned one year old accepted Christ as my Savior and in that time I begin to experience the love of God in an amazing way.

He changed my life changed my future.

He changed the direction in the future of my children's lives and he took all the broken pieces all that them terrible things that had been a part of my life thinking that all back together and he he cleans me from all my past and he made me new and clean and a new vessel.

He would fill up with himself that he would fill up with his love, so that he could love others through me. Line learned experience that I could experience God's love in many ways, from the time I became a Christian. Up until today. Every day I experience God's love them anyway and one of the ways and experiences. Love is two people stared the body of Christ. It's it's it's Christians loving each other in caring for one another, people, and I was near the lever reached out to me and provided for me, cared for me and welcomed me and loved me in spite of what I had pimp through and I experience the love of Christ and experience God's love through his word.

As I read his word every day as I open up this book is written to ask because he wants us to know how much he loves us and every day I get new plants into he is and how great he is and how full of love. He is for me and how he wants to work in my life and since through his word I experience is love. I experience his love is. I pray and as I cry out to him for the needs of my heart desires that I have for the people that I love and I watch as God responds in just amazing way that he shows up in and doing things and I just never believed could happen. I see I see in every day I seeming big things. I seem little things I stand as I walked to my day. One of the times I specially seen as early in the morning when I got outside with my dog and take him out every morning and darken on the days that I can see that stars Alec and I look up into the sky and reveals himself to me and I see these great cities powering that he is still being enhanced so full of love and he cares about me and every little detail.

He lives and he loves you well.

As we experience God's love in our life. What happens is Scriptures teach that the through the Holy Spirit just pours his love through our lives.

It's like a flat influence our lives with his aunt.

I had my housefly before, so I know that flood very hard to stop. It's a powerful thing and it just impacts wherever he goes. It changes things in wind currents love our hearts see we can't stop it if it impacts the people that were running around and it's just a natural thing that opens and so is he finds our hearts. It just naturally flows out people and God shows his love to others through last couple weeks ago and gave me I'm really wonderful picture of what it looks like for me to love people to love especially lost people. Those who don't know Jesus as their Savior and this one morning I got up and I just glanced out the window not cram IIS on this big word walk across the grass in the back and and I think my child that the couple hours later I glanced out the bird walk back this way and then I looked closer I saw the seagull and it was kind of strange because I never seen a seagull in my yard and couple hours there, he still out there just walking around the yard without hanging out in my backyard.

I went out to check on him and his wing was broken and I felt so sorry for that bird and was trying to think what can I do you got to help this bird. I can't eat can't fly stock here. He told if I don't do something because I knew that he couldn't get out of my yard and so I find it a little bit what to do and then it came to my mind that I could call the wild animal rescue site called the rescue and I wasn't sure if they would respond to this, but the first patient number says if number one if if it's an animal emergency Cypress number one and I explained to this lady has seagull him I backyard with a broken wing and and I said is this an animal emergency share. There's thousands of seagulls with a common save just one ego and she was so nice so nice and so a couple hours later here. The van wild animal rescue and cons in my backyard and whiskeys. This is stranded little bird and felt so good I felt like what I really I really did something good today. I did a good deed and God spoke to my heart and this is what he said and I write it down because I wanted to remember key people who don't know me.

See, he sent the probe can lost their's and if somebody doesn't help.

I separated from me for you here as much about people who are lost as she little bird in your backyard which you take that much effort to care for lost people and I realize that can help assess that just it's like I was compelled I had to help this little bird. It's that God gives us. It just compels us to reach out to share and to love consider because there broken and there separated from God and the be separated from for him from heifer and there stuck in their condition unless one of us tells them the month and reach out to them with the love of God and my prayer for me and for all of us is that we would be compelled by the share reach out and care for them. Just reminder that this message why it's hard to assure the love is from his series sure the love how to talk to anyone about God for lots of reasons we can be hesitant to talk about her faith. That's what your taught this four-part series to boost your confidence and hope you have spontaneous conversations about your relationship with Jesus. If you'd like to hear this message again the chipping remap is perfect for free access or one tab sharing of these powerful messages. If you prefer CDs take advantage of our honor discounts. Remember, the MP3s are always free.

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Oh, what was it about what she shared that you thought was different from what you were brought to the message. I'm convinced that the numbers six and seven are the ones that really get us unstuck and line number six is that I'm just not bold enough versus I don't care enough and that is so convicting that is just so pierces my heart you know what I was try to be pretty honest about my neighbors in unison relationships where if I really cared about them. I would be sharing and the thing I realize was my wife is really winsome. She has a she's an introvert.

She does not have an outgoing personality and she really shares God's love not because she's an extrovert, or has the gift of evangelism she so has experienced personally God's love that she literally feels compelled to share with other people and she doesn't just experience at Lovett Salvation Army. I watch her get up in the morning and talking and pray you and you know why bird tears with tissues and and really experience God. She can't help but tell people because whatever were excited about what whatever we love we share. For example, if you are with my wife and you're even remotely interested on her phone. She has a picture of many grandchildren. Okay, she's going to share that with you. I have another friend that I talked about earlier, but he is like a sports hall like and if you are at all interested, he's gonna tell you, you know this team and that team and is fantasy this we all share about what matters to us. And so what I want people to understand is we have to pull down the strongholds or myths and is not trying harder, making this an event or it's not of checking a box or a duty, you know you're supposed to do this in almost every Christian I meet feels overwhelmingly guilty about not sharing their faith. What I would say is forget that start loving people, and then let God love you and if you don't have a love for people. Ask him to fill you up and then instead of talking or thinking there's a big event, just start caring invite people over love them, pray form God will open the door and I'll give you some tools next time about what to say when he does so screw good strip will listen to days of special day. It's called giving Tuesday before we wrap it up.

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