Exploring Divine Love: Understanding Romans 8 This Christmas

Hello and welcome to the Middletown Baptist Church Podcast,

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My name is Pastor Josh and I want to thank you for listening to

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I hope that this podcast can be a blessing to you and strengthen

you in the word of God.

Now come along, let's look into the Bible and see what God has

for us here today.

We've been studying the Book of Romans, and a lot of people don't

equate the Book of Romans to the Christmas story, but we could

say it just so happened, or that God ordained that we are just

in the passage that I think definitively defines the type of

love that God has for us here in Romans chapter 8.

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So I believe that God has ordained us to continue on in Romans

8, looking at that type of love that God has displayed in offering

His Son for us on the cross.

Romans chapter 5, verse 8 says, But God commended or demonstrated

Romans 5:8

his love towards us in that while we were yet sinners, Christ

died for us.

Think about this.

The God of the universe sent his only begotten Son to this earth,

not for people who were perfect, not for people who would

always be faithful, but for people, as it says in Scripture,

that would turn our backs against him, sin against him.

For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son

that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting

life.

That's the type of love that God has for us, that he would extend

the gift of grace to us, the gift of salvation to us, in that

while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

And here In Romans chapter 8, we see the definitive passage on

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the type of love that God has for us.

We've already talked about the sacrificial love that Jesus has bestowed

upon us.

The type of love that God has for us is a sacrificial love.

It's the type of love that we're all supposed to have.

The Greek word for that is agape, sacrifice.

It's not self seeking, but it's selflessly giving of everything

so that others can know that we love them.

Truth demonstrated, love demonstrated.

And the type of love that God had for us is that he extends that

gift of grace and sacrifice, knowing that we would stumble, knowing

that we would look away, but he still loved us none.

The the the same.

And the Bible says In Romans chapter 8, verse 31, what shall we

Romans 8:31

say then to these things?

If God be for us, who can be against us?

You've ever been tempted to doubt whether or Not God is on your

side.

Whether or not that God cares for you.

The Bible says we remember what he showed us in his sacrificial

love.

It says in verse 32, he that spared not his own son.

Romans 8:32, he that spared not his own son, but delivered him

Romans 8:32

up for us all.

How shall he not with him also freely give us all things meaning

this?

God proved his love by sending his only begotten Son.

And if he gave us His Son as a sacrifice because he loves us, how

much more does he care for us in the daily matters as well?

So 8:31 and 8:32 in Romans tells us that God loves us and that

he's for us.

And then it goes further.

In verse 33 it says, who shall lay anything to the charge of God's

elect?

Meaning who can bring anything against those that are in Christ

Jesus?

There's nothing that anybody can do to us.

They can.

They can say things about us, or they can even persecute us.

They can forget about us.

They can betray us.

They can show us hate.

But the Bible says that what can they really do?

Why?

Because it is God that justifieth.

It is God who declares us righteous.

We don't need someone else's declaration of righteousness to help

us remember that we are loved.

All we do is we go back to the love that God showed us and the justification

that he provided for us by declaring us righteous in him to

know that he cares for us.

Says in verse 34, who is he that condemneth?

It is Christ that died ye rather that is risen again, who is

even at the right hand of God, who also also maketh intercession

for us.

Meaning this.

Nobody else can condemn us.

Why?

Because we are in Christ Jesus.

He came to this earth.

He lived that perfect life.

He preached the truth of his gospel, the truth of his kingdom.

He died on the cross for our sins.

He rose on the third day and conquered death through the resurrection.

And the Bible says here now that he is making intercession for

us.

God wants that personal relationship with us.

And so we see the sacrificial love, but we see a personal love.

We see a love that desires to know us and for us to know Him.

The Bible clearly tells us that God is a God who cares about

our every single need.

And so if you're ever questioning whether or not God loves

you, what do we do?

We go back to what the Bible says about the cross.

Just as the girl's saying here this morning, it's about the cross.

Jesus came to show his love for us and to offer us that sacrifice

and ultimate salvation.

Then it says in verse 35, who shall separate us from the love of

Christ?

Here's a really good question.

Can anybody separate us from the love of Christ?

Can my neighbor separate me from the love of Christ?

Can another church member separate me from the love of Christ?

Can even I, as a human being, separate myself from the love of

Christ?

It says, who shall separate us from the love of Christ shall tribulation.

That's trials.

All of us at some point in our life have faced trials.

Can a trial separate me from the love of God?

Or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or peril or sword?

What is he doing here?

He's basically listing all the problems that we could have in our

life.

He.

He lists problems of the physical.

He lists problems of the emotional.

He lists problems of the spiritual.

He says, shall any trial or tribulation, any distress or problem,

any persecution, any famine, any.

Any nakedness, any peril, any sword.

Could any of these things separate us from the love of God?

Then he goes on to say this.

As it is written, for thy sake, we are killed all the day long,

we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

Meaning this, as a Christian, we will face some of these things.

By the way, this is not a passage reminding us that, hey, you're

not going to face these things.

This is a passage reminding us that we might face some of these

things.

But the answer to it is amazing.

And this is one of my favorite verses in all of scripture.

He says, you might go through trials, you might go through persecution,

you might go through distress, you might go through famine, you

might go through peril, you might even have someone come after

you physically.

But he says, can that separate us from the love of God?

Verse 37, Nay or no?

Definitely not.

And all these things, and all these difficult things, we are more

than conquerors.

More than conquerors.

You know, the Greek word there actually literally means this, that

you're a super conqueror.

Well, I'm not a super conqueror in my own flesh.

No, but it says what?

Through him that loved us?

Through Jesus.

So when we place our faith in Jesus for our salvation, when we

place our faith in what he has done for us for salvation, the Bible

says that we are now identified in him, and therefore

we can be more than conquerors because of our relationship with

Jesus Christ.

He changes things.

He.

He.

He transforms us so that no longer we're defined by our trials,

our distresses, our persecution, our famine, our.

Our.

As it says there, our Nakedness, which means we don't have

anything we, physically or materially, that doesn't define us

anymore.

My looks don't define me.

My past doesn't define me.

My job doesn't define me.

My culture doesn't define me.

What defines me as it says here, the love of Jesus Christ defines

me.

My identity in him defines me.

And then Paul says this testimony that I think all of us

can take as a testimony if we are born again believers here this

morning.

He says, for I am persuaded, meaning I am convinced I'm standing

in this.

I'm putting my whole life in this.

For I am persuaded that neither death, he takes it that far.

He takes it all the way to the point of dying.

He says, neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities,

nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor

height, nor depth, nor any other creature shall separate us,

shall be able to separate us from the love of God.

What does he say here?

He says, I'm answering the question that I asked at the very

beginning.

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?

Nothing, nothing can separate us from the love of Christ.

Not even my mistakes, not even the hate of others, not even the

sin in this world, not even my physical problems, my material problems,

my emotional problems.

Because the Bible tells us that even though we go through those

struggles, that we have a God who is with us, who cares for us,

and who is going to make all things right one day.

And it says, which is in Christ Jesus, our Lord, meaning we

are not the ones that are holding us secure in our lives.

My love is going to fail.

My love is going to falter.

My desire is going to falter.

My.

My commitment to God, though I have the best intentions, will fall

short.

But the Bible says that nothing falls short when it comes

to the love of God.

He loves us immensely.

He loves us infinitely.

Now, again, I have to clarify that love does not mean acceptance

to all the wrongdoing in our life.

Love sometimes means there's discipline.

Love sometimes means that they're the speaking of the truth.

Love sometimes means that there needs to be a change.

And all of us that have children understand that.

All of us that have children know that we can love our children,

but at the same time not agree with bad decisions that they make.

This is the same thing with our Father in heaven.

He doesn't say that I love you.

So everything's okay what you're doing, just keep doing.

No, the Bible says that his love for us, as we look back in Romans

8, remember what his will for us is if you go back to verse number

29, it says, for whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate

to be what?

To be conformed to the image of His Son.

So God's love means this, that he wants us to be more and more like

Jesus, to be more and more Christlike, to experience the love

and the forgiveness of God, and to turn into this world and to

love those around us to the best of our ability with the love

of Christ.

Here this morning.

Sometimes we might be tempted because of a certain circumstance

in our life to question whether or not somebody loves us.

And the reality is, is that there are people in this world that

will stop loving us for whatever reason.

But what the Bible does say is that we can also question whether

or not God loves us.

But the Bible tells us here in Romans chapter 8 and other places

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that nothing can separate us from the love of God.

Some days I have great intentions.

Sometimes I wake up and I say, okay, today I'm going to read my

Bible for an hour and I'm going to pray for an hour.

And I'm going to do all these things that I have good intentions

with.

But the reality is, is that because of my limitations, because

of my inadequacies, I'm not able to do everything that I intend

to do.

Let's say I make a promise to you.

I say, okay, I'm going to be at your house and I'm going to help

you move out of your house, and I'm going to help you because,

you know, true sacrificial love for a man that has a truck is

that he will come and help you move something, you know, furniture

and all that.

I could say, I love you and I'm going to come and help you move.

And I could have every intention in the morning to wake

up and do that.

But maybe my truck breaks down or maybe I'm not feeling well, or

maybe traffic was bad, or, or maybe I didn't write it down on my

calendar and I completely forgot.

The reality is, is that even if as a human being, I love somebody,

I have limitations.

I'm inadequate.

I, I, I'm not all knowing.

I'm not all powerful.

I'm not all present.

And so even the best love that a person can show to somebody else

is limited.

But we worship a God who is not limited.

We worship a God who is all powerful.

We worship a God who is all knowing.

We worship a God who is everywhere.

And when he makes a promise of his love, he keeps his word.

It might not look exactly the way that we expect it to look.

It might not be in the timing that we're expecting it to be in.

But the Bible says here that when he says he loves us, he proves

that he loves us.

And in that proving that he loves us, we know that we have security

in Him.

And so God's love for us is sacrificial love, but also God's

love for us is a secure love.

We can find security in him.

We can find comfort in him.

We can find our confidence in Him.

We started out in the very beginning of Romans chapter 8.

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Looking at verse number one, there is therefore now no condemnation

to them which are in Christ Jesus.

When we are in Christ Jesus, we can have the confidence to know

that there is no longer judgment, there's no more condemnation.

And we know that the Holy Spirit now lives within us.

The Holy Spirit then equips us to do the work that God has called

us to do.

But there is going to be times even when we know that there's no

more judgment, even when we know that the Holy Spirit lives within

us and gives us a job and gives us a purpose to live in him.

There's going to be times when we're tempted to doubt.

And that's why in verse number 28, he reminds us, and we know that

all things work together for good to them that love God, to them

who are called according to his purpose.

We need that reminder sometimes that all things are working

together for good, for his good, and for our good.

And some people question that.

I've questioned that.

But at the end of the day, if God is who he says he is, if he is

the One who gave us His Son, as it says in verse 32, he spared

not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not

with him also freely give us all things meaning?

If he kept his word by giving us His Son, he will keep his word.

In the struggles that we face on the day to day life, he will keep

his word.

When we are physically struggling, you say, well, I'm physically

struggling right now and he's not healing me.

Well, he certainly can heal.

And it's not our job to decide whether or not he's good or bad because

he hasn't healed or he has healed, all we do is trust that he

can heal and that ultimately one day, all of us, no matter what

we face here in this world, no matter how many struggles we face,

no matter how many sicknesses we have, no matter how many people

turn their backs on us one day.

As the Bible says in verse 18, that when we get to be with our Savior

one day we will realize that the glory of being with him supersedes

anything that we face here in this earth by way of struggle.

Paul says in verse 18, for I reckon that the sufferings of this

present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which

shall be revealed in us.

So what does Paul tell us?

That the love of God is not only a sacrificial love, it's not

only a secure love, but it's also an eternal love.

It's a love that never ends.

It's a love that continues on not just for the here and now, but

for all eternity.

That we will get to experience his love forever in his presence

one day.

And that's what we're living for.

If I'm living today for feeling good, how many of you would

be disappointed by that?

Right?

I woke up this morning and I. I was feeling the pain, right?

Some of you are like, hey, you're young still.

I'm not as young as I used to be.

That's why I keep telling people.

And so the idea is this.

We wake up and we feel pain.

And sometimes we equate pain with a lack of love.

And I'm talking about the physical here.

But some of us understand, too, sometimes we wake up and we

don't feel the physical pain as much as we feel that emotional

pain.

Maybe someone has cut us deep.

Maybe.

Maybe it's something that it's very hard to forgive.

The Bible says that if we're living for everyone to love us now,

we're missing the eternal perspective.

If we're living for everything to feel good, right now, we're missing

the eternal perspective.

Some of us are spiritually hurting.

Some of us have faced difficulty even within a Christian

setting.

The Bible says that if we're living for everyone to love us and

to be perfect, we're missing the eternal perspective.

Because we go back to verse number 36, and he says, as it is

written, for thy sake, we are killed all the day long.

We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

He says, there is going to be times when we do face persecution.

There's going to be times where we do face distress, there's

going to be times where we do face famine and peril and all the

things in this world that are defined as difficulties.

But at the end of the day, we can say God is on our side.

There's another passage of scripture that I think is so important

for us to understand because I know that sometimes when a preacher

preaches the love of God and the patience of God, that someone

who's going through the struggle might say, yeah, because

he hasn't experienced that.

And the reality is, maybe I haven't experienced what you've experienced.

But what we have to do is we have to go back to the word of God

and we have to go back to examples that we have seen before

us.

So if anyone faced struggles, ultimately it was Jesus, right?

We.

We know that.

We know that Jesus was betrayed.

We.

We know that Jesus was.

Was beaten.

We know that Jesus was betrayed by his closest friends.

But then we see another example in.

In Paul, right, the guy who's writing the book of Romans.

So Paul is saying this.

Everything is going to be okay in Christ Jesus.

He loves you.

And we would say, okay.

That makes sense for a guy like Paul who maybe had everything

going well for him.

Maybe life was really smooth for Paul.

Maybe you don't know the history of Paul.

Maybe you think, well, Paul just lived the materialistic life

of having gold and silver and people loving him.

Well, I want you to go back to a book called Second Corinthians,

because I just want you to see the guy who says In Romans chapter

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8 that God loves us and that nothing can separate us from the

love of God is the same fella who went through a ton of distress

throughout his ministry.

And so in Second Corinthians, chapter 4, verse 8, we see a parallel

2 Corinthians 4:8

passage to Romans 8, where we can see that the reality of difficulty

in this world is a true thing.

It's.

It's there.

But we can have something in the midst of a difficult world.

And he says in Second Corinthians, chapter 4, verse 8,

2 Corinthians 4:8

we are troubled on every side.

The idea would be this.

We've got problems all around us.

Some of you that watch the news a lot can attest to the fact

that we've got trouble all around us, all different types of

struggles.

But then what does he say?

Yet not distressed.

So he says, the reality is that we can have struggles all around

us, trouble all around us, yet not distressed.

We are perplexed, meaning humanly we are confused.

We.

We don't know where to turn next.

But he says, but not in despair.

Persecuted, but not forsaken, cast down, but not destroyed, always

bearing about in the body of the dying of our Lord Jesus, that

the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.

Meaning this, as a Christian, we can go through difficulties.

We can go through good times.

Paul talks about good times as well, we can go through good times

and difficult times same way with knowing that our identity is

in Jesus Christ and knowing that nothing can separate us from

his love.

So what do we do when we don't feel the love of Christ in the Christmas

season, or any season for that matter?

He says go back to what you know about him.

Go back to what he has demonstrated.

He has demonstrated his love by offering his Son for you.

We see Jesus in a manger, and that's a beautiful picture because

it's a.

A picture of Jesus's humility to come to this earth and be born

in a feeding trough, because that's really what a manger is.

Jesus wasn't born in a kingdom, at least a kingdom that

we would describe.

A castle with nice gold, you know, beds and walls.

He wasn't born that way.

He wasn't born with a crown on his head.

He was born in a humble fashion with humble people to just

display the type of love that God has for us.

A humble type of love, a sacrificial type of love.

When the Bible tells us more about that, it says that Jesus grew.

He didn't stay in the manger.

He became an adult.

He ministered and he sacrificed.

And as we said before, he died on the cross for our sins.

But then we know that he didn't stay in the tomb.

He conquered death through the resurrection.

And therefore he offers that gift of grace to all of us who believe.

That's what we go back to when we're tempted to believe that God

doesn't love us anymore.

That's what we turn to when we are tempted to think that God's not

going to work things out for us.

And so here in this Christmas season, I know for many people it

can be a joyful time.

But also I'm aware of the fact that sometimes holiday seasons can

be difficult because of a loss of a loved one or maybe because of

trauma that's happened in around that season.

Let me tell you that no matter what has happened to you, no matter

what you have gone through, no matter what you have lost, no matter

what you're going through right now, the Bible says it's the

love of God that passes all understanding, the peace of God that

passes all understanding, that can rule our hearts and minds in

the midst of difficult times.

And I love his testimony here, and I hope that it's a testimony

that we can all have in our own lives.

Brian persuaded.

Romans 8:38.

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For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels,

nor principalities, nor powers Nor things present, nor things to

come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature shall be able

to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus

our Lord.

The love is found in Jesus Christ.

The sacrifice is found in Jesus Christ.

The security is found in Jesus Christ.

The eternality of it is found in Jesus Christ.

And so this morning, if you want to find hope, joy, peace, comfort,

all of the things that the Bible tells us that we can have,

the way we find those things, the way we understand those things,

the way we're to live those things out in our life, is to live

a life based not only in the existence of Jesus Christ, but in

the knowledge of who he is and the belief and faith in knowing who

he is and what he has done for us.

And recognizing that that, and that alone is.

Is the only thing that can save us from our sin.

It's the only thing that can save us from our brokenness.

It's the only thing that can save us from despair.

Because if we live in any other fashion, all of these other

things define us.

And in these things that we face, whether it be tribulation or

distress or persecution that can conquer us, if we are not in

Christ.

But the Bible says that when we are in Christ, we are in verse

37, nay, in all these things, we are more than conquerors, more

than conquerors through him that loved us.

And so here, this Christmas season, here in your Christian walk,

if you want to understand what it means to be more than a conqueror,

if you want to understand what it means to walk in confidence, no

matter what might be going on around us in this world, in our homes,

in our own personal life, the Bible says to be in Christ.

What does it mean to be in Christ?

It means to trust in him, to put our faith in the person and work

of Jesus Christ alone for our salvation.

If that's something that you've done, if that's something

that you've trusted in in your own life, the Bible then tells us

to live in that, to walk in that, to grow in that.

And as verse 28 says, to understand that all things work together

for good, to understand that God has a purpose for our lives,

verse 29, to understand that God has that purpose of being conformed

to the image of His Son.

Someone here might say, I've been saved for 50 years.

I've reached it.

I'm at the pinnacle.

Paul.

If anyone reached the pinnacle, it was Paul.

What did Paul say at the very end?

Second Timothy?

He says, I've not reached it yet.

I Need to keep going.

I need to keep pursuing.

I need to be more like Christ.

All of us, I don't care how long you've been saved, can grow

to be more and more like our Savior by sacrificing and yielding

to the Spirit and dying to our flesh and saying, lord, it is you.

It is your love that I rest in, you know, for many years.

Can I take my jacket off?

Is that going to fix it?

All right, taking my jacket off.

Hopefully I don't offend any of you.

Maybe that's what's causing it.

I have one last thing to say here.

You know, technology is good unless it's not working.

Okay, really want you to follow me here on this.

This is the last thing I promise.

For many, many years, my goal in life was to find love, find acceptance

in people.

Like, where I found my value was that people would say, wow, you're,

you're smart, you're, you're talented, you're good at whatever

you're trying to do.

And, and that seems like a good goal.

But if our goal in life is to get other people to love us, we are

going to be tempted to what we might say, compromise our ultimate

values for the Lord and put other people.

And essentially what we're doing is putting ourselves first.

And really what we have to do as Christians is we have to say,

okay, the love of another person is an amazing thing, but that

cannot be our ultimate goal.

Our ultimate goal must completely be in understanding the

love of Christ.

Not earning the love of Christ because none of us can earn the love

of Christ, but understanding already what the love of Christ really

is, and then resting in that, and allowing that love to change

us so that we can be different, so that we can spread

that type of love to other people around us.

When we understand that trying to appease people or impress people

or try to get people to accept us for our good gifts and our good

talents, that's a never ending pit that will never, never satisfy.

But when we understand the love of Christ and when we live for

him and when we serve him, then you know what?

That wealth is always going to be full because the love of Christ

is abundant.

And I'm going to tell you here today, that's the goal for all of

us.

To live in the love of Christ, to serve in the love of Christ, to,

to sacrifice in the love of Christ, to serve in our communities

in the love of Christ, to forgive one another in the love of

Christ.

That's what he says there.

He says in, in the love of Christ.

And so I want you to think about that here this morning.

What does the love of Jesus mean to you?

Is this something that just is nice to have to talk about at certain

times of the year?

Or does the love of Christ change what you believe?

Does the love of Christ change the way that you live?

Does the love of Christ change the way that you love others?

And here this morning, the greatest gift that we can ever experience

is the love of God in salvation.

And so in the Christmas season, there's a lot of gifts that

we could have.

My kids have a long Christmas list, and we try to fill that list

and make sure that they're happy.

But at the end of the day, the greatest love that any of us can

experience is the gift of grace that Jesus Christ extends to

all.

And so here this morning, I encourage you to pray about that.

Ask God to give you clarity in your response to the greatest sacrifice

of all, the love of Jesus Christ and the sacrifice of the cross.

Remember his love is sacrificial.

Remember, his love is secure.

Remember, his love is eternal.

And if you remember that, I. I do believe that we can have the joy

of the Lord here this Christmas season.

Because God intends us to live in the joy of the Lord in our lives

doesn't mean that everything's going to be okay.

But what it means is that we can live with confidence knowing

that Jesus Christ is Lord.

And anyone can do anything to me.

Who's going to.

Who's going to come after me, what.

What can they do to me if God before us, who can be against us,

that's the type of confidence that we can live in and that we can

love in here in 2025 and into 2026.

And ever long God allows us to live and serve Him.

And so I'm going to tell you Romans chapter 8 is a passage of

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scripture that has changed my life.

And I know that it's a passage of scripture that can change yours.

If ever you're tempted to doubt his love, if ever you're tempted

to doubt his sacrifice, if ever you're tempted to doubt your

identity in him, go back to Romans, chapter 8.

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Read it, memorize it, study it, because it's a wonderful passage

in reminding us the confidence that we can find in Jesus Christ.

And so I'm going to ask if you're able to stand with me, every

head bowed, every eye closed.

We're going to have a time of reflection, a time of invitation.

And it's not going to be a long invitation.

Number one, do you need Jesus Christ as Savior this morning.

I know it's a Christmas service, but what better time to

trust in Jesus Christ and to know that you have forgiveness in

him?

The Bible says for the wages of sin is death, but the gift of

God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Maybe some of you are coming here this morning to say, I was just

coming to listen to some music and to enjoy Christmas.

I would be mistaken, I would be wrong if I did not present to

you the gospel of Jesus Christ.

God has given us all as Christians the opportunity to tell

others.

And here this morning.

We've got a great group of people here.

But the greatest news that's ever been told from the very beginning

is the news of Jesus Christ.

Remember the angels.

I bring you glad tidings of great joy, good tidings of great

joy, which shall be to all people.

We're all people.

So the good news this morning is this.

Jesus loves you.

He died on the cross for your sins and he wants you to trust in

him this morning.

What if you have trusted in Jesus Christ this morning?

What does the love of God mean for you?

Are you on that path to conforming to His Son?

Are you on the path to understanding what it means to love

the way that he loves?

Are we loving sacrificially?

Are we loving with that type of security only found in Jesus Christ?

Maybe you're a Christian, but you're struggling on the fact that

maybe God doesn't love me anymore.

This is your reminder this morning that God loves you.

This is your reminder to know that nothing can separate you from

that love of Jesus.

So maybe this morning you just want to come and thank him for that

great gift of his love, that great gift of his security and his

confidence that he extends to us, I encourage you to do so this

morning.

Lord, I pray that you be in this time of invitation work in hearts

and lives.

I pray that all those that have found the truth of Jesus can

rest in that truth here this morning.

I pray that we can follow you, that we can trust in you and know

that you are a good God who cares for us.

And I pray that we can be reminded that nothing can separate

us from the love of Christ.

Pray that you be in this time, in this invitation in Jesus name,

Amen.

We've got some people up here up front if you need to come talk

to them.

We can show you in the word of God what it means to know Jesus Christ.

If you just want to come here and nail the steps and be reminded

of that great love that God has that nobody can take away from

you, nobody can separate you from.

Maybe just thank him for that here this morning.

Foreign.

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God Bless.

Have a wonderful day.