<TITLE>03. Par 9-11</TITLE>L-9 Just from a quotation of the Word here that come on my mind, I would like to read a very familiar Scripture known to the, I would say, the least of the little kindergarten school. John 3:16:
 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on Him should not perish... have everlasting life.
And then, in the 22nd Psalm, in the 11th verse, I would like to read this:
Be not far from me; for trouble is near; and there is none to help.
And I'd like to take for a text tonight, five words and just dwell with them a few moments. One of them is "Living," and "Dying" is the second one. "Buried" is the third one. "Rising" is the fourth one. "Coming" is the fifth one. "Living, Dying, Buried, Rising, Coming." That's enough to keep me here until in the morning, but--and then not nothing like justify the text. But we'll just speak on each one for a few moments.
I think that these words that David wrote here when he wrote this 22nd Psalm, begins with the crying of the Christ at Calvary. "My God, my God, why has Thou forsaken Me?"
The reason that I chose this: Easter is just past, and the--the people are still feeling the impact of that great day of when God proved that Jesus was His Son, by raising Him up on the third day according to the Scriptures.
And in living, He was loved. The poet expressed it when he said,
 Living, He loved me; dying, He saved me;
 Buried, He carried my sins far away;
 Rising, He justified freely forever:
 Someday, He's coming--oh, glorious day!

L-10 And when He lived, He loved, because He was God; and God is love. And there can never be anyone who could love like Jesus loved. From the very first time His little baby hands stoked those pretty cheeks of His beautiful mother, He was love from that till He forgive His last enemy on the cross. He was God's expression of love. No one could love like Jesus. God being manifested in a little tiny Baby, come in order to take away the sins of the world.
And when you just speak of the word "Jesus," they's something about it means "love." That's what the world needs more today, is not a--a Jesus of some past tense, some Jesus of some high ethics, but a Jesus of love, that can be expressed in the Church of the Lord Jesus, especially as its members, one to another, ought to always greet one another in love.

L-11 In traveling, I think if there's any great thing that I've seen missing in the church today, to one of the greatest hindrance in the church today, there's--keep a revival back, is the lack of that godly love that Christ expressed when He was here on earth.
It's easy for you and I to love somebody that loves us. But Jesus didn't have that kind of love. He had God's love, and God loved His enemies. For God so loved the world; when the world was unlovable, God still loved the world.
It's a different, even in the expression in the--the words, the--the--a "phileo" love, like we have one for another. But the "agapao" love is a Divine love.
And if there's anything that I believe that would start a revival in Los Angeles, would be a time that we could all break down our different barriers and come together as Christians in love. That's the Pentecostals, the Baptists, and the Presbyterians. And all together we could be expressed to the world that we have love one for another.


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