How He Loves Us

Welcome back to Ignite having more fun than we ever dreamed we've been half in life. It's three old guys Why are you daddy? I'm the old guy and the next two guys in line here But I mean we just amazing the fun we're having I mean I made years what anyone years old I never dreamed I'd have the time of my life when I was 81 I thought it'd be hobbling around you know, but every day's adventure isn't I don't see you as a hobble I think Karen's probably going berry slow down Bill wee's the author of 23 minutes in the hell. Are you told you helped us understand real good? Why we don't want to go to hell? I mean you explained that really well. You want to get that book And and Steve Amerson the the great voice and great tenor and a great Evangelist I mean you are in a bad I don't like I say we're in the term evangelized if you know nobody wants to evangelize I know I want to be evangelized Or face shares. I guess that's the best way to do it But we're all three do it every moment of the day. That's that's like breathing Well, it isn't you know berry. I have two older brothers I'm the younger more handsome more talented more humble brother and I remind them But but my dad was was a pastor and he was a great soul winner Dad would was one of those great old pastors he would make roughly 40 to 50 hospital calls every week And he would visit people at their homes, but so you were taught well you were mentored well my middle brother Bill says You know what you're so much like dad so much like my father just in terms into your children They're watching you folks to level on people But I remember the last time I was with my dad before he died And I was there was back in southern Indiana with my brother Bill and his wife Ruth Ann and I just got in there We said dad we're gonna go get something to eat right and get some dinner and my dad would pray at you know at anything over Bullying scores or whatever, you know and dad says let's pray So we're just gonna be gone for like a half an hour So we pray so dad's got Lord. Thank you for Bill and his kindness and for him and thank you for a Ruth for taking such great care of me and and thank you for Other family members present And dad couldn't remember my name So I I became I was for in emails for the next couple of weeks I was other family member president But my dad was such a witness and loved on people and people knew my daddy that he was just a lover of them And my dad through the years Brought so many people closer to Jesus. Yeah, just by the love that he shared on people Well, we don't know but we're all mentoring other people Yeah, and that's just the three of us. It's every Christian. We're all we're all part of the family And I'm just the other family member president But we are we're encouraged each other. We're ministry not just to non-christians I mean the bigger mission field is to the church That are struggling and not having joy in whatever people around us in our own Christian community We're mentoring that because they're wondering why do you have joy? Why do you have all this energy? Oh, you really want to know? Yeah, because I've always coming off one of these mountain top experiences and Continuity happens in my walk-out. I'd say yes I can't wait for the next one. That's right You know, bear we were I was at a church and a husband a wife came up to me and and husband said build my wife Read your book recently and the part about what it is to be saved to repent and receive Jesus He said she was Determined to commit suicide. She has made her mind up that night She was gonna commit suicide, but she read your book and here she is now She gave her life to Jesus and we both serve God in the church and so the joy that was over him What does that do for you? Right. I thought lady was about to commit suicide and she read some she read something you wrote Right, which is the gospel Of course, you know, I didn't write the gospel. We'll share in the verse If you did I want your autograph bitch or would you but you communicated the gospel to her exactly without even talking to her And now the husband and wife were filled with joy and they were they were out witnessing to everybody that they could come across So again, you talk about the joy of the Lord You know me a Paul talked about that in first Thessalonians 2 He talked about the people that he just led the Lord in that chapter and he goes you are my crown and my joy Because you're going to heaven now and that is so joyful for all of us I mean the car wax was right and and we'll get Truckloads in order from one retailer and it's 13 truckloads. You know me a little bit of bottles right? If if you want to have fun, I mean that's exciting. I get to tell you I still get excited about that is amazing Pails Pails not even in the in the in the same room with leading somebody in the right like that and knowing that's for eternity Do you ask me have people coming up to us on a regular base in turn you say because of your influence I accepted Jesus Christ as my Lord and I'm in heaven today because of your influence Can you imagine just have me one person tell us that in heaven just one? There's a it's a girl in an office that I visit sometimes and She saw a note that I had written of encouragement to her to her boss And I met her I'd never met her and she said your note She read my note before it got to her boss because they're not And she goes that verse to her. Yeah, it's a toofer exactly which brings me joy Yeah, and she she said what you wrote? Really encouraged me and I said to her oh Courtney God loves you so much And it's what she how she responded shocked me. She said I hope so oh And I said oh Courtney God loves you so much So I go to that office every couple of weeks when I walked in there this past week I walked in the door Courtney was there and she introduced me to someone else in the office and she said Steve is the office favorite Yeah To know that I've been doing to encourage her to love and bury that brought me joy Oh just knowing that I'm moving her just a little bit closer every day. Do you know most people don't understand that God loves them? They don't they can't comprehend it They think all the bad stuff is happening in their lives is because God does mad at them They feel like God is beating up with them The strongest message you could say in any way and they'll never get mad you were saying is God loves you And oftentimes you know it they were ejected. They can't believe it. They're just not after all I've done Oh, yeah But it's fun when you pursue it a little bit and you're not you're not offensive when you do this You said oh God actually loves you. He really does No, no you get's better than that. Do you know God loves you as much as ever loved anybody? What? Yeah, he's no respect to persons. He loves you as much as he's ever loved anybody ever that's how much he loves you And if you want to really cap it explain to them that he loves you as much he loves his own son Jesus Christ They don't get mad. They're they're so taken back by that He that it's a love them where they realize that God's there's still hope It raises hope like he can still he can still love he loves me in spite of everything And then it opens the doors for great conversation. That's right. It's all about love. It is Ephesians 319 has a lot of pastes knowledge. Oh That's it beyond our ability to love each other. Yeah, that's how much he loves even beyond our words You know when we're when he would he loves us. He's salvationing us Okay The entire purpose of his love a thousand percent is he's salvation us. He's he's loving us to bring us to heaven And then we're supposed to love our neighbors as ourselves. So every there's no such thing as a secular conversation Folks, there's no such thing as a secular conversation when you're talking to everybody the smallest conversation I don't care what it is It's a sacred conversation in this respect You're you're intent if you're living to move everybody every day closer to Jesus you want to do that in your words to them And when you do that is not you. It's God. God is salvationing them through you Can you imagine that he's salvationing people through us? He's using us to bring them to him. Yes You know how many moments you know how much he loves that he loves them To death he does he does to the last breath He loves them to never give up even the death of this and the hardest of people in our lives He loves as much. He loves us. He loves loves anybody. He loves them You think of all the despicable people in our lives if he would drive us crazy God loves them That's right And I'm gonna be mad at them. I'll forgive you when you forgive those We have to love them and those that hurt us the most are hurting the most He gives us the opportunity to witness to them and sometimes it takes years But they come around so many times at the end before they die. They said I need to talk to Steve Do I have one minute to share? Yeah, you're sure it's just again about the love of God I was speaking in a church and a young man 20 year old came up at the back And he said Bill if somebody gave me your book a year ago I threw it in the trash I was an atheist. I just threw it But I remember your name and I was driving by the church tonight at five of seven and it said Bill Wee speaking at seven o'clock And he thought I thought to myself what's he doing out in the middle of nowhere? This wasn't a country church in the middle of nowhere. Oh my goodness And five of seven. I'm speaking at seven God moment. He was on his way to commit suicide. Oh my god He was gonna drive his car off the cliff Because he said I just killed somebody it was by accident, but I murdered somebody And it was just an accident But I know that I'll go to jail, but I heard you speak and you talked about prison cells and hell And I didn't want to go to hell for all eternity So I gave my heart to Jesus and he says I don't care if I go to jail now. I'm going to heaven I just want to thank you for coming here. Yes now. Yes You see the point was look how God orchestrated that for him to be driving by at five of seven to be tempted to come to the service Have got my book a year ago and then thrown in the truck and remember my name I mean that's God's goodness how much he loves everybody He doesn't want one person to go to hell But he's given us that free will to choose the reality is 80% of the people around us are going to hell They're lost Do you get that they're lost Because I mean nobody's telling them that is our responsibility All at any given time there are people around us are ready to commit suicide only we have no idea And we get to be his ambassador To reach out and touch people and love on them It's see lives change in front of them and there's nothing in life. It comes into we're closest The experience of doing that and having that joy to have that intimacy with God. How do you Are we having fun? 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