Love Is the Context for On Earth as in Heaven - Bill Johnson Sermon | Bethel Church

Bill Johnson teaches on the power of love and how it is the context for “On Earth as it is in Heaven”. After teaching the Lord’s Prayer, Jesus spoke about the importance of forgiveness. How you watch over your heart matters and it’s important not to let bitterness or disappointment take root. Walking in forgiveness is not saying that the wrong done against you does not matter, but it’s about taking care of the issues of your own heart. How you walk in reconciliation and communion with others impacts eternity. The context for revival is love - have you learned to love?
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Scripture References:
Matthew 6
Romans 12: 18
Luke 23: 34
Isaiah 53: 12
1 Peter 2: 5
1 Corinthians 13
Originally shared at Bethel Church, Redding California, on December 31, 2023.
Bill Johnson is a fifth-generation pastor with a rich heritage in the Holy Spirit. He is senior leader of Bethel Church in Redding, California, and is passionate about seeing Revival and God’s Kingdom established and revealed in the lives of individuals, families, communities, and nations. Bill’s teaching on the Kingdom of Heaven, hosting the Presence, and the renewed mind has helped thousands around the world to step into their true identity in Christ, God given purpose, and walk in a supernatural lifestyle displaying both purity and power.
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[@Worship_Together]

I pray for every person reading here, God will make a way when there's no way, everything is possible with him, I pray he grant you strength, fulfill all the broken part of your heart ❤ 🙏

[@AngelPanda71]

Thank you ever so so much for this word!

[@gingerlanger9551]

Prayers are much appreciated!

[@Synder619]

Thank you! I rec'v.this! May the L0RD bless you & show you favor as HIS beloved!

[@patpruitt21]

@@Synder619thank you for all ❤ 45:50

[@user-jv1qc4ls2h]

May God fill the empty space in the walls of your own faith and life and also of that of your community with precious, fulfilling communion

[@deruby52]

❤ no record 👑

[@hanlibadenhorst7837]

‼️‼️‼️Pastor Bill, many years ago, you wrote a forgiveness series which was BRILLIANT! But, this sermon today is indescribable fantastic. Thank you so much! God Bless you over and over and over! My parents have the inability to forgive me for I don’t even really know or aware of… For many years, you are not even aware of it, you are my “father”. You are the best dad ever!!! Thank you for such a powerful message. God Bless. Hanli Hubée .South Africa. Ps: you met me during your conference in SA in 2020 - I was completely healed from an auto immune disease called Fybromialgia. You change so many lives, and what a good priority in life it is to love well!!! Wow wow wow!! Regards, Hanli Hubée.

[@Synder619]

Praise the L0RD G0D! HE is sooo good! Be continually blessed❣❣❣

[@WalkinginDivineHealth]

So good. This teaching is at the very heart of what Yeshua came to teach us!

[@shortmarthamac]

You don't need to rescue this message. We need this.

[@johnhoien]

So good, God is using you mightily !

[@Phenomenal465]

This is coming at the right time of my life,where forgiveness for the first time is hard and difficult to do. Thank you Pastor Bill for this❤

[@sweetpea7715]

Isn’t God so good, you’re important to Him.

[@paulwilcox1343]

We love you Bill!❤

[@deruby52]

Learn to love well!👑💟🎯

[@m.l.bishop1914]

"Your thought life about them is evidence of your forgiveness." This statement is very helpful in measuring how far I've come (or how far I have yet to go) in truly releasing someone's offense against me.

[@murieldoka8939]

Thank you for this hard message but I needed it soo badly. The part especially about is there fruit in my forgiveness Please pray and decree that my relationship with my daughter will be healed Thank you

[@DianneCase-cx7bi]

Thank you! You have shown me that the forgiveness I give must be measurable by my actions.

[@deruby52]

Love is measurable!⚖

[@toniachantell8002]

I needed to hear this today. Powerful message. Did you learn to love? That's all He's going to ask us when we meet Him.

[@patpruitt21]

Thank you❤ 40:32

[@Nimmokk]

You can be right, or you can be reconciled!

[@deruby52]

Be reconciled!👑

[@jacalynbohman4898]

Most of us will never stand facing someone who has murdered our loved one(s). May we see them face to face & soul to soul as God sees knowing the measure of the justice, the goodness, and the mercy of God. May I see another soul and understand my enemy Satan is mutual to every soul. Woe to the soul who stands in his sin before God. Anger, vengeance, and bitterness will roll off your shoulders onto God's. Here I stand in forgiveness 🙏

[@mediname1000]

Wonderful, powerful and timely message from God!! Thank you Sir. Much honor, love and respect for you!! ❤

[@aaronstjames235]

For those who are against me right now in this very moment - I FORGIVE YOU!!!

[@VictoriousChurch777]

Perfect timing. Thank God. Hallelujah!

[@karendomengeaux9242]

Absolutely one of the best messages I have ever heard on this subject! Many thanks for sharing and clarifying what true forgiveness really is! God 🎉bless you , your staff and your congregation at Bethal! I love and appreciate your ministry to Gods people! To God be the Glory, Praise and Honor Always and Forevermore!❤️🙌🏻❤️🙏❤️

[@a.albaneze]

”For the Lord corrects those he loves, just as a father corrects a child in whom he delights.“ ‭‭Proverbs‬ ‭3‬:‭12‬ ‭ Dear Pastor, a prove that you love us is when you correct us 💚💛

[@fritzamtsberg5310]

As a fellow lover of God I thank God for Bob Jones. Yes, I have learned to love, my mother taught me and I am teaching my children. I've seen the video he describes. It is powerful.

[@upschutt4842]

Thank you for continuing to stand with me for my breakthrough while God is at work and I long to see what He is doing behind the scenes

[@reneewoods6232]

I receive it! I am a doctor (MD) and have grieved the worship the god of medicine and the system of thought of medicine. God overcome it. It is subject to you. We who are called to heal are your servants! In Jesus’ name.

[@CafeFoxetto]

Thank you. I’ve been unforgiving of my father, who treated my mother horribly my entire life cause her to have and stroke and continue treating her horrible until she died. I stop talking to him because he start treating me like my mother and I didn’t want to take on her abuse. I receive this message sent from God. I will forgive him

[@nonnie2428]

Brother Bill, I so enjoy your joyful teachings & instruction. God bless you Sir & thank you for your obedience to His call.

[@deruby52]

Love Never FAILS!❤👑💟

[@vickitabor8789]

🔥❤️ May the Body of Christ learn to love well!❤️🔥… how we demonstrate our true love for God, by loving others well ❤ Beautiful message, much needed reminder..🎯❣️🎯

[@Brody.W]

Thank God, for Jesus and thank Jesus for Bill Johnson.

[@sanamoyeshnazarova4527]

Please pray for my marriage restoration

[@popimartinez195]

Thank you so much Pastor Bill for the Message!!! It's Awesome, beyond Description!!! Given with Great Love and Maturity....!!!!

[@shirleywhittaker3068]

This is such a good word....a now word. Repentance is a beautiful thing and forgiveness even more beautiful. I don't want to harbor unforgiveness in my heart.

[@Edok17]

Excellent message. Thank you for always challenging us to seek improvement in our relationship with God.

[@cj2507]

💎

[@ok2workout513]

Such richness in this.❤❤❤

[@jilllingenfelter4682]

Yes I absolutely love my Godly family tons. And I love my Godly church families a lot :) And I absolutely love serving Jesus. and at my church full time. And Jesus is my Everything:)@Bethel Church

[@user-df7vu5px5c]

Amen... forgive as Your Father in Heaven has forgiven you. Forgive anyone you have ought against as you stand to pray. Walk in love!

[@cashflowboss295]

Thank you Bill

[@nadia_beukes]

“Sometimes to love well you have to be okay with somebody not think well of you…” Humility is key 🙌🏻

[@JenniferJaws5283]

I see myself as a resemblance of the woman at the well in the Bible. In my frustrations with myself, people, life circumstances, I find myself saying "Oh well" I pray to God for things to go"well " throughout my day... And I'm in desperate need of a new water source in the physical water well where I'm at.. I struggle with "Loving well"... But I ask God continuously to forgive me... For others to forgive me... For me to forgive others and for me & to forgive myself... In all the "well being , well doing and well intentions" is Jesus reminding me to drink deeply from his" well of living waters" He's not shaken by my life's experiences. He just waiting for an exchange of my thirst for his quenching. What a wonderful God to love me this much. It's an endless refill of a "Big Gulp"

[@pamelasnyder8319]

❤

[@lindasmith6668]

Thank you Pastor for this message that convicted me to change...to forgive fast and to learn to love all well. God help me please... I want it so badly.

[@jonsimpson5231]

So, I've been following your messages for several years. You are a blessing! But more crucial is your spirit man 'of God' to the church/body of Christ and to the unbeliever.

[@gregercarter1]

“God is Love”, we, made in His image, are we “Love”? Bill, so impacting, thank you! Also, I see gold coins (love coins) one side is embossed with giving, the other side forgiving, and we cannot be snatched out of the Fathers hand…

[@kenmullis6112]

So good.

[@EJ30463]

I had never considered before that Jesus needed to ask God to forgive those who persecuted and killed Him. I also had not considered, until this message, that He could, as God, pronounce forgiveness. As a man He needed to show fruit of Him forgiving others so He could show evidence before He physically died so He could continue to be free from All sin to complete His work here on earth as a man. So eye opening. So freeing.

[@mistybrassell5601]

Please pray that the Lord will deliver my husband from alcohol & pride. And that the Lord heal his mind & heart & that he will quit acting like his abusive father. And that he will be the husband that the Lord says to be, that he will treat me like Christ treats us, His Bride.

[@marloncoventry]

So good

[@kirok4815]

Happy New Year 🎉

[@donn07]

AMEN ❤

[@AngelPanda71]

Kingdom of God COME!! Will of God BE DONE on earth as it is in heaven! 🎉❤🔥

[@Inspiringsuccess2]

This!! Profound.

[@user-ts4cj3bd2v]

Amen God bless

[@hildasimon4159]

"I didn't get a joke for the day, it's almost like backsliding 😂😂😂" That in itself is a joke 😂😂. I love Pastor Bil❤😂

[@nancylohe986]

'Jesus Forgave His Enemies while He's still being tortured by them '! My My My My Mind Can't Comprehend it !

[@angebreen8803]

❤

[@nancylohe986]

When You Forgive Somebody I am no longer the Victim ,iam the Victor '

[@sherrills.2332]

Wow! Very provoking & delivered w such earnestness! For me, "Loving" is on a continuum, Not an arrival point or destination. Soooo funny about the marriage counseling 😂

[@Brody.W]

Thank God for the comment section. It makes pharisees like me happy. That's right. I said it.

[@NicoleGVictory]

Hallelujah yes lord amen!🙏🏼🥹🤗

[@Brody.W]

Happy new year! You have no past but the cross of Christ, no future but His 2nd arrival and no present but the mystery of where He ends and you begin!🎉😂

[@kevinspano7315]

I am Barabus.!!! We are Barabus

[@tanyamcnaughten2959]

So.. Is forgiveness an act of the will and not involved with the emotions or a spiritual gift from God? I'm having trouble emotionally but in my mind, I forgive.

[@tomszczesniak8850]

Is there a link to the KZbin video Bill mentions that he watched of victims families talking to the killer and the one family who said they forgave him?

[@tanyamcnaughten2959]

I'm still curious about the connection between love and fear.

[@kevinspano7315]

You can be right or you can be reconciled.

[@laurie9993]

We need to forgive the Hitler in our life, that is the message. WoW

[@davidmorneau7378]

Bill, I feel your struggle as you deliver this message. Except that I missed the significance of Bob Jones in this message. And you said Bob died in the 1970's, then you, more or less said under your breath, said he came back to his body. I don't remember much of the introduction given him in Minneapolis, MN in 1992 when I stood beside him as he spoke prophetically over the youth of our charismatic community. But I assure you, he was introduced as Bob Jones the renowned prophet and was evidently truly alive. He had a reputation that didn't spell out his great love for humanity. Perhaps he loved God greatly. This teaching is of extreme significance however, you are very right about that, especially in this world today. I too frequently rephrase the 'Our Father' prayer, except for the protestant ending which is in emphasizes in my 'The Open Bible'. You and I know Jesus would likely have spent several days teaching these precepts to his close ones. Our World is so perverted that at every turn forgiveness is required. I wonder if we, like Jesus, would be best off asking Our Father to forgive, since we are so limited in that capacity to do so. Is there one among us who could stand before Putin and forgive him for the atrocities he has rained down on mankind. Is there any other way to evangelize that man to repentance and salvation? Later, Bye Old Dave

[@sherrills.2332]

So I did some research: best concise & documented on Bob Jones University's website. Bob Jones Sr passed: 1.16.68 Bob Jones Jr passed: 11.12.97 Bob Jones III is still alive ☆Bill's point in mentioning him was when Bob had an encounter w God hearing: "Did you learn to love well"?

[@MECHANICALWIZARD]

Satan killed Bob. He went to heaven, Jesus spoke to Bob for a while. Bob got an enormous "expansion". Jesus sent Bob back here because he had not completed his mission.

[@ledahoffman4036]

two different Bob Jones.@@sherrills.2332

[@sheilaprice7712]

Let ANY rumors of my forgiveness of others never be told by me.

[@amywarrenjones]

Forgiveness of God is not conditional

[@popimartinez195]

I'm Greek and I can read the New Testament in the Original! I know that the KJV has a few very crucial mistranslations like Romans 8:10, 2 Thessalonians 2:7... etc.! We forgive the people who worship Bible Versions! This is because the flesh always needs to worhip something....We forgive them and pray for them Ephesians 1:17-23 and Ephesians 3:14-21!!!

[@sw_1776]

It is sad one of the Ten Commandments was mistranslated Thou shalt not kill was supposed to be translated as Thou shalt not murder

[@sheilaprice7712]

I have a question about this prayer. Scripture teaches that God never tempts us, so why would Jesus pray "lead us not into temptation"? Can it be that it's been mistranslated? Wouldn't it be more like "Give us wisdom and strength against temptation"?

[@gb-yn2re]

When it comes to sinning the bible says we inherit our sins from our Fore-Father's. I was listening to his sermon on genetically being wired, the comment on prisoner's who are genetically different. I just happen to be studying right now, on addictions, which literally rewires the brain. The hormones and cells are effected. The majority of Prisoner's are addicted to substances. The Lord can rewire a person's life. He can deliver them from sinning. It is natural to want to sin, it is unnatural to want to be set free from sinning, since under the God of this World and Adam we have inherited a sin nature. However when we accept Christ, he re-wires or re-roots to Heaven, we are literally taken out of that nature to want to sin ( therefore spiritually being led is what gets us from bound in a sin, to free from it. We need to renew our mind's in his truth. The bible also interprets the bible, that is what my Pastor teaches. I have no revelation without Christ who is my hope of glory....

[@BarbraKathleen]

It's an incredible story about Cathy killing a snake with the communion bottle. Because the Blood of a Lamb keeps it from dying from the venomous bite of a snake. Which means we are covered by the Blood of Jesus because he rose from death and therefore so are we. Satan cannot steal kill and destroy us when we follow our Shepard and are covered by His blood.

[@Trailblazer123]

Kingdom come ! Will of God BE DONE …. REHMA

[@Trailblazer123]

Is and will be as it was and would be

[@iowild1048]

How do we approach forgiveness with the personage of satan, himself, who slaughters thousands, including children, before our eyes, is never repentant and continues his campaign with even more vengence?? I am sincerely asking, As I have been practicing radical forgiveness for years…How do we forgive satan?? How do we deal with that kind of evil upon the earth? Why are we afraid to speak of this controversial issue?? I need to go deeper…how do we resist evil, itself, and forgive at the same time?🕊💔🕊

[@pz1042]

Great message but forgiving well doesn't mean you love well as they can be 2 different actions in 2 different contexts towards 2 different people. I've seen people who can be loving & forgiving in the context of their clique becos they are well connected & supported & loved, but be so cold, judgemental & distant toward new people coming into the church or group just becos they are different or struggling and need support.

[@charlesjames4386]

To all the snakes out there, sorry your dad was a bad example 😂

[@daisycindy]

Don't try to rescue the message such say Amen.

[@shawnhollahan590]

There is only one valid translation in English... the King James Version. Drawing on any other source is manipulating the word to fit 'our' beliefs. That interpretation of the 'Lords Prayer' is a prime example of manipulation.

[@justindeweese21]

So wrong. Originally written in Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek. More advanced knowledge of these languages has come to light since the KJV. Also which version of the KJV do you worship? So misguided in focus on what version verses what the scripture encourages us to do. I hope you can redirect your focus. Too many like you with an agenda. Make Jesus the agenda, not your version of the Bible.

[@angelomanzi9272]

@shawnhollahan590 my bro what is wrong with you?! How can you listen to a message like this and not have your heart melt… how can you listen to a message like this and not want to get quiet before the Lord and share in deep intimacy with him? How do you watch a video like this and all you have to talk about is the Bible translation being used to quote a verse. Shut your mind off and get on your knees! You’re acting like a Pharisee Shawn, just stop all of it and be with God. That’s all you need right now in life, not another debate, argument, or frustration. All you need to be with Jesus.

[@geraldinesera8915]

Thank you for sharing your testimony. You for addressing The Lords Prayer. Im saddened by your use of modern scriptures... in not using ROYAL pronouns. Prayer is our link with our eternal parent GOD, and our sibling, Christ.

[@cyandrade9803]

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