Together we could be expressed to the world that we have love one for another

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In traveling, I think if there’s any great thing that I’ve seen missing in the church today, to one of the greatest hindrance in the church today, there’s—keep a revival back, is the lack of that godly love that Christ expressed when He was here on earth.

It’s easy for you and I to love somebody that loves us. But Jesus didn’t have that kind of love. He had God’s love, and God loved His enemies. For God so loved the world; when the world was unlovable, God still loved the world.

It’s a different, even in the expression in the—the words, the—the—a “phileo” love, like we have one for another. But the “agapao” love is a Divine love.

And if there’s anything that I believe that would start a revival in Los Angeles, would be a time that we could all break down our different barriers and come together as Christians in love. That’s the Pentecostals, the Baptists, and the Presbyterians. And all together we could be expressed to the world that we have love one for another.

Jesus prayed that prayer that we might love one another as He loved us—as He loved us! And He loved us so much that He died for us. No one could love like that unless they—with the natural love, because it would not hold out. It won’t express itself. It’ll do as long as there’s friendship connected with it. But when the friendships turn, then people begin to say, “Well, he did so-and-so. She did so-and-so. They backslid, they…” Real godly love goes after that backslider till it finds him. Godly love goes and stoops to the lowest of hell to pick up a man or a woman that’s fallen.

That’s what we’re lacking today. We have a fine cultured church, educated, fine dressed, fine buildings, nice choirs, beautiful music, some of the best the world’s ever had. But we are dying for some of that godly love.

Living, Dying, Buried, Rising, Coming - 59-0403 - William Branham