Am I who am I to sing your Praises who am I to Worship You Lord am I to worship You your blood that Mak the difference in me and made a way and made the way to enter into your Thr I could not come near your presence I could never sing your song I could never sing Your sacri on Cal tree has given me a reason is the reason Hallelujah Emer Emer I’m so Grateful from the depths of my heart I See I’m so grateful Thank you are my Lord and my kingever I’m so thank you Jesus thank you Lord hallelujah you are my you are my Lord father we thank you we breathe upon your word breathe upon your word cause our eyes to see our ears to hear and our hearts to understand Lord
We are here to say we are grateful we are thankful for your goodness for your kindness and your mercy we say be exalted and be lifted we give you praise in Jesus might might name amen amen please let’s be seated Give the Lord a shout of Praise praise the Lord um please you permit me to bring the pet here it’s really hot up here amen and the lights are lifted thank you sir can carry that praise the Lord um 2 Samuel chapter 9 I was gifted this AB to we today I think you have all seen it amen
Praise the Lord amen lovely lovely amen one day I’m reading 2 Samuel chapter 9 from verse one um I’m reading the New Living Translation one day David asked is anyone in Saul’s family still alive anyone to whom I can show kindness for Jonathan’s sake he summoned a man named Zeba who
Had been one of Saul’s servants are you Zeba the king asked yes I am Zeba replied the king then asked him is anyone still alive from Saul’s family if so I want to show God’s kindness to them I hope I’m reading second Samuel okay not King James I said I’m reading the
New Living Translation amen I think I said that okay Zeba replied one of Jonathan’s son is still alive he crippled in both feet where is he the king asked in loar Zeba told him at the home of Maki son of am so David sent for him and
Brought him from Mar’s home his name was meibos he was Jonathan’s son and Saul’s grandson when he came to David he bowed low to the ground in deep respect David said greetings mefiboset mefiboset replied I am your servant Don’t Be Afraid David said I intend to show you kindness to show kindness to
You because of your promise of my promise to your father Jonathan I will give you all the property that once belonged to your grandfather Saul and you will eat here with me at the king’s table mefiboset bowed respectfully and exclaimed who is your servant that you should show such
Kindness to a dead dog like me then the king summoned Saul’s servant Zeba and said I have uh given your Master’s grandson everything that belonged to Saul and his family you and your sons and servants are to farm the land for him to produce food for your Master’s
Household but meibo said your Master’s grandson will eat here at my table Zeba had 15 sons and 20 servants Zeba replied yes my Lord I am your s and I will do all that you have commanded and from that time on meibo said ate regularly at David’s table like
One of the king’s own Sons meib had a young son called me laid down his life for us and we also ought to lay down our lives for the Brethren today I’ve been asked to somebody say who’s asking you amen I’ve been asked to talk about what is true
Love if you were in church last week we addressed the fact amen that the word of God the Bible is the word of God and U we showed both from history in the canonization and the way the Bible came to be are you mean so we are still looking into this
Bible to see what love is one of the most uh frequently Asked question on Google is What is love I had to check it again it’s one of the question that is often asked people go to Google to ask what is love and that just shows that in the multiplicity of love signs
Emojis and um songs written on love people still ask what is love first John chap 4: 16 here what the Bible says 1 John 4:1 16 the Bible says and we have known and believe the love that God has for us God is love he says and he who abides in love
Abides in God and God in him he says God is love I was reading a book by CS l and some of you were in the car this morning I was telling you about CS leis he was an atheist for many years before he became a Christian and uh because at his teen
Teenage years he had lost faith in religion and then he became a Christian by virtue of his interaction um with another literal refer by the name um okay his name just jumped off my heart but he’s the one that wrote Lord of the Rings and the man had a profound influence upon his
Life there were both uh lecturers and people of great intellectual press in the University so CS Le was decided to take on a thesis to write on the subject of love and he came across this scripture and he said something he said when he read this scripture he saw that the Bible says
That God is love but upon critical study he discovered that love is not God this is one of those rare cases where are you with me a is equals to B but do necessarily mean that b equals to A and the reason is because our definitions of Love might not
Necessarily fit into the context of who God is now when I saw that statement it got me thinking that the Bible says God is love that means if we’re going to Define love are you me because of the multi nature of his definition we must
Take our Locust from who God is are you with me but then there’s something CS Le said that that I said I will share with us he said that love can be defined on the basis of what motivates it he says and you discovered that two things motivate love he said the first
Is what he calls he calls the gift love and what he calls the Need Love CS Le we said that the Need Love is what we seek to get are you getting me by reason and virtue of our incompleteness and our imperfection and the gift love what he calls gift
Love is the love that gives are you me uh without considering self but because of what will happen to the other I like the way he balances it in his study because he says that both are necessary they might be abused are you mean but both are necessary for example
The love that a mother has for a child is very very unconditional I you mean it’s very unconditional uh the mother brought that child into the world so the mother will go to any any length to preserve that child to feed that child to help that child grow
And well nurtured but there is a need in the child are you mean for safety and for protection at some point as that child grows when there’s anything to scare that child what will the child do it will run to the mother it is not necessarily running to the mother
Because of what the mother has done for him or her is running to the mother because there is a need in his life at that time that needs satisfaction true or FSE and we are as human beings God created us with intricate needs that whether we like it or not are you
Getting me needs to be satisfied so there are longings for friendship I it was God who said it’s not good for man to be alone there are longings in our heart for safety there are longings for uh esteem there are longings in our heart are you getting me for achievements now this need
Could be the motivating factor for what we call love and most times love can be skewed in the directions of our needs and when it’s skewed in the directions of our needs are you mean it is called selfishness because it’s about what I need but the reason God put the need
Love in US am I talking to someone is so that we will not be independent of him so when you need safety don’t you pray if you have ever been in a situation that you prayed let me see your hand up and God helped you it was a
Need that drove you to him so God created us in such a way that we will not lack him we always need him amen so need love is not totally wrong though it can be abused he can be abused is that okay but that is not the love of God
That is not all that defines the love of God now because of our need you know CS Le was able to identify four kinds of love the first he identifies he calls it filio are you getting me and what is f when we begin to develop affiliations not on the basis of
Who we are but what we need so we begin to get into associations of us uh some of you here put 30 people in a class eventually you see everybody segregating based on their needs not necessarily like ability okay if there’s something this person has to give me I will become
Friends with this person now that perceived need is what drives us to seek soless in others to love them and because filio is not meant to exist between two people we always look for other people to bring in and long before you know it is class 98 said
77 as though you are the only ones that are educated do you get me you know even within class 77 you now begin to find the uh group of intelligent people I remember when I was in my 100th level in the University the guy told me he said
Pastor AR because I was a pastor they knew me he had known me he said I want you to introduce you to a group I said what group cuz the guy was not a serious Christian he said the group is called Echo I said Echo what is Echo he say
It’s an educational community of weak and average students I said the Lord will judge you of course he was joking but it kind of made me laugh he say it’s an educational community of weak and average students Echo us say so that during exams we sit in one particular
Place and we’re able to help ourselves we can share ideas I say so you are planning to cheat he said no we will read together then we will teach ourselves during the exam I said that’s wrong he said that’s why we have an association it’s a legal
Association that was on a lighter note but that is how fraternities are born that is you see that people love themselves not because hear me of the personalities of the people involved is because of the shared interest that they have so when we talk about F love when
We talk about filo we are talking about the existing interest groups someone can hear hate you now but the moment you change party the person will do what will love you they say now you’re in APC are you with me now you are in APC you have left PDP the person doesn’t
Love you because they particular traits in you that are desirable per se is because we now share common interest so one of the basis for human interaction is that we call love is based on interest so you hear people say I love that guy have you heard that before I love
This person some of you love Chelsea that pable club are you getting me no no I’m not bringing football it’s pable no I my my heart went out for them yesterday I can you be one person now for a whole match you score the equalize again and again you’re not you’re not
Serious but see you still love them it’s not because the players there do you know any of them personally do you have their numbers you just have a common interest for the blues you can even pick I love Chelsea you see people put it on their
Cars I mean that love is based on what interest so the second kind of love that he identified other than files are you getting me is that as people get together in communities and begin to relate with one another are you hearing me they begin to know one
Another in a way that drives intimacy so he said the second Kind of Love is Aeros where you get the word erotic this is love that seeks to become one with someone in knowledge so if you see most people who are married often than not they met in
One particular place or something either they met on one these days people meet online right but it’s a community online do you get it you came to the church and then you saw this person or we were both in school together it was first filo and then I
Met this person or I went to visit this particular friend and then I saw this lady and um you wanted to get to know the person some more and erotic love is one of the most uh abused Kind of Love Are You me you cannot say AOS is
God and you cannot say filio is God that’s why I said that God is love but it doesn’t mean that love is God are you with me yes sir so Eros talks about intimacy but you see people can have physical attraction are you getting me and not be
Friends so he says that the Third Kind of of Love Is stge they are all Greek words and stge actually means affection are you mean St is spelled s t o r g e what you don’t know ask some say you didn’t pronounce it well but that’s the
Spelling now stud don’t we talk about stud we’re talking about affection which grow goes over what time affection is why a cat is why a dog can sometimes be friends with a cat are you me it’s why they say I you know the day I saw it I was shocked affection
Even is the reason they say that horses like certain chickens you can’t explain it but is that as you stay with someone are you getting me there is something you cannot deeply explain that the person resonates with why do you love this person say because the person is smart but there
Are many smart people are you mean why do you love this person he said because the guy is Anointed but there are many anointed people why do you love this person he said ah because the guy is dark but there are many what dark persons you say this person is
Intelligent but there are many intelligent people that means even within intelligence are you hearing me there is a way that person’s intelligence or that attribute strikes you that it doesn’t strike the other this is why it is difficult when affection begins to brood to explain it is hard to say
Why are you with mean because what actually is somebody listening what actually defines it cannot be articulated it’s a feral like if they ask you why do you like Manchester United you’ll be aaz you don’t really have any reason because they all playing football a lot of people are Apple folks
I know how of you like apple like apple I think he I just like the mark you know but of you are Apple no matter what you will buy the worst Apple than buy the best Samsung or techno is because there is a way Apple makes you
Feel and let me give you a bit of branding are you getting me when people sell Brands this is what they sell why they do what they do that’s why you buy certain things but you can’t explain why you just stay with them no no matter what anybody thinks about
It do you know asna has suffered me the most in my life I’ve been humiliated I say AR God Only God will judge you because you have not reciprocated the love that I’ve shown to you people I’ve been so nice to you but you have not been faithful to me
But I don’t know why I have not left I will leave but I will still come back that means there’s something about ASA that chose me it’s Tor is somebody getting here so that is love that but that is not God as a matter of fact Le we said
Something he said this about the closest to who God is and it’s one of the things that is fast fading in our society I remember there was a time I heard Kenneth kopla make a statement he said don’t love things like them and I was reading somewhere and
They said that in the past some of the people who grew up in the early uh 19th century 20th century were not allowed to use the word love for inanimate things you can’t say I love a car you can’t say I love this wrist watch at best you can only do what like
It because they felt that that kind of love that you’re trying to use to describe that thing are you me comes with time in relating with people are you with me it comes with time so you stay with an uncle at a point in time
You don’t even know why this uncle has a very major place in your life and I know I have people like that here so you love what you’re actually saying is that is that there are attributes about this person that I cannot explain but it touches the core of something in me we
Are not saying any of this love is bad but is that true love is that the Heart of Love because if you look at all this three loes we’ve talked about you cannot deny the root of selfishness in it but Agape is divine love divine love are you getting me it is
Love that is characterized by sacrifice and pursuit of the good of another hear this without consideration of self nobody said amen I was listening to Jo Maya and she said she wrote a book Love Revolution she said of all the books she wrote that’s the one that sold the least
Copies you know people were happy even me I was excited how of you have seen that book Love Revolution powerful book he said but a lot of people didn’t buy the book the book didn’t sell and that’s one of the books dearest to her heart and she said why because when you hit
Agapy when you begin to talk about true love he hits the C of spirituality by removing self I started reading a book by Jennifer Lopez that she tagged true love and it was about her struggles growing up some of you know her right she sings she dances she acts and all
That about certain events that happened to her between 2011 2012 and how she learned how to put confidence where in herself and believe in her own abilities and be happy as I read that book I said is this what true love is see what the Bible says in our text 1 John
3:16 1 John 3:16 he says and we have what known by this we know love by this we know love how because he laid down his life for us how do we know love by Sacrifice by this we know love not because we’re in a class not because
I got married to you amen not because there’s something you do that makes me like you by this we know love or permit me to say by this we know true loves that lives he laid down his life for us did Jesus lay down his life for
Us give me the passion translation of this scripture we’re going to look at about three four translations is somebody blessed this is how we discovered Love’s reality reality means truth this is how we discovered the truth about love Jesus sacrificed his life for us and because of his great love we should be
Willing to lay down our lives for one another hey how many of you are ready for that you know we live in a world where in church they say tell your neighbor I love you you even hold your hand I need you you need we are a part of God as we are
Going down the stairs are you getting me the guy is going down you see him walking he say excuse me are you going towards say say no no no I’m going to G are you get me he’s the same person that say I do what I love
You let me tell you if we truly if we know true love we will change the world you a this is we’re in a season where people preach love they don’t see one neighbor and they say h that useless man let his life he’s wasting his life somewhere I’m sure
Amen this is a we are living in a season where people say they are walking in love and someone will sit there slandering you talking about you behind your back and the person will allude to what they are saying you know what I’m saying the person will not say no this
Person is not like that or the person will not stand up and walk away the person will sit down and say I think you have a point there he laid down his life we live in a Time hear me where people talk about love but preserve themselves
First I’ve heard people talk and the first that comes out of their mouth is I know that this thing is like but me you’ve excluded yourself right you are trying to paint an image of yourself at the expense of others no one that you say true love belongs to to Divinity Jonathan
Edwards say Pastor what are all these books you are reading they are theologians have you heard of Jonathan Edwards it was one of the which one there are many I don’t know which of them you heard but this Jonathan Ed was one of founding fathers in in us and he was a great
Theologian he divided love he said love can be put into two categories write this down he calls the first love of complacency and he calls the second the love of benevolence what is love of complacency are you getting me he says that love of compen is when you find yourself loving something are
You mean pleased with something by virtue of the quality of that thing by virtue of the quality of that thing that place that so you can say ah ay there just something about it meaning that it provokes your love on the basis of the qualities of that
Thing you ask people why do you want to marry this guy oh man he rocks my world he’s a v he prays if you hear him dissecting the Bible no no no anytime he opens the Bible something happens to me this is why celebrities become frustrated because they discover that
People love them not for who they are but because of what they give yesterday something just popped up on YouTube as I was checking for something and you know my heart my heart heart really BL because when this thing happened I was like 10 years 10 11 years to a particular
Minister and I kept asking myself you know this one of the ministers that so blessed me he he passed on two years ago you know he blessed me while I was growing up and I kept asking myself why why did this man fall why did this man
Fall and the Holy Spirit said to me because he was lonely do you know the people who command the biggest crowds a lot of times they are the lonliest of people a guy sang Don’t Worry Be Happy and he died of worry because naturally the love of
Complience is that we like things you say this things is lovely if you’ve ever said that let me see your hand I’ll tell you the place for that is God that put in US oh this girl this lady is se but you know people change you know the guy that has a
V can have a ball tomorrow and when love is based on the I know I’m communicating When Love is based on certain qualities that something has and that person recognizes that the reason for this attraction is because of what I have you will always see the person trying to
Perform always trying to fit into that what image into that narrative so as to be accepted a woman was called pretty and sexy let me finally use the word in the 1940s if they were Plum so you see ladies eating well to fit into that mold to be
Accepted by the men by the community of men then somebody just came one day and said no no no no that the new sexy is what is Slim are you get me I know a particular sister I call her name when we’re growing up this how she used to she her
Greatest desire was to be a model this how she always used to work you I said what happened to you he said that’s being she wanted to be so I’m tell this she she will cross her leg cross her leg at the point in time I saw her going like
This everybody knew her for it she always tell me I don’t want to be like my mother cuz her mother is always on the first side one day I saw her I started laughing you know why the thighs have become bigger so when she tries to do this the thing
Remains in front the thing is not overlapping like before she’s trying to go so it’s more so it now become something like this I said be free but why is she doing that because she probably had walked in that particular way somebody saw it and said wow I just
I just love the way you work that means if I’m going to sustain this person’s love that will mean that I’ll have to what I’ll have to keep up with that expectation of the person that’s love of complacency but he talked about love of benevolence and the love of
Benevolence is when you love someone not because of the attributes of the object are you with me but because of your good will that means it is provoked from you not the object so your aim is not because of what that thing has your aim is because
Of what you can give to that thing now this is the kind of love that God has for us so what is true love true love is that which seeks what it can give not what it can receive the reason people are always on Google searching for what love is is
Because their attention is not about what they can give their attention is about what they can do what they can get how often as a pastor do you hear people say he doesn’t even do this again he used to there’s a way he used to treat me I don’t feel like that anymore
I many you know the root of that whole cry is about what is about self second Timothy chapter 3 Give Me 2 Timothy CH 3:1 father we give you praise so say this your resurrection message yes my prayer is that love will be resurrected in your
Heart but know this that in the last days perilous times will come and those days are here it says for men will be lovers of themselves lovers of themselves if I’m okay then everybody should be okay I cannot incomin myself another person never in my life it’s a common
Thing self-preservation I’ve tried I have tried lovers of money I think that one is everywhere boaster proud blasphemers disobedient to parents unthankful you know I told one of my kids I don’t say which one I told one of my kids the other day to to do something she now oh she
Okay you know I have only one amen so she now got up with an attitude I say come I said let me tell you something it should be a joy that I asked you to do something for me he said because I told that I said because there are many
Things I don’t need you to do I’m what I’m asking you to do is what I can do but if I ask you to do it you should be happy that I’m giving you the privilege to do something for me don’t frown when I send you selfishness yesterday I was going out
For evangelism in Kei I was so hungry in the morning like some of you do how so they were frying all these things from the kitchen I was just expectant just waiting that I’ll get something to eat before I go when I came guess who was frying something
Yana my dear Yana so I went and pinched on it he said Daddy it’s for me and Justin I say you and who see I said what of me he said no she doesn’t know but this one is for her and Justin I say my own potato that I bought with my
Money in my house using my gas my oil and you are telling me see how selfish human beings are it’s in us that is for you and your brother I thought having said that it will touch her she would say okay Daddy come I have some I went on to other
Things this girl fried it went to the room put on the AC with her brother are you getting me set a movie both of them were watching the movie on my data with my devices we’re eating it when I entered I was even trying to I
Said can I can I join you no answer I say w are you getting me if my name is not I must eat this food today I must eat it I said no no no no this one will not work here someone what you I I ate that food like they were my
Meat praise God I didn’t I I didn’t I we ate like Meats I showed them that I went to a boarding school are you getting me I rushed the food I finished it she said is your you bought your food I say I bought my food you fried it I ate it and
I want you to know I ate it we don’t need to teach people to be selfish it is inborn from the day you started crying for your mother to leave people to come and attend to you we are born selfish and it’s that selfishness we interpret as true love and that’s why we
Always going into everything with what we can gain even when we don’t say it thinking that the whole world revolves around us hello tell your neighbor you are not the center of the universe of the universe and the Bible says in these last days there will be more self centered
People so let’s look at four qualities of benevolent love is somebody blessed hello can I say something you know sometimes I canel people I talk to them maybe they’re dating and they’re having issues isues or they have a spouse issue and I canel them let me tell you what how human beings
Are see we can worship cry but the love of God has to take residence in us I I was talking to a lady recently I said don’t pray for your husband to change so that you can benefit pray for him to change for his own good a lot of our prayers are selfish
Lord change my husband Lord change my husband have you ever thought that there’s something about you that needs to change change my husband so that the way people go to church with their spouse we too we can be going to church happy family Facebook is creating a lot of
Problem for people there are people who are smiling online dying at home you know why because he self what preservation if if some are not even talking where help would have come to them because there’s an image they’ve built they don’t want it ruined selfishness these last days it will
Increase sometimes you can even tell a man treat your wife this way you know the man will go and start treating the wife that way the ultimate aim is that she will change and start treating him well is still about him self amen you ought not to be
So can I ask you if you are not married for to your husband how will you pray for him if you’re not married to your wife will something be in you to pray for her that you say you are a child of God I’m just praying for you like Paul said
That you will stand perfect in all of God’s will plan and purpose is the same thing we carry into our prayers how many of you have prayed for somebody genuinely not this religious I’m praying for you you have genuinely carried somebody’s case you prayed you cried tears came out of your eyes
Even when people s seeds is self-preservation pastor called called Pastor blessing me too I’ll be among the people they will call next the next time Pastor is going to do that illustration I must be in that illustration who told you you must mhm I’m exposing you because the moment it becomes about
You something is wrong if we are more Christians the world will be better so Ephesians 3:17 as I begin to round up oh that Christ May dwell in your hearts through faith this is the prayer of Paul for the church in Ephesus that you being rooted and what grounded in love in love
In love in Agape may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width somebody say width the length the depth and the height that means there are four dimensions to Agape to the love of the benevolence there are four dimensions number one dimension the degree to which the person love
Deserves the object or the person love does not deserve to be loved did you understand that should I repeat it yes sir the degree are you getting me to which the person loved or the object loved does not deserve to be loved that is the first that is the
Depth I know you love Sinners some of you can say you love Sinners but you know Agape will be tested you know why it to be tested every single person we have a degree of Tolerance AG gape is measured by how deep our tolerance is I Thought I Loved
People until I was in South Africa some Continental Hotel I was having breakfast in the restaurant you need anything sir I said no I’m okay thank you he’s not a lady a guy sir do you need any more can I be of any help to
You I said no cannot be of any help to me all right thank you a man a man a man like me came the third time this third time my eye change you know I can get you more if I said I don’t need anything how many I
Say it I said beg excuse me I was irritated my friend said AR please calm down you cannot do that here I said why the guy can sue you for harassment I said I’ll sue him too he’s harassing me this is the third time he has come he said no
So I can love someone smoking him are you getting me with his earrings everywhere but I just discover that the depth of this particular object can I go that far it’s irritating me because it has gone past my threshold for tolerance guess what God loves that guy
As much as he Lov Jesus on the cross that’s true love some of you are quiet Romans chapter 5:6 or that girl in your house that lies and steals you will get tired again and again you know some people have a default lie mode ask them in the is this morning
They say no it’s afternoon sorry it’s morning yeah it’s I know there are spirits Behind these things see put money in the house a thief knows where it is you didn’t tell anybody keep that money somewhere there’s a demon that said look check here check there check this
Place I’m not saying you should be a d m but how far can you go Ephesians 5 Romans 5:6 for when we were still without strength get on the keyboard in due time Christ died for the ungodly who did he die for oh I didn’t hear you who did he die
For verse seven quickly for scarly for a righteous man will one die yet Perhaps for a good man someone would even dare to die then he says in verse 8 but God demonstrates his what his his own love see the demonstration of God’s love to us in
That why we were still sinners Christ died for us hey is what shouting can you die for someone when the person is not your kind yes we can make sacrifices for good people but can you make sacrifices for people that you term not good I think we say we should talk about true
Love some of you only like people who you like you know there are people you like and that’s why I said there’s a place for that but those are the people you celebrate you know when I have time how many remember some years ago I used to
Send every person a message on their birthday I didn’t stop but it’s time I don’t have I’m a big Goo now amen but these days I still remember and I said so one day I sent to a particular sister I sent him she called me I was crying said pastor even was like
This so even was like this you sent a message I said you’re important so even us so because of what happened to her sometime the people I’m not closest to they are the ones I strive to send messages to because you if I’m very close to you like get angry with your
Business just to let them know you are what you are important that’s why I read that scripture to you 2 Samuel 9 do you know what it means for a king to be looking for a meet if he was crippled in one feet is different but say he was crippled in
Both feet they were carrying him and David said is anyone left of the House of Saul that I might show kindness for Jonathan’s sake you need to understand who Saul is Saul forgot matters of state to chase down David to make sure David died he hated David passionately why he was trying to
Preserve the throne for his son can I ask you some of you that other person’s child you are treating as though he doesn’t have a father you are preserving things I know I’m touching some shaking some of you treat your children better than you treat other people’s
Children my former house in Jah one day I stood up and I saw some children they sat on uh they cut out a piece of U they cut out a piece of um Jeran and they tied a rope to it and they were pulling it you know
They would pull the younger child in it and he was happy the other was pushing an old Tire he me and and I entered into my house when I left my bedroom and came to the paror I saw Justin riding his bike I said what an irony of life and I
Looked at both of them I said the difference is Grace nothing more he was just born to me he he didn’t work for it and I told myself I said that boy down there is not less Human Than This One riding a bike up here and if I have an opportunity to
Love them I’ll do my best to love them equally that’s true love that this object does not deserve your love but how far can you go David said I return all of your father’s what Estates to him they will find it they won’t give me the
Proceed you need to know what it means to tole a government when you topple a government you own the families of the people he said but I relinquish my right to it he said but for you you will eat on my tables as one of my sons that
Means somebody will lift you up are you getting me you will sit on this table whatever it will take for you to sit here and eat with us you will do it can you treat your enemy’s children like that we’re talking about true love is sacrifice you love your siblings oh my
Sibling oh my no I’m being honest how do you treat other people how do you treat that’s I say if we all love like God wants us to love the world will be a better place more people will be Christians you think people are stupid you come and do one fake show of
Affection of love you know this thing we do in church love you with the love of the Lord then the person goes out and see the real love of the Lord with another person someone say this is hard you are not the first person to think is hard even
Jesus’s disciples they say it’s not possible number two second dimension the width is the greatness of the prize paid to love the object or the person the greatness of the prize determines the value for that person yeah that’s the song have the prize paid how much can you pay John
15:13 if they give me a is to it have been a red talk when I came it’s a red message and here is how to measure it the greatest love is shown when people lay down their lives for their friends friend the greatest love did you see who is on the conso can
You put it up for the people to see is one thing to walk because you love people and that thing to work for your salary the heart of Excellence is love that’s the C of Excellence love when I see contractors that use substandard products you know why
There’s no love in their heart they don’t know that one day their child might die on that bridge see it’s better to say I cannot do this work than to do a substandard thing the heart of Excellence is what love you will be willing to do anything
To make sure the right thing is done Greater Love no give me that other translation you cannot make sacri we have people who can’t make sacrifices for anybody if they must help you it must be within their convenience if it’s not convenient for them I cannot do
It don’t bring that in I can’t do it I can’t do it I would have done this for you but I cannot because this is my time for siest I don’t joke with my siest my sleep is very very important especially in an African culture where we celebrate all kinds of
Evil things we celebrate death somebody was hungry you did not feed him the person died all of you will gather and come and be reading speeches God punish all of you that’s to say you will come and be saying oh this person was such a this to
Me such why didn’t you feed that person some of the monies people are asking you for if they take it from you it does nothing to you that’s when you start teaching lessons you know you have to have Have you listened to mental Pathways to to success go and listen to that message
The problem is upstairs you need to no no no no no a young man met me one day after service one Wednesday I know he’s someone courage I was going towards the lift he summon courage he walked up to me I didn’t have any money any cash on me he said he said
Sir please don’t be offended I have not eaten can you help me with anything to eat the way he came I knew are you getting me I knew he must have overcome many huddles to be able to come I didn’t have any cash I didn’t say
No money I said give me your account number when I transer the morning he didn’t even tell me thank you he doesn’t have to tell me thank you have you told Jesus thank you today even to worship him on the day he resurrected some of you were singing as though he was his
Right and was he not supposed know some of you were praising God but was he not supposed to resurrect is he not the one that say resurrect let resurrect man amen you know attitude you come judge somebody worshiping God lying down are you getting me seeing the depth of God’s law
Just sitting with en mentality I beg it’s hot too H I didn’t say he should die for me he died now we did it last year you see that attitude we don’t think number three the greatness of the good that is done for the person that is
Loved the greatness of the good there sacrifice but the next one is what how much good comes to that person hey Saul said you will eat here they will farm and give you the proceed you don’t even have to eat from that one in your love for some people how
Much good has come to them people meet you and their lives get worse when they met you they had two shoes theyve spent one year with you they have only one John 3:16 for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son amen whosoever believes in Him
Should not perish eternal life has come to us K do I have a weakness yes sir eternal life has come to us are we alive here let me charge you guys some of you that are you are all rich that person by I help that person go to school too
Now even if you can’t put the person in bcck start from somewhere and I’m not talking about them being appreciative of it see I have helped many useless people when I mean useless you have they don’t even know they don’t they even have an attitude of you are
Supposed to have done what you did but will you stop doing it no I asked a young boy here I was talking with him one day he used to walk in this mall I said wait is this what you really want to do he said no he said
I said what do you really want to do so I want to go to school but you know last year I couldn’t write Jam this year I’m gathering money to write J I say don’t gather it give me the account give me your account number
Go and buy that jam form and write it you know why the money for his Jam will not do anything to me I have gone past money for Jam all this money you are ging when you die you will die know when you die they
Say I will not you will die you will die everybody will die when you die what will become of it and some of you are poor because the people in your world are only three if God gives you all what are you going to do with it you will run
Mad forget that they n doesn’t have value if they give you a billion Nira you will CRA if if your heart is empty forget that forget this 1 billion is money anywhere in the world up to now you are crying Lord I’m I’m the next billionaire to do what
You the next billion to do what when even your food you are measuring what are you going to do with it you will qu about food measure food you can’t somebody cannot visit you at the time of your meal is it that if your you and your family eat it it won’t
Finish why not share the joy of finishing it with others I’ve I’ve seen stingy people then we roast y cut half put half somewhere then bring half and share roast cut half every time you be quing about food inside the house people can’t hear something who ate the meat who ate
Who ate the meat in that P who did this who who did every time that’s a quer I left four pieces of meat you are counting it four pieces of meat if you even look at the Mee in question they like capsule are you left shouting then you now come and invite
Pastor Pastor can you visit me when I come here you fill the plate with meat that you know I cannot finish that’s I service you know I cannot finish this food you know I can’t finish it you set a table for me when there are no enemies
Are you get you set a table for me mean why the Gat man the Gat man there has not eating but look at the food you are giving only me putting up a show I’m not coming next time no I’m being honest I went there’s
A guy used to cut my hair with on this more there are different people cut here I me to cut my hair the guy is good I like the I like the shop but I would rather live here go out and cut my hair somewhere else you know why every time I
Go there the way he talks to his staff idiot how many times I tell you to bring this that’s how he talks continuously I said I cannot remain in this place he’s not my business so I I’m not the one that employed him it’s his place but he talks
Anyhow shout at them then he would ask he will shout then turn to me say sir do you like your CT I said I do but the last time I went there I was irritated I said I’m not coming here again one time I to cut my
Head and said pastor let’s try I said I am not going there again I don’t like Wicked people finally the level of Desire that is shown to the one loved Zechariah 3:17 Zephaniah 3:17 you know how much God loves us the Bible say he rejoices when he thinks about
Us for the Lord your God the Bible says New Living TR has arrived to live among you he’s a mighty savior he will rejoice over you with great gladness with his love he willc come all his fears he will exalt Over You by singing a Happy Song Glory to
Godah how many of us want to walk the love God Liv in the love of God see it’s one thing to do all these things I’m saying but it’s another thing to do it with the right attitude they know it in my house all the ladies have lived with me if you
Frown don’t serve me food even if I just quarreled you even if you just had a misunderstanding if you bring food frowning I will not eat it you cannot poison me one young lady that lived with us once I said why are you always fine said
That’s how my face is I said change it if we are going to remain in this house I said change it when she’s bringing food she bring the food I said no no change it change that face one did she carry your food and get away from
Here and she was going to remove my I say see I have money I have money I can go to a t you know how many you know those simple Corner when I see when they bringing the food they say ah which want lies oh this you know I prefer
That there’s lies there’s I don’t care but the joy there is real it’s true be in the House of Joy if you are serving someone be happy not this pretentious love it’s great to have you welcome go again God is not like that I don’t know
If you understand me God is not like that I had a very stingy on some years ago when the husband wants to do anything he say honey should just give the husband hug that hug she’s grabbing the hand that thing not coming out again you know what I
Mean if the husband wants to give you something she will just go and hug the man if she hugs that man your blessing has gone as she hugging that man the man will give the man will give us things there I say don’t tell my wife so say because she’s not born again
See she started speaking in Tong before I got born again glory be to the Lord hallelujah glory be to the Lord hallelujah glory be to the Lord in the highest you know those Mommies and they are very very stingy very selfish when they see that Amen my daughter left her my sorry my sister left her kids with me so I told him I said Xavier I’ve won you twice the third time I’m going to flog you Justin said Xavier that’s not a joke that’s not a joke in case you think you can report to
Your mother and say that Uncle Pastor beat me Justin had to affirm it that is not a joke the boy just followed him and left those of you who are over protective of your children do you see me talk to them I stay away from your children some their children will be
Misbehaving they I me say why it’s your child don’t my business I was not born to train your child for you you see a child jumping on the chair landing on the TV he say he a child okay you know sometime when I’m in some houses as I’m sitting I’m already tired
I don’t know to go because my hand has gone out come back are you getting me I know it doesn’t happen to you people I said my hand has gone out my hand has seeit that child my hand is back in my pocket I start my mind is
Doing I know just see them just jumping jumping like demons up and down me the pr are saying nothing when I’m tired sometimes okay I’m leaving now are you no I can’t I can’t take this anymore it’s better to leave but if I stay here sometime they shou I say leave them
Children are children children children bring them to my house you will see so I’m just saying so if you bring your child to my house if a child jumping p p p p p if I say one two by the third time P amen I calm them down praise the
Lord I close with this the love of compeny and the love of benevolence how does it work when we look into the love of God God’s goal is that when we see him we will see unconditional love are you mean but the goal of the human heart is that the need
That he seeks to PO attention on should not be found in people should not be found in sex should not be found in material things it should be found only in God because only God truly satisfies so we all need God are you getting me we all need God
That’s why I we say to people whatever you are searching for the answer is in God Amen God doesn’t need anything he lacks nothing sometime we say that we that could satisfy God’s heart it’s a lie God did not create us out of bottom if he didn’t create man he will
Still be God you know sometime we feel that if God didn’t create us he will be bor he a lie he created because he loves us father we give you praise lift your hands and worship God I don’t know who I’m talking to this morning oh the overwhelming NeverEnding Reckless Love of
God oh it chases Me Down fight still I’m found lives the 99 I could ear it I don’t deserve it still you give give yourself away all the overwhelming NeverEnding Reckless Love of God sing it again all the over overwhelming NeverEnding Reckless Love of God can you
Thank him for it oh it chases me down fight still I’m found Liv the 99 I could don’t ear it I don’t deserve it still you give yourself away oh the overwhelming never and Reckless Love of God there’s no mountain there’s no Shadow he won’t light up
Mountain he won’t climb up coming after Me there’s no wall you won’t kick down lie you won’t tear down coming after me no Shadow there’s no Shadow he won’t light up Mountain you won’t climb up coming after me he you won’t there’s no wall you won’t get down lie you won’t tear down coming after
Me there’s no sh you would light up Mountain you would climb up cling after meall you and Li you want tear down coming after me you there’s no Shadow you won’t light up Mountain you won’t climb up coming after me no there’s no wall you won’t kick down you won’t coming up
Me the overwheling lift your hands up to heaven and sing it [Applause] F still lives night night I could Earth I don’t deserve it yourself Away one more time let’s sing there’s no shadow I’m born again I’ve not been to church in six years God can meet you where you are that is why I said number one Agape is determined by how the object is in his worst condition you can’t be too poor can I say something to you What God Says to people about what
People say to God about you is not what he cares about I don’t know it’s strong strong in my heart if you’re a backslider here this morning said look Pastor I’ve done things I’m in a dark place I feel lost before we leave this morning I want
To give you an opportunity to receive Jesus rededicate your life to him see God is running after you check your life why didn’t you have that accident there are many things that would have happened is a depth of God’s love that kept you if you’re here lift your hand up I
Want to pray for you we have counselors I want to pray for you you want to say look I want to turn a new le because whatever your heart is yearning for the love of complacency whatever your heart is yearing for only God can meet it you have pursued money you have
Not found it you’ve pursued sex you’ve not found it you know why only God can feel it only true love can feel the human Spirit if there’s anybody that want to say Jesus I welcome you into my heart I rededicate my life to you again put that
Hand up help is here for you this morning say I have heard the word of God this morning I want to make a decision put that hand up enough for me to see somebody will walk up to you but you need thank you for that hand God bless
You wherever your hands up put it up thank you put it up put it up Mal put it up put it up God is reaching out to you today God is reaching out to you today God is reaching out to you you are not too lost to be found hey
Know I love that statement you are not too lost to be found maybe you even here they’ve abandoned your family some the people you used to be with they’ve given up on you put your hand up help is here for you help is here for you help is here
For you help is here for you keep that hand up until they walk up to you keep that hand up because when God moves into your life Everything Changes there are things you are struggling with right now help is here for you just keep make sure that hand is up make
Sure that hand is up I still sense in my heart there’s somebody here you in between should I take my hand up should I not take my see God is here for you it’s because of you he asked me to preach this message to let you know that
You are not too lost for him to find you and God is Happy God is not a man no he doesn’t love like men God doesn’t love like men so put that hand up put that hand up put that hand up put that hand up put that hand up help has come for
You put that hand up overcome that shame overcome that lie of the devil and put that hand up wherever you Are thank you thank you thank you Hallelujah God bless you God bless you laal the rest of us let’s lift our hands and worship God the Lord C his face to shine upon you and be gracious unto you the Lord lift his countenance upon you and give you peace go ahead and bless
Him God is in your direction today he’s reaching out to you there are some people here they are saying look I have wasted opportunities God is bringing you more opportunities this week you didn’t hear me Hallelujah he’s bringing more opportunities to you this week some of you have squandered certain opportunities squandered certain
Privileges but God is abundant in Mercy because what I heard in my heart this morning is that death has been swallowed up by life Jesus rose every opportunity you missed this week in the name of Jesus those opportunities are resurrected oh you will get them more
There will be more where you miss to 10 will come where you miss one 10 will come even the same people that turned their backs against you they will have a change of heart towards you in the name of the Lord Jesus lift your voice and give him Praise there’s no Shad youon up you won CL up coming after me there’s no you You let the communion elements go Round our days of being in this facility are over [Applause] forever partake of a receive of the communion element As you receive the communion elements worship Him I don’t know how you think about yourself but God loves Me coming after me there’s no Shadow you won’t light up Mountain you won’t climb up coming after me there’s no wall you won’t lie you won scar down coming after me there’s no Shadow you won’t light up Mountain you won’t climb up coming after me there’s no you down sh there’s no
Shad coming after me there’s No on the night he was betrayed he took the bread and he broke it he said this my body broken for you on that whooping post Jesus Paid the price for your health by his stripes you’re healed he lifted up the cup and gave
Thanks and said this is the cup of a New Covenant my blood shed for you this morning I declare to you your sins have been paid for amen by his broken B he opened the door for you boldly to come father we thank you Jesus we thank you
You Rose again in Victory and now we are rejoicing thank you Father thank you for the victory Of Life over death you showed us that death has been defeated amen and we are rejoicing in your love we give you praise in Jesus mighty name go ahead and partake in faith Death could not hold you down you Are seated in Mesty you are the Hallelujah whil this standing can you just get your offerings get your tights just get your tights get your offerings today is our Thanksgiving Service as well if you have your Thanksgiving offering also you should have your Thanksgiving offering just put them all together users please pass the envelopes
Around for those that will need offering envelopes if you want to give multiple offerings there are slips also you can indicate the particular offering you are giv you can SE to our transportation system as well you can s to transport you can give your Thanksgiving offering your regular Sunday offering
Your tight your first frot just indicate accordingly thank God our offering envelope is big enough to contain any amount you you want to S but if you want to make a transfer the account is on the screen okay can we put it on the larger screen I can see it there
But if you want to write a check make it payable to Christ Family Center and it will get across to us but make sure you’re a part of this session of worship your Thanksgiving your worship is not complete without an offering the Bible said that God had respect for Abel and
His offering meaning God respects you as much as he respect your offering your offerings are important to God God values them and let them stand before God as trees of Memorial God said God is able to make all Grace to abound towards you that you having all sufficiency will abound onto
Every good works and charity donations you require no Aid or support that is what the grace of God can do for you when you s God releases his grace and the grace of God is able to meet any need so I don’t know what your needs are
This morning I don’t know what your desires are as you plant your seat I want you to tie your desires around that need and let the grace of God reach out to that need this morning if you done putting your seats together can you stand to your feet just rise to your
Feet in 30 seconds can you pray in the Holy Ghost give life to your seed by praying in tongues you are not throwing money away we are putting it in the very hands of Jesus let your sacrifices rise up to God as sweet smelling SVO that he will look
Upon it as trees of Memorial and he will smile down on you let the heavens above you be open and let there be a rain of abundance Let the Rain from Heaven water your land in the name of Jesus let the grace of God be released towards you in every issue
In every need that you may have let the grace of God be supplied towards that be it health issue family issue marital issue Financial issues I declare that the grace of God rushes mightily around that situation around that need in the name of Jesus you are blessed of the
Most high and I declare that this generation and those that will come will rise and they will call you blessed in the name of Jesus Amen go ahead plant your seeds you are blessed in Jesus name thank you Lord father we give you praise glory to God okay the offering baskets are going
Around so while you are planting your seeds once again I want to specially welcome every one of you to church this morning thank you for being a part of our service this morning this is our Resurrection Sunday service and also our Thanksgiving service God has been good
To us as a church he has been faithful from January till the last day of the month of March we just red up the the first quarter and God has so increased us numerically financially spiritually and in every facet of Life we’ve seen God’s goodness and we are grateful to
God I know if I give everyone of us an opportunity you will have one thing to share about God’s goodness in your life but I want to say we thank God we are grateful for our families individually for our everyone of us here thank you
And God bless you for coming amen so we want to just recognize the presence of some special people that are worshiping with us for the first time we want to celebrate you those of you worshiping with us for the very first time maybe someone invited you to church or maybe
You you just saw our big balls or ads or the spirit of God LED you to this place but this is your very first time in CFC Abuja if you are someone like that would just want to welcome you can you just indicate by a wave of hand if today is
Your first time just wave to us we want to celebrate you want to welcome you okay welcome that’s our ministers from boo welcome all right please wave that I think there’s a hand behind there thank you for coming W thank you for coming thank you we love you we celebrate You thank you for calling You Welcome you welcome you are special special special special welcome and we love you we Love amen our first time guest thank you for coming please can we put our hands together for them we celebrate you thank you for worshiping with us on this very day what a day to worship with God worship God With Us uh Resurrection Sunday and we are glad you chose to be
Here and we trust that you have been blessed as much as we are thank you please the pack given to you in it there is a connect card we want you to help us fill your information as accurately as you can and then pass it to the uh host
Team we want to keep in touch with you and please if you are visiting Abuja or visiting Church please when next you visit town please do not hesitate to visit us again we would like to have fellowship with you more often thank you for coming we love and we celebrate you
I want to make a prayer for you I pray that your contact with us today will be a blessing to you we leave a remarkable change in your life and I declare that all your needs your desires and expect expectation will come to Fusion because of your coming in contact with us God
Bless you in the name of Jesus CFC can we put our hands together for them once again thank you for coming and thank you uh Mr IMA and uh blessing thank you for coming these are ministers from goo God bless you thank you for coming we love and we celebrate you
Amen okay media are we ready are we ready can I have a feedback from behind in church and welcome to CFC Abuja live announcements my name is Dela Ray the red plus campaign is still on we’re spreading God’s love to our community and as part of the campaign we
Shall be having blood story a live worship concert with lb laml hold in this Saturday the 6th of April by 5:00 p.m. here at silvered events center on Sunday 7th April the grand finale of red plus campaign featuring red talk red stories and Believers service will hold
This Wednesday the 3D of April at our community churches by 5:30 p.m. in lug CaRu Gua guada and in w say plugging into membership at CFC Abuja Church andcome all God has designed you to Begins by taking the world TR classes which holds every Sunday by 7:30 a.m.
These classes can also be taken online at both the Priceg join the conect group today to fellowship with friends and grow in your spiritual world with God to learn more about the connect groups and to register please visit www. Christ Family ministries.org gccg a great man shared this with us last week you cannot enter new places
With old mindsets it’s important to keep renewing your mind and you can do so by visiting our telegram Channel at t/ to AR to download messages that you can also engage the renewal of your mind by getting the book and study the word with Pastor Aram it’s a practical guide for easy understanding
Of the Bible copy goes for 5,000 na only the incense on fire prayers with our senior pastor H every Monday to Saturday by 5 a.m. to 610 a.m. on or you can get more information about us at Www.am or on our social media handles at Price family Min alternativ you can visit the information desk by the entrance of this Hall at the close of service don’t forget to take pictures at the photo stand outside post them on your social media handles using the hasht arom tool #
CFC # R campaign thank you for listening my name is Happy Resurrection Sunday watch that amen okay but those what you heard Was how many of awesome I want toate every all So we be having W live broadcast with Aram Okay let’s rise to our feet we take1 DEC Lord wings I take ref truth is my sheld my I shall not night the ARs FES by day come near me only with my I see the weakend I have made the Lord who is my refuge even the most high my dwelling place so I boldly say that no evil shall Beall
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