Building the House of God - the Many Wounds of Love - Part 1 — Phil Beach Jr.

Hearing the Word and Moving Forward With God

I'd like to share for a few moments something that the Lord has put on my heart, and I'm asking that We would all just be so very So very Sensitive to the Holy Spirit at this time because The Holy Spirit is going to address something in our lives listen.

There is not one single person that is exempt from what the Lord has put on my heart this morning. Every one of us needs to hear this and So I'm gonna pray now and ask God to give us ears to hear listen if we're gonna go on with God.

If anybody in this room here has any intention on moving on with God This truth It's gonna have to grab a hold of us and be wrought very deeply in us or there's no going on with the Lord. Actually guess what'll happen.

We'll go backwards Father. This is your word this morning. This is from your heart. I simply ask That you would open up the ears of our heart give us the capacity to hear and receive This word. We pray in the mighty name of your son Jesus Christ, I pray God that the word the truth the light would expose the strategy and Scheme of the wicked one and cast it out of our hearts and out of our minds today.

If any of us has fallen Trap to his strategy. I'm asking in the name of Jesus Christ Amen and amen now this is a Continuation of the building of the house of God. We've been on this for weeks and weeks and weeks now listen this.

The Many Wounds of Love

No, we don't have too much time. So I won't get too far. We'll continue this. This is the subtitle this morning listen the many wounds of Of love the many wounds of love. Now listen this message was so birthed into my heart over Months and months.

The Lord has been working this in me and finally he released it and it's very unlikely We'll get done with it in one Sunday, but I want to tell a story that I heard While the Lord was working this release in me.

That's so confirmed this truth the many wounds of love. I Heard a dear sister Interviewed some of you may have heard about this a dear sister interviewed on the radio a few weeks ago. Her and her husband have for many many years have had a burden in taking little unwanted children into their homes.

Some of the children were crack babies some of the children simply came from Dysfunctional homes. Some of the children were abandoned by their mother and their father. They've been doing this for decades this older couple.

Currently, they are not only doing this but they're establishing an adoption agency right out of their home. They're trying to work with the state So that they can take these little children and they can become an agency through which these children can find homes Where moms and dads will love them.

It's not wonderful now listen carefully. During the interview The host or the interviewer asked this lady a very candid question. He said tell me Don't you become quite? Attached To the little children.

Vulnerable. How do you feel after you have bonded? Over a year a year and a half. You've opened up your heart. You've opened up your very being. You change the baby's diaper at night. You hold it you rock it to sleep.

How do you feel? When a crack mother comes barging into your house and says that's my baby. And you have absolutely no legal right to hold that child and There you watch her come up to you grab that child out of your arms and Walk out of the house.

How do you feel? There was silence. The radio program you know one thing you try not to do is have dead time always keep things move. There was there was dead time like dead time and you knew That this dear dear saint was quietly sobbing and Here's what she said and these are the words That the Holy Spirit wrote upon the tablets of my heart as the seal the final work that this word Was being released out of my own spirit to share it.

Here's what she said, and I'm paraphrasing. I don't have a photographic memory. I don't remember the verbatim, but here's the gist of what she said. She said sir sobbing I have many many scars in my heart and many wounds because That's the nature of love you see sir.

Love Gives Without Expecting Anything in Return

She goes on to say Love keeps giving and giving and giving and giving and Doesn't expect anything In return and she said the true nature of love will incur wound after wound after wound and Then she said but we don't Give up.

Because love never Fails. Love never fails. Anyone who says yes to the Lord Jesus Christ and to his word? Will by fact by by virtue of saying yes to the Lord Jesus Christ and Receiving Christ as your life.

You are called to fellowship listen in the suffering of God's love the suffering of God's love. Resulting in the many wounds of God's love. The warfare that is right now being engaged against the believer who loves Jesus Christ.

Closing the Heart Against the Pain of Love

The group of believers who love the Lord Jesus Christ, here's the warfare right here. It is a warfare Coming against us day and night. Here's what it is. He brings us the enemy brings us to the place where we see the wounds.

We see the hurts. We see the misunderstandings. We feel the pain. We sense the scars. We feel the rejection. The abuse and we begin to say it's not worth it. It's not worth it. I Am going to get out. Now we might not Say I'm going to leave the Lord.

We might not say I'm going to denounce the faith. But what we do is We close our heart to the flow of love. So that we no longer have to become Vulnerable to the pain and the sorrow and the wounds that come when we're governed by love we close our hearts and We say I can't handle it anymore.

I don't want to deal with it. I've been hurt one too many times and now it's over with. Do you know why? Satan is sifting the Christian Church husbands and wives because. Somebody in the relationship gets tired of being wounded for love's sake.

See because love gives and gives and gives and gives and Then it's hurt because it gives. It's misunderstood. It's not appreciated, but it doesn't mind it keeps giving and giving and giving. But do you know what happens when we in our humanity touch that love we say no way.

We can't do it. We can't Do it. Have you? Experienced the wounds and the scars of God's love. This morning now, let's not God speaking to us right now. I know he is. What have you done? What have you done?

What are you doing? Are you closing up? You're closing your heart brothers and sisters. For God so loved The world that he came and was mocked. Ridiculed. Spit upon rejected. Betrayed. Taken advantage of.

Had his beard plucked out. Had a crown of thorns placed on his head. Was taken Nailed to a cross. Was plunged with a sword. The wounds of love. Isaiah 53. Turn there if you will, please father. Thank you for your word.

Christ’s Suffering and the Healing Balm of God

Thank you for being the healing balm of Gilead in our midst. Beloved there is a the healing of Jesus Christ is present today and God is going to bring healing and restoration into The hearts into the depths of our spirits this morning through this healing word.

Listen carefully this Isaiah 53. Who hath believed our rapport and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant and as a root out of dry ground. He hath no form or comeliness.

There was nothing about the Lord Jesus that was outwardly beautiful. There was nothing about the Lord Jesus that made him appealing or attractive by the natural eye and Instead of trying to wrap himself up in the religious garments of his day in order to lessen the reproach and lessen the Rebuke and lessen the misunderstanding.

He just stood naked spiritually before all men. Not attractive nothing outwardly beautiful. Big listen becoming vulnerable to people's rejection. How often do we try and take the reproach? Of the Simplicity of the of the life of Jesus Christ flowing through our life by dressing ourself up in something.

To make it look good. Now. Listen to this. He is despised and rejected of men. For God so loved the world that he sent his only Son so that he could be despised and rejected. Of men, did you ever read that into John 3 16.

Because it's part of the package. It's part of the package. Brothers and sisters, please listen to the Spirit of God and the Word of God this morning if We follow on to know the Lord we will walk in the love of God and we will experience more and more and more the wounds and the scars That are being incurred upon Christ every day.

Because he continues to serve. Even though he gets hurt he's despised and rejected of men. A man of sorrows and Acquainted with grief. Do you know what the word acquainted there means? To be intimately familiar with.

Intimately familiar with to the point where you call grief your close intimate companion and friend. Now do we want to follow this Jesus. Do we want to hear this Jesus call us? Do we want to suffer? Together with this Jesus.

Fellowship in the Sufferings of Christ

You see Paul had a passion that governed his life beloved that I might know him. The power of his resurrection. The fellowship of his sufferings. What is the fellowship of his sufferings. The fellowship of his sufferings is to be spit upon?

It's to be abused. Is to be taken advantage of. It's to be rejected and yet to say father I Forgive them. You can't say that. I Can't say that. Until God penetrates the depths of our fleshly heart and breaks it and crushes it and Brings it down to dust and out of that dust he arises Something he birthed something of his own character in us that enables us to look at those who have wounded and scarred and betrayed.

Be able to say not only do I forgive you but I continue to love and Serve you the building of the house of God. The true house of God will be built with a love That will be filled with wounds and scars And pain and affliction That fell upon us.

Dying to Human Love and Self-Interest

Because we died to our human love which by the way only serves when there's something in it for it. Most love when I say I love you Mike. I don't love Mike. I love myself and I only love Mike. Because Mike makes me feel good about myself.

But as soon as Mike does something That makes me feel bad or betrayed or hurt I Might love him with my lips. Something happens in my heart. What happens? I've been found out. I Really didn't love Mike.

See, we're in love with ourself and our commitment to others hangs upon something. We're getting out of it. That's the depths of you. That's the depths of human depravity. Right there, I know this is a horse pill.

I Know it is Meaning hard to swallow. I know it is Husbands every one of us Have to come to grips with the fact that before we really love our own wives as Christ loves the church. We have to realize that we're really in love with ourself.

And that's why we fail in our love toward our wife. That's why we fail Wives the same thing and it's not until we come to grips with the fact that we don't have the goods in ourself. We need it. We need it from Jesus Christ.

We need to die to ourself die to our own love die to our own depravity. We have to admit the fact that we're not willing. We're not willing To be filled with a love that gets wounded. We're not willing.

We don't want we resent it. And then we harbor bitterness. That's where bitterness comes from and Unforgiveness. It's the whole mess of human love being offended and hurt and wounded and If you hold on to that, it'll it'll dry you up spiritually.

It'll kill you. It'll kill your marriage. It'll kill your relationship with your children. It'll kill your relationship with with your your in-laws. It'll kill your relationship with other members of the body of Christ it'll destroy you it'll eat you up like a canker like a cancer and Jesus Christ is standing in our midst this morning through his word and through his Holy Spirit and he's saying Give it to me.

Give me your bitterness. Your unforgiveness. He was despised and we esteemed him not. He bore our griefs carried our sorrows. Yet we did esteem him stricken smitten of God he was wounded. Brothers and sisters, are we saying it?

Following Christ Through Wounding and Rejection

He was wounded first. John 2 6 as He is so are we in this world? He was wounded. How well are you doing being wounded? How well are you doing? What do you do when you're wounded. What do you do when you follow his steps and you open your heart up to someone and They betray you and they hurt you.

Where's Jesus? He was wounded. He was bruised. The punishment of our peace was upon him. Psalm 69. The Bible is full of this Intimate suffering that Christ endured that few of us know anything about. But you know Christ is longing to share this fellowship With his brothers and sisters.

He's longing to share it. Listen to this. Save me. Oh God for the waters are come in Upon my soul. Would you go the second mile with someone to the point where you feel like the waters are? Overflowing you and you're drowning or would you say enough is enough.

I'm getting out of this. This is too much. You're gonna go that far, you know what we do we plot and plan a way to get out. We don't want that. We don't want that. But guess what brothers and sisters?

We're called to walk in it. If we're if we're bearing his name. We don't have the right to say I Don't want this Lord. Didn't Jesus say as the master as the master is so are we? Every single man here should be ashamed of himself.

Every man here should be ashamed of himself because The Lord has found us out and we realize. How weak? How little we really know of this love. In our capacity simply to love our own wives. The way Christ loved the church every one of us should be devastated and Beg God to show us this love.

I Sink in deep mire where there is no standing. I've talked to couples. They've said I can't. I can't take it anymore Phil. My husband or my wife. They just don't love me. They don't treat me right. They don't respect me.

They don't honor me. I Sink in deep mire where there is no standing. I come into deep waters where the floods overflow me. I am weary of my crying. My throat is dry. My eyes fail while I wait for my God.

The wounds of love the wounds the bruises of love. Brothers and sisters, there's no other way. There's no other Way. We could go on but I realize our time is over. Verse 9 the zeal by house have eaten me up and the reproaches of them that reproach me.

Healing, Forgiveness, and Continuing in Love

They are fallen upon me. Okay, I realize we have to we have to close now and so. What we're going to do now. In the presence of the Lord is we're going to ask the Lord Jesus to perform his word. There is a healing present right now, listen, the waters are stirring I I Want to emphasize this?

For some of us listen, we are at a crisis right now. Listen carefully. Some of us are at a crisis right now. We have been swallowed in grief bitterness hurt. We've dried up on The inside we're drying up.

It's affected many relationships in our life family friends Extended family and today Jesus is offering healing. He's offering healing. Will you? Stretch forth Your withered hand and say Lord Heal me heal me.

Empower me to live in the fullness of your love wounds and All but to keep going on father. I pray you'll bring this healing to every one of us in the mighty name of Jesus Christ without any music everyone together as we close this out.

Same song we sang this morning Jesus be Father. I pray that every plan seed thought that has come into our mind some of us have been right on the verge of following through with a plan to get out of the thing that has been causing us pain and Now today in the mighty name of Jesus, I pray that plan will be destroyed and That we will be energized by the love of God not only to forsake that plan But to embrace love and go on in the power of Jesus Christ.

Amen, and amen. God bless each and every one we're gonna touch on this again because this is only the surface. Please take one of these You.