Discipleship in AGAPE & HONOR in 4D
Sunday, August 27, 2023 – RECAP/Study Points
Pastor Mike: I’ve endeavored all year long to establish a place where we would develop ourselves into a position and posture of dominus. We are not here to get along or go along, we are here to take over.
We gather in this place so that we can become mobilized so that we can go out into the world and change the conditions of others’ lives.
Elder Soneil: I am hearing the importance of consistency. We should all live alike. Every person that is hearing this Word should be responding and demonstrating this Word. When that family asked you who you were? That is not a question that we can afford for the world to be asking us…every time a person engages a believer, they should know exactly who we are. The Word that we are getting should be transforming all of our lives. Jesus first told us to love our neighbors as ourselves (Mark 12:31) …you can’t love others when you don’t love you, then we told to do unto others as you would have them to do unto you (Luke 6:31).
John 13:34 NKJV A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: as I have loved you…
- In order for us to fulfill the part of the scripture that says, As He loved us…we have to understand how He loved us.
- You have the capacity to love As He love us
- This is the blueprint… the charge
vs.35 By this shall all men know that you are my disciples, if you have love one to another.
- By this blueprint of as I have loved you, people will know that you are one of my disciples because of the love you have one for another
Pastor Mike: Some of my family members and I were talking, and I asked them which approach I should have going into this lesson. They all agreed that I should start with John 3:16.
John 3:16 KJV For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
- Put more “O’s (soooooooo) to emphasize how much I enjoyed your company
- God gave His only begotten Son, for us As my family and I continued in our discussion we saw that the love of God was three things:
- Eternal
- Existential (You know it exist)
- Enduring
Pastor Dewayne stopped the discussion and said this lesson is going to be powerful, he said, “Even after knowing everything about us, God still loves us. Think about the love of God and what He knows about all of us. God even knows what we are thinking but yet He still loves us.
Elder Soneil: You just posed two-fold question to us related to capacity. One part is the capacity of God. How we answer that will dictate the capacity that we walk in. President Kennedy made a statement…he said, “Ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country?” He flipped it to let us know that we have the capacity to change our country. We have to understand this because it will help us to understand that there is nothing that will stop God from loving us. The important thing about that is…that when you believe it a spiritual transfer takes place in that moment that puts the same capacity that God has on the inside of you and I which will help us to walk in Agape and Honor. Settle within yourself right now that you have the capacity of Agape and Honor that God has, know that because He love you and that capacity is in you…you can love others the way God loves you.
Pastor Mike: Let me answer that question for, you possess the capacity it’s just a simple question of weather or not you will allow His will to overcome yours.
Review Night Cap 8/27/23
If we don’t know how God loves us, we can’t fulfill the commandment of loving one another.
Isaiah 46:10 NKJV Declaring the end from the beginning.
- God has gone to the end of our lives
- Know where you want to be at the end of 2024 before 2024 gets start. We are not going to continue going through years not accomplishing goals.
- I knew exactly where I wanted you to be by the end of this year by the Spirit of God. We are right on target.
- If you are seeing the dominion in your life, you have not been following my instructions. It’s designed to put you in a place of prominence and dominion, that whenever you speak something, it come to past, and YOU WILL HAVE WHAT YOU SAY!
Because we are going to love like God loved us, we have to start from the end.
Romans 5:8 NKJV But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
- This is how God loves us… Christ proved God love for us by dying in our place
Romans 5:8 Message Bible
- How many of you will love someone that adds no financial value to you?
- You going to love someone that spit on you
I want to honor Dr. John Cherry in sharing this objective, he would begin his messages with these words, “My objective is to by a systematic way through the Word of God…am going to take you on a system. I going to put you on a rail or a path systematically through the Word of God (line upon line and precept upon precept).” To clearly and concisely convey our role and responsibility in presenting and representing the Love of God with demonstration.
(Romans 5:8 NIV… But God demonstrates His love…)
Agape and Honor is completely surrendering to the Kingdom of God…parenthetically God’s way of doing things.
We are embarking upon a lifestyle that’s going to yield significant dividends to you in all different kinds of ways. You just have to be willing to take the trip!
Note: The difference between 3D and 4D is simply the difference between walking in the flesh verses walking in the Spirit.
3D is walking in the flesh and 4D is walking in the Spirit.