WOLC Messages Archive

1 Corinthians 13:1-8 (NASB)

We must overcome hate and bitterness to be truly free. Holding on to hatred makes us exhausted and sick.

Antoine Leiris

On Friday night, you stole the life of an exceptional being, the love of my life, the mother of my son, but you will not have my hate. I will not give you the satisfaction of hating you. This is what you want, but to respond to your hate with anger would be to yield to the same ignorance that made you what you are. My son is only seventeen months old. Today he will have his snack as he does everyday, then we will play as we do everyday, and all his life this little boy will defy you by being HAPPY and FREE. Because you will not have his hate either.

Love appears to be the spiritual force that powers every other spiritual thing. With out love no other spiritual practice has power.

Luke 23:33-34 (KJV)

He was abandoned, mocked, beaten and in the process of being murdered and He forgave them.

He prayed for them.

When you pray for an enemy, it moves you from being hurt by them to being hurt for them.

1 Corinthians 3:16-17 (KJV)

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 (MSG)

Acts 18:1 (KJV)

Acts 18: 7-8 (KJV)

The church at Corinth had received the gospel but the gospel had not produced a notable change in them.

1 Corinthians 1:10-16 (MSG)

1 Corinthians 3: 1-3 (KJV)

1 Corinthians 5: 1-2 (MSG)

1 Corinthians 2:5 (KJV)

1 Corinthians 2:3-5 (KJV)

A pause of pain made them stop, reflect and change.

What if we could build that pause into our lives BEFORE we made the mistake and experienced the pain?

What would you do if you understood God was in you?

Pause: reflect and learn

Pause: rejoice and give thanks

Pause: recalibrate, judge yourself and make adjustments

Once a week ask: What changes in my life is God my Father asking me to make?

3 to 5 times a day: Pause and remind yourself, I am the temple of God. God lives in me.

Change recalibrate to examine and let’s take off yourself too

Pause: Examine, judge and make adjustments

Your love for God is shown by your love for your fellow man.

1 John 4:20-21 (MSG)

A big part of Paul’s ministry was the destruction of racial tension.

Galatians 2:11-14 (KJV)

Acts 10:13-16 (KJV)

Acts 11:1-3 (KJV)

If you want to be with us, you have to be like us. If you’re not like us, you can’t be with us.

Paul didn’t wait for the offended race to speak up and defend itself. Instead, he corrected his own race by calling a wrong a wrong.

How powerful would it have been if someone who was Egyptian would have spoken up and said, “No, we aren’t coming, he’s next.”

Paul chose kindred spirits and not just kindred flesh to do life with.