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See, people matter to God. 38 00:01:58,400 --> 00:02:03,680 Speaker 5: People matter most to God. And it's so easy these 39 00:02:03,760 --> 00:02:08,760 Speaker 5: days to find things that we disagree on. There's so 40 00:02:08,919 --> 00:02:13,200 Speaker 5: much information, there's so many things swirling that we can 41 00:02:13,560 --> 00:02:16,760 Speaker 5: easily find things that we disagree on. You know, you're 42 00:02:16,800 --> 00:02:19,600 Speaker 5: never going to agree one hundred percent of the time 43 00:02:19,919 --> 00:02:24,360 Speaker 5: with anyone, but the point that we need to make 44 00:02:24,960 --> 00:02:28,000 Speaker 5: in our life to God, the things that we need 45 00:02:28,040 --> 00:02:34,160 Speaker 5: to do is continue to show respect for people. We 46 00:02:34,240 --> 00:02:37,320 Speaker 5: have to show respect, whether we agree with people or not. 47 00:02:42,720 --> 00:02:45,200 Speaker 4: When we show respect, you know what we're doing. 48 00:02:45,840 --> 00:02:50,240 Speaker 5: We are honoring God and we're promoting the Gospel. We're 49 00:02:50,280 --> 00:02:55,480 Speaker 5: promoting the good News. We're saying, God, I respect these 50 00:02:55,560 --> 00:02:59,960 Speaker 5: people because they matter to you. And when I show respect, 51 00:03:00,800 --> 00:03:02,800 Speaker 5: I'm showing the good News. 52 00:03:03,360 --> 00:03:06,440 Speaker 4: I am promoting the Gospel on this earth. 53 00:03:06,680 --> 00:03:10,200 Speaker 5: See, as a believer, the truth is, people don't really 54 00:03:10,240 --> 00:03:13,160 Speaker 5: care what you say. They don't care if you go 55 00:03:13,240 --> 00:03:16,360 Speaker 5: to church every Sunday. If you're honest, you don't lie, 56 00:03:16,440 --> 00:03:20,079 Speaker 5: you don't steal, you don't cheat. You know, it gets 57 00:03:20,080 --> 00:03:23,639 Speaker 5: their attention. It's what you do. See, it's not what 58 00:03:23,680 --> 00:03:28,080 Speaker 5: you say, but it's what you do in faith. It's 59 00:03:28,080 --> 00:03:32,600 Speaker 5: what you do through faith that makes the difference, you know, 60 00:03:32,760 --> 00:03:38,480 Speaker 5: especially in church. In the church, we should make sure 61 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:42,520 Speaker 5: that we don't have petty disagreements. See the church, no 62 00:03:42,520 --> 00:03:46,160 Speaker 5: matter what your beliefs are, in the Church of Jesus Christ, 63 00:03:46,200 --> 00:03:49,320 Speaker 5: we should stand under the umbrella of the Blood of 64 00:03:49,400 --> 00:03:50,320 Speaker 5: Jesus Christ. 65 00:03:50,960 --> 00:03:51,400 Speaker 3: All right. 66 00:03:51,480 --> 00:03:57,160 Speaker 5: We should be in unity because that makes the difference 67 00:03:57,560 --> 00:04:01,360 Speaker 5: to the people who aren't believers. That's what's going to 68 00:04:01,440 --> 00:04:05,760 Speaker 5: cause them to believe. That's what's going to get their attention. 69 00:04:06,400 --> 00:04:11,560 Speaker 5: You know, I've seen believers literally argue over the different 70 00:04:11,600 --> 00:04:12,920 Speaker 5: translations of the Bible. 71 00:04:14,360 --> 00:04:18,599 Speaker 4: See, we're better than that. We're better than that. We 72 00:04:18,720 --> 00:04:19,680 Speaker 4: got to stay together. 73 00:04:20,360 --> 00:04:26,240 Speaker 5: It's not what you know, it's what you do. It's 74 00:04:26,279 --> 00:04:30,480 Speaker 5: how you act, it's how you show your faith. How 75 00:04:30,520 --> 00:04:34,960 Speaker 5: do you express your faith? Listen to what it says 76 00:04:35,200 --> 00:04:40,600 Speaker 5: in Galatians five sixteen. It says in Christ Jesus, there's 77 00:04:40,720 --> 00:04:46,640 Speaker 5: neither circumcision or non circumcision. None of that has any value. 78 00:04:46,680 --> 00:04:52,640 Speaker 5: The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love. 79 00:04:53,920 --> 00:04:56,839 Speaker 5: That scripture is saying you may know a lot of stuff, 80 00:04:58,600 --> 00:05:00,840 Speaker 5: you may know all the rule, and you may know 81 00:05:00,880 --> 00:05:03,120 Speaker 5: how to look really good and say the right things, 82 00:05:03,320 --> 00:05:08,000 Speaker 5: but that is not where the value is. The value 83 00:05:08,200 --> 00:05:12,960 Speaker 5: in God's eyes is us expressing. 84 00:05:12,279 --> 00:05:16,760 Speaker 4: Our faith in Him through love to other people. 85 00:05:17,400 --> 00:05:23,320 Speaker 5: That's what gets people's attention, and that's what pleases God. 86 00:05:24,480 --> 00:05:27,400 Speaker 5: You know, some people are more difficult to love than 87 00:05:27,440 --> 00:05:28,080 Speaker 5: other people. 88 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:32,880 Speaker 4: And that's just bottom line. See, it's easy to. 89 00:05:32,880 --> 00:05:36,039 Speaker 5: Love people that love you, people that agree with you 90 00:05:36,160 --> 00:05:39,279 Speaker 5: see things the way you do. But there'll always be 91 00:05:39,320 --> 00:05:43,239 Speaker 5: people that are more difficult to love. And so let's 92 00:05:43,360 --> 00:05:47,960 Speaker 5: just talk about that a minute, because that's the thing 93 00:05:48,040 --> 00:05:52,120 Speaker 5: that we probably need to work on the most. It's 94 00:05:52,520 --> 00:05:59,080 Speaker 5: loving in faith. See, sometimes you have to love in faith. 95 00:06:00,200 --> 00:06:04,039 Speaker 5: See Jesus was empowered on this earth by the Holy Spirit. 96 00:06:04,480 --> 00:06:09,800 Speaker 5: It says that he was empowered to do good. See 97 00:06:09,839 --> 00:06:14,400 Speaker 5: everywhere Jesus went, he did good. He did good. He 98 00:06:14,480 --> 00:06:18,719 Speaker 5: was empowered, he was anointed with power to do good. 99 00:06:19,320 --> 00:06:23,320 Speaker 5: And you know, in doing good, he brought healing everywhere 100 00:06:23,320 --> 00:06:23,720 Speaker 5: he went. 101 00:06:25,120 --> 00:06:28,520 Speaker 4: And you and I have been anointed to do good. 102 00:06:29,720 --> 00:06:33,599 Speaker 5: We've been anointed to bring healing to this earth, to 103 00:06:33,760 --> 00:06:39,400 Speaker 5: promote the good news of Jesus Christ. That's what your 104 00:06:39,440 --> 00:06:45,320 Speaker 5: anointing does. It brings God on the scene. It brings 105 00:06:45,360 --> 00:06:49,239 Speaker 5: God on the scene. So we have to step back 106 00:06:49,279 --> 00:06:53,960 Speaker 5: in this time of division and discord and disagreement, and 107 00:06:54,000 --> 00:06:57,600 Speaker 5: we have to say, what is my purpose. My purpose 108 00:06:58,360 --> 00:07:01,400 Speaker 5: is to further the gospel. My purpose is not to 109 00:07:01,440 --> 00:07:06,000 Speaker 5: get my opinion out there. I can do more through 110 00:07:06,120 --> 00:07:10,200 Speaker 5: love than I can spreading my opinion. Because see, God 111 00:07:10,320 --> 00:07:14,760 Speaker 5: is the one who works through the expression of love. 112 00:07:16,320 --> 00:07:19,600 Speaker 4: And when you are loving, when you are making. 113 00:07:19,400 --> 00:07:24,000 Speaker 5: Conscious decisions, to express your faith in God through love. 114 00:07:25,200 --> 00:07:29,480 Speaker 5: God is working in your life. I read a quote 115 00:07:29,480 --> 00:07:34,360 Speaker 5: that says this. It says faith acts before it feels. 116 00:07:35,720 --> 00:07:42,800 Speaker 5: Faith acts before it feels. You see, our flesh wants 117 00:07:42,800 --> 00:07:48,360 Speaker 5: to feel it. We want to like you because you're 118 00:07:48,560 --> 00:07:55,600 Speaker 5: like me. But the spirit, faith, the things of God, says, 119 00:07:55,680 --> 00:07:59,280 Speaker 5: I am going to love in faith. 120 00:08:00,560 --> 00:08:02,800 Speaker 4: I'm gonna give you the benefit. 121 00:08:02,360 --> 00:08:03,000 Speaker 1: Of the doubt. 122 00:08:03,680 --> 00:08:05,520 Speaker 4: I'm gonna remember. 123 00:08:05,280 --> 00:08:10,440 Speaker 5: That God loves you and you matter to God. You see, 124 00:08:10,480 --> 00:08:15,400 Speaker 5: That's what faith says. Feelings say no way. Faith says, 125 00:08:15,520 --> 00:08:20,480 Speaker 5: I must, I must. This is something that happened to 126 00:08:20,560 --> 00:08:22,880 Speaker 5: me when I was in the sixth grade, and I 127 00:08:22,960 --> 00:08:24,200 Speaker 5: never forgot this. 128 00:08:25,760 --> 00:08:28,640 Speaker 4: I was just coming from lunch. I was in junior 129 00:08:28,720 --> 00:08:29,360 Speaker 4: high school. 130 00:08:29,640 --> 00:08:32,800 Speaker 5: I was walking down the hall and this girl, I 131 00:08:32,800 --> 00:08:35,160 Speaker 5: think she was in the eighth grade. I had never 132 00:08:35,240 --> 00:08:37,760 Speaker 5: even seen her before. I didn't know the girl. I've 133 00:08:37,760 --> 00:08:40,200 Speaker 5: never talked to her. She walks up to me and 134 00:08:40,240 --> 00:08:46,200 Speaker 5: she says, I'm gonna beat you up. And I was 135 00:08:46,240 --> 00:08:49,199 Speaker 5: like why. 136 00:08:50,280 --> 00:08:52,040 Speaker 4: She said, I don't like the way you act. 137 00:08:53,520 --> 00:09:00,160 Speaker 5: I looked at her and I said, I'll change. Do 138 00:09:00,240 --> 00:09:04,760 Speaker 5: you know that girl looked at me, turned around and 139 00:09:04,840 --> 00:09:09,680 Speaker 5: walked off and I never saw her again. I never 140 00:09:09,760 --> 00:09:15,480 Speaker 5: saw her again. It's kind of interesting that that's what 141 00:09:15,679 --> 00:09:16,640 Speaker 5: came up out of me. 142 00:09:17,080 --> 00:09:21,480 Speaker 4: I guess I didn't want to get beat up. Now, 143 00:09:21,600 --> 00:09:24,160 Speaker 4: my mind for a split second said I'm not changing. 144 00:09:24,160 --> 00:09:25,720 Speaker 4: I don't even know who you are, you don't even 145 00:09:25,760 --> 00:09:29,040 Speaker 4: know me. But thank God, that's what came up. 146 00:09:29,120 --> 00:09:33,480 Speaker 5: Because I look back now and I think that simple answer, 147 00:09:33,559 --> 00:09:40,080 Speaker 5: that simple answer of humility brought healing. Because think about 148 00:09:40,160 --> 00:09:43,680 Speaker 5: this just a minute. If you disagree with someone, or 149 00:09:43,720 --> 00:09:47,199 Speaker 5: if someone doesn't like you, or someone's causing you trouble, 150 00:09:47,920 --> 00:09:50,800 Speaker 5: and you act the same way to them, maybe you 151 00:09:50,920 --> 00:09:53,240 Speaker 5: disrespect them. 152 00:09:53,320 --> 00:09:56,720 Speaker 4: Nothing changes, nothing changes. 153 00:09:57,440 --> 00:10:01,320 Speaker 5: You're gonna dislike them, they're gonna dis like you, is 154 00:10:01,440 --> 00:10:03,560 Speaker 5: much or more than ever before. 155 00:10:04,360 --> 00:10:05,800 Speaker 4: Nothing changes. 156 00:10:07,840 --> 00:10:11,480 Speaker 6: But when you make a choice to love by faith, 157 00:10:12,040 --> 00:10:16,840 Speaker 6: to express your love for God by loving other people, 158 00:10:17,360 --> 00:10:20,080 Speaker 6: the potential for change is huge. 159 00:10:20,320 --> 00:10:24,280 Speaker 5: And I believe the attitudes of our heart change. We 160 00:10:25,480 --> 00:10:30,000 Speaker 5: dislike those people less and less and less when we 161 00:10:30,120 --> 00:10:34,640 Speaker 5: choose to express our faith through love. That's why the 162 00:10:34,679 --> 00:10:39,880 Speaker 5: Bible says, pray for your enemies, Pray for those who 163 00:10:39,960 --> 00:10:43,160 Speaker 5: do wrong against you. You see, you may have some 164 00:10:43,280 --> 00:10:48,760 Speaker 5: relationships in your life, that will never change. Those people, 165 00:10:48,840 --> 00:10:51,800 Speaker 5: no matter how kind you are to them, will never 166 00:10:51,920 --> 00:10:56,440 Speaker 5: be kind to you. They'll never show you the respect 167 00:10:56,880 --> 00:11:00,920 Speaker 5: that you're showing them. They may never change, But I 168 00:11:00,960 --> 00:11:01,600 Speaker 5: can tell. 169 00:11:01,480 --> 00:11:03,760 Speaker 4: You this, You'll change. 170 00:11:04,440 --> 00:11:08,480 Speaker 5: You'll change, And that's what matters the most to God. 171 00:11:14,320 --> 00:11:16,720 Speaker 5: God is not going to ask us how many people 172 00:11:16,840 --> 00:11:21,160 Speaker 5: we changed. He's going to ask us, did we change? 173 00:11:21,200 --> 00:11:24,600 Speaker 5: Did we walk in love? Did we express our faith 174 00:11:25,320 --> 00:11:29,760 Speaker 5: through love? Because that's what's going to change everybody around us. 175 00:11:30,440 --> 00:11:33,840 Speaker 4: That's what's going to change everyone around us. So when 176 00:11:33,920 --> 00:11:36,160 Speaker 4: you do good, let me tell you something. 177 00:11:36,200 --> 00:11:39,400 Speaker 5: You're not only doing other people a favor because so 178 00:11:39,520 --> 00:11:42,640 Speaker 5: you can't argue with somebody who won't argue back. You're 179 00:11:42,720 --> 00:11:46,760 Speaker 5: not only doing them a favor and promoting love and healing. 180 00:11:47,080 --> 00:11:49,160 Speaker 4: You're doing yourself a favor. 181 00:11:49,760 --> 00:11:54,040 Speaker 5: You're changing, You're breaking down walls and barriers that would 182 00:11:54,280 --> 00:11:58,880 Speaker 5: like to keep you limited. God will do great things 183 00:11:58,920 --> 00:12:02,840 Speaker 5: in your life, will enrich you when you choose to 184 00:12:03,080 --> 00:12:06,600 Speaker 5: express your faith in love. Listen to what it says 185 00:12:06,640 --> 00:12:10,560 Speaker 5: in Proverbs eleven seventeen. It says those who are kind 186 00:12:11,400 --> 00:12:16,840 Speaker 5: benefit themselves. One version says your own soul is nourished 187 00:12:17,280 --> 00:12:21,640 Speaker 5: when you're kind. See, when you're good to people, you're 188 00:12:21,720 --> 00:12:27,480 Speaker 5: nourishing your own soul. You're bringing healing to them. If 189 00:12:27,520 --> 00:12:32,880 Speaker 5: you love God today, if you want to live for Him, 190 00:12:33,360 --> 00:12:36,080 Speaker 5: then you need to step back in this world full 191 00:12:36,120 --> 00:12:40,040 Speaker 5: of conflict and say, I'm going to begin to express 192 00:12:40,160 --> 00:12:45,320 Speaker 5: my faith in God by loving people, especially those difficult, 193 00:12:45,960 --> 00:12:47,160 Speaker 5: unlovable people. 194 00:12:48,640 --> 00:12:53,240 Speaker 4: You see, you can do more by your actions than 195 00:12:53,280 --> 00:12:54,840 Speaker 4: you can by your words. 196 00:12:55,760 --> 00:12:59,160 Speaker 5: I want to encourage you today to look for opportunities 197 00:12:59,720 --> 00:13:05,400 Speaker 5: to be good to people, not only those who are difficult, 198 00:13:05,800 --> 00:13:09,800 Speaker 5: but those who are in your own backyard. Maybe it's 199 00:13:09,840 --> 00:13:13,000 Speaker 5: your coworker, maybe it's the man that mows the lawn, 200 00:13:13,400 --> 00:13:16,200 Speaker 5: or maybe it's a family member that can use your help. 201 00:13:16,920 --> 00:13:20,800 Speaker 5: The scripture says, don't withhold good when it's in your 202 00:13:20,880 --> 00:13:21,800 Speaker 5: power to act. 203 00:13:22,720 --> 00:13:25,080 Speaker 4: Listen, you're anointed. 204 00:13:24,520 --> 00:13:25,120 Speaker 3: To do good. 205 00:13:26,040 --> 00:13:29,679 Speaker 5: You have the power to treat people right, whether you 206 00:13:29,760 --> 00:13:32,800 Speaker 5: agree with them or not. And if you love God, 207 00:13:33,840 --> 00:13:36,640 Speaker 5: God wants you to use that same love and express 208 00:13:36,679 --> 00:13:40,679 Speaker 5: it through faith to all those around you, because that's 209 00:13:41,120 --> 00:13:42,760 Speaker 5: where the healing comes in. 210 00:13:42,920 --> 00:13:48,120 Speaker 4: Amen. Amen, Thank you for listening to the Joel Los 211 00:13:48,160 --> 00:13:49,080 Speaker 4: Dean podcast. 212 00:13:49,440 --> 00:13:52,040 Speaker 3: Help us continue to share the message of Hope with 213 00:13:52,160 --> 00:13:56,120 Speaker 3: those all over the world. 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