*Listen to the Show notes and podcast transcript with this multi-language player. Summary: How does one become “Free to Love”? There are guidelines in God ’s love to follow “ Love the Lord your God with all of your heart.....” Show Notes: • Without guidelines, life will be destructive • Eliminate our negative responses to differences • God put something of Himself in us References: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Stephen R. Covey 1989 page 98 Proverbs 22:6  Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it. Proverb 29:18  Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he. Matthew 7:16  By their fruit you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? Matthew 5:45  So that you will become the children of your Father who is in Heaven, for his sun rises on the good and upon the evil and his rain descends on the just and on the unjust. Mark 12:30, 31  Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ No other commandment is greater than these.” Luke 23:34  But Jesus was saying, “ Father, forgive them; for they do not know what they are doing.” And they cast lots, dividing up His garments among themselves. Quotes: • God’s love is not human love • We are seeing chaos, destruction, and a mess in the world • We want to lift the limitations of appearances • There is a lot to learn from people not sitting in pews Take Away: Those who accept my commandments and obey them are the ones who love me. And because they love me, my Father will love them. And I will love them and reveal myself to each of them.” John 14:21 NLT

Ron:

God’s love is not human love. God’s love has guidelines. God’s love has restrictions because God knows that if you don’t have restrictions and guidelines that you’re going to go ways that are destructive. They want to be independent, they want to be self-sufficient, they want to lead their own life. Again, that is the fruit, you look at the fruit and we are looking at the fruit of that type of thinking and that type of lifestyle. We’re seeing chaos and destruction and a mess in the world. The fruit is the proof. If people live a Godly lifestyle because they are open to the Word and open to God’s love, their lives will produce that fruit, and those that don’t their lives will produce that other fruit. So even without a word if you have eyes to see and you’re not walled off to the truth, all you have to do is look out there and see the truth.

Dale:

We want to lift the limitations of appearances. I say this because I have a friend and I have mentioned him many times. A very dear friend. I have known him for years and he is honest, he is caring, he helps people. You know I couldn’t stand it after a while I asked him what church do you go to? He was offended. He says I don’t go to a church and it took me back and I didn’t mention it again for a long time and I told him is say’s I want to apologize. You know a while back I ask you going to church. You just do so many of the right things that I thought you went to church and he still didn’t want to discuss it. But I got my apology out there to make myself feel better because I didn’t see whether he knew who he was and how he was acting. The rain falls on the just and the unjust but who are we to judge which ones which. I don’t want to knock Christianity but they have got a lot to learn from the people who are not sitting in the pews. Because God’s love is flowing out there in all ages. It is amazing how he moves and the eyes to see is not looking around sitting in a pew. You go out into the world and say, Lord, show me where you are moving. You’ll be surprised He is out there moving and doing and creating and bringing forth so much more than has been locked up. Once we learn how to love then we are free. We are not bound by anything if you are free to love. And God has no rule against that. There is no rule in thou shalt not love. And there is no hesitation, there is no holding back, there is no waiting. It is one of the things that we can do and just go crazy with.

Ron:

I love what Dale saying about breaking down the restrictions. You wall this person off because there quote not a Christian or they’re not reading their Bible or they’re not going to church or they don’t walk a certain way, they don’t look a certain way. We’re coming to an outpouring of God’s love on this earth that is going to blow people's minds and it is going to lift a veil of deception that Satan has put upon the earth saying you have to be this way or that way to love somebody. It’s not true and you don’t have to be a Christian and you don’t have to be you don’t. You don’t have to be those things and that right there that statement right there you don’t have to be a Christian to love. You could be crucified out there for that. Just the reaction to that statement proves the point. If I receive hatred and resentment because I said you don’t have to be a Christian to love with the love of God. That proves the point.

Sandy:

Proves we are all human.

Dale:

He only gave us one commandment. And He said so in the scripture. You can throw them all out the window. There is only one commandment and that is you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself. Amazing, and Christ our patterned Son walked that out for us. He walked out every step of that commandment clear to the cross. And on the Cross, he said Father forgive them for they know not what they do. Father instill your love in us. Let it be our DNA. Let me lay down my life. I want to follow in the pattern that you have created that I can be pleasing to you.