When We Are One

Love is not the product of a mere me with

a capital M. Love is the exchange, that is a

we who is one. If in me is all there

is of God, then God cannot love me or you

or anyone else, because God is not a we who

is able to love as one. If God is only one,

then God is alone. If God is only two, then

God is exclusive. But if the true God, who is one,

is also three, then God is love. That is why

the one God, who is a we in the Bible

create the universe for you and me and all the

hosts of Heaven, and the Bible says for his divine son.

Because God is love. The love of God, that is

the law of God, is the outworking of his eternal

nature as an eternal.

God of love.

There's never been a dark time in the nature of God.

There has always been light because God is light. There's

always been coming from God that is like, and there

has always been love and the mix that is the

mind the spirit of God in the dance that is

the nature of God, the love dance joy. God did

not come from a pressing past. He came from a

joyful eternity. That's why one God, who is we in

the Bible creed of the universe out of love. The

love of God, that is the law of God, is

the outworking of his eternal nature as an eternal God

of love. There has always been in the eternal nature

of the One God, who is a we, the capacity

to experience and to share love, because God is a we,

and thus God is love, because God is one as

three Patriarchtion Prophets, page thirty eight. Now, if you're not

into the spirit of prophecy and your personal devotional reading,

you're missing something.

These books aren't just books. They're inspired. Books.

Contain the tight linguistic structures that only exist in inspiration

at a level that is God given. And so it

starts the very first chapter, the very first line of

her magnum opus of the Conflict of the Ages series,

describing the controversy of how it started in heaven hell

end at the end of the millennium. She says, God

is love, his nature, his law is love. It ever

has been, it ever will be. The high and lofty

one that inhabiteth eternity, whose ways are everlasting, changeth not

with him. Is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. Every

manifestation of creative power is an expression of infinite love.

The sovereignty of God involves fullness of blessings. And what

does the statements stay say to all created beings?

Now that's me. How many of you want to be

blessed by God? Today? Raise your hand?

Okay, God is in the blessing business, because God is

love Genesis one twenty six. Then God said, let us

make man in our image after our likeness, and let

them have dominion over the fish of the sea. Notice

me says, let us make man in our image. God

is a we, not just an eye. And let them

have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over

the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and

over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that

creeps upon the earth and goes on, and say, God

bless them. Deuteronomy six four and five. The Great Commandment

the heart of the Torah. You can take the ten commandments.

It comes into this verse. It's a rock solid anchor

for the soul. Christ will lean on this verse in

John seventeen when he praised his prayer before he goes

to the cross. Because Christ is the law of God.

Here O Israel I'd like to say in the Hebrew

shamah ye Israel, and deny Elohina, deny God here o Israel.

The Lord, our God is one.

Now the revised standard will say one Lord, because it's

working off the subtuagent Greek.

Both are true. And you shall love the Lord your

God with how much of your heart?

What does it say, with half a heart, all your hearts,

with how much of your soul, with all your soul,

and with how much of your energy and might?

With all your might? Why?

Because God is one, it's one John five seven. This

is the verse that many translations will leave out of

the Bible, and I struggled with it. I took Greek

Exejesus and textual criticism at the seminary. Now that's not

in a negative sense. The study of the Greek text.

The Greek manuscripts that support this that we have on

hand date to the ninth century, and so some Greek

scholars have said this verse doesn't need to be there.

Ellen White actually paraphrases this verse in numerous times when

she talks about the Heavenly trio and other expressions similar

to it, and so it does deserve to be there.

Cyprian third century quotes this from the Old Latin Bible,

and so there's evidence this verse needs to be there.

In fact, the grammar here makes it impossible for it

not to be in the Bible. God made it sure

it was in the Bible. And here's what it's called

the Johannan i in Kamma. For there are three that bear

record in heaven, the Father of the Word and the

Holy Ghost.

And these three are one.

Now. The spirit of Prophecy describes the divine council of

love that decided within the triune Godhead, the triun Godhead counsel.

Some people wonder was there a council decide God, the Father,

and the Son. Yes, the Father, the Son, and the

Spirit represent the divine council. And she describes the triune

Godhead counsel that gave us Jesus. It wasn't just Jesus volunteering,

and it was a circle of love that gave us

Jesus as the loving will of the three persons of

the eternal Godhead. That is one will, one God that

is eternal, the we that is loved, because God is one.

Ellen White counsels on health page two two two. The Godhead.

I'll wait till you get this on the screen. The

Godhead was stirred, and what does it say? The Godhead

was stirred with with.

Pity for the race.

That means God loves us, and the Father number one,

the Son number two, and the Holy Spirit gave what

does it say themselves to the working out of the

plant of redemption. In order to fully carry out this plan,

it was decided that Christ, the only begotten Son of God,

should give himself as an offering for sin. What lying

can measure the depth of this love God would make

it impossible for man to say that he could have

done more with Christ? He gave how much of the

resources of heaven? All the resources of heaven. God bankrupted

the Godhead to give us Jesus Christ. He gave us

all the resources of heaven that nothing might be wanting

in the plan for man's uplifting. Here is love. Now,

how do you define love? God gave? God gave God,

God gave all he could give. Therefore, God is love.

Here is love, the contemplation of which should fill the

soul with inexpressible gratitude.

Oh what love? What matchless love?

The contemplation of this love will cleanse the soul from

how much selfishness, all selfishness. It will lead the disciple

to deny self, take up the cross and follow the redeemer.

And I like that.

I want to.

Follow Jesus, not me.

Our salvation was not the plan of a mere me

who pontificates his divine will upon his vast creation the.

Rest of us, she says.

The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit gave themselves

to save us from the divine counsel. Came the decision

to give all of God to save us. It was

determined in the divine counsel, the Godhead, the counsel that

is a we in the Bible, that the we that

is God, should commit themselves to our salvation by giving

Christ to come to earth to show us God. We

wouldn't have a clue who God is if it weren't

for Jesus. Christ is the way to know God. It

was determined that Christ would represent the love that is

in the very nature of the Godhead. Love is not

the product of a divine counsel that is alone and

aloof an exclusive kind of God and isolated deity, like

Islam teaches that cannot interact a God unable to give

and take, a hard hearted and self centered God that

is only one and nothing more. If God is alone

as God, and there is not a we to the

substance the nature that is God, then God is selfish

and the I that is God is an evil being

by nature, and the oneness of God is not the

right kind of one that we need to bow down

and worship. That is a harsh thing to live with

if you're a creature who needs to worship a loving God,

and this fact alone would make it impossible for God

to love anyone. If God is only one and nothing

more than one, and from the vast eternity of a

lonely empty universe, with God alone, there is no joy,

There is no life, there is no love. If God

is alone as God and only, and I am not

a we, then God is an infinite being who lives

only for his selfish self. If this is true, then

God is a miserable being to be pitied for being God.

That is the case, then the corellary is true, that

the fraud and the facade that is the love of

God is nothing more than a divine imposition. That is,

a lie promoted that is not true. In sight of God.

That's what Satan came up with in the Great attack

upon the divine nature in person of God. The Great

controversy started over an attack upon the character of God,

the nature of God, who God is, that there exists

a law that is not workable for his creation, that

who he is.

Is not what he asks of us. If God is.

Alone with all the power, and there's not a weed

to the eye that is God, then all the power

is a self centered power.

And God is not a god of love.

And when you give half of everything, you gave nothing

really unless you can empty it all for your creation.

So Lucifer took his fists and he raised it to God,

and he says, you are a fraud. Your law's a fraud,

Your son's a fraud. You're a fraud. For sure, I.

Am leaving your empire.

He knew it was a lie, but a third of

the angels went with him. You know, in a state

of nature, be hard to argue against an argument like that.

If you're an eternal.

Being, hear that you cannot give of yourself because by

nature being infinite, how can you empty yourself? And thus

you ask of others self renouncing love when you yourself cannot

give at that level, and so he was loser.

I was smart.

You didn't come up with some crazy idea that took

a third of the angels out of heaven. He had

he had it figured out from a state of nature

how to put God on trial. The conclusion is clear

that God himself is unable. According to Lucifer Love, because

God is only an eye and not a wee and

the oneness that is God. And that's why he attacked

the divinity of Jesus, the right of Christ to have

supremacy in the universe. If almighty God is alone without

an Us and the oneness of the substance in nature

that is eternal God, then God is to be pitied

because because God lives only unto himself in the vast eternity,

the past, that is nothing, a lonely God in the darkness,

forever waiting for an empire to rule.

Friend.

When God gave Jesus to save the world, God gave

himself in Jesus as the gift from God, that is God.

Paul says, God was in Christ reconciling the world into himself.

John says, in the beginning was the word the word

was with God. The word was God, the word tabernact

among us. God gave God. It was the decision of

a we that is love in the eternal counsel of

the oneness of the Godhead, that is three three persons.

As sister White says, she uses different terminology. The Bible

uses different terminology. The three members of the God had

who pledged themselves to save us from sin. When the

God who is we is one, the love is on

the march. Because the God who is we is one

and love, the nature of God is love. When love

is one, love wins in the end. What is Christ

call in the butgrivel. He is the Alpha and the Omega.

Why because you can go all the way back to

ettornity and God is love, and you can go to

the end of time which will never end. In God

is Love. That is the continuity. God says, I change not.

Therefore you are not consumed the Alpha.

And the Omega. God is love.

Friends, God loves us because God is love. He doesn't

love you because you're pretty. How many of you think

you're pretty? Leave your hands down. I mean we like

to be pretty. I'll raise my both my hands here.

I'm not pretty handsome. Okay, God doesn't care about that.

As the basis of his love for you. God loves

you because that's who he is. Do you realize the

most humble being in the universe is God. He's the

one who thinks the least of himself for the good

of others. And out of that smallness that is God.

The humility does God. He loves us more than God.

God is love and on that basis alone, Friends, we

are loved by the try in God, that is one.

Paul ends his second epistle to the Corinthians with the

blessing that comes from the Godhead, that is one, said

Corinthians thirteen fourteen. The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ,

the love of God, and the communion of the Holy

Ghost be with who. What does it say with you all?

We need to be brought in? You know? John says

in First John, the fellowship that Christ that John has

with the Father and the Son that they had way back,

that the purpose is to bring us into that fellowship

in the church. Friend, God wants us to be like God,

but not the lucifer way, not like God in power,

not like God in position, not like God in person,

in essence.

But like God in love.

If in this way we can share the divine nature,

because we can be loving beings, we can be like

God in this one way, the way that matters, when

we love each other as He loves us, as God

alone can, when we become one like He is, one

in love in the church. And I tell you I

hate it when people argue theology in the church, don't

you now? I'm trained in theology. I know Greek, Hebrew,

or mag I've taken hieroglyphics, I've done original work in

these languages in the Bible. I spend time with them

every day. But you know what really makes me happy

when I come to church, just want to see people,

loving people, caring for people, living out the truth of God.

Not trying to poke a finger at someone that thinks

a heretic, or poking a finger at someone who's struggling

in an own sin, but loving people who wants to

go to a toxic church.

I don't.

I want to be in a church that's full of love.

Why Because God is there where two or three are

gathered together in My name, which means my law, my character,

my nature of love.

I'm in the midst of them. That's where holy fire

is found.

We become one unlike He is one in love when

the church becomes a sanctuary where God has found the

midst of the church, where each member lives for the

other and for God, and not for themselves. We love

each other because God first loved us, because God is

love and God is one, and we love as one friend.

Satan is the author of this union in the church

because he desires to distort the character of God that

only a loving and unified church can reveal to the world.

Before the creation of our world, Satan attacked the divine

character and nature of God, whose love, and by so

doing he attacked God's law. Because God's nature and law

the same thing. You attack the love of God, you

attack the law of God. He scandalized the Godhead by

insisting that God cannot love because God's nature is selfish,

all powerful, which makes it impossible to love.

He would assert, isolate.

It alone, infinite in power, but devoid of relationship and

unable to give.

He challenged the position of Jesus as.

God within the Godhead, and he sought to place himself

above Christ as God.

So what did Christ do?

His name in the Old Testament is Michael, who is

just like or who is equal to God. And so

instead of trying to push himself up higher, Paul says,

Christ humbled himself. Though he was in the form of God,

he did not count equality with God a thing to

be retained. In Philippians too, but he emptied himself. The

Greek word is canosus. He let it go. He came

into the realm of humanity, he became a servant, and

then he died on the cross.

For us, that's God humble.

When we assert ourselves or ideas above the love of God,

we missed the point when we failed to understand that

we worship a triun God of love. Eventually our theology

turns us on God himself as we come to deny

the very thing we need the most in life, the

love of God. That is won Patriarchs Profits Page sixty nine.

Now this is I've quoted this. I've misquoted this in

the pulpit because I've said page seventy before, and it's

because when I look at a page sometimes I remember

the number it's next to it, but it's actually page

sixty nine. So for all those times I've quoted in

the past, I correct myself today.

Okay.

Heaven marked the insult and mockery that he received, and

knew that it was at Satan's instigation. They marked the

work of counteragencies going forward. Satan constantly pressing darkness, sorrow

and suffering upon the race, and Christ's counteracting, and she's

describing the Cross. They watched the battle between the light

and darkness as it whacked stronger through the life of

CHRISTI as led the cross, and as Christ in his

expiring agony. When the Cross cried out, it is finished.

A shout of triumph rang through every world and through

Heaven itself. It went through the universe. Why because time

is entangled in the universe. We don't know how it works.

But God is able to connect the universe even though

there is space time dilation, kind of thing that Einstein

talked about. Time dilation doesn't matter. God entangles it and

the whole universe recognized it. And look what she says.

The great contests that had been so long in progress

in this world was now decided, and Christ was conqueror.

Now this next sentence that had.

He been bold, I think is one of the most

profound statements I've ever read in the spirit of prophecy.

His death had answered.

The question that means this is the issue in the

cosmic controversy. His death had answered the question whether the

father and the son had sufficient love for man to

exercise self denial and a spirit of sacrifice. You see

John three point sixteen is the answer to a question.

For God so love the world that he gave. But

why because Satan had challenged him. You cannot give, You

cannot love.

You are all powerful.

You cannot open up your heart and make a difference.

God gave Jesus there was nothing left to give. All

the treasures the riches of heaven was poured into Christ,

and at Calvary's Cross he poured himself out for us.

Sister White says he reached to east to west. He

signed the emancipation papers of the human race in his blood,

the blood of the everlasting Covenant, and he demonstrated for

time and eternity that God is love.

God's Law is love, is Nature's love. It has ever been,

ever will be.

He ratified the everlasting Covenant of God's Law at the

cross of Calvary. She said, Satan had revealed his true

character as a liar and a murderer. It was seeing

that the very same spirit which he had ruled the

children of men who were under his power, he would

have manifested if permitted to control the intelligences of heaven

with one voice, the loyal universe united in extolling the

divine administration. Friends, When Jesus prayed the night he was arrested,

he prayed for himself and the whole world also. That

means he prayed for you, you and he prayed for me.

He didn't care where you come from in the sense

that you're special or not. He paid for us if

you're the only person in the universe. He called on

the unity he shared with the Father from all eternity

to make a difference.

On the cross of Calvary.

He called on the name he shared with God Almighty,

from all eternity, to be revealed as the law of

love and glory, as the glory would shine from his death.

He called on the name he shared with God, the

character of God. He called him the Love, the oneness

that is God, to save us from hate and sin

and the grave. That was what was on his mind

before he went to the cross. John seventeen one, when

Jesus had spoken these words, he lifted up his eyes

to heaven. He said, Father, the Irish, come glorify thy son,

that the son may glorify Thee. You know not the

glory of Sinai the greater glory of Calvary Verse two.

Since thou hast given him power over all flesh to

give life to all whom thou hast given. You know,

God put the into the humanity of Christ. And it says,

and this is eternal life, that they might know Thee,

the only true God. Now, the only way that, the only,

the only way to know the only true God is

to know the Truth, the one who is true. Because

God is Truth and Jesus Christ him. Thou hast sin

Why does he add that? Because Jesus I am the Way,

the truth and the life. You don't separate me from

my Father, the One True God, because I am truth

as well. To know the true God is to know Jesus,

because Jesus is the Way, the Truth, and the life

that comes from God is God, dear heart. No person

comes to the Father but through me. That's what Jesus said.

Jesus came to this world to reveal the Father to

be his glory. The glory of God that has always

come from God is Jesus eternal light from light.

Verse four.

I glorified the on earth, having accomplished the work which

Thou gavest me to do. And now well, Father, glorify

thou me in thine own presence, with the glory which

I had with thee before the world was made. The

word there is cosmos, the cosmic order. Jesus here states

that God was not alone in all his enterprises. Before

the creation of the world. The Father, his sister White says,

had an associate who was with him equal in glory

and dignity as God. With God in the love circle

that is God. And thus the God who was one,

was also in us and a we, who made the

whole universe on the mission that is love. God cares

for his universe by nature, He made it to be

loved by choice, and so Jesus came to earth to

bring us fallen children of Adam back into the divine

circle of fellowship and love for which we were created.

Verses six and eight. Jesus says, I have manifested thy

name to the men whom thou hast given me. Thou

gavest me out of the world you hear quotes Daniel

nine twenty three and twenty four. Isaiah fifty two, verse fourteen.

I believe in fifty three, verse two, the mare, the appearance,

the manifestation, the great prophetic anticipation of the coming of

God as a human being. Christ appeared God with us Emmanuel.

He says, they were thine, they were, and Thou gavest

them to me, And they have kept thy word. Isn't

that neat when you like God to say of us,

you have kept my word? You're in that club. Want

to keep God's word? Raise your hand, hi, I want

to just sit there with I want to keep the

word of God. I mean Jesus' word is Jesus now

verse seven. Now they know that everything that thou hast

given me is from THEE. For I have given them

the words which thou gavest me, and they have received them,

and knowing truth that I came from THEE. And they

have believed that Thou didst.

Scent me.

It's pretty special when he accept Jesus, isn't it. We

accept Jesus, We accept God and Jesus and Jesus God.

And and that's how we get to the True God

through Jesus, the Way, the Truth, and the Life. And

Jesus cares for each of us as if we were

just as valuable as His father. And the Father cares

for each of us as if we were just as

valuable as the spirit or his son. He loves us

for this reason. Jesus prayed for us and for our

high and holy calling, his sons and daughters of God. Friends,

you can bake your entire life on the importance of

verse nine, For you look at your bibles.

Verse nine. Jesus is I'm praying for them? Does that

feel good? I'm what I'm praying for them. That means

you me.

Jesus was praying for us in Hebrews seven twenty five.

He always prays for us. Jesus is the praying mediator,

the God between God and man, who man. I am

praying for them. I'm not praying for the world here,

but for those whom thou hast given me. So he

focuses on believers in the church in this place, for

they are mine. Doesn't say they might be mine. They

belong to me. All mine are thine. We belong to God,

and thine are mine. And whatever you have, it comes

to them through me. And I am glorified in them.

And now I am no more in the world, but

they are in the world. I'm coming to thee Holy Father.

Keep them in thy name, which means his law, his character,

his nature, which thou hast given me, and that they

may be one, even as we are one. See. Christ

possessed the divine nature before he became a human being.

But as a human being he had to develop a

character at the level of a man. He had to

become perfect, the Book of Hebrews says, and so Christ

matured as a human being become the second Adam, the

god Man. Sister White says that our hope of salvation

resides in this beautiful blend of divinity and humanity. But

she says our ultimate hope is in the divinity of Christ,

because he has the power to save. God's name is Yahweh.

I am who I am is what it means. That's

what God told Moses, I am who I am. Yahweh

is my name. So if I'd ask you what's God's name,

now forget the Yahweh part, what would you say.

I am who I am?

And when you say that, you're saying, my name is

my character, it's my nature, It's who I am.

That's my name.

Now we know that God's law is his nature. The

law is a transcript of his character. So God's name

is who he is. So you call on God's name,

you're calling on who he is. His law is a

transcript of who he is. The Law of God came

from the Father in the person of Jesus. The law

of God came from the Father in a sense, it

also came from the son of the Holy Spirit.

Came from the love dance that is God. God.

The Father willed it Jesus as the word of God

spoken on Sinai beside his Father, we were informed, and

the Holy Spirit, as the finger of God, wrote it

on tables of blue sapphire stone. To go inside the

Ark of the Covenant and to write it in the

New Covenant on our hearts, that the heart of God's

Law is God, and God is one. Or we can

never be one like God, whose heart is one the

Law of God. The heart of the law of the

Law of God is God. To be like God is

to be one with God. To love Him with all

your heart and all your soul, and all your might

here o Israel, the Lord, our God is one. You

shall love the Lord your God with all your heart

and all your soul and all your might. How can

we do other when we come to know a God

of love? How can we reveal God's law and his

character without being one as he is one in this

one way? Why is this so important to be one

with him and with each other? Because that's what Jesus

prayed for. He prayed for the time when we will

be one. Because God is one, God is love, and

when we are one, we show the world that we

value God's law of love, we value God's character. We

care more about people than proving a point. We care

more about people than looking good and virtue signaling. We

want people to belong, no matter where they're at in

their Christian journey or not. God's name in God's Law

is the same thing. Because God is one. God reached

out to us and our ignorance to save us Verse twelve.

While I was with them, Jesus says, I kept them

in thy name, thy law, which thou hast given me.

I have guarded them, and none of them is lost.

But the son of tradition, it's Judas that the scripture

might be fulfilled. But now I'm coming to THEE and

these things I speak in the world, that they may

have my joy fulfilled in themselves. Jesus said that he

kept his disciples in his name. I need the same

kind of keeping power in my life. That means he

kept them in his character, his nature, his law, his love,

the joy that is only possible in a we that

is won. Jesus brought that personal truth of God into

the lives of those disciples, and then they took it

to the world through the power of the Holy Spirit,

and the Apostolic Church grew into the millions within the

space of a lifetime. He says in verse fifth fourteen,

I've given them Thy word, and the world has hated

them because they are not of the world. Even as

I am not of the world. I do not pray

that thou shouldst take them out of the world, but

that thou shouldest keep them from the evil one. They

are not of the world, even as I am not

of the world. Here, he says, sanctify them in the truth.

Thy word is truth. I had once heard somebody get

up front, and I'm not going to go into detail

and start out by saying how the Bible author was wrong,

and they began to educate the whole congregation on how

correct they were and how wrong the Bible author was.

And it blew my mind. Never heard a sermon like

that in my life. Friends, we cannot educate God on

what is truth. This book is a transcript of the

character of Christ. Christ lives and breeze in the Bible.

I don't apologize for one line of it to any

would be philosophic or philosopher, king or theologian. I'd rather

follow men and women of God who have the truth.

We would never know God if it were not for

his word that reveals him. God's word reveals to us

that we worship a God who is one in love,

as the God had that is we and us, who

is one. Let us make man in our image and

from the riches of that eternal relationship of love. God

poured himself through Jesus, into our lives to teach us

to love others as He loved us. Through the gift

of Christ. Jesus is proof that God does not live

for himself. In the vast ages of eternity, the Father

lived for the son and the spirit. The Son lived

for the Father and the spirit, and the spirit lived

for the Father and the Son. The Bible says Christ

created time in Hebrews one three, he created the eons

that's the Greek word for time. Ages before there was

a was that was Jesus. And in the oneness that

is the triune dance of God's love and nature. They

loved each other as the God had, and that oneness

with a joy and a love dance that was alive

before anything else was made. It was not out of

weakness God made us. It was out of joy.

He made us.

We came in exist. It's because of the love that

is God. And because of this love we have been commissioned.

And here's our mission to love the world for his

name's sake, for his glory, for his character, to share

the joy and the love that is God with people

who do not know God. Verse eighteen. Jesus finishes, as

thou to send me to the world. So I have

sent them in the world, and for their sake I

consecrate myself well. But would it be for us to

do the same every morning, that they also may be consecrated.

In truth, I do not pray for these only, but

also for those who believe in me.

Through their word.

It's you and me, that they may all be one,

even as Thou Father art in me and I in thee,

that they also may be in us. So that the

world may believe that thou hast sent me the glory

which thou hast given me. I have given to them,

that they may be one, even as we are one,

I in them and Thou in me, that they may

become perfectly one, so that the world may know that

thou hast sent me, and hast loved me, even as

thou hast loved me. He loves them, He loves you,

love me. God sent Jesus in this world to bring

God close to us, and us close to God, to

take the oneness that is God, to draw us into Him,

even though we are not God, to draw us end

to Him. The triune family that is the Godhead is

full of joy and love and peace and harmony. For

this kind of freedom Christ has sets free. Paul says,

to be one in God's love his children of God.

The world will not be persuaded by theology. And I

preach a lot of biblical theology to you. It will

not be persuaded by theology. This, Jesus was sure in

his prayer. But it will come to know God by

our love, because God is love. How's that song go? No,

we are Christians.

By our love.

By our love, they will know we are Christians by

our love. We are one in the spirit, we are

one in the world.

We are and it goes on on. Help me with it.

We are on.

And we know that unity will one day be restored,

and they'll know we are Christians by our love.

By our love. This they'll know we are Christians. Bye

our love.

Thank you, sister for helping with those words. I appreciate

that we still sing that around a campfire when we're kids.

They will not be persuaded of our theology. They will

be convinced by our love, and they will come to

know God by love. That's what the world is waiting,

Sister White, says and prophets and kings. The world is

waiting for the final display of the glory and love

of God through the Church. That's the answer of the

prayer of Jesus in John seventeen. God is not a

lonely God. Why because there is joy in the circle

of love. That is the triumph God, the we that

is won, who is love. God made us to live

in that circle of love for all eternity, and thus

Jesus expands his prayer to draw us into God, the

circle of love that is won Verse twenty four. Father,

I desire that they, also, whom thou hast given me,

may be with me where I am. You want to

be with God in Christ one day, to behold my

glory which thou hast given me, and thy love from

me before the foundation of the world, O Righteous Father.

The world has not known THEE, but I have known THEE.

Now those are divine credentials for Christ to make this claim.

There must never be a gap in his knowledge of God.

He must know everything, and so he had always.

Be there to know God.

And these know that thou hast sent me Verse twenty six.

I made known to them thy name, God's name, God's law.

Same thing, and I will make it known. I'll continue

to reveal you to them, that the love with which

thou hast loved me may be in them and I

in them. You want Jesus in you your life? I

do for good reasons.

Friends.

Jesus is waiting for a church, Our church that will

love him just like God loves in the circle of

love that is God, the nature of God. The whole

world can't wait to see when we are one. They

can't wait. Father, God, thank you that we can be

in a circle. That a circle is love. Emily Dickinson

said that a circle had the wit to win because

it drew us in. And Father, I pray that we'll

never forget we've been drawn into a circle that's eternal.

We were drawn into a love that had no beginning,

a joy that was had no starting point. And Father,

help us to never forget that that we will live

forever with Jesus, with you, the Holy Spirit, and the

age of the Spirit that's yet to come will be

revealed to us since fullness.

So Lord, help us to live that way now.

And we're tempted to make fun of somebody because they

have a little different than we do, Help us to

keep our mouths quiet to love that dear person.

Father.

And we see someone come through the doors of our

church who has moral failings, help us to welcome them here.

And Father, when we fall and fail, help us to

remember that we'ren't for the grace of God, we will

be toast but we're saints because of a cross, and

so Father, may we be one and help us in

the mission and future passion to share Christ in this place.

Lord, I want to.

Lift up the Vacation Bible School that's coming here soon,

that Leslie and others have been really working on. You.

Bless these kids, Father, help the pathfinders to get going

here in the fall as we're planning. Give us a

new day here, love, a new generation. Thank you for

bringing CALLI here to remind us of what the good

old days. May there be better ones ahead in Jesus name.

Amen.