Excerpts from videos, lightly zadaptováno to the Czech reality
You say, we have to love people, let me ask you this question: ‘Requires the love of consent?’
Because our culture says that yes, love requires your consent. If you want me love, you have to agree with everything I want to do. But is this really love? Parents, if you agree with everything your child wants to do, do you love him? No, you don’t love him! If you’re not standing in the way of evil, you don’t love. You loved people, you must resist evil. Even the evil that they want to do, and for that, they will hate you, because they stand on the resistance. If you do not resist evil, do not love.
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COMMENT: Now we will look at part of one of the most beautiful chapters in the Bible and I want you to pay special attention to the fact, if it is there – in the Word of God – love sometimes described as the emotion.
1.Corinthians 13
Even if I handled all the languages of the world, even the tongues of angels, and without love it’s just like the creaking of a rusty gate. Even if I could prophesy and understand all secrets and mysteries, everything he knew and everything he knew, and he had all faith so that I could move mountains – if I don’t act in love, I am nothing. And if I gave away everything I own and went to the brink of burnout, but I wouldn’t do it out of love, it would be useless.
Love is patient, kind, envieth not, vaunteth not itself, nor abandoned; it is not rude, seeketh not her own benefit (and does not insist on its), is not combustible, (irritated, not easily provoked) wrongs (and not offensive). Not to gloat, but rejoices with the truth. He can do everything, and its faith, hope, and perseverance are inexhaustible. Love never fails, (won’t fail or end). …Now remains faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
HAVE YOU FOUND REAL LOVE THAT IS DESCRIBED AS AN EMOTION?
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No, there is no feeling here we find! Because love is not a feeling. Love is a decision, that I will try to do what’s best for the other person!
If love was a feeling, how can you love your enemies? If your enemies don’t feel no good.
If love was the feeling, how you made a vow at the wedding altar? Can you promise that for the rest of your life you’re gonna feel a certain way? Of course not! You can’t stand there and promise that for the rest of your life, you’re going to feel the same. It is as you promised, that I will never have a feeling of hunger that will never be afraid, never feel anger or that you’ll never tired! We can’t promise the city, we can promise the only actions. And by the way, if you to your partner always felt just the good stuff, promise you wouldn’t. Promises we don’t need, when your loved one feel just a warm and pleasant city. The promise we need only when we know that such feelings still feel we’re not.
And sometimes, we really loved each other, we have to stand up against what they’re doing or what we require. , Therefore, in the 1. Corinthians 13 Paul says: Love always protects. Love rejoices in the truth. Love always perseveres. –And why we should speak up!
Have you noticed that people who claim that they are fighting for inclusion, tolerance and diversity, are, in fact, you nejnetolerantnější, the least inclusive and at least diversionary people?
This brings me to the question: it Requires the love of consent? – I can love someone even if you disagree with him? – Because that is what this in fact is. People think that if we love someone, we have to agree with what he’s doing.
Today we will talk:
1. Why do people think that love requires consent.
2. we Should follow your heart? We shouldn’t follow your heart?
Because that’s basically what it is. It is said that we have to follow your heart. And if someone follows your heart and you disagree with him, according to this view, you’re wrong.
3. What questions can we ask those who think that love requires the adoption.
1. Why do people think that love requires the consent of the
There are three paths, three schools of thought, as in life to find hope and identity,. you Can watch the other people and draw inspiration from them, you can look into each other or you can look up to God.
In ancient culture, people often looked at the others. In other words, follow your family. If your father was a blacksmith, you become a blacksmith, if your father was a potter, he was from you, potter, if you were a woman, you took care of the household. It just was. The people followed his family, at least as regards the occupation.
But in today’s modern culture, we aren’t getting your identity by following his family, at least not in the West. Your identity we gain by following your heart. You have to follow your heart. You have to look inside yourself and figure out what’s real and deepest desires, and then you have to ‘overcome all the obstacles, swim all the oceans, conquer all the mountain.’- Is it from some Disney? …And don’t let anyone tell you that you can’t follow your heart. Whatever your heart tells you anything, you have to follow him. And anyone who tells you that it is better not to do it, is some kind of phobic.
Religious culture says: ‘No, you follow the rules. Look to God and do everything he tells you God.“ In fact, it technically isn’t even a christian way, we don’t just follow the rules we have to follow Jesus. And because of what Jesus did for you, out of gratitude to obey His commandments. It’s not about the legalistickou matter. Your journey to God we don’t deserve. He deserved to know the way to you. He came to you and gave you forgiveness by on the cross received your punishment. And out of gratitude for what he’s done for me, I want to follow. It’s not legalistická thing, it’s based on love, it’s based on gratitude.
I want to focus on the part – you should follow your heart? – because that’s what our culture says that we have to do. They say we must follow your heart. And why do people think that love requires the consent? Because they think if you’re in my heart any thought or desire, then the idea or desire you. Therefore, for example, when you say that the behavior of persons of the same sex is immoral, that a man who so identifies, doesn’t criticize just the behavior, but to criticize him. He thinks that it is his identity and that you chewing at him. The opinion of many people is: ‘This person just follows his heart, how could you be so cruel that you don’t approve?!’
Unfortunately, it seeps into the church. There are churches which thinks that it is necessary to follow everything someone has to say. Therefore, tragically, too many churches now engaged rather jálogií than theology (TEOS=God, the LOGOS=Word). – Anything I want, so does God! If you think that, you’ve created God in his image!
Sometimes someone tells me: ‘I don’t believe in God.’ And I ask them: ‘what kind of God you don’t believe?’ And they tell me and I will answer: ‘In a God like that I don’t trust!’ Made God in his image. We must therefore make sure that we follow the true God, and not of what we wish to have.
I also noticed that some people call themselves christians, even though they disagree with Jesus. Why would someone be called a christian, when he does not agree with Jesus?! It would be like if we were all on mount Sinai and Moses came down with the ten commandments and said: ‘These are the commandments of the Lord your God, Yahweh’. And we we can look at them and say: ‘o Moses, these commandments we don’t like, we have our own!’ Should we call ourselves followers of Yahweh? No! We Don’t Follow Yahweh. We are followers of yourself.
In modern culture, we must try to show people that what they have in the heart, not necessarily their identity. are Not your thoughts, nor your desires!
If our identity by what we think, most men would have been women and most women would be chocolate! 😅
Why some people think that love requires the adoption? Because you confuse your identity with your thoughts or desires.
What is our identity in Jesus?
My identity in Jesus is constant and unchanging identity, I am a child of God.
It’s defined by God, not by worldly standards, as is my past, performance or culture.
It means that we are the chosen ones, we are forgiven and loved, and in God’s eyes we are a new creation, the value of which is based on His grace, not on our own achievements. This new identity is received by faith in Jesus and is based on who we are by the Word of God.
Key aspects of our identity in Christ:
• A child of god: We recruited (adopted) into God’s family and we are with Him in intimate relationship.
• The chosen and the beloved: God has chosen us and he loves us unconditionally regardless of our shortcomings or failures.
• A new creation: Through Christ, our old self disappeared and we were made new, as a ‘new creation’.
• Forgiven: Our sins are forgiven.
• God’s masterpiece: We are uniquely created by God for a specific purpose and we are a valuable part of His plan.
• Part of something important: We are a part of the body of Christ, the church (all believers), and I am a unique member with certain gifts (everyone is different).
• More than a winner: I have the strength and the power through Jesus to overcome challenges. And I’m more than a winner through him who loves me.
• Holy: Because I am in Jesus separated and sanctified. (According to the Bible are the saints of all believers, not just those who died.)
How to live your identity in Christ: Regularly read what God’s word says about who you are.
You shouldn’t follow your heart?
In the Bible there are no verses. The division into verses was made only 500 years ago. So when you read a bible verse, you must usually read the surrounding text to understand what’s going on. You can’t just rip out one verse and say: ‘Oh, I know what it means!’ However, there is exception, and that are Saying, because Proverbs are just jednověté and most of you can understand their meaning without the context of the.
Here is a proverb, which I consider to be the second most important verse in the Bible. – The most important would be anything that is related with the gospel, but this is the second most important verse in the Bible for our culture. This is Proverbs 4:23 above all beware and protect your heart, just from him all life originates.
Please notice, that does not say ‘follow your heart’, but ‘guard your heart’. Why? Because if you follow your heart without moral constraints, you end up injured, addicted, lonely, and probably prematurely dead. Can’t you just follow every whim or every impulse, every desire that comes to your mind, which will come into your heart. This is a recipe for disaster, because the Bible says: ‘Guard your heart.’
We cannot, therefore, to follow your heart without moral constraints, and that at least three reasons.
A) you can’t follow your heart, because your heart is treacherous and selfish. Human heart is of all the most traitorous, is desperately wicked. (Jeremiah 17:9, B21 and KJV)
B) Your heart is sometimes torn. Have two hearts in one thing, that heart you’ll follow?
C) Your heart is changing, especially when you’re young. Your heart is changing quickly. And so for anybody who suggests that 15-year-old or 17-year-old person should make a decision on my entire life, especially in terms of his genitals, in fact, talking about child abuse. We should leave this child to grow up first!
We will now go through each of those three reasons. Let’s start with the first:
A) Your heart is treacherous and selfish
I will give here an example of why I know this is true, even without the Bible. – Imagine how in the morning getting ready in the bathroom, look in the mirror and in horror you realize that you’re at the forefront of the SCREEN! And the screen in big letters displays your every thought. Can’t turn it off, not cover it up. Wherever you go now, this display will continually indicate what you think. If this happened this morning, walked you out of the house? I would leave the bathroom! Why? Because your my ideas are bad, in fact often condemn.
Studies show that we judge someone for the first time, during the first four seconds. We make judgments. Because you can’t remember the name, when you meet someone, because you say: ‘oh, this is perhaps the ugliest shirt I’ve ever seen!’ Or: ‘Where did you get that haircut, in Lidl?’
Your thoughts are wrong, mine too. We judge and we judge. We ask ourselves: ‘do I even Want this person to know? What can he do?“ This is what we’re thinking. And the Bible that our essence, describes in many places. Jeremiah it says as follows: the Human heart is of all the most traitorous, is desperately wicked. (Jeremiah 17:9)
Anyone who says that the human heart are basically good never taken care of a two year old child. It is necessary to teach a two year old child say: ‘my’? – No! A two year old child already knows. We have to teach him about things to share, because we have a tendency to selfishness! We are inclined to evil. It’s easy to be bad, it’s hard to be good.
We know that relationships and marriage are difficult. Why? Because when we put together two broken people, there will be problems. We all have a tendency to selfishness. We don’t want to serve each other, to be served.
Rodney Dangerfield once uttered the famous phrase: ‘My wife and I were 20 years happy …and then we met!’ 😅
Relationships are difficult. The problem is that in many cases there is a single life even harder. My wife looks at me like the machine on the sanctification of the (developed)! Ha! This is a good approach, no? – ‘You’re pissing me off, and I really don’t want to be nice, but I’ll be nice, because I know that I’m as selfish as you.’ We are all selfish. And that is why we can’t follow his selfish heart. If it is to follow we will, we will then resemble the image of Jesus – which is God’s goal for us – on the contrary, we are more like Satan.
So, our hearts are treacherous and therefore can’t drive. Even studies from ‘the Babylon Bee’ found that 100 % of men would eat any of the fruit, which they would have filed a naked woman! 😅 Do you think that if you were Adam, asin you? No, you’d do the same!
B) Your heart is sometimes torn
The second reason, why you can’t follow your heart without moral restrictions, is it that your heart is sometimes torn between the two. You can have two hearts on one issue. – For example, you want to feel good and be in shape, but also you love donuts with frosting. Why is your heart riven, because you can’t have it both ways! Maybe you want to settle down and start a family, but on the other hand, maybe you want to have more partners. You can’t have both, either one or the other when you get married, you can’t have multiple partners. I don’t know how about you, but when I got married, it threw the lid on my dating.
You can have two hearts in anything. Like, you have this new beautiful thing, but on the other hand, you have a second heart – I don’t want to go into debt, I don’t want every month to feel the pressure of debts. – That heart you’ll follow? You can have heart, which he says he wants to follow Jesus, and on the other hand, you want to be accepted by the culture, society and the environment. You want people to like you. – That heart you decide to follow? You have to decide, you can’t follow both.
You know what it says Jacob in the Bible about those who are trying to follow both? Are indecisive! – Who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind storm. Let such a person think that from the Lord you receive anything; he is a man of two minds, unstable in all, what makes the. James 1:6-8 (PIN)
You have to decide. And if you want to see you succeed, if you want to be happy, you can only follow my heart, my thoughts and desires.
C. With. Lewis, in fact, pointed out that all the happiness requires self-control. , he Said: ‘When you lose all of your desires, then obviously leads to disease, jealousies, lies, concealment, and everything that is the reverse of health, good humor and honesty. For any happiness, even in this world, it needed considerable self-control.“ – Considerable self-control!
I don’t know if you’ve seen the studies that show that to prove the delay of self-gratification is necessary for success in life. If you can delay self-gratification or immediate gratification, it is likely that you will be successful. If you can’t, you won’t.
In one study, they had a baby for 5 minutes in the room, laid on the table an m & m and told him that if it doesn’t eat, they will come and they give him another five. From the study showed that there are three types of children: one child eats right, the second child to wait and in five minutes he gets the next, the middle child lay his head on the table, stick out tongue and tries to make her a little lick. When they did the long-term study, they found that those children who were able to wait, then in the life of the much more successful.
We can’t follow my every desire, we have to prove to postpone your satisfaction, if we want to be successful, it is what it says Lewis.
Freedom does not mean that I can do what I want, when I want with who I want. Freedom means to be able to do what I know I should do. It is freedom. Pastor John Mark in Portland, Oregon, it expresses as follows: ‘to Succumb to the desires of our body leads us to freedom and life, as many people think, but on the contrary to the slavery. And in the worst case to addiction, which is extended suicide caused by the fun and pleasure.’ If you are addicted to pornography, this is extended suicide through pleasure. If you are addicted to drugs, it is again extended suicide through pleasure. If you are addicted to alcohol or recognition or anything else, money, etc., it is still a prolonged suicide through ‘joy’, because you are not free when you have something to slaves. Because of Paul so much talk in the book of Romans 6:18 you have been set free from sin and become servants of righteousness.
Don’t be slaves to sin, be slaves of Christ, because when you’re addicted, you’re not single. We can’t just drive my heart, because it is tricky and contradictory. You know that people who are addicted, you’re robbed, to be able to satisfy his addiction. They don’t want to do, then he’ll apologize and say: ‘never do it again.’ And then do it again. Their heart is contradictory, right? Trying to do both. Fail to maintain good relations, because they do not care about your health.
