Believe The Love
FOUNDATION STATEMENT: God’s commandments to us where given to us because of God’s
overwhelming love for us and because of His great desire to see us live and
experience THE abundant life. – John 12:50
I.
Everybody who is born
again has zoe on the inside of them, but to reap zoe we have to sow to the
spirit by walking in the love of God (Galatians 6:7-9)
A. When you walk in love you
activate and release that zoe force
1.
When
u sow seeds of violating the commandment of love u will reap corruption-Rom
6:22
B. You can be born again and
living in hell on the Earth b/c ur sowing towards
it-Js 3:16
1.
The
company that strife keeps ought to tell you something right there about the
relationship you should keep with strife
a. Everything that is evil
is connected to the violation of the commandment of love
b. If the release of strife
is connected to every evil work, then the release of love must be connected to
every good work.
C. Why are the evil works
down there with the violation of the commandment of love?
1.
At
that moment when you violate the commandment of fear is present (1 John 4:18)
2.
Fear
is the activator of the force of death (Romans 6:22)
a. Unrepented violations of the
commandment of love activate that death force in your life and manifest the
curse-1 John 3:14
3.
Fear
is the connector to the oppression (Isaiah 54:14)
a. Where fear/violation of
the commandment of love is that death force is activated and works to manifest
oppression
4.
Perfected
love will throw the fear out, the death out, the oppression, the sickness out,
the poverty out, the depression out (1 John 4:18)
a. John 12:50 – That’s
why this commandment is life ever lasting
D. You got to believe the
love (1 John 4:16)
1.
You
got to believe that this commandment of love is going to throw fear out, throw
oppression out, throw poverty out, and throw sickness out. You got to believe that one step outside
of this is one step into every evil work.
You got to believe that this commandment is life everlasting and then
continue in it.
2.
Don’t
get weary in keeping the command of love (Jn 14:9-10)
a. We have to commit to this
long enough to see the results of it (Ephesians 3:17)
b. You can’t walk on the
pathway of love and not hit the Garden of Eden
II. The purpose for the commandment of love is not to keep you from
having fun, but is to keep you from activating that death force and
experiencing hell on the Earth.
A. Religion has given us the
idea that God gives us commandments to usurp authority over us and let us know
who’s in charge
1.
Love
commanded this; Compassion Himself commanded this
a. God does not have one bit
of selfishness in his being
2.
This
commandment is not about Him, it’s about us
a. Commandments of God have
never been about him
b. Why do you give your kids
instructions?
c. These commandments aren’t
there to challenge us nor or they there to give God a reason to slap us when we
mess up
3.
God’s
commandments are not grievous-burdensome, heavy (1 John 5:3)
a. There’s no loss
associated with keeping this commandment of love
B. God is the creator of
life and he knows how to get the most out of life
1.
His
commandments are love letters from Heaven, telling us what to do so that we can
enjoy life on the Highest level
a. EXAMPLE: The manufacture
of a product always prints up a manual instructing the buyer to do things so
that the buyer can get the most out of that product.
b. The manual was not
created to benefit the manufacturer. When you do what the manual says the only
benefit that manufacturer gets is you will absolutely get the highest
performance out of that product, & others might see it & buy it
2.
God
gave us commandments b/c inside the boundaries of those commandments we are
able to experience life on the Highest level the way that He intended for us
a. God’s stuck on that
garden and on Heaven on the Earth
1)
They
are the boundaries that God gave us telling us to stay in here where faith
works, where healing is, where prosperity is, where victory is
b. Outside that boundary is
where that force of death works
1)
God’s
not against you having a good time, He’s against you activating that death
force and living in oppression the Earth
3.
It
wasn’t the Lord cursing the children of Israel because they didn’t do what He
said; it was the children of Israel walking outside of that boundary of
obedience where the curse was and of course it came on them
a. The was no permissive
word in the Hebrew; God allowed them to do what they wanted (Deuteronomy 30:19
– It was their choice)
1)
God
will protect your decision to go to hell, if that’s what you want to do
C. The whole idea of the
commandment of love is to keep zoe manifesting in your life so that you don’t
have to live in darkness and in bondage to the curse
1.
God
gave us this commandment b/c He knew it would lead us back to the Garden
a. Your prosperity, your healing,
your salvation, your victory is in there
2.
We
have the purpose now of this commandment
a. It’s not so that God can
be loved by you or so that God can have love robots; it’s so that you won’t
turn that death force on and have to live in hell
3.
God’s
commanding you to walk back into the garden
a. He gave you this
commandment because he has a strong desire to see abundance in your life
b. This commandment is
literally in way is the same thing He said to Adam in Genesis 1 – He’s
commanding you to walk love, be fruitful, multiply increase and flourish
III. When you get in disobedience to the commandment of love there
is a resistance to the abundant life that comes out of you
A. Violation of the
commandment of love puts you in a place of resistance to the abundant life
(healing, prosperity, victory)
1.
Sin
in your life puts you out of line with the law of abundance and resists it
2.
Mark
10:17 – The rich young ruler got in disobedience to the commandment of
love and resisted the very thing that he fell on his knees telling Jesus he
wanted so badly.
a. Because he was in
violation of the commandment of love he was in a place of resistance to the
thing he desired
b. He was in resistance to
the thing that he was on his knees begging for, because he was in resistance to
the law that would produce it
3.
How
many believers are out there resisting the very thing that they are on the
knees praying to God for?
B. When you resist the
commandment of love you resist everything that hangs off of it
1.
You
begin to resist faithjoy, prosperity, healing, the
anointing, the blessing, victory
a. Love is connected to your
healing, prosperity, the anointing, the blessing, joy, peace, zoe, victory &
when u rejected love you resisted all of these things
1)
You
can’t be for healing and against the law that healing depends on
2.
In
General the Body of Christ has resisted the love and then wondered why they
can’t get healed, prosper, or be victorious
a. When you refuse to love,
you’re in resistance to life, you’re in resistance to light, you’re in
resistance to the Word, and you’re in resistance to God
C. When you resist the
commandment of love, you resist healing and receive sickness, resist prosperity
and receive poverty, resist victory and receive defeat (James 3:16)
1.
In
reality you’re resisting God and submitting to and receiving the devil (James
4:7)
2.
When
you resist that commandment of love and get over into an area of unrepented sin, that death force is working
a. The law of strife
produces every evil work – Hell on the Earth
D. If God is love and he is
(1 John 4:8,16), & if we are born of love and we are (1 John 5:1), and if
we sprung off of God and we did (Acts 17:29), then our recreated spirit is love
1.
So
to walk in violation to the commandment of love and oppose it is to oppose
yourself and sow towards your own destruction
2.
When
you oppose love you oppose yourself
(2 Timothy 2:25)
a. 19-Depart from iniquity;
26-Recover themselves; 26-Taken alive; 26-At his will
IV. Choosing the zoe abundant life by choosing the commandment of
love (Deut 30:19)
A. You can’t chose life
without choosing love
B. You choose life, and you
choose blessing by choosing the commandment of love
C. I choose the commandment
of today – I choose to love God with all of my heart, I choose to love
God with every thought that I think, I chose to love God with every decision
that I make, I chose to love God with all of my emotions, I choose to love God
with all of my time and money, I choose to extend the same love, the same
mercy, and the same grace to my neighbor that my Father has extended towards me