Pastor Joel Webbin warns that theological discourse suffers from a lack of love due to impure hearts prioritizing approval over truth. He argues genuine love is sacrificial, often costing friendships and inviting false accusations, yet remains essential for confronting error. Drawing on his adoption struggles and fear of rejection, Webbin illustrates how self-preservation hinders divine calling. Ultimately, the segment urges listeners to value God's approval above human acceptance, fostering a community willing to warn others despite personal risk. [Automatically generated summary]
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Loving Without Fear of Rejection00:05:49
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Jesus said, Man cannot live on bread alone, but from every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.
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What is it to love from a pure heart?
A pure heart cares in its inner being, in your heart of hearts.
It loves others more than self.
And I believe that one of the biggest dangers, in light of everything that I've been saying thus far this morning, one of the biggest dangers is I think a lot of this is coming from an absence of love.
And there's an absence of love because there's an absence of a pure heart.
See, some of us, we love being liked by others more than we love others.
I'm going to say that again.
You need to hear that.
There is a difference between loving being liked by others.
Versus loving others.
Only when we actually love others more than being liked by others are we willing to do what Paul tells Timothy to do in verse 3 of our text, which is to confront others.
Part of the reason why these different doctrines are being peddled and they keep going and keep going, it's like, how come it hasn't stopped yet?
Part of the reason it hasn't stopped is a lack of confrontation.
And there's a lack of confrontation because there's a lack of a pure heart.
Because we have individuals who care more about their approval ratings from others than actually loving others, knowing that genuine love for others is a sacrificial love.
Genuine love for others, when we're truly loving others, it often comes at the cost of ourselves.
As I sought to genuinely love others, other pastors, and other people over the last year, it came at a great cost to me personally.
I was falsely accused.
I lost friendships.
I've been gossiped about.
But when you have a pure heart, not to say that my heart is perfectly pure, but by God's grace and through sanctification, as you come to love the glory of God, as you come to care, and this is only a testimony to the grace and power of God, but when a man or a woman comes to care more about the glory that comes from God, Than the glory that comes from men.
When a man comes to the point where he cares more about the approval of his heavenly father than the approval of men, then he's willing to love other men, even knowing that it may cause some of those people to reject him.
Some of you, there are tangible and clear ways that you could be loving someone in your life right now, and you know what I'm talking about, but you're not willing to do it because you know that you will run the risk of them rejecting you.
The fear of rejection is powerful.
And I know.
I know.
I've struggled with the fear of man my whole life.
For those of you who don't know, I was adopted at a young age, which is wonderful.
But for someone to choose you, it necessitates that another set of parents rejected you.
Someone didn't want me.
And I'm not trying to play the victim card, that would be pretty hypocritical based off everything I've preached so far.
But what I'm saying is that I know what rejection feels like.
And I'm not saying that I know that.
In a way that's exclusive to where none of you can know that from a standpoint of epistemology, and I have this special view, and blah because I belong to this new intersectionality of adoption group identity.
Although it's tempting to play it because I'd have more power, it's working right now in the church.
I know what it's like to be rejected, and you may not have been adopted, but you know what it's like to be rejected, whether it was a set of parents giving you up.
Or whether it was the first time you got pushed down on the playground and somebody laughed.
Whatever it was, we're afraid of rejection.
Rejection hurts.
But ultimately, that's self preservation, it's the love of self.
And if your fear of rejection, your desire to self preserve, is more profound and stronger than your desire to warn someone who may reject you but who needs that warning because they're heading towards death.
Then ultimately, we can make it as nuanced as we want, but it's this simple.
You love yourself more than them.
You're not loving from a pure heart.
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