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Love And Hate Speech
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| In your book, you said that to justify sin through our silence, it's a form of hate speech. | |
| Yeah, really hate speech. | |
| Can you explain that? | |
| Yeah, we don't have time to massage it like it probably needs to be, but love, and again, the church has lost an understanding of love because of all this vain deceit. | |
| Love is defined in 1 Corinthians 13, verses 4 through 8. | |
| It's 16 character traits. | |
| And in verse 6, it says, love does not rejoice in iniquity. | |
| Yes, sir. | |
| But it rejoices in the truth. | |
| So as the Lord begins to awaken us, we are going to get a fresh revelation of God's kind of love, what it looks like, what it sounds like, how it acts. | |
| And one of the things and attributes of God's kind of love is it protects. | |
| It warns. | |
| Jesus was God, who is love. | |
| God is love. | |
| Jesus was God or love made flesh. | |
| And while he didn't condemn anybody, he didn't punish anybody. | |
| He didn't call wrath down or curses or punishment on people even for sin. | |
| He knew he would bear the curse of the law at the cross and God's punishment for all our sin. | |
| He didn't condone sin and he warned people. | |
| He warned entire cities that there is a wrath coming that you don't have to be a party to and partake of, that God came to save us from. | |
| I love you being an evangelist, my dear brother, but I'm telling you, most people don't even know what they're saved from. | |
| We are saved, yes, from our sins, yes, from the devil. | |
| We are saved from the wrath of God that's coming. | |
| And once that message is clear, people are going to turn. | |
| So what I mean by that is love warns people, not condemns them, not is self-righteous or condescending, but it says, hey, if we crossed a cool bridge coming into here, we have a bridge where I live called Rooster Creek Bridge, a one-lane bridge. | |
| And this is like a Rooster Creek bridge in two lanes. | |
| It's just cool. | |
| What if that bridge, what if I crossed that bridge and the thing collapsed? | |
| Wouldn't I pull over? | |
| And wouldn't I jump out of my car? | |
| And wouldn't I be waving my arms at people coming that way saying, stop, you're on the wrong path. | |
| This is destructive. | |
| You're going to die. | |
| Love would speak up. | |
| Love would speak out. | |
| Love would act. | |
| You know what hate does? | |
| Hate says, I ain't saying nothing. | |
| I don't care if those people die. | |
| In some cases, I want some of them to die because there really is hate in my heart for them. | |
| And they're mean and they don't love God and they deserve what they're going to get. | |
| That's hate. | |
| Hate would be silent and watch people die. | |