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Session Four: The Relational Revolution
July 15, 2025 · 11 min
If a man is not doing his relationships right he is not doing his life right. The world is ready for the next wave of the Dangerous Good and relational revolution they are going to bring.
Series Dangerous Good July 15, 2025 · 11 min · Dangerous Good
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In this video 0:00 The Command to Love
The Command to Love 0:15 Welcome back to to session 4 of the dangerous good study. In session 2, we talked about how the process of becoming like Christ is 1 of pursuing and achieving greater and greater measures of0:27 personal spiritual integrity and character. Session 3, we talked about the lifestyle that is going to help bring us greater levels of integrity and Christ likeness. And that's a lifestyle0:38 of surrendering to God's strong leadership in your life, cultivating a strong mind through soaking in God's word, and being filled with the promised power of God through the Holy Spirit.0:51 Now, in session 4, we're gonna look at what will prove to be the 1 thing that separates the dangerous good from the broken masculinity that we see out there in1:02 culture. And that 1 thing is how we love. You know, when Jesus talks about love, he doesn't talk about it the way culture talks about it today. Instead of talking about it romantically1:15 or erotically, Jesus talks about love sacrificially. And in the final huddle with his sort of rookie team of dangerous good men, he gives them these ominous1:27 and challenging marketing orders to take into battle. We see them in John chapter 15. Jesus says, my command is this, love each other as I have loved you. Greater1:39 love has no 1 than this, to lay down one's life for one's friends. You are my friends if you do what I command. I no longer call you servants because a servant does not1:50 know his master's business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my father, I have made known to you. You did not choose me, but I chose you.
2:02 And I appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit fruit that will last, so that whatever you ask in the name of the father, he will give you. This is
2:14 my command. Love each other. Now, Jesus is dropping diamonds as it relates to being dangerous with goodness and a witness for him as an individual,
2:26 follower of Christ in your own set of private relationship, but also as a collective dangerous good fellowship. Now, the 4 simple truths that Jesus shares
2:38 cause the dangerous good into what I can best describe as a relational revolution where being strong and being loving, those 2 things are not, repeat, not mutually exclusive.
2:51 And that is what will set apart the dangerous good from the broken masculinity that people are so used to right now. So let's identify and then unpack the 4
3:02 diamonds in this charge to his men and seek out some personal and then some some group application. Alright? So what we see in this charge is this, the command to love, the
3:14 call to imitate Christ, the commission to reflect Christ, and then we see the context for miracle power praying. Alright? So first, let's unpack Jesus giving
3:26 his men the command to love. He says, love each other. Alright? Now of all the things to tell your guys right before you go to your death and leave them, why
3:38 that? Well, Jesus knows something we all need to understand and need to be reminded of as men over and over and over again. And it's this, if we are not doing
3:50 relationships right, we're not doing life right. But even more challenging, if we don't do relationships right, we're not doing God right because it's a command from God to love each
4:02 other. Now, sit with those 2 statements for just a second. If I'm not doing relationships right, I'm not doing life right. And then, if I'm not doing relationships right, I'm not doing God
4:14 right. You see guys, smart men, dangerous good men, they discipline themselves toward relationships. Why? Because relationships are where we work
4:25 out the goodness God has worked into us in Christ. That's where his love for you is supposed to manifest, in your relationships with your brothers and
4:37 those close to you and those God springs into your life. Now, men back then are the same as they are now. They're they're just as broken when it comes to doing relationships. They need
4:49 to learn how to love by having it modeled by Jesus. Now, a lot of us didn't have a model. And the result is is that we want to love well, but we struggle and
5:01 sometimes just give up or bail out under the pressure. Now, can I share a little cup of honesty with you? I do tons of funerals. Right? And at those
5:12 memorials, let's say your memorial, no one's gonna be talking about your bank account balance. No one's gonna be talking about how many vacations you took. No one's gonna be talking about how many cars or motorcycles
5:24 or awards or promotions that you might have earned. Now, similarly, dangerous good men and their dangerous good fellowships are not gonna be measured by how much
5:36 they know, what they look like, how much money they have, or even by what they do for their community, but by how well they love each other. Now, it appears that to at least 1 of
5:48 Jesus's dangerous good men, he took it to heart to repeat it in a different way to the early church in 1 of his letters. It's the apostle John and in first first John 4 7, he says this. Listen closely.
6:00 He says, beloved, let us love 1 another. For love comes from God and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.
6:12 Whoever does not love does not know God because God is love. Did you catch that? Every man who loves knows God and is born of God. So
6:24 if you're bad at love or unloving, it's a sign that you really do not know God or love God. Now to experience the relational revolution Jesus talks about and be
6:36 dangerous with goodness, you gotta see the command, Alright? To love. But also, number 2, you gotta see the call to imitation. Here's our model. Jesus says, love each other as I
6:48 have loved you. And then he says this, greater love has no man than this, that he laid down his life for his friends. Right? In order for the dangerous good
7:00 to move from the safe realm of sappiness and sentiment to the powerful realm of sacrifice, we have to follow Jesus' example. To experience the relational
7:12 revolution and be dangerous with goodness, we gotta see the command, number 1, but we also have to see the call to imitate Christ. Alright. Here's the third nugget, the third diamond. We have to see
7:24 the commission to reproduce Christ's love. Now, the dangerous good are chosen with the intention to go. Alright? Bear fruit. The lasting fruit of loving other
7:36 people, the way that they've been loved by Christ. And Jesus makes an analogy to fruit, and it's important because fruit reflects the source. Banana trees
7:48 make bananas. Apple trees make apples. Alright? What about dangerous good disciples? Well, you know a guy's a dangerous good disciple. Right? And that they're connected to Christ by how
7:59 they sacrificially love other people. To experience the relational revolution and be dangerous with goodness, you gotta see the commission to
8:11 reproduce Christ's love and be known for bearing that specific fruit. So let's look at number 4, fourth diamond. You gotta see the context for powerfully answered
8:23 prayer. So if the commission is to love and the desire to reproduce God's love in every relationships he gives you, then we can be confident and expectant when
8:35 asking God things that fit this desire for us to be loving. I want you to hear Jesus's words again. He says, I've chosen you and appointed you
8:47 to go bear fruit, fruit that lasts. So whatever you ask in my name, the father will give to you. Alright. Let me just say this directly to you.
8:59 Only courageous love, guys, is gonna advance the cause in your marriage and family, where you say no to yourself and yes to others. Only courageous, sacrificial
9:11 love will advance the cause in your community where you say no to yourself and your schedule to say yes to sacrificing for others in need. You see, the impossible becomes
9:23 possible when we have spirit empowered men loving others the way Christ has loved them. Right? That is exactly what happened in the book of Acts with the first band of the
9:34 dangerous good and in the city of Jerusalem where these, quote unquote, rookies just started sacrificially loving other people. Alright? On their way to church, when they
9:46 encounter people on the streets, they started loving sacrificially. And you know what got to the point? Where the whole city of Jerusalem started hearing about these men and their radical way
9:58 of loving others. The first dangerous good fellowships like yours, they loved so well. It created like a buzz, and the city leaders gathered. And you know what they said? They said this in Acts chapter 4 verse 16. What
10:10 are we gonna do with these men? They asked. Everyone living in Jerusalem knows they have performed a notable miracle, and we cannot deny it.
10:22 Wow. What was the notable miracle? Well, they were relieving pain in love. They were reducing people's loads and burdens in love. They were raising people's spirits by loving each other super
10:34 well and loving others in radical, courageous ways. Guys, that's the call on you as a dangerous good man. That's the call on you guys as a
10:46 dangerous good fellowship. That's the way we're supposed to love. And as the dangerous good, we're in touch with the greatest love, and we have experienced the greatest kind of love
10:58 in Christ as he has poured his life out in us and for us. So Jesus says to us, freely you have received, now freely give.
11:10 Have a great discussion, and we'll see you in session 5.
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