02-24-25 – The Law of Love Part 6

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Good morning. Praise the Lord. Let everything that has breath praise the Lord. Welcome to Victorious Faith. I’m Cherry Campbell. This morning, I’m going to continue sharing with you lesson number 11 that I taught in a class called The Kingdom of God. And in this lesson number 11, we are giving a summary of the spiritual law of love. So join me now in our live class for the continuation of lesson number 11, a summary of the spiritual law of love. Another characteristic is love covers. Love covers. Proverbs 10, verse 12 says, love covers over all wrongs. And let me just share an example. We think of that as offenses. Proverbs 17, verse 9 says, he who covers over an offense… promotes love and first peter 4 8 says love each other deeply because love covers over a multitude of sins and yes we’re talking about love covering over offenses and sins that people do against us but i want us to look at another angle in proverbs 10 12 it says love covers over all wrongs All wrongs. So that means love covers over other people’s mistakes, failures, and shortcomings. It covers them. And I want to emphasize here the word cover in contrast to expose. Covering instead of exposing. I’m reminded of Noah after the flood. He drank his wine and he got drunk. And one of his sons, I believe it was Ham, came in and looked on his father’s nakedness or his father’s shamefulness, his father’s shame, his father’s weakness and failure and fault. And what did he do? He went out and told everybody. He said, oh, guess what I saw father doing? How I saw father. And he went out and he exposed his father’s weakness and shame. But Noah’s other sons, Shem and Japheth, walked into their father’s tent backward, not looking on their father, with a blanket held between them. And they went and covered their father’s nakedness. They covered his nakedness and his shame, his weakness and his failure. And when Noah woke up, he said, Cursed be Ham and Canaan the son of Ham. But he said, Blessed be Shem and Japheth. Exposing somebody else’s failure brings a curse on our own life. When we tell what we see another person did, their fault. their weakness, their failure, their shortcoming, and we go expose it and tell it, it will bring a curse on our own life. Love covers. When we see another person in their sin, we don’t go tell everybody about it, but we try to restore that person. We pray for them, if nothing else, that they would be restored. Another thing is not only their sins, but even their mistakes. You know, a lot of times people mock and make fun and tease. And we especially see this with children. Teasing when other children fall down, trip and stumble, or say something stupid. You know, I still remember one time I said something. It sounded really dumb. After I said it, I realized that someone else that was there listening made fun and started mocking me publicly so that it brought embarrassment on something that was said. You know, sometimes people slip up and say things or they might stumble and fall over, look clumsy in their actions. And the wicked people will mock. Ha ha, look at that. Look at that clumsy fool. He can’t even walk straight. Or make fun of what somebody said wrong. That is hatred. That is actually motivated by hate. But love will be quick to come in and cover over somebody else’s mistake. Oh yeah, you know, I’ve done that too. Oh, don’t feel bad about that. It’s okay. We’ve all made mistakes. Oh, I’ve said something like that. I’ve done that before. Or trying to encourage a person who has just made a mistake or looked foolish and helping to relieve them of embarrassment. Helping them not to feel embarrassed or ashamed, but to make them feel it’s okay. We’re not making fun and mocking. Everybody can make a mistake. Anybody can. And that is love to help remove somebody’s embarrassment in an embarrassing situation. So in that way, that’s another angle where love covers over all wrongs. Love will help another person not look bad. But hatred wants to make them look bad. But love will keep them from looking bad. in a bad situation then let’s go on another characteristic of love love edifies encourages builds up and speaks no evil against others love does not slander or criticize or find fault with other people titus chapter 3 titus chapter 3 verses 1 and 2 say remind the people to slander no one to slander slander means speak evil about someone and in james chapter 4 james 4 verses 11 and 12 it says brothers do not slander one another anyone who speaks against his brother or judges him speaks against the law and judges it when you judge the law you are not keeping it but sitting in judgment on it. So if you’re judging another person or criticizing another person, you are not keeping the law. You are a lawbreaker. Verse 12, for there is only one lawgiver and judge, the one who is able to save and destroy. But you, who are you to judge your neighbor? Who are you? I have to say, who am I to judge another person? There’s only one lawgiver and judge, and that’s God. And we can be relieved to know that we’re not the judge. God is the judge. Amen? So love edifies and builds other people up. Proverbs 15, verse 4 says, The tongue that brings healing is a tree of life. Just like what we said before, love covers, love heals. The tongue that brings healing is a tree of life. That was Proverbs 15, 4. Then Ecclesiastes 10, 12 says, It says, words from a wise man’s mouth are gracious. Gracious, remember, means free, undeserving, kind acts, benevolence. Ephesians, look at Ephesians chapter 4, verse 29. Ephesians 4, 29. Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up. according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen. We have to ask ourselves, are the things that we say helpful to build other people up according to their needs? And does it benefit those who listen? We must continually ask ourselves, is what we are saying benefiting those who are listening? And does it build and edify other people? We are not to let anything out of our mouths that tears down or destroys, but only those things that are helpful to build other people up. In Colossians 4, verse 6, it says, Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt. Now, salt is a preservative so that our words should preserve other people, not destroy them, but preserve them. Hallelujah. Full of grace. And 1 Thessalonians 5, verse 11. 1 Thessalonians 5, verse 11. Therefore, encourage one another. and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing. Are your words encouraging other people? Do they build other people up? We should never speak words that tear down, only words that build up. So love is being merciful and gracious, even in our words. We need mercy ourselves, not judgment. We don’t want to be judged. So we must give other people mercy and not judgment. Amen? Amen. Praise the Lord. Now another characteristic of love is that love is humble. Love is humble. Now what does humility mean? The root word of humility is the word low. It means to lower or to lay low. To lower or lay low and to make lowly in the mind. It means to reduce arrogance. To reduce arrogance. Now, pride, on the other hand, the opposite, means high. It means high-minded or thinking too highly of yourself. It is an overestimation or too high of an opinion of yourself. Now, in 1 Corinthians 13, what we call the love chapter, in verses 4 and 5… In the Amplified Bible again. Amplified says, Love endures long and is patient and kind. Love never is envious nor boils over with jealousy. It is not boastful or vainglorious. Vainglorious means proud. Does not display itself haughtily. It is not conceited. arrogant and inflated with pride. It does not act rude or unmannerly or unbecomingly. So that was verse 4. It is not conceited, arrogant, or inflated with pride. So when we are acting humble, when loving others, we are not self-seeking. Again, it goes back to selfishness and being self-seeking and putting ourselves first, lifting ourselves up. but it is laying ourselves low and putting other people first. And Jesus demonstrated this. He humbled himself in Philippians 2, verses 6, 7, and 8. It says, who being in very nature God, this is speaking about Jesus, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped or to hold on to tightly and to not release it, not to grasp it. It is not something to be grasped, but he made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. What you just heard was a continuation of lesson number 11 that I taught in a class called the kingdom of God. And this lesson number 11 is a summary of the spiritual law of love. And we will continue this lesson tomorrow. So join me again tomorrow and remember God loves you. You are blessed and highly favored by the Lord.