Word of the Week: Don't Let Love Go
On this week's FORREAL Radio Broadcast, Chief Apostle H.C. Gunn taught listeners that it's the spirit of God that quickens us.
The message started off with Chief Apostle H.C. Gunn stating that saints have stopped calling on God. Yes, people who say they believe have stopped calling on God and have disavowed the name of God. Yes, we have stopped believing God as we should.
Sometimes that unbelief comes from our thinking. During the broadcast, he taught us: "don't be held hostage by something you do not know."
The message brought to our attention that we tend to lack belief when something is not tangible when we cannot see it, or feel it. This is why we cannot trust in our emotions, in physical evidence (our logic), or what it looks like. Those things can be deceptive. We have to come back home to God in believing him at his word.
As the message continued we were brought to John 6:59 - 63, which states:
"59 These things said he in the synagogue, as he taught in Capernaum.
60 Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard this, said, This is an hard saying; who can hear it?
61 When Jesus knew in himself that his disciples murmured at it, he said unto them, Doth this offend you?
62 What and if ye shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before?
63 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life."
In verses 59 - 61 of John 6, Chief Apostle said that "it's something when those who believe Jesus doesn't believe the truth coming out of his mouth." That's a powerful statement saints and one that should cause us to look at ourselves on the inside.
Are you believing God for real?
Or are you being deceived by your emotions to the point of walking away from Jesus?
Are you just looking for feel-good moments: physical proof of a blessing coming to pass?
Those types of motives leads to nothingness. It's the spirit of God that is the solution.
Despite our greatest human efforts to find solutions to the problems we face in life, they are frail in comparison to the spirit of God, which speaks life even before we as humans tend to realize that there is a problem to begin with. Saints, it's time to get back to calling on Jesus, to attending to the word taught in the pulpit, and put away the things of the world.
2 Timothy 4:6 -11, states:
6 For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand.
7 I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:
8 Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.
9 Do thy diligence to come shortly unto me:
10 For Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is departed unto Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia.
11 Only Luke is with me. Take Mark, and bring him with thee: for he is profitable to me for the ministry.
In 2 Timothy 4:6-11, Paul spoke of the crown of righteousness that God will give him at his end for all his labour in the Gospel, in holding on to love. Yet that crown of righteousness is to be had by all who love Christ's appearing. Are you looking for Jesus daily?
In verse 10, we are given the example of Demas who walked away from Paul although four years prior he was a part of the ministry.
"And we would say: Who would leave Paul, but many of us left Jesus. Paul is not greater than Jesus "
- Chief Apostle H. C. Gunn.
Chief Apostle Gunn told us that it takes at least six times hearing a message to fully grasp what is being taught. Everything will come at you and fight you to keep you from the truth of God's Word. That shows how vital the word is.
If the word (the spirit, the life) was not so important to our growth, we would more readily attend to it as we do everything else in life that grabs our attention. It could be television, sports, fame, money, a job, children, a spouse, etc.... anything you are giving more attention to, or desiring more than the word (the spirit of God), will cause you to leave Jesus.
The cries of the messenger ring out: "Don't Let Love Go."
Don't be a Demas.
Don't be a you (your way doesn't work).
Be who God is calling you to be.
Remember it's the spirit that quickens!
