I was about to turn the dial after listening to a boring pastor on the radio but as I reached for the dial the preacher said something that caught my attention.
He was speaking about spiritual gifts and then turned to the greatest spiritual gift of all—-love!!
That “dull” sermon really couldn’t have come at a better time. I’ve heard love being preached quite a few times at church but this “dull” preacher really hit the ball outa the park when he encouraged his listeners to pursue love as a spiritual gift!!
Such a simple sermon and such a simple but profound truth!
I’m embarrassed to confess that I never really saw “love” on par with preaching and teaching and with sharing of one’s wealth and all the others.
If I had been more spiritually alert I should have known that “love” (the gift of love) actually precedes all the other perhaps “lesser” gifts, shall we say!!
1If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a ringing gong or a clanging cymbal. 2If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have absolute faith so as to move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3If I give all I possess to the poor and exult in the surrender of my body,a but have not love, I gain nothing.
4Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no account of wrongs. 6Love takes no pleasure in evil, but rejoices in the truth. 7It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be restrained; where there is knowledge, it will be dismissed. 9For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10but when the perfect comes, the partial passes away.
11When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I set aside childish ways. 12Now we see but a dim reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
13And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love; but the greatest of these is love.
Satan and his followers like Quiznos doesn't believe we need **PROPHETS**, **EVANGELISTS****PASTORS** and **TEACHERS** appointed by Jesus and the **WORD OF GOD**to guide God's saints. They teach that all we need is the mystical spirit of Jesus to guide us into all truth and that God's Word has been corrupted.
**BUT WHAT DOES GOD'S WORD SAY**??
Ephesians 4:7,11-13,16: To each one of us grace has been given as Christ apportioned it... So Christ Himself {Not the church!} gives some to be **PROPHETS**, some to be **EVANGELISTS** and some to be **PASTORS** and **TEACHERS**, to equip His people for works of service. so that the body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ... From Him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in **LOVE**, as each part does its work!
2 Timothy 3:16,17; 4:1-3: All Scripture is **GOD-BREATHED** and is useful for **TEACHING**, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work. In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who will judge the living and the dead, and in view of His appearing and His kingdom, I give you this charge: **PREACH THE WORD**, be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage--with great patience and careful instruction! For the time will come when people {Like Quiznos} will not put up with sound doctrine.
Here we go again with prophetic-Richard standing in the place of Messiah by calling a believer Satan, and lying about what that believer actually believes.
Prophetic-Richard shows that he is not a believer as he continually DENIES Messiah by standing in the place that Messiah occupies, that is the one who judges the living and the dead.
Satan and his followers like Quiznos doesn't believe we need **PROPHETS**, **EVANGELISTS****PASTORS** and **TEACHERS** appointed by Jesus and the **WORD OF GOD**to guide God's saints. They teach that all we need is the mystical spirit of Jesus to guide us into all truth and that God's Word and all Christian churches have been corrupted.
**BUT WHAT DOES GOD'S WORD SAY**??
Ephesians 4:7,11-13,16: To each one of us grace has been given as Christ apportioned it... So Christ Himself {Not the church!} gives some to be **PROPHETS**, some to be **EVANGELISTS** and some to be **PASTORS** and **TEACHERS**, to equip His people for works of service. so that the body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ... From Him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in **LOVE**, as each part does its work!
2 Timothy 3:16,17; 4:1-3: All Scripture is **GOD-BREATHED** and is useful for **TEACHING**, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work. In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who will judge the living and the dead, and in view of His appearing and His kingdom, I give you this charge: **PREACH THE WORD**, be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage--with great patience and careful instruction! For the time will come when people {Like Quiznos} will not put up with sound doctrine.
Jesus said to His Father, "Sanctify them by the truth, your **WORD** is truth!"
Ephesians 5:23-26: The husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the **HEAD** of the church, His body, of which He is the Savior.... Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing by the washing with water **THROUGH THE WORD**!!
Unfortunately most churches do not teach all of the New Covenant but only teach what is popular. The great falling in the churches was prophesied by Jesus shortly before the beginning of the Great Tribulation.
Matthew 24:9-13: Jesus says, "Then {At the beginning of the Great Tribulation} you will be persecuted and put to death, and you will be hated by all nations because of Me. At that time many will turn away from the faith and will betray and hate each other, and many false prophets {Like Quiznos} will appear and deceive many people. Because of the increase the love of **MOIST** will grow cold but he who stands firm to the end will be saved.
Revelation 17:14: They will make war against the **LAMB** but the **LAMB** will overcome them because He is **LORD** of lords and **KING** of kings and with Him will be His **CALLED** **CHOSEN** and **FAITHFUL** followers. {Riding on heavenly white horses right after the 2nd Coming of Jesus and the Marriage Feast of the Lamb as per Revelation 19:7-21}
Quiznos, a who has obtained the satanic gift of a false prophet and who refuses to acknowledge the God ordained apostleship of Paul the Apostle, is once again acting consistently by denying Paul’s teaching that “love” is a gift and a fruit of the Holy Spirit.
No man can generate God’s love within himself. Human love fails, it can’t even love God properly, but God’s love is perfected in the believer by the Holy Spirit day by day.
