I find this thing with us who begin a relationship with the Lord is we
decapitate His head from His body in our view of intimacy with God let me
explain we kissed the face like Judas and call
him friend and plunged the knife in the back of somebody's reputation somebody's
life in the church betray trust gossip about other people
abuse our spouses heard our children talk trash about our parents while
kissing Jesus and the cheek and think our relationship is always based with
the kiss but we're knife goes on the back of his back doesn't matter
and Jesus is telling Paul he says relationship with me is relationship
with the body not with my cheeks see we as charismatics many times we love to
spend time in this presence meaning we love his face we just hate his body if
you want to have a relationship with God do not decapitate his head from his body
do not separate his face from the rest of his body
that means the way you treat your wife is the way you're gonna treat Jesus the
way you treat your kiddos my father listen father is the way you're treating
Jesus the way you treat your spouse is the way you treat Jesus you can't just
have a devotional life and talk trash about other people you are plunging a
knife in his back while kissing his face and Paul is saying
excuse me Jesus is saying I've made my people so dear to Me I actually made them
part of Me people are a part Jesus didn't make us into purses and toys he
made us into members of His body right here he actually has we are the
members of His body and he is the head that tells me the relationship I must
have with the Lord it's not just the relationship what I learned about Jesus
and I relate to Jesus by praying worshiping and reading the scriptures
which is the kisses on his face that is so wonderful I had this problem
when we got married I know that raising my voice against my wife and raising my
hand is completely it's wrong it's it's it's bad it's bad but I I found the
loophole when she would do something that brought me discomfort and like
really and I just wanted to like like scream or manifest or or do something
and I knew it's wrong and I withheld myself I did this thing what I would
pinch her I am very embarrassed to admit I would pinch her and I would
pinch her so hard that she would vocalize the very feelings I had inside
of me
I'm not giving any husband's ideas right now no no no and she would say this ouch
you hurting me and I said no I'm just playing with you
she says excuse me he said you're hurting me but I love her but at the same time I
was pinching her side and as I was reading this verses I felt that when I
am pinching Jesus yet spending time with Jesus yet married to Jesus but the way I
treat people pinches him and many of us would never do what Paul did we will
never persecute and kill other people but we find a loophole we like to pinch
Jesus and some of your Jesus is screaming out of pain and that's the
Jesus we need to discover this morning it's not just the Jesus that loves you
it's Jesus you're hurting when you hurt other people you pinch Jesus and it
doesn't matter how many kisses you lay on his cheek and it doesn't matter how
much of your makeup is left on his cheeks if you are on the side pinching
Him and stabbing Him from the back by the way you relate to your people at
your work do the way you relate to people at your work and the way you talk
about other people the way you knowingly and willfully abuse other people I want
to tell you something today is that your confession that you are saved and He is
your Savior is great He will smile back at you Judas and say yes my friend want
why did you come but remember the relationship that's only based on kisses
is very shallow
we have many Judas's today who kiss Jesus publicly but stab him privately
pinch him privately if you want to know your purpose you must understand that
the presence of God is not only the face of God it's the body of God and the way
I treat the body is the way I treat the face