Title
unnoticed 未被察觉
Date
05/18/2025
Description
1 John 4:19: Our love for others is our grateful response to the love God first demonstrated to us.
约翰一书 4:19: 我们爱，因为上帝先爱了我们。 (page 1981)
Prov 11:25: A generous person will prosper; whoever refreshes others will be refreshed.
箴言 11:25: 慷慨好施的必得昌盛，恩待他人的必蒙恩待。(pg 1049)
1 Cor 13:7: Love is a safe place of shelter, for it never stops believing the best for others. Love never takes failure as defeat, for it never gives up.
歌 林 多 前 書 13:7: 爱包容一切，爱总是信任，爱总是希望着，爱一贯是坚强的。(page 1863)
Matt 7:1: Do not judge and criticize and condemn others, so that you may not be judged and criticized and condemned yourselves.
馬 太 福 音 7:1: 不要论断别人，免得你们被论断 (page 1567)
Isaiah 58:9,10: Then when you call, the LORD will answer.
‘Yes, I am here,’ he will quickly reply.“Remove the heavy yoke of oppression. Stop pointing your finger and spreading vicious rumors! Feed the hungry, and help those in trouble. Then your light will shine out from the darkness, and the darkness around you will be as bright as noon.
以赛亚书 58:9,10: 你们求告，我必应允；你们呼求，我必回应。
如果你们不再欺压、指责、毁谤，如果你们给饥饿的人食物，扶助困苦的人，你们的光必照亮黑暗，你们的黑夜必变成正午。(page 1209)
1 Cor 13:4,5: Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged.
1 Cor 13:4,5: 爱是恒久忍耐，又有恩慈；爱是不嫉妒，不自吹自擂，不骄傲自大， 不轻浮无礼，不自私自利，不轻易动怒，不怀怨记恨 (page 1863)
约翰一书 4:19: 我们爱，因为上帝先爱了我们。 (page 1981)
Prov 11:25: A generous person will prosper; whoever refreshes others will be refreshed.
箴言 11:25: 慷慨好施的必得昌盛，恩待他人的必蒙恩待。(pg 1049)
1 Cor 13:7: Love is a safe place of shelter, for it never stops believing the best for others. Love never takes failure as defeat, for it never gives up.
歌 林 多 前 書 13:7: 爱包容一切，爱总是信任，爱总是希望着，爱一贯是坚强的。(page 1863)
Matt 7:1: Do not judge and criticize and condemn others, so that you may not be judged and criticized and condemned yourselves.
馬 太 福 音 7:1: 不要论断别人，免得你们被论断 (page 1567)
Isaiah 58:9,10: Then when you call, the LORD will answer.
‘Yes, I am here,’ he will quickly reply.“Remove the heavy yoke of oppression. Stop pointing your finger and spreading vicious rumors! Feed the hungry, and help those in trouble. Then your light will shine out from the darkness, and the darkness around you will be as bright as noon.
以赛亚书 58:9,10: 你们求告，我必应允；你们呼求，我必回应。
如果你们不再欺压、指责、毁谤，如果你们给饥饿的人食物，扶助困苦的人，你们的光必照亮黑暗，你们的黑夜必变成正午。(page 1209)
1 Cor 13:4,5: Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged.
1 Cor 13:4,5: 爱是恒久忍耐，又有恩慈；爱是不嫉妒，不自吹自擂，不骄傲自大， 不轻浮无礼，不自私自利，不轻易动怒，不怀怨记恨 (page 1863)
Creator
Pastor: Mike J Koger
Contributor
Hillside United Methodist Church
3739 US 80
Phenix City AL 36870
United States
3739 US 80
Phenix City AL 36870
United States
Transcription
Unnoticed
1 John 4:19
A man asked a gardener why his plants grew so beautifully.
The gardener said: “I don't force them to grow. I remove what stops them.”
Sometime, it’s not necessarily what we need to start doing –
maybe (sometimes) it’s something we need to stop doing.
Somethings we just need to let go of. To Release. (this has definitely been MY experience)
When we look at the world around us, what eyes are we seeing it with?
What do we notice in others? What goes unnoticed?
unnoticed adjective, adverb: without being seen or noticed
(in 1 Cor 13) LOVE …will hardly even notice when others do it wrong.
The gossiping, judgmental “Christian” is a sad cliché in our culture.
(after sharing all the dirt) “I’m just telling you this so you can pray about it.”
“I love to tell the story”
You can often tell when the “circle group” is circling to talk about someone.
If you see it, run as far away from it as you can. Take no part.
You might tick some people off when you don’t join in in talking bad about someone – but you still must refuse to participate.
1 John 4:19: Our love for others is our grateful response to the love God first demonstrated to us.
(think about it) When you’ve blown it – when things seem to be falling apart – maybe even people turning against you – you desperately want someone to stand with you.
To still believe in you. (even if your own mistakes are inexcusable to others)
“To love means to be actively concerned for the life and growth of another.”
Do we live to bless others – or do we look for reasons to hold people back – to keep them locked into their past mistakes?
Prov 11:25: He who refreshes others will himself be refreshed
"Those who live to bless others will have blessings heaped upon them, and the one who pours out his life to pour out blessings will be saturated with favor."
LOVE …will hardly even notice when others do it wrong.
1 Cor 13:7: Love is a safe place of shelter, for it never stops believing the best for others. Love never takes failure as defeat, for it never gives up.
Jesus said, “Judge not”
I know this is very familiar – very fundamental – but the fundamentals never change.
Matt 7:1: (Jesus says) DO NOT judge and criticize and condemn others, so that you may not be judged and criticized and condemned yourselves.
Don’t just say,“I know” without actually letting God’s Word shine light in your heart today.
The same God Who created us – created and loves them (just as much)
Jesus always blessed the outsiders with #GoodThings
1928 “The Crowd” Silent movie – sandwich sign
How do we see others? Do we feel we have to qualify them?
Do they go to church? What (which?) church?
Truth: Some of the greatest men and women of our faith (yours and mine) belonged to a group or denomination that we may think isn’t as good as ours.
It’s totally true. Read your history.
(last week) “I have been on this planet many decades now, but I feel like I am just getting started on what I want to achieve - what I feel God has in store for me to do.”
I need my thinking and my choices to line–up with how Jesus tells us we are to interact with our world.
I need to constantly have my mind renewed – and my life restored
“Restore unto me the joy of Thy salvation…”
(have we forgotten the joy of our forgiveness?)
? How much has God forgiven you?
We may stumble, but the lesson of the Gospel is that God is ready to lift us back up.
If you’re seeking restoration in your life, I’m pretty sure you need to be offering that same grace for change and restoration to others.
Isaiah 58:9,10: Then you will call out, and the LORD will answer. You will cry out, and he will say, ‘Here I am.’
“If you stop making trouble for others, if you stop using cruel words and pointing your finger at others, if you feed those who are hungry and take care of the needs of those who are troubled, then your light will shine in the darkness, and you will be bright like sunshine at noon.
“Then your light will shine out from the darkness, and the darkness around you will be as bright as noon.”
That’s Restoration
It’s a restoration that doesn’t just restore you – it even impacts your surroundings.
“If you stop making trouble for others, if you stop using cruel words and pointing your finger at others …”
GOD’s mercies are new every morning – shouldn’t that tell us something about how we should be viewing others as well?
Romans 5:17: For if, because of one man's trespass, death reigned through that one man, much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man Jesus Christ.”
If you are still walking in unforgiveness and judgment of others, holding others past mistakes against them, I question whether you have (truly) received the abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness. (in your heart)
(old testament Christians)
When people are condemning others, I believe, in their hearts, they are also condemning themselves. It is not a happy existence.
Matt 7:1: (Jesus says) DO NOT judge and criticize and condemn others, so that you may not be judged and criticized and condemned yourselves.
Maybe I’m imagining it, but I feel we sometimes justify our own personal “version” of Christianity that doesn’t actually reflect the Gospel teaching?
We obessess over the actions of others, while justifying our own.
Matt 7:3-5: “Why do you notice the small piece of dust that is in your friend’s eye, but you don’t notice the big piece of wood that is in your own? Why do you say to your friend, ‘Let me take that piece of dust out of your eye’? Look at yourself first! You still have that big piece of wood in your own eye. You are a hypocrite! First, take the wood out of your own eye. Then you will see clearly to get the dust out of your friend’s eye.”
“While we were yet sinners…”
If it costs you your peace, it is too expensive
1 John 4:19 states: "We love because he first loved us."
Our love is a reciprocal act. This verse encourages believers to live out their love for God by extending that love to others, reflecting God's love in their actions and interactions.
“God loves you so much”
1 Cor 13:5: “Love does not remember the suffering that comes from being hurt by someone.”
unnoticed: LOVE …will hardly even notice when others do it wrong.
Some things we just need to let go of. To Release.
John 13:35: By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.
Like it or not… we are the result of our programming.
If you can be transformed by the renewing of your mind, then who you are NOW is a result what you previously poured into your minds. (and hearts)
It is a progressive journey, but if you will deliberately feed upon the right things (the truth) that will eventually replace the old conditioning.
It will happen.
1 John 4:16: “We have come to know and believe the love God has for us. God is love. If you live in love, you live by the help of God and God lives in you.”
Let’s turn it around today
Job 42:10: When Job prayed for his friends, the LORD restored his fortunes. In fact, the LORD gave him twice as much as before!
We love because God first loved us.
1 Cor 13:7: Love is a safe place of shelter, for it never stops believing the best for others. Love never takes failure as defeat, for it never gives up.
1 John 4:19
A man asked a gardener why his plants grew so beautifully.
The gardener said: “I don't force them to grow. I remove what stops them.”
Sometime, it’s not necessarily what we need to start doing –
maybe (sometimes) it’s something we need to stop doing.
Somethings we just need to let go of. To Release. (this has definitely been MY experience)
When we look at the world around us, what eyes are we seeing it with?
What do we notice in others? What goes unnoticed?
unnoticed adjective, adverb: without being seen or noticed
(in 1 Cor 13) LOVE …will hardly even notice when others do it wrong.
The gossiping, judgmental “Christian” is a sad cliché in our culture.
(after sharing all the dirt) “I’m just telling you this so you can pray about it.”
“I love to tell the story”
You can often tell when the “circle group” is circling to talk about someone.
If you see it, run as far away from it as you can. Take no part.
You might tick some people off when you don’t join in in talking bad about someone – but you still must refuse to participate.
1 John 4:19: Our love for others is our grateful response to the love God first demonstrated to us.
(think about it) When you’ve blown it – when things seem to be falling apart – maybe even people turning against you – you desperately want someone to stand with you.
To still believe in you. (even if your own mistakes are inexcusable to others)
“To love means to be actively concerned for the life and growth of another.”
Do we live to bless others – or do we look for reasons to hold people back – to keep them locked into their past mistakes?
Prov 11:25: He who refreshes others will himself be refreshed
"Those who live to bless others will have blessings heaped upon them, and the one who pours out his life to pour out blessings will be saturated with favor."
LOVE …will hardly even notice when others do it wrong.
1 Cor 13:7: Love is a safe place of shelter, for it never stops believing the best for others. Love never takes failure as defeat, for it never gives up.
Jesus said, “Judge not”
I know this is very familiar – very fundamental – but the fundamentals never change.
Matt 7:1: (Jesus says) DO NOT judge and criticize and condemn others, so that you may not be judged and criticized and condemned yourselves.
Don’t just say,“I know” without actually letting God’s Word shine light in your heart today.
The same God Who created us – created and loves them (just as much)
Jesus always blessed the outsiders with #GoodThings
1928 “The Crowd” Silent movie – sandwich sign
How do we see others? Do we feel we have to qualify them?
Do they go to church? What (which?) church?
Truth: Some of the greatest men and women of our faith (yours and mine) belonged to a group or denomination that we may think isn’t as good as ours.
It’s totally true. Read your history.
(last week) “I have been on this planet many decades now, but I feel like I am just getting started on what I want to achieve - what I feel God has in store for me to do.”
I need my thinking and my choices to line–up with how Jesus tells us we are to interact with our world.
I need to constantly have my mind renewed – and my life restored
“Restore unto me the joy of Thy salvation…”
(have we forgotten the joy of our forgiveness?)
? How much has God forgiven you?
We may stumble, but the lesson of the Gospel is that God is ready to lift us back up.
If you’re seeking restoration in your life, I’m pretty sure you need to be offering that same grace for change and restoration to others.
Isaiah 58:9,10: Then you will call out, and the LORD will answer. You will cry out, and he will say, ‘Here I am.’
“If you stop making trouble for others, if you stop using cruel words and pointing your finger at others, if you feed those who are hungry and take care of the needs of those who are troubled, then your light will shine in the darkness, and you will be bright like sunshine at noon.
“Then your light will shine out from the darkness, and the darkness around you will be as bright as noon.”
That’s Restoration
It’s a restoration that doesn’t just restore you – it even impacts your surroundings.
“If you stop making trouble for others, if you stop using cruel words and pointing your finger at others …”
GOD’s mercies are new every morning – shouldn’t that tell us something about how we should be viewing others as well?
Romans 5:17: For if, because of one man's trespass, death reigned through that one man, much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man Jesus Christ.”
If you are still walking in unforgiveness and judgment of others, holding others past mistakes against them, I question whether you have (truly) received the abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness. (in your heart)
(old testament Christians)
When people are condemning others, I believe, in their hearts, they are also condemning themselves. It is not a happy existence.
Matt 7:1: (Jesus says) DO NOT judge and criticize and condemn others, so that you may not be judged and criticized and condemned yourselves.
Maybe I’m imagining it, but I feel we sometimes justify our own personal “version” of Christianity that doesn’t actually reflect the Gospel teaching?
We obessess over the actions of others, while justifying our own.
Matt 7:3-5: “Why do you notice the small piece of dust that is in your friend’s eye, but you don’t notice the big piece of wood that is in your own? Why do you say to your friend, ‘Let me take that piece of dust out of your eye’? Look at yourself first! You still have that big piece of wood in your own eye. You are a hypocrite! First, take the wood out of your own eye. Then you will see clearly to get the dust out of your friend’s eye.”
“While we were yet sinners…”
If it costs you your peace, it is too expensive
1 John 4:19 states: "We love because he first loved us."
Our love is a reciprocal act. This verse encourages believers to live out their love for God by extending that love to others, reflecting God's love in their actions and interactions.
“God loves you so much”
1 Cor 13:5: “Love does not remember the suffering that comes from being hurt by someone.”
unnoticed: LOVE …will hardly even notice when others do it wrong.
Some things we just need to let go of. To Release.
John 13:35: By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.
Like it or not… we are the result of our programming.
If you can be transformed by the renewing of your mind, then who you are NOW is a result what you previously poured into your minds. (and hearts)
It is a progressive journey, but if you will deliberately feed upon the right things (the truth) that will eventually replace the old conditioning.
It will happen.
1 John 4:16: “We have come to know and believe the love God has for us. God is love. If you live in love, you live by the help of God and God lives in you.”
Let’s turn it around today
Job 42:10: When Job prayed for his friends, the LORD restored his fortunes. In fact, the LORD gave him twice as much as before!
We love because God first loved us.
1 Cor 13:7: Love is a safe place of shelter, for it never stops believing the best for others. Love never takes failure as defeat, for it never gives up.