Episode 136: Healing Revisited 3.0 - The Issue of Lack of Love

REVIEWING THE QUESTIONSHow long would you have had to follow Jesus around until you saw someone healed?How long would someone have to follow YOU around until they saw someone healed!?!?Previous Healing messages - 1. Healing Revisited 1.0 – The Issue of God’s Will / 2. Healing Revisited 2.0 – The Issue of FearMESSAGE - HEALING Revisited 3.0  - The ISSUE OF LACK OF LOVEWhy don't we heal the sick? •Ignorance•Deception / False Teaching (God’s will, Gifts ceased)•Unbelief•Fear – Fear of Failure? Fear of Man?•Lack of LovePicture of Love - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQv6zN06JHA What motivated Jesus? •Matthew 14:14 - And when Jesus went out He saw a great multitude; and He was moved with compassion for them and healed their sick.•Romans 5:5 - And hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.Lack of Love - My greatest issue/sin•1 John 3:17-18 - But if anyone has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God’s love abide in him? Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.If anyone has the Holy Spirit inside of them, with the mandate and authority to heal the sick and sees someone who needs healing, yet closes his heart against him-how can God’s love be in that person?” (DOV – Dave’s Ouch Version)How do we get "this love"? - 1st way - BY HOLY SPIRIT•Romans 5:5 - And hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.How do we get "this love"? - 1st way - THROUGH OBEDIENCE•1 John 2:4-5 - 4 Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him, 5 but whoever keeps His word, in him truly the love of God is perfected.•1 John 2:15-16 - 15 Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16 For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life —is not from the Father but is from the world.•1 John 5:2-3 - 2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey his commandments. 3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments.•1 John 4:7-12 - 7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9 In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent His only Son into the world, so that we might live through Him. 10 In this is love, not that we have loved God but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12 No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and His love is perfected in us.•1 John 4:16-21 - 16 So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. 17 By this is love perfected with us, so that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because as He is so also are we in this world. 18 There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love. 19 We love because He first loved us. 20 If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen. 21 And this commandment we have from Him: whoever loves God must also love his brother.OUR RESPONSE•Obedience – Time to REPENT again. Confess. •Encounter – God’s love deposited by the Holy Spirit, “love is from God”•Commitment