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The Light of God's Love 0:00 Hey, men. Kenny Luck here, founder of Everyman Ministries. I'm so glad you're here. From wherever you are, on your way to work, in the backyard, around a fire pit, with your men's group, in a church hall, we're just so0:10 glad as a part of the Everyman team that you've chosen to open up God's word and grow spiritually. Now a couple coaching tips. Just make sure you have your Bible handy. It's always a great reference point. Make sure you0:21 have the downloaded notes. Those help you not only follow along, but then you could teach it and give it away. Now fun fact, you know, this live stream is only 1 time a week. But0:33 we have a community of 70000 plus men who receive fresh insight and encouragement from God's word in the every man daily devotional. If you wanna join that community and get just a fresh0:44 encouragement on a daily basis versus just a once a week meeting, go ahead and go to the bottom of the home page. There's a little space there. You put in your email and just sign up. Lastly, before we go to the0:56 study, if you have been ministered to or blessed by the Everyman Life for you, let me encourage you to bless another man. Somewhere in the world, on a military base,1:11 maybe it's a group of friends, maybe it's a church, but bless other men by becoming an every man partner and give financially. There's a little donate there. It just helps us to get1:23 what you're gonna watch out into the spaces and places where men are so they can become like Jesus. Now let's join today's study.1:35 If you have a Bible, I want you to hold 2 spots. 1 in Ephesians chapter 3 and the other in Luke chapter 10. We are in part 5 of our series called Shadow Self.1:47 We're dealing with the inner man. We're dealing with the part of ourselves that we don't necessarily want people to see, and we're dealing with the part of ourselves that we need to defeat if we're gonna have 2 things1:59 happen, a great relationship with God and a great relationship with others. And my prayer for today's session is that it will be like, I don't know, maybe like a heat2:11 seeking missile in your relationship with God that just explodes the gap between your head and your heart when it2:23 comes to your relationship with God. You know what I'm talking about. There's a difference between knowing about God and knowing the promises of God and hearing about how God2:35 loves us and really knowing by experience the love of God. And the reason this is important for our series and why we're2:47 punctuating this series talking about eliminating the gap between your head and your heart when it comes to the love of God. Because if you eliminate that gap, listen, you're2:58 gonna defeat the shadow self. So we're gonna talk in in a few parts. We're gonna talk about how the light of God's love3:10 is death to the shadows. We're gonna talk about things that block the light of god's love and sustain the shadows, and then we're gonna3:22 be talking about releasing the light of God's love in our living with some really practical action steps. So let's get right to it. If you have the downloaded notes, let's look3:34 at the top of those notes, and the headline is, the light of God's love means or equal sign, death to the shadows. And here's what we're gonna do, we're gonna read a few scriptures3:47 with not a lot of commentary and then we're gonna unpack what we learn from scripture about how god's love is meant to be experienced, okay,3:59 versus intellectually processed, okay? So, let's look at our first scripture, Romans chapter 5 verse 5 says this, and hope does not put us to shame4:11 because god's love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. I want you to make 1 little note next to that4:23 verse that God's love puts death to shame. When God's love gets poured into your life, it puts death to shame. We're gonna talk more about that. The second4:34 scripture we're gonna lead with is Ephesians chapter 3 verses 17 to 19, and it says this, and I pray that you, being rooted and established4:46 in love, may have power together with the with all the lord's holy people. Listen, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the4:58 love of Christ and to know this love that surpasses knowledge that you may be filled to the measure of all fullness.5:10 So the light of God's love puts a death to the shadow self, death to shame, and in this passage we read how it's the death of emptiness, right? We get5:22 filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. Alright, let's look at our last passage up top. First Peter chapter 1 verse 8 says this, though you have not seen him,5:34 you love him and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy.5:46 Do you see the displacement of of of things in us through the love of God? You haven't seen him, but you love him, and then you get filled with5:58 a specific thing. Inexpressible and glorious joy, which means by default the displacement and death to despair, the displacement and death to depression, the6:10 displacement and death to cynicism because joy and despair can't exist in the same space, depression and joy can't exist in the same space, and cynicism6:23 can't can't be in the same space as joy is. So when we think about the light of God's love and then the shadow self, we really see in6:35 scripture how love is meant to be experienced and how it brings a death to shame, a death to emptiness, a death to despair and6:47 depression and cynicism. So let's now talk about this process and see if we can't and I'm gonna use a word that dudes may6:58 have, a distant relationship with, but let's see how this process is supposed to feel because God's love, just like love in any relationship, is7:10 meant to be felt. Okay? So let's unpack based on what we just read in scripture how God's love is meant to be felt and experienced. Alright. And the first7:22 thing we learn from the Romans 5 passage is that the light of God's love is an infusion process, alright? And the key word in that is pouring.7:35 The Bible says because God's love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. Now, the image that comes to my mind, I go7:47 back to my clinical pastoral days on the seventh floor of Western Medical Center in Anaheim and working with cancer patients. And during that time, I learned so much about7:59 cancer treatment, cutting edge cancer treatment, the developments. And 1 of the things that was developed, that is really a process of infusion and displacement was a8:11 thing called monoclonal antibodies. Okay? And these are antibodies that are cultured, in the lab, and then8:22 they are infused into the body of a cancer patient. And listen to this, listen to what happens. These monoclonal antibodies literally like a heat seeking8:34 missile, They go and they attach themselves to certain kinds of cancer, so they go in the body and they attach themselves to certain kinds of cancer. And once they attach8:46 themselves, they then inject into the cancer cell chemotherapy. So this is what we call in oncology targeted chemotherapy and you can't get8:58 more targeted then infusing an antibody into the bloodstream, those antibodies traveling and then finding cancer9:10 cells, attaching to a cancer cell and then injecting chemotherapy and You see, when I read Romans chapter 5, when it9:22 says, God's love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, that's what I think about. God's love being infused into my thought life,9:33 into my emotions, into my will, attaching to lies and eliminating them, attaching to fears and eliminating them. So I want you to see9:45 that that's how God's love is supposed to operate. The light of God's love is an infusion process. It's a pouring into you in order to accomplish things and it's pulled off by9:57 the presence of the Holy Spirit in you, seeking out things and converting them over from death to life. Secondly, the light of God's10:09 love is an internalizing process, and this is where in Ephesians chapter 3, I just love the language of Paul because the key word is is grasping.10:21 Okay? And that's a mental and emotional and an internalizing process. You know what I'm talking about. You've heard someone say, you know, I don't grasp that concept yet. And10:33 then upon a little bit of education perhaps or training, the person then says, you know what? Now I now I can grasp that. I've another way of saying is I've got my head around10:45 it. Alright? So I can own it, and it's not just information that I've deposited here, but it's actually, no, I'm getting it with my head and10:56 my heart, I'm grasping this, all right? Whether it's a math problem or do it yourself project or fixing something, listen to me. God's love11:08 is something that you definitely need to grasp. You gotta get your head right about it, and then you have to align your heart with what your head knows, and11:20 then there needs to be travel from what you're grasping intellectually to grasping it, listen to me, experientially. So that it's completely11:32 100 percent yours. That's God's desire. So the light of God's love is an internalizing process, a grasping process, and as infusion and internalizing of11:44 God's love happens, the shadow self begins to be displaced and starts dying, right? Third, the light of God's love is an intimacy process. Paul11:56 says that you may have power together with the Lord's holy people to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ and to12:07 know this love that surpasses knowledge. So you see the juxtaposition of grasping and then you see knowing,12:19 and there's a differentiation, between knowing love that surpasses knowledge. Okay? There's there's knowing12:31 intellectually, there's knowing mentally, there's knowing cognitively, but then there's knowing experientially. For example, I'm a snowboarder, so I12:43 could tell you what I know intellectually about snowboarding. I could tell you when the first board was developed. I can tell you the concept. I12:55 can talk about carving. I can talk about s turns. I can talk about slowing down and how to stop. I can speak intellectually about snowboarding,13:07 But there is a a quantum difference between telling you what I know about snowboarding, the history, the dynamics, the physics with13:19 I know snowboarding because I've experienced snowboarding. When you're on the board, what you're going to feel is, an s turn is going to feel like this, and13:31 when you come to a stop, what you have to do, that kind of knowledge is different. Now, this is what coach Paul the apostle is trying to get across. He's13:42 he's praying that believers will cross that line from knowing up here to actually knowing and experience, and knowing and experience13:54 is trumping just knowing intellectually. I bumped into thousands of Christians that say, You know, I I know a lot about God, but I really feel dry. I know a lot about God,14:06 but you know, and I believe his promises, they're just, you know, they're just kind of not for me. Okay? That is never God's plan, and this is the way I'm praying for you right now in this moment. I'm praying that14:18 you're gonna internalize, that you are going to grasp, and that you will know that you know that you know. Right? This love of God that14:29 surpasses knowing about love. Okay? Number 4, the light of God's love is an invasion process. Okay? And so we've had pouring, we've had14:41 grasping, we've had knowing, and then we have filling. And I love the language here that says that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God, right?14:53 So just imagine, you know, a map of your heart and just this filling, filling, filling, filling, filling, filling, filling, right? To the15:05 fullest measure, right? Where whatever was there before or whatever was dominating in the heart before, now that's getting in there's an invasion of God's love in your life and fear is getting pushed out.15:16 Okay? There's an invasion of God's love and shame is going to be pushed out. There's an invasion of God's love and confidence is coming in and doubt is going out and you're getting filled to the measure of all15:28 the fullness of God. And I want to share with you that that is god's intention with his love and your experience of his love and that's his process.15:40 So, it's an infusion process, an internalizing process, an intimacy process of knowing God's love and an invasion process where15:52 God's love is permeating, filling, invading that heart where unhealth is leaving, the shadow self is leaving, the lies the shadow self believes in, right?16:05 All of those things, the inner junk is leaving because of God's love. You see how powerful the love of God is? Can we say that together? The love of16:17 God is power. It is. And the Apostle Paul says, this is why I'm praying that this process of God's love getting in you and doing things in you,16:30 will grow. Lastly, the light of God's love causes a shift emotionally and that's where we sense16:41 what's happening inside of us, right? So as God love kind of takes the elevator down, as God's love permeates not just our our our brain16:53 and, you know, our thought process, but it actually makes its way into the the battlefield of thoughts and will and emotions17:05 and spiritual conflicts as god's love makes it in there and now starts to displace things, you sense a shift emotionally. And that's what what17:17 Peter's talking about. When he says, though you have not seen him, you love him, and even though you don't see him now, you believe in him. So we're believing that God's love is pouring into us, we're getting17:29 our head around it, we're knowing it intimately, and we're getting filled and look what happens, you believe in him and are filled with inexpressible and glorious17:41 joy. Now when I when I say the light of God's love causes a shift, emotionally. You say, what do you mean, Kenny? I'm17:53 just saying that we are working out emotionally, okay, and cognitively in our mind and our heart what God has already18:06 worked in spiritually. See, it's not that the power is not already there to experience. It's not that the intimacy is not already there to experience.18:18 It's our thought process and we've talked a lot about that. It's our thought process and moving from a thought process to a believing process to an experiential18:30 process with God's love. And we know this on a human level, right? You know, we think about somebody, we think about wanting to get to know them, then we start getting to know them, and now it's just like we start18:41 learning about them and experiencing them, and then what happens? Love. We start to love them, and we start to experience the the relationship and18:53 the power of the relationship in our life. Now if it happens on that level with human beings, just imagine what God wants with us. And the light of his love, again,19:04 brings death to the shadows, death to shame, death to emptiness, death to despair. You get to experience the joy. Jesus's19:16 prayer in John 17 is answered that my joy may be in them. And and the question now is, well, are you experiencing19:28 that? And why are you not experiencing that? Right? And my guess is is that there's something inside of you, and that's that's why I said, I want19:40 this session to be like a heat seeking missile. My guess is that there's a blocker of the light of God's love that's sustaining your shadow self. There's anShow more In this video 0:00 The Light of God's Love19:50 Overcoming Blockers to God's Love45:20 Living in God's Love
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