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01:37 >> Dear friend, thank you so much for watching 01:39 "It Is Written Canada." We are continuing our journey 01:43 on understanding this God of love. The Bible says, "God is love," 01:48 but what does that mean? And I am absolutely thrilled. Here again with me is 01:53 Dr. John Peckham to help in this journey. Dr. Peckham, thank you so much 01:57 for joining us again. >> Thank you for having me, Chris. 02:00 >> Now, Dr. Peckham, we left off last week talking about God's love 02:05 for humanity. We looked at John 3:16-17, "For whosoever," 02:11 that word whosoever, exploring God's love for humanity. 02:17 Any other Bible texts that really talk about this love that God has for humanity? 02:23 >> Yeah. There are so many. 02:25 I want to go directly to 2 Peter 3:9... 02:27 >> Okay. >> ...one of my favorite verses 02:29 in the Bible, 2 Peter 3:9. >> And what 02:35 does 2 Peter 3:9 say? >> 2 Peter 3:9 says, "The Lord is not slack 02:40 concerning his promise, as some count slackness, but is long-suffering toward us, 02:45 not willing that any should perish but that all should come 02:50 to repentance," and you see, those two words there, right? Not willing thatanyshould 02:54 perish... >> Yes. >> ...but thatallshould 02:56 come to repentance. That means everyone. >> And let's unpack 03:01 that a little bit now. All, that's everybody, right? >> That's right. 03:08 >> And so this is now giving us a picture because one of the things 03:13 we were talking about is that there are some Bible teachers 03:17 that teach the idea that God actually only has a select few that He desires to save. 03:23 >> Yes. >> But this text... >> Yes. 03:25 >> ...directly says the opposite of that. Any other texts that would help 03:30 us understand more about this love that God has for everyone? 03:35 >> Yeah. I want to take you to 1 Timothy. >> Okay. 03:40 >> So this is, of course, Paul writing to the young Timothy, and what does 1 Timothy 03:47 have to say about this love of God? 1 Timothy... 03:54 >> 1 Timothy 2... >> Okay. >> ...beginning in verse 4. 03:56 >> All right. >> 1 Timothy 2, beginning in verse 4, 04:00 backing up to verse 3, "For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, 04:04 who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth." 04:10 How many? All men. >> All men. 04:13 >> And if you keep going, in verse 5 and 6, "For there is one God 04:16 and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, 04:20 who gave himself a ransom for all to be testified in due time." 04:27 So there's many other texts that talk about God desiring to save everyone. 04:31 One of the reasons that some people think that God only desires to save some 04:35 is they think that God has only elected some people to save, 04:39 and I think one place to see very clearly that I think there's been a misunderstanding 04:42 of the biblical concept of election is to go over to Matthew 22. 04:47 >> Okay. >> In Matthew 22, you have this parable, 04:51 a well-known parable of the wedding banquet and the invitation... 04:55 >> Yes. >> ...to this wedding banquet, and it's striking 04:58 what we find there, and we find there actually solidifies what 05:02 you would find if you were to go and look through every single verse, 05:06 every single use of the language of calling and election, or choice, 05:10 of God in the Old Testament and the New Testament. You would find that some texts 05:15 are ambiguous. They don't tell you whether somebody could reject 05:18 the election or not, but there are other texts that tell you that 05:22 you can accept God's calling or not because actually, the word "calling" could be 05:26 translated "invitation." >> Okay. >> In fact, it is translated 05:30 "invitation" in some places. >> All right. >> And the one who is elect 05:32 consistently throughout Scripture is the one who responds 05:35 to God's invitation. >> Okay. >> And we see that 05:37 in Matthew 22. >> Okay. >> I won't read through 05:39 the entire parable, but if you were to begin in Matthew 22:1, 05:43 you would see this parable of an invitation sent out by a master's servants 05:49 to bring in all of these people to the wedding feast, and many people respond 05:53 to the invitation saying, "No. I'm too busy. I have something else going on. 05:58 I just can't make it." Then, after hearing those rejections 06:02 of the invitation to the feast, the master sends the servants out again and says, 06:06 "Go into the highways and byways and invite everyone and bring them into my house," 06:10 and those people accept the invitation, and they come to the wedding 06:13 feast, and after Jesus tells this parable, which is showing that you can 06:18 accept or reject the invitation, what does He say? Verse 14 in Matthew 22, 06:22 Matthew 22:14, "For many are called or invited, but few are chosen." 06:31 >> Okay. >> Now, what does that mean in the context of the parable, 06:35 "Many are called but few are chosen"? Well, the parable tells you 06:37 what Jesus means. You have this invitation that goes to many, 06:41 but only those who accept the invitation are those who are chosen or elect, 06:45 and that's a consistent theme throughout Scripture. The elect 06:48 are those who love God. God invites everyone to love Him, 06:51 but the elect are those who respond to that properly. >> Okay. 06:54 So that helps now this... understanding this a little bit. So we just read... 07:00 We left off last week with John 3:16-17. We just read 1 Peter 3:9. 07:05 We also ready 1 Timothy 2:4-6, which clearly, explicitly say that God loves everyone. 07:13 >> Mm-hmm. >> And here, Jesus says, "For many are called, 07:16 but few are chosen," few are elect. That chosen, that election 07:22 is actually not dictated by God... >> Yes. 07:25 >> ...but actually dictated by the response of the individual. 07:30 >> That's right. >> Okay. Now, we're seeing that God 07:36 loves us freely, but does He have to love us freely? 07:42 I mean, doesn't His very nature, I mean, some people will say, "I mean, okay. That's fine. 07:47 God loves us, but He has to love us. There's nothing else He can do." 07:50 >> Right. >> Let's talk about that a little bit. 07:52 >> And we want to be very clear on this point because even though I would 07:55 argue that God does not choose who can receive His love 08:01 and who cannot, it is true that God's love is something that He wills 08:06 Himself, not entirely -- there are aspects of God's love that are responsive, 08:11 relational, contingent upon the way a human responds to Him -- 08:16 but God chooses to love, and He doesn't have to love everyone freely. 08:20 In fact, He didn't even have to create a world in the first place. 08:24 >> Okay. >> He would have been entirely happy, entirely fulfilled. 08:30 There's no need in the divine Being to make creatures, although it is congruent 08:35 with God's love that He would want to make creatures. >> Yes. 08:38 >> But He didn't have to. So I want to go to John 17 first, and then we're going 08:41 to go over to the Book of Hosea. >> Okay. >> But John 17:24, 08:44 very important passage for us to understand. When we talk about God, 08:48 even though He wants to have a relationship with us, this is entirely 08:51 out of His grace. It's not because God needs something in the strict sense 08:56 of need that we have to provide that He would be lacking without. 09:00 >> Okay. >> It's that He wants to have a relationship with us. 09:04 John 17:24 reinforces what I was saying before about this need. John 17:24, Jesus is speaking, 09:10 "Father, I desire that they also, whom you gave me, 09:14 may be with me where I am, that they may behold my glory which you have given me 09:19 for you loved me before the foundation of the world," 09:24 and this shows that there is a love relationship among the members of the Trinity 09:29 even before creation. So it's not as if God needs others 09:34 or creatures in order to love, but He chooses to create the world freely. 09:38 Now, even more explicitly about the free nature of God's love we see in Hosea 14. 09:43 >> Okay. >> So if we go over to Hosea chapter 14, 09:47 and Hosea is a beautiful book. We could spend many programs just on the Book of Hosea. 09:52 >> Yes. Yes. I often say this section 09:57 of the Bible is referred to as the Minor Prophets. >> Yeah. 10:00 >> But these minor prophets have a major message. >> There's nothing minor about 10:03 the message they're giving. That's right. Hosea 14:4, and this book 10:09 is about God's love relationship with His people using metaphors of a parent and a child 10:14 and a husband and wife and people that have fallen away from God, 10:19 and what is He going to do with them to try to bring them back to Him? 10:21 Hosea 14:4, in that context, the verse says, "I will heal their backsliding. 10:27 I will love them freely for my anger has turned away from him," 10:33 and by him, he means Israel corporately. >> Yes. 10:36 >> That word, freely, when you read it in English, you might think it means, 10:40 "I will love them without cost," and theologically, that would be true. 10:43 God's love has no cost, but the word in Hosea 14:4 doesn't mean 10:47 freely in that sense. It means freely in the sense of volitionally, 10:52 of His own will. How do I know that? Because that same Hebrew word 10:55 is the same word that is used in the sanctuary of the freewill offerings, 11:02 that same root, and the word means to give of your own freedom, 11:05 of your own volition. So what is He saying? "I will love them 11:09 because I choose to continue to bestow My love on them, continue to be with them 11:14 and redeem them." >> Wow. So, Dr. Peckham, where we began, 11:20 we talked about this trying to define what is love. What is God's love? 11:25 What is His character all about? >> Yes. >> We've looked at several texts 11:30 where we see first God loves everyone, and now what we are looking at 11:37 is that not only does God love everyone, but it's that God 11:42 choosesto love everyone. Let's talk about... That almost seems like a nuanced, 11:47 but that's an important clarifier there. Talk a little bit more 11:54 about this free choice that God is making to love us. >> Yes. 11:59 So to be clear on this, it's not as if God is arbitrarily choosing. 12:03 It's congruent with His character of love and His nature of love that God 12:07 is love that He would do this, but He didn't need to create a world 12:10 in the first place at all. He freely does it, and then when Israel falls away from him, 12:15 they've broken the covenant, the agreement between God and His people, 12:20 and there's no covenantal obligation for God to continue with them as His chosen people, 12:25 but He does anyways, and that's what He's talking... "I will love them freely. 12:29 I will redeem them." Another passage that's very important here is Exodus 33. 12:34 >> Okay. >> Exodus 33, and this is one of those passages 12:38 that is sometimes misunderstood, but it's so powerful, and whenever we're reading these 12:44 kinds of texts or other texts, it's very important that we read these texts in light 12:50 of all of what Scripture says. >> Yes. >> You can often read 12:53 a text here or there, and you can interpret them one way, and some texts, 12:56 you can interpret more than one way. The question is, 12:59 which interpretation fits with the rest of Scripture without any contradiction? 13:04 >> Yes. >> So Exodus 33:19, "Then he said"...This is... 13:10 Actually, we're going to back up to the context. This is in the aftermath 13:14 of the rebellion of Israel with the golden calf. >> Okay. 13:18 >> Moses went up on the mountain to receive the Ten Commandments. 13:20 >> Yes. >> And while Moses was on the mountain, 13:21 the Israelites decide to make a calf, an idol to worship, out of gold, 13:27 and they do so. The covenant is broken, which is symbolized 13:31 by Moses throwing the Ten Commandments down when he comes off the mountain. 13:34 The covenant appears to be shattered. Then you have this 13:36 back-and-forth in Exodus 33 between God and Moses, where Moses is interceding 13:40 on behalf of the people, and just before this, God has told Moses He will 13:47 continue to go with the people. He will continue to be their God, 13:50 and then Moses says, "Show me your glory." >> Yes. 13:54 >> And it's in this context that we have verse 19, "Then he said, 14:00 I will make all my goodness pass before you," which by the way, Moses says, 14:06 "Show me your glory." God's glory is more than this but not less than this. 14:11 When Moses asks to be shown God's glory, God shows him His goodness. 14:16 >> Mm-hmm. >> You see a close association here. 14:17 >> Yes. >> "I will make all my goodness pass before you, 14:20 and I will proclaim the name of the Lord," the name Yahweh, "Before you. 14:24 I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and I will have compassion 14:29 on whom I will have compassion," and those two roots in Hebrew, grace 14:35 and compassion, are very... Compassion is just another word for love, 14:39 and it is one of the major words for love. >> Okay. 14:41 >> And here, we have God saying basically, "It's not that these people 14:46 are deserving of My love." It's not that the covenant needs to continue. 14:51 They've broken the covenant. It's been shattered, right? >> Yes. 14:54 >> "But I will continue to show them grace and compassion." 14:59 Unfortunately, some people have thought this text means that God is arbitrarily choosing 15:04 to have compassion on some and then arbitrarily choosing to not have compassion 15:09 on others, but actually, in context and in the Hebrew, many Hebrew scholars 15:13 have seen a good translation of this would be, "I am the God who grants mercy or compassion. 15:21 I am the God who gives grace," almost as if he is to say, 15:25 "They've broken the covenant. They don't deserve it, but because I'm Yahweh 15:29 and because I have the right to do it, I'm going to be compassionate 15:33 to them anyway, and the covenant will continue not because who they are, 15:37 but because of who I am." And this is God's free choice to continue to love His people. 15:43 >> And I think what's so important, one of the very vital 15:46 takeaways here, is that an individual may have turned 15:52 their back on God, may have wandered away from God, or maybe an individual never 15:57 grew up in the context of really understanding who God is, and so they're watching 16:03 right now saying, "This is not the God that I've seen on TV. 16:08 This is not the God I've read about in books. This is a God actually, 16:12 One that chooses to love me freely, that I want to get to know." 16:16 >> Yes. >> And the important takeaway of this is that 16:19 because of God freely choosing to love us, all of us have the opportunity, 16:25 then, to return that love. >> That's right. >> Now, let's talk about that, 16:29 though, because we're talking about this whole issue of free will 16:32 and things like that, so, I mean, are we truly free 16:37 to respond to that love of God? >> Yeah. >> Are we truly free 16:40 to love God back? >> Yes. Yes. 16:43 The short answer is yes, we are, and I want to show you some texts. 16:46 Before I do that, some people who are watching might be thinking, 16:49 "But I've always thought Exodus 33," and they're probably more 16:53 familiar with it from Romans 9. Paul quotes it in Romans 9, and that's a passage that 16:56 I think we're going to come to in this show or in a later show... 16:59 >> Sure. >> ...to try to look at some of that and what Paul 17:01 was really getting at there, but they think Exodus 33 means something different, 17:05 the God is choosing some and not others, but if you look in the context of Exodus 33, 17:08 right before, after the golden calf incident, God didn't say, "Okay. 17:12 You all rebelled with the golden calf. I'm going to save these people, 17:14 and I'm not going to save these ones." Now, what does He say? 17:16 He says, "Whoever is on the Lord's side, come to this side," 17:20 and so they have a decision to make even in the context, which shows He's not making 17:24 an arbitrary choice between people. What about us having the ability 17:29 to respond to God freely in love relationship? Well, there's a number of places 17:35 we could go for this, but let's go to Deuteronomy 30 first of all. 17:38 >> Okay. >> Deuteronomy chapter 30. >> As we're turning to 17:43 Deuteronomy, Dr. Peckham, I just want to tell you that it's important 17:48 as we're studying the Bible that our viewer, as we're studying, we're really all over 17:53 the place in the Bible here. We're in the Pentateuch right now, the first five books. 17:56 >> Mm-hmm. >> We were in the Minor Prophets. 17:58 >> Mm-hmm. >> We were in the New Testament. This is not just selections. 18:02 We are really exploring this love of God and the love that God has for us, 18:08 so Deuteronomy chapter 30 and what verse? >> Deuteronomy 30 beginning 18:11 in verse 15. >> Okay. >> And everything that 18:14 I'm sharing with you today comes out of my investigation of what all of what Scripture 18:17 says on love... >> Yes. >> ...which is not to say 18:20 that I've mined everything that Scripture says but that I tried to. 18:22 >> Yes, yes. >> Deuteronomy 30:15, this is what it says, 18:28 the words of God Himself, "See, I have set before you today life and death," 18:34 "life and good," rather, "death and evil, in that I command you today 18:39 to love the Lord your God, to walk in his ways and to keep his commandments, 18:44 his statutes and his judgments, that you may live and multiply, and the Lord your God 18:50 will bless you in the land which you go to possess." Then we drop down, and it says, 18:59 verse 19, "I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you that I have set 19:04 before you life and death, blessing and cursing. Therefore, choose life, 19:11 that both you and your descendants may live, that you may love the Lord 19:15 your God, that you may obey his voice and that you may cling to him 19:19 for he is your life and the length of your days, and that you may dwell in 19:23 the land which the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob to give them." 19:28 Now, of course, he's speaking to the nation of Israel in these verses. 19:31 >> Yes. >> But the principle here is that they have a choice 19:35 to love God and respond to Him and be in a relationship with Him. 19:39 >> And this is important because when we talk about kind of this idea of God 19:43 predetermining, it gives the idea that there's no choice in the matter, 19:48 but here, Deuteronomy chapter 30 is clearly emphasizing that we have a choice 19:53 to respond to God's love, and I'll go back to something that I have said 19:57 throughout my ministry, is that in order for love to truly be love, 20:02 it must give us the ability to say, "Yes," or to say, "No"... 20:07 >> Right. >> ...because if it does not, then really, it is God 20:10 forcing His will upon us. >> Yes. >> I see you turning 20:15 in your Bible. There must be another text. Let's go to another text and... 20:17 >> There is. >> ...talk about this. >> Following up on that 20:19 is in Matthew 22. >> Okay. >> In Matthew 22, 20:22 Jesus is asked, what is the greatest commandment? And we're going to see this 20:27 commandment that Jesus prescribes, which is actually already 20:31 in the Old Testament, which is the love commandment. >> Yes. 20:35 >> Now, if human beings did not have any freedom with regard to love, 20:40 I want us to ask ourselves, would this command make any sense, right? 20:45 Matthew 22 beginning in verse 37, Matthew 22:37, "Jesus said to him, 20:51 'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, 20:55 with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first 21:02 and great commandment, and the second is like it, you shall love your neighbor 21:06 as yourself. On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets." 21:11 Now, Jesus is giving a summary of the entire law and the prophets, as He says, 21:15 and both of those commandments are in the Old Testament actually. 21:18 He's quoting from Deuteronomy 6:5, which is love toward God... 21:20 >> Yes. >> ...and Leviticus 19:18, which is love 21:23 towards your neighbor, but what sense would it make if you didn't have any freedom 21:27 with regard to reciprocating God's love... >> Yes. 21:30 >> ...to say, "This is the greatest commandment, love God and love other people." 21:35 Now, at the same time, it's not because we have it in our own natures to love. 21:39 The Bible tells us elsewhere in 1 John 4 that we love because 21:43 God first loved us, right? So it's not that it's something we're generating, 21:46 but it is something that we have freedom to respond to God in love that He is calling us 21:52 and giving us this commandment to do so. >> So this is phenomenal. 21:55 So the first piece of understanding the love of God is that first God loves us 22:02 freely. He loves, and when I use the word us... 22:06 >> Everyone. >> ...everyone. >> That's right. 22:08 >> He loves everyone freely. He chooses to love us and then gives us the invitation 22:16 to return that love. >> Yes. >> So in the last, 22:23 you know, 5 minutes that we have left here today, let's talk about this, though. 22:29 For the person that's there saying, "But no, no, no. There's election 22:33 and predestination and predetermination, and it's not about"... 22:38 How might you respond to that person saying, "Okay, you know, I understand 22:43 in the context that this may be what you grew up learning. This may be what you've 22:47 heard at church or wherever it may be," how wold you respond to that, 22:52 the person that's really wrestling with that saying, "No, no, no, 22:54 but it's predetermined." >> That's right. >> "I'm having a hard time 22:57 with this God freely choosing and me freely choosing to respond"? 23:01 >> Yeah. Yeah. This is such an important 23:02 question. So I'm going to go rapid fire in a couple of texts 23:05 if we can here. >> Please. >> But the important principle 23:08 to understand is what reading makes sense of all of these texts. 23:12 The texts that some people think teach that view make sense if you understand 23:16 the distinction between God's ideal will, that's what He wants to happen 23:19 if everyone always did what He wanted, and God's remedial will -- 23:23 that's what God does in response to the free decisions of others. >> Yes. 23:27 >> Now, how do I know the Bible teaches something like this? Because if you ask yourself 23:30 a simple question, does God always get what He wants? If the answer to that question 23:34 is no, and yet God is all-powerful, that means there must be 23:37 some other factor other than what God Himself is causing. So I want to go to Isaiah 30. 23:41 >> Okay. >> And then we're going to go to another chapter in Isaiah... 23:43 >> All right. >> ...and then two in Luke if we have time. 23:46 >> Sure. Let's get some rapid-fire sequence going. 23:49 >> Isaiah 30... >> Yes. >> ...because I don't want 23:51 to leave this kind of as a question in people's minds that we're just pulling 23:55 this out of thin air. We're getting this from the Bible. 23:58 Isaiah 30:18, "Therefore, the Lord will wait that he may be gracious to you, 24:05 and therefore, he will be exalted that he may have mercy on you for the Lord 24:09 is a God of justice. Blessed are those who wait for him." 24:13 The Lord will what? >> He'll wait. >> He will wait. 24:15 He wants to have mercy. He's waiting. Flip over to Isaiah 66. 24:19 >> Okay. >> Isaiah 66:14, and then we'll go to Luke. 24:25 Okay. So Isaiah 30:18 says this, "Therefore, the Lord will wait 24:30 that he may be gracious to you, and therefore, he will be exalted that he may have mercy 24:35 on you for the Lord is a God of justice. Blessed are those 24:39 who wait for him." It says the Lord will wait. He longs to have mercy on you, 24:44 some versions translate that verse. I want to flip over to Isaiah 66 24:47 in the same book. >> Okay. Yeah. 24:49 >> Isaiah 66:4, this is what God says at the end of that verse, 24:57 "When I spoke, they did not hear," even before that, 25:02 "Because when I called, no one answered, and I spoke, they did not hear, 25:06 but they did evil before my eyes and chose that in which I do not delight." 25:12 So God called, but they didn't answer. He spoke. 25:14 They didn't hear. They chose what He didn't delight in 25:18 or what He didn't choose. Then we go over to Luke 7. >> Yes. 25:21 >> Some people think that God's will is always fulfilled, and there's some texts 25:25 that speak about God's will that is fulfilled, but then there's text where 25:28 He does not get what He wants. Luke 7, Luke 7:30 is just one of many examples 25:33 we could look at. It says on Luke 7:30, "But the Pharisees and lawyers 25:38 rejected the will of God for themselves, not having been baptized by him." 25:43 >> Wow. >> So they reject the will of God, 25:45 and then finally, Luke 13:34, Luke 13:34. This is Jesus 25:52 overlooking Jerusalem, knowing what is going to happen with regard to some therein 25:57 who reject Him. Luke 13:34, and when I read this, 26:02 I always imagine the tears in Jesus' eyes. >> Yes. 26:04 >> "Oh, Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who were sent 26:09 to her. How often I wanted," and that's the same word 26:13 for will throughout the New Testament, a different than the one in Luke, but 26:17 the other major word for will, "how often I wanted to gather your children together 26:20 as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, but you were not willing." 26:25 So Jesus wanted to gather them, and they were not willing, same exact Greek word. 26:30 >> Yes. >> You see, God does not always get what He wants. 26:34 He wants to save everyone. He invites everyone, but we have a choice. 26:38 >> And that is a powerful message that we will leave this show on. 26:43 First, God chooses to love us freely. Second, He gives us the ability. 26:51 He's granted us as a part of who we are the opportunity to freely choose Him 26:59 so that this relationship is truly a love relationship between a God who is loving 27:07 and a people who responds. That is powerful, Dr. Peckham. As we close off this program, 27:14 Dr. Peckham, would you mind praying to end our journey here this program? 27:20 >> Absolutely. Let's pray together. >> Dear Father in heaven, 27:23 great God of love, we are so thankful to You that You have loved us freely 27:28 and that You have called us and invited us to come into fellowship 27:31 of love relationship with You. We ask even now that You would open our hearts 27:36 so that we may come into this relationship with You or continue in it 27:39 and come to know You even better and reflect the love that You have given to us onto others. 27:44 In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. >> Amen. 27:49 My dear friend, God freely chooses to love you. He doesn't have to, 27:56 but He chooses to, and today, His invitation is that you, in turn, 28:02 would choose to love Him back. It is a phenomenal thing to know that 28:09 God doesn't arbitrarily choose, but He chooses everyone, and He's looking toward you 28:16 wanting a relationship with you. Today I want to offer you two things to help you 28:21 in that journey of a love relationship with God. First is the booklet 28:27 "God's Love for Man." You won't want to miss out on this little booklet 28:32 as it guides you through that journey with God 28:37 and helps you to understand His love more completely and respond to it. 28:42 Secondly, I want to offer you the Discover Bible Lessons that you would study the Bible 28:48 to see that love of God and be transformed by it. Here's the information you need 28:55 to receive today's offer. >> To request today's offer, 28:59 just log on to www.ItIsWrittenCanada.ca. 29:04 If you prefer, you may call toll-free at 1-888-CALL-IIW. >> Dear friend, I hope today 29:12 that you have gained just a glimpse of how deep and how wide God's love 29:19 is for you. So thankful for my guest, Dr. John Peckham. 29:23 Thank you so much for joining us. >> Thank you, Chris. 29:25 It's been my pleasure. >> Dear friend, I invite you to join us again next week. 29:29 Until then, remember, it is written: "Man shall not live by bread 29:34 alone but by every word that proceeds from the mouth 29:39 of God." ♪♪ |
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