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Welcome back to another episode of Rising 365, a podcast committed to inspiring and

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supporting others to embrace the opportunity to rise with each new day.

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I'm Mike Pena and Rising Daily can be a challenge for many and it is and continues to be a challenge

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for myself and it is my hope that what you hear in these episodes will assist you in

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rising every day of the year.

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We are in episode 23 entitled Love or better yet agape love.

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Different types of love can be found and I'm not talking about the love that you say in

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our English language.

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The word love can define so many different things like I love McDonald's and I love

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Alabama football and I love summer days and surfing and beaches and I love my family.

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We only have one word.

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So to understand the type of love I am talking about, I'm talking about a love that endures

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through all things.

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You know when we look at the word love and some background on who I am, I'm a man of

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God's holy word, the Bible, the man that's trying to follow after Jesus to lead my family

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and to lead this ministry that I'm a missionary for for child evangelism fellowship here in

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central Nebraska and the understanding of these different types of love that we can

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see them played out biblically.

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There are four types of love.

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There's Ahab, which is defined as to love with no specific significance.

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That's like what I mentioned earlier.

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I love pizza.

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I love dogs and whatever.

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Then there's Dodd, love, D-O-D.

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That's the romantic love.

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That's the idealistic of a relationship that you have with another person when you endeavor

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to make another person feel valued.

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You find those in marriages.

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You find those in relationships that endure through things.

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That's Dodd love.

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There's Eros, love, where we get erotics.

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Word erotics is that's the sensual, the sexual romantic love again.

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So this imparts the physical nature of love.

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Many of phileo, phileo, this is the fraternal love, something where we get Philadelphia

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from the city of brotherly love.

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It's a friendly type of love.

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Those aren't the type of loves that I'm talking about that help us rise to meet the new day

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that we're given.

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The type of love I am talking about called the gaphe love.

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Those other loves, yes, they can drive you to meet a physical, maternal, materialistic

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type of love and maybe it will help you for a little while.

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They all fade eventually.

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There's a give and take in these kinds of love and they don't stand the test of time.

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Eventually those loves fade.

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The type of love I am talking about is the gaphe love.

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This is the love that is selfless, sacrificial, and is unconditional, meaning that no matter

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what happens or if the love is reciprocated to you, you're going to love anyways.

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There's no amount of trials that you could face that you would stop loving and you would

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not go to the extremes and make every step possible for what you are loving to know that

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you're loving.

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It puts a picture of your mind of you're making someone's life better no matter if they can

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return that love to you at all.

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You're willing to do it and you're willing to put forth the effort selflessly and sacrificially.

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That's the type of love that stands the test of time.

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We can see that throughout scripture and that's why when you're looking at the podcast image

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that I use, we don't shoot this and I don't record this video wise because I'm trying

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to capture what I'm trying to help people embrace visually with little pictures.

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What you're seeing there is from a website called Eyes Wide Open.

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You see a picture there of Christ and fists raised to him on the day of his crucifixion

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and yet he still endured, he sacrificed so that we would see what love truly means, what

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love truly looks like, love that can truly change your life.

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I think that's why Christianity has stood the test of time because the people who embrace

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it and embrace the love that God showed to us from the very beginning of Genesis to the

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end of Revelation and especially in the acts of Jesus and the early church leaders, they're

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willing to die for the love that was poured out for us.

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There's a verse that tells us that while we were still sinners, still doing bad things,

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selfish things, breaking laws, Christ died for us.

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He loved us.

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It was very last breath here on earth.

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He promised that he will restore us for those who place their trust in him.

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He will fill us up with so much love that we can endure all things, we can hope all

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things, we can believe all things that he promises us.

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Now that's the love I want you as a listener to grasp.

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Some people think it's impossible because only, especially Christian teachers, only

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God can show us a Godly love.

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I don't think that's true.

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I think when the Lord fills us with who he is, with his spirit, and we get an understanding

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of what scripture teaches us, we're willing to endure love for our neighbor and the stranger

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so that they can experience the love that he offers and the life-changing power that

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that has.

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It's taken me a while to believe that from all my broken pasts and the choices I've made

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that really scarred who I am and who I was.

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And sometimes if I dwell too long in the mirror, I see those things.

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But then the cleansing love of what Jesus did washes over me and I can see what I was

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meant to be and meant to do.

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That inspires me to go out and share this with others, strangers, even though they may

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not have the capacity to reciprocate.

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That's what drives me and we see this played out.

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There's a great re-accountment of one of the early church leaders, Stephen.

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Stephen was one of the early seven who became one of Jesus' followers and he's just trying

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to get the church of Acts to believe.

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And he does that with love.

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May you grasp onto that.

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May you experience that.

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Stephen took stones to death just so they could see how much he loved him and how much

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the truth of Jesus can really change a person's life.

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So go and pour out love to show love.

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And don't hold like a standard that someone has to meet.

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When you have something to show sacrificial love for, man, things in life and the ability

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to rise is so much easier.

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Well, thank you for tuning in.

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Well, until we meet again, I'm Mike Penney reminding you to rise and seize the gift of

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a new day.

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You are destined for this moment.