In Episode 83, of Truth & Knowledge: 'Loving God More", Trey Knowles unpacks what it really means to love God more. True love for God is shown in faithfulness—being willing to surrender our way of life for His. Trey reflects on Jesus’ call to “lose our life to gain it,” denying the sinful way of living and choosing God’s way instead.
This episode challenges us to love God more than the world, to be willing to let go of anything that pulls us away from Him, and to trust that what we gain in Christ far outweighs what we leave behind.
Listen in and be encouraged to walk in greater devotion, deeper surrender, and unwavering faithfulness to the One who gives true life.
00:13but I'm not going to be disobedient to the word of God.
00:20How much do I love God?
00:24How can I love God more?
00:26Through faithfulness.
00:28So when I love God through faithfulness, money doesn't matter to me.
00:36My life doesn't matter to me, meaning I don't care if you kill me,
00:42but I'm not going to be disobedient to the word of God.
00:48Love God more than anything else.
00:53Love God more than anything else.
00:55Love God more through faithfulness.
00:58If I got to die, so be it, but I'm not going to touch that pork.
01:05I'm not going to eat that pork.
01:10Love God through faithfulness.
01:17Love God through faithfulness.
01:19I'm not going to get rid of my morals.
01:26It costs me my job.
01:27It costs me my job.
01:28It costs me money.
01:30It costs me for losing money.
01:32Then I'm going to lose the money.
01:35But I'm not going to step out of my godly morals and values.
01:39I don't need to gain that money if it's going to make me lose my values.
01:48Love God through faithfulness.
01:50Meaning I'm going to be faithful no matter what the circumstances.
01:55No matter what I see.
01:58No matter what happens to me.
01:59I'm going to love God through faithfulness.
02:02Whatever the circumstances, I'm still going to love God through faithfulness.
02:10Faithfulness.
02:12I'm going to lose my way of life.
02:14I'm going to sacrifice my values, but for God's way.
02:22And I don't care about losing my life.
02:25I don't care about being murdered.
02:27But I'm not going to step out of disobedience.
02:35Love God through faithfulness.
02:37This is how you love God more.
02:38Through faithfulness.
02:43So how much do you love God?
02:45What are you willing to give up?
02:47See, I know God loves me, but how much do I love God?
02:50How much am I going to give up?
02:52How much, what am I going to give up?
02:58I don't need nothing else.
02:59My life is complete.
03:01But it's complete through God.
03:03Not through my complete.
03:05There's nothing on here on earth.
03:06There's nothing here.
03:08What else do I need?
03:09Nothing.
03:10All I need is God.
03:11God is my, my what?
03:15My source.
03:18Through obedience, I'm going to listen to him.
03:23And if I have to be killed, then so what?
03:25If I have to be killed by you, so what?
03:28I'm still going to be faithful to God.
03:35I love God more.
03:38I love God more than I love you.
03:41I love God more.
03:43More.
03:44You're not going to tell me something to do, do something that does not fit in the word of God.
03:55I'm not going to do something that's not going to fit by the word of God.
03:57You might be my family member, but I love God more.
04:06You might be my mom and dad, but I love my God more.
04:10You might be telling me something that does not match the word of God.
04:13I love my God more.
04:15If I got to lose my family, so be it.
04:18I love God more.
04:22No matter what the circumstances, I love God more.
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05:27The way to love God more is to lose my way of life and the world's way of thinking.
05:34And lose my way of thinking and replace it with His way of life.
05:40Why do I say that?
05:42Why do I say to lose my way of life?
05:46Because I don't know my own way.
05:48And to lose the way of life of the world.
05:52Not to be influenced by the world's way of life.
05:55But replace it and be transformed by the ways of God.
06:00So why do I say that?
06:01It is written in Matthew 16, 24 through 26.
06:08So if I want to be like Jesus Christ, I got to deny myself, deny my way of life, my way of thinking, the world's way of thinking, the world's way of life, and follow Him.
06:30Whoever wants to save their life will lose it.
06:35If you want to save your way of life, the world's way of life, the world's way of life that you have adopted.
06:45So those who try to save that life will lose their life at the end.
06:49Why am I denying?
06:53What am I denying?
06:54I'm denying my sinful way of life, the acts of the flesh, the desires of the world, and the pleasure of this dark world, the pleasures of this dark world.
07:06But whoever loses their life for Jesus will find their life.
07:12Why would I find my life in Jesus?
07:15Because I'm following His way of life, meaning I'm being obedient to the Lord, and I'm satisfying the will of God.
07:23I'm satisfying the will of God.
07:24He's leading me to the will of God.
07:28What good it would be for someone to gain the whole world but forfeit their soul?
07:35Does it make sense?
07:37To gain the whole entire world but lose your soul?
07:39What is out there in the world?
07:40What is nothing out there in the world?
07:44There's nothing out there to gain.
07:50What can anyone to exchange for it?
07:52What can you exchange for your soul?
07:55You cannot buy salvation.
08:00Deny yourself, deny your way of life, the world's way of life.
08:04Being denied the way that you've been colonized.
08:08You've been colonized a certain way to adjust to their way of life, to the enemy's way of life.
08:14But whoever loses their life for Jesus' sake will find their life.
08:25But all this comes through love.
08:28Because when you love God, you want to be faithful to God and you find your way of life.
08:35We know that God loves you, but how much do you love God?
08:41How much do you love God?
08:43Everything in the world you try to gain is meaningless.
08:50What is there to gain in this world?
08:51It's meaningless.
08:52Meaning it has no value.
08:54It is worthless.
08:55The only important thing that has value is Christ himself because he is the way, the truth, and the life.
09:05The only important thing is Christ himself.
09:09It is written in Romans 12, 1-2.
09:12Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God.
09:26Holy and pleasing to God.
09:30So we offer ourselves, our bodies, as holy temples to God, pleasing to God.
09:38This is your true, proper worship, to deny ourselves, to deny ourselves, to sacrifice our bodies, sacrifice, right, to purify ourselves.
09:55When we purify ourselves, this is our true, proper worship.
09:58Do not conform to the patterns of this world.
10:01Protect your body.
10:03Protect what goes into your mind.
10:05Protect what you put in your mouth.
10:06Protect what goes out your body, what you say out your mouth, what you do, your attitude, your behavior.
10:17Do not conform to the patterns of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.
10:23Then you know, then you'll be able to test and approve what is the will of God and what is not the will of God.
10:29When you're following God and when you renew your mind and you're following God, you know that you can see what's the will of God is and what's not the will of God.
10:40When you transfer, when you transfer, when you transform out of this world, out from the world's way, when you transform out of the world's way of thinking and the world's way, the world's way of believing.
10:54And the way you transform, your mind, your way of life to God's way of life to God's way of life.
11:02So you got to transform out of the way, transform out from the world, way of thinking, their behavior, the way they think, their philosophy, their ideology.
11:15Get rid of all of it and transform to God's way of thinking and God's way of living.
11:26And all this comes by loving God.
11:30Only way you can do this is by loving God.
11:32I mean, you got to love God more than anything else.
11:34Love God.
11:35And why do I say that?
11:37When you love God, you do, you want to please him.
11:42You do what he says.
11:43When you love God, you want to please God.
11:48And you do what he says.
11:50When you marry, you want to please your spouse.
11:54When you marry, you want to please your spouse.
11:58You do what your spouse likes.
12:01So just like in a marriage, you please your spouse, you do what your spouse likes.
12:04You don't do what your spouse don't like.
12:06You do what your spouse likes, right?
12:08But that's the same way you please God, right?
12:11Don't look elsewhere.
12:12When you're in a marriage, you ain't looking at nobody else.
12:14You ain't looking elsewhere.
12:16You're taking no other opinion, right?
12:19When you got God, you take God's opinion.
12:21So when you're in a marriage, it's just you and your spouse who take each other's opinion.
12:27You're one with each other.
12:29Do not love your spouse more than any other spouse.
12:35Well, not any other spouse, but do not love your spouse more than anybody else.
12:40All right?
12:40Your spouse, your husband or your wife is important.
12:43Your wife or husband is important to you.
12:50Do not love no one more than your husband or your wife.
12:56The same way with God.
12:57Love God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and love him more than everybody else.
13:06Be faithful.
13:07When you're faithful to your spouse, you're going to be faithful to God.
13:13Love your spouse more than anyone else.
13:15Please your spouse.
13:17Because if you please your spouse, you're going to please God.
13:21This is why the enemy breaks up marriages.
13:24He doesn't want us to learn how to be faithful.
13:26But when we learn how to be faithful to our spouse and please our spouse, we're going to be faithful to God and we're going to please God.
13:35So we learn the attributes of faithfulness.
13:39Why am I telling you this?
13:42If you practice the concept of marriage, knowing how to please your spouse with love,
13:49and when you're pleasing your spouse, you are faithful to your spouse, and you are worthy to your spouse.
14:00And if you're worthy to your spouse, you will be worthy to God.
14:05You are learning how to love God and how to be faithful to God.
14:12You're learning how to love God more and more and more because you love your spouse.
14:16If you're faithful to your spouse, you're going to be faithful to God.
14:19You learn how to be faithful to God, learn how to love God more because you understand what faithful is, how to please God by taking no other view.
14:33Don't take the world's view.
14:36Don't take no anybody else's view.
14:39If you're in a marriage, you're not going to take any other woman's view or any other man's view,
14:43but it's just you are one with your husband or your wife.
14:48You are one with your spouse.
14:54Because if you're not one, then you are unfaithful and you are cheating and you are taking some other way.
15:02So you have a way between you and your spouse.
15:05There's a way.
15:06There's a relationship there.
15:07There's a marriage there.
15:10And you love your spouse more than anything else.
15:15You want to please your spouse.
15:18The same way with God.
15:19How do we love God more?
15:20By pleasing him.
15:22By living by his way and no one else's way.
15:24Because we have been transformed.
15:28When we transform and we are transformed in a way, in his way of his likeness and image and in the way of his, of, under his will.
15:40The same thing with a marriage.
15:42You grew up a certain kind of way.
15:44Your spouse grew up a certain kind of way.
15:46Y'all come together.
15:49Y'all become one.
15:50Transformed through love.
15:57This is how we love God more.
16:00Through faithfulness.
16:03I'm Trey Knowles.
16:05And thank you for watching Truth and Knowledge.
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