Sermon
God’s Love
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Welcome to the Cross Power Church podcast.
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You're listening to a service from our church in Campbell, TX.
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We pray this message strengthens your faith and points you to the
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cross. Now let's join the service.
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Man, aren't you glad you're in the House of the Lord?
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This is a good place to be. Amen.
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Beautiful singing this morning, beautiful worship, beautiful
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songs and entering into the presence of the Lord and singing
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that last song. I thought about Lamentations
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323. Because of the mercies of the
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Lord, we are not consumed. His compassion's fail not.
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They are new every morning. Great is His faithfulness.
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Aren't you glad that you serve a faithful God today, man?
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Even when we are. Faithless.
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He is faithful and so I'm I'm so thankful to the goodness of the
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Lord. He's a good, good father and we
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celebrate him today and honor the blessings of the Lord.
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And always good to be to be with you.
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Always good to come. And whether I'm, I'm filling in
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for pastor, whether he's gone or whether he's here, it's just
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always a delight to come and share with you.
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And, and we do, we do feel like family.
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You've made us feel feel like family, except for brother Gary,
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but but we're still praying for him.
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He's still working. The Lord's still working on him.
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Work in progress. Are we all a work in progress.
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Amen. Amen.
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Look over and tell your neighbor you look better than you did
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last week. This is an exciting time to to
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be a Christian, to be alive, to, to live and to see, see what God
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is doing. And, and there's so many great
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things that God's doing around the world, so many powerful
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testimonies of the spirit moving and different places and
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revivals breaking out and, and just spontaneous.
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Not, not, you know, not the scheduled revivals like we like
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we've had in the past. And, and I'm thankful for that.
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And, and, but just to see spontaneous, you know, outburst
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and, and outpouring of the spirit in so many different
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places and unusual places. I just just, it just confirms
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that God's word is true, that God's in charge.
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Don't let the negative news discourage you.
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It's all, it's all, it's all working out the way God planned
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it. And we're, we're in his time and
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he's got, he's got a plan, He's got a time and he's, I'm just,
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I'm just thankful for what God's doing.
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Don't give up, Don't lose hope because he's working it all out
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and, and, and, and, and it's, it's exciting.
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Every time we come, there's new faces, Lord's adding, adding the
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church and blessing you. And it's always, always a joy to
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come share with you. Going to share this morning from
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first John chapter 4 few verses I believe Lord laid on my heart
1 John 4 chapter mention
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for today for you familiar. These should be familiar For
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those of you been in church a while, if you're new, it might
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might not be as familiar, but it should be familiar First John
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chapter 4, verse 7. Beloved, let us love one
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another, for love is of God, and everyone that loveth is born of
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God and knoweth God. He that knoweth.
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Not He that loveth not knoweth, not God.
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For God is love. In this was manifested the love
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of God toward us, because that God sent His only begotten Son
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in the world, that we might live through Him.
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Herein is love, not that we love God, but that He loved us and
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sent his Son to be. The propitiation or the
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atonement or the appeasement or the sacrifice?
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That's what that word propitiation means for our sins.
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What if I were to tell you this morning that a wealthy man sent
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me to tell you go everywhere? To who?
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Everybody I spoke to? Everybody I came in contact
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with. That if you would.
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Knock on his door and he opened that door and let you in.
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And if you believed he could. Forgive you.
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Of whatever bill, whatever debt, financial obligation you had, he
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would forgive you of that. He'd give you financial freedom
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if you'd believe he could do it. Somebody would say, well, no, I,
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I, I'd be too embarrassed. I'd be too ashamed to, to let
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him do they. He doesn't know, doesn't know
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how I lived. He doesn't, he doesn't know what
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I've, what I've done and things how, how I've squandered and I'd
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be too embarrassed. You, you think people would say
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that? They'd be lined up down the
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street. They'd be.
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Lined up around the. Block waiting to receive a free
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gift, but God has. A greater gift?
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For us to receive then the release of a medical bill or a
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mortgage debt or a car payment or a loan or some kind of
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financial obligation. But he would.
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God pays a debt he didn't know. But we owe a debt we couldn't
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pay. And like the old song says, I
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needed somebody to wash my sins away.
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And now I. Sing a brand new song, Amazing
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Grace. Christ Jesus paid a debt he
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didn't know. You see, that's that's why we're
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here today. That's why we're celebrating.
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That's why we're worship because we're serving a God who paid a
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debt he didn't know. But we owed a debt we couldn't
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pay, and we needed somebody to pay.
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That debt? We needed somebody.
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The Bible said the wages of sin is dead, but but the gift of God
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is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
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Now I want to ask you a question.
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How many? Let's take a little.
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Poll here for a moment. How many?
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Grew up, I know some of you did, but.
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How many grew? Up as a child, you either grew
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up in church. Or you.
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Went to church or you were taken to church when you were young
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and you went to Sunday school or VBS or kids church when you were
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young. Let me let me see, let's see.
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Let's see that. Wow, that's that's a lot of
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that's great. Awesome.
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So if you did you, you you grew up like.
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Krista and I we we grew up in church.
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We both grew. Up in pastors homes.
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And so we grew up in church our whole lives.
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Now that didn't save us. But we grew.
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Up in church, we had to. We had.
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You know being a pastor's kid does not save you.
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Right, but but growing up in. Church.
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We kids church there were. Songs that that we learned in
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kids church. Now let's.
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See. Let's see, let's see.
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If you if you remember something, I'm going to.
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Start. And let's see if you can finish
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this. The BI Good job.
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All right, good. You got that one.
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All right, let's check that one off.
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What about this one? Deep end.
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Good job. Good job.
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All right, you got that one. All right, here's here's here's
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another one, Father. All right, we're not going.
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All right. All right.
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That's good. That's good.
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That's good. All right.
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I'm going somewhere. Trust me.
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All right. If you're saved.
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If you're saved. If you're saved.
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And you know it. All right, how about this one?
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He's got the. All right, y'all get an A for
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all those. Y'all get an A for all those,
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but there's probably one that we all know that I think you see
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all. Of these, all of these.
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Songs were important. Because they were teaching song
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is a powerful. Way to learn, right?
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We learn through. Singing, especially when you're
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a child. It's it's.
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Important because you can teach. Biblical and theological truths
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as. A.
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As a child. Through songs, when they can't
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read, they learn songs and those songs begin teaching.
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So as as children, those of us that that grew up.
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In going to church. We begin to learn biblical
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truths and Bible stories, often times through songs we learned
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about Father Abraham. We learned that that God's got
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the. Whole world in his hand.
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We learned about Shadrach, Meshach and.
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Abednego and then the fiery Furnace.
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We we learned all kinds of of of biblical truths, often times
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through songs, but one of the most powerful, powerful
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biblical. Truths is this Jesus loves me?
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Yes. A great.
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Theologian from the 20th century.
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His name was Karl Barth. He was in the University of
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Chicago giving a lecture and at the end of his lecture questions
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were were being asked and a student stood up in the
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auditorium and said. What is the?
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Greatest theological statement or that you could share with us?
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What do you believe is the most? Theological profound statement.
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That you could share with anybody without hesitation, he
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said. Jesus loves me this I I know for
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the Bible. Tells me so how?
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Simple, but yet how profound. That God loves us, it's one
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thing to. Read that God loves.
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Us It's one thing to. Hear the statement God loves us,
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but. God didn't just.
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Say it. He demonstrated it.
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He showed it. He, he performed that love.
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He God, God declared. His love, you see.
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Jesus loves me this. I know.
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Life is filled with. Uncertainty.
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There's a lot of things about life.
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We don't know we, we there's things that we face.
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Life is filled with troubles. It's filled with trials, filled
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with. Tribulations filled with.
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Testing ups and downs. Success, failures, highs, lows,
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mountains, valleys. I mean life is filled with all.
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Kinds of things there's. All kinds of certainties.
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About uncertainties. About life.
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But no matter the uncertainties, if you know for if you have this
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this thing know in your. Heart.
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I am loved by God. Jesus loves me.
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You see if you understand and you know, you know when you're
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knower, you know in the heart of hearts you, you know beyond the
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shadow the doubt that you are loved by God.
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It don't matter what you face, it doesn't matter what
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uncertainty comes, It doesn't matter what sickness, it doesn't
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matter what trial, it doesn't matter what hurdles you have to
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go through. It doesn't matter what comes in
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life. If you know beyond a shadow of a
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doubt I am loved by God, you can make it through anything because
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you have and you know the love of God.
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You see, today begins what we call Holy Week, the, the, the,
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the Palm Sunday, the triumphal entry of Jesus coming through to
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Jerusalem and they're waving palm branches.
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They're throwing them down on the ground.
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He's coming, he's fulfilling prophecy, riding on a young colt
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into Jerusalem. And they're, they're, they're
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singing hosanna. Blessed is he who comes in the
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name of the Lord. And and this week begins what we
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call Holy Week, where we remember what Jesus came now
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they they thought he was coming to conquer by conquer Rome and
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take over it and overthrow the government, but they didn't
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understand what what that he was going to the cross.
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He'd been telling them, he'd been preparing them, but they
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didn't get it, that he was going to lay his life down, that he
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was going to sacrifice himself. And we, we go through this week
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and we know that the, the events that take place and the, the
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arrest and the trial, the mockery, the betrayal, the, the
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rejection and the beating, the, the horrible things that took
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place and hanging on the cross on on Friday and, and, and, and
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his death and being buried but resurrected on Sunday morning
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that we'll celebrate next week. A great celebration.
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But but, but it all began on on this this, this day, this poem
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Sunday. As we, as we.
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Reflect and think about what he did.
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But I, I got thinking, well, should I preach a poem?
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What, what can I preach today? And there's all kinds of
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messages that I could preach on on this Sunday.
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And I thought, you know what, I'm just going to sum it all up.
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I'm just going to sum up all of these events and, and just put
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it all together. And then, and it really just
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sums up in these words, God loves us.
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That's what it's all about. That's what it, that's what all
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of it. When you when you mesh all of it
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together, the the that scarlet thread that runs from Genesis
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all the way through the Scripture, it's all about God
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loving us and demonstrating his love toward us.
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That's what it's. About this this this this.
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Celebration this coming together.
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This, this. We're here.
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Today the. Songs we sing.
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And the, and the time that we spend together and the, and all
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the things that we do, it's all because God loves us.
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Let me just just just show you a few things about, about the love
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of God and, and give you some, some dimensions and some, some
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attributes about God's love. First of all, it's real simple.
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His love is unconditional. There's no conditions to the
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love of God. God loved us before He ever
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created the world. We were already in the thought
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of God when God created the world.
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He already knew the plan. He already knew that that that
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after He created man, man was going to fall.
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You see? You see, salvation is not an
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afterthought. Salvation, the cross and Jesus
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coming is not God reacting to sin.
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It was already in the foreknowledge of God that God
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would have to redeem the creation that he created.
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But God loves so much that he was willing to do it for us.
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You see, we live. We we we live in a world where
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love is mostly conditional. We like to think that we love.
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Unconditionally. But most of the time we put, we
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put limits and we put, we put. Boundaries on our love.
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But God's love doesn't have boundaries.
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God's love doesn't have restrictions.
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There, there's no rules to the love of God.
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God loved us before. God loved us, even though God's
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love is unconditional. It's it's it's first John 410
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that we were hearing is love not that we love God.
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God loved us. You didn't love God. 1st and
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then God says I'll save you. You didn't, you didn't come to
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God first and and say Lord, if you'll do this and this, No, God
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says I love you. I love you and your sin.
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I loved you and your mass. I loved you and your failures.
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I loved you and your wretchedness.
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I loved you in the condition, the sinful fallen condition you
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were in. I loved you even then.
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See, God's love is unconditional.
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You see, for some that's it's hard for them to grasp the love
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of God because they, they, they've lived in environments,
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they lived in atmospheres where, where if they didn't do good,
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they weren't loved. You've got children that have
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been raised, some of you may have been raised in a, in an
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environment where you were punished and, and he and if you
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didn't, if you didn't, do, you know, if you didn't follow all,
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all the rules and you didn't, the love was conditional.
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Not that punishment is conditional because we, we, we
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discipline. That's part of a bridge.
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But some were, it was beyond that.
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They, they, they were, they were abused and neglected and
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rejected. And so the only, the only
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knowledge of love they have is from the environment in which
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they were raised. And some of it wasn't a loving,
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nurturing environment. So when when you tell some
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people that God loves them, that they're, they're trying to
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equate that love with human love.
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But God's love doesn't equate in human.
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Terms. God's love doesn't measure in
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humans. God's love far super exceeds
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human love. God loved us even though God
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loved us in spite of ourselves, in spite of our our failures and
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our mistakes. God's love is unconditional.
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That's why we love the prodigal. The story of the prodigal son.
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The prodigal thought, you know, my father's a good man.
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If I, if I go back, he, he'll surely he'll accept me as a
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slave, as a servant. I'll just serve him.
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But what Jesus was was illustrating wasn't that he was
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going to come back as a servant. Jesus told that story to, to, to
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give us the picture of the love of the father.
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No, I'm not going to just accept you as a servant.
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You're going to be accepted as a son again because, because the
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love of the Father, that's the Father's love for us.
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His love is unconditional. Not only only is his love God's
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love unconditional God. 'S love is undeserved.
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There's nothing we can do to deserve the love of God, you.
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Can't earn it. It's not performance based.
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You see so many, so many other religions in the world.
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There, there. It's it's all performance.
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You have to do this you. Got to say this penance, some of
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you, some of you may have been raised in the Catholic.
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Church and you, you know that was part of your your religious
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culture religious. Experience and you've got.
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You've got to do this. You got to do that.
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Jews, they got to keep, you know, they've got to keep the
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law. You can't keep the law.
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There's too many that that's that was the thing that was the
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law had all of these things you had to do and everybody was
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breaking the law except the scribes and the Pharisees who
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thought they were above the law because they fulfilled.
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But there was only one who kept the law, and it was Jesus,
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because if he, he was the sinless, spotless 1, he would,
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he never sinned so that he could be our Savior, so that he could
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be the sacrifice. But you see, you see love, it's
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his love is is. We can't.
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We don't. We don't deserve it.
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We, we don't deserve this love. There's nothing we can.
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We can't. Buy it We.
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Can't do penance for we can't we can't say there are a formula or
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anything to deserve the love of God, God's love, Paul writes in
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Romans 85. He says but, but God
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demonstrated his love toward us while we were yet sinners.
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Christ died for us. Think about it.
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John 1513 says, says Jesus said this.
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He said no greater. Love than this than a man lay
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down his life for his friends. Paul also writes in.
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In he writes about scarcely will a good.
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Man, a righteous man, die for somebody.
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They know, but who dies? For the ungodly only one Jesus
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Paul. Writes in Ephesians 2, four and
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five. But God, who is rich in mercy
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because of his great love while we were dead in trespasses,
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that's us before we came to Christ.
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We're dead. In fact.
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In fact, there's The Bible even uses terminology as.
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Enemies. We were enemies.
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To God we were. We were cast, separated from God
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because God is holy and God is Justin and he's pure.
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And so in our sin, we're enemies to God, but because of the blood
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of Jesus, but because she's God loved us so much, he sent his
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only begotten Son into this world, that whosoever would
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would come to him, whosoever would repent of their sins,
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whoever would would accept Jesus as their Savior, wouldn't
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perish, but have everlasting life.
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And so and so this this love. Is undeserved, but God.
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Gave it God loved us so much. It's it's unconditional love.
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It's it's, it's, it's undeserved love, but it's also it's
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unrelenting love. That word, unrelenting means
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undiminished. Undiminished in effort.
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It doesn't fade. It doesn't weaken the love of
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God over over all these thousands of years of human
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history. God's love is not less today
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because of time. God.
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God doesn't age. He's ageless.
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He's from beginning to end. He's from everlasting to
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everlasting, and so is his love. It's from everlasting to
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everlasting. It's unrelenting.
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That means God has been pursuing.
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He's a pursuing God pursues us. He's unrelenting and his passion
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for souls. He's unrelenting and his passion
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and his love for us, no matter what we've done, no matter how
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many times we fail, no matter how many times we mess up, no
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matter how many times we get up and we fall down.
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His love is unrelenting. It's passionate.
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And he pursues, and he pursues, and he pursues, and he rescues,
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and he picks us up, and He cleans us all.
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And He wants, which is us again and again and again.
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Why? Because of His love for us.
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Think about the woman in. John chapter 8.
John 8 chapter mention
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It's an interesting story. A woman.
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Who was caught in the Bible says in an act adultery?
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It was a setup. Don't talk much about the men
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who were watching and waiting to catch her in that act.
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That's a whole another sermon. But they catch her.
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They were waiting. They knew Jesus.
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Was by, so they. Bring her to Jesus and throw her
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down. And says.
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What does the law? Says she should be stoned.
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That's what the law says. What do you say, Jesus?
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He said nothing, but he stooped down on the ground, no doubt
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beside her, and begin to write something.
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Oh, we always want to speculate what he wrote.
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We preach our own sermons there, but we don't know what he wrote.
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But whatever he wrote you without sin cast the first stone
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and one by one they dropped their stones because the law
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said she's to be stoned. But Jesus said, if you're
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without sin, go ahead, throw that stone.
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One by one they dropped their stones, you see, but that's
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Jesus. And then he told the woman, get
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up, go your way, sin no more, you've been forgiven.
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You see, that's the passionate pursuit, John chapter 4, when he
John 4 chapter mention
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goes to the well, Jews didn't go through through Samaria, but
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Jesus said he had need to go to Samaria because he knew who was
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going to be there at high noon. You don't draw water at high
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noon. You went early in the morning or
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you went in the evening, the early evening, the cool of the
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day. You didn't go at 12:00 when it's
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the hottest in the Mediterranean sun to draw water.
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But this woman did because she went secretly.
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She went because she had been living she had 6 husbands and
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was 5 husbands and living with the 6th 1.
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So she was an outcast that Jesus went because he needed to go.
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He pursued and that woman end up leaving her pot going into the
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city, becoming the first woman evangelist in the scriptures
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going and tell everybody come see a man, come see a man that
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knew everything about me, come see a man.
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With joy. Shall you draw waters out of
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the? Out of the living, living water,
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the well of living water. He gave her, he gave her fresh
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water, He gave her a new beginning.
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He gave her New Hope. He gave her a new start.
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He gave her salvation of joy in life and, and gave her a new
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experience and she became a new creation.
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You see, He's the pursuing God. He pursues us.
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He's unrelenting. He won't give up pursuing if
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you've got unsaved children. No, he's the unrelenting
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pursuer. He won't give up.
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He doesn't give. It doesn't matter.
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It doesn't matter how, how bad, how far down they go.
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He, his love is unrelenting. Aren't you glad He was
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unrelenting when he pursued you and he came after you.
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You didn't come to him on your own terms.
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You didn't come to him on your own accord.
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It was the Spirit of God that was pursuing you.
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It was the Spirit of God that was convicting you.
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It was the Spirit of God that was taking this and that and
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this and that and this word and that word and scripture and and
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all these things and people and was placing seeds in your heart
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and drawing you to that place. When you said, Lord, I
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surrender, I give my life to you.
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I confess you as Lord and Savior.
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That was because he was pursuing, suing you.
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And even when he catches you, even when he when he come, when
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you accept him, he doesn't stop. The love doesn't stop.
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He doesn't stop pursuing. He keeps pursuing us day after
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day, moment after moment in life.
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Why? Because his love.
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Is unrelenting. It's unconditional.
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It's undeserved. It's unrelenting.
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But it's also unfathomable. How do you?
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Explain this. How do we explain?
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How do we comprehend? This kind of love words can't
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explain it words. So many.
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I've, I've reread this just just recently, just, well, just in
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the last day or two, is just preparing for this morning.
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So many. I found that so many
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theologians. Have wouldn't even take John 316
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as a text and just preach on John 316 because how do you
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preach John 316? How do you add anything to that?
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You know, Tim Tebow, that was his you know, John 316 three
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sixteen was on all of this, all of his gear, all of his stuff.
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And they even even said that, you know, a lot of his numbers
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even matched up to 316, a lot of the touchdown passes, whatever,
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all all the all the things several years.
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Added up to. To that number, because that
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was, that was his. That's what he took is his motto
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greatest, probably the one of the greatest scriptures in all
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of the word of God for God. So.
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Loved the world that he. Gave his only begotten.
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How do you explain that? Or how do you?
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Comprehend it His love that God would, would send his only
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begotten Son. You see, it's unfathomable.
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It's an unfathomable love. And so we try.
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We try to put it in words. We, we, we try, we.
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Songs have been written. We we, we, we sing songs and we
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write about poems and. And and and things have been.
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Written about the love of God, but how do you measure it?
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How do you measure this? Love you can.
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Better measure the ocean. Than the love of God you can.
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Better measure the sands of the Seas.
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Than to try to measure the love of God.
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So Paul writes in Ephesians 3 in a prayer.
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He was praying a prayer to the the the.
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Christians in Ephesus. And he says, he says, I want you
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to be able. To try to comprehend.
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With all the Saints, what is the height and the depth?
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And the width and the length. Of the love.
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Of God that passes all knowledge pipe.
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His love is so high, it comes from heaven.
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His love is so long you can't outlast.
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It it's forever and ever and ever.
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It's so deep. It reaches.
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Which are the lowest you've ever?
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Been and they'll ever go and beyond.
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And it's so wide. It goes around the world again
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and again and over and over and over and over again.
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The love of God. It's higher than any any of,
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It's longer, it's wider. It's deeper than any of your.
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Failures. No sin is too great.
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No distance is too far. No mountain is too high, no
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valley is too low. The the this love, this
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unfathomable love of God, you can't measure it.
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You can't calculate it. You can't comprehend it.
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It stretches wider than you're seeing.
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It runs longer than your lifetime.
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It reaches higher and deeper than your pain, your brokenness,
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your rebellion, your mistake. You can't measure it.
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So what do you do with it? You just got to look at the
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cross and say that's love, that a man would be willing his blood
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wasn't spilled when you spill something.
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That's an accident. I know the.
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Songs have. Been written and and were we,
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we've used the word broken and spilled out.
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I understand, I understand what we mean.
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But when we really think about it, when we if we really want to
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be a theological, if we really want to be biblical, if we
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really want to be correct, it wasn't spilled.
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He didn't spill it. He gave his life.
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He poured out his blood. He allowed.
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He laid down his life. He gave his life.
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They didn't take his life. Hear me.
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The Romans didn't take his life. The Jews didn't take his life.
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He gave up his life. He willingly laid down.
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He knew he was going to have to die.
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He came. The purpose of the Son of Man.
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What's to seek and to save that which was lost?
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It was in the Father's plan that Jesus would lay down his life,
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just like Isaac lay down on the altar.
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Abraham didn't make him lay down Isaac.
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He was old enough. He crawled up on that altar.
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He watched his father build the fire.
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Abraham or Isaac watched his father place the logs under the
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altar, and they had the altar. And he and Isaac got up on that
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altar and he laid his own life on that altar.
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And then he said, Father, I see the wood, I know the sacrifice,
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but, but, but where? Where's the lamb?
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And he said, God will provide a lamb.
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God will provide A and he provided that lamb.
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And that lamb was Jesus, who came to die for us.
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Unfathomable love. I can't explain it, but oh I can
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accept it. I just got it.
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That's why he says believe if you'll just believe, if you'll
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confess with your mouth and believe in your heart the Lord
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Jesus, that God raised him from the dead.
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It's when you're saved. You see, it's as simple as
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believing if we'll just believe this love, that he loves us so
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much. But oh, here's the last one.
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I'll finish with this. It's unbreakable.
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Love. It's a covenant.
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God's love is a. Covenant But you see covenants
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and vows, they don't mean a whole lot today 'cause people
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break their vows, they stand in an altar and get married in the
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name of God. But those vows don't mean a lot
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to a lot of people. They break them.
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People, you know used to buy cars and mules and horses and
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cows and and bland by handshake because a man's word was his
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bond or a handshake wasn't. It was an agreement.
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Not today. You can't trust that today.
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Promises are broken. Promises are made, but they're
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broken. Vows are made, but they're
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broken covenants. People go into contracts and
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covenants, but they break them. But you see, God's love is
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unbreakable. God's love is.
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Unbreakable God's love is. Unbreakable.
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You can't break that bond of God.
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'S love. You can't break it.
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Your sin can't break it. Your failure can't break it.
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Your mistakes can't break it. No matter.
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You can't break that love. God loves us now.
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He, He loves us. He doesn't want us to stay, stay
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in our mess and stay broken and stay bound and stay in sin.
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He loves us enough to rescue us and to bring us out.
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But you can't change the love of God.
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You can't break the bonds of God's love because it's from
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everlasting to everlasting. God's covenant can't be broken.
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That's why Paul. Writes and I'm I'm done, he
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says. Romans 8.
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Who can separate us? From the love of God What can
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separate us from God's love? Shall persecution, he said.
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He names all these things. Famine, distress, nakedness,
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peril, sore persecution, all these things, He said.
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He said. We're more than conquerors, he
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said. He said.
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For I am persuaded. Here's that.
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This is what he says. This is what I know.
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Jesus loves me, this I know, I'm persuaded he loves me, this I
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know, and that I can't be separated from the love of God.
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He says neither, not not death, not life, not angels, not
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principalities, not powers, nor things present, nor things to
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come. You know what all that means?
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That means that that means in a world full of deception and a
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world full of lies and a world full of temptation and the devil
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and and the onslaught of the enemy, there is nothing that can
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separate you. There's no lie, there's no
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deception, there's no evil, there's nothing that can
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separate you from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus
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our Lord. God loves us.
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He loves us. His love is an unbreakable love.
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Somebody needs to hear this today.
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That what you thought you did broke it.
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You thought that your failure cancelled it.
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You thought that your past disqualified you.
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But you're the love of God can't be broken.
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We live in a cancel culture. You can't cancel the love of
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God. You can't cancel it.
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You can't erase the love of God. It's the strongest force in the
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universe. The ocean is powerful, it's
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mighty. There's nuclear power, there's
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there's hydropower, there's electric power.
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There are strong forces in this world and in this universe that
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are natural forces. But there is nothing that is
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compared to the power of the love of God.
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And the love that rescues you is the same love that'll hold you,
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and it's the same love that'll keep you.
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It's the same love that'll see you through.
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It's the same love that gets you saved.
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But it's the same love that'll take you all the way to the
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pearly gates of heaven. And you'll meet the one who died
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for you and gave his life for you and says, well done my good
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and faithful child. Enter in.
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That's the love of God that'll take you all the way home.
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It won't just take you part of the way.
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His love will take you all the way if you'll embrace His love
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and accept His love. Hallelujah.
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Hallelujah. Can we just get a little excited
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about the love of God today? Hallelujah.
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Come on, stand with me if you would.
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Come on, let's just put our hands together and praise Him.
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Thank Him for His love today. Thank you for loving me.
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Thank you for come on, tell him. Maybe it's been a while.
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Tell him, Lord, thank you for your love.
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Thank you for your love. I didn't deserve it.
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I didn't earn it, but you love me anyway.
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It's unrelenting. It's unfathomable.
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It's unbreakable. You can't get.
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You can't get. Away from it.
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Oh, thank you. For your love, Hallelujah.
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Thanks for listening to the Cross Power Church podcast.
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May you know that true hope, peace, and salvation can only be
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found in Jesus. If you're near Campbell, TX, we
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would love for you to join us in person.
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