God in a simple way

99- Three Facets of love

Kamran Yaraei

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In this episode, Kamran reflects on the topic of desires and love. He discusses how love is a strong desire and that it has depth, height, and width. Kamran shares his personal experiences with discovering the depth of Christ's love by going deep into his own heart and the heart of Father God. Kamran also touches on the height of God's love and how some mystics have experienced ecstasy and union with God. Finally, he talks about the width of God's love and how it extends to all people, except for the Pharisees who were a stumbling block to others coming to God.

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 I want to, uh, talk about desires or desire. We are creature of desires. We are moved by desires. I think, I don't want to say. There is not nothing else like desires that can move us because love can move us love. To me, it's a strong desire, but it's more than a desire. Love is just so amazing. Love has so many things in it.

Just, I don't wanna say love is complicated. Love is simple, but love is so deep and it's so wide and it has height, depth, width, and. It's amazing. That's what maybe Apostle Paul said that he may know. Meaning, knowing by heart the depth and the height and the width of Christ love. Some may say, I know the height of his love and that's enough, but it looked like not only we are called and invited to get the height of his love.

But the depth of his love and the width of his love. Okay, let's talk about the depth of his love To me, depth of his love. I talk, started to talk about desire, but I'm talking about love, which is follow this and see for my short experience with the love of Jesus, the depth of his love, I discovered by going deep.

With him into my own heart, and by going very deep into the heart of Father God, that's how I'm still discovering the depth of, uh, Christ's love or the love of God. The depth of his love. I'm discovering, and I'm being honest with you, is I have shared. I'm just exaggerating, but like a river of tears. I have shit so much.

Tears is hard to believe, but it wasn't bad. Tears is like the deeper that I was, uh, invited to his love. The deeper I went to my own heart, the deeper I went to his heart and the depth of his heart healed and is healing the depth of my heart, meaning the depth of Jesus' love. It's healing the depth of my heart, right?

That's being introduced to the depth. Of his love and to know the depth of his love. How about, let's just say the height of his love. The height of his love. I will say it's the perhaps ecstasy or the union that some mystics talked about and some even modern mystic, they talked, talk about the height of his love and Mother Teresa, it looked like she was introduced.

And almost got to know the depth of God's love. And she went through a lot of agony and pain, understood to a degree the pain of Father's heart, which is father's love. That's why she could relate to the pain of humanity and the Outkast society. That's the depth of his love. And some of you may say, oh, ooh, ooh.

I don't want the depth of his love when I'm just talking the height of his love. I have been touched by the height of his love, maybe handful of times. That's how I got saved. I had that kiss and hugged from God, that supernatural experience, and handful of time it happened to me. But mostly I have been walking and have been introduced to depth of Christ love.

Okay. Then we talked about the depth and the height. How about the width of his love, how wide it is? See, I'm still learning. I am far from even the threshold of understanding the width of his love, the width of his love. Um, let's say, how can I say it? Not to offend some people. Someone like Richard Ro had been introduced to some of his material, right?

I'm not saying because I, he has a lot of book. What I have read in one of his book, it led me to believe someone like him, at least in his writing, his understanding the myth of Christ's love is incredible. See, when Jesus came in the Bible, we could see the width of his love, how wide his love was. It wasn't just for his followers, it was for the prostitute of his time, the tax collector of his time, and even the thief on the cross.

That was the width of his love. The only people that I, with my limited understanding, I see that the Lord did not embrace and kind of he did in his heart. I could talk about it later. It was Pharisees. He was ki he would get kind of angry the way I understand of his, the Pharisees. Why? Because they were a stumbling block and they would not allow people to come to God.

That's the way I see it. The rest of the people, the width of Christ's love was almost unlimited. He went so wide. That included everybody and everything. From children to the old people, from holy people to unholy people from TH and the tax collector and centers and everything. To me, that's the wealth of his love.

Okay? To a degree, when it comes to my personal know sin and personal shortcomings and personal luck with God, I have experienced the width of his love. But when it comes to my family and friends and my neighbors and the strangers and enemies, I'm far from exercising the riff of God's love for them because for me then his love is not wide enough.

I make his love very narrow, meaning I only love people that they love me.

I am just talking. I started to talk about desire. I don't know how to, it got to love. Maybe I could talk about the desires and how we are so moved by desires, but let's just talk about the love right now. The height of his love, the ecstasy and those moments, or the moment we got saved. The moment we say Jesus is the son of God.

Or the moment that we were just so touched by the height of his love. Susie and I on our way to South Africa years ago, uh, our plane landed in, um, what was it in France? Thank you, Jesus. We had layover in France for 12 hours, I think, 12 or 14, and it was in the morning. We were so happy. Susie and I, we went to.

Um, uh, one of the amazing city, why I can't remember, Paris, Lord Jesus. We went to Paris, we got the cab and we went to Paris and we were just walking around and this guy, the young guy came and he had one of those motorbike and he said, can I take you around? We said, yes. And we started talking and it was during the Ramada and he's French, and he said, I, I, we offered him some food.

We said, Hey, can we just take you out to dinner? I mean to lunch? We are getting something to eat for sandwich. He said, no, I'm fasting. I said, you are fasting? He said, yes. I said, why? He said, oh, I'm a Muslim. I said, how'd that happen? And he said, when I, if I remember correctly, this is 13 years ago, he said, I was always searching for God and one day I went to.

Get some gas for my car in this gas station. He said everything is stopped for a minute. Everything was a slow motion. I looked around and I could love anybody, anything. I was embraced in this thick, unconditional love, and he said it stopped after a minute, I went back to be normal. What is normal, not being able to love all people, right?

He said, I experienced that. After that, he said, I tried every religion. I became Buddhist. I tried different things. Now I'm a Muslim to really see, and now I'm fasting. And of course I shared my version of gospel. I said, my friend, I was a Muslim also. And all my good works and all my fasting did not get me to God.

I said to him, I said, I'm not trying to convert you. I congratulate you because you are seeking, but you will have your encounter again and you will meet the person of love. But let me ask you this question. When you had that encounter that lasted for a minute, did you do anything to deserve that encounter?

Were you seeking? He said, no, my seeking started as a result of that encounter. I said, did you do anything for that encounter to happen? He said, no. I said, it's free. Same thing. All you are doing will not get you to experience that love again. But you know what? Keep moving forward. Proud of you. Just keep moving forward.

See that particular person for one minute. Was introduced to the height of God's love

and the height of God's love appears, or we will have an encounter, but it's also there to take us to the depth of God's love. And when we understand the depth of our god's love, then we will be introduced the width of his love, which will include every single human on earth. The way that Jesus received everybody

I started coming in. By having an encounter as a former Muslim, I prayed prayer to Jesus. I started to come in and, and I was immediately introduced to the height of his love. Then the Lord introduced me to the depth of his love, which there was a lot of tears, have shed a lot of tears. And I'm still waiting for the height of his love, but he's gonna introduce me to the width of his love, which as I said, someone without, um, offending anybody to that part of one book from Richard Ro I read, I said, wow, this man knows the width of his love.

We are not talking about the universalist and universalism and all those ism. I'm talking about the width of God's love.

Let's forget about any name I mentioned, disaster. The Lord, father, son, and Holy Spirit, introduce us to the height of your love, which is wonderful. Help us to work with you in the depth of your love, even if it's painful. And there will be a lot of tears and healing and then we get healed. But that's not just, uh, after getting healed, you get, we know you're not gonna take us back to the height of your love.

You're gonna take us to the width of your love and we'll be hopefully expect experience your wide love for the whole humanity, and hopefully we'll be able to your Holy Spirit. To express that love the width of your love. That doesn't just sustain in our heart for our spouse and our children or our, some of our neighbors, but go all around the earth and into all around the universe.

You love the universe. Wow. I hope I have recorded this. I'm gonna look, I'm driving. And I hope I've recorded this because I have learned so much by opening my mouth and talking, and the Lord shielded my mouth. Now I understand more what Paul was talking about, the height, ecstasy, the depth, the pain, and the width, everybody.

Whoa. Thank you, Jesus. I love you. I love. The height of your love, and I love the depth of your love, and I love, love, love. The width of your love makes me cry. Thank you. We have been rejecting the width of your love. We only wanted to height of your love, some of us really good at the depth of your love and crying and getting inner healing, but the width of your love.

Lord Jesus, forgive us for rejecting and even hating the width of your love. We welcome the width of your love. How wide is your love? Beautiful love of God. Thank you for introducing us to all aspect of your love. Thank you, Lord.

I just wanna add that to the fact that now I see a little bit about the bit of his love is not going to automatically turn this switch on in me, that I could love everybody and it doesn't work that way. Being there done that, it's not gonna work that way. I know now to a degree. Knowledge in my head.

Maybe a little bit of tear also because it moved me, but he's going to take me there. He's gonna take us there. The height of his love, I had to wait since I was 12 years old to 33 years old and the height of his love touched me. Then I waited so long years. It's 23 years of barking with Jesus and being.

And understanding and being even touched and walking with the depth of his love. You see me most of the time. There are tears in my eyes cuz I've been introduced to the death. It may take another 20 years. I don't know to truly know

dead myth of his love When Bible talks about knowing. Apart from me. I never knew you. I heard the Bible teachers, they, they said, knowing means when you get married and you, you know your husband and you know your wife intimately. That's knowing to become one kind of a knowing the part for me, I never knew you, meaning to me, I never become, become, became one with you.

That's another story. But when I talk about these revelation or these aha moments, those are just in my brain and my mind and even move me to tears. But the known me become one, us become one with what we have seen. That's another story that has to be through Jesus. So many people saw Jesus when he was walking.

But not all became one yet. To become one with a teaching or revelation only comes from God, and it takes years. But the first step is taking now and every single step counts is not the fact that we wait 20 years and boom, it's gonna happen every single moment, every single step count. But it's the Lord Jesus and his love and the weight of his love that will lead us and is leading us even now.

That's amazing. I am so excited. I'm so incredibly happy. See, our happiness and joy will be complete. When we start to know all aspect of his love and when we start to share and leak out all aspect of his love, that right there is true joy. Wow. I could go on and on and talk about this, but I think you're good for now.

Praise some prayer. Be honest.

Talk to me. Okay. I don't know guys. I still, I don't know if I yet love you guys with the we of his love. I don't even love my Susie with the we of his love. Sometimes she does this stuff. I'm like, I become, anyway, okay. Love you guys. I'm, I'm just talking. Like you are standing or sitting with me. That's why, you know, I just treat you like friends and I'm just talking.

Okay? I have to push the pause button and let you guys go and to be introduce to the height and the width and the depth. But remember, starts with the height, goes to the depth and ends up, which is a true beginning. Goes to the breath of his love, and the next time. Bye bye.