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Dan Mohler on Becoming Love
Grace Meets Faith
418 [Context: While teaching on communing with the Lord
though reading the Bible and prayer, Dan gives an example of what communing in
prayer looks like. Then he talks about what happens through communing in
prayer.] You read that [verse] and you begin to pray this way and have
communion with God, it’s amazing how Holy Spirit will meet you there. How -
sometimes you will leave the room and it will feel like you just talked a lot about
what you… but here’s the thing. He’s expanding your heart with understanding.
You’re getting more out of the word. You’re not just reading it to get through
it. It’s becoming alive to you. All of the sudden it becomes a part of who you
are. Now you’re embracing it as truth and now truth is making you free. So you
are leaving your bedroom [where you just prayed] and you’re coming out of your
bedroom transformed by spending time in Him. Why? Because you’re releasing
faith in an area and when you release faith, grace comes to meet that faith and
begins to mold and etch you. Grace is, like, what fashions you. Grace is the
workmanship and the craftsmanship of God. It’s His skillful hand working inside
of you to make you like Him. That’s what grace does. Grace is God’s ability, it’s
God’s power and He’s willing to use it on your behalf to make you look like
Him. So he [an example student] is releasing faith in his value to God, in his
love life [relationship with God] and the ability to see people through God’s
eye. And that when he sees the world… “I see what You see Father because we are
one. You have put yourself in me and You are the one who looks through my eyes.
And You are causing me to see the world with the value they possess in Your
heart.” Sitting praying that - right - he can’t read on love and just go out
and do it. As he’s praying this way Holy Spirit is doing a work - it’s
supernatural - you’re saved by grace through faith. Who gets the glory? Come on
we’re not self made. He’s not going to just give some big trophies and some
little trophies and some no trophies. Hey you know, “Wow, what a great
Christian - hey, now I just want to introduce to the heavenlies super Christian”
- you know? No, what makes us amazing is that He’s amazing and we’ve yielded to
Him and His Spirit is working effectually in us... We know what we are, is by
the grace of God. Before the gospel came into my life I didn’t even care about
you. Be real. I didn’t even care about you. And if I had anything to do with
you there would’ve been something in it for me, whether just our relationship
made me feel better, dependency was filled in something or whatever. But it had
nothing to do with valuing you - before Christ. It had nothing to do with
valuing you. And it’s only the gospel that changes you on the inside and causes
you to see the value of people, to where all of the sudden you’re not mad and
angry and frustrated with people - judgmental - and on the inside there’s not
envy and pride and comparison - where on the inside you actually look and you
love people. Why? Because you have become one with Love and you’ve taken the
time to let Him cultivate your heart by releasing faith and saying, “I want
this.” You see? When you do that, that’s communion. Grace comes and says, “OK.”
He changes your eye by showing you something different [from the Word]. You
agree to it, and then He changes the way you see. He shows you [that] there’s
another way to look. You say, “Yeah.” And then He says, “OK.” - Dan Mohler1
111 [Context: prayer to the Father] “I thank you that you
have changed my life forever. And you never made for anger, frustration,
bitterness, jealousy, pride - they were the things I became when Adam ate the
tree. I was born into that lie but I’m born again now. And Father, openly I
just put those off before your presence. And I say they were never my created
value. They’re not my desire nor my will. And Father, I thank you that you are
making me like you and I thank you, you are love. Holy Spirit have your way in
me.” And all of the sudden as you release faith in the truth, the grace of
change comes upon your life. And all of the sudden Holy Spirit makes you what
you could never be in your own strength. And all of the sudden all glory goes
to Him because you’re not self made. You didn’t bite your lip to change.
Because if you bite your lip to change who found that you failed? But if you
trust yourself to Him, His grace is sufficient for you. And you are what you
are by the grace of God. You’re saved by grace through faith - no faith, no
grace - release faith, grace, the etching tool of God, it comes and sculpts you
and shapes you and makes you what you believe is possible. - Dan Mohler2
Receive God’s Love and Become God’s Love
114 So listen, “Teacher, what’s the greatest commandment?” (Or
Jesus even asks that.) And there is a fellow that says to, “Love the Lord your
God with all your heart and your soul and your strength.” What does Jesus say
the second commandment is - the greatest commandment? “Love your neighbor as
yourself.” And He says, “It’s like the first,” didn’t He? He like intertwines
them. He says there are two but they’re really one - just become love. Receive
the love of God and love God because He first loved you. Receive that love and
become that love and love your neighbor as you see God loves you. So you look
in the mirror and go, “Whoa, you’re so awesome. You’re created in God’s image
and He loves to love and live in you.” And all of the sudden you see people and
you realize that they are the created value of God and they have the potential
and destiny of God. And all of sudden you realize there are no throw aways. It
doesn’t matter how they’re acting - where their attitude is - they just don’t
understand. They’re created in God’s image. They just don’t realize it. They’re
letting everything else eat their lunch. But if you weigh a man, or even a book
by its cover - or you weigh a man by his outward actions, you’re going to going
to sell him short. You judge with outward judgment. You judge with righteous
judgment. If God judged us with outward judgment we wouldn’t be sitting here
with His Spirit in us. - Dan Mohler3
Seeing Others as God Sees Them
215 We have to be careful in the way that we’re seeing
people. And the way we’re seeing people is going to determine how we live our
lives toward them and stuff and how we handle some things, right? So we’ve been
covering this the whole school, the more identity we receive this way [from
God], the more healthy we see ourselves, the more we’re going to love our
neighbor as ourselves. You have to understand that God didn’t come and love you
because you were doing everything right. God loves you because He knows who He
created you to be - you follow me? He’s pursuing the fulfillment of who He
created you to be… And He paid a price to redeem that truth. Once we fully
receive that truth, then what? Then we can begin to see others through that
very truth. - Dan Mohler4
Notes:
1. Grace meets faith - grace is the etching tool of God - Dan Mohler (4:18)
2. Grace meets faith - example of praying - Holy Spirit makes you what you could not become - (1:11)
3. Greatest commandments - 1st intertwined with 2nd - become love - Dan Mohler (1:14)
4. Seeing others as God sees them - God is pursuing the fulfillment of who He created - (2:15)