Provocative Benevolence

Damon Thompson Ministries

Damon, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Thompson

4.8 • 930 Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Religion will tell you that your quality is connected to your work. The Kingdom teaches you that your quality is connected to your Father. It's the kindness of God that leads to repentance. So today, let His kindness and His provocative Benevolence overwhelm every area of your life.

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0:00.0	Thank you for listening to this message from Damon Thompson Ministries.
0:11.1	I want you to, while they're passing those buckets, I want you to go to Matthew 20.
0:19.6	Matthew chapter 20. I'm going to, I'm going to share
0:21.9	with you, this is going to be brief tonight. I feel like I've already given you a little mini sermon,
0:26.6	and I don't want to just bombard you with another thought. But this so ties into what I just shared
0:32.5	at the 2nd Kings 4. I'm going to minister to you from the subject tonight, provocative benevolence.
0:38.0	We're going to talk about provocative benevolence.
0:42.1	One of the themes that we've been on here lately is understanding the governmental power of love.
0:49.2	Learning to trust the government of love, learning to trust that love's government will do more to
0:57.2	purify you than fear of punishment ever did. And so we learned that telos agape, perfect love,
1:05.3	ebolo's cast out phobos, okay? So perfect love cast out aggressively all fear. So love has a fiery element to it.
1:16.5	Not just a sentimental element, but a fiery element. We know concerning God's, as Malcolm Smith calls it,
1:22.9	God's isness. God's isness is that he is love. And God's isness is that he is a consuming fire. He's not some days
1:31.4	a consuming fire and some days love. He is love
1:35.6	that is a consuming fire. He is a consuming fire that is love.
1:41.1	All right? So we're beginning to understand. These it's not it's not love on one side of the
1:45.8	scale and consuming fire on the other side of the scale as if the the dichotomy that is god
1:52.0	needs to be balanced there there is no i i'll just i'll just say it to you like this because
1:58.3	i think this is an important important thing for us to get purged from as we
2:03.1	theologically come to understand the nature of God. I think there is still dualistic thinking in us.
2:10.4	Let me explain dualism in country Alabama boy terms. Good cop, bad cop. Jesus is the good cop. God is the bad cop. And the only way you keep the
2:21.3	bad cop off of you is plead the blood of the good cop. As if somehow Jesus was used to change the
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