Sermon
13th February 2022 All Age Service
Publisher transcript
Transcript
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Come morning. So there's still continue the same theme we had done beginner February,
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a greater Love, and this morning we are going to look at five
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areas of love. A sense that the Father wanted to have us sit down,
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like having a cup of tea or a cup of coffee in our living
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room and just have a one to one conversation with us about love. We
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can say, oh, yes, I know that God loves me, but
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I think he wants well, I don't think I know. He wants to
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explore that he wants us to refrain from about thinking about what that really means
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to us as individuals. And we say that, I know we read that,
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but a lot of sense, well it wasn't much of a preach.
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It was more of a chat him talking to us about love, and we
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all have our own perception of what that means. To go on to speak
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to all individually for what we've got to I've got to say this morning,
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So just let's pray. And then I wanted to be open to a hole
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point to say to you, colle We wanst to say to you, so
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you're getting most out of this time with God, you just want you want
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to reframe and change our thinking. I think is the best way sense I
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got with it. So do well? Can you this this morning invite to
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please speak to us about your love. Please reframe or we're just are thinking
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where it's not where it needs to be. Help us to see things from
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your perspective, not our own perspective. In Jesus name, mhm. So
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when I say God loves you, what do you see? What's your image
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of God loves you? Do you see us all as arms wrapping around you?
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What did you see? I see God's arms wrapping around me? So
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God's love is endless. I mean what you say, God is love?
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The Bible says in one John, God is love. She could say Love
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created the world. Love created us in his image, male and them,
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He created them. So love is everywhere God pervades his creation. We've brought
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God with us today. He's inside of us. So God's love is inside
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of us. But God is wanting to assure that we receive that love.
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We understand that love not just in here tapping my head for those people on
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the recording, But it's in our heart, isn't it. I can either
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mental assent to what I think God's love is and when I when I know.
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It's a difference, isn't there hm? And God wants to get us
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from here to here in every aspect of his love. Memory young guys saying
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to God, do you love me? And you just said, oh,
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I dive you didn't I. Oh yeah. It's interesting how where perceptions of
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what love is. And let's start the first point that God gave me.
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That God's love is unconditional. There are no conditions to God's love. He
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loves us all equally. He loves us all unconditionally. That's an end of
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our thirty seconds. But the revelation in that that love, God loves us
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unconditionally regards to who we are, what we've done, what we are going
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to do, is significant. John three point sixteen says, for God so
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loved the world that he gave his only son, that whoever believes in him
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shall not perish, but asked in life. So God, to a giver,
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God is love and love gave us his son, He gives his Sensori
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had that relationship with him. And that's basic stuff. But God wants to
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start with the basics and build on something. When you build a foundation where
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you build a property. Sure they say, you don't start on the second
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floor without a foundation where things fall over, just simple stuff, but that
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we're going to start, So don't go shut off, shut off, I
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think about my dinner. Just listen what God's got to say, and then
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we'll go the rest of it. God loved us so much that he sent
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Jesus. His love has no boundaries. His love has no boundaries Romans five,
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eight to eleven. I'll just read the first part. Is it God
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demonstrated his own love towards us that while we have seen as Christ died for
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us, much more then, having been justified by his blood, we are
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saved through the wrath from wrath through him. But if when we were enemies
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we were reconciled to God through the death of his son, much more,
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having been reconciled, we shall be saved by his life. And to tell
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that, but we also rejoice in God through the Lord Jesus Christ, whom
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we have now received. We have received a reconciliation. So John said in
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two lines. Paul said in about six post of Theologian, there's a fact,
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when we were enmity with God, he sent Jesus. Wherever you are,
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if you don't know God. He's listening to God. Now you don't
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know him. God loves you. If you're in prison, if you're in
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the car, wherever you listen to this message, or even listen to this
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message, God loves you. If you made a mistake, God loves you.
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If you're just a normal person in vert of commerce, does a normal
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job, God loves you. God's love is unconditional. That means there are
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no requirements to receiving that love. You got to jump through hoops. Doesn't
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matter where you are, who you are, where you've got any family,
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no family, but on your own, God loves you. Those aren't just
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words, those are facts. What should per say? It's a truth?
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Saying it is a truth. God loves you and suddenly listen to this take
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needs to know that that God loves them. He allowed us so much that
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were adopted into his family. Romas eight fifteen says, for you did not
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receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you receive the spirit of
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adoption by whom we cry abba Father. So did God love us? He
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took us into his family like he loves Jesus. He doesn't go I love
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you more. I love you more. I love you more. He loves
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us, and sometimes that can be half for people to receive that God loves
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them unconditionally, regardless of who they are, where they came from, what
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they do. Knowing that it's excluded, everybody is welcome. His love is
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unconditional to us, unconditional. Second point we want to touch on this morning
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is we cannot be separated from God's love. We cannot be separated from God's
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love. We can ignore God, which is not a nice thing to do,
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but we cannot be separated from God's love. When you were born again,
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you receive the Holy Spirit and hot bit dwells within us. Soever you
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go, he goes. We had that daily communion union, communion with God
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through the Holy Spirit. When you wake up this mins good morning, Holy
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space, isn't it? What come morning God? And now you want to
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play? And God is there. He's dwelling within us. But sometimes lies
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get propagated, like God doesn't love me. I've made a mistake. God
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doesn't love me. I said the wrong thing. God doesn't love me.
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That's not true. God loves us and we cannot be separated from that love.
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We cannot be separated from God's love m m hm. He knows us
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intimately and wants to have that relationship with us intimately as a loving father has
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a relationship with their children. And someone who need to reframe our thinking on
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that on that point that we cannot be separated from God love, that they
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think they can be separated from God because they cannot be separated from Gods love.
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H Third point I've got to share with you is is a carker.
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God's love covers God's love covers Gods. Gods comes all our sin. Remember
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a preacher I know, not me, someday, I know we were just
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started noting his in his his preaching ministry and he made a mistake, said
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something shouldn't have said, and he was beating stuff up about it. He
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was, you know, having a going about this, have about it,
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and just speaking in the evening, spoken, speaking the evenings of Sunday evening,
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Sunday morning business. And he wasn't really connecting with God. And God
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said, what's the problem. He said, well, I did so,
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and so I said so and so He said, yeah, did you not
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repent of that? He said yeah. He said, well, why you
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bring it up again? Then I'm not bringing it up. It's going to
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see if forget one. So far as I'm concerned, So what's your problem?
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He said, I've got a problem. He said, well, then
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you go there. Sometimes our perception it's not how God see things. Proverbs
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ten and verse twelve says, hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all
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sins. Hatred stays up strife, but love covers all sins. That's the
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I see the Old Testament. The New Testament is one to one nine.
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If we confess our sins, He's faithful and just to forgive us our sins
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and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. See, God's love is the fact.
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This is what God wants to get over today. It seems a bit simple,
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this thing that God with God's love is a fact. Nothing is too
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big and cannot be covered with God's love. There's no sin too big,
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there's no sin too small. There's no demeanor too big. There's no demeanor
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too small that cannot be covered by God's love. And God wants to see
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things from his perspective. So I do make a mistake? Do does and
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we shouldn't have done. Well, we're not in the right place. I
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think we should be we just need to make a course correction and a reconnection.
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The people in the Kingdom of God are walking around the limb so that
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them somebody sets up into them. They're taking the battom bore home. They're
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feeling sorry for themself, and they walking with a limb. When you stub
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your toe, it hurts. I stub my toe on the doorjamed from my
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kitchen into a living room, and it went black, so as I coun't
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wear my normal shoes, and I was walking with walking a bit of a
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limb around the house, jumping up and down, and it your pain went.
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I had to put my foot down to start walking again. And you
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hurt, but you persy, beere and you walk through it. After three
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weeks there it went from black down to purple down to red disappeared. Nothing
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was broken, but it didn't have hurt. Sometimes when somebody hurts us,
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we draw back, but they know from the person, but also from God.
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When as the child hurts themselves, used to run to mummy or daddy
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and we get the kiss it better than me, the routine, kiss it
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better and it's okay now, isn't it? And then at the tears stop
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and the gold playing again. God wants us to run to Daddy, but
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when things don't go quite right, not to draw back. When the world
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for other people, everyone's different. Some people are nicer without grace, and
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some people are with grace. So when we knock along with people, something's
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happened, don't it. It's just it's the fact for life. But God
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wants us to run to him, not to run from him when those things
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happen. Nothing is too big for God. Nothing is too big for his
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love. Where God says, behold on the Lord of God, love,
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less's anything too hard for me? And the guy gets eyes list and goes
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apart from this, this, this, this, this, no, no,
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nothing is to be for God. That should be no list. It
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should just be take it to abba. Hmmah. When Peter four eight says
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love will cover and multitude of things. Love will cover the multitude of things,
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and God will do that for us. So I can encourage you to
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see things from God's perspective, there's a very fundamental foundational scriptures that God has
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to reframe our thinking. Mm hmmmmmmmmm. The foe point I've got is God's
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love makes us home. God's love makes us home. I like watching a
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lot of car programs. My wife will say about that, the fella watching
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car programs and the house programs. That's where I will watch on TV in
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our days. And a lot of car problems. I want to get to
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get an old car, something wrong with it. They fix the engine,
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they fix the breaks, they fix the suspension, they fix the transmission to
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bring it back to life. I just alerted it too earlier, since I've
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had the walking within in life where people walk with them him. People have
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a hard heart because something's happened in life, because life can be tough.
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And then there's a time where there's a transition from the kingdom of down as
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to the kingdom of light, and that person comes into God's workshop, as
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we say, and then that's when God has to work on the engine,
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work on the transmission, work on the suspension, work on the heart,
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and make us hope. God's love is all consuming. God's love is powerful,
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and through God's love we can't be made home. That's mind, body,
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soul, spirit. I'll talk about them, tell them I'll kick take
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as the doors right, I mean, mind, borday, soul spirit,
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physically, financially, socially, emotionally. God does the whole thing. Mh.
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This is my bible to averts on the phone. But this is the
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bible here, it's the is, the is the manual. When as a
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kid down out of car and we have just had the hay His manual for
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the car. So the Haynes manuer gives you all how tord to fix the
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car. I don't know going for carnology and plan this sin of minding.
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You're looking the manual to do with the various bit to fix the car hard,
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to strip down the head. Wherever you're doing, you fall the manual
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chet the talking of the nut or the spoos of the belts. You check
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the manual. This is our manual. M. So when we're coming to
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God's workshop, that's when he starts working and fixing and tweaking and repairing,
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of replacing. God can replace as new in the twinkling of an eye.
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You can heal our hearts. You do open heart scursion and make things new.
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Or as I did, as if it did not happen, as if
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it did not happen. Words of truth, words are truth, God's words.
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A lion full of power, doesn't it return to him? Void?
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You shall accompass that which you pleases and possible thing that we're warn to invent
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it. But those of people don't know God to speak words outoul and hurt
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people not deliberately. Let some people shoot from the hip and then engage a
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brain afterwards, which can hurt. God's words bring healing. God's words bring
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homeness. So we need to run to God, not from God. And
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God's goal is that we walk in homeness mind, body, so spirit,
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physically. So they financially and go say all that sort of stuff the whole
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thing. So it's let you roll in your car out on a fixed car
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onto a forecast comes to buy and go, oh look at that, How
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that's nice and shiny. I think wordy. I think worked is good?
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Mate, How which you want for it? We do a deal off?
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They go godnger say, look at my son, Look at my daughter.
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They were dead, but now they were alive, they were you know,
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live that I can see Look what I've done through my daughter. Look for
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do for my son. Look at the difference. God's in the restoration business.
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It restores hearts and restores souls, He restores bodies. He does that
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through his love that's why Jesus came. O God soul loved the world that
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Jesus came. Jesus came, and he had to die. The nails that
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went through his hands were about twenty five to thirty mili. Behold his hand
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up. You see a big hole in it. It wasn't like a sixty
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is nail from the hardware store. It was a big old nail. He
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knew he had to do. He do that for you, Do that for
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me, Do that for you. Listening on the on the live stream on
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recording, nothing is too difficult for God. Nothing is too difficult for God's
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love. Matthew fifteen thirty to thirty one says. Then great multitude came to
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him, having with them the lane blind, mute, maimed and many others,
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and laid them down at Jesus' feet, and he healed them. So
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the multitude marveled when they saw the mute speaking the name made whole the lay
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in walking, the blid seeing, and they glorified the God of Israel.
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Jesus Christ was saying, yesterday, today and forever, he hasn't changed.
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He's still doing this stuff. He wants to make us home. So if
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you've got an area which isn't at home. You've got the area God's been
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prodding you about. Maybe it's time to deal with the area with all the
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issues. We're all people, were all with all people. We just know
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the people. Stuff happens. God wants us home. When your whole,
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you can give out to those who are not home. Isn't it interesting when
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you've gone through a situation, a circumstance, then God has to go and
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pray for someonody's beat us going through that circumstance, you have empathy. You
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have the ability to pray with understanding of that person's situations right where not even
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understanding what's going before you don't have that same connection. God takes our brokenness,
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he makes us home, and he uses that situation for somebody else is
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good or like I like I tend to prey God, please turn the situation
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around for good. Sometimes things in life don't go as we had the thought
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they would have gone. But God, so I can say, God,
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pad, He's turned the situation around for good. And I cannot think at
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one time when he hasn't done that. He's done miraculous in turn things around
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for good. What was the potential braid, problematic situation just went away.
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It's a bit like the David and Glass And isn't it Disraelites? So a
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gliad for what seven eight foot told it was the big bruiser David Salmon's uncircumcised
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philistine. So for that's doing that sling and through it hitting ravity in them
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and on the time template, doesn't it knocked him down and dropped his head
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off? Does it? Hard? Move? Doesn't matter how big the jart
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may look. God is for us. Who can be against us. God's
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love works for his children in every situation of his circumstance. But we've got
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to walk in that level. We can't expect that, expect God's love to
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work for us, but we're not walking in it. That's just how it
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works, you know. One Classonians five twenty three, very familiar scripture.
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Now made the God of Peace himself sanctify you completely. May your whole spirit,
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soul, and body we preserve blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus
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Christ. That's one first Earlians five twenty three. May your whole spirits,
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old body preserved blameless. Just a reference to the homeless that God wants having
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our life, not just one part of us, it's all our every part
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of us, not your little tell, a little fingers, the whole person.
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So the last point, my favorite say, my favorite to the last.
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God's love never fails. God's love never fails. People may fail you,
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but God's love never fails. When Crintain's thirteen, I think it's verse
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eight pram Scriptureliac says love never fails in challenging times, He's always there.
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Hebrews thirteen and verse five says that he will never leave us or for sakers.
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That's a covenant term. We've got to go to covenant today. But
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he will never leave us or for sakus. When you're in the family,
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you're in the family. You know what I mean by that. When you're
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in the family, you're in the family, in God's family, You're in
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God's family. We're talking mafioso family, talk about God's family. When in
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God's family or in God's family, he will take care of He will look
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after us, with you to walk in his love, and he will never
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let us down. I God chance to remind us this morning, HM,
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doesn't matter what situation or circumstance that we are facing it doesn't matter. God's
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love will never fail. If you walk in faith, don't worry, trust
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God, rest in his love. He will turn that situation around. For
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God. Sometimes it's not pleasant when you have to walk through a situation or
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a circumstance. We've got to deal with the feelings. You've got what I
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do with the circumstance. But God's love will never fail, and God's love
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will get us through. It might be easy at the time, after you
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can turn back and reflect and see what God has done. Sometimes in the
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midst of the serpent as you cannot see the full picture, or after God
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can turn him turn like a light on it and shure you other serpents to
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go, look at this, Look what I did. That there you go,
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Oh yeah, so this morning, just share five points very quickly.
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God's love is unconditional. You cannot be separated from God's Love, God's Lord.
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God's God Love covers God's love. God's love makes us and God's love
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will never ever fail. H So throughout the day what's left of it anyway,
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allowed the Holy Spirit to the speech it about these five points plime to
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give you a a further revelation. Further understanding or work with you on some
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things WHI need to be addressed. Oh, we're all on the journey.
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And sometimes you need to go in for a bit of a service. And
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sometimes service is a difference as I'll deal with different things. Allows a bit
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to speak to you. You shouldn't have a couple of day afterwards. All
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this afternoon a line to speak to you. Don't shot off. Listen,
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let to speak to you. You want to talk to you, want to
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have a chat with you. I want to take you from where you are
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to where I want you to be. So I pray h m hm m
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hm. Although you're saying that your work, it will not return to your
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void, but it will accomplish that which you please, and it will prost
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been a thing, won't your scented? No prayer that the word this mo
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in the Lord, they will accompass what you please. You have touched people
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in this room, people watching a live stream, the people that said to
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it later. But they will receive from you, They receive a greater understanding
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and reframing their thinking of your Lord. So they can run and not weary,
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they can walk and not faint and become tired. They can fulfill their
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purpose in the Kingdom of God without walking with the room and be the people
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you want them to be. Are the people who they are, are the
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people you want them to be. Think God sends some people stretch to it.
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Stretch to it. Don't say you can't stretch to it. Whether that
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says that all things are possible, all things are possible to talk of with
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everything really, so stretch to it. Cheer's name