6801--Harry Greenwood--The glory of Love_128k

00:00:00 Speaker: Tonight. I just want to completely, as I have already yielded to the spirit. But to tell you that by being yielded to the spirit, you have got to expect something from God. You've got to also be prepared to receive it. So if you're determined tonight to receive something from God, I'm determined also that you're going to get something from God. Now, I want people to be healed all the way through the meeting, and I'm going to really make sure everybody is awake all the way through the meeting. Amen. Now, I don't have a oh, I do have a watch. I broke the strap. So I'm going to watch. And you pray. I want you to turn with me, please. Just to John fourteen to start with. A long time ago, I listened to a a preacher and his subject was love. He preached on love. And after the meeting, I was so impressed, so moved. If you like that, I decided to see this man and find out how I could get what he preached. So I came up to him afterwards and I said, excuse me, that's just what I need. How do I get it? Oh, he said, well, I'm to tell you the truth, I'm looking for it myself. Then I realized that many people preach that which they needed themselves. Now I believe that whatever I preach, I get a little more of what I preach. I come a little deeper into it, and I'm the sort of person that believes that I'm growing up all the time in the things that I confess and I believe and I meditate on. When Joshua was told to meditate on the law in Joshua one, verse eight. Day and night, and it would prosper his way. Meditate on it. Think about it. Great peace have they that love thy law, and nothing shall offend them. Great peace have they that love that's in the Old Testament? Just think about it. There was something about meditating and having your thoughts on the Word of God. Now, I'm determined tonight that every person should understand what is available to them, but also how to come into the experience of it. I know many times I have given people the menu and they've gone away, as I've said, often fed up and said a fool up the menu is not enough. It's not no what we need, but how to receive it. In John chapter fourteen, verse fifteen. Now I am change that. Sorry. Um, John chapter thirteen. I don't want that. That's just one page back. Verse thirty four A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another, as I have loved you. To that amount we love one another even as Jesus has loved us, and has he loved us with an everlasting love and a pure love. Amen. That ye also love one another. By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love One to another. Now, most Christians will acknowledge that they do not have enough love. And the majority of Christians haven't got a clue how to get it. Now, it didn't say great miracles demonstrated through the church would show the whole world that we were his disciples. It says by our loving one another. Jesus told them to go out and heal the sick and raise the dead. And there wasn't a query that didn't say, well, excuse me, Lord, how do we raise the dead? We haven't done a course in Faith Bible College and raising the dead yet, you see. Or something else like that? No question. But when he said to them, forgive one another even to seven times seventy, they said, Lord, increase our faith. So you can see which was the easier. It was easier to raise the dead than to forgive. So we must realize where our problem really lies. Elias, a problem comes out of the lack of love. People say, I don't pray enough because you don't love. I don't witness because you don't love. God so loved the world that he did something. And love is never complete until it's in action. It is not a word. It's an action as it can be translated in one Corinthians chapter thirteen. Love in action. Love in action. It's not love, period. It's love in action. And in verse eight, love not here in one Corinthians thirteen. As some of you already know, verse eight, don't bother turning. Love endureth forever. Now most people don't know the value of love. That's very true. They don't. And yet the whole world is singing about it, shouting about it, looking for it and everything else. Love has changed nations. A love for a woman, the love of a woman, for a man. And that human love has been so strong it's even brought about the death of the person. A mother's love is fantastic. It's fantastic. And you must remember that originally we were created out of God's love for God's love. And that without love, we are not complete. Now, I don't mean love just in the knowledge that we need to love. I mean love by loving, by loving, being in action, in our love. What is the mother's love like? I don't think we realize. Many mothers have given their lives up for their children. That's true in the past and once in Scotland many years ago. And it was many, many years ago, I remember reading the story about a mother who put her child, and she had him wrapped up lovely in these shawls that they made at home homespun many years ago. And then they would help harvest the corn. And she put it the child. And just on a on the side of the field, and as she was harvesting the call corn, an eagle came down and caught hold of the clothes and took the child up to its nest. Now she saw it, and you can imagine the mother's heart. She was so moved she would have done anything. And so they got all the men to try and climb up and get the child. And those men could not climb that cliff. But they knew there was a sailor in the village who in the old days was able to climb the rigging. And he was very, very famous for his climbing, and they got that sailor up there to climb up to the cliff to get that child. But he couldn't do it. He got so far and he had to come down. He could not do it. And then that mother started to climb. She started to climb up that cliff with a supernatural strength. And even the eagle attacked her. She beat it off, and she caught hold of that child and got hold of the clothes and and and got the clothes in her mouth and climbed down all the way down that cliff, which was impossible for any man. And she was never she'd never climbed before. What on earth made her do it? She was so desperate. And that desperate mother's love for that child drove her to superhuman strength. And the same thing happened in the quarry in England when they were dynamiting a quarry. A little boy who should have been at home ran out in front as the men were hiding behind the rock between the men and the The explosion, and he and they were all the men just looked and they they were horrified and they were hypnotized and they couldn't do anything. And the mother looking for the child saw the whole situation in a couple of minutes, and without even thinking, she ran right out and picked that child up and dashed behind the rock before the explosion came. She could have been killed in the child. There was no thought of her life. I want to show you the power of just human love alone. The love of money is the root of all evil, the love of it, not money itself. The love of money is the root of all evil. And where our love is. We read last night, love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. We're told what not to love. The fact is, we can love the world, and you can set your affections on things below and not on things above. Now love sees something that nothing else sees. Love sees God and God's purpose. Love sees the need of others before the need of yourself. Love sees first the needs of others. Love is the greatest motivation for anything, for ministry, for prayer and everything else. People say I love my family. How much love? Sacrifices. All these words are common to us. But love sacrifices. Any person that is won to Christ by love will never leave. That's true. Any person won to Christ by love will never leave. The reason the younger generation have gone away from their homes is because they have not been loved in America. They've dropped out of society. They've dropped out of college, university everywhere. And they've run away. Become The flower children looking for love, knowing that love in essence was what they needed, and feeling that if they shed all their the falsities of this society and the hypocrisies that they could find love. But you see, there's only one source of love, and that is God. When Jesus gave the disciples a commandment, he commanded them to love one another because he knew that if they love one another, they would not ill treat one another. They would treat each other so wonderfully that all men would see by their the way they treated each other, the love that they had for each other. And by this shall all men know that you're my disciples. Our society knows that we that we're bound to differ. We're bound to fight and squabble and have problems and everything else. But the church is the only place where there should not be any bickering, backbiting, fighting or anything else. And most of us are trying to get rid of the symptoms when we never get to the cause, which is the lack of love. And many of us do not move in the spirit simply because we don't love. Many of us can get nowhere in our prayer life because we don't love. We have not got love as a motivation. Love will take you beyond any barrier, whatever it might be. There is no sacrifice too great for God's love, and God's love is a sacrificial love. It gives the reason that love is greater than faith is very simple. As we read in the end of that chapter. And the greatest of these is love, faith, hope, and love. The greatest of these is love. Why? Because faith receives and love gives. Faith receives and love gives. But love doesn't give to itself. Love gives to those that are in need. I was won to Christ by a man that loved the Lord Jesus Christ. He was a dentist, and the reason I was one to Christ was that he could listen to me. I was conceited, bumptious, big headed, pigheaded, you name it. And I had all the necessary qualifications for hell. I was going away from God. I had rejected God in many ways. But here was a man that loved me enough to listen to me. And you know what love does. It soaks up everything that is said, and it doesn't go back into the person, but the love. You see, that is loving. The person goes back into the person, and all of a sudden you feel dirty, you feel unclean, you feel bad. You are now getting a comparison not by what the man is saying, but by his loving. And that's what happened to me. This man loved the Lord and he prayed. He was a soul winner. He was in a in a mission. I won't give you my testimony since I've got to write a book before I leave this country on my life story. But it's only a forty years. I've packed quite a lot into a short period of time, but this is the most important moment of my life. When this man listened to me for four hours and our second meeting, and at the end of it, he asked me, would I like to receive Christ? I wanted what this man had got, just like those hippies who left home looking for something. Do you know why there's a Jesus movement? Because they found their love. Amen. If you want to know, you know who's got the real thing. It's the people that were looking for it. Amen. Yes, they've tried most things. All that the parents have tried, and they found it. And when the real thing came along, I knew it. You have no problem whatsoever in convincing anybody of anything. When it's real, when it's real. And every single person. Is looking for love. To be loved. To know that you're actually loved. I did not love my parents. I did not love my family. I hated them. I learned to hate to protect myself because I was frightened of the world. And I was frightened to love. Because in loving, I would be hurt. What I'm saying now is personal and very personal. I was frightened of being hurt. And when I had a girlfriend and I began to like her, I would drop her immediately. I was frightened of love. And after that I was vulnerable. I was scared, and many people are. And I was separated from my family for a number of years before I was converted. And when I was converted to Christ, I came in on the love of God, demonstrated through a man who had prayed before he won me to Christ. Lord, I want you. I won't talk to anybody unless you lead me to the right person. I want you, Lord, to lead me to a soul winner. I'm not interested in winning, just people to Christ. I want to win people to Christ who will be soul winners. In other words, we'll go into the ministry. So he didn't win anybody for quite a while. And in that, while he got baptized in the Holy Ghost, an Anglican minister, this was about fourteen or fifteen years ago. And he wanted me to Christ because I wanted what he'd got. If you asked my wife for her testimonies, she'll just say she wanted what I'd got. That was that. She didn't want me. She didn't see me and I didn't see her. We never met each other in the physical. First we met each other in the spiritual. And then we begin to notice that she was male and and I was male and she was female. Love couldn't be that blind. I can assure you. But on that point, can I say this, that when we when when people marry and they're in love, it's amazing they can't see a thing wrong with the person until they marry them? I've had a chance to cool off. But love is really blind and it's so strong. But this is tremendous. I came in and I can remember my first words to the Lord as his child. I got on my knees alone. I looked up to heaven and I said, Lord, no matter what happens, I'll always love you. No matter what happens. Because of tonight. You accepted me tonight. In all my filth and all my past. And all the things that I've said against you and all the things that I've done against you accepted me, Lord, just as I was. And I knew the value of love at that moment. And, you know, I've always loved the Lord. Anybody who knows me that can say a lot of things against me. They don't believe everything I say. Agreed. But the one thing they have to admit. I love the Lord. And that has taken me through so many situations. You wouldn't believe it. It's not power that's brought me through. Just my love for the Lord Jesus Christ. And my love for the Lord, I believe, has allowed me to get close enough to people, to minister to them that same love. Love allows you to get so close to the heart of a person. You can minister to a person just as if they were a machine. And you're rectifying the thing that is wrong. They've just blown a fuse or a valve or something else and you can rectify it. But when you can reach the person in love, when you leave the lover, that's the Lord. God is love remains. But if you meet him only with the mechanics of Christianity or just the words, if that's all you meet him with when you leave, that's all they've got. That's true. Very true. But somebody opening a safe down there. Now I just want to move on. Now, the first thing I discovered after becoming a Christian for a while, that my heart became hard. And it was because I came into contact with other Christians. If I'd never met a Christian, I'd have done fine. But I had to meet him sooner or later after I was converted. And when I found him fighting amongst themselves, I was deeply hurt and I couldn't understand it. Now I was open to love. And I went back to my family, and I loved them and won them for the Lord. Mind you, I have a few boot marks to prove that love is greater than boot marks. And they wanted to prove the fact that I was really converted. And I certainly was. Believe you me, if I wasn't, I'd have let them have it now. I mean, before I told them all to jump over the wall and if they didn't do it quickly, I'd give him a hand. I was really very, very rough on my family and had a very good family. I won't go into my family background, but I praise God that when when I discovered the effects of love, when I discovered what love could do, I begin to realize that my heart was still hard because of my past. I was still suspicious and I wasn't completely yielding. So one day I was ministering in a certain vicarage. I'd been there for a couple of weeks, and the Lord said to me, you minister to the sick like they were machines. You have no feeling whatsoever. And then that night he brought me into a compassion, a real love for the sick. And you know what I did? I cried so much I couldn't contain it, I couldn't contain it. I cried so much for the sake that my whole bed was wet. With my tears. I cried and cried and he said, that's how I feel. Do you know we are so far away from how the Lord Jesus Christ feels for each one of us, that if we felt what he felt for each other, we would be weeping on each other's neck and winning people to Lord with tears. And and we'd really we'd really be touching people. Do you know, love is so powerful you'd shake all this world. Not with power, with love alone. It's fantastic. You know, I read a lot about the Booth family and general Booth and his family and deeply moved. But Kathryn was a lovely person. She had the love of God in her heart. And it's so precious when people have the love of God in their hearts. You don't love with your head. You never think of saying to your wife, darling, I love you. With all my head. She'd think you've gone out of it. It's equally hard to explain. How can I? You love your wife with all your pumping organ. So we say we love you, darling. With all my heart. And we know what we mean by love. It's not a funny feeling you get when you can't scratch it. Love is a reality. It's something that you know that you've got. It's something you know that you've got. When you're at. When you're. When you're in love. You're not on the defensive. So many Christians are on the defensive. Bless you brother. Bless you brother. Um, what what denomination did you say you come from? Huh? Um. Excuse me. Do you believe in the Second Coming? Um. You know, they get you sorted out first and then. Oh, very welcome, brother, to preach here anytime you want to. As long as you preach what we believe. The suspicion that's in the body of Christ. I mean, I'm one of the most controversial figures, I say, and I'm not trying to be boast about it around the world. People have said the things about you you wouldn't believe. They say I rebaptize people, I'm Jesus only oneness. I've heard about everything now. I just heard in Sweden that I sent some missionaries to Spain and they're teaching false doctrines. I don't even know the missionaries. I never sent anybody to Spain. And so I come and I say, Lord, how is it? And he said, as long as they're speaking evil about you, don't worry, it's everything's going fine. It's when they start saying something good about you, you can start to worry. So that's just it. But people do tend to misunderstand you only if they want to. Now I know so many people I can't agree with. I just can't on so many different aspects of doctrine. But I have no problem with them because I love them now. There's so much to agree with them. People like to say to me on certain doctrines, I notice you don't preach much about the Second Coming. I go to a certain area. They're all Second Coming people, you know. Do you believe that we're going? And when they're finished, I'm going around the bend, you know, I don't know which way I'm going. And they say, well, why don't you preach on the Second Coming? I said, because I haven't recovered from the first one yet. Forget it. Forget it. Gentleman Booth's daughter, Catherine. And this really deeply moved me. One day they picked up this prostitute, and they were taking her to prison. This is many years ago. And, um, the police had a one in one. They were either side of her holding her arms. And of course, the people were following and throwing mud and spitting and kicking her and everything else. And the compassion that came over Catherine, she was so deeply moved. She pushed through that crowd, put her arms on that woman and kissed her. The compassion. Now the woman was dirty and everything else like that. And she ministered love in that kiss. That's all she could do. She was pushed back immediately, of course, but next day she decided to go and visit this person in prison. And she saw the, um, the warden. And she said to him, can I see this person? And he said, yes, it's possible. We don't really mind you seeing her because I think she's sort of, you know, her mind has gone. She keeps saying something over and over again. Uh, Catherine said, what does she keep saying over and over again? She keeps saying, um, somebody kiss me. Oh. Catherine said, I better see her. So she went into the cell and saw this woman, and this woman looked at her and didn't recognize her. Of course. Naturally, she couldn't do it because it was such a quick action, a quick thing that she did. She said she did it so quickly. And she looked at Catherine. She said, somebody kiss me, she said. She said, somebody kissed me. She said, somebody kissed me. And she kept saying it over again. And the look on her face. She just couldn't believe it. And Catherine said, I did. But she said, why? She said, Because Jesus loves you. And this woman broke down and wept and wept and wept. And Catherine won her to Christ. And she was the greatest soul winner, that woman. She won all those people that she found in the gutter. She was the best gutter preacher minister that you ever met. I believe when you demonstrate something like that, it just moved with compassion, his compassion. When you know that God loves every single person as much as he loves his own son, then you realize if you can get into that flow of love, the action that follows just the action will win them to Christ. I believe God has got something to teach us about his love. Now, I know most of us really find it difficult to come close to each other. Husband and wife find it very difficult because we marry a certain percentage of each other, we don't marry one hundred percent, and we should win the rest of that percentage, both from a wife and from a husband. You can love your wife so much. You can love your husband so much. You can love your children so much. But there's only one person in the whole universe that loves one hundred percent because he's not affected. You see, people love me when I'm lovely, like my wife does. When I'm not lovely, she doesn't. She finds it difficult to love me. Most people do if they're honest enough to admit it. But God loves us all the time with a pure love one hundred percent. And to know that you're loved all the time causes you not to want to do the things that are wrong. You don't want to, and you grieve over doing it because you hurt his love. And I think husband and wife and brother and sister, our children and the whole family need to learn to love. Now, I'll tell you something. I do not hear this preached, and I very seldom can preach it myself. But I'm going to give you a scripture now in two Corinthians. Sorry. Two Thessalonians chapter. The last chapter is it chapter five and the fifth chapter three. The fifth verse. Chapter three. The fifth verse. And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God. The Lord. Direct your hearts into the love of God the Lord. Direct your hearts. Now I could see then that I love the Lord with all my heart, but do I love him with all my heart? Now how can I measure my love for the Lord? Just listen a few moments. How can I measure my love for the Lord by my love for my brother and sister? I don't love God any more than I love my brother and sister. It's no good me saying I do because I can love God. Because he's love. Well, that's all very well. But God says, if you want to love me, love your brother and sister. And in so doing you are demonstrating your love for me. Now think God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son. God gave Jesus out of his love. But what did Jesus give us out of his love? Jesus loved the church. And what did he give? He gave himself the love that comes from God. Gives the whole life the love that comes from God. Gives the life unto death and beyond. Because love is stronger than death. Love is stronger than death. And there is no fear of death in love. You can let those Jews stone you, Steven, without retaliating. And in that love that you've got for the father, it's demonstrated by your forgiveness. For those that are stoning you or against you. You go to Christians and ask them how much unforgiveness there is in their hearts. Ask them how much criticism all these things come out of the lack of love. Love covers a multitude of sins. You do not see what is wrong with the person in love. You see what you can add to the person's life or whatever they need to further that life or to bless it. To To give you an example, I was in a meeting one morning in the church that I'm in, and a little old lady came in. She was a widow, a widow. I knew this and she was miserable. And let me tell you something. In the body of Christ, there's going to come a day when we are not going to send our old people to homes run by the government or any anybody else. I believe that we're going to take care in the last days of our old people in such a way. We're going to show every aspect of our society. We're going to show everybody, sorry that how can I put this? We're going to show them that the church can deal with all the problems that come, as, you know, the problems that our society has, that the church won't have the same problems. I have such difficulty in putting things in the way I want to do so. Praise God, but I have patience to believe that after sixteen thousand words I come at last to what I want to say. You know what I what I mean our society, because it's an institution. We've got, um, certain organizations that cater for the old, for the infirm, for the weak and all the rest of it. But in the body of Christ in the early church, there wasn't one amongst them that lacked there wasn't one amongst them that lacked. Because love finds a way. Love will always find a way to deal with people that are in need. Now say we have the love of God flowing in our midst. We'd never have to take up an offering. Eventually, offerings will cease altogether, and I'll be glad when they do, you know, because we will in love want to give. Love is always giving. Every time you meet a person. Love is giving. Love is giving. Therefore love is always receiving. You find a woman, even if she's unconverted, that loves children and shall have a house full of children. They'll come to her our house, they'll have their bread butties there or whatever you call them, and so forth, and she'll have a whole lot of children around her all the time, and they won't want to leave her. Why? Because she loves children. They come to love like moths. Come to a light and it's the same. You show me a Christian that really loves. And that Christian is occupied in ministry twenty four hours a day. Love speaking the truth in love. Love prepares the the the patient. I've said it before for the operation. So many of us can't get anywhere with anybody simply because they're on the defensive. They're defending themselves against us because we do not love them. I'll go into this in a few moments. But this little widow woman. I looked at her and I was touched. She was really miserable. She had nobody in the world. She was miserable. Nobody really cared. And then I noticed that everybody was rejoicing in the Lord and praising God and just enjoying the presence of God. And then all of a sudden, a woman moved by the Holy Ghost with her eyes closed, crossed over the room, put her arms around this little woman who began to cry and then began to praise the Lord, begin to rejoice in the Lord, and love. Love was conscious, immediately went directly to the person that needed it, and it completely satisfied. No great prayer, no great prophesy over the person. Just love Baptist minister. If I mention his name, which would be known to many of you here was waiting to pray for the sick one night, and there was a little Mexican man in line, and he was waiting for him all to be put in line so he could start praying for the sick. And he looked at the little Mexican who was blind, and he had his family there. And they're very poor, the Mexicans, I mean, I've been to Mexico and they live on garbage dumps and everything else and just galvanize a couple of pieces of galvanized, stuck together kids running and taking that which has been thrown out and living off it. It's really bad in Mexico. And he looked at this man and compassion, real compassion came out to this man and looked at his own shoes to see if it would fit these men who didn't. He didn't have any shoes on. He got his coat, but it was too big for this little Mexican man, his family, and he didn't know what to give him. And all of a sudden he couldn't stand it any longer. This Baptist minister. And he put his arms around this man and just loved him. And the man leaped out of his arms, shouting, I can see. I can see. I can see. He was completely and utterly healed of complete blindness from birth. Completely and utterly healed. That love was so powerful. Please remember, love was so powerful in heaven that it gave all of heaven wrapped up in one person called Jesus Christ. God can't give anymore. There's nothing more to give. He's given everything in Jesus Christ. He gave himself. We've got to see how much love has got to give. We pray for people. It's a short prayer. I can remember one night just feeling the love of God. And I prayed for a man that was dying of cancer. He had four hours to live, and the doctors had already told his wife to let him know in the morning when he had died. And I came to the house, and this is the only woman, the first woman I ever prayed for, that really had a miraculous healing. One of the greatest miracles I've ever seen in my ministry. She had ulcerated varicose veins. The worst I've ever seen. She had him wrapped round with a with a bandage and then another bandage, you know, on top of that, or elastic stockings on top of that to keep him in. She had had children very late in life and she was a leg. Legs were a real mess. I prayed for her and next day she took her stockings off. Took the bandages off, washed the legs down and just trusted the Lord and forgot all about it. Weeks later she came running up the road. She had found that her ulcerated varicose veins had withered up from the top of her leg, right down to the very bottom, and had peeled off, leaving behind pink skin with perfect veins. Not a sign of an ulcer. That's one of the greatest miracles I think I've ever seen. I've seen a child's tooth filled. I've seen it emptied and filled at nine years of age. Come forward in a meeting in Texas. I've seen a few more. I've seen a withered hand, you know, grow out to the same size, which was withered and short with polio. And I've seen other things, parts of the body restored, and I've seen cancer drop off the body as persons being prayed for and other things like that. And I called the doctor forward in Chicago when a boy's toes were bent underneath like this from birth. And his toes. He was walking on his toes, and I commanded him to come out in the name of Jesus. And they came out and the doctor started to cry. I've seen some of the greatest miracles. I've been very privileged. The miracles don't affect me so much as my relationship with the Lord. I'm not kidding you. I'm really thrilled to see people healed and all the rest, but it doesn't affect me so much as my relationship with the Lord. It doesn't help my faith so much as the Word of God, and my trusting that word and proving it. It's not the signs and wonders that help me. It helps the unconverted. But I don't need signs. Isn't it wonderful? I don't need them. Just don't need it. They encourage me. When I hear about what's happening. But I don't need them. These signs shall follow those that believe, not the believers following the signs. All right, back to this person. And, um, you know, there's something about faith. When you're really acting in love, it works naturally. It's secondary. I'll tell you now. It's the only time that faith is secondary. Love believeth all things. It's only one person, and that's not too bad in the last ten minutes. Faith becomes secondary when love is in operation. Love. Love swallows up faith in its action. Did you know that? I didn't know till I just said it. Hallelujah. I just needed that, Lord. Faith that worketh by love. Yes. Now, I believe, then, that when you love a person, you'll find a place in God where that love can receive from God for the person what they need. And he won't stop until you find it. I came in the house at half past ten and I said to the to this lady, I said, you can go to bed and I'll wake up with your husband. He was unconscious, had been for several days, and I walked up and down that room and cancer was in the room. I was in the room with death. Here's a man. He's just got a few hours to live. And I got down on my knees and I started praying. I was half past ten just before one o'clock or around that time I broke through and my God was bigger than the cancer. It took me all that time to come away from the influence of that cancer, to find a place in God where God affected me more than that cancer. And I received the man's healing and thanked the Lord for it. Got off my knees. When I received something, I get off my knees and then I start to praise. I walked up and down the room, praising God just around one o'clock. And I praise the Lord and praised him and Hallelujah, praised him. And then all of a sudden the man stopped breathing. Now you've got to find out whether you've got the results. Are you going to get the results? Now the results that you get when somebody stops breathing is what? Death. You're quite right, a logical conclusion. I held up my hand and I said, Lord. I'm trusting you for what I've got. I thank you, Lord. I've got this man's healing. And I praise you. For I've got it, Lord, and thank you. And that man started breathing again. And so did I. Three times it happened. Three times it happened. I refused to let it go. I refuse to have any other results than that which I'd got by my faith in God. What I received in faith. I refuse to let it go. I anchor that man to this earth. And the last weapon that Satan had was death. And when he used it against me, I refused to let it go. I refuse to let that healing go. And then a little while later, he regained consciousness and I fed him a little water, lukewarm water, a little sugar in and so forth, and little milk and sugar all the way every hour or half an hour. And then between I think it was four or five or around that period of time he passed his cancer from his body. And in the morning at eight o'clock, when I left, he was sitting up in bed, clear eyed, and he said, God bless you, Harry, as I left. I have never been frightened of cancer since. But I realized just the fear of something stops faith working perfectly. And also it stops love working as well. And if you can find a place in God, and all you have to do is spend a little time with the Lord and love him, it's amazing what they'll do. I remember when my wife used to visit me in my office in Plymouth. She was doing her midwifery. She had already done her nursing in, in in Dublin and she she was doing midwifery. And this was before we were baptized in the Holy Spirit I think. And she had a deliverance ministry before me. And um. Interval. She came into the office and we pulled the blinds to. We're only engaged then. And then we had a prayer time. Ha ha. You are a congregation, aren't you? And I don't know. We just got lost in the Lord, and it got dark and everything else, and I don't remember much about it, but we had a wonderful time with the Lord, and we both got off our feet at the same time. We seemed to know the prayer time ended and the door opened and somebody switched the light on, and he had one look at us, burst into tears and knelt down and came back to the Lord. We had been loving the Lord and looking at the Lord, you know, in our love. And when we switched that same look, the way we were looking at Jesus and the expression on our face to that man. We looked at him just like Jesus would have looked at him. When Peter wept, it seemed to all come back just made sense. That man came back to the Lord. You know, love is a way of looking at you. You just want to come back or repent or say you're sorry. Isn't that true? It is true. I learned something by that. And I remember another time when I waited on the Lord. I had an intercessory ministry, and I did a lot of fasting and praying at the beginning of my ministry. Longest time I fasted was fourteen days and just on water and prayed. And when I met anybody, they only had to put their arms around me. I would burst into tears. I was so soft. God could do anything with my heart. And before any great move of God in my life, it's always been preceded by fasting and praying. God has called me to fast and prayed so that I might receive, or find, or arrive at a place where I might receive from his hand the revelation that I need. And I found a place where I could. Believe what he said. Because in love you just believe it's possible. Nothing's impossible to love. Love will attempt anything because it doesn't look at the thing that it's against or anything else. Never considers it. And I praise God for this. And I had been praying that day, and I came out of my prayer closet, and I remember praying without stopping in English, you know, with my understanding, I should say, and without stopping, just for three hours. And I came out and I had time and stood still in that room. And I looked at my wife in the room, and I remember it going silent. Remember my wife coming over and putting her arms around me and saying that she loved me? I hope she can still remember that, but it was just something that just I don't know what it is, but all I know that Moses had to cover his face. Folks, you can tell people that spend time in the presence of God. You can tell people that spend time in prayer. You know they don't have the same problems that other people have, and they've always got an answer and they always want to reach out and minister. They're always looking to see what the needs of others are. They're the people that are really ministering. And I believe today that in the body of Christ, we wouldn't need so much ministry if we loved each other and all the past would be healed. The past hurts. Problems with your parents? Uh, I met a girl at a conference, and funny enough, Derek Prince was at this. And Bob, not Bob Mumford. Don Basham, Charles Simpson, myself. I think we're in Miami Beach. And, um, a girl asked to see me. She was a teenager, and she just came up very brazen. She said, I don't love my parents. I have never loved my parents. I've never loved anybody. She said, I'm studying psychology. And she was, I must admit, she was brilliant. And she started going through the people, outstanding people of the day, and she pulled them and chopped them up in pieces. This delighted her. It made her somebody she could see right through people, she said. And she demonstrated it. And I looked at her and I reached out to the Lord, and, oh, I was just filled with love. And she went on talking, looking at me, defiant. And I looked at her and I said, Jesus loves you. And she burst into tears. She broke down and wept and wept. I thought her heart would break. And it cost her about ten minutes or so, maybe less than that of crying and shuddering and all the rest, until the whole thing. From a very childhood, she had never been loved by her parents. Her parents were standoffish, very, you know, sort of austere, very inhibited and all the rest. And they'd never got close to her even as a child. She put her arms around me and she just went on crying. And I had never experienced anything like it. I never said another word to it. And she looked at me and her eyes were shining. She looked at me. She said, I'm going to see my parents. She knew everything. She knew the whole lot. Once you love, you know what it's all about, folks. Once you love, you know what Christ means when he says these things. The New Testament becomes something living. It becomes something that's meaningful in such a way that it's God expressing himself on your behalf, saying something on your behalf. He wants to do something for you. He's not against you. So many people. A little lady came up to me one night and I said, oh, if only you knew. My God, he loves you so much. She said, oh, I don't see how God can stand me because you can't stand yourself. It doesn't mean God can't stand you because you can't love your. Yourself in every situation. And you don't believe anybody else can. It doesn't stop God loving you in every situation. And God told me at the beginning of last year. No, I never mind. Last Christmas. Yeah. Before last Christmas. Not this Christmas. No, no Christmas before last. It's very difficult this New Year day. And I was fasting and praying. And God said many times he said, you put yourself out of my love. Now, I want to say this because a lot of people do it. You put yourself out of the love of God by believing that God can't love you under every circumstance. Would you just turn quickly, please, to Jude? Just see what I mean. Jude, the first chapter. I just for the scholars. Verse twenty one. Keep yourselves. Don't ask God to do it. He's provided the love. You've got to keep yourself in the love of God. If you've got the King James Version, keep yourselves in the love of God. Keep yourselves in the love of God. Won't you step out by putting yourself out? The devil will whip you, condemn you, beat you, find every verse he can in Scripture to knock you over the head with. So all you go round, all you can do is you go round as a whipped Christian, beaten completely. How many Christians are here tonight who are actually condemning themselves and God is not Satan is condemning him and God is not. If you only realize there is a place in God where forgiveness is available for everything, but you must learn to forgive yourself. That's the biggest crime that Christians are guilty of is not forgiving themselves. We magnify the grace of God when we've done something wrong or we've sinned. And when we repent immediately of it, we accept God's forgiveness. We magnify the grace of God. You can't add to grace to make it any more grace. Grace is grace, pure and perfect. Please don't add any more to it. Penance or anything else. Grace is grace. But if you don't keep yourself in the love of God by loving. Now let me explain that. A lot of people say, I love you, brother, and I'm going to tell you something in a minute. That's personal again. I love you, brother. Other. Well, that's a fact, but it's not something that they're doing. You can say to your wife, um, I love you, darling, but when you're loving her, it's entirely different. You can say to your children, I love you, which is a fact. Again, you know that basically you love them. But are you loving them? It's the loving that completely satisfies. Not the knowledge of love, but the action of loving. Now. I ask God, how do I get love? This is the question, isn't it? Does anybody know? Yes, there are many answers. Some of you are giving good answers. But how do you get it from God? Now people say to me, well, Romans five twenty five, the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost. They quote that and they're as miles away from love as you can possibly get. Oh, the first fruit is love. Love, love is what we've got in the Holy Ghost. And others say to me, well, Brother Greenwood, it's obvious, isn't it? Two Timothy one seven God has not given us the spirit of fear, but the spirit of love and power and a sound mind. Well, that's all very well. God can give you a whole lot of things, and you can receive them by faith and know that you've got them by God's Word. But are you in the experience of them? I'm going to be personal. Has God ever told you that he loves you? Or do you know from the book that he loves you? Now come on, I'll be honest. I'm going to have a couple of hands up in a minute. I'm going to say it again. Has God ever told you directly, my child, I love you and he is actually revealed that love to you. You have experienced God loving you. Would you just put your hand up, please? That's a lot of people. And a lot of people haven't put their hands up. Would you put them down? Thank you. Now, most of the people I counsel, they know for a fact from God's word that he loves them. Now, wouldn't it be really ridiculous? Ludicrous, actually, to have a wife who said she loved you and she was never loving you? A husband who said I love you and it was never loving you. And that love is only a fact, not an experience. You certainly wouldn't be satisfied. We wouldn't get married, that's for sure. There are still a few crazy old fashioned people around that get married for love. And the brother and sister, or whoever they are that say to God, Lord, I'm going to put a fleece on you. Now, whether or not this girl is to be my wife, if you've got to put a fleece on the Lord for a wife. Forget it. If you don't know you're in love, you're not. Is that not true? I had a couple come to me one day, and she's a lovely girl. And he was a big, handsome boy. She was very brainy. He had none. And he said, Pastor Greenwood, he said, I, I, I'm just wondering, is it the right thing that I should get married? I said, do you love her? I always asked that question. Seems a bit silly, but I always ask that question. And he said, well, I said, don't you dare get married. That one pause was enough. Well, but forget it. I said, don't you dare get married. He didn't. It was absolutely wrong. I believe that if you're not certain about your love, separate. Seek the Lord with all your heart, and he'll bring you together again his way. If it's right, he'll separate you forever. if it's wrong. That's some advice for young people. You don't have to go around. Try them all to see which one God wants you to have. It's not. It's not necessary. Just because I did it, I got rapped over the knuckles for it. And then when the person arrived, I didn't even see her until God pointed it out to me. And then I did. I think it's wonderful when you're not looking for a wife. You'll always get the right one. But if you're looking for one, you'll get one after the flesh. I'll tell you now you'll get. And you'll end up with the wrong one in that sense. You know, going with the wrong one. Unless God checks you. And another thing I might say to those youngsters that are getting engaged or anything else like that, expose all your decisions to the church or to a group of people that are spiritual or to the eldership, so that if your marriage is from heaven, they'll confirm it. And eventually, in a couple of years time, there will be no divorce whatsoever in the church because nobody will be able to get married unless the Holy Ghost confirms it through the authority and the ministry that's in the church. The reason we have divorce today and a lot of other problems, and I am not saying anybody is any less spiritual because of divorce or anything else like that, because a lot of you have had your problems before you were converted. The reason we have divorce is because our marriages, our decisions to be joined to a person, have not been exposed to the confirmation of the ministries or the Holy Ghost. It seemed good to the Holy Ghost and to us, and that's how it should be. So if there's any doubt about your marriage, expose it to the to the authority and the church, the eldership, wherever you are, and they will confirm it. And that's a very important thing for many young people. Now that scripture that I gave you a few minutes ago, I want you to turn now, please, to while you're very close to John. And I've always been close to John. It was John that discovered. That God was love. Nobody told him. He discovered it himself. God is love. And God is justice. Love is just. We've got a just God and a loving God. Now we have some remarkable statements here. Verse seven of one John chapter four. Beloved, I love the way John speaks when you you know the language of love is really fantastic, isn't it? When you see two young couples talking to each other and you overhear they say all sorts of silly things to each other, don't they? And that's if you're not in love. I mean, you wouldn't understand what on earth you're talking about. But when you're in love, you act a little strange, you know? And when I first came to the Lord Jesus Christ. And I fell in love. And when I was loved by the Lord. Do you know what it meant to me? It meant a tremendous security. I think a lot of young people today, and especially children, have their problems because they feel insecure, because they're not loved. And I think love is the greatest security that we can give our children. You see, love is the best and always gives the best and thinks the best and plans the best for our children as God has planned for his children. So you never find children running away from love. When I mentioned that before, and the one thing is, if you expose your children to the best, you have no fear. They'll never find anything better in the world or anywhere else. So don't worry about them. The world and they're being exposed to the world. When they're being exposed to the best, they'll have the best confirmed that it is the best. When they come in contact with some of the things that you're frightened might influence them or affect them. We should have more confidence in what we've sown in our children. If we've sown in love and in the spirit will reap likewise. Don't fear the world. They're not of the world. If you give them a taste for heaven, they'll never be satisfied with the world. Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God, and everyone that loveth, loveth, loveth. You know that love in action loveth is born of God. Now that means you are loving. It doesn't mean you know about love and you think about you're actually loving. Oh, if we could get this over tonight, it would be fantastic. Really fantastic. You know, the. Oh, the problems that it would solve in your family alone. You have no idea. How close can you get to a person. Love allows you to come to the very heart of the person. Because love does not protect itself. It has nothing to protect, nothing to hide. It listens for hours and believes everything you know. Have you ever met a Christian that you don't like? Besides myself, have you ever met a Christian that you don't like? You know, either they dress wrong or they've got a sort of big headed personality. You know, they're. They're so conceited and everything else like that. You know, you just can't stand the sight of them. And you say, well, I can't stand the sight of in the flesh, but I love him in the spirit. Or you'd like to give him a good, you know, and you'd say, well, I'd do it in love, because I'd love to do it. You've never met anybody like that. Well, I'll tell you if you want to do a little check on it, see the people that you avoid. And when you get to a meeting, see how far you sit away from them. When you're coming out the door, you see them going, and you're going to meet him in the door. So you go out the other one. Just have a look around and when you get a call, see if you really love when it's from your mother in law or somebody else like that. Maybe you don't want for the weekend. You'll get your love tested in every possible way. Now you're going to find somebody that you're going to need the love of God for. Your love will not be adequate. I meet ladies and they have a real problem here. Those that are matured in life and are deeply hurt because they have a friendship and that's broken up, and the person now becomes mean and bitter and starts to get at them, and all sorts of problems start to occur. Husband with their mother in laws and in-laws and all the rest of them. They have real problems here. Now I'm going to give you some advice. If you say that you love everyone, God is going to bring somebody to you that you can't love. You will not be able to, and you've got to find his love. One day a minister criticized me. He read me down publicly and he basically ruined my reputation, if you like, I become the scapegoat for his failure. And I got it in the neck until I began to hate him. So I started my hate campaign. And I'm ashamed to say this, but for one whole month, I began to justify myself first of all, and then begin to see everything that was wrong with him, and then begin to really start building it up. And my mind was filled with one person, and it took me such a battle to get that out of my system. Now, I hadn't I hadn't won the war yet by just getting that person out of my system. I have now to love him, not just tolerate him. That's not love. I had to love him. And I'll tell you, I found a place in God after a long, long time where I loved him. And when I met him, there was nothing in me. Not a thing in me that went out against him or that was on the defensive. I put my arms around him and kissed him. I had got past that man, folks. My whole ministry could have been ruined because I couldn't get past one man. Now, let me give you an example of that. Something like that in the Himalayas. There's a species of goat, and they meet on these high ledges. And when they meet each other, they're like some Christians. They stare at each other. Now they don't fight. They just stare at each other. And they go on staring for something, maybe like ten or twenty minutes until the weaker one will lie down on that ledge flat, and the other one will walk over it and go on its way. Then the weaker one will get up and walk on its way. If they fought, they would both be killed, and it's built in it's instinct. But they still have to fight it out with glares. Who is going to bend first? Who's going to give in first? Who's going to humble himself first. And if you want to get past some Christians quickly, just let them walk all over you. And then you can get up and go on your way. You're free. Hallelujah. You're absolutely free. And that's the only way you're going to get past some people. You gotta humble yourself. And even though anyway, put it this way, that man, um, what he did against me, he never asked my forgiveness for never. He went out of his mind as a result of somebody doing the same thing to him. Exactly. The judgment that he mete out of me was mete out on him. Exactly. And that man was out of the ministry then altogether. And then God asked me to sell my car and, and and help him with the money financially, and then go and take him. And here I'm the last person in the world you would expect to do this. Anybody else could have done it, but he'd done me more harm than anybody else. But God sent me. This is it. Now, I don't know when. God. When's the second mile end, you know. And so I went the second mile. Now I'm not. I'm not. Fantastic. Don't you get the wrong idea. It was the love of God for that man. And I brought him back into the ministry, ministered with me for a while, and he started out in his own. And that was it. And I was free from him then. And I went on my way. Now you wouldn't believe. God didn't just want me to forgive him and love him, but then he wanted me to repair the damage that was done because of his sin against me. God will ask you to go all the way because his love did. While we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Now you don't get love. I must come back to this by asking for it. I'm sorry. You get love by loving. And many of us have to develop a loving because we've not been loving. We're reserved, inhibited, shy. And when we meet people, we just don't love them. Now, folks, the love of God. All right. We've got people that can prophesy. It's not worth taking it into account if it's. If there's not love there. This is the greatest thing in this convention. I don't care what revelation you've got. You might have all the revelation in the world, but without love, it's worthless. God says so. All of it. It's worthless. Lord, I need love. Well, you'll get it by loving. Now, do you know how difficult it is to love? You've got to humble yourself. Do you find humbling yourself? Easy not to be on your guard, but to humble yourself before the person and God's love comes into your heart by the Holy Ghost. And it's only shed abroad in your heart by the Holy Ghost as you humble yourself. And when you come to the end of your love, you must begin with your love in loving. And now listen to it carefully. You are then loved with the love that you're loving with. You won't get that from any book in the world. Because God told me personally. I said, Lord, I don't understand how I can receive love. He said, you are being loved with the love that you're loving with. If you're loving me, you are being loved with that love. Because love in you is loving. Hallelujah. It's you're loving a person. You are being loved all the time with the same love that you're loving the person with. So that you go on love increasing and you love the person more. You're being loved more. To love more. Love increases like that. All right, I'll give you. Let me See if I can find another example. And then I must I'm going to finish at half past. I know you can take a lot of this. I think it's not so heavy. I'll tell you where I first had my experience of loving. I was in Northern Ireland. I won't say much about that place. Um. And the Lord said to me, I want you to go to Scotland. And it was. New year's Eve. So that's tropical. And I said, Lord, I'm very sorry, but everybody's going to Scotland from Northern Ireland. All the planes are booked and there's no room. I said, I want you to go to Northern Ireland. I called up, I said, there you are, Lord. They're all booked. He said, call them up again. So I did, and there was one seat. I have learned to do this, that if God says, go someplace for goodness sake, don't look for reasons. Excuses why you can't go. Forget it. If he says go someplace, he's made all the arrangements. And when they say, I'm sorry, there's no room. Forget it. There's room. Now, some people here live by faith, and some people are going home by this method. Let me give you some advice on that side. I did that for years. And you asked my wife around here what I did. I don't know why I'm going off on this tangent, but don't let me leave Northern Ireland. I said, Lord, I've got to go to a certain city, certain I've got to be there a certain time. Please. I need some transport. What time should I leave? And in this particular case, remember the Lord said, I want you to leave at seven o'clock and you'll get a get a lift right to the door. I said thank you. I went there two minutes to seven and I had to wait two minutes. When God says seven o'clock, he doesn't mean two minutes. Two or two minutes after seven o'clock and seven o'clock on the dot. I put my hand up. This guy stopped. I asked him where he was going. He told me. I said thank you right past the door. Drop me off. It was lovely. The rest of the folks had to go by train. I didn't have the fare. I had to go by transport. I got there before them. And I experienced this for years. God told me one morning. Get dressed. There's somebody coming for you. I got dressed, somebody arrived and said, well, just calling in on the way down to a certain town. I'm on my way back again to Plymouth, another town. God told me to go to Plymouth. I said, you're my transport. Thank you. He just thought he'd have a little fellowship. Didn't know why he called. People used to call it my house and didn't know why they called. I remember my wife. Um, she was. She was expecting. Was it Jill? And you asked for transport. And then somebody came along and said, well, you know, they would take her to the hospital. It was prenatal. Was it? Oh, never mind it. Something technical anyway. Something like that sounded good anyway. And, um, she said, all right, Lord, though, I'm getting this lift. Say, I didn't get this lift. I want you, Lord, to show me that you would have still provided have somebody come here at one o'clock. And the time I asked you. And sure enough, somebody arrived at one o'clock, going to the same place that you wanted to go. And God just showed her that it was already arranged. Now we live like this. We didn't have any money when we caught a bus on the way out. Going down the drive. Um, I kicked something, and it was a coin. It was sixpence. You've heard of sixpence, haven't you? Old, old world money. Uh, sixpence, you know, and I put it in my pocket. Pocket. And it was green, you know, and, um, we got on the bus and he said, that'll be two and six, and we only had two shillings. And I said, oh, the sixpence. I took it out and it wouldn't look at the sixpence. And he looked at us and he said, he didn't say it. Thank you jock. You know, that's somebody from Scotland, you know. I mean, it was green. Don't think. I don't think Scottish people are mean. You know, they just pray on their knees on Sunday and pray on the neighbours during the week. No. I don't. But look at the Englishman. He's a self-made, self-made man and he worships his creator. Anyway, I just thought I'd get away with that. I'm Irish, and as I was saying. And so we live like that. And we had to trust God. All the fantastic things that happened. I mean, my wife and I set the table without any food or anything else like that and and sat down to we had no food, no money, no nothing. And sure enough, one o'clock there's a lady with two plates full of food. You know, they call them Cornish pasties. She says, I was making these. She was a methodist and from Cornwall. She says I was making these this morning. And something said to me, I know she was a methodist. Something said to me. Maybe Mr.. Mrs. Greenwood would like one of these. It never happened before, and it's never happened since. Isn't it wonderful? The provision of God? You've just got to act out your faith and just believe it anyway. Getting off that track. If you want a lift. Ask the Lord when you should leave. And he'll. And if you get desperate, like I did one night I was three miles from the church and just about three minutes from the church, and I was preaching and and no car would stop. And it was getting dark and I was going desperate. And I said, what am I going to do? And all of a sudden I just. The Holy Ghost just took over and I got and not in a panic, but got desperate. And when I get desperate, I'll do anything. I'll tell you if I'm around. I'm just. I'll do anything. And I stood out and the car went by and I said, stop in the name of Jesus. And that car went stopped it. That's the that's the truth. And the guy, the guy, the guy didn't even know why he stopped. And I got in. I got into the car. And excuse the cliche, I got into the car and he got me to the church on time. You can get desperate. And boy, when you get desperate, do you pray? Um, back to Northern Ireland. I got on the plane to Scotland and now and I attended this meeting. They were all dancing and praising God and having a wonderful time. And I thought, I've never seen anything so much in the flesh in all my life. I was critical and another minister with me, and we were just critical and we wouldn't enter into anything I'd never seen anything like it. People were dancing all over the place, you know, praising God. And I thought, well, if this isn't emotionalism at its worst, I just have never seen anything like it. And so for two days we sat like that. And then on the last meeting I got right down the front and how I got down the front, but I got down the front. And so then the preacher had finished and he said, right now I want you to stand up, turn around to your brother and sister, put your arms around them and give them a holy kiss, and tell them that you love them. Now there's no way the door was in the back. And I thought to myself, well, how am I going to get out of here? And so the first brother came towards me. I thought, well. He put his arms around me and gave me a kiss. If you call it that, and said, I love you, brother Harry or Brother Greenwood. And I said, I love you, brother. He didn't love me and I didn't love him. And that's the first time I realized how long I'd been telling people, in one sense, that I loved them, or acknowledging that I loved them without loving them. I didn't realize you could put your arms around somebody and say, I love you, brother, but not you're not loving them. You understand what I mean by that, don't you? That's so good that if you do now, the next person, you did the same. And I was getting embarrassed. Now there was no place to hide. Because in this realm of the Holy Spirit. No, you can't hide. I mean, you go up to a brother and say, praise the Lord. And he says, well, praise God. And you say, well, what's wrong, brother? A person signs up to pray and he tells everybody where he is spiritually. You see, there's no hiding place before you could do anything and get away with it. You could shake and all the rest. And people thought you were spiritual, but it just doesn't work any longer. Isn't it wonderful that there's no hiding place, folks? Praise God everything is open and naked before whom we have to do. And bless the Lord. This is the day of the Spirit of God. Well, anyway, I discovered that I just did not love. And the next person that came up to me was a little person, a very small man. And his whole he was from the brethren, Plymouth Brethren. He'd been baptized in the Holy Spirit, and his family wouldn't even speak to him, wouldn't have fellowship with him. They were on one side of the house, and he was left to the other side of the house. They wouldn't even sit at the same table as him. And you know, he loved his family and he was broken hearted. But one thing that God did for him, God gave him a love that mended his heart. Now I believe God. Jesus came to heal the broken hearted. And there is such a thing as a broken heart, and I acknowledge it today, and the healing is necessary. And there's only one thing that will heal the brokenhearted, and that is the love of God, the love of God. And believe it or not, this man needed such a great love. I mean to live in the same house, to live at all. Nobody else needed as much love as this man. And when he looked at me, I was not beyond that love, you know? And it was one. He just looked at me and he said, brother Harry, he said, I love you. And I burst into tears and I wept. Now, folks, I'm not this sort of person. I wept and wept and wept. I put my arms around him and I loved him. I loved him so much he began to weep. And everybody I touched, they began to cry. The whole meeting was in tears. I wept, I wouldn't go to bed. I sat up just crying and loving the Lord. And I never dreamt in all my life that love could be so wonderful. I stood in front of those people and told them about my rotten pride and my criticism and everything else, and I wept, and I told them that I loved them. There wasn't a dry eye in the place I love so much. I couldn't believe that I lived in the same world. I couldn't find a thing wrong with anybody or with anything. Everything seemed so beautiful and so perfect and everything else, and I was so conscious of all of the needs of every person. I would do anything, folks. I would have walked all the way from one end of Scotland, right down to, you know, right down to England, I would have there was nothing I couldn't do in that love. Nothing too hard. Nothing. No, it was just fantastic. Now I came back to the church I was in and I told him about it, and they started to cry and broke down. And I realized then, you know, love allows you to get so near to God. You're not alone. Know how God feels about people, but you feel what God feels about people, and that allows you to minister. And a good dose of this would cure most of our family relationships, and I believe it would cure the church altogether. What we need at the moment is not power. I believe we need love. We need love. In such a measure, God has to lay a foundation. I know the foundation of love is trust. But if God doesn't lay the foundation of love, What is going to endure forever? Whether they prophesize what is going to endure forever? Love is going to endure forever. And today, God has given us the privilege of loving each other. When you read this on John, I could go on reading it. Herein is love. Not that we love God, but he loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another. And Jesus prayed in John seventeen, the love wherewith the father loved him should be in us, and the father also. And that's going to be the last testimony that Jesus has been sent, is our love for one another. Now, I believe when God asked me to speak tonight and I didn't want to do it, and I said, Lord, it's very difficult to speak about love. And he showed me this is one of the most important things in the church today. Most of us are not using our faith because we don't love. We're not praying because we don't love. If you don't love, you don't care. It's very difficult to pray for anybody when you don't love. And the first thing to do then is to start to love. Now, when I start loving the Lord, what happens? Everything that is not of love is dealt with by love. You can write that down. I've never said it before. When there are lots of things I haven't said before tonight. When you start to love the Lord, everything you're filled with love and everything that is not of, not of love is dealt with by love, not dealt with by you, is dealt with by love. Because perfect love casts out fear. Fear has torment. And we are made perfect in love. And the person that loves his brother is perfect. Now we are told to love each other. This is incredible with a pure love. What is the. What is the word fervently now? What does fervently really mean? Boiling hot? It means that's that's one translating boiling heart. It means actually, it's the direct word is white hot. You've seen things red hot but white hot. That hot boiling hot is fine. You know, you can get steamed up about your love, but white hot, I believe. White hot. And that's the love that God wants us to have for one another, that love. Now people say to me, but you forget, Harry. There is a law and there's a command. The commandments is doing things as well. You do things because God tells you to do them. But no, no, no, no, you've got it wrong. The law must be fulfilled. But where is the law fulfilled? Since you've got time and I'm only going to read it for you, you'll find it in Romans chapter thirteen. We read just a couple of verses. Verse eight. Oh, Harry. Don't! Oh, Harry. Anything. Oh, no. Man. Anything. Oh, no. Man. Anything but to love one another. For he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law. For this thou shalt not commit adultery. Thou shalt not kill. Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not bear false witness, thou shalt not covet. And if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. Love worketh no ill to his neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfilling, not fulfilled. The law is the fulfilling of the law. It's the fulfilling. It's the outworking. Love is the whole thing is summed up in that if you love me, keep my commandments. If you love me, you'll want to. You'll desire the natural outcome of love is keeping his commandments. Now, folks, by this shall all men know that you're my disciples. If you have love one toward another. Love will bring you on. It'll bring you in. Love will bring you through. Love will drive out fear that causes you all the problems that you've got. Love allows you to see God and not the enemy. Love allows you to go the extra mile. Love is the answer. Now I believe tonight on what I have just spoken about briefly. I could pray for people. Now it'll cost you everything to have God's love. It'll cost you your pride. It'll cost you many other things. Many of you have that love in a measure. You've experienced it. But if you want God's love to the depth that it brings you into the ministry of God Himself, ministering the Lord God is love. That's ministering the presence of God. Oh, hallelujah, what a what you've got to come next is the best. I believe I want you just to close your eyes now. God has not given to us the spirit of fear, but the spirit of love. Now, there is a whole lot of family relationships in this meeting that are not right. And when God showed me that as I was speaking that need to be put right, there are a whole lot of relationships also with your brother and sisters that need to be put right. Tell me.