Bryce Carver
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard Mar 2025
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We live in a society today that defines love as conditions. Well, I'll choose to love you when you choose to love me. False. Jesus Christ shows us a love that has never been exemplified for, that has never been lived out before, and that's this unconditional love.
I mean, Christ lays his life down on the cross knowing that the gift he is offering is going to be denied by some, and yet he still does it. The offer's on the table for everyone. That is unconditional, without strings attached.
The love Christ shows us and the love that we are called to show other people is a love that has zero strings attached, is a love that if we give it, we must come to terms with the fact that we may never get that love back. That's the love that Christ is asking us to show other people when he says, love your neighbor as yourself.
The very love that we've been shown is a love with no strings attached. And the very love that we begin to show other people is one with no strings attached, which is very hard to come around on. So James says, steer away from partiality. Don't just show favoritism. And that's why I love the passage in Matthew chapter 25, where there's the comparison of the sheep and the goats.
And then Jesus is something very important here. He says, for I was hungry and you gave me food. For I was thirsty and you gave me a drink. For I was naked and you clothed me. What you do to the least of these, you do unto me. That passage in Matthew 25 says, put a massive fear of the Lord in my life because it made me go, dang.
We are naturally taught growing up not to interact with the homeless man. We are naturally taught growing up not to interact with people that smell nasty, don't have shoes on their feet, all of these things.
Yet when we walk by them today, after reading that passage, I'm looking at these men and women who may be homeless or less fortunate, or maybe it's friends at school or coworkers that are going through a hard time or retaliating in life and making bad decisions. And I look at those people and I go, man, that's someone's son, daughter. And to be quite frank, they're God's children.
They're made in his image. And if they would just know the love that was out there for them, maybe it would, maybe it would change their heart. Cause like oftentimes these outward expressions of suffering and, and outward expressions of retaliation come from a place of I'm on a quest for love right now and nothing's working. So what is love?
Well, 1 John tells us, anyone that does not love does not know God because God is love. God is the ultimate definition of love. His essence, his character, it was displayed on the cross. It was displayed in his servanthood. That's why Jesus says, the healthy don't need a doctor. I came to help the sick because the sick need a doctor.
This love that is shown is a love that has never been expressed before in the physical realm until Jesus Christ came on earth. And then he actually showed us that the very love that is described in God's character is possible for human beings to reciprocate to other human beings through the strength of his spirit.
And Paul actually writes something very profound here, which I think really sums up the definition of what it means to love your neighbor more. He says, love is patient and kind. Love does not envy or boast. It is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way. It is not irritable or resentful. It does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth.
Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love endures.
never ends why is it now in today's society when the world is going to crap or things are going down that we always go to the worst extreme in our brain like like something is going on and something is happening and going on in the world or in society and we decide to take things to the ultimate extreme of Oh my goodness, something's happening at school.
So this person is gossiping about me and hates me and this, this and that. So we take it. So we hold grudges against these people and we do all of these things when in reality, like it says, love hopes all things, despite what our brain can convince us of a situation. Love believes the best in people. Love believes the best in a situation. Love is able to see the light in the midst of a dark time.
Love does this extraordinary thing, and it cancels the debt that has been placed on an earth or in a situation or things. That's the forgiveness of the cross. That's the love of the cross. Instead of it saying, no, Bryce, no, my son, no, my daughter, you've got to work your way to me. Christ's love says, I'm going to cancel the debt.
And I love the NLT translation because it says, love keeps no record of wrong. We're in society today. We hold grudges based on the junk that people have done. And people's junk is like a naughty list that we stack up against them. But then when we reflect on our own life, we're more tolerant of our own junk than other people. So when other people are doing us wrong, we're harsh on them.
But then when we do someone else wrong and they're harsh back to us, we wish that we had this grace that we didn't dish out ourselves. And Paul says, no, actually love keeps no record of wrong. Love looks past the junk. Love looks past the grudges. Love looks past the times that are gonna continue to happen when people do you wrong.
It looks past all that, looks at the heart, looks at the human and sees something more than just their actions. It sees that they are made in the image of God and they're valuable. And man, I just want them to know That my love and God's love has no strings attached. And how can people in today's society know the love of God if we're not reciprocating this love through the strength?
Because this is possible. It is possible to reciprocate the love of Christ. With the strength of God's spirit in our body, we can actually reciprocate this love that has zero strings attached to bring souls to Christ, to know this love. I mean, it's like, man, how can human beings know this love of Christ that seems so strong?
so unrealistic, so unfathomable, and as Judah Smith said, so scandalous. How can this love be so true and vulnerable? And we can actually display this love through the strength of His Spirit so that people can know this reality. Loving your neighbor as yourself is deeper than you.
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