Sermon
4-2-23 AM Service: A Never-Ending Love
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Welcome to the Liberty Baptist sermon archives.
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The message you're about to hear was preached at Liberty, Baptist
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Church in Eastern Massachusetts. You can find out more about us
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or contact us at my Liberty, Baptist dot org or just look us
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up on Facebook. And now, we hope that this
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message from God's word will be a blessing to you.
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13 is where we're going to be at.
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Of course we are moving forward in our series forward this year
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and April is the month of moving forward in love.
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And certainly, that's not a mistake as we consider the love
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that Jesus shed abroad. On the cross, there is precious
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blood in the fact that even here today, as we consider the day
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where we commemorate his triumphal entry into Jerusalem.
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Jerusalem and all that followed after that as he approached the
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cross. And I think today we can move
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forward in Love by looking at Christ's sacrifice and his
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never-ending love, and fact that's the title of my message.
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This morning, a never-ending love all through April.
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We're going to be looking at this concept of what the Bible
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means, when it talks about love and love is one of those funny
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words, isn't it? Because it's a word that people
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use all the time? But yet, it means different
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things to different people. And it's one that the
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definition, although I don't believe it's confusing to.
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God is one that's confusing to man.
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For instance, loves comes with different uses.
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It's a noun, it's a verb, it can be used in different ways.
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Love comes with different intensities, I love my wife and
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I love pizza. And we pray that the intensity
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of those are different, right? Because I really love people but
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anyway, I really know I that my love for pizza.
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Cannot parallel. The love that my for my wife.
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But yet we use the same word to describe both.
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I mean, that's kind of a strange thing when you think about it,
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isn't it? Love has different.
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Definitions, believe it. Or not, if you were to look in
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the Webster's 1828 dictionary and add, all the definitions
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together, there are no less than 11 different definitions for the
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word, love that we use. Today.
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And then you add to all that confusion, you have this modern
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and sinful society that we live in.
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That keeps telling us a phrase. Like this love is Love.
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Love Is Love which by defining the word by the word itself
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means that the word has no meaning or value, and hence can
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be defined by anyone in any way at any time, no matter what that
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phrase. And we have to see that there.
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To be a meaning to love. There has to be a definition of
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Love. There has to be an example of
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love that has to be held up for us by none other than Jesus
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Christ. And so, here are Texas morning.
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I want to take some time to meditate on the death and
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burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
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But particularly I want us to focus in on True, Love In
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Action. As Jesus is approaching the last
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hours before he goes to the cross.
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Why would you stand please for the reading?
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God's word, God's word. This morning, John 13.
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Verse number one and we're literally going to read one
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verse this morning. So you're not going to stand for
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Long John Chapter 13, beginning of verse number one.
John 13 chapter mention
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And it says this now before the Feast of the Passover, when
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Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out
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of the world unto the father, having loved his own, which were
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in the world. He loved them until the end.
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That's a short verse but there's a lot in that verse and I really
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want us to focus in this short period of time that we have on
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that second half of the verse having loved his own which were
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in the world. He loved them unto the end if
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we're to move forward in love in this month of April and really
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if we move forward in love, as God has called us to get our
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Christian Life. Far beyond just one month out of
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the year. Would it behoove us to look at
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the love of Jesus Christ? Not just this morning, but on
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Tuesday and on Friday and on Sunday and far beyond as we
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consider that there is no greater model of love that has
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ever walked the face of the Earth then none other than Jesus
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Christ. Heavenly Father.
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Be with us this morning as we get into your word, help us to
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understand just a glimpse of this never-ending love.
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And we ask it in Jesus name. Amen.
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Thank you. May be seated.
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It in such a short verse. So much is being said as John
John 13 chapter mention
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Chapter 13 unfolds or rather John, chapter 12 unfolds Palm
John 12 chapter mention
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Sunday has passed. Jesus is now sharing the last
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supper with his disciples in the hours, as he goes to the cross.
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In the beginning of that verse, the first half of verse number,
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one of John Chapter 13 sets the scene for us of exactly what's
John 13 chapter mention
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going on. It gives us the time frame of
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when this verse takes place. Before the Feast of the
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Passover, understanding that he's about to share of what we
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would call the last supper with his disciples including who
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would see if we continue to read with none other than Judas
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himself who's at the table before the supper, the Last
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Supper takes place and we see this timeframe that is here, it
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also gives us Jesus mindset. When it says Jesus knew that he
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knew that this hour was come. Now we And that Jesus knew all
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things before the foundation of the world ever took place.
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But yet at the same time, could we put it this way?
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It's at the front of Jesus mind right now.
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I don't Proclaim to understand all of how that works.
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But yet here on Jesus mind and heart is the fact that he knows
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within hours, he's going to go to the garden and he's going to
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pray and great. Drops of blood will fall down
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from him as sweat from his brow and he's going to be taken.
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And he is going to be beaten and mocked and placed on a cross.
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And he knows these things are about to happen.
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It says that he knew that his hour was come that the hour for
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which he came to this earth, 33 years.
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Previous to that point had now come and it also gives us this
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first half of the verse Jesus future that it wasn't just that
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he was in, go to the Cross but that he should depart out of
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this world unto the father telling us that he knew while he
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was Going to go to the cross that he would resurrect three
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days later and that he would sit at the right hand of God the
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Father which is by the way, where he's seated today, waiting
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for the moment. When the father tells him go and
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get my children and bring them hither back to me and that day
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is coming, but Jesus knew exactly where he's going on
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again. He was not conned into the
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cross. He was not cornered into the
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cross. Jesus came into the situation
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fully aware knowing what was about to happen.
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And I think it's important for us to take a moment to dwell on
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that because it makes the second half much more powerful knowing
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that Jesus would have had all of this on his mind but yet still
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had this great love in his heart.
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Listen. If you're a man especially we
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can only concentrate on one thing at a time.
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No, listen to my wife wants to talk to me.
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It has to be after the half ending of the Red Sox game
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because during something important might happen, all
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right? I don't know, and I'm saying
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this in front of you because I'm much braver in front of you,
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with all of you around me than I am.
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If it's just us alone. No, I know.
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Seriously though, even just this morning and, you know, our
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daughters, hear Bethenny's here and I'm thinking about the
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sermon, but my thoughts are going all over the place just
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because Typically many of us not just men women, we like to focus
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on one thing at a time. We can't just happens that women
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do it. Better focusing on multiple
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things at a time. But Jesus here is in a situation
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where he knows he's about to go to the Cross.
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He's about to go through something that no one has ever
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gone through that. No one will ever go through and
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that we can't even comprehend even though we have the volume
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of 66 books. In front of us, we can't
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comprehend all that he went through during those at even
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just the hours that he was there.
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Praying in the garden. We can't understand.
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Great anguish that he was going through when he said, let this
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cup pass from me, but not my will, but thy will be done.
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I can't even imagine that, but against this backdrop was so
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much pain and Agony ahead. We're given the small piece of
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information in the second half of John 13, and it's small and
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Powerful, like dynamite having loved each of his own, which
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were in the world. He loved them unto the end.
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Having loved his own which were in the world.
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He loved them unto the end. Jesus loved was evident all
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throughout his ministry but maybe never more than in his
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final days. Think of all those who he
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lavished his love upon in those final days before he went to the
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Cross. He loved the crowds on Palm
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Sunday, despite the fact that many of them would have shouted
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Hosanna, which literally means save us now, one day, but some
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of the same ones would have been crying out, crucify him just a
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few days later. No, Jesus, still love them.
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Knowing when he wrote In, as we just heard brother, Vince read
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this morning that as he wrote in and they were extolling his
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virtues. He knew that many of them would
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turn their backs on him and he loved them.
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Anyway, unto the end, he loved the Pharisees that he would
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verbally spar with on those days following there, in the temple
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who publicly would denounce him and privately plotted against
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him. He loved them to the end, he
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loved the money changers. You remember that he cleansed
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the temple one final time before he went to the cross and he Love
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those money changers, even though they had made his
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father's house, a house of merchandise and even though he
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had took that cord and even though he ushered them out of
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the temple, he still had great love for those moneychangers.
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Even though they were doing him wrong, he loved the members of
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the Sanhedrin, even though they plan to entrap him into a
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kangaroo court and accused him with false Witnesses, each of
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those, he loved unto the end, But it wasn't just those things
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that had been passed and prior to John 13:1, I would submit to
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you. That what is said, in John 13:1
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is also ringing true to everything that happened after
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that moment as well. He loved the soldiers who had
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mercilessly beat him. Mock him and curse him. he loves
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pilot despite the fact that he condemned an innocent man that
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he looked at him and he said, what is truth when he was
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looking at true When he said, I wash my hands of this man's
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blood. When there's not enough
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antibiotic antiseptic water in this world that could wash his
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hands from the blood of Christ. But he loved them to the end.
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He loved Herod Antipas, remember that he got sent to Herod in the
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middle of examination of pilot. And sometimes I think we forget
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that it's that same Herod. Remember, there were many
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different herod's herod's was a name of a ruler that would have
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been Regional at that time there in Israel but it was that same
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Herod who I believe, beheaded his cousin, John the Baptist and
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he would have stood before that same Herod who is making mockery
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of him and that day was true. The Bible says that the enemy of
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my enemy was My friend that Herod and pilate didn't really
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get along, but they had a common enemy who ended up being Jesus.
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And so they became friends during all that.
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And despite all that Jesus loved Herod unto the end, He loved the
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crowds though. They be rated him and blasphemed
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him and challenged him and said, if you be who you say you are
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get yourself off of this cross. And we know not only could he
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have done so but he could have wiped the map with the whole lot
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of them. But yet he didn't as the old
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song, says, he died alone for you and me.
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He loved the crowds to the end. Can I remind you that he looked
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at Judas a few hours from now and in Matthew 26:52 called him
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friend. I've read some commentaries that
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say that heme said that out of sarcasm or he said that in some
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other fashion, but no, Jesus would have said that in sorrow,
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but in truth, Knowing that he had invested in Judas for three
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years knowing still what he was going to do.
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No no he knew what Judas was going to do.
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The Son of Perdition yet he loved him until the end.
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I mean, this is astounding. What a model for us to have in.
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Love the bottle of Jesus Christ, we think we've been hurt.
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Compared to Jesus, we think we've gone through difficulties.
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Compared to Jesus. We think people have done us
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wrong. Compared to Christ and I'm not
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minimizing those things that have happened to you in your
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life. I'm not saying that they aren't
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real because Jesus had more happened to him.
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That's not what I'm saying this morning.
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What I'm saying is, if Jesus could love those to the end,
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even those who had done him so wrong, when he had never done
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anything wrong in his life, in his 33 years and and has never
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done anything wrong in his existence which was before time
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and in time and will be after time.
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Eternal nature of God has never done wrong if he can love to the
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end, who are we We so there's two things I want to point out
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to you very briefly here this morning.
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And the first is this, we must remember the Christ loves unto.
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The end Christ loves unto the end and I don't know about you,
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but if this was me And I was going through those things that
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Jesus was going through. And I had any one of these
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events or occurrences that I just read to you happened to me.
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At some point, I would have looked at Jesus and I would have
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said something like this or I would have looked at those
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people and responded differently than Jesus.
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I would have said this forget, all of you.
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If you don't see what I'm trying to do for you forget it.
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No, if it was me, I would have used the pilot defense.
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I would have washed my hands and said, I wash my hands of all of
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you because I have done nothing wrong and look what you've done
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to me, but yet that's not our Jesus.
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We need to remember this morning, did, although he very
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well could have done that and would have been within His right
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to be able to do that because of our unrighteousness.
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But yet that's not what he did. He loved and loves until the
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end. You say, well, well, you're
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saying that about some of these people.
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But how do you know that about about everybody?
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Well, because of Romans, 5 6 through 8, where it says for
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when we were yet without Strength In Due Time Christ died
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for the ungodly. Do you know who the ungodly is?
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That's us. We were the ungodly before.
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We got saved Christ died for the ungodly.
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Meaning this he came into this eyes wide open.
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He knew what you would do. He knew what I would do?
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He knew what they would do before history, even started
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being written. And yet this was always the plan
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for scarcely for a righteous man will one died yet peradventure
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for a good man, some would even dare to die, but God commendeth
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God, reveals God shows his love toward us.
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Us in that while we were yet. Sinners Christ died for us.
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That's love. That's a love.
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Unlike any other love, you can find anywhere.
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This is the kind of love that loves to the end.
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So it reminds me this morning to just ask this question, do you
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know Jesus Christ in Salvation today?
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Because the next verse in Romans 5, says this Romans 5:9 much
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more. Then being now justified by his
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blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.
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How do we know that we're saved, even though we were that?
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Lost Sinner, they had done, wickedly and unrighteously and
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that Jesus loved us enough and loved us to the end to save us.
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Well how do we do it? It's through the blood.
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Can I help you with something today?
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It's not through what happens here.
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This is not what will save you here this morning?
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The Bible never says that someone is to get baptized to
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bring the vessel of Grace upon them and salvation.
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That's not what the Bible says. The Bible makes it clear that
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the baptismal Waters were always for those who responded to the
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gospel message. That's why the Ethiopian eunuch
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said, what doth hinder me to be baptized.
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And our King James Bible says which modern versions take out.
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It says this it says, if thou believest with all thine heart,
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thou Thou mayest and they got out and they went into the water
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and they went into the water because Romans 6 tells us that
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what happens here in this water is not a, it's not a vessel of
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Grace, but as a picture of the grace that have been bestowed
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upon us by what the love of Jesus Christ.
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We who straightway in the water and then he went down in the
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water buried in the likeness of his death and raised in the
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likeness of his resurrection. Once again, why it's a picture
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of what Jesus did the death burial Resurrection this A
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picture of the love of Christ. What we do here today with
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Peyton with with our brother Jamie?
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What we do here is to picture, not just the death burial
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Resurrection but it's to remind us of the great love of Jesus
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Christ. If you were to fill this pool
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that this horse trough let's just be honest, what it is.
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Who know some people get their supplies from, you know, like
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the Heritage house and we go to Tractor Supply, you know, that's
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just what. That's just who we are, you
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know, but here's what I know if you were to fill this with the
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the love of God, that it would overflow so much that the old
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hymn says that if that if the the sky was parchment and every
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man, a scribe by trade and the, the oceans were ink that you
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could never write of the love of God.
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But yet this pictures, what it is here.
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For us today and he loved us until the end.
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And if you don't know, Jesus Christ as your savior today,
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don't do this to get saved, no repent and call upon Christ to
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save you, and then get baptized to confirm what God's already
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done in your heart. And all of that's well and good.
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And everything that I've said here so far is true, which is
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probably a relief seeing as I preach for the last 20 minutes
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you probably relieved that I believe that what I said is
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true, but I will say that it's a little bit of a departure from
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the text. Because the text is very
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specific. It's not that God doesn't love
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all until the end because he does But it doesn't say in John
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13 Verse 1 that he loved old to the end.
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Again, that's a true saying that doesn't take that away.
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But part of preaching biblically is making sure that we don't
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just preach what we thinks in the text who actually preach the
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text. So, look what it says in John 13
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verse number 1. It says now before the Feast of
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the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come, that he
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should depart out of this world on to the father, having loved.
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What's the next two words? His own Which were in the world.
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He loved. What's that next?
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Word them unto the end. Did he love all to the end?
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He did put in those final moments?
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What is the message that the holy spirit is trying to convey
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to us through this text that? It wasn't just that he loved all
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of mankind to the end which he did.
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And we'll get to look into that next week and there's I mean,
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there's so many verses, I mean, it was like trying to put this
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together was trying to go up to a buffet and trying to figure
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what verse is do. I use because there's so many,
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the speak of the love of God in our life and how we relate to
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that. I don't even know where to
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begin. But it says he loved his own.
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and he loved them, his own until the end, which means this
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There's an application for those who are believers here today.
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That should be a help. And why is this so important?
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Well, here's why it's important in a few verses.
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Those ones that he loved at the table to the end that he
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specifically speaking of are about to flee. 11 out of 11 or
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gone, the closest is John who followed farther away and who
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was there at the cross. He was there close enough that
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Jesus could convey final instructions to John in
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reference to his mother Mary. So we want to maybe, say a
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ten-and-a-half at best, but John followed far away 10 of or nine
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of them. We don't know what happened to
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them. We don't see them until Sunday.
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And then there was Peter who we know what happened.
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And Peter was worse in the sense that it wasn't just what he did.
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That he cursed the fact that he did not know.
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Jesus Christ, he cursed and vowed that he did not know.
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Jesus Christ in me better way to put that but it was just a few
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hours before where he said I will never do that.
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I'll never do it. And in the light of that.
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We are reminded in John 13:1 in the light of the failure of his
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disciples. You know, in the light of the
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failure of his disciples, we are reminded from John 13:1 that he
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still loved us to the end. So, who us?
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Well, you're there too and I am if we belong to him.
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Cic encouragement for the believer today.
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When I look at this thought that moving forward in love reminds
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us that even when we fail Jesus he loves us.
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Doesn't he loves us when we don't obey him?
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John 15:10 says, if you love, if you keep my Commandments, you
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shall abide in my love. Even as I have, kept my father's
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Commandments and abide in his love.
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Jesus says, I abide my father's Commandments and so I abide in
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his love. He says, if you want to show
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your love for me abide in my Commandments, Jesus, as I do, my
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father, we don't do that very well.
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Who are you talking to exactly who I'm looking to?
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I know who you are and I know who I am.
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And I would I say to you, I say with boldness, but also with the
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humility of knowing that I'm in the same boat that you are
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having to deal with the same rotten flesh every day.
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And yet instead of confirming my love to him through obedience to
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him. What I end up doing is straying
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from him over and over and over again.
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That's why in John 14 of chapter before he said he even more
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succinctly. If you love me, keep my
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Commandments. But yet, despite the fact that I
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do not confirm, my love to him, as I should so often, he loves
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me to the end, they don't know. Encourage somebody that all hit
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me. Make a Baptists.
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Amen. I mean it didn't, but it ought
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to sure. When we're not faithful to him.
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The things he wants us to do. Ministry that we should do.
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You want to talk about Ministry in church?
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I'm just talk about ministering to other people at the job site
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in your family. The people that you run across,
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you need to give attractive. We're not faithful to the Holy
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Spirit, Will prompt you say, you know, you should give that track
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to someone and we've got a hundred reasons, why not?
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But he still loves us, and loves us to the end. when we worry
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more about our own Comfort than his glory and his plan, I think
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that so often defines us, You know why the disciples ran, they
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were more concerned about their safety.
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Then the savior, That's why they ran.
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They were fearful for their lives.
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If you're not sure go fast forward to Sunday, they've
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barred the door, making sure that no one would get in.
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And despite the fact that they coveted their own safety more
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than they did, the security of their savior just as we often do
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with our own Comfort. Compared to his glory, his plan,
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he still love them and loves us till the end.
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So, have you failed? Or fallen or fallen short of
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what God has planned for your life.
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Understand that, if that's the case, he'll still love you to
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the end. Now I will say this, he loves
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you far too much to have you stay that way, which is why he
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brings loving correction into our lives.
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What Hebrews chapter 12 makes it clear.
Hebrews 12 chapter mention
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If you are one of his own, he will correct you as a father to
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the children. It's great to watch.
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Peyton get baptized today. It's been a blessing to baptize
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now all three of my girls and I was just talking with I think
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was Kaylee yesterday, the irony of baptizing, a daughter, my
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sister. In the name of the father and
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the son of the Holy Ghost, it's a beautiful thing to baptize my
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daughter. My sister.
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That's a great thing. I love that.
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You know, some of you might be surprised about this and I feel
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uncomfortable talking about it while our teachers here.
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But some of you might be surprised that Peyton, sometimes
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acts up In my notes it just says here and Jamie Christopher gives
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a testimony know I just get know that does it.
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That's not Everyday. I'll ask her when she gets in
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the car. Did you get a check?
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She goes. No, but I do know who did not
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want to hear about who did? Do not do not throw them out as
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the sacrifice to try to save yourself for the next time you
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get a check, I don't want to hear it.
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Yeah. That he the tire tracks firmly
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on the back of their backs, but there are times we have to
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correct her I could give you examples.
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You say, well Pastor, don't you love her.
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Of course I do, why? Correct?
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Why corrector? Well, pastor of God loves me so
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much, then then it, he's just never gonna bring correction my
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life. You know, he's gonna love you so
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much. He is going to lovingly.
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Correct. You at times to try to bring
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bring you back at. How much do you love Israel?
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Israel, the apples. I what do you do?
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He kept giving them warnings and profits over and over and over
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but yet they wouldn't listen. And what would happen, he'd
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bring correction to be able to show them his loving nature and
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to draw them back in the fold. So understand this Christ loves
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into the end, but that doesn't mean he's going to leave you
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alone. If you're a child of God, When
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you're in sin, in fact, quite the opposite.
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He's gonna do it. Because like a father saying,
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well, you know, Peyton go ahead and touch the hot stove.
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Who cares? You'll learn your lesson?
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No, I'm going to stop her from doing that and I'm going to
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teach you the lesson because I don't want her to get hurt.
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God is going to bring some things into our lives.
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To try to help us is because he loves us till the end and you
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better. Be sure that if you have failed
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him, he loves you. He cares for you.
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He doesn't he desires nothing more than for you.
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To come forward to this all to this morning with repentance and
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to get your life, right? With him, but if you don't, he's
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also going to show you that love by bringing some correction into
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your life. Because he loves you to the end.
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If you're a child of his, the number one, I see this Christ
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loves into the end. But number two, TV, one more
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application. Remember this?
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We should love Christ. And to the end.
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Christ loves us into the end. That's never been questioned.
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That could never honestly be questioned throughout human
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history with a Christ has loved Humanity.
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What is questioned in my life every day is this?
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Do I love him to the him? Do I love him to him?
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And as we move forward in love this week, and this month.
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We ask ourselves this question, why I love him to the end?
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Is my love burning hotter for him.
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Or waxing colder. Because it should burn hotter
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and more brightly with each passing day.
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Matthew 24:12 talks to the last days when it says and because
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iniquity shall abound the love of many shall wax cold.
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You know when iniquity of bounds in our hearts sin you wanted to
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bounds our hearts. You know it does our love for
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Christ gets cold. So what happens Knowing the
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Bible. Our Salvation is often compared
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to marriage many times. There are many comparisons of it
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in the Bible. You know, many marriages start
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and infatuation. And in and of itself that's not
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wrong because of the nature of what love and physical
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attraction. All those things are but you
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know it's found out over the years that true deep meaningful
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love. Goes far beyond just those few
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early days. and as you drive, The pile deeper into the
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Bedrock. You find this that when that
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initial infatuation is not exactly the same as it was and
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I'm not saying that you should ever lose that completely, you
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really should have that in a marriage.
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But boy there should be something deeper.
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How can two people in their aged years?
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That physically have very little to offer each other.
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But yet, look at each other with a deeper love than they had when
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they were at the marriage altar. Well, that's a true deep love.
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And, you know, I found is often true for believers, there's an
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infatuation that takes place, sometimes in the first few days,
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weeks, months and years when they get saved.
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You say Pastor that's not true. Jesus gave a parable about the
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soils and he said there's going to be a type of person that
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reacts in that manner they sprout up only to church all the
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time. I'm going to be in future Pastor
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all open the doors for you. I'm going to be what could I do?
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Where could I go? What can I do?
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What can I give? They're doing everything in
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month and month a year later. You never see him again.
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Or there's some that hang around church for years.
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But their heart is just the same as the one who left after a
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year. And Jesus is Love Will Last to
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the end, but our love for Jesus. Wayne's overtime.
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When we baptized, we often use the ring as an example because
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that's what baptism is. It's a symbol.
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This ring. I'm not no longer married
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because I took it off. It's a symbol of what took place
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was 20 years ago by the way. Yeah, dude.
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Whoa, what was that? No, I'm not sure how I feel
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about them. It's a was it we were at a
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preacher's meeting a few weeks ago and I did.
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They said, you know, tell how long you're in the ministry, I
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stood up and said I'm Rivero and 17 or 18 years in full-time
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Ministry to goes. I didn't realize you were that
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old said the same to you buddy. All right, so let's strike that
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from the record. All right, but let me get to it.
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Let me get to the point. Aunt, I'm veering from the
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point. I'm grounded.
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Third and coming home. And I'm about to trip on the
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Baseline. Here, here's what I know.
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Is that this symbol? At a wedding is often called the
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symbol of marriage. I don't know how many pastors
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I've heard that it said this in the wedding's they've done and
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say, well is a symbol of marriage because it's a
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never-ending love. Here's the problem.
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It's not always. The statistics L is 50 percent
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of marriages end in divorce and it's not much different even
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within the realm of Christianity.
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And so what I'm saying, is it because we're frail human
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beings, it's not always the case.
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This symbol. You know that this should be the
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symbol of our love with Christ. You want to you want a real
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symbol of everlasting love? He will love us to the end.
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By the way, I'm not trying to take away from the text or add
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to the text. But what it says he loved them
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to the end it, I believe that it means that he was going to
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fulfill his love to them through his Earthly Ministry.
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That's what it's speaking of a net context, but we not also
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agree that he not only loves us to our end, but beyond our end
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here in this life and into the next So, why wouldn't I want to
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have a love that grows stronger? over the years of my savior,
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some of some of you, it's getting a little cold, And just
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like in a marriage where things get cold.
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And difficult. And awkward.
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How much more so with our savior?
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When between two people. There can be fault on both
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sides. Let's be honest, even if it's
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great fault on one side and really not much on the other,
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I'm just saying that there can be But here's what I know when
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it comes to my relationship with Christ.
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It's never his fault. It's never been his fault.
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People disappoint, you. People will hurt you.
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But Jesus loves to the end. Let's use that love towards
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others, to the end but let's make sure we're loving him to
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the end. And that every day my
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relationship and love for him is stronger, not weaker than the
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day before. Thank you for listening to the
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sermon from the pulpit of Liberty Baptist Church.
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If this message was a blessing to you or if there's any way we
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at eight hundred Washington Street in Eastern.
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Massachusetts, may the Lord bless you as you grow in his
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word. Thank you for listening to the
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sermon from the pulpit of Liberty Baptist Church.
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If this message was a blessing to you or if there's any way we
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can serve you, please let us know by contacting us at info,
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at my Liberty Baptist dot org, or you can visit us this Sunday
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at eight hundred Washington Street in Eastern.
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Massachusetts, may the Lord bless you as you grow in his
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