Welcome to the GTP show.
I'm your host Dylan with my cohost Jason.
Hello.
Okay, Jason.
Well, this week, we are going to be starting an episode with me hosting.
You guys couldn't tell because you heard my voice.
We're going to be talking about love and what that looks like biblically, the different
types of love.
Let's get into that a little bit.
Being newly married, I think I've been like, oh love and love and love and love.
But I was thinking we should talk with different types of love because, you know, there's a
couple of different ones.
There's Filet-O-Fish, Cafe, stuff like that.
So I want to get into that, but I wanted to define what healthy love is.
The definition of that crucial to understanding the message of the Bible because the Bible
is talking about love.
Love thy neighbor, all that stuff.
So like love is not confined to the sexuality.
It's primarily like isn't just a feeling either.
What teaches that love is a commitment.
The commitment is not dependent on feelings, but rather the consistency of courageous decisions
to extend like well-being to one another.
The commitment to producing, you know, produces good feelings, not the other way around.
Like it's not action.
But Jesus is love, he became the perfect demonstration of that love by laying his life down for us,
for our benefit.
It's selfless.
Selfless, selfless.
Oh yeah, that word.
So yeah, that's what we're going to talk about.
I mean, I don't know if you have any comments or anything you'd like to say right off the
bat.
Oh yeah.
Well, I think we can do an episode on different kinds of love, like each, like multiple episodes.
So like one talks about loving in the way that God calls us to love others and then
loving in a relationship setting and loving in a way that God loves the church and that
how that looks like and what that looks like for his people.
And when I say church, it's, if you go back to our previous episode talking about what
is the church, when God loves the church is talking about the body of Christ, everybody
who's accepted Christ in that sense.
So because we are the church.
So that's when it talks about that.
So yeah.
So for this episode, are we talking about all of them?
One of them specific one.
Like God's love.
Okay.
So not, not the big one.
Not loving others, but God's love to us and what that looks like.
Yeah.
I think in the sense of like, I was thinking we go along with a gap, a, um, because God's
love for us is huge.
Um, I just remember always being told to, but that's love.
And what does that look like?
You know, and I guess in a way, yeah.
So talking about how do we show God's love as well.
Um, but like, I think we'd rather just talk about God's love and examples of, of his love
and his, you know, what he has for us, um, and why, like why we should love God.
God loves us and stuff like that.
I like how, uh, this episode you're literally came in.
It's like, I'm not going to tell you, like you, you basically said what we were going
to talk about, but then did it in the songs.
I didn't know if that was what we were actually doing.
It's so I'm already for this.
This is, this is going to be fun.
Yeah.
I remember that song, um, from parent trap love song was like supposed to out love.
You look at me.
Oh, it's for the way.
Yeah.
So he asked me, I just started singing that song and you could, you can see his face.
He was like, what are you, why are you singing?
I was like, cool.
Shouldn't be singing, but you know, um, and I'm like, no, we're going to talk about love.
He's like, oh, you were serious.
I'm like, yeah.
What's love got to do with it?
Right.
I was like, I don't know.
Um.
Now I know now I'm ready.
I think so we'll see.
No, right.
You know, we never know.
I'm the one leading this episode.
So his, uh, so there's, um, after you 12 29 to 30, um, which is a good one.
Um, he just replies, he's talking to them.
They ask him, what's the most important commandment or can you Lord tell us is the most important
commandment is this.
You must love the Lord with all your heart and all your soul and all your mind and all
your strength.
I'd want you to love him at his benefit, but for yours, um, when you love him, he makes
you holy in his eyes.
Holy is separate, uh, it's set apart.
So it makes us separate than the worst, the world and everything.
Um, experiences, very, uh, and his very presence is power and the spirit lives within you and
enjoys his wisdoms guidance.
And you are assured of living forever in him.
God is whoever require your love, um, him to be sincere and consuming with all your
heart, soul, mind and your strength.
So it's, it has to be a full commitment.
Um, it's, you know, it came like, ah, man, I really love ice cream sandwiches.
Like, um, no, but it has to be commitment.
Like marriages, um, it's a commitment to him and it has to be all out for it.
Um, that's what I just, you know, this is when you, you know, Jesus was talking to him
and saying, you must love the Lord, your heart, your soul, your mind, your strength, everything,
everything you have, you must love him.
And yeah, it's, it's a crazy thing to think.
Cause it's like, it's like, it's, it's requires love.
And that sounds, it sounds very small.
It doesn't sound like it's that much like, oh, you have to love, um, and just love them.
But it's like, you know, love you with everything.
That's a, it's a sacrifice in a way.
Um, right.
I think that's just, yeah, that's, it's crazy.
Um, and dude, dude, six, five, he must love the Lord, your God with all your heart and
all your soul and all your mind, your strength.
So see it said there, so Jesus right there, he's quoting dude, Deuteronomy six, five.
Right, right.
Which makes me say, he does it so many times and no, and then Joshua also says, uh, love
the Lord, your God walk in his ways, obey the commands, hold firmly to him.
There's another thing of fully giving yourself to God.
Now it's a commitment.
It's committing yourself.
Right.
So, uh, 15, uh, 10, 3, 11, when they obey my commandments, you remain in my love.
I have told you these things so that you will be filled with my joy.
Yes, your joy will overflow.
So, yes, your joy will overflow.
So it's saying the joy, the Lord, his love will come over you because I don't know what
everybody's been through and what they've heard and what they've been told, how they
feel that joy, the Lord, the joy that comes to the Lord is supernatural.
It is one of the greatest feelings.
Honestly, that Holy Spirit, God love is amazing.
We love God because I mean, so we'll bring overflow of joy to our lives.
And that's saying it's not going to be hard.
It's not going to be difficult, but there's going to be joy.
Even if it is in the sad things are in the, you know, the losses.
It says that you sacrifice everything to him, you know, I feel like there's a lot of times
in my life I've had a lot of things going on.
I've been stressed, went through a lot of things.
The joy of the Lord has always kept me.
I'm a happy person because I have God.
That's why I got these giant, you know, I got the smile lines.
I'm always smiling.
I'm like, even when I'm having bad days, I'm like, Oh, you know what?
Let five minutes ruin your whole day to God.
And right.
You know, you can try to do it.
It's not always easy, but that's life.
And that's what you got to just you have to give him everything like it says.
And like Jesus said, putting dude around me.
So yeah, it's my first little spiel.
I think it's a little pulpit.
It's cool.
I like it.
I'm not saying that.
But I like it because it definitely gives an idea that not only does God love us and
what that looks like, but it shows that I think it's a good reference point to this.
In Romans, Romans five, if you haven't read Romans five, read the context I'm talking
about here is verse one through eleven.
That's the passage there that was recorded that way.
But in verse eight, it talks about God shows us his love for us and that while we were
still all sinners, Christ died for us.
The context there.
It's really cool because verse one through eleven actually describes amazing benefits
that come with being declared righteous before God by faith in Christ death for a sin.
And God has made peace with us and we stand in his grace and we rejoice in the sure hope
that will share in his glory.
Right.
And our suffering brings growth, which leads to even more potent hope.
And God has proven his love for us in that while we were still sinners and Christ died
for us.
So we were saved from God's wrath from from what happened in the Garden Eden and reconciled
to God in Christ.
This verse in five, eight Romans five, eight is is really talked about a lot.
It's one of the very common one in previous verses.
Paul clearly shows that salvation is on the basis of faith and that works.
You can read that in Romans three, twenty one to twenty six.
Very clearly.
Justification like a declaration of righteousness brings us peace with God instead of wrath.
And this is available only by those who have expressed saving faith as exemplified by men
like Abraham, which you can read in Romans four, given that hope suffering in the life
of a Christian believer can be meaningful.
We are safe to hope in God because he loves us.
Paul's point here is that we don't have to take God's word alone that he loves us.
We can look at the evidence while we were still sinners.
Christ died for us.
Now, we didn't have to get clean first.
We didn't have to get right first.
Jesus came and and died for us, paid that price.
And I was I was listening to another podcast talking about other podcasts, but it's really
cool because they were talking about Galilean wedding.
I don't know if you've ever heard of that term.
So back back in the day with Galileans.
I don't know.
I feel like I have heard that, but I'm like, I don't know.
So Galilean wedding back when Galileans were around because they're not anymore.
The wedding ceremony, how it would happen.
And a lot of times when Jesus was referring to wedding, he was referring to Galilean style
wedding when he's like, oh, yeah, my people are my bride kind of thing.
I'll be back from the groom comes back from a Galilean wedding.
How it starts is like the first important portion is that the the man in that situation,
the groom, had to sacrifice the most valuable possession or sacrifice something to show
that he was willing to put it all down for the bride at that time.
And obviously, the Galileans were very looked down upon because at the time people didn't
like the idea of women having some sort of value in a lot of the aspects of that stuff.
But Galileans did that.
And they were like, right.
So when Jesus, right.
So Jesus, make sure I go on the right record.
So yeah.
So when Jesus is talking about this, he was talking about sacrificing everything for the
bride.
And he was saying, you guys are my bride.
And everyone's like, what are you talking about?
We don't like those people.
What are you talking about?
And it's like, you know, it's good.
I'm going to say it because it's in my brain now.
It's like in my notes.
And so I'm like, like, goes right there.
Sorry, Jason.
OK, I got excited.
And Hosea 219.
I will make you my wife forever, showing you righteousness and justice, unfailing love
and compassion.
That's talking to church.
Yep, I think so.
You're wrong.
I don't know.
It was in my notes because I saw it in love.
Yeah.
Hosea.
Homer.
The story of Homer.
What?
Hosea.
That's the story with with Homer, right?
I don't remember for sure.
It's been a bit long.
PK.
You got one job.
To to back things up and check things.
Keep me accountable.
I know.
I know that Hosea, like he linked a lot of his messages messages closely with his personal
life.
He married a woman he knew would eventually betray his trust and.
Homer.
Yes, she was.
Yeah, OK.
And he paid 10 times the amount to get her back.
I don't know if he's actually talking about.
He actually did that.
I know.
I don't know if he was talking about her, his wife or he was see, but he was supposed
to represent like God's love for us.
And he would go anywhere to go get her because he loved her married or she's like, I'm not
worth it.
I'm no good.
And he's like, you're my wife.
I love you.
God's chosen.
You told me to go after you.
Is that OK?
They have a kid.
They go.
It's like, I'm not good enough for going back to being a prostitute.
Yeah, he goes.
You know, does that.
And he goes extra down and pays 10 times the amount of money that it would cost her and
happily ever after.
I think it's an interesting it's interesting to go read it because a lot of the parallels
he does was to be a bigger picture for people to see how God interacts with his people.
And a lot of people at the time like this man's just crazy because I mean, imagine like someone
in nowadays like Lily, their whole life is just a representation of what God does to
us.
And they literally follow through 100 percent just to show a sample of it.
And their whole life was just made as an example.
And that's just like it's kind of insane.
But that was that was.
Oh, my gosh.
It's ridiculous.
Like, you know.
Crazy.
Hey, you know, that's the thing with God.
He'll use anything to make a point and make a lesson.
Now.
Yeah.
Now, I do want to touch up on one thing because we are talking about God's love and I'm going
to bring up the obvious.
Let's talk about John 3 John 3 16.
I knew it.
This is how God loved the world.
He gave his only only one son so that everybody who believes will not perish but have eternal
life.
Now, the context between six is 16 is actually 16 through 21.
That's the passage for that.
Please go on.
Tell me more.
Do you have it?
Yeah.
Verse 17 is for God to not send his son into the world to condemn the world, but save it
through him.
Eighteen says anyone who believes in him is not condemned by anyone who does not believe
him is already condemned because he has not believed in the name of the one and only son
of God.
Nineteen.
Okay.
This is the judgment.
The light has come into the world and people love the darkness rather than the light because
their deeds were evil.
Verse 20.
Get some tan.
Come on now.
For everyone who looks like Jason over here lives in Arizona and got a pasty skin.
So verse 20 says for everyone who does evil hates the light and avoids it so that his
deed may not be exposed.
Twenty one says but anyone who lives by the truth comes to the light so that his works
may be shown through accomplished and to be accomplished by God.
The one thing that's really important about this whole passage like it's really important
because a lot of people just take 16 like the rest is irrelevant.
No, that's really important.
That's all we need.
Yeah, we need all of it.
We need all of it and because that's the that's the whole passage and I've explained it before
on the podcast and Dylan, you've also explained it before is that when the Bible was written,
it wasn't written in books like a sense of like chapter and verse.
It was written as letters, as parables, as story as written history as I.
Yeah.
And a lot of the stuff was not labeled by chapter and verse because it wasn't used
that way.
And so when we have chapters and verses, there's a lot of times where there's surrounding verses
that are connected to that verse in a context form.
And it's really easy to take a verse out of context because it's quotable.
But when you get to the nitty gritty, you go to verse 20 right there where it says that
anyone who does evil hates the light and avoids it so his deeds may not be exposed.
One thing that Jesus talks about in previous verses is that we are to confess our sins
to one another.
Right.
And so he wants to know, wants us to confide in each other and to be able to expose those
things.
But most people don't want to talk about those verses because they're like if you're sinning
or you're living in sin or you're dealing with something, struggling with something,
you're supposed to go with each other.
Another brother in Christ or another sister in Christ or two leaders of the church and
you're supposed to talk to them and say, Hey, I'm struggling with this.
And that is an important thing that was brought forward, but gets skipped over because that's
not nobody.
The fun part about that.
Yeah, nobody wants to talk about that.
It's the nitty gritty.
It's the real part of walking with Christ and you know, rough.
Right.
Yeah.
Every time I hear that and I because every time I've been taught on John 16 and it goes
to 20, there's a pastor, I must have been like fifth grade, maybe fourth grade.
I just had got, I could go to youth group kinda.
I was welcome to go, but I was, you know, young.
He made the point of comparing those verses to like Lion King.
Mm hmm.
It's like this.
You can choose to walk on the light.
Yeah, you can go over there to the wasteland scar bad guy, the villain.
And it's like, you know, and if you allow, if you don't allow to walk in the light, that
scar take over.
It looks like the end of the movie when everything is poop, no food, there's no nothing.
And like, there's no fruit to see there in a wasteland.
You know, and I just, I don't know why I had to share that, but I just thought of that.
Yeah.
I definitely have a pulpit on this verse in general because this verse is the, yeah, this
verse is the core of Christianity that God loved the world enough to come as Jesus and
to die for all of us so that anyone who trusts in him will be saved from sin.
This is certainly the most well known verse in the Bible.
Hands down is probably the best known and most memorized part of any holy text in human
history.
But this verse is a one sentence summary of the gospel and the subject line of the entire
Bible.
John 3, 3, 16 also reflects another important aspect of the gospel.
The essential idea is extremely clear, but there are layers of meanings and knowledge
inside of it.
So this is my, my pulpit on this.
The opening phrase is traditionally translated as God so loved the world that is typically
understood to mean God loved the world so much that, but there's nothing.
There's nothing.
Yes.
There's nothing like incorrect about that idea, but the actual phrasing means God loved
the world in this way, which emphasizes on what God did more than why.
So Jesus is an expression of God's indescribable love for the world, meaning of all mankind
rather than just the world as a world.
The phrase translated as one and only son or only begotten son uses the Greek word monogenes,
which this is a very precise one word.
Yeah.
It's a very precise word.
One which John uses at other places in this gospel, John 1, 14, 118 and John 3, 18, where
the English term forgotten often makes people think of like biology, but monogenes does
not imply that the word literally means something of the exact same stuff.
So in other words, the son is a, it's a full close.
The son is of exactly the same nature as God, the father.
And this makes John 3, 16, an important part of proving the biblical concept of the Trinity,
which a lot of people like, Oh no, no, no.
It was like, well, that word itself, monogenes is only used when it's talking about that
specifically.
Trinity.
Yeah.
It's really cool.
I really love this verse.
Like I said before, it's the core of Christianity and this is a really important one to touch
because like I said, people read 16 and then stop.
And that's the, that's just the beginning of the context that it was actually trying
to preface.
So no, it happens all the time.
I agree with that.
We always talking about too, like you said in past episodes, we've mentioned, you know,
people get one part of the scripture and you know, context, I always use example as, you
know, I'm in submit to your husband's it's most overused when I feel, but it's like also,
Oh, well, hey husbands, this isn't that, you know, treat your, your wife, like the church.
I think that's huge.
We will be talking about that for sure.
Have a little bit.
So we'll do some more always will go deep dive episode, whole episode on it.
Good.
I can learn a little bit.
I remember you've been doing this for a little longer than me, the whole married thing.
So yeah.
So I was thinking of Romans 38 Romans, what?
38.
Sorry.
Cut out a little bit.
Eight, 38, 848, 838.
38, 38.
Okay.
38.
Okay.
Anyways, I feel like, you know, there's sometimes, you know, kids are like, yeah, it's like,
well, how do I know God loves me?
How do you, you know, explain that?
And this is one of those verses and it's Romans.
I like Romans is a good book.
Nothing separate us from God's love.
Oh, God loves you.
It's a so much, he loves us so much.
It's an agape.
Um, so much that he sent Jesus to earth to die for us.
Okay.
Took the punishment for all of our sins, like everything that we've done wrong and it will
do wrong.
His freedom is so complete that even though we have, even if you've never, Oh my gosh,
my notes.
Sorry.
I should have been a doctor handwriting.
Um, what's cool.
So took the benefit for our sins.
His forgiveness is so complete that it is that though we have never sinned at all, his
love can never be chained or broken.
That's what this verse is basically saying.
Nothing can separate us.
There's no separation.
With that he threw that gap, we fall short and he makes up that ground.
He pushes us to the extra, you know, two, three feet that we need.
Cause it was sin is a, the absence of God.
So he feels that absence of with not having God.
I think that's huge.
You know, when the kids were like, well, how do we know?
I'm like, because I'm like, think of the person that you love the most and you give, you have
to give them up.
Everybody else can be saved.
Are you like your worst enemy could be safe.
Right.
Like I think especially now my son, I'm like, I would not let anything happen to him.
I'm like, I'd fight a grizzly bear.
No problem.
I had to win some cause I, I don't know what where I'd fight a grizzly bear.
I, you know, like, I'm like, I would do anything to protect them.
Like I would, I would die for him.
No problem.
But then it's like, I die for somebody.
I don't, you know, maybe I don't really have any enemies.
They said I'm aware of, you know, but you know, that's crazy to think.
Oh, would I die for a criminal?
You don't know.
God did.
It's crazy.
You know, yeah.
This reminds me of John, uh, first, John three.
Yeah.
First John three, the first couple of verses are actually talking on this topic.
I remember verse one, I know the context is one to three, but verse one says, uh, John
wrote and said, see what kind of love the father has given to us that we should be called
children of God.
And so we are.
The reason why the world does not know us is that he did not, they do not know him.
And um, it's really important here because in the first three verses of chapter three
of first John, uh, it highlights amazing love God has for us.
And not only that, is he willing to call us his children, we actually are his children.
Um, some of the transformation is immediate, but not everyone we will be, um, like, but
not everything we will be has been revealed yet.
Um, only when Christ returns, we will see everything he has in store for us.
Um, it's really cool cause John highlights this concept of using the Greek term, I D
eight, which means, look at this, like the idea God will love us even to make his children.
It's just one of the amazing aspects of the gospel.
And uh, idiot, I D eight.
Yeah.
I hate that idiot.
I think it's idiot.
I don't idiot.
It's not like, look at this idiot.
That's what I thought you said.
At first I was like, I'm like, what?
No idea.
That's not very kind are loving.
Right.
Idiot.
Um, like the number.
Yeah.
Something like, yeah.
Eight.
Like 80.
It's all Greek to me.
Ha, but, uh, John here notes why unbelievers do not know believers.
Unbelievers do not know Christ as users as used by John, the concept of knowing involves
more than just information.
It refers to a sense of intimacy, fellowship and connection.
Um, the unbelieving world does not have a relationship with Christ.
Therefore they have no relationship with his children.
God's children are to become increasingly like the father, regardless of whether others
recognize us or not.
And that's okay.
So I, I just kind of goes to show that, you know, it's not just a, he loves us.
That's it.
It's like, um, I think it's a John one 12 that says, um, but to all who did receive
him who believe in his name, he gave the right to become children of God.
And that's the, that's the important part.
And this is why you'll hear it a lot of churches and a lot of Christian circles.
We are adopted into his kingdom.
It's because we are, we are granted it to be children of God.
We are given the right to be children of God in that sense.
Um, so that's just, uh, when you said that stuff, it reminded me of that verse in that
section.
So that's, that's good stuff.
It was muted and I forgot you were muted.
I'm like, I'm like, yeah, that is cool.
It's fine.
Yeah.
Um, oh, uh, before it leaves my head, do you remember, uh, uh, first John for 19?
I think it's the end of the passage.
I think it's the end of the section.
First John for 11 through 19, the context before 19, if I remember correctly, it says
we love because he first loved us.
That's that verse, right?
Oh, oh, oh, you got your Bible.
Check it first John four 19 first John first John first John John John John John John is
my memory good.
John, what was it?
First John four 19 only goes the, uh, 21.
Yeah.
First or 19.
Uh huh.
For 19 was that once you love because he first loved us.
Okay.
Reclaims to love God yet hates his brother or sister is a liar or whoever does not love
their brother and sister.
They have seen.
They cannot love God whom they have not seen.
Again, coming back to the knowing God, it's, it's intimacy with God that we understand
what it is and what that looks like.
And they do not know God because they have not accepted God.
And the context for that verse is actually starting at verse 11 and verse 11 through
19 is literally the backbone of John's letter here.
The primary way Christians are to be recognized is by love the way that love Christ loves
us.
And this is not merely what we feel, but what we do for others.
True Godly love is the most powerful evidence of being born again as a child of God.
Yes.
And what that goes right in with gospel of John, John one, two or three.
Okay.
John 13 eight Oh Peter protest, you will never wash my feet.
Jesus replied, unless I wash you, you will not belong to me.
Hey, this is you cannot receive God's love unless you put aside your pride in yourself.
Selfishness.
Mm hmm.
And I mean, like what you're just sort of talking about now.
I that he goes right hand in hand and what I think you were saying.
Soon as you said that, I was like, boom, that goes with that right there.
Mm hmm.
That's we actually talked about that passage when we're talking about humility and we're
talking about serving others like that's a really important passage.
Talking about you can't.
Hating your brother, loving your brother at the humble yourself.
And that is a great episode.
So go watch it.
Okay.
Hosted that one too.
Yeah.
You hosted serving and I hosted humility and then last week we did preaching and teaching.
How was it was humble at the finale?
Humble was no humility was episode.
I don't remember.
Can't tell.
We're recording late at night and we're a little tired.
It's not a little bit tired.
And that's to say that we're tired.
But I mean, it's just fine.
I just have to pull it up.
But now I remember that the season finale was twisted scripture and then life of humility
lived to serve preaching humility.
It was right there.
Yeah.
Humility was season season one.
Episode one.
Yeah.
You have to list right there on your computer.
You should have it down.
No, come on.
I had to pull it up.
I had to log in.
I will.
I will add into this because back to the letters that John wrote, first, John four seven also
talked about this specifically because it says beloved, let us love one another for
love is from God and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God again, coming back
to the whole thing of knowing God and no understanding what that love is from him.
The context there is verse four, four, seven through 10.
And it's really cool because John explains how true godly love in a person's life is
a sign of being born again.
And those who truly love God will act on that love toward other people.
So those who don't demonstrate love have no fellowship with God at minimum.
And love is something God showed us first by sending Christ and our love for him is
the ultimately is ultimately rooted in his original love for us.
So we are again reminded that true love involves acting, not just feeling, which you were saying
at the beginning of this episode is that it's not just a feeling.
It's not like, oh, I love this.
It's like it's it's it's an actual it's a it's a verb.
Like it's actionable.
Like you're doing something and that's important and is repeated multiple times
throughout the Bible and throughout the gospel.
The greatest commandment of all.
Now, yeah.
Was that what did he just read?
Was that John?
First John four, seven.
OK.
And then John 15, 10, 311, you obey me, you remain in my love.
I've told you this so that you will be filled with my joy.
Yes.
The joy of overflow.
Love that verse.
It's so good.
That was that John 15, 10, you said 11, 11, the obedience, you know, expressing our love
for God.
We should not be confused with earning God's love.
And that's a big thing.
People, you know, like, well, I go to church.
I do this as you know, we obey God because we already love him.
It's not in order to be loved and that we obey that we are promised joy.
It's that we.
Need to love him because it's what we do.
It's not, oh, I do this so I can get this because we're called love him.
We love him in our hearts.
You know what I mean?
Right.
Yeah.
Because Jesus previously tied authentic love for him to obedience, which in John 14, 15
also the statement here echoes remarks that he made while washing the disciples feet,
which we just talked about.
That's actually earlier this evening, the same evening that he's doing that saying this.
Yeah.
Jesus exemplified what it means to live according to the will of God.
John five, 19, Matthew 26, 39.
He does not at all ask us to endure anything which he himself did not take on.
You can read that in Hebrews four, 15.
Jesus obeyed God as should we.
First John five, three.
Though we're like fallible and prone to make mistakes, which you can see in first John
one, nine through 10.
But to love Christ and to obey are one and the same.
So for example, like Dylan as a brother, I love you.
Right.
And let's say I'm hanging out with you and you're like, man, I can't, I can't, I can't
eat ice cream because I'm lactose intolerant or something.
Obviously that's not why you're not to you.
So it's me.
Yes.
But for this example, let's just say you're like, I can't do that.
And I'm like, let's go for ice cream.
And you're like, I can't do that because I'm lactose intolerant.
And I'm like, I would suffer this fine.
We're going to we're going to go ice cream.
But if I truly loved you as a brother in that sense, I would I would fix that by saying,
OK, let's go somewhere.
And I would try to find something because I want to respect you and show you that I
care.
So I will look for alternatives to make it to where we can go do something together.
And that's the same kind of concept is like if we love Christ, we know who he is.
And if God's like, don't do that.
Well, I want to do that.
But God's like, don't do that.
Do you keep doing it?
You choose your choice.
I can definitely choose and be like, I'm going to the ice cream place.
I'm like, I'm sorry.
Do you want to be in the private land or do you want to be in the wasteland with scar
ice cream?
Right.
So like, no, that's the case.
Jason, just give me one of your lactose intolerant pills.
But like you did when we got ice cream.
Like, I got to go.
I took my pill.
Right.
This just gives a good proof of example that.
To love Christ and to pay him are one and the same thing.
One of these episodes, I know I'm going to make a post about it because it's really important
to distinguish.
There is a distinguish between mosaic laws that were under Moses and what he did and
what was told for the people at the time and actual God's law and rules that he's created
for people as a whole saying that these are my people.
They follow these commands.
So one point or another, we will do more in depth on that because it's really important.
A lot of people get them too mixed up because people are like, well, Bible says no tattoos.
Well, that was that was the mosaic law.
There was reasons for it.
And you can see that that was what it was.
And so we will have to talk on that.
Yeah, we'll have to talk about that for sure.
Oh, yeah.
That was mosaic.
Yeah, because a lot of people get that confused and a lot of people use that to to weaponize
the Bible to attack people.
It contradicts itself.
It's like, no, it changes.
It didn't change.
Mm hmm.
Just it was for what it was needed during those times.
I know mixed, you know, fibers and stuff like that for the shirts and like, you know.
Is not like is back then there is no medical.
Now people didn't understand that, you know, only cook pork or cook this at three hundred
and fifty five degrees for at least five minutes on each side each to get rid of all the bacteria.
We didn't know they didn't know that.
They're like, hmm, well, this on fire.
Eat.
It's it.
I know a lot of people have mixed feelings about it, but the show The Chosen, like if
you if you watch it, it's good.
It's just kind of a nice show to watch.
Don't take it as gospel.
So straight and simple.
It's Hollywood.
It's TV, whatever.
But there was one point in there where the actor who was portraying Jesus said that I
want my followers to read this and understand it as a whole and not as individuals lines.
Like he was that point was that I want my followers to actually study me, get to know
who I am and understand who I am as a whole.
And that was because I think it was Simon that was writing something.
He's like, these are really hard to follow, like this is going to be insane for anybody
that wants to follow you.
These are hard stuff, which that was just the movie, like the TV show kind of like,
you know, making a conversation.
But it was an interesting point because it's like a lot of the Bible, as we discussed before,
the Bible refers to itself 60,000 plus times.
It constantly refers to itself and it constantly connects itself with other verses all the
time, and this was written by tons of different people over tons of different countries.
And yeah, we'll go into validity of the Bible at one of these things.
But this just shows that, you know, it's not just read the verse, take it as is.
There's context, context, context.
It's really important.
Yeah, it's good stuff.
I have I think I have one more verse about this topic.
I go for it, dude.
But go my head, I think it's Galatians two twenty.
Galatians.
Yeah, Galatians two twenty.
I'm pretty sure that's on topic.
Can you read that one?
Because I'm not going to verbatim.
Galatians, Galatians two.
Two twenty.
And no first back.
Yeah.
It has twenty one verses.
So you're good.
OK.
Real almost didn't make it there.
Oh, I read 19.
The context should be it should be 15 to 21 is the full context.
You read more.
OK, cool.
No, no, you can read what I'm just joking.
Who are Jews by birth, not sinful Gentiles.
So that's already right there.
Oh, I mean, that's you want to repeat that.
Who are Jews by birth and not sinful Gentiles?
A person not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith by Jesus Christ.
We too have put our faith in Jesus Christ so that we be justified by the faith in Christ
and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law, no one will be justified.
No one.
It works nobody.
In seeking to be justified in Christ, we Jews find ourselves also among the sinners.
Doesn't that mean that Christ promised promote sin?
Absolutely not.
I rebuild and I destroy.
I really would be a law breaker.
The law.
Through the law, I died to the law so that I might give.
I live for God.
I have been crucified with Christ and no longer live.
Christ lives in me.
Life I know.
Now I live in the body.
I live my faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave me life for me.
Do not set aside the grace of God for I if righteousness could be grained, the law gains
to the law for nothing.
It was a rough last paragraph, but I got through it.
Well, verse 20, there is that I have been crucified with Christ.
It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me.
Yes, the life I now live in the flesh.
I live by faith in the Son of God who loves me and gave himself for me.
This is Paul's grandest declaration yet about what exactly happens when someone is saved
or justified by placing their faith in Christ in a very real sense.
Paul's argument is that we are that we become so closely attached to him that we die with
him and he begins to live with us.
Paul has been emphasizing that faith and faith alone is what saves us.
Adding any requirement of good deeds or rituals is contrary to the gospel.
Galatians 1, 8 through 9, Galatians 2, 16.
If you even think about it, if there's anything extra needed, then that means that Jesus's
death was not enough.
That the love sacrifice that he did for us was not enough.
And that's not true.
Christ was crucified for a sin.
By faith, we trust that his death paid for our own personal sin.
And that way we are crucified with him, our sin with him on that cross.
That sinful us dies, replaced by the resurrected Christ in us, which is the Holy Spirit to
guide us.
We continue to live in the flesh, of course, but our lives are now directed not by our
sinful selves, but by our faith in Christ.
Paul expands on this great true powerfully in Romans 6, 1 through 6, which you always
say Romans is awesome, and I agree.
And Romans 6, 1 through 6 is a great read because Paul really expands on that truth.
Yeah.
Yeah, this is a good verse.
I like it.
Yeah, I thought that was the one.
The two found to be sinners.
Paul, he says he's discussing among the Jews and the Jews as sinners, you know, knowing
them as sinners because they're Gentiles.
Yeah, the Jewish Christians associate with them.
They're able to be changed for tradition.
Maybe them now as sinners.
And then Paul firmly just misses any such charge.
He's like, no.
I mean, he's just like, no, not the case.
I think it's great.
Yeah.
It's like, nah, I don't think so.
Right.
Get it.
Yeah.
You know, I just seen the promises, the promise from God and love, you know what I mean?
I thought Psalm 236, surely your goodness and unfaithful love will pursue me all the
days of my life.
I will live in your house of the Lord forever.
Do you think we're to end on Psalms?
You can pretty much go to every single chapter of Psalms, Psalms 13626.
Good thanks to the God of heaven for a steadfast love and doors forever.
Psalms 8615.
But you, O Lord, are God, God, a merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding
and steadfast love and faithfulness.
Psalms is a consistent like David just screaming at God like you are absolutely wonderful,
fantastic.
What Psalms 36 seven?
How precious is your steadfast love?
O God, the children of mankind take refuge in the shadow of your wings.
Psalms like a love struck teenage boy, right?
But he even, you know, I love it.
I like the angry side where he was like, why did this happen?
It was so angsty teen.
God, like, oh, oh, it was funny back and forth.
Right.
Yeah.
He was always going back and forth where he was like, thank you, God, for everything that's
happening.
And then the next next chapter suffer from bipolar.
I'm dying in my room.
I never like me a river.
It was just he was just going like he was definitely dealing with all the stresses of
the world.
Obviously, he did some bad things and he was just like, I am so thankful for God's mercy
on my life and everything I've done.
He still has mercy.
And you know, he would praise God for all the time.
And then he'd go back and be like, the world sucks.
Life sucks.
Where are you?
Everything.
I hate everything.
Gosh.
Yeah.
Yeah, that was that was Psalms.
I just had to say that because it's like, it's great.
Honestly, honestly, do a whole thing on that.
You're hot and you're cold.
You're guessing you're now.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
We had so many.
We had so many ideas.
Ideas.
And I love it.
It's fantastic.
Yeah.
So then I start for this last one.
Romans eight thirty nine.
Yeah.
So.
You can go for it.
I was going to cut you off, but I'm good.
You don't get to know power in the sky above or in the earth below.
Indeed, I think in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God
as revealed in Jesus Christ, our Lord.
Good verse.
There's thirty one to thirty nine.
I do know this passage, that verse list, everything, every realm and every category anyone might
imagine could loosen God's commitment or ability to love those of us in Christ.
And Romans three twenty three to twenty six.
But nothing can.
Hardness might test us.
Persecution may fall on us and will sometimes fail to obey.
But Paul's explanation thus far has included everything from our experience to powerful
forces and to even the natural and the supernatural worlds.
And he's listed the present, the future, he's listed powers, meaning perhaps hostile governments,
whatever.
But now he lists height, depth, meaning anything that might come down from above or up from
below.
And finally, he throws in all the clues of mention of anything else in all creation.
And Paul has been an absolutist about this and I love it.
And nothing will ever be able to separate those of us who are in Christ and the love
of God in Christ Jesus, our Lord, and those who are saved through faith in Christ are
saved eternally and forever.
Period.
You men.
Yes.
That's good.
I don't know if you're feeling I'm feeling a little bit good.
Oh yeah.
Yeah, it's always good.
It's always good.
I definitely recommend reading all Romans eight because it is a declaration of the Christian's
absolute security before God.
And a lot of people who struggle with that ideology of like, how do I know God loves
me?
Like I suck.
It's the whole point.
We do things.
Yeah, we all suck.
We are all human.
We all fall short.
But that is nothing like I just read.
That's love is greater than all that stuff.
Highs and lows, ups and downs.
And that's the whole point of it all is love.
Yeah, there's always something we can do to fall out.
Right.
And as we explained, like when you are saved, you're gifted the Holy Spirit.
That's the part that's there to help us through.
And I highly recommend it.
We've already talked about it before.
Many times, Galatians five going through that reading it and because it puts it in plain
words that if you are loving Christ and you and like we said before, it shows that loving,
obeying Christ are one of the same.
You can see that if you are saved, you you have the fruits of the spirit at work in your
life and for those around you and who are near you.
And the Galatians five does tell you like this is what you should look for.
These things are happening.
That means you have the Holy Spirit with you and you're on the right track.
And that doesn't happen unless you have that.
And that's really important because I remember when I was younger, I would be like, Jesus
loves me.
But there's people in Africa, you know, dying and being shot and murdered and maimed.
Like my my issues are way smaller.
Like he doesn't he doesn't really truly care about me because I'm over here crying and
complaining about shoes for the next week or for the next month or something.
Or I drop my burrito.
Hey, that's serious.
It was like and I struggled with this for a while.
Like how I understand like he loves his creation, but there's so many more people that are way
more hurt and have way worse off lives than I do.
I'm insignificant.
And I think what I had to realize was that I was thinking of God being limited and he's
not limited.
He he was he's everywhere at once.
He's all knowing he's all seeing he's all everywhere.
He's all loving.
And that really opened up eyes for me to understand that I love God because he loved me first.
I love others because he loved me first as well, and that I understand that accepting
him, I learn who he is so I can share the love of God had for me to others.
And no matter the situation that I may in may be in like it's better off than a lot
of other people.
That doesn't mean that I give up or slow down that consistently show the love of Christ
to those around me so that they can experience the beauty of the Holy Spirit in their lives
and their daily walk and who God is to them, no matter what they're dealing with, if they
are or aren't dealing with something, it's important to know that God's there.
So yeah, definitely stuff I've dealt with for sure.
In the past.
Hey, I think at some point.
I think most people have probably gone through something similar with that, you know, like,
you think like China or it's like you get caught, you're in jail for three years or
whatever you are.
Why they haven't memorized over there.
It's like, it's crazy.
God's love is, you know, for everyone.
It's crazy how much he loves us.
You think about it like how much you love your wife.
He loves her more than you.
Yep.
Which is like that puts a little jealous, a little jealous.
No, yeah, like I'm going like, well, well, that's weird because like I'm like.
I'm like, there's nobody on this earth.
On this earth or, you know, and I'm the human realm.
I should say, you know, you know, there's nobody else on this planet that loves physical.
Yeah.
That loves my wife and my son more than me.
And I realized that God loves like, like I'm blown out of the water.
That's it in perspective.
Every time.
What's really crazy is that every time, every time you start thinking, I had a pastor that
I used to talk to a lot church, I didn't go to, but I went there a couple of times to
get to know the pastor and they told me if you really want to get into it and get some
practice in about the idea behind how much God loves us.
Every time you see someone that may cut you off or maybe you're like just rude or they
shut the door in front of you or anything, look at them and say God died for them.
He loved them so much.
And the perspective there is to change your mentality towards other people because we
tend to think, oh, we're special.
And you know, God died for everyone to have that freedom to accept him or to not accept
him.
And he's going to respect their decision, whether they do or don't.
And starting to think that mentality, someone's just angry and cusses at you and walks away.
You're like God died for him.
He loves him so much.
And that you just remind yourself every time because that's going to change how you interact
with everybody in your life beyond anything else you can tell yourself.
God died for that person.
The same that he died for me.
I need to show that person compassion.
I need to show that person love.
I need to show that person patience.
And that's consistent with what God is and who he is.
So yeah, I think that's a really important distinguishment.
And I think that's a good practice for everybody listening is that when you are going through
life and someone flips you off, someone, you know, someone cuts you off, somebody shuts
the door in your face, someone's just angry or whatever they are, just always remind yourself
God died for them.
The same he died for me because he loves them that much.
Yeah, that's very true.
I was at a conference once and they were talking about that.
It's interesting because, you know, our first, it seems to be like, oh, you know, you get
angry with them.
Like, oh, that's a brother or sister in Christ.
You need to love them.
And we're so quick to judge a lot.
I'm guilty of it.
You see somebody instantly have preconception about them.
So they look like they do blah, blah, blah.
They look like they're have a list or that.
It's supposed to be like, it seems, you know, crazy with like, oh, look it.
I love that person.
Or, you know, let me love, let me show them love.
And it's not easy to do.
I assume you've been wronged by somebody and you're like, oh, think of Elmer Fudd.
Like, oh, that wabbit.
Didn't you mention it once on the podcast before that it's not our place to convict,
but it's the Holy Spirit.
So I think we both talked about that.
Yeah, because I like my lip.
Right.
Because it's not our place to convict people.
We're here to show them love of Christ, what that looks like and what's available to them
to accept or not to accept.
It doesn't matter if they do or don't for us, because what we're doing is sharing the
gospel of Christ, sharing God's love.
If they walk away from that, that's their choice.
But let the Holy Spirit do his work and convict people.
See that hurts my heart.
I'm like, no, you don't understand.
You don't understand.
It's like, you know, just.
It's hard to believe you confess, please.
Real quick.
So you're good.
But then you can't just do that real quick.
Just say this little prayer with me now, because it's not about they go off and they're like,
OK, that was cool.
Whatever.
Maybe God speaks into the life.
Maybe he doesn't.
Right.
Because you can't force me to have a relationship.
Right.
Exactly.
You can't force him.
Somebody go to somebody like you are now my wife.
It's like think about any celebrity, any celebrity.
Do you walk up to someone say, do you love this celebrity?
And they're like, yeah, I love that person.
Do you think they really know that person?
Like, no, they're not going to sit there and be like, oh, they go to breakfast at a.m.
They like their avocado toast.
Like I know that they like going to this one restaurant.
Like, no, no, no.
Like the idea and concept here is that you can't just have someone say, do you love Jesus
Christ?
Sure.
OK, now you're going to heaven.
No, it's a relationship.
Yeah, there's no other conditions.
Yes, that's correct.
But it says to repent and follow him.
To believe in him that he is the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
Do you believe?
Do you have faith that he did die and come back to life?
Great.
You confess that.
That's it.
Great.
Now you're on the right path.
Do you believe in life after love?
Life after love.
I can feel something inside of me.
Is this a song?
I don't know if I'm strong enough.
Yeah.
OK, I share.
I was confused.
I know you were.
I don't know.
I was confused.
I know you were.
I don't know.
For homeschooled boy.
He's like, I don't listen to mainstream music.
I listen to our awesome playlist on Spotify.
Oh, the Gospel Truth Project playlist on Spotify.
That's my music.
I literally listen to all four.
You listen to all four of them?
We listen to we're in a Z in Arizona.
I was like, oh, my.
Oh, oh, no.
Our wives are looking at us like these nerds.
We're listening to dumb dumb by the Cranchi.
She like, we don't even listen to it.
We just figuring out the words sitting there talking.
Yeah.
We got to play it.
And we got to play it.
Do on the way home to this.
I listen to one 16 L anthem like the man up.
Oh, man.
I do.
I was like, this is good.
Yeah.
As the kids say, that slaps.
Yeah.
If you haven't listened to it already, we have GTP playlist on Spotify.
They're free as long as you have Spotify, I guess.
But they're just playlists.
They have positive and Christian music on there, depending on genre that you like listening
to.
And we'll keep expanding.
I don't know.
You're going to have to.
You're going to have to do the country one, dude.
I can't.
He's just.
What country is like Jesus music?
Not really.
If you just say like, I like my pick up truck, my dog and my whiskey.
I don't know if I consider it Christian, though.
OK.
Thank God for my pickup truck and my dog and some whiskey.
It's just like saying the word.
The word is probably your words.
I get what it means.
I know you search.
You search up.
God.
Yeah.
Truck, dog and whiskey for in a country song, you'll get at least one or two.
It's like it's like saying it's like saying what?
Like bless his heart.
It doesn't mean bless his heart.
It means a lot.
Something else.
People just say it down there is like because it's the thing to say.
That's your little heart.
But little heart.
That's your little heart.
Yeah, that's a pastor I used to work for.
It's just like all this all say is a Christian.
Bless their little heart.
It's like, wait a minute.
Yeah, it's it's yeah.
Playlists are pretty dope.
They're fun.
You don't have Spotify.
I'm if you don't use Apple.
Let's grab one.
Have a podcast.
That's a good one.
So yeah.
You might be already a week early.
Could be.
Don't know.
We will.
We'll see.
But not right now.
We don't know because we're recording this episode before we get too sidetracked.
Cool.
I'll go ahead and pray for us.
Just want to be praying right now, especially I.
I just say as somebody who is a pastor and been leadership in a Hawaiian church and Samoan
church and some of that, I don't know if everybody's aware or they've heard about the Maui fires.
But if we could, there's like this, there's I think this record like 100, 100 deaths and
there's still about like 900 and something people missing.
So basically a thousand.
You guys could take separate time, just not during this podcast, but you know, during
your daily, you know, your commute to work, your before you go to bed or whatever it is,
just pray for them and just pray that it helped and that they would just for the families,
Lord, and be with them.
So I'm going to start in prayer.
I'm going to go with that as well.
Your Lord, I just lift up brother Jason and I and everything that you allow us to get
to do allowed us to do this podcast Lord and to run a gospel truth project.
I pray a blessing on it, Lord.
We'd show people your love through this Lord.
It would not be our own and that we're doing, but it'd be something that you are wanting
to do through us.
The Lord, I just pray for the families and Maui right now pray for all our families over
there that Lord that you would just use this as an opportunity Lord to show them your love.
Lord, I just pray for healing Lord for those who need healing right now that are battling
in the hospital.
Say Lord, I just pray for use this tragedy as a time for growth in your kingdom Lord
and that they would grow back stronger Lord.
You just keep everyone safe and just pray for your love, the rain and your name.
Amen.
Okay.
Well, thank you guys so much for listening to the podcast.
I was your host Dylan and my co-host Jason.
Me.
Yeah.
Just think for all who listen and make it this far, we really appreciate you because
that means you spent like an hour listening to us and we could do a lot of other things
for an hour.
I feel special.
Yeah, it makes us feel good.
We appreciate it.
Even if it's, you know, it's not about us.
If it's one person listening, it's a million or a thousand, whatever it is.
Thank you.
Yeah.
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