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Love · Fostering Faith

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  Hello and welcome to Fostering Faith. Today on episode 10 we'll be talking about love.
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  And this is going to be our last podcast for this season and so we have some
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  exciting news that we are going to encourage people to stay tuned for for
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  you subscribe and leave us a review and so that we can help spread the word
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  across the world because it's about spreading the gospel and allowing people
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  to feel the love through this podcast. So how's your week been Gia? Good. Anything
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  new and exciting? No. How's your first week of school? Good.
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  Good. And so what are we gonna talk about today? Love. Why love? I don't know because God put it on my heart to talk about it.
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  And I do have some questions for you so would you want to answer them? Sure.
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  Alright. Why is love so big in the Bible? The Bible is God's breath and and God is
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  love and so you we wouldn't know what love is without God and so I think
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  that's why it's such a huge thing with the Bible is because God is love and if
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  we get in a relationship with God we would know and under fully understand
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  what love is. my second question is where do you think love is on like a
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  scale like of greatness in the Bible? Well considering it's the greatest
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  command is to love the Lord with all your heart and with all your soul and
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  with all your mind this is the first and greatest commandment next to the law of
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  loving your neighbor as you love yourself. How do you feel love is? Why do
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  you feel like it's important? I feel like it's important because it can be such a
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  big like thing for us and everything. Do you feel like other people get love in
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  other places? It depends. Where do you think youth turns for love? Friends. I
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  feel like. Where else do they try to find love? Social media. And what about social
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  media? What about why would someone turn to love on social media? Like followers
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  and like likes everything and like comments. Okay. Where can adults turn for
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  love? I don't know where do you think adults turn for love a lot? I think people get a
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  falsehood of love of money. They just like kids do they want attention they
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  want followers they want social media and they feel like that can fill a hole
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  and so a lot of that's where I think a lot of addictions come in because
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  they're trying to fill it like with drugs or food looking at people with
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  that lens of well if I just get more I'll feel more loved or I have more
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  followers I'm loved and so it's a false sense of what real love is. I do feel
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  like that's been a huge issue in in society is that people are looking for
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  and I think it may be even a song looking for love in all the wrong places.
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  What what can you tell our listeners about just how to dive into Scripture?
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  Like where would you tell them to turn to about love? I feel like 1st John like
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  3 and 4 have a lot of love in it. I feel like like literally almost every verse
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  but not all of them or like have love in them. Mm-hmm. I feel like that's a good
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  place for it. Yeah and a great 1st Corinthians 13 4 through 8 it kind of
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  gives you the definition of what love is and it says love is patient, love is kind,
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  love does not envy or boast, is not arrogant or rude, it does not insist on
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  its own way, it is not irritable, it is not resentful, it does not rejoice at
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  wrongdoings but rejoices with truth, love bears all things, believes in all things,
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  hopes in all things, endures all things, love never ends. As the prophecies they
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  will pass, as for tongues they will cease, as for knowledge they will pass
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  away and so it kind of just encompasses everything that love is. Do you want to
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  tell the listeners kind of what our verse is for fostering faith? It is 1st John
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  4 19 we love because he loved first. I feel like because he loved us so much
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  first that he created us I feel like we should love him too. And that he fills us up
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  with so much love is that we get to pour out to other people and we are so
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  enriched with his grace and mercy and what because we are followers of Christ
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  what is that gift that he's given us? He gave us a lot of gifts but a gift from
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  God is love. And because of you know Christ died and and whenever you accept
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  Christ as your Lord and Savior you get a helper and whenever you have the helper
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  what do you get? The Holy Spirit. Uh-huh and what are the gifts of the Holy
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  Spirit? A lot. What are they? The is it the fruits of the Spirit? Yeah love, joy, peace,
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  patience, kindness, gentleness, and self-control. What else? And so that being
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  the first fruit of the Spirit which was love, how do you feel like that's
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  important? Why would he put that as the first fruit of the Spirit? Because God is
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  love and everything and that's like a big thing. Mm-hmm and even in John 15 12 it
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  says this is my commandment that you love one another as I have loved you.
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  Jesus just he loved so well and and then that's what we're supposed to try to
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  emulate is just to be more like Jesus more Christ-like and we have the
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  opportunity every day that he gives us breath in our lungs. What are your some
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  of your favorite verses? Um one of my favorite verses is 1st John 4 21 and he
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  has given us this command anyone who loves God must also love their brother
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  and sister. That means like you shouldn't not love someone like you always love
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  them. What happens if they're annoying? Still have to love them. You don't have to be
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  friends with them but you still have to love them. What happens if they hurt you? Still have to love them like
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  Jesus would. Okay what happens if you really don't want to? How can you how can
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  you love someone that you don't even like? Um I feel like because we we don't
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  have to we get to love someone. We got to be like born into and got the gift that
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  we get to love like people and like get to feel these feelings. It's just a
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  blessing. Mm-hmm the yeah we get to have these feelings because God's giving us
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  breath in our lung and he's given us a chance to love that person but I think
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  too whenever we think about someone that has irritated us or we're annoying and
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  like how could I forgive that person and I think it's just kind of take that step
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  back in to look at God and look at everything that we've done to him and
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  how we miss the mark every day and how we sin and we repent and we go back to
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  that same sin and we repent and he still loves us. He's never turned his back on
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  us. We can never earn his love and so looking at people through the lenses of
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  how Christ looks at you and I and we have missed the mark and yet he still
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  loves us. Who am I not to love someone or judge somebody and so my job is just to
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  be that reflection of Christ and knowing he loves me in my messes. He loves me
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  whenever I've lied. He's loved me whenever I have him completely off course
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  and yet he has still loved me and so therefore I have to love that person.
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  Okay one of my questions is what is love to you? It's a feeling of peace. It's a
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  feeling of... Just give us an example of what you love and why. I mean I love you. I
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  love your dad. I love just the Lord above all else and so I think that's really
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  important for the listeners is that we have to make sure that we love the Lord
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  above all people, above our spouse, above our kids because we have to put that put
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  the Lord first. What are some things that you love? I love God because that's
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  my first priority. My second priority will be basketball. I love basketball so
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  much. I feel like my friends would, my family would be third and my friends
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  would be fourth and then track would be fifth. Okay. And then my pets would be
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  sixth. Okay. What are some what are some practical ways that people could just
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  learn how to love God? Reading the Bible I feel like it's a good way to start
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  and like just studying it and like praying to Him. What happens if someone
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  feels kind of overwhelmed with just opening up scripture and just I don't
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  know where to start. Where could someone start? Do they have to read for an
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  hour a day? Do they have to read just one verse a day? Like where could
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  people start? If you download the Bible app and you go into plans there's like
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  plans and you can look up love and there's like a lot of plans that you can
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  do for seven days, 31 days and it usually just takes up at least 20 or 30 minutes
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  of your day and like there's a video and everything and that's how I do my Bible
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  stuff, do a plan. And you can invite friends to do it. You can invite your
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  parents to do it if they are believers. If not just just walking with that 10-15
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  minute conversation with the Lord every day and I encourage you just even in
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  class before your feet have even hit the floor in the morning just give God
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  thanks and we you know we thank Him for that day and just having those normal
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  conversations you don't have to be fancy but just knowing that if even if no one
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  has ever loved said that they loved you that you are loved that you do have a
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  Heavenly Father in heaven and He loves you. He created you for a reason and you
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  are here today listening to this podcast for a reason. It's because you were loved
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  you're made for a purpose and we have the opportunity to be able to spread that
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  love of Christ through this podcast and spread it all over the world and so we
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  are just so thankful that we get this opportunity. What do you have to say for
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  the listeners for this next coming up season? Are you excited about it? We have
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  some special guests gonna come on next season and then also too we have
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  partnered with our favorite apparel store Monroe Dean. They do custom apparels and
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  they are going to make some custom apparels for Fostering Faith and so
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  those will be available on our website on YouTube. There'll be a storefront and
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  well there will be a link in this description and so as we end our first
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  season we want to thank you again for listening and tune in. Rate review helps
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  spread that word. I think that's how the podcast gets traction even more and so
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  reaching you know tens of thousands hundreds of thousands of people each
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  week each month each year just to spread the gospel and the love of Christ is our
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  goal and so I think that we should pray. Do you want to end the season with prayer?
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  Yeah dear God thank you for our sake. Thank you for everything you've given us. I pray
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  that you give us the opportunity to love people and that you love us you know if
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  we sin and we do anything and if someone doesn't get love at home or anything
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  like that but you love them so much and Jesus I pray amen. Amen and so thank you
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  so much for turning into season one we will see you in season two. Bye!