<TITLE>04. Par 12-15</TITLE>L-12 I was speaking today coming down with Brother Moore. I said, "Take like the love of--of the love, a natural love, affectionate love, called "phileo" love. Godly love's "Agapao." But in a phileo love, you go out... You see Mary and Martha. You're going with Martha, say, and--and you find Mary. There's something about Mary that's different from Martha, though Martha's the prettiest; but yet you love Mary the best. (Now, if there's a Mary or Martha here, I don't... I'm just using that as a... you know.) So... But you find it's the girl that you love--there's something about her, soon as you see her, you know you love her.
You think, "Oh, my, if I could only just get one date with that girl." Well, finally you do. You think it'd satisfy that feeling. It doesn't. Then you think, "If I could go with her steady, that would do it." Finally you get to go with her steady. It doesn't. "If she'd just let me kiss her good night sometime, that would do it." But finally that happens, and it doesn't. "Well, if she'd marry me, I know it would do it." It doesn't.
Even family relationship, you love her so much, feel like you could pull her all the way through you, and reach back and pull her back again, trying--trying to... That's a rude expression. I didn't mean it like that. See? But I--I mean... What I'm trying to say, you love her, love her, love her; there's no place you can find... What is it? She's part of your soul. She's part of you. That's right.

L-13 That's--that's... And if... That's the way God is. When you come and find Christ in your heart, there's no place you can stop. You just keep moving on, just needing that, needing this thing, that thing. It's "The love of God, how rich and pure, how fathomless and strong. It shall forevermore endure, the saints and angels song." Oh, I... People trying to measure God's love.
One of them wrote.
If we with ink the ocean fill,
And was the skies of parchment made;
Every stalk on earth a quill,
And every man a scribe by trade;
To write the love of God above
Would drain the ocean dry (My.);
And could the scroll contain the whole,
Though stretched from sky to sky.
What the love of God is... So that's what we believe in: love one another.

L-14 John, after he returned from the Isle of Patmos out in the Aegean Sea, only thing he could say was, "Little children, love one another." He found there was something real. And that was the disciple that wanted to call fire down on the city, and burn them up 'cause they wouldn't give him nothing to eat. But how Christ got a hold of him and let Him know, "You don't know what kind of a spirit you are," he said, "trying to destroy life. We come to save life." That's what we have to have, is love for one another.

L-15 In my ministry since I've seen you, I've been practically over the world: several trips overseas, seven or eight trips amongst heathens and everywhere. And I find this: that the most forceful thing I can think of is love. If I'm praying for a person, if I can't have the feeling of that person upon my heart, it never works.
When I think, what if I was standing in their place, what if that was my baby, what if that was my mother, my wife, my sister, my brother? When You feel the way for them, then something begins to move out. Compassion goes out and catches the patient, brings them back. Now, friends, I know that God loves you.


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