#8 UNDERSTANDING LOVE: THE ROLE OF UNITY
By Wade Martin Hughes, Sr Kyfingers@aol.com
TO UNDERSTAND LOVE WE NEED TO IDENTIFY THAT THERE ARE THREE AREAS OF
OUR DAILY LIFE THAT BECOME VERY REVEALING! UNDERSTAND WHAT IS
IMPORTANT TO SHOW LOVE?
DO WE UNDERSTAND THAT ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS THAT WE CAN
DO IS : KEEP THE MAIN THING THE MAIN THING!
I can not define to others what the main thing should be. It is totally up to the individual
to define what their main thing?
THERE CAN EXIST A GREAT DANGER LURKING IN THE SHADOWS.
Often in life we say something is IMPORTANT to us with our mouth and then what we do, the
reality of daily life differs from what we say. We must guard our hearts that what we say and
what we do align. There are three areas that will define what is really important.
1. TIME:
Ephesians 5:16 (KJV) Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
Where you spend your money will help tell your priorities. There is something that will
tell more about the real you than how you spend your money? SHOW ME WHERE YOU SPEND
YOUR TIME, AND YOUR MAIN THING WILL BE REVEALED.
Did you read about the mother's time spent? She did not abuse her children, she neglected them.
Neglect can be as dangerous as abuse. The lady's ex-husband made a police report and started an
investigation. The baby's diaper had not been changed in days. The children were hungry and dirty.
They had not been to school in days. The house was nasty, maggots everywhere. The lady's
computer revealed she had been active on her computer on the average of 20 hours a day. She
used Facebook, dating sites, and some terrible things. The state removed her children, she
could not understand. IT IS HER TIME TO USE HOW SHE SO DESIRES?
If you love fishing, you will find time to fish? If you love TV, you will find time to watch your
programs? If you like to shop, you will go to the stores? If you love old people, you will visit
and love them? If you love church, you will attend faithfully? See what you love you will invest
your time in doing.
2. TALENT: Each person has gifting's. You are unique. You have talents to touch other people.
Matthew 25:24 Then he which had received the one talent came and said, Lord, I knew thee
that thou art an hard man, reaping where thou hast not sown, and gathering where thou hast
not strawed:
Dorcas in the New Testament used her needle and thread.
There was a widow woman that cooked for her family and the preacher.
One lady remodeled her house and made room for the preacher to have a place to stay.
You have talents that you can DEVELOP. I CALL IT POLISHING YOUR TALENTS. You can
train yourself to SEE NEEDS and develop a plan to improve your skills.
YOU WILL BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR BURIED TALENTS.
CAN YOU IDENTIFY THE SOURCES THAT KEEP US FROM IMPROVING OUR TALENTS?
3. TREASURE: Sure, I hear the cry: NOW YOU ARE BACK ON MONEY AGAIN.
Luke 6:45 A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and
an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance
of the heart his mouth speaketh.
What do you value? WHERE DO YOU MAKE YOUR DEPOSITS? Is your energy being poured
into temporal trash cans?
GIFTS ARE DEMOSTRATIONS OF LOVE FROM ONE HEART TO ANOTHER.
GIVING OF YOUR TIME, TALENTS AND TREASURES WILL TELL WHAT YOU VALUE.
DO WE GIVE OUR BEST? DO WE GIVE TO RECEIVE?
YOU NEED TO CHECK YOUR MOTIVATION AS TO WHY YOU DO WHAT YOU DO!
WHY DO YOU NOT DO WHAT YOU DON'T DO?
NO PERSON IS AN ISLAND TO HIMSELF...
I have a question to ask you about mountain climbing?
WHAT IS THE REASON THAT ON A HIGH, DANGEROUS MOUNTAIN
THAT MOUNTAIN CLIMBERS TIED THEMSELVES TOGETHER?
Proverbs 6:6 Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:
Ever consider the BEES? ANTS? The success of one is dependant on the whole group
working together.
You are not ALONE. We are social beings.
The individual, the family and the church must consider: WE NEED EACH OTHER.
Where there is love is wonderful, but love gets hurt.
LOVE CAN GROW COLD AND DIE.
WE BELIEVE IN THE RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD AND OF LOVE.
1 Corinthians 6:19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in
you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
1 Corinthians 12:12 For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that
one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ. 13 For by one Spirit are we all baptized into
one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to
drink into one Spirit. 14 For the body is not one member, but many. 15 If the foot shall say, Because
I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body? 16 And if the ear shall say,
Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body? 17 If the whole body
were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling? 18 But now
hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him. 19 And if they were
all one member, where were the body? 20 But now are they many members, yet but one body.
21 And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have
no need of you. 22 Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are
necessary: 23 And those members of the body, which we think to be less honourable, upon these we
bestow more abundant honour; and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness. 24 For our
comely parts have no need: but God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant
honour to that part which lacked: 25 That there should be no schism in the body; but that the members
should have the same care one for another. 26 And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer
with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it. 27 Now ye are the body of Christ,
and members in particular.
LOVE UNDERSTANDS WE ARE A BODY. WE ARE ALL DIFFERENT ---
BUT WE DESPERATELY NEED EACH OTHER.
We had 100 Rhode Island Red chickens. I loved my chickens. One day I noticed one chicken
seemed weak. A few days later the hen died. I asked an old friend that raised chickens to diagnose
what killed my hen.
Very quickly the lady said: SUITCASE CRAWL.
I said: SUITCASE CRAWL? What is that?
She explained to me the hen had starved to death, full of food. The crawl was packed with food,
and became so full that food could not pass. The more the hen ate the worse the problem
became. Finally the weak chicken died full of food.
HOW MANY OF US ARE SO BLESSED YET WE ARE DYING INSIDE?
WE CAN BECOME INFECTED AND OOZE WITH PUS?
Matthew 24:10 And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate
one another.
The mind can HABITUALLY FOCUS on the negative problems?
Our hearts can become so CLOGGED --- ???
Wax build up CAN BUILD UP in the ear and we will not only lose our hearing but it will
effect our balance?
A TUMOR can grow and become a SELF-FEEDING CANCER and destroy the host?
Too much sugar can blurr vision and kill the kidneys?
The individual, the family and the church can GROW DYSFUNCTIONAL and feed
on itself...
Galatians 5:15 But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one
of another.
LOVE UNDERSTANDS THAT WE ARE FELLOW MEMBERS OF ONE FAMILY, ONE BODY...
WE MUST LAY ASIDE SELFISH DESIRES AND MOTIVES FOR MUTUAL HARMONY AND
TO MAINTAIN A HEALTHY STATUS.
This journey is NOT ABOUT ME, IT IS ABOUT US...
LOVE UNDERSTANDS THAT THE SATANIC GOAL IS TO USE DIVISON TO CONQUER AND
DIVIDE
Mark 3:25 (KJV) And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.
OUR ENEMY WILL BET EVERYTHING IN HELL TO DISRUPT UNITY.
YOU CAN TIE TWO ROOSTERS' LEGS TOGTHER... THEY ARE TOGETHER?
BUT IF YOU THROW THEM OVER A CLOTHES LINE ---THERE WILL BE NO UNITY.
The Cold Within
Six humans trapped by happenstance
In bleak and bitter cold.
Each one possessed a stick of wood
Or so the story’s told.
Their dying fire in need of logs
The first man held his back
For of the faces round the fire
He noticed one was black.
The next man looking ‘cross the way
Saw one not of his church
And couldn’t bring himself to give
The fire his stick of birch.
The third one sat in tattered clothes.
He gave his coat a hitch.
Why should his log be put to use
To warm the idle rich?
The rich man just sat back and thought
Of the wealth he had in store
And how to keep what he had earned
From the lazy shiftless poor.
The black man’s face bespoke revenge
As the fire passed from his sight.
For all he saw in his stick of wood
Was a chance to spite the white.
The last man of this forlorn group
Did nought except for gain.
Giving only to those who gave
Was how he played the game.
Their logs held tight in death’s still hands
Was proof of human sin.
They didn’t die from the cold without
They died from the cold within.
by James Patrick Kinney
LOVE UNDERSTANDS THE POWER OF AGREEMENT AND UNITY EVEN WORKS WITH
YOUR ENEMIES.
Matthew 5:25 Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him; lest at
any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and
thou be cast into prison.
LOVE UNDESTANDS WE CAN NOT CONTINUE TO WALK TOGETHER IF WE CAN NOT
COME TOGETHER IN AGREEMENT.
WALK IN MY SHOES?
We have heard the saying: DO NOT JUDGE ME UNTIL YOU HAVE WALKED TWO
MILES IN MY SHOES.
Amos 3:3 Can two walk together, except they be agreed?
Matthew 18:19 Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing
that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven.
CONCLUSION: WHY CAN WE NOT UNDERSTAND LOVE HINGES ON UNITY AND STANDING
TOGETHER? WE ARE CONSUMED BY OUR OWN WARS AND STRIFE?
James 4:1 From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your
lusts that war in your members?
Have you ever heard how they KILL WOLVES IN ALASKA?
Eskimos have developed a plan that will kill any wolf.
They sharpen knives razor blade sharp, they have made an art of sharpening the blades.
After the blades get so sharp, they COAT THE BLADE WITH BLOOD.
Then they freeze the bloody knife. Then later they put more blood on the knife blade and
freeze it again. They do this 10 to 15 times, placing blood on the sharp knife in layers and
freezing it.
The hunter then takes the knife and fixes it in the ice covered ground. The wolf has a very
sensitive sense of smell. The wolf smells the blood and starts licking the razor sharp blade.
The more he licks the blade, the more he taste the blood.
The more the wolf taste the blood the faster and harder the wolf licks until he has licked
all the blood off the edge of the blade.
The wolf does not notice the sharp edge is cutting his tongue.
THE WARM BLOOD HE IS NOW TASTING IS HIS OWN BLOOD.
HE IS SO HUNGRY AND THRISTY THAT HE IS BEING SATISFIED BY HIS OWN BLOOD.
The wolf will crave the blood until he finally falls over and dies in the snow.
BEWARE MY FRIENDS THAT WE DO NOT UNDERSTAND THE STORY HOW OUR
OWN NAGGING, COMPLAINING, FUSSING, ARGUMENTS BECOME SELF-FEEDING
DESIRES OF LUST THAT WILL IN TURN DESTROY OUR MARRIAGE AND OUR HOME.
LOVE UNDERSTANDS WE ARE A TEAM, THERE IS NO I IN TEAM.
His servant, Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com
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