Faith that worketh by Love

The privilege to be in his house today for the short time we have the thought of our message is faith which worketh by love. Faith which worketh by love. We speak about faith, but this time around we are talking about the face that wasn't on faith. And that is what matters to God.

What matters to God is the faith that walks with love. Sometimes we might have wondered to ask ourselves, I wonder what matters to God most? What matters to God most is love that matters to God, his faith that worketh by love. So love is the central for drawing attention to God.

So the faith that walketh by love. God cherishes so much. We are going to start by reading from the book of Galatians, chapter 5, verse 6. Galatians chapter 5, verse 6.

GalATians, chapter 5, verse 6. I read. For in Christ neither circumcision availeth anything nor uncircumcision, but faith which worketh by love. But faith which worketh by love in Christ Jesus.

Whether you are circumcised, it doesn't matter. Whether you are not circumcised, it doesn't matter whether you are white, it doesn't matter whether you are black, it doesn't matter. What matters is still fates that worketh by love. That is what Paul is saying here to the Galatians.

For in Christ Jesus, mindless circumstances avoid anything. It doesn't provide anything, it doesn't matter anything nor circumcision. Those things doesn't matter Anything before God but faith which more deaths with love. But faith which worketh with love.

So the Bible tells us that what matters is your faith that make you love others. The faith that make you love others. God cherishes it so much, it matters to us so much. What matters is not your accomplishments, it is not your achievements, it is not your position, it is not your fame, it is not your wealth, it doesn't interest God, it doesn't matter God what he felt, what he cherished us so much is the faith that makes you to love others.

That faith matters to God is out so 1/5 something we do. Yes, it's good to have those achievements. It's good to have the accomplishment. It doesn't matter before.

What matters is faith that make you love others. It is having a faith that causes you to love others. That is what God cherishes so much. So if you, if you miss that we have reached the most important nothing in your life, if you miss the faith that make you to love others, you have missed the most invaluable thing in your life.

Faith that walketh by love is what man has to God. Without spending much time. We are going to look at the first four reasons at least why love matters so much to God. Why love matters so much to God.

So if you, number one. If you don't live a life of love, then nothing you say matters to God. If you don't live a life of love, no matter what you say or say speak does not matter to God. Let us look at it in 1st Corinthians, chapter 13, 1 Corinthians, chapter 13, verse 1.

1St Corinthians, chapter 13, verse one. Whatever we speak will not sacrifice God for his love. Yes. First Corinthians, chapter 13, verse 1.

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels and have not style, I have become as a sounding brass and tinkling cymbal. I repeat this message again. Though I speak with the thoughts of men and of angels and have not charity, charity here means love. I am become as a sounding brass and a twinkling center.

We may speak in tongues, we may speak eloquently to before men, we may speak of angels. But all this speaking, all these values, all these communication powers or skills, if we have it without charity, if we have it without mouth, our speaking is like a sounding breath. That means it's like a noise. So that is what Paul is saying here.

Brethren, most times we are impressed by the eloquence of a speaker or the charisma of a leader. And that is why most of the churches you see today, because of this speaker, the preacher, the donor, the overseer is so much eloquent, how the power of words. You see people crowd there, you see people gather. They didn't gather because of the word of God, the love of God.

They gather because to hear from that person, just like those days, the comedians which used to speak, people pay money in. They go out there to go and hear what they are going to speak. He says here that whatever you are speaking, those people, whatever you are doing and it doesn't have a love of God is empty. So but God says here, I don't care how good communicator you are, I don't care how eloquent you are, I don't care how charismatic you are.

It doesn't matter to me. What matters is living a life of charity, living a life of charity and living a life of love. Our sermon today is faith which worketh by love, Faith which worketh by love. So if you are having the gift of speaking in tongues, having the gift of speaking, interpreting from the angels.

If it is without charity and love, it doesn't matter before God. So are you having a life? Are you living in a life of most? If you are not living, then nothing you speak, nothing you say will matter worse.

Without love is noise, just like the Paul said it here it is a sounding brass and a tinkling saber. A sounding brass and a tinkling samba Number two. If you don't have a life of love, not knowing, not knowing. If you don't have the life of love, not you not knowing the knowledge, the knowledge of God doesn't multiply.

My take on nothing you do without knowledge of God does not matter. If you look at the second verse we have, we are going to use this place we say number two, verse two of that place we read and First Corinthians 13, verse two. And though I have the gift of prophecy and understanding and understanding all mysteries and all knowledge. Yes.

So if you don't have love, but you have the knowledge, you have the understanding the mysteries. That is what Paul is saying here. And though I have a gift of prophecy and understanding of all mysteries and all knowledge, though I have all faith so that I could move mountain, I have not charity. I am nothing.

Even when your faith, you have your faith, your faith is strong, you can move mountain without love. That is why something that is telling us that faith which worketh by love, if you have that faith that worketh with love, you have something. But if you don't have the faith that worketh with all, you, you have nothing. No matter how knowledgeable you are, no matter how powerful you are in prophesying or understanding the mysteries that happen within the environment and you have no charity.

You are nothing. That is what this place is telling us. Brethren, we need to be very wise in this time. We are living in a world where knowledge is exploding.

We are living in a war that is changing. It's fast. Just like the bird of elder's message we read says fast. Changing innovators and inventors are being celebrated and they are highly recognized things.

We are finding technology that are making us work smarter because of knowledge. But one thing remain. We still have the same problem. Even for those technologies, before those innovation and inventions come into play.

We still have the problems that are confronting the world that remain unsolved. The problems of crime, abuse, prejudice, injustice, violence, hatred. All this knowledge, all these inventions have not solved these critical problems. Why?

It is because the world does not need knowledge anymore. What the world needs is love. What the world needs is love. The more we encroach into knowledge.

The more we expand in the knowledge, the more the problems keep emanating. But the day the world will embrace this word love, you will see the solutions to the problems of the world. You may be a genius, but God is saying today, if you don't have charity in your life, if you don't have love in your life, all you know, all your agendas, all your understanding is worthless. Is worthless.

Very dangerous to work towards our love. The faith which worketh by love, the faith which worketh by law. That is what that Colossians says in verse two. And though I have the gift of prophecy and the understanding of all mysteries and all knowledge, though I even have faith that can move mountains, and without charity, I am nothing.

And without charity, I am nothing. Number three, if you don't live a life of love, nothing you believe matters. Nothing you believe matters. That is why we are going into detail.

That is what these things we are reading in class two is saying. Even if we don't have the law of the life of love, and whatever we believe doesn't matter anymore, whatever we have been, because what we believe is a product of our knowledge and understanding, it doesn't matter anymore. So there is a myth that being a follower of Christ is just a matter of believing certain truth and doctrine. No, following Christ is living a life of love.

Following Christ is living a life of love is not to be following Christ. It doesn't mean to be following the doctrine or some certain tools. So following Christ is living a life of love. Brethren, it takes more than we need to please God.

It takes more than belief to please God. God changes love. And that is why the place we read In Galatians chapter 5, verse 6 told us, whether you are not circumcised, it doesn't matter. Whether you are not circumcised, it doesn't matter.

Whether you are black, it doesn't matter. What matters is faith that worketh my love. So when you shoot as a divine Christian, work towards loving one another genuinely, mouth by mouth. Number four, if you don't live a life of love, nothing you give matters.

Nothing you give matters if you are not living a life. This may be confusing, but when I break it down as let us read it in verse three of where we are reading, where we are reading now, First Corinthians 13:3. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned and have mortality, it profited me nothing. So even if you love, Even if you don't Love have that love.

And when you are giving, it doesn't matter that giving was accompanied with love. Sometimes we mistaken it. Love is not always motivated by giving. It's not always motivated for giving.

Some people just give. They give to get back. Because they say the givers never like. They just give based on that motivation that I will get back.

Some people give out of guilt. Yes, they give out of guilt if I don't give my daughter. Some people give just to have control of of the other people. Of the subject of the indigent person.

Some people give out of ego and prestige. Bible is telling us here that if you are doing it, if you are giving but you are not giving it with love, it is nothing, it profited nothing. That is what this place says. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor.

And though I give my body to the born. In fact you sacrifice to the extent that you deny yourself. But with that love, that is whenever you see charity, they are covered as love without love. So love should be the major driver of our giving.

When you give with love, you are giving cheerfully. So when you are giving without love, you are giving with comfort and giving. Because everybody one day we are the one in church. One of the one.

When I went to one of my colleagues, they were passing. The second one come again. I started calculating from CMS to this place. If I donate, I cannot.

I'm coming. So I refuse to say I do like this. Imagine you give because of envelope. Yeah, even because.

Profited not of the first one he gave. He gave it thinking the way our church does. We do first donation. We just exit.

Don't know that I do. Donation 1. Donation 2 donation 3. So imagine you don't.

You are given because you are at demise everybody. So which means if you have to 260 to take and give it a piece me like that so that you satisfy your soul. If you are giving it without love profited nothing. So you can give on your own.

No, that is what this place is saying. So let us understand the major driver of our giving. It should be by love. Bible says if you are not doing it with love, none of your giving will count.

None of your giving will comes. So were talking about the faith. The faith which worketh by love. We all speak about faith.

And when we speak about faith we are speaking about ability to endure bent things. Ability to endure. In our sicknesses you get healed. But whenever we are practicing faith.

When we are practicing faith. That is what Paul is writing here in Garrison. And to be quantity. If you are practicing faith.

Without love it means nothing. So for us to do things that matters to God, things that matters to God is the faith that worketh by love. For us to be able to be in line of things that matters to God, we must practice faith that works with God, that works with love. Let us read to close and I send First Corinthians, chapter 13, verse 13.

Chapter 13, verse 13. And now abide. And now. And now abided.

Faith, hope, charity. These three. But the greatest of this is charity. But the greatest of this is charity.

Should abide in faith. You should abide in good, you should abide in love. But among these three, the greatest is charity. The greatest is charity.

So whenever we have okay, now we have faith that come in. Yes, we prophesy faith. If our faith does not come with love, it's profited not. It doesn't matter before God.

So we should intensify this virtue of love. We should intensify the virtue of charity so that our face will be the one that God that matters before God. And when we call upon God, he answer us when we shout amafa. He claimed unto us this is what the word of the Lord is telling us.

What matters before God is charity. Faith that worketh with love. So that we focus on the things that matters with God. You know when we are in the office we are trying to get promoted.

We focus on the things that will enrich our appraiser. You select those things that enrich your appraisal score, you know those things does income those KPIs out. When you focus on those things you actually. So here if you want to.

If we want to focus on things that matter to God, we should have faith that have the virtue of love. Faith which worketh with love. This is the thought of our message this evening. May Almighty God add his richest blessing to this message in Jesus, precious man.