Most believers intellectually understand that God loves them. Very few however, know His love experientially. That knowing is what changed my life and it can change yours too.

today on our gospel truth broadcast I’m

beginning a brand new series talking

about God’s kind of love to you talking

about how much God loves you I think

that this series is gonna make a

profound difference in your life so

please stay tuned for the gospel truth

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God’s unconditional love and grace and

now here’s Andrew welcome to our Mondays

broadcast of the gospel truth today I’m

beginning a brand new series that I

think is really going to be a blessing

to you I’m gonna start talking about

God’s kind of love to you God’s love for

you individually and we’ve got a lot of

things our announcer will be giving more

information on this but let me just

preface this whole teaching by saying

that you know I’ve had a series out for

a number of years entitled God’s kind of

love that cure for what ails you

but recently I held a gospel truth

seminar and I did five teachings

specifically about how God loves us not

talking about how we love other people

but about how God loves us and I instead

of just making that point what I did

actually was kind of teach against a lot

of things that hinder people from

understanding the love of God as I go

through this series I think that this is

going to become very obvious what I’m

talking about but you know this reminds

me of a time that I had one of my Bible

College students come in and it was a

woman that was in her 60s and she had

her son with her and both of them were

Bible college students and she was

struggling in some area of her life I

honestly don’t remember what occasion

this but if she came in and sat down and

talked to me she gave me her story

because I was telling her how she needed

to walk in love and how she needed to

understand that God loved her and not be

under condemnation etc and this woman

told me her story and I may not have the

details exactly right but it was it’s

very similar this is basically what

happened to her that when she was like

six months old her father died

and at eight months old her mother

deserted her and left her to other

people and so she grew up dealing with

this rejection and in living in foster

homes and things like this and then when

she married she married a very

condemning and abusive person I don’t

think he was abusive in the sensitive

beater but he just always was running

her down and so anyway this woman was 60

something years old and I was talking to

her about walking in love and she

honestly didn’t have a reference for

what God’s kind of love was like and I

really believe that this is a problem is

that most people have all of these wrong

experiences these negative negative

experiences and then you add to that

what religion teaches about God that I

believe really misrepresents God and you

take life’s experiences of rejection and

you put with that religions teaching

about how God is the one that puts all

of our problems on us and God is angry

at us and rejects us and unless you do

everything right this perfectionist

attitude when you add all of this

together it just compounds the problem

and so this teaching that I did at a

recent gospel truth seminar is just

basically talking about how God loves us

but it’s doing it from the standpoint of

countering so much of our experiences

personal experiences religious teaching

trying to explain how is it that a holy

God can love an unholy person we talked

about unconditional love and a lot of

other things and anyway I just thought

that it was really good as a matter of

fact here’s another testimony that goes

along with it that I had a woman come up

to me who had been coming to my meetings

for at least 15 years probably 20 years

she’d been attending to my meetings and

she came up to me after this teaching

and she says I finally got it she said I

thought I understood how God loved me

before but she says I’ve got a

revelation this week of God’s

unconditional love for me that she had

never had before

and so it’s not really

brand-new teaching it’s a totally

different way of approaching a subject

that I minister on constantly if any

hobby watched this program or I’ve

listened to many of my materials I’ll

just you know pull back the curtain here

and give you some behind-the-scenes

information but all I ever do is talk

about God’s love for us and I just used

a different scripture and put a

different title on the teaching and

stuff but it’s all about God’s love this

is what changed my life and so this

teaching is about the love of God but

it’s specifically putting a spin on it

that is not just stating the obvious

that God loves us but it’s going into

things that hinder us from understanding

that God loves us and I go in and I

counter these teachings some of it

religious teaching some of it just life

experiences and things that hinder us

from understanding the love of God

you know it’s my experience in

ministering that probably sharing the

love of God is one of the hardest things

when you use that title and say that

you’re talking about the love of God

because people will just immediately say

I know that God loves us and I think I

need to hear something else I need to

understand faith I need to get hold of

faith but you know there’s a scripture

it says in Galatians 5:6 that faith

works by love love is what really

energizes and gives life to faith if you

truly understood the love of God faith

would just be an automatic byproduct so

if you’re saying I just need to

understand some things about faith I

need to grab hold of faith then did you

know that if you would really get hold

of the love of God your faith would work

better some people say well I need

teaching on prosperity I’m struggling in

my financial realm and I need help

understanding that understanding the

love of God is what will make your faith

work and prosperity come as a result let

me give you a quick testimony on that

one that when Jamie and I first got

started in the ministry we made a number

of mistakes and one of them was that I

felt like if I was called to ministry I

had to quit a secular job and I had

full-time out of the ministry and

there’s a partial truth there but you

know until the ministry to get to where

it’s full-time and where it’s occupying

all of my time I really would have been

better off to have worked a job but

anyway I miss missed that and because of

it Jamie and I were struggling

financially and we were going through

some really really hard time and I won’t

spend the whole program here giving you

this is quite a long testimony but I

mean we were in dire straits hadn’t

eaten in over a week we were struggling

and a long story and so we just had

about like a dollar and a quarter left

or something like that just a very

little bit amount of money and Jamie had

to wash clothes we didn’t have a washer

and dryer so we were living in these

apartments in Dallas Texas and she took

our car and drove over to the washeteria

even though it was in the apartment

complex because there was so many

clothes to wash and she took these last

few little quarters and she went and

wash clothes and while she was washing

clothes you know it just really was

getting to me the fact that here I was

trying to serve God trying to be

full-time our needs weren’t being

provided we were facing eviction from

our apartment we hadn’t eaten in weeks

we were just about out of gas I mean we

were just down to nothing and I know

that when some people say that they’re

struggling financially that’s because

they’ve got a thousand dollars in the

bank and eleven hundred dollars worth of

bills I mean we had like a dollar and a

quarter and we were using all of that

money to go watch these little clothes

we had a tiny bit of gas and other than

that we didn’t have a penny we didn’t

have anything we didn’t have a bank

account we didn’t have credit cards we

we were we were close to being in a

desperate situation and I was just

praying and I remember that as Jamie was

over washing these clothes that I was

praying and I wasn’t mad but I was

headed that direction I was disappointed

I was upset I felt like God wasn’t

holding up his end of the bargain and I

was beginning to pray and I was you know

granted hold of God God you’ve got to

come through and anyway I was praying

along these lines and then as I was

praying the Lord just spoke to me I mean

near

in an audible voice it was on the inside

but it was so strong that I recognized

it was God he was totally contrary to

the mindset and the emotions that I was

feeling in experience and he just out of

the blue comes Luke 12:32 and that verse

says fear not little flock for it’s your

father’s good pleasure to give you the

kingdom and again I could explain this

in a lot more detail I’m trying to make

this a quick testimony but it was the

love of God that just turned my life

upside down and started me in a new

direction and because of circumstances

because of a lack of finances because of

some other things I had gotten away from

focusing on how much God loved me I was

more focused on the need than I was on

God and when the Lord spoke this to me

and says fear not little flock it’s your

father’s good pleasure to give you the

kingdom you know what it was a loving

rebuke is what it was I mean it just all

of a sudden my whole attitude changed

and I realized that you know what I was

feeling like God didn’t care about us I

was feeling like I had to state my case

and I had to put pressure on God to make

him do what was right and all of a

sudden through though that one scripture

the Lord just showed me that he loved me

that God was not the one that was

keeping us in these financial problem at

the time I didn’t know what it was but

it was primarily my own stupidity it was

me doing things wrong and not

cooperating with the laws of God that my

heart was right my head was wrong and

you know what God just reassured me of

his love and I mean here I was walking

back and forth praying and when the Lord

spoke to me and said fear not little

flock it’s your father’s a good pleasure

to give you the kingdom I mean I just

fell to my knees I said God I am so

sorry and I started receiving and

remembering God’s love for me other

scriptures came to me like you know if

God spared not his own son but delivered

him up for us all how shall he not with

him freely give us all things out of

Romans chapter 8 and all of a sudden the

love of God just but

and to flow through me and did you know

nothing in the physical change right

then but all of a sudden faith rose I

mean when you really understand how much

God loves you your faith just goes

through the roof

I told Jamie we were gonna eat that day

and for lunch we didn’t eat we went to

church a guy asked us to come over to

his house

long story short but about midnight we

had some food given to us we went home

rushed and prepared it and ate food

before midnight and the next day was my

birthday I had a whole box load of

porterhouse steaks given to us we went

from not eating at all to eating like

kings and I believe that the love of God

was the key that unlocked that door

that’s what we’re gonna be talking about

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today

and now gospel truth continues so I was

talking about God’s kind of love for us

and I know that when I say that a lot of

people think oh I know God’s love and

stuff and yet we’ve still got all of

these problems in our life the

scriptures say that if we really

understood the love of God we would be

filled

with the fullness of God let me share

that with you from Ephesians chapter 3

this is a prayer that Paul prayed for

the Ephesians and he began in verse 14

and he says for this cause I bow my

knees under the father of our Lord Jesus

Christ of whom the whole family in

heaven and earth is named that he would

grant you according to the riches of his

glory to be strengthened with might by

his spirit in the inner man that Christ

may dwell in your hearts by faith that

you being rooted and grounded in love

may be able to comprehend you know

there’s so much in these passages I’m

just pointing out a little thread here

through all of them talking about the

love of God but in verse 17 it says that

you being rooted and grounded in love

then verse 18 says may be able to

comprehend did you know when you start

understanding that God is love first

John chapter 4 verse 8 when you start

experiencing this love of God it just

causes revelation understanding to open

up into your life if you don’t really

have a working revelation of God’s love

for you it blinds you to the Word of God

another way of saying this is that this

is a love letter this is God’s love

letter to you and yet if God has been

misrepresented to you and if you see God

as this harsh judgmental punishing

strict unforgiving unbending unyielding

type of God and if that’s the impression

that you have of him then you’re gonna

miss most of what’s being said in the

Word of God because this really is a

love letter it’s God revealing himself

and showing how much he loves the world

and so you’ve got to be rooted and

grounded in love and then verse 18 says

you will be able to comprehend with All

Saints what is the breadth and length

and depth and height now notice that

there’s dimensions to God’s love again I

say that this is one of the reasons that

I struggle sometimes to teach on the

love of God because

people just now I know that God loves me

and they they’ve got only a surface

knowledge it’s like they’ve just barely

scratched the surface they know that God

loves them and if God didn’t you know

love the world to some degree we would

all be a pile of ashes he would have

destroyed us a long time ago and so they

understand love to a degree they

understand that God isn’t giving us

everything that we deserve but there is

so much more to it there is length and

breadth and height and depth and you’ve

got to be able to plumb the depths of

God’s love is what this is talking about

and I think that so many people stop

with a very superficial understanding of

God’s kind of love and it is not at all

adequate and this scripture is saying

that you should be able to understand

the length the breadth the depth and the

height and then in verse 19 it says and

to know the love of Christ which passeth

knowledge that you might be filled with

all the fullness of God now this verse

sounds like a contradiction it says that

he’s praying that you would know the

love of Christ which passes knowledge if

it passes knowledge then how can you

know it well the explanation for this is

he’s saying that you would experience a

knowing that is an experiential knowing

rather than just a mental understanding

you know there there is just I could go

back into a lot of scriptures and and

spend a lot of time teaching on this but

one of the things that I believe makes

this point very well is in the Old

Testament it says many times things like

in Genesis chapter 4 Adam knew his wife

Eve and she conceived and bore a son and

so that’s talking about an intimacy and

an experiential type of knowledge many

people just have intellectual knowledge

in our Western world today we really put

the emphasis on book learning not

necessarily training disciple in you

know experiential knowledge so what this

is talking about is that if you had

experienced the love of God in its

height depth length and breadth then

that passes mere intellectual knowledge

and I believe that this is what’s

happened to a lot of people a lot of

people have heard somebody say that God

loved them they understand it to a

degree but it’s really intellectual it’s

not a heartfelt a inner core of their

being knowledge that God loves them it’s

just kind of an intellectual knowledge

and to prove that look at this it says

that you might be able to comprehend

with All Saints what is the breadth and

length and depth and height the end to

no experience the love of Christ which

passes just mere knowledge about him and

it says that you might be filled with

all the fullness of God here’s the

results of experiencing God’s love it

says you will be filled with all the

fullness of God so you can turn this

verse around and look at it from the

back to the front and you can address it

this way if you aren’t filled with all

the fullness of God that means love joy

and peace that means healing prosperity

deliverance Hope excitement about the

future if you aren’t full of love God

and full of all of the benefits of God

then according to this verse you don’t

have an experiential a working

experience your knowledge of God’s love

you’ve just got an intellectual

knowledge of God’s love now I know that

by saying that some people take offense

and they sit there and say so you’re

criticizing my level of understanding

God I’m not trying to criticize or put

anybody down but what I’m saying is

here’s what the Bible proclaims that

God’s kind of love if it’s experiential

if it’s working on the inside of you

here’s the results or you could say it

this way here’s the fruit that God’s

kind of love produces now if that’s not

the fruit that you’ve got operating in

your life then you don’t have God’s kind

of love or you don’t have an

experiential knowledge of it maybe it’s

not that you believe something wrong

about God’s kind of love maybe you just

don’t understand the depths of it it

hasn’t become a real revelation to you

but the scripture is saying that this is

what God’s love produces

and my own personal testimony bears this

out this is exactly what happened to me

I got born again when I was eight years

old and the reason I got born again it

was around the Easter time I think it

was an Easter Sunday and the pastor of

the church that we were going to preach

the message on hell and he gave a tour

of hell and talked about the people were

there and of course you know there were

the terrible people the murderers and

the thieves and things like this but

then he also talked about these godly

good-looking people to the world’s way

of thinking that you know had all of the

admiration of the world and that they

were also in hell and man this got my

attention because this was a new wrinkle

in my brain I had never thought that

good people would go to hell but he

began to make the point that it didn’t

matter how good you were who wants to be

the best Center to ever go to hell you

must be born again and that was the

point of his message so this got my

attention and when I went home my dad I

asked him about this and I said so you

know here I was eight years old and I

hadn’t lived a terrible sinful outwardly

you know God hating God rebelling life

and yet it was a new thought to me that

you mean I have to be born again that I

would go to hell if I was to die like

this and he explained the love of God to

me and I got born again and I mean my

life changed and I was only in the third

grade that was on a Sunday that all this

happened the next day on Monday I

remember my friends could tell that I

was different and they said what’s wrong

with you and I told him I got born again

and I had some of my friends criticized

me and make fun of me and reject me

because I had gotten born again even in

the third grade it was a real experience

so what I’m saying is I understood God’s

love to a degree but I didn’t understand

the height the depth the length and the

breadth of it and because of it you know

I wound up having all kinds of problems

I saw people die around me I saw my dad

died when I was 12 years old and I

prayed for him but I didn’t have faith I

didn’t understand that I didn’t operate

in real joy myself I was an introvert I

was fearful of people the scripture says

over in 1st John chapter 4

verse 18 that God’s kind of love perfect

level cast out fear whoever fears has

not been made perfect in love and I

certainly hadn’t cast all fear out of my

life I was afraid of people I was afraid

of rejection I had all of these things

working in my life and yet I was born

again I understood the love of God to a

degree I knew that he wouldn’t send me

to hell I had accepted salvation and my

eternal security was okay but then I had

all of these other things working in me

which were not a that they were proof

that I didn’t understand the depth of

God’s love but then on March the 23rd

1968 when I was 18 years old ten years

after my salvation experience it’s a

long story but God pulled back a curtain

revealed to me how much he loved me and

I mean boom instantly instantly my life

transformed it’s just like this

scripture said I began to start being

filled with all the fullness of God

that’s a process I’m not saying I was

just perfect perfected overnight but I’m

saying that immediately fruit began to

start coming into my life that had never

been there before

immediately faith started rising up I

started believing God for things I had

never believed God for before

immediately I begin to get rid of my

fear of other people immediately I began

to break out of my share shell and I’ve

been growing in it I’m not saying that

I’ve arrived but I’m saying I’ve left

and the thing that caused me to leave in

my life to begin to transform was

understanding God’s supernatural love

for me so I say all of these things in

introduction to this series that we’re

going to be talking about for the next

few weeks talking about God’s kind of

love to you or for you you need to

understand the degree to which God loves

you and when you do your life will begin

to change if your life is not filled

with all the fullness of God you need

this teaching I believe that with all of

my heart so that’s what we’re gonna be

talking about I’m going to continue this

on my program tomorrow but we do have

enough

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