REVOLUTION

When I was young, we have their game where we go by purok and then engaged with a fight against another purok
using sumpak made from bamboo with a paper as our ammunition. And everytime we won, the joy is just overwhelming
and we felt like we have just conquered a land or a territory. And from this traditional game, this was taken to the next
level in the digital world through those RPG games.

We live in the most revolutionary period in human history. Seen more revolutions in the last 100 years than all of history
combined. If fact, here in the Philippines alone, we have artifacts and historical sites that shows those revolutionary
period kagaya na lang sa Fort Santiago, Intramuros, where bullet marks are still there.

Di pa kasama yung sa ibang bansa nyan where Nelson Madela and Mathama Gandhi were involved.

What were this people thinking on top of their heads?

Let me quote,

“I am only one, but still I am one, I cannot do everything, but I can do something and because I
cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something I can do.” -Edward Everett Hale
I believe that in man, God has created a REVOLUTIONARY spirit.
There is just something in us that we can feel so much pain and uncomfort when things are not working well.

Example na lang:
Sino dito na nakakakita kayo ng isang hayop na gumagawa ng paraan para umayos yung kanilang buhay. No!
May nakikita ba kayong mga hayop na nakikipag sapalaran o nakikibaka sa buhay? O di kaya nagwewelga? Wala!

But in man, God wired this spirit.

So what REVOLUTIONARY mean?

REVOLUTIONARY means,
- of, pertaining to, characterized by, or of the nature of a revolution, or a sudden, complete, or marked change:
(dictionary.com)
- involving or causing a complete or dramatic change. (google.com)

Actually, these words were spoken by a leading socialist in the 1920s,

“We socialists would have nothing to do if you Christians had continued the
revolution begun by Jesus.”
Yet more than 90 years later, they remain foreign to many Christian ears.
What “revolution” did Jesus begin? And was Jesus in any sense a “revolutionary”?

The answer is that Jesus came into our world to launch God’s revolution—a kingdom revolution, a revolution of the
Spirit, a world–changing movement that would overcome evil with good and hatred with love, and Jesus himself was the
most radical revolutionary leader who ever lived. I BELIEVE IT WAS A LOVE REVOLUTION!
Tyler Beede said,
All too often, however, we look at Jesus as the founder of a “lovely home and garden religion,” called Christianity, a
harmless spiritual leader who left behind some lovely platitudes and inspirational thoughts, a man whose memory we
celebrate at the annual Easter egg hunt.

But that is hardly the Jesus of the New Testament. His message was a threat to the religious establishment. He called for
dramatic, sweeping—yes, revolutionary—change. He taught his followers to pray radical prayers like, “Your kingdom
come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven”—meaning, the displacement of the corrupt kingdoms of this world
by the perfect kingdom of God. He called his disciples to revolutionary commitment, urging them to leave everything and
follow him, and in his platform message, he promised freedom to the captives (Luke 4:18–21).

That is the language of a revolution, and that is the language we must recover today, as our nation teeter–totters on the
verge of moral and social (not to mention economic) collapse. We need a Jesus-based cultural revolution that will recover
the fear of God, the respect of honor, the dignity of family, and the beauty of morality.

HOW DID JESUS CHANGE THE WORLD?

John 3:16

NIV
16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have
eternal life.

MSG
16-18 “This is how much God loved the world: He gave his Son, his one and only Son. And this is why: so that no one
need be destroyed; by believing in him, anyone can have a whole and lasting life. God didn’t go to all the trouble of
sending his Son merely to point an accusing finger, telling the world how bad it was. He came to help, to put the world
right again. Anyone who trusts in him is acquitted; anyone who refuses to trust him has long since been under the death
sentence without knowing it. And why? Because of that person’s failure to believe in the one-of-a-kind Son of God when
introduced to him.

HIS GREATEST TOOL WAS NO OTHER THAN LOVE!

KEYPOINTS (WHY LOVE):

1. LOVE NEVER FAILS.

In 1 Cor. 13: 1-13, LOVE IS EXPLICITLY DEFINE:

1 If I speak in the tongues[a] of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging
cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can
move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to
hardship that I may boast,[b] but do not have love, I gain nothing.

4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not
self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the
truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled;
where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when completeness
comes, what is in part disappears. 11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child.
When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. 12 For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then
we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

Why it never fails, BECAUSE IT IS TRUTH. IT IS GOD HIMSELF.

True love is not coming from the greatest person you’ve ever known.
It’s not coming from your parents neither or your husband or love ones.
It’s coming from God.

2. LOVE IS INTENTIONAL.

According to Joyce Meyer,

“Nothing good ever happens accidentally. If we want to be part of a revolution, that means things must change, and
things cannot change unless people do. Each of us must say: Change begins with me!”

In fact, Jesus demonstrated His love to us while we were still sinners (Romans 5:8)
“But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

According to Spurgeon, we have to love people not when they are okay and good, but when they are still in sin and
in difficult situation. That’s the greatest expression of love.

3. LOVE IS A REVOLUTION.

Love by nature is radical. It is all out!

Love is not founded in fancy words It’s an act. It’s a verb!

Kaya kung nainlove ka lang dahil sa mga magagandang sinasabi nya, naku, mahirap yung kapatid.
Kung nainlove ka sa kanya dahil sa mga signs kuno, naku,mahirap yan.

That people in the Bible who have greatly experienced the Lord made did what was impossible.

It’s about time that we have to once again, bring the right definition of LOVE TO THE WORLD!