FOUNDATION STATEMENT: Love is God’s
open door into the Earth.As believers
if we don’t make the decision to walk in love God has no way into the
Earth.We must free love in our hearts and become vessels through which
Love, Himself can flow through.
I. We as believers are God’s way into the Earth
A. Neither
God nor Satan can do anything on this Earth apart from a physical body
1. If
God is going to work on this Earth He is going to have to do it through
physical human bodies
a. When
he wanted to save mankind He created a physical body and worked through it
2. We
are to yield our bodies to God so that He can flow through those bodies and
work here on the Earth (1 Corinthians 6:13-20, Romans 6:12-16, 12:1)
a. When Jesus was here he
did his work through the literal Body of Christ and he wants to do the same today
B. It
was the Father dwelling in Jesus that was doing the works (John 14:10)
1. Jesus
said what you see is my body who is housing the Father, but it’s the Father who
you can’t see that is doing the works that you can see
a. Jesus
gave the Father a way into the Earth so that the Father could work through him
C. We can
do the works that Jesus did and greater works than those because He is going to
the Father
1. When he goes to the Father the same Father (Holy Spirit) who was working through him, come in us (John 16:7 AMP)
2. The
same Father, who Jesus credited with doing all the great works that the
disciples where seeing, is now currently dwelling on the inside of us by way of
the Holy Spirit
a. That
was the Father in him that did that [Matthew 14 (Provider, Healer), John 11]
D. God
is love.You can’t separate the two.(1 John 4:8, 16)
1. The
love of God has been poured out into your heart (Romans 5:5)
a. The
God of Love has been poured out into your heart; God poured all himself into
you
2. Acts
2:4, 1:8, 1 John 4:4 – How do I activate the He that is in me to see Him work
through me?
II. How do I release the He in me into the
Earth?God is love – He is the agape
love of God that has no limits and no conditions, that is exceedingly patient,
full of mercy and grace – He is not human love, He is agape love
A. As
a believer if you refuse to love, God has no way into the Earth
1. If
God is love and He is, then when love is working in me God is working in me,
when love is working through me, then God is working through me.When you release agape, you’re releasing God.
B. When
you love with the human emotional love and trap agape in you, you keep
God trapped in you
1. When
you handcuff agape and love with the human love, you handcuff God
2. Love
is God’s open door to humanity and if you close the door on agape, you close
the door on God
C. 1
Corinthians 13:2 – A person who is trapping God is not useful to Him
1. When
you say yes to agape, you immediately become useful to God
III. The love of God is a force that has the appearance of
weakness, but is stronger than any force in existence.
A. Love
has the appearance of weakness (Luke 6:27)
1. What’s
this all about?Why is God asking me to
do all of this stuff that makes me look weak?
B. When
you stay in love and agape is working in you and agape is working through you,
then you give God (who is love) place to work through you in power
1. To
walk in love is to step aside and allow the power of God to come between you
and the situation with which you are dealing (Romans 8:37)
a. In
all these things I am more than a conqueror because you
can’t stop the agape
2. Satan
will try to tell you that if you walk in love you’re being walked on (1
Corinthians 1:27)
C. You
don’t overcome evil with evil, you overcome evil with agape (Romans 12:91-21)
1. Respect
other people, Put others above yourself, Give to others to meet their needs, Speak
good things over them that persecute you, If somebody does you evil, you don’t
repay them with evil
2. Do
everything in your power to live in peace with all men; That means you
apologize even if it wasn’t your fault
3. Your
response is always agape; If your enemy is hungry agape, If your enemy is
thirsty agape
D. Give
God place to avenge you, don’t avenge yourselves (Matthew 14:10-14)
1. That
best vengeance is not against people that wronged you, it is
against the Kingdom of darkness
a. The
worst thing that Jesus could have done was go after Herod
2. Jesus retaliated in the spirit; his vengance was on the Kingdom of Darkness
3. Love
hit the devil where it hurts the most in the removal of burdens and yokes
a. When
you stay in love somebody gets saved, that’s vengeance
E. It
was not God’s plan for you to be weak; it was God’s plan for you to stay in
love, keeping agape working in you, keeping agape working through you, so that
God/the power of God can work through you and prove you’re not weak
1. When
you give place to strife you give place to the devil (Ephesians 4, James 3:16)
