Perfect Love Without Fear (Part 2) – Receiving God’s Love

I come back to the most important thing I’ve got to say. Except for the last point, forget it all. There is no reason for fear. Brothers and sisters, throw yourselves on the Lord. You know, I’m down to this point; I’m down to gambling on you. May I challenge you? If the Lord will not love you, leave the Christian faith. If that love is not as passionate as I’ve said it is, ask for your money back. I have something here, sisters and brothers, and it is genuine, and it’s real. Forget what I’ve said, and please forget me, and don’t be stumbled by me. Come to the Lord, look at Him, and look at nothing else but Him. And know that He is literally burning to pour love on you.

There’s no reason for fear. You have a right to that love. May I say, you deserve that love? What have I ever done to deserve it? Nothing. It was what He did that allows you to deserve it. He says, “You deserve it.”

I am calling the church to a deep mystical experience with Christ; deeper than any other emotion you have.  I stood here one night, two months ago; do you remember it? I talked about having a passion for Christ. I said an emotion deeper than any feeling your body has ever been capable of having. To know Him with an emotion, a sense deeper than anything else you’ve ever known. He desires such a relationship with you. Your spirit is more powerful than your soul or your body.

Brothers and sisters, I want you to know that His love is a consuming thing, and it can be experienced to the point that it burns out virtually everything else. I believe it will burn everything else out. I would say it has, it does, but I can only speak from what I have experienced. It is burning everything else out.

What does it call for? I’d say it calls for a deep sensitivity to Christ, but I’m not going to say that. I want to say it takes a consciousness of Christ throughout the day; I’m not going to say that. I want to say it takes a coming to Him early in the morning; I’m not going to say that. I’m going to say it takes a Mary Magdalene who sees Him, runs to Him, clutches Him, and doesn’t let go.

I don’t know how to tell you to receive the Lord’s love. I don’t know how to tell you to be loved by Him. But I can tell you one thing: you know how…if you look long enough. He has come as a passionate Lover, and you are His only hope. He’s looking for a girl to love; you’re His only possibility. If you let Him down, He has nowhere to go. You have to drop your human history and say, “Lord, for your sake I believe that I’m worthy of being loved.” And throw yourself on Him.

I cannot show you how to love the Lord or be loved by Him, but I think nearly everyone in this room has begun to taste that wine. I have only one more thing to say to you: it’s a much stronger wine than you have realized so far. You know how strong it is? Do you know how strong it is? It’s as strong as you can believe it to be. It can be that strong and no stronger…but it can be that strong. I’ll tell you how strong it is: it’s strong enough for you to be loved by Jesus Christ with all the passion with which God is capable of pouring out.