The greatest of these is love

It says, "But the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, faithfulness, meekness, and temperance." We are going to develop each of these themes, as I say, and I hope that they mark us in a special way.

And he makes a mysterious statement here, which I think should be noted because of its importance. It says, “…against such things there is no law.” Notice that he has been talking throughout the chapter about the Jewish law, the Mosaic law. Paul knows that Christ already transcended the law, and Christ came to bring what is perfect. The law was just a hold. The law was something provisional that God gave to humanity for a time, while the truth came, while the consummation of time came and humanity was already more prepared to receive the truth and actuality that Christ represented.

Until Christ comes to earth, everything else is just symbolic. The temple in which the disciples or the Jews worshiped was symbolic of the throne of God and heaven. The animal sacrifices were a symbol of the sacrifice of Christ, the Lamb immolated on the cross of Calvary. The incense, everything, was just an approximation, a symbol of what was to come.

When Christ comes to earth, He updates all those things and already the law, although it still has principles that must be fulfilled, but it remains to a certain extent transcended by something more important, which is what Christ makes possible. The high priest was an intermediary between man and God in the Old Testament. Now Jesus Christ becomes the high priest, and a high priest so powerful that he only needed to sacrifice once, while the Hebrew high priest had to offer sacrifices all the time for his own sins. And he could enter the Holy of Holies only once a year, in fear of losing his life if he was not prepared. But Christ now entered as property and already did that.

So, Paul is saying, “Look, all this law stuff has already happened, up to a point.” I don't want to lose too much on that. "But now, there is something more important which is faith and the attitudes of the heart." And he says, "Look, when you have love, when your life expresses the fruit of the Holy Spirit, the devil has no power over your life." The law, the damnation, the self-righteousness, the legalism of the Old Testament and God replaces that with something much more important.

Love, brothers, is the supreme value that makes it possible for us now to live at a different height, with a different protection. The person who loves is in a protected way. The person that Satan loves does not know what to do with him. The person who loves is covered by the grace and mercy of God. The person you love has a cloud of blessing above her. The person who loves has the wind of the Holy Spirit behind them and against that spirit of love, no one can, nothing can. The person you love is protected in an exceptional way.

That is why it is so important to talk about love. "Against such things there is no law, but those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires."

So, I want to go into that a little bit. And I'm going to start with an illustration of something that happened this morning as I was leaving my house to come to church. While I was in my car, I was about to start it, two women ran by in front of the sidewalk. They were jogging, exercising. And I believe that the Lord gave me an illustration to begin this sermon about what love is. And I believe it was from God. God speaks to us in so many ways and the Bible says, "Whoever has an ear to hear and whoever has eyes to see, let him see." And God is always giving us messages. And I always believe that God speaks to me through life events.

These two women were… as I say, they were running at a very slow, very slow pace. They had their workout clothes. One was in the front and it was a slightly overweight woman. And the other one that was behind her was a woman who was physically fit, you could see that she was a woman used to exercising, very athletic. And the other was a person who was just starting to exercise. And seeing them – Meche tells me that I am always inventing narratives and things…

But I think I immediately understood something of what God was saying to me. I saw this athletic woman as mentoring and helping the other in her own desire to get fit. And she was behind to give the one in front a chance to run at her own pace so she wouldn't feel like she had to be trailing behind the other.

I think I could see that this athletic woman was encouraging the other, in her own quest for self-improvement. And they were going at an extremely slow pace because the one in front couldn't do more, she wasn't in shape to be able to run faster than that. But the other one that was behind her was holding on tight and was limiting herself to what the other one could do to be of help to her.

So, I saw this woman who could run much faster, helping the other one and blessing her with her mentoring and her endorsement, so to speak, her endorsement. And it was an inspiration and a blessing to me and I was able to understand what love is at that moment: a friend helping another friend in her search for self-improvement and limiting her abilities. She, I know that she could have run much faster than her friend, but she was helping her, sacrificing her own prerogatives, her own ability to run faster, for the sake of the other, who had probably had some conversation and agreed , "Hey, let's run together."

And I can see, again, I make up a lot of things and if it weren't true, it should be true, that the other said, “I'm going to help you,” because sometimes we need someone to help us in struggles and difficulties. life processes. We need someone to cheer us up.

And I was talking to someone about the importance of mentoring. That was on the fourth floor this morning, that the world needs mentors. The world needs coaches, trainers, people who are willing to help others in their search for self-improvement, it needs people who sacrifice, who invest time, who invest their energy to help others who are seeking to lead their lives to a highest level. And if there aren't people who sacrifice and invest, who aren't too busy to help others in their self-improvement journeys, it's going to be very difficult. The world needs people to lay down on the sacrificial table so that others can get where they need to go.

So, I felt that God inspired me at that moment with an image of what love is. Love is when you take your rights, your prerogatives and limit them so that others can achieve what they need to achieve. Love is when you don't think so much about yourself but about the other. Love is when you put your rights aside and understand that by momentarily sacrificing yourself, what you are making is an investment, an investment, that will ultimately bless you, because there is no more powerful way to live on the land that governed by love, by an ethic of love.

And I believe that what God wants to impart to us this afternoon, if there is something that I want to leave in your heart, is that sense of urgency, of despair [sic] regarding the need to make love the platform of your life, to make of love the starting point, of making love what governs your actions on earth and your relationships with others.

Because I don't think there is a more powerful way to live than by making love the governing force of everything we do. Because, as I said, when you love and when you give yourself to others, as Christ gave himself, you are lined with unmatched protection. And paradoxically, the irony is that when we love and sacrifice ourselves for others, and sacrifice our rights, our interests for others, the Lord then says, “You know what? I'm going to take care of you. And since you are living in the style of my heart, I am going to bless you, I am going to prosper you."

Love is the greatest investment you can give. He knows that men and women deceive themselves, shortchange themselves, as they say in English, when they think that looking for their own benefit is the way to win in life, when it is the opposite. When you forget about yourself and you sacrifice your own priorities for the good of another, that's where you truly win. There is no more powerful way to live than when we give ourselves to interest and love so that others can move forward in life.

When you love, God is drawn to you. When you love, your heart becomes like a signal that is emitting a continuous "beep", like those radars that are continuously making a little sound and God listens to that beating of a loving heart, wherever it is, even if it is on a deserted island. , the Lord listens to that heart according to his heart and feels drawn towards him. And then, the Lord loves that person to bless him, support him, prosper him, because there is no other way to be prosperous.

Putin right now exemplifies the opposite, exemplifies the heart of the world, exemplifies the values of the world. His great desire is to restore Russia to its former glory, the Russian Empire, which lost so much when the Soviet Union collapsed. And that is how the world operates. He wants to sacrifice the interests of a nation weaker than him to make himself great. And he does not understand that his action, what he is doing is doing the complete opposite, destroying his nation, destroying himself, destroying any bit of capital of goodwill that there was in the world towards him, he is destroying himself. When what God wants is rather that we help the weak, that we take care of them, because that is where the power is.

So, the children of God have to live with a different ethic. We have to understand that in the world of faith everything turns upside down, whoever wins loses; he who takes away, it is taken away from him; the one who is only interested in himself ends up hurting himself. But he who lives according to an ethic that is counterintuitive and different from that of the world, is blessed and his boat is propelled by God's wind and God's blessing.

And if we could understand that, when we are entangled in everyday life – because it is difficult to understand how to operate in love when you are involved in the struggles and the problems of life and the controversies, and the difficulties. At that moment, the flow of life is so powerful that we are not lucid enough to say, "Wait, how can I operate at this moment?"

When someone crosses my path, when I'm in a dispute, an argument with my wife, and I know I could say a word that would shut her up and neutralize her, but I say, "Wait, I have to be careful not to beat him up." When a child needs patience from me, I have all the power to do what I want or shut him up or even hit him, but I put up with it, because love demands another action on my part.

When at work I see someone who is not doing what they should do and I could denounce or confront them, but I decide for the sake of love to keep my word and let the Lord do the work.

Some time ago I read an anecdote about Carl Lewis, one of the great runners in history, and it is said that his father died and he took the gold medal that he had won in the previous Olympics, and put it in the hands of the corpse of his father. And her mom was scandalized because she was handing over something as valuable as a gold medal, and she said, "Don't worry, mom, I'm going to win a medal at the next Olympics and that's the one I'm going to keep."

And then he entered the Olympics, the next time there was an Olympics, and he was racing a very famous runner too, very strong, and he was in a close fight the whole race, and finally the other one won by about 20 or 40 yards and he felt, he said, "Well, the next medal will have to be at another time that I will get it." But this runner turned for a moment in his sign of victory, he says that Carl Lewis could see in his eyes the yellow of a person who has been using steroids and was using drugs to strengthen, and had well-developed muscles, which was also an indication that this man was using steroids illegally.

But he, Lewis, instead of reporting this man to the authorities, told him, "No, the way for me to honor my father is to shut up and let the Lord take care of it." So he relented, held back his urge to denounce this man. And do you know what happened? That a short time later, a few hours later, the results of a test that was done on this man indicated that he was using steroids and the medal went to Carl Lewis who won second place in the race.

So that teaches us something about love. Brothers, when you have the right to hurt and you put up with it, or you have the right to gain something at the expense of the other and you put up with it, because you love and because you know that there is a higher law in life, which is the one that advances us and blesses us. That person always prevails. And it may not be at the very moment in which he exempts himself from doing something, but at the propitious moment and in time God does the work.

I have learned over and over again throughout my life that love requires great faith, because very few of us have the faith to, being able to raise the sword and cut off heads or defend ourselves, have the faith to say, "Know what? If I hold my sword and refer to a higher law, the law of love, the Lord will fight for me, the Lord will take care of blessing me." Because most of us are looking for immediate gratification.

Sometimes we can't hold our tongues when we want to say something and we can't because the flesh governs us, but it's good when we have that faith to say, “You know what? Even if I do not give myself the pleasure of hurting or attacking or exploiting someone, if I do it in the name of Jesus and by the spirit of Jesus, the Lord will take care of fighting for me, of blessing me.” That requires faith, it requires conviction. And I tell them that it is the best way to live.

And that's why Paul over and over again talks about the importance of love and the first fruit of the spirit that he touches is love, because love is the foundation of everything else. Brothers, love is the platform of the world and of the Christian life. Love is the very essence of the Gospel. Love encompasses everything. Love is the starting point and is the ultimate goal of the Christian life.

Love is so powerful that the only thing that sums up God is love. That's why the Bible says, God is what? God is love. It does not say God is justice. It does not say God is power. No, God is love. And if we are on earth it is because we have a Creator who was not content to be alone in the universe, he needed someone to talk to, someone in whom to invest his power, his gifts, his grace, his wisdom, and he poured himself into creatures called human beings, because He needed someone with whom to share his power and his virtues.

And after we betrayed him with our offenses and our sins, he still rescued us. The Bible says that "even when we were lost in our sins, Christ died for us." The Lord died when humanity did not deserve it. The Lord died when humanity was more inveterate and further away from Him and at that moment the Lord expressed his love by giving himself for us on the cross of Calvary.

God's love is so great, brothers, that even sometimes when God is hurt and angry with us, he is already plotting how to forgive us and how to bless us. That is the love we have. And that is why he says that the fruit of the spirit is love.

And the only thing that I can manage to do this afternoon, in the little time that I have, is to impress ourselves with the urgency of being people who love, because that is the basis of everything else.

Paul is controversial. In this passage from Galatians, and throughout the book of Galatians, the entire Letter to the Galatians, Paul is in controversy with a position that is contrary to the position of love, and it is the position of the law, of legalism. And Paul is in controversy with the Judaizers who are this group of Christians who have converted to Christ. They are Jews, they have converted to Christ but they insist that people still have to be circumcised and that they have to keep the rites of the law in order to be saved.

And Paul understood, by the Holy Spirit, that if that doctrine was not contradicted, the Gospel would end up losing, because the Gospel is based on the grace of God. We cannot earn salvation by our own works, anything that emphasizes works impoverishes that magnanimous act of love on the part of God through Jesus Christ. And Paul said, "No, here I stand and I'm going to resist that trend."

And so, the entire Letter of Paul is a controversy saying, "Look, the things of the flesh, the external actions, the visible rites, are not capable of bringing justification to any human being." The only thing that makes salvation possible is God's act of love and our ability then to react to that love and also to project that love into our relationships and our ways of dealing with ourselves each day.

So when Paul says, “Look, the only thing that matters is the fruit of the spirit, because there is no law against that,” he is telling us that works are good. For example, if we give money to help people in the Ukraine, that's great, and it's necessary and that's why we ask. But you know what? All the money you give will have no meaning if it is not driven by a heart that feels the pain of the people in Ukraine, a heart that knows that your money is not for you, your money is to bless others and that God will take care of it. then to bless you too.

When you impoverish yourself so that others may be enriched, you are getting in touch with the heart of Jesus but in a very direct way. Because that's what He did. So, when we adopt a posture of generosity in our life, in every sense, of love, then we are in direct contact with the spirit of Jesus Christ. And we cannot substitute works for the attitude of love. The works come as a consequence of that love that is within us.

But the love of God is something that you give because Christ is so within you and you are so imbued with the love of Christ, that when Christ dwells within you, when God's spirit dwells within you, that spirit is transmitted to through you and bear fruit. It is not a work that you adopt. It is not something that you do by force of your will, but it is something that by submitting yourself to Jesus and entering into intimacy with the Lord, then, Christ produces his fruit through you.

And that is why we cannot be dazzled by actions. There are so many people in the Gospel who believe that because they give or because they come to church, or because they serve, or because they are Sunday school teachers, or because they are well-behaved citizens, hard-working people, that they are already right with God. No, being right with God is born from an action, from an attitude, from an interior posture.

When you are in contact with Christ and his spirit, then the Lord will produce the good deeds, but it will not be because you send yourself behind the good deeds. Good deeds are an expression, that is why it is called the fruit of the spirit.

If you look at how a tree bears fruit, I think I touched on that last Sunday, a tree bears fruit because there is a law within it, a dynamic within that tree that produces the fruit. The tree is not aware of what it is doing. The tree just exists and there's something in its DNA inside that has instructions in there that say when the weather hits a certain time, when the year is a certain point, it just has to bear fruit. The tree does not know what it is doing.

And I believe that we, the children of God, are like that. When we have the spirit of Jesus Christ within us, when his word has settled deeply within us, we cannot more or less bear fruit, because the DNA of God within us, the word of God, the work of the Holy Spirit in us , will express itself in a natural way in works and acts of love.

And that is why it is so important that we, this congregation, adopt a very clear awareness of how important it is to allow the Lord to glorify himself in us and for the Lord to do his work in us so that we can then bear fruit in actions and works of love.

When we understand the urgency of being people of love, loving people, and we despair of ourselves, because we know that we are deficient in that department. I do not believe that there is a person here who can say, "I have already reached the height of love and I cannot ascend further." All of us must feel deficient in that.

So, until you understand that you can grow in love and that it is absolutely necessary to be a follower of Jesus Christ, love will not be perfected within you. Love comes when we open ourselves to the Holy Spirit. Love comes when we live in such intimacy with the spirit of Jesus Christ that the energy of the Holy Spirit within us is transmitted through us in a totally spontaneous way and results in acts of love.

This morning I used the illustration of a spider. A spider makes a web, it is called a cobweb, and that is a miracle of nature. A spider web is the most beautiful thing when you analyze it into its structure and it is one of the strongest substances in the whole world. You know that the web supports an amount of weight relative to its thinness, which is absolutely amazing. There are few materials in the world as strong as a spider web given its… which is almost invisible because of how fine it is. The spider web is a wonderful work of nature.

And a spider weaves a web in the most spontaneous way. A spider has almost no brain, and almost no consciousness, yet it weaves a wonder of nature in a totally spontaneous way. Because? Because it has within its texture, its genetics, instinctive millennial instructions [sic], which blindly impel it to elaborate a wonderful network that results in protection for it and that is how it catches the insects. Cobwebs are like a screen that catches insects when they are flying and then the spider eats them.

So, notice that this spider has a self-preservation instruction within it, and it makes a wonderful, perfect web almost without knowing that it is doing it, because that is its nature.

And I believe that the children of God are like that. The children of God have to produce works of love and the fruit of the Holy Spirit without even meaning to because God will have nested so much within us and will have imparted his program so powerfully within us that we emit works of love spontaneously. And that is where you and I have to arrive.

That is why I say that unless one becomes absolutely aware of the urgency of being people who exemplify love and desperate to get to that point, we are not going to get there. Because we will be distracted by other priorities, which are important, but love is the starting point for everything else.

And there are so many believers, for example, in the Pentecostal world, people are very, very dazzled by the gifts of the spirit that are important as well, there is the fruit of the spirit and there are the gifts of the spirit. The gifts of the spirit are power abilities, tongues, prophecy, discerning of spirit, signs, healings. And in the Pentecostal world many people fall in love with the gift of the spirit, because they are very attractive and very attractive things. And so many Christians of a Pentecostal nature, as I think we identify ourselves with that position, specialize so much in seeking the power of the Holy Spirit, they fast, pray, cry out, do spiritual warfare, serve, give, but in a sense for those people those actions have become like a transaction they make with God. I give so that you give.

They do not consciously postulate it like this, but ultimately they run the risk of doing so, not understanding that those gifts and those actions are merely expressions of something that is even more fundamental, which is the spirit that is in them and the spirit that it produces both the fruit and the gift and that until they understand that the main thing is to exemplify love, and that from that love then, those gifts obtain their meaning.

But many times people don't think so. And my wish is to say, look, brothers, let's deport ourselves. Let's get our batteries. Let us understand that there is a priority in life and that the first thing we have to do is express the heart of Christ. And we have to ask ourselves... I sometimes ask myself desperately, if I were to appear before a jury of highly spiritually developed people, with the capacity to properly judge, and I had to submit my life, my actions, because these people see me in a different way. supernatural almost, could you say that I am at least in progress towards a position of love? And if the Holy Spirit judged me, to what extent could I say, "You are doing well, you are on the path of love."

What does your wife, my wife or my husband say? What do our children say? What do our colleagues say? What do people who know us thoroughly say? What do the people we interact with every day say? What do the people with whom we have had intimate contact in our daily lives say and who see us barefoot and almost naked and who see our weaknesses and our humanity displayed in a very strong way? Can they say, here is a person who is at least on the path of love? Or would they say the opposite? Yes, this person goes to church a lot, loves God, does many good things, but love is lacking.

Until we submit to that kind of scrutiny, we're not really going to move forward. You become what you prioritize and love. You grow in those things to which you give importance. You grow in those things that you long for. And you overcome those things that you detest and hate within yourself, and that say, "I don't want that, I want the opposite."

And God needs congregations, individuals, who despair of themselves, who say as Paul said, "Wretched that I am, who will keep me, who will deliver me from this body of death?" He is the wisest man I believe has ever walked the earth, and yet he knew enough about himself to know that there were many things in which he had to grow.

If León de Judá, if you, if I, do not surpass that dimension, yes, we will be very good people, very noble, but there will always be much to say about us. God's desire is that you, in addition to doing good works and doing good things, be characterized by a personality treated by God, broken by the Lord, a personality that is longing for grace. Because we do a lot of damage, brothers, we do a lot of damage to the extent that we do not reflect the love of Christ, to the extent that we do not prioritize the love of Jesus.

And the Lord is longing for you to start crying out to Him for a greater manifestation of love in your life. Love is the platform, I come back and repeat. I could do a very systematic teaching but I would only touch a bit on what love is. I'm shooting everywhere so that at least we can make a sketch of love.

And not only will love grow in us when we give it priority, when we despair of our own lack of love, but also love is something that we arrive at with God's treatment through the years of our lives, in the extent to which God is working in us and that we open ourselves to his treatment and say, "Lord, I want to express the love of Christ."

It's dangerous to say that, because many times if we say, “Lord, deal with me and lead me to be a loving man or woman,” sometimes our outer shell is so hard that God is going to have to break it down. There are many of us who have such a hard crust, even though we love God, but have been trained by our past, the upbringing we received, the way we were treated by our parents, the culture in which we grew up, and our capacity to love is hardened by all this crust of culture, temperament, family formation. And then, we are not capable of producing the love of God.

And sometimes when we get to the point of saying, “Yes, I want that love to manifest in my life,” but then we are sandwiched inside a hard crust that doesn't let God's love manifest through us. . And then, God will have to come in his mercy and start dealing with you.

That is why love is not reached unless it is through the crucifixion of being. Love does not come unless God takes us up on the cross and deals with us. There is no way that you can become a man or a woman expressive of God's love until God begins to deal with you, until your plea reaches the throne of God and God says, "Come, I will take you as my pupil. I am going to disciple you and I am going to take you through a training process so that you become that person that I love as my Son loved.”

So know, brothers, that the road to love is a long road, where God will treat you. And let me tell you, you don't have to be afraid of God's dealings. Don't be afraid of God's treatment. God is the surgeon par excellence, the most excellent surgeon there is. And when you are on the table of divine surgery, you may feel a little afraid, when you see the scalpel of God or the scalpel of God or the scissors of God, but the Lord will submit you with such maximum care, so exquisite , that He will make sure that this surgery ends in life for you, in blessing.

What the Lord wants is to take away all those things that are really what make you suffer, because when God does not deal with us, we are dispensers of evil. Wherever we go we leave evil, we leave wounds. We ourselves suffer with our excesses and our weaknesses and our things. And God wants to perfect you. And God tells you, “Look, lie down on the table. I am going to operate on you. It's going to hurt to some degree and the process is going to be a little bit painful, but I'm going to make sure that in the end you get the most out of it."

So don't be afraid of God's deal. And again, love is not reached by imitating love. It is good sometimes to do works of love by faith so that love is perfected in us. That's true. But love is reached when the Holy Spirit submits to you, among other things through a treatment where you gradually break the scab, the hardened skin. And then the life of God that is within you, through his indwelling spirit, begins to express itself through the cracks that God opens in your hardened crust. Those breaks in God's treatment will allow God's life to enter from within, where his spirit is in you, and to come out and express itself through your life. Without the cracks there is no true love, there is no true virtue.

And the cracks are only when God treats you. And something that has marked me throughout my life is that for me to become what God wants me to be, he has to take his mandarria and break me and make me again, like Jeremiah's glass. When the sculptor is not satisfied, he undoes it and does it again. And our life must be a continuous treatment of God.

If God loves you, your life must express continuous interventions throughout your existence, where God squeezes you a little and then puts you to rest for a while and comes back and squeezes you. It puts you to rest and comes back and squeezes you. But each time He squeezes you, He makes you stronger, more beautiful, more expressive of the character of Christ, more loving.

And for that, do not fear him. The Lord says, and with this I end, the Lord says, “If the grain of wheat does not fall to the ground and die, it remains alone. But if it falls to the ground and dies, it bears much fruit." Many of us want to be like the whole grain of wheat. Think of a bean or string bean, as we say, or think of a whole grain of corn, untouched, unbroken, its rind is perfect. A bean grain, think about it. The life of the grain is within that crust. The bark is just a protection, but life is inside. And when that grain is thrown into the ground, the humidity, the darkness, the heat of the ground breaks it. It breaks its crust, because the crust is good for protection but it is not good for projecting life.

So, the bark has to be violated and broken and then that allows the life that is inside the grain to interact with the earth and a little mat is produced that comes out and then takes that unique grain and multiplies it into hundreds and hundreds of fruits.

But life, production, is not going to happen if the grain, so to speak, does not submit to death. And when God is dealing with us it feels like death, let me tell you, when God is dealing with you you feel the pain of death. The cross is not a metaphor. The cross is a reality in the life of the believer. And we have to learn to love the cross in our lives.

That is the mysterious of the Gospel, the sublime and the beautiful of the Gospel. And I think most of us Christians settle for one percent, or a fraction of one percent of what the Christian experience should be, something sublime, something mysterious, something poetic, something that is inexpressibly beautiful, that it has dark markings and light markings, it has black and it has yellow and red and white. The Christian life is a life full of shadows and lights, of cries and expressions of joy.

You do not want to reduce your Christian experience to only the appetizing, the beautiful, the joyful, the pleasant. Tell the Lord, “Father, submit me to your bargain. If I have to suffer to become like Jesus, to identify myself with the sufferings, as Paul says, of Christ, I tell you with fear, do it." But I promise you that you will not die in the process. I promise you that you will not be weakened or impoverished, you will come out more glorious and more powerful than ever. As the resurrected Christ was already a much more powerful being than the Christ who was within the flesh, when he was only human.

So, brothers, let us embrace God's deal to produce God's love. Let us say to the Lord, “Father, I am not going to hinder you, I am not going to give you definitions, I want to be what you want me to be. Treat me by getting into your deal. Do with me what you want because I want to love, because I know that love is the most beautiful and most profitable thing for my life."

So, brothers, I beg you this afternoon, if I do not achieve anything else, at least instill in you, as I want to instill in myself, a sense of urgency and the great benefit of living God's love, expressing God's love. It is the wisest and most profitable act in which you can ever engage. Receive that.

Lower your head for a moment. In the name of Jesus I declare that this word, which is, I believe, the word of God, will not return to Him empty. This word has descended from heaven, it has passed through my mouth, and it falls on every man, every woman, every child here present, every family, every home. And from the roughest man in this place, from the most primitive woman in this house, to the most mature and developed person, I declare the divine message entering your heart.

I pray that the Lord will endow you with exceptional wisdom this afternoon to understand what He is saying. May unspeakable moans be heard within your soul. Oh, Father, awaken a sense of urgency in us this afternoon. Arouse a sense of desperation to express the love of Christ.

Remove the bark and mental clumsiness that prevents us from understanding these mysteries and speak to us, and shout to us, Lord, intervene in our lives, form us according to the image of your son Jesus Christ. Get us out of here with a new energy, a new impulse and to you we will give all the glory and all the honor. Thank you Lord, thank you in Jesus name. Amen and amen. God bless you, my brothers. We will continue talking about love. I think we have material left out there. God bless you.