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Let me reintroduce the guest who's here with us and in the city for the week of ministry. Bishop Fato Cavanjare from Uganda, one of the unique men whom God is using, to move the church as well as to bring them to Christ throughout East Africa and

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parts of South Africa. I feel it's a unique privilege that God is sending his servants from Africa and Asia to reawaken the Christian faith in America. We thank you, Africa, and especially to you. I'd like to say that um My wife and I are thrilled to

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be here again. This is our 2nd session and it always gives me pleasure because every time I come, Westmont invites me to come and share something of the love of Christ, but I've never been here with my wife, uh, who is my better part, but now

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she's here. I do appreciate that for her and you see you are approving that I made the right choice. Uh Now yesterday, we shared it together. Um, from Colossians. And our sharing centered on a number of thoughts. The central thought being That Paul says, Christ rescued

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us from the power of the dominion of darkness. Which we can put in other words by saying the dominion of confusion in life. that he did a wonderful And the act he did was to transfer us across into a completely new kingdom, or if you like,

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into a new relationship. Because the whole center of the essence of religion is putting wrong relationships right. Initially between man and God, and then as a result, between man and man. If those two things are right in any life, then we said that life is complete.

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Christian perfection simply means that you are put right with God and put to right with each other. It does not mean that you are morally Perfect Sometimes moral perfection when there is no failure, when there is no nothing to be sore about, can produce not a

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living Christian, but a statue. If you are so good that nothing goes wrong. If you are so perfect that there is no, nothing that you have to repent of before God, then I think I would be terribly terrified of you. You simply couldn't have fellowship in

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this kind of world, in the world of Westmont, or the world of Santa Barbara, or the world of America, or if you cross the Atlantic to come to Africa, people would be just running away from you. You'd be too angelic to live with men. But what

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is Christian perfection? It simply means right relationship with God, right relationship with man as a result. And usually we confuse the two. When one side is stressed at the expense of the other, then there is a reaction. What is, what sort of reaction when you stress

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perfect relationship with God. Forget the world, let's go, let the world run its own course. Let men run round in their confusions. As long as I'm right with God, I don't care what happens to you. This kind of mentality, then a reaction is produced against that.

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And what is the other reaction? Forget about the vertical relationship. What matters is the horizontal. All we need is to relate with each other, to rub shoulders with each other, to sort of use human love on each other, to shower uh sentimental feelings on each other

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and as, as long as that is there, then it's all right. Forget about the vertical doesn't matter. And even we come to the conclusion, the vertical is simply speculation. It isn't real realities that we rub shoulders together. We relate to each other. And what is that?

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It is a reaction against the extreme other side. But did you hear the ball of the New Testament? The balance of the New Testament is God so loved that he became man. Isn't that tremendous? God so love that he became man. In other words, had he

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not become man, he would still love men, but it would be. Absolutely and practical kind of loving. Did you see, he so loved me that he became like me. In other words, he took our case so serious. That he decided to do something about it by

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incarnating it. The divine love to on flesh and bones so that men may feel and may come under the impact of practical human love. See, the New Testament and the biblical approach is balanced. It is never a dichotomy of only the vertical or only the horizontal.

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Never at all. If you stress the vertical alone, it becomes impractical, it becomes speculative religion. If you stress the the horizontal alone, man to man, man to man, man to man, what happens? You consume each other. Man to man simply is a consumption, you consume each

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other. No wonder humanity has continuously through history tended to consume each other, to exploit humanity. This is the result of wars, man to man, man to man. Results in the fact that we consume each other. We exploit each other racially, politically, and otherwise. So we need

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a balance that the balance is in the coming of Jesus Christ. He came to make life a balanced life. I came that they may have life and that they may live it to the full or abundantly. Because apart from Jesus Christ, then what he said becomes

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true. He who loves himself. Which means he who makes himself the center, he who makes his life, all there is about it consumes it. Consumes it, empties it of its meaning, and what is left, a shell of humanity, ruins only. Then you can apply that to

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every department. You can apply that to money until money becomes a shell. A kind of a kind of possession which victimizes you. You can apply that to sex. You go on playing it until it is completely emptied of its meaning and what remains is a shell.

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You can apply it to appetite. You can apply friend to friend relationship. You can even apply it to feelings in religion. You can so depend on the feelings in religion that in the end you empty them of their meaning, of their essence, of their substance, and

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you, you are left with a shell. You can apply to theology. You can use lovely long theological evangelical phrases until you empty them of their meaning. And what you are left with is an empty vocabulary with long words. And the words no longer challenge you and

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no longer stir you up and the words no longer you shake you to reality. They remain distant lovely words. Repeat them and repeat them until they are thoroughly empty. They no longer speak. You hear them until you no longer hear them. This is what we do.

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We can't apply this to every department. So Christianity, therefore, is that which balances life. He came vertically to introduce you to God and in doing that, then he healed your horizontal confusion. He rescued us from the path of this confusion, of these dichotomies, of this breaking

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up, and he transferred us into a completely new kingdom of relationship where men and women properly related to God, they find that their human relationships are balanced and healed and given a new assets. And today we want to talk, as it were, the outcome of what

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we read yesterday. The new kingdom is called the kingdom of, of the Son of his love. The king in the new kingdom is the sun. The sun rules are the son of God's love. God so loved the world. This is completely the new kingdom. Where the

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relationship is no longer based on self-achievement but on love. Now you see I am using another word which can be thoroughly empty in 20th century, love, love, love. Until love becomes exploitation. Love, what is it? But you see, you had that beautiful passage from the New

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Testament. You had John telling us, what is this love? The kingdom is the kingdom of love, and the inhabitants live there as it is put in Colossians, sharing the benefits of the new kingdom in the light. Two important words for the new kingdom of the new

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relationship. One, it is the kingdom in which the king rules by love. Secondly, it is the kingdom in which the inhabitants share the benefits in the light. And you had, if you want to read more in this, in these letters of John in chapter 5 and

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so on and so on. He says, this is the kingdom of, he says, love is light. Anyone, he says, who loves, walks in the light. Anyone who hates walks in darkness. You had before that the mark that you are living in the new kingdom of life

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is that you love another person. Isn't that remarkable? I would have expected him to say the mark that you really are enjoying spiritual life is to be very excited, is to be very religious, is to go to church every Sunday, is to read your Bible every

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morning, is to fulfill 25 good solid standards. It says if you want the mark that you live is that you love another man. Another path. And if you love another person, this is the mark, the sure mark that you are actually beginning to live. But if

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you don't laugh, now that does, what does that mean? You see, when I use these words, we think in the terms of extremes. If I don't laugh, somebody says, of course I don't hate anyone at Westmount. Have you ever kept another student in the cold by

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attitude? That is unloved. And unlove means hatred. And hatred means death spiritually. Because if God, the source of life is love, if you don't love, you are cut off from that source of life, at least spiritually, and let me please be careful here. When I say

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spiritually, I don't mean anyone who is not spiritually stands on neutral ground. Spiritual life affects you entirely, whether you believe it or not. If you are not right with God, you simply can never be the man God meant you to be, and there is a continual

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protest within you saying you are not yet what you should be, you are not yet what you should be. And you can't resolve that protest at all until you are brought back into right relationship with God from whom you came. It is God alone who makes

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life complete. And therefore, out of relationship with him, I can never be the same. As a student, I can't be the same. In a sense, when I'm not right with himself, I can't be right with myself. I live in conflict. I once told you here at

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Westmont, the lovely phrase that Professor William Buckley uses, Man out of relationship with God is a walking civil war. I love that. A walking civil war. In other words, you come to Westmont, you see 800 students and they could easily be 800 students or rather 800

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civil wars walking. In other words, men with conflicts and unresolved. Men and women with battles inside. Unresolved wars inside us, not outside necessarily, not shooting at each other like in the Middle West or Vietnam. But we forget that I may not use a gun for this

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conflict, but I can walk with something crushing me all the time within me. No wonder psychiatrists, psychiatrist offices and centers are absolutely chalk block. With people. I don't mean that there are no mental diseases. There are. But I mean to say that usually those may be

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the result of this unresolved inward breaking up. Which is a life not integrated, a life not coordinated. Why? Because the coordinator is kept out. And once you keep the integrator out of your life, you just continue breaking. The war becomes intense. The darkness becomes thicker. The

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mist becomes unbearable, the burdens crash in like waves. So, says Saint John, in this beautiful passage, The kingdom is the kingdom of love. The inhabitants live by rule of love. Whose love do they rule? They they love, they live by the rule of the love of

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Christ. If Christ is the king and he is the king of love, then I must say the terms in which or on which we use our lives in the new kingdom are the terms of his love. His love becomes the coordinator, the harmonizer. His love becomes

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the arbitrator when there are little wars between us. His love becomes the fulfiller when we feel terribly empty. It becomes the healing love when we sense there are wounds we have incurred in our carelessness and rebellion. This is a mighty thing, Romans chapter 5 verse 5,

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for those of you who may want to know what a spirit-filled life is all about. It says, we enter into a new relationship, says Paul in Romans 5:51 to 5. And in this new relationship we enjoy peace with God. Because our war, our conflict, our hostility

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has been resolved by God, by the grace of God, and Paul said, we stand in this undeserved love which we call grace. Grace is the love you and I can never deserve, can never earn, can never achieve. We can only receive it and stand in that.

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And when we stand in that, we look around and as we look around, we see hope everywhere. Even in conflict, even in suffering. We are given that wonderful new way of looking at things and see through them and we see light, and we see hope and

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we see glory. Instead of despair, Instead of bitterness, instead of nihilism. We see glory, life becomes wonderful even when we are suffering. I told you those 3 men yesterday. Who in when the sink was sick and terrible, and when it was tending to dehumanize them and

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turn them into angry beasts. In the love which came into the cell, they became real human. You looked in their eyes, they were human beings. In the midst of it all, they had been given this new capacity of seeing hope where it could be completely hopeless.

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Do you see hope in the circumstances of your life? In the new kingdom, kingdom of love, properly related to God and relating to each other, the only mark there is that under that love, you are liberated to live and to live wherever you may be. I

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told you the story, I think last year when I spoke to you, I don't know, but I remember telling you the story of a young man in Burundi. Where there has been a terrible thick confusion of hatred. Not racial, not racial, but tribal. Tribes have turned

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on each other and in this terrible conflict of hate, 15,000 lives have died of men and women and little children. There are thousands of widows in churches. We lost nearly 20 pastors in that terrible massacring. And in the midst of this terrible sick, what was it

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that caused it? Thick hatred. Because when a man hates, says John in his letter, when a man hates, he walks in darkness, and he doesn't know where he's going because darkness has blinded his eyes. In Burundi they speak one language and they're all black. And yet,

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what happened? One tribe looked at it at the other, hatred came in and it became thicker and thicker until the figures of men became mere figures, walking shadows, threatening, dangerous. So one group jumps and kills the other group in the other group, trying to resolve this

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terrible thick hatred, resolve it by killing, by eliminating. And what happened? By trying that method, they started a new terrible vicious cycle. As soon as you kill, then you are ready to be killed. And because you fear to be killed, you kill more. And the more

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you kill and the more you want to kill because you become more insecure. So the game began. 15,000 people died. In the midst, in the midst of this terrible sick confusion, a Christian, many Christian died. Monique, who used to run Radio Kodak, a lovely girl, French

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speaking with whom I had fellowship, died in the game in this terrible, horrible thing. And her relatives did die too. One young man who might, might have told you about him because it's exciting. In this terrible confusion, a person who had actually been liberated to live.

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And who had experienced the liberation by responding to the eternal love which was demonstrated when Jesus died on Calvary and rose again. This man was caught in this terrible thick cloud of misery. In fact, I'm told by an eyewitness. The destroyers came to his school. He

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was a school teacher. And they rounded about 20 young students, girls and boys, and shot them in the compound of the school. In just In cold blood like that. A sort of freezing experience. And afterwards they said to the teacher, you two are going to die.

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And he knew he was going to die. A wife and two lovely children. He was about 30. And they stood him in front of them. They're going to kill him and everything is just terrible. Is this the kind of world? Are these men or beasts? What

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has happened here? Are they mad or are they safe? But this is the world. It's what's happening everywhere, not only in Burundi, everywhere. It even happens in cities quietly every day, you look at the papers and you see people doing it. And this man stood in

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front of these men who were going to destroy him, and he said, Please give me permission to tell you three simple things before you kill. And he did very simple. He said to them, look, look at this man on whether to kill him, he said. I

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love you. You think this was a sentimental, lovely word you say in a religious meeting? Are you sing in lovely churches? Is this romanticism? A gun is in front of you. The fingers are on the trigger, and you look at the men who are going to

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destroy you and you say, I love you. Professor Thileke says on his trying to paraphrase Galatians 2:20, I love, but not I. Christ loves in me. That young Burundi man could never say I love. It was Christ loving those men in him. I love you. Second,

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I love my country, he said. Christians are never betrayers of their country. Because they love their country. Christ loved their country. They are not exploiters, they give their lives for their country, so they really sincerely love their country. I love my country. Third. May I sing

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you a song? This is Christian. May I sing you a song before you give me? They said, all right, sing on. And he stood there. Isn't that a lovely singing? Some of you who are good singers, how would you like to sing with them? This was

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the New Testament singing a song is breaking out of the heart under pressure in suffering. The dead bodies of his own pupils are scattered all over the place, and his body is going to fall soon, and he sings this sentimentalism. You think that is sentimentalism. This

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pi pietism. At the gunpoint, if you can sing, there must be something unusual there. And he sang out of my bondage, sorrow and sin. Jesus, I come. Jesus, I come. 4 stanzas in his mother tongue, a translation of that hymn. He concluded every, every stanza, Jesus,

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I come. I am told that whenever he finished the stanza, it, it was as if that man was being uplifted spiritually. Higher and higher. By the time he finished the last one, he was almost in heaven. In fact, he was there, although physically he was standing

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on the earth. He was there like Stephen, shining eyes, a heart beating in tune with the heart of Jesus, released, set free, nothing could corrode any longer. Spirit filled. For when the spirit comes, says Paul in 5 Romans 5:5. For we are no longer in despair.

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We have received the kind of hope which shall never let us down. Why, for the love of God has flooded our hearts. By the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to us as a gift. Flooded. Can you see this young man absolutely in the flood? Flooded

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with love, liberated to the core. Isn't he alive, a son of the kingdom of love, a citizen sharing in the light. Things are in their proper perspective. There is no confusion here. There is no confusion here. He sees quite clearly, these men are going to shoot

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me, but they deserve to be loved. That is the clear New Testament right. They are not my enemy. I can sing to them the message of the New Testament. Talk about good news. These soldiers can never forget that man. He's a man like them. He speaks

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their mother tongue, he sings it in any way. He's leaving a wife and two children behind, but there is no confusion. I wonder, my dear young people, whether you have yet begun to live. Is this man an exploiter? Is he in possession of circumstances? Do you

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see the meaning of abundant living here? It does not come because your emotions are flowing sweetly, no. It comes when things are tight and life is rough and everything around you is completely frozen and there in the midst of this, you begin to live. For Jesus

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lives anywhere. Have you begun to live? Is your heart absolutely set on fire? By the love of Christ. Because unless that is the case. If we love each other, God becomes an integral part of our lives. Did you hear that? This is John. On verse 12.

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Of that wonderful letter. If God, if we love each other at Westmore, if we love the world, even if the world may be aiming at killing us, God becomes an integral part of our life. That's what it is. He doesn't become an integral part because you

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had a wonderful, successful ministry or you preached and many people responded, not a bit. He becomes an integral part when you stand like that young Murundi. And look in the eyes of your Achilles and say, I love you. Then God becomes the integral part of your

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life, which means the spirit of life in Christ Jesus floods you with God who is rough. And then you can turn around and say, not only that. And his love is perfected in us. Do you desire to be perfected? You will become perfected in the process

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of loving another man, another woman, another girl, another young man. Even to the extent of being given the ability to love your enemies like that man. A reaction of car. I close at this note. Have you opened your heart for the flooding. Of the love of

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Christ. Thus, you will be able to live day by day in fellowship with him and with each other. Thus you will be able to walk in the light of his revelation. Thus you will be able to know when you don't love. What do you do when

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you don't laugh. Then you repent. Do you know that many Christians shy away from that word repent? They think repent means when you are coming for the first time to be born again. This couldn't be far from the New Testament. Christians must repent of resentment, hatred,

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criticism. These are the killers of society. These are the means by which Christians get apart and apart further apart from each other. And then, of course, the more we get apart from each other, the weaker we become as a community. And the colder becomes our testimony.

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And I'm finishing by saying, are you ready for the flooding of Israel? Are you ready that the cell in which you've been living in defeat Are you ready for getting rid of your criticisms? Clear the floor. Let every other God quit the platform so that Jesus

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may remain on the platform of your life as a young person at Westmont. Then you can move towards each other and then the world is going to be a world redeemable. Not a world to be despaired of. Then racists can experience the new flooding of liberation

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in Christ. I must confess, I must finish here just in case I get too excited. And I want to leave you with this challenge. Where are you? Where are you living? And where is your brother? And where is your sister? What's happening? Are you a liberated

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person? Is the Holy Spirit saying, yes, yes, or is he grieved? To feel as if you are in the chill, spiritual. Maybe because you don't, you don't love that student in the next room. Don't you begin here? This what this how practical. It's just as practical.

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Have you taken advantage of another person? Are you exploiting each other at the college? Are you misusing each other's gifts? In order to fulfill your appetite, then you are a victim. You need to be set free this morning. Let the love of Christ flood your life.

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I'm going to conclude by saying, It's time we finished. This talk. But I believe you are saying now what do we do next? First If you are not right with him, who is the king of love, get right, please. Second, if you are not right with

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each other, you simply can never enjoy being a citizen of that kingdom at all. Gets right with each other immediately, according to the guidance of the Holy Spirit, because he's the guide, he's the teacher, illuminator. That then Accept the fact. Because you are liberated and you've

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been loved so much, then it is your abounding duty to love each other so much. Having been loved so much, you can't help loving each other, and you can't help loving the world which he loved so much. And you can't help dedicating your lives today to

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the ministry. I don't mean that you are all going to become clergymen or pastors or priests or whatever. I mean that you in the true sense you are. Priests of the new king. In the true sense of the word, under the compelling love of Christ, you

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simply cannot consume your life upon yourself. It's going to be used and as life is liberated, to be used in America, in Africa, among young people, in university campuses, then it becomes a beautiful life. You spend it on yourself, it becomes a miserable life. Do you

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want to get out of the misery, then commit your life this morning to Jesus Christ and His wrath on the cross, and then you can never be the same. You may say one word or two, you may do a little action, you may help another student.

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Every little thing has got that wonderful tincture of Christ's love for the world. Let us pray.