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Seventh-day Adventist Church British Columbia Conference

"Tell It Again"

Eric Walsh

What We Must Know: Prophecy Update

God’s Love Language

America Rising

I'm going to get right into God's Word for this Sabbath day.

We are going to look at 2 Corinthians chapter 5.

2 Corinthians chapter 5, I'm starting at verse 14.

The Bible says, For the love of Christ constraineth us, Because we thus judge that if 1 died for all, then we're all dead.

And that he died for all that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them and rose again.

Our message this Sabbath is entitled God's love language.

Father God we thank you for this opportunity to study your word.

I thank you Father God for your patience and your kindness.

Lord we ask now for an extra outpouring of your Holy Ghost.

Lord that he would lead us into truth and now Lord bind Satan in the name of Jesus and by the power of your blood bind the devil and his angels and cast them far from here.

Lord now remove distractions and Lord let us not talk pettily or look even at our phones.

But Lord let us now look into the perfect face of Jesus Christ.

This is our prayer in Jesus's name, amen.

You have your Bible, you may want to go with me to the book of John.

We're gonna start in the 21st chapter, John chapter 21.

This is the third, happens during the third time that Jesus showed himself to his disciples after his resurrection.

In fact as you read the last chapters of John and some of the other late chapters of the Gospels, you realize that it was quite, in many ways for them, anticlimactic, his resurrection.

They weren't actually there when he rose from the dead and there was still some doubt as Thomas showed.

They even, as we're about to see in this story, they actually went back right to where they were when they first were found by Jesus and became disciples.

And Jesus comes to them as they're fishing.

Remember they thought for sure Jesus was going to come and he was going to be crowned king, sit on David's throne, and vanquish forever the Roman Empire.

But Jesus had been crucified, he had risen, and for them nothing seemed to have changed, although church, don't miss this, everything had changed.

Jesus being risen from the dead meant that he took from Satan the keys to death and the grave.

Jesus coming out of the grave as Revelation 12, if you read it carefully, now Satan is banished forever to earth and can no longer go to heaven and accuse the brethren like he did Job.

But because they did not understand the prophecy, they hadn't seen it.

Defeated, they went back to fishing for fish rather than fishing for men.

John 21 and verse 14 says this, this is now the third time that Jesus showed himself to his disciples.

So when they had dined Jesus said said to Simon Peter, Simon son of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these?

Peter's response is, yea Lord thou knowest that I love thee.

Not a first time Jesus says this, Jesus actually says to Peter, Peter do you agape me?

Do you love me with an unconditional love?

And Jesus, Peter's response is, yes you know I love you, I phileo love you, I love you like a brother or a friend." Now remember that the last time they had this encounter, we'll read it in a second, Peter said that he basically said he loved Jesus more than everyone and that he would never deny him and that he would fight for him no matter what and yet at the accusation of a little girl Peter begins to curse and swear before the crucifixion to prove he's not 1 of Christ's disciples.

He fails the test miserably and here Jesus is giving him a redo.

Verse 16 says he saith to him again the second time Simon son of Jonas, lovest thou me?

Peter sayeth, Lord thou knowest that I phileo, I love thee.

He said unto him feed my sheep don't just feed the lambs I want you to feed the sheep verse 17 he said unto him the third time Simon son of Jonas lovest thou me Peter the Bible says here that Peter was grieved he was upset now he felt in front of the other disciples that Christ was kind of nudging him a little bit too much, because he said unto him the third time love is thou me.

And Peter said unto him, Lord you know all things, you know that I love you.

The interesting thing about the third time this comes up is this.

This time Jesus says, Peter do you phileo me?

And Peter responds, yes you know all things you know I phileo you.

There's an interesting thing that happens that shows that Peter moves from his place of arrogance before the cross to now that Christ is resurrected and walking amongst them again, the Peter who was so quick to respond and seemingly braggadocious is now humble and guess what church now that he is humble Christ is ready to use him Then Jesus gives Peter this tough description of his future.

Remember Jesus the greatest of the prophets.

John 21 18 he says, Verily, verily, I say unto you, when you were young you girded yourself and you walked where you wanted to but when you shall be old you will stretch forth your hands and another shall gird thee and carry you whither thou wouldest not.

This spake he signifying by what death he should glorify God and when he had spoken this he said unto him follow me.

If you want to show Peter that you love me, 2 things are gonna happen.

You're going to go through a time of persecution and just as Peter described, as Jesus describes, when it comes time for Peter to die, and they offer to crucify him, you'll remember the story, Peter is crucified upside down because he doesn't feel even worthy to die in the same way Jesus died.

If you love me, Peter, you're going to go through some trial.

But If you love me, Peter, you're going to go through some trial.

But if you love me, Peter, you're going to follow me.

Here the Bible begins to give us the hint into God's love language.

There's a book that was famous, I'm sure many of you have seen this thing.

I tried to read the book, I couldn't get through it, I just couldn't do it.

It's 5 love languages, and I believe everybody's got a little bit of all of them, the way I look at it.

But this thing is a New York Times bestseller, very popular book, and here are the 5 love languages.

So if you marry someone who likes acts of service, basically they say you should bring them breakfast in bed, stuff like that.

Number 2 is quality time, that you should spend a lot of time with this person.

Now, you know, you run the risk if you're not careful that, you know, you might take time from other things, I guess.

Words of encouragement, words of affirmation.

There are people who their love language is physical touch.

I read 1 thing that said like 80% of men fall into this category.

And then the last 1 is receiving gifts, right?

And so they said, these are the 5 love languages.

You got to figure out your spouse's love language and they need to know your love language.

And if you do that, you'll speak each other's love language and good things will happen.

The book is very popular and I think it's useful even, but not scientifically, it's not like they did studies to come up with this.

If we are to love God, and let me start the sermon off with saying the difficulty of this whole message.

It's tough to preach these sermons because there are a lot of people when we talk about God's love, they really want a flimsy version of love.

That they want, they confuse agape love with the eros love, the romantic form of love.

And so when they speak about loving God, they speak about loving God in a more romantic way rather than in the unconditional way that God loves us.

Well it's not easy to talk about because many of us have an understanding of what we think that love is, but if you were to ask the question what is God's love language, The answer is overwhelming in the Scripture.

At least 1 of them, a major 1, is obedience.

If you want to show that you love God, the way you do it is obedience.

When Christ is questioning Peter, He's asking him, do you really love me?

Because Peter, when he said he loved him before and vowed to defend him and never deny him, when the time came and Peter, Jesus was to be taken and the high priest servant was there, Malchus, Peter took out his sword and chopped off the man's ear and thought that that was showing Christ's love.

Christ then shows Peter what real love is, and even though this man represented Christ's enemy, Christ reaches down, picks up the severed ear, the pin of that ear, and puts it back on and heals the man right at the time of taking Christ to be tortured and crucified.

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