I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Removing pain
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Lord, let my words
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Heal a heart that hurts
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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Hello and welcome to another
3ABN Today Family Worship
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and happy Sabbath to you.
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I'm Jason
Bradley, and I'm so glad
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that you decided to tune in
as we study the Word of God.
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And tonight we're
going to be talking
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about eternal love,
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God's eternal love
and what that means for us
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and for you
specifically as well.
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So, with me, we've
got Pastor James Rafferty,
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it's great to have you here.
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Good to be here.
It's the first time.
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Yeah, first time
for this program.
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Yeah, I'm looking forward to it.
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Yeah, me too.
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Normally, you're hosting
Salvation in Symbols and Signs.
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I gotta say this
is a little different.
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We're reversing right now.
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We are, but I'm still a student,
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still learning,
I'm still learning.
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We've got Pastor
John Dinzey with us.
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It's great to have you.
It's a blessing to be here.
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Blessing to be here. Yes.
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And we have Dee Hilderbrand,
it's great to have you.
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It's a joy to be here
among this wonderful company.
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I expect to learn tonight. Amen.
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I do as well. I do as well.
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Pastor Dinzey, would you have
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our opening
prayer for us, please?
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Sure.
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Our loving Heavenly Father,
we want to thank You, Lord,
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that as this week has ended,
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we can look back and see
that You have been with us
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that You have helped us
and carried us this far.
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We thank You, Lord,
for supplying our needs.
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We thank You for protecting us.
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We thank You for the
joy of being able to rest
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on Your holy Sabbath day.
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And we pray, Lord,
that You will help us to
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enter into worshiping
You in spirit and in truth.
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We ask for Your
blessing of the Holy Spirit.
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So that as we share together,
we will rejoice in knowing that
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You are speaking to
us, speaking through us
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and that the
blessing of Your Word
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is going out to
millions of people.
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We pray, Lord, for
these things in the holy
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and blessed name of Jesus.
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Amen. Amen.
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Amen.
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You know, it's incredible
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when we think about eternal love
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and God's eternal love.
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I want us to open
with Jeremiah 31:3,
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and it says,
"The Lord has appeared
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of old to me saying,
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'Yes, I have loved you
with an everlasting love,
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therefore, with lovingkindness
I have drawn you."
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I mean, picture
that, an everlasting love.
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Praise the Lord. Yeah.
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You can't, you
cannot do anything
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to lose that love,
no matter what you do.
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Even if you don't accept
it, even if you reject it,
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that love is
always flowing over you
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whether you
acknowledge it or not, always.
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That's a good
point. That's right.
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You know, we hear of people
saying that you repeat often,
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I love you, I
love you, I love you.
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But then that person
does not actually prove
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that love with action.
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But God does,
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and over and
over and over again.
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But, of course, the
greatest manifestation
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of His love is Jesus Christ
dying on the cross for us.
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Amen.
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In fact, this verse reminds
us a little bit of that verse
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where Jesus says,
"And I, if I be lifted up,"
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John 12:32, "will
draw all men unto Me."
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Because it says, with,
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I've loved you
with an everlasting love
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and with
lovingkindness have I drawn you.
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So the lovingkindness of God
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has to be
connected with Calvary,
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where Jesus was on
the cross, lifted up,
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drawing the world to Himself.
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Amen.
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Part of that
love, ever love is that,
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everlasting love
is the lovingkindness
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if you have that kind of
love, that depth of love,
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it comes automatically
with loving kindness.
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And Jesus always
expressed that in the Bible,
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and God always shows
that that lovingkindness,
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it's never beating
over the head with anything
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or even if we reject Him,
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Jesus, that the poor,
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the rich young ruler,
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Jesus didn't beat him up.
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He let him walk away,
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He still gave that
everlasting love to him,
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He still gave
that kindness to him,
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even though he walked away
and turned his back on that.
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I like that though
because it's interesting
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how we sometimes, you know,
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we say the word love
and an automatic idea is,
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you know, this pushy,
gushy, mushy, emotional thing.
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Jesus did say to the
return ruler, you know,
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this is what needs
to be done in your life.
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These are the
changes that need to be made.
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And like you said, Dee,
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in spite of the
ruler rejecting Him,
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Christ still long for his heart.
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He longed after him.
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But He didn't compromise
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the principles
of God's government
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aren't compromised.
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Love doesn't compromise
truth and righteousness.
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It longs after
souls, it draw souls,
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but we still have a free choice.
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That's right. That's right.
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You know that, that's true,
because when you consider that,
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you hear, I have done this.
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I don't know if any
of you have done this.
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You go to these
countries, and they say,
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you ask, well, how much is that?
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And they say a price,
and to you it sounds like,
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well, that's way
too high for that.
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Thank you very much.
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You start walking out.
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Wait, wait, wait, for
you, I'll lower the price.
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You know, and
they'll lower the price.
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I went through that
in Israel by the way.
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But anyway, God doesn't,
God did not change anything.
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Jesus did not change anything.
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Does not negotiate.
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And His love did
not change, either.
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He knew he
understood the conditions.
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But he did not know
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how to
appreciate the love of God
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and respond to that love.
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Yeah.
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The love is unconditional
and uncompromising.
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But it's a strong love.
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The love is unbelievable
in what it will do for you.
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It's a working love. Yeah.
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And I think it
speaks to the fact that
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it is a principle
and not just an emotion,
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as you brought out just,
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you know, just a
little while ago,
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like it is a
principle, it requires action,
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it requires you to show
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because you can say,
oh, I love you all day.
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But if you
don't do anything like
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if, you know, if
you say oh, I love you.
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Let's say you get
married, and you're married,
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and you tell your wife
all, you know, I love you.
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I do.
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But now that we're married,
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I don't need to
keep these wedding vows.
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Now that we're married,
I don't need to court you,
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like I don't
need to take you out.
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We don't need to go on
dates like, I love you.
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Like if we love God,
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then we need to show
Him that we love Him.
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And how do we do that?
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Well, He says, "If you love Me,
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keep My commandments."
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You know,
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but there's so
many different ways
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that we can show we
can be kind to others,
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just like you're speaking
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about the
kindness component there.
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I mean, there's so
many different ways
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that we can show
our love for God.
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But you know,
there's a lot of times
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where we fall short.
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Love is a state of
being, it's not just an emotion.
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Matter of fact,
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the least strongest of
real love is the emotion.
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The real love that
gets deeper and stronger
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is the one that
comes from action of doing,
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of being and
not just that wimpy.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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I love you. Yeah.
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Well, take out
the trash then son.
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Won't know action
behind it, you know.
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Let's talk about
the manner of love
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that God has.
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Pastor Rafferty,
you have 1 John 3:1.
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1 John 3:1.
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And I really love this
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because of the
way that it reads.
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1 John 3:1, it says,
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"Behold what manner of love
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the Father has bestowed upon us,
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that we should be
called the sons of God!
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Therefore the world knows us not
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because it knew Him not."
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And it seems like John
is just caught up in this
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inability to describe
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God's love in detail.
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And so, instead of, you
know, trying to lay it all out,
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he says, you just
need to behold it.
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You know, have you ever
been in a situation where
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you've experienced
something that's really good,
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and maybe it's just,
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you go on a
vacation to this place,
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and it's just amazing.
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Everything's
just amazing, right?
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And you're trying
to explain somebody,
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you just wouldn't believe
us, you wouldn't believe.
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And he said, you've
got to, you just got to go.
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You just got to go.
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Or you go to this restaurant,
this food is just incredible.
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And you're thinking,
man, this was the best food.
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I mean, such
good, vegetarian food.
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It was just amazing
vegetarian food, right?
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And you're
trying to explain to him
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that you just got to go,
you just got to taste it.
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This is what John is saying.
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He's saying, behold, I
can't explain it to you.
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I can't describe it, I can't.
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It's, you just got to behold it,
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you've got to
taste it for yourself,
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you've got to check it.
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God's love has
to be experienced.
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Yes. Amen.
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And we were it says,
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well, He loved
us before He knew,
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before we knew Him,
before we loved Him,
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and before we knew Him.
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And that
happens to human beings,
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when you have children,
you have not seen that child,
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you haven't held that child,
you don't know that child,
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you're carrying
that child in your womb,
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or your wife is
carrying the child.
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You love that
child from then on.
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So I mean, at that point,
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you're starting
to love that child.
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So God loves us
before we knew Him.
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Does that make sense? It does.
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Remember, when my son was born,
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I didn't know
anything about him,
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except that it took 31
hours for him to come out.
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And as soon as he came
out, I was like, what is this?
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And it was feeling an
emotion and just this,
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this desire to just love
and protect this so baby,
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you know, I
didn't even know him,
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I didn't know him
from anything, you know,
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but it's there.
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And that's what
God is communicating.
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And there was
action behind that love.
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You had all this
overwhelming love.
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But you wanted to do
something with that love.
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You didn't want to just.
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No, I want to protect,
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and, of course, my wife
was in bed for a couple weeks.
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So it was, there
was definitely action.
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It was just a diaper thing.
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House cleaning action
was going on right there.
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'Cause you love that son.
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I think she said,
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well, I carried
on for nine months,
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Pastor Rafferty.
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Well, here's the
interesting thing.
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She didn't have to say anything.
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Yeah.
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You know, because when we behold
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the love of God,
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He almost doesn't
have to say anything.
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It's like, of course, I remember
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when I first came in contact
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with the idea of
going to church on Saturday,
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I mean, the Sabbath.
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I never knew anything about it.
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I was raised
Catholic Sunday and all that.
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And, but I had
fallen in love with Jesus,
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I accepted Christ as my Savior.
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And someone was
sharing this with me
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and I was convicted
it was the right day.
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And they were saying,
"So what do you think?"
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And I said, "Well,
of course I love God,
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I'll do whatever
He wants me to do,
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because I love Him."
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Yeah.
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It wasn't an issue of
being doctrinally right.
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It was an issue of loving God
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and wanting to
please Him and let Him in.
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Experiencing His love. Yes.
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Once...
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It's very hard for human
beings to really comprehend
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the kind of love that
God really has for us.
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And once you experience
that, behold, once you taste it,
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when you experience it,
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and it just kind of
rolls over you somehow
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and somehow your brain
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can kind of wrap yourself around
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this incredible
love that's everlasting.
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That it's, that He
loves me, not my actions.
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He loves me, not
what I do or don't do.
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He loves me.
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Once you can except
that, it's overwhelming.
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Yes. And it's an
amazing experience.
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Yes, Pastor Dinzey,
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you look like
something's on your mind
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and you've been,
that you want to give out.
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Well, you know,
when you consider
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this scripture
is really fantastic.
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And we can spend
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hours and hours
talking about this,
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from the perspective of
behold what manner of love
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God has bestowed toward us,
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and that we should be
called children of God.
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It's like,
"Wait, you, you mean me?
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I can be a child of God."
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And He says,
"Yes, you are My child."
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And if we enter
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into that relationship with Him,
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where we
recognize Him as our Father,
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our Heavenly Father,
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then things
begin to change for us
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in our
understanding that, you know,
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we go to pray, knowing
that, that's my Heavenly Father.
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He cares for me, He loves me.
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And I'm
presenting to Him a request.
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And I need to trust Him
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that if I'm
asking for something that
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is not really good for
me, that He's gonna say,
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"My son, it's not
good for you to have that.
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Or my son, the best thing
for you right now is to wait."
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So I need to trust God.
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We need to learn
to trust Him because,
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you know, I'm sure
you've heard of stories,
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you preach
evangelistic campaigns,
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and there are some
people that believe,
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oh, there's no
way God could love me
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because they believe
they have done so much evil,
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that somehow the amount of
evil they do is like you said,
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God loves you,
your actions to Him,
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and don't play a
part in changing His love.
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And that the people think
that I've done so much evil
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that God doesn't love me.
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No, His love is everlasting.
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His love is
beyond our comprehension.
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And John could
not even explain it.
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He said, Behold,
behold that love.
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Yes. That's beautiful.
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And I want to read
this from Steps to Christ.
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It says unparalleled
love. That's the title of it.
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And it says, "The price
paid for our redemption,
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the infinite
sacrifice of our heavenly Father
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in giving His Son to die for us,
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should give us
exalted conceptions
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of what we may
become through Christ.
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As the inspired
apostle John beheld the height,
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the depth, the
breadth of the Father's love
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toward the perishing race,
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he was filled with
adoration and reverence,
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and failing to
find suitable language
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in which to
express the greatness
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and tenderness of this love,
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he called upon the
world to behold it.
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What a value
this places upon man!
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Through
transgression, the sons of men
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become subjects of Satan.
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Through faith
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in the atoning
sacrifice of Christ,
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the sons of Adam may
become the Sons of God.
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By assuming human nature,
Christ elevates humanity.
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Fallen men are placed
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where through
connection with Christ,
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they may indeed become
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worthy of the name, sons of God.
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Such love is without a parallel.
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Children of the heavenly King!
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Precious promise!
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Theme for the most
profound meditation!
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The matchless love of God
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for a world that
did not love Him!
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The thought has a subduing power
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upon the soul,
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and brings the
mind into captivity
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to the will of God.
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The more we study
the divine character
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in the light of the
cross, the more we see mercy,
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tenderness, and forgiveness,
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blended with equity and justice,
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and the more clearly we discern
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innumerable evidences
of a love that is infinite,
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and tender pity surpassing
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a mother's yearning
sympathy for her wayward child."
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That is incredible.
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That is a...
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An inspired arrangement of words
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to communicate something
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that still with all
those words selected,
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inspiredly selected, inspired...
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How do you say that?
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Selected in with
inspiration, I think,
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draws you and helps
you understand more.
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But still, I
mean, it's remarkable,
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that's a precious declaration
to consider God's love,
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God's tender love,
God's unexplainable,
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is that a word,
that we can't explain.
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Unfathomable His love.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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And that's, that's
another thing in here,
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I see the equity
and justice part.
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You know, a lot of times,
especially in today's society,
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people think that
you need to be an enabler
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to actually love
someone like you,
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you can't tell
them that they can gain
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the victory over something,
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you know, you're
kind of deemed as a hater
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or, you know,
whatever the case may be, like,
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it's like, they
want you to embrace
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a certain
lifestyle, or certain choices
00:17:45.76\00:17:49.60
as opposed to
trying to help them
00:17:49.63\00:17:52.10
see that there's a
better path and help them see
00:17:52.13\00:17:54.94
that Christ can
give them the victory.
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Here's the picture
I've never seen before.
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You know, you
remember Cain and Abel.
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Cain offered the offering
of the fruits of the earth,
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fruits and vegetables.
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Cain offered the offering
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that was supposed to be offered.
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Blood.
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After that
happened, we understand that
00:18:13.09\00:18:14.76
fire descended from
heaven and consumed the offering
00:18:14.79\00:18:17.19
that Abel presented,
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but I can almost picture
00:18:18.96\00:18:21.50
Cain looking in
expecting and nothing happens.
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The next scene
in the Bible is God
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talking to Cain
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and concerned His love for Cain,
00:18:30.57\00:18:34.14
when He went to
talk to him about this.
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And so, you
would think they say,
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you will see a picture of
God talking to Abel, Abel,
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my son, I'm so proud of you.
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You've done the right thing.
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But no, it shows
us a picture of Abel.
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I mean, Cain,
God talking to Cain.
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And this is something
that we need to remember.
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When we do something
wrong, God doesn't say,
00:18:53.73\00:18:56.33
"Okay, if you want to
have it your way, go ahead.
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I'm going this way."
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No, God is interested.
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God is concerned.
God wants to be with us.
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God wants to
draw us to Him. Amen.
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And that's the best
place to be next to that.
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So much so,
00:19:08.14\00:19:09.48
you have the next
scripture John 3:6.
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I think Pastor Rafferty
wanted to say something.
00:19:12.88\00:19:14.28
I was gonna say,
and then he goes beyond
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that even and He
marks Cain to protect him.
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Yes.
00:19:17.65\00:19:18.99
Here's the
disobedient being marked,
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you know, in Revelation,
00:19:20.39\00:19:21.82
the obedient are marked
or sealed with a seal of God.
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But in this Old Testament story,
00:19:23.99\00:19:25.96
the disobedient one
is marked and protected.
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Yes.
00:19:27.66\00:19:29.00
And I think Satan
has borrowed that,
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he is counterfeiting
that in Revelation 13,
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where he marks his
people here to attack them...
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Isn't that something?
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Create a campfire.
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So Satan's always counterfeiting
00:19:37.27\00:19:38.61
but he's trying to counterfeit
God's love, but you can't.
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God was giving.
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He wanted to make
sure he had a chance
00:19:41.98\00:19:43.58
to change his mind
and come back to Him.
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He wasn't done yet.
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And that's what He does with us.
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He keeps, our own
guilt separates us
00:19:50.35\00:19:55.42
and God keeps
trying to call us back
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because humans
00:19:58.93\00:20:01.16
can't separate the
action from the love.
00:20:01.20\00:20:03.53
We just can't
seem to grasp that.
00:20:03.57\00:20:06.37
And God only looks
at us with that love
00:20:06.40\00:20:11.54
and pushes the action aside.
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Amen. Amen.
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Well, John 3:16.
00:20:15.58\00:20:16.98
John 3:16 is the
scripture going to next.
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And so the Bible tells us
that "God so loved the world
00:20:19.28\00:20:23.89
that He gave His
only begotten Son,
00:20:23.92\00:20:26.92
that whoever believes
in Him should not perish,
00:20:26.96\00:20:30.86
but have everlasting life."
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Amen.
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When I saw, you
know, this scripture,
00:20:35.30\00:20:39.30
I've dedicated a lot of thought
and prayer to the scripture
00:20:39.33\00:20:41.50
for many years,
00:20:41.54\00:20:42.87
and from time to time
you come back to and I say,
00:20:42.90\00:20:45.24
is there more?
00:20:45.27\00:20:46.61
And yes, God has abundant
00:20:46.64\00:20:50.31
blessings in studying
any of the scriptures.
00:20:50.35\00:20:53.21
This one in particularly I have,
00:20:53.25\00:20:54.95
the Lord has
blessed me to discover
00:20:54.98\00:20:56.32
so many wonderful things.
00:20:56.35\00:20:58.12
And I am going
to just say, behold,
00:20:58.15\00:21:02.12
the love of God,
00:21:02.16\00:21:03.53
that He was
willing to give His Son
00:21:03.56\00:21:08.66
so that whoever believes in Him
00:21:08.70\00:21:12.50
should not perish,
but have everlasting life.
00:21:12.53\00:21:15.70
And, you know,
a picture of a God
00:21:15.74\00:21:20.58
that loves us that much
00:21:20.61\00:21:22.58
is beyond our
comprehension really is,
00:21:22.61\00:21:25.15
that He gave His
only begotten Son.
00:21:25.18\00:21:28.08
Like it, like you
read earlier for a world
00:21:28.12\00:21:30.42
that did not love Him.
00:21:30.45\00:21:33.05
Imagine that? Yes.
00:21:33.09\00:21:34.59
And the suffering
that Christ endured,
00:21:34.62\00:21:37.13
we do not comprehend.
00:21:37.16\00:21:39.13
We will continue to
study this in heaven.
00:21:39.16\00:21:41.73
But this love that God
gave His only begotten Son,
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I mean, what He
gives, God gives completely.
00:21:45.67\00:21:48.24
Yeah.
00:21:48.27\00:21:49.74
And there's so much
you can say about this,
00:21:49.77\00:21:51.97
that again, you can spend
hours and hours talking about.
00:21:52.01\00:21:54.41
That encompasses
when it says God,
00:21:54.44\00:21:57.68
when it says that
God so loved the world,
00:21:57.71\00:22:01.48
that encompasses
every single human being,
00:22:01.52\00:22:05.32
that's not just the US
00:22:05.35\00:22:07.82
or the people that
were born after 1800.
00:22:07.86\00:22:11.79
We do not comprehend
that every human being
00:22:11.83\00:22:16.20
that ever walked on
this earth has an opportunity
00:22:16.23\00:22:20.27
to choose everlasting life.
00:22:20.30\00:22:22.97
And we don't
know how that works.
00:22:23.00\00:22:24.57
We don't understand.
00:22:24.61\00:22:26.01
We don't always understand
how that's going to happen.
00:22:26.04\00:22:28.74
But it did happen,
and it is happening,
00:22:28.78\00:22:30.85
and it will continue to happen
00:22:30.88\00:22:33.31
that God loved
every human being.
00:22:33.35\00:22:37.55
They're gonna be a
lot of human beings,
00:22:37.59\00:22:38.92
they're going to be
lost, 'cause He loved them...
00:22:38.95\00:22:41.69
Of course, He loves them.
00:22:41.72\00:22:43.59
Do you?
00:22:43.63\00:22:44.96
Just because you lose
somebody, and they turn...
00:22:44.99\00:22:47.96
How many...
00:22:48.00\00:22:49.33
Haven't you love
somebody who said,
00:22:49.36\00:22:50.70
"No, I don't love you.
00:22:50.73\00:22:52.07
Get out of my life.
00:22:52.10\00:22:53.44
I don't want
nothing to do with you."
00:22:53.47\00:22:55.14
Don't you still have...
00:22:55.17\00:22:56.74
You still have a tie to
them, even human beings,
00:22:56.77\00:22:59.94
you remember that
love or that hurt.
00:22:59.97\00:23:02.41
You remember that hurt.
00:23:02.44\00:23:04.28
So God's love still exists.
00:23:04.31\00:23:07.62
He's gonna miss every
one of them in heaven.
00:23:07.65\00:23:10.55
They were unique.
00:23:10.59\00:23:12.25
So he's, everyone
that says no to Him.
00:23:12.29\00:23:15.39
Every human being
that turned away from Him,
00:23:15.42\00:23:17.86
He continues to love
00:23:17.89\00:23:19.23
and He's gonna always miss them.
00:23:19.26\00:23:21.30
No one can replace
the person that He lost.
00:23:21.33\00:23:24.90
Has anyone lost
a loved one here?
00:23:24.93\00:23:27.27
Did anyone ever replace them?
00:23:27.30\00:23:29.97
My cousin Marilyn,
no one can replace her.
00:23:30.01\00:23:32.87
We were only 17.
00:23:32.91\00:23:35.44
But and that's
so many years ago,
00:23:35.48\00:23:38.11
we're not going to say how many.
00:23:38.15\00:23:39.48
No one's been
able to replace her
00:23:39.51\00:23:41.05
and that memory is not gone,
00:23:41.08\00:23:42.62
that love for her is
not gone, and it doesn't.
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And so, of course, it
doesn't disappear for God.
00:23:45.79\00:23:48.59
He never lets go of.
00:23:48.62\00:23:50.49
Yes, amen.
00:23:50.53\00:23:51.86
I'm getting ahead here.
00:23:51.89\00:23:53.23
But, you know,
00:23:53.26\00:23:54.60
because there's
the verse up ahead
00:23:54.63\00:23:55.96
that talks about
who can separate us
00:23:56.00\00:23:57.33
from God's love.
00:23:57.37\00:23:58.70
So basically what I
hear you saying, Dee,
00:23:58.73\00:24:00.07
is God so loved the world
00:24:00.10\00:24:02.04
that He gave His
only begotten Son,
00:24:02.07\00:24:04.21
includes everyone.
00:24:04.24\00:24:05.57
So there's no conditions there.
00:24:05.61\00:24:07.38
He doesn't just love
those who will believe in Him
00:24:07.41\00:24:09.31
or might believe in Him.
00:24:09.34\00:24:10.68
He loves them, of course. Yes.
00:24:10.71\00:24:12.05
That's why He gave
His Son unconditionally,
00:24:12.08\00:24:14.22
so that
whosoever believes in Him,
00:24:14.25\00:24:16.22
because the only way
that a fallen human being
00:24:16.25\00:24:18.22
could actually believe in God
is to receive first His love.
00:24:18.25\00:24:21.92
And once God's love comes in,
00:24:21.96\00:24:23.73
we'll behold in,
it's everlasting.
00:24:23.76\00:24:25.83
It actually transforms
us to believe so I really,
00:24:25.86\00:24:30.03
I mean, I agree with you 100%.
00:24:30.07\00:24:31.60
I really feel that this verse,
you know, in theological terms,
00:24:31.63\00:24:34.87
we call this
objective and subjective.
00:24:34.90\00:24:39.07
The first part of
the verse is objective.
00:24:39.11\00:24:41.28
God so loved the world.
00:24:41.31\00:24:42.91
That's an objective fact
00:24:42.94\00:24:44.58
that's nothing to
do with our response.
00:24:44.61\00:24:46.05
That's right.
00:24:46.08\00:24:47.42
He had to do that,
00:24:47.45\00:24:48.78
He had to objectively
love us, unconditionally,
00:24:48.82\00:24:52.09
in order so that
whosoever believes
00:24:52.12\00:24:55.49
might not perish,
but have everlasting life
00:24:55.52\00:24:57.56
and it's just,
it's un incomprehensible
00:24:57.59\00:25:00.90
to recognize this verse
and the plan of salvation
00:25:00.93\00:25:04.00
it's bringing out
00:25:04.03\00:25:05.37
it's just
amazing, it's beautiful.
00:25:05.40\00:25:07.37
All you do is open
up and accept that love,
00:25:07.40\00:25:10.61
and He will let it grow in you.
00:25:10.64\00:25:12.31
And then that's
how you behold it
00:25:12.34\00:25:14.94
is just open up and accept it
00:25:14.98\00:25:17.15
and then you will
behold it and then you grow
00:25:17.18\00:25:19.25
and you believe and
you understand and you
00:25:19.28\00:25:21.95
and you want to love back.
00:25:21.98\00:25:24.75
Then we become changed.
00:25:24.79\00:25:26.15
You know, this
verse isn't on here.
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But Romans 5:6-8,
00:25:27.56\00:25:30.99
"For when we were
still without strength,
00:25:31.03\00:25:34.20
in due time Christ
died for the ungodly.
00:25:34.23\00:25:37.10
For scarcely for a righteous man
00:25:37.13\00:25:38.97
will one die,
00:25:39.00\00:25:40.34
yet perhaps for a good man
someone would even dare to die.
00:25:40.37\00:25:44.31
But God demonstrates
His own love toward us,
00:25:44.34\00:25:48.01
in that while we
were still sinners,
00:25:48.04\00:25:49.91
Christ died for us.
00:25:49.94\00:25:52.71
That's incredible.
00:25:52.75\00:25:54.08
Yes, those are the
verses I was thinking.
00:25:54.12\00:25:55.45
Yeah.
00:25:55.48\00:25:56.82
I was thinking of those
verses, that's why I said,
00:25:56.85\00:25:58.19
hey, wait a minute,
are you reading my mind.
00:25:58.22\00:26:00.72
Yeah, those verses...
00:26:00.76\00:26:02.09
Yes, yes.
00:26:02.12\00:26:03.46
Because they all fit together.
00:26:03.49\00:26:04.83
Yes. Yeah.
00:26:04.86\00:26:06.19
And so God did lay
down his life for us.
00:26:06.23\00:26:10.70
So what about humans?
00:26:10.73\00:26:14.04
That leads to that
other verse that John 15-13?
00:26:14.07\00:26:16.87
Yes.
00:26:16.91\00:26:18.24
That says, "Greater
love has no one than this,
00:26:18.27\00:26:21.51
than to lay down
one's life for his friends."
00:26:21.54\00:26:25.41
God does, all we can
do is lay down our life
00:26:25.45\00:26:27.98
for our friends
or our loved one.
00:26:28.02\00:26:29.85
But God laid down
His life for His enemies.
00:26:29.88\00:26:33.49
That's right. Yeah.
00:26:33.52\00:26:34.86
For those who didn't love Him,
00:26:34.89\00:26:36.56
for those He knew were
never going to love Him.
00:26:36.59\00:26:39.89
But also,
because we were created
00:26:39.93\00:26:42.06
because God's
love wanted to give.
00:26:42.10\00:26:45.20
Love wants to give.
00:26:45.23\00:26:46.57
One, it wants you to
encompass and give out there.
00:26:46.60\00:26:50.67
So God created us to
share His love with Him.
00:26:50.71\00:26:55.18
So but it has to be free, too.
00:26:55.21\00:26:57.21
It has to be free
choice. No other way.
00:26:57.25\00:27:00.98
What's the beautiful
thing about that, too,
00:27:01.02\00:27:02.95
is have you ever noticed
that when you do something,
00:27:02.98\00:27:05.29
let's say maybe
you're feeding the homeless,
00:27:05.32\00:27:07.16
or maybe you're
going into prison,
00:27:07.19\00:27:08.56
and you're
doing prison ministry,
00:27:08.59\00:27:09.92
and you go to be a blessing,
00:27:09.96\00:27:11.63
but you come out of
there feeling more blessed
00:27:11.66\00:27:14.00
than when you went in there?
00:27:14.03\00:27:15.73
Like it's, it's
incredible how that love,
00:27:15.76\00:27:19.30
and all of that stuff works.
00:27:19.33\00:27:20.67
I mean, it's absolutely amazing.
00:27:20.70\00:27:23.24
When you give
love, it grows you.
00:27:23.27\00:27:25.87
And that's what
we are created for.
00:27:25.91\00:27:27.24
We are created in
God's image, God is love.
00:27:27.28\00:27:29.28
So we're really being restored.
00:27:29.31\00:27:30.78
You know, we think
00:27:30.81\00:27:32.15
that we want to
hold on to bitterness
00:27:32.18\00:27:35.35
or hatred or unforgiveness,
00:27:35.38\00:27:36.82
you know,
because that's, you know,
00:27:36.85\00:27:38.52
just like, but
really, that's hurting us.
00:27:38.55\00:27:41.99
We weren't created to
hold on to that kind of stuff.
00:27:42.02\00:27:44.23
God doesn't hold on to it.
00:27:44.26\00:27:45.59
He wants us to
be free from that.
00:27:45.63\00:27:47.56
Job was captive to that.
00:27:47.60\00:27:49.60
And he when he prayed
for his miserable comforter,
00:27:49.63\00:27:51.67
worthless physician
friends, he was freed from that,
00:27:51.70\00:27:55.50
and everything
was restored to him.
00:27:55.54\00:27:57.31
And it's the same with us.
00:27:57.34\00:27:58.67
You know, we go
through some struggles in life.
00:27:58.71\00:28:00.54
People mistreat
us, whatever it is,
00:28:00.58\00:28:02.64
and we want to hold
a grudge and God says,
00:28:02.68\00:28:04.41
"No, no, no, I
don't hold a grudge.
00:28:04.45\00:28:05.78
You don't hold a grudge.
00:28:05.81\00:28:07.15
You'll be returned to
who I created you to be.
00:28:07.18\00:28:10.05
Why do we want to
hold on to a grudge?
00:28:10.09\00:28:12.45
Why do we want to
hold on to that stuff?
00:28:12.49\00:28:14.26
What is it we're
really looking for?
00:28:14.29\00:28:16.52
We want justice.
00:28:16.56\00:28:18.93
And where does
justice lie really?
00:28:18.96\00:28:21.36
Good point.
00:28:21.40\00:28:22.73
It lies with
God. Yeah, Romans 13.
00:28:22.76\00:28:24.93
He, God is the only one.
00:28:24.97\00:28:26.37
So if you need justice for pain,
00:28:26.40\00:28:28.80
and that's what's
separating you from God's love
00:28:28.84\00:28:31.51
is that you need justice.
00:28:31.54\00:28:33.61
If you can let go of
that, and give it to God,
00:28:33.64\00:28:37.65
He will get justice for you.
00:28:37.68\00:28:39.25
You may not see it, it
may not be here and now.
00:28:39.28\00:28:41.92
But then you get to
experience His love.
00:28:41.95\00:28:45.65
And that will heal that
pain if you allow it to happen.
00:28:45.69\00:28:49.62
Yeah, Romans 12:19.
00:28:49.66\00:28:50.99
I say Romans 12,
"Vengeance is Mine,
00:28:51.03\00:28:52.63
I will repay says the Lord.
00:28:52.66\00:28:54.00
So if your enemy
is hungry, feed them,
00:28:54.03\00:28:55.36
if he's thirsty,
give him water to drink."
00:28:55.40\00:28:57.13
Because we do hunger.
00:28:57.17\00:28:58.50
You know, you
talked about healing
00:28:58.53\00:28:59.87
that brings healing,
that brings healing to allow,
00:28:59.90\00:29:03.77
now I'm gonna say that way,
00:29:03.81\00:29:05.17
to allow God's forgiving
love to flow through us
00:29:05.21\00:29:09.88
so that we can forgive others.
00:29:09.91\00:29:11.75
Because the idea
of forgiving others
00:29:11.78\00:29:13.85
is difficult for us humans.
00:29:13.88\00:29:15.65
It's difficult,
because there's the pain
00:29:15.68\00:29:18.25
of whatever
happened, whatever was said.
00:29:18.29\00:29:21.26
Or perhaps somebody
didn't appreciate something
00:29:21.29\00:29:23.46
you've done, that is painful.
00:29:23.49\00:29:27.96
And to let go of
the pain and say,
00:29:28.00\00:29:29.86
yes, Lord, I'm willing
to let your forgiving love
00:29:29.90\00:29:34.14
flow through me to
forgive that other person.
00:29:34.17\00:29:37.44
And, you know, sometimes
you have to forgive people.
00:29:37.47\00:29:40.98
Over and over.
Yes, to forgive people.
00:29:41.01\00:29:43.38
But also there's the,
00:29:43.41\00:29:44.75
you know, sometimes
maybe you have done wrong,
00:29:44.78\00:29:46.98
and you go to
someone and you say,
00:29:47.02\00:29:49.68
you know, I'm
sorry for what I've done.
00:29:49.72\00:29:51.95
Please forgive me.
00:29:51.99\00:29:53.32
And maybe that person reacts
well, I'm not forgiving you.
00:29:53.36\00:29:55.82
I don't know if you,
that has ever happened to you.
00:29:55.86\00:29:57.49
I'm not forgiving you.
00:29:57.53\00:29:58.86
You need to learn
a lesson from this.
00:29:58.89\00:30:00.26
And then you feel like,
00:30:00.30\00:30:01.63
oh, I've come to this
person to ask for forgiveness.
00:30:01.66\00:30:05.03
We need to
understand that God forgives us.
00:30:05.07\00:30:07.34
And that has the greater value.
00:30:07.37\00:30:09.70
And even though the person
chooses not to forgive us,
00:30:09.74\00:30:12.61
we have done what
we are supposed to do.
00:30:12.64\00:30:14.14
Yeah.
00:30:14.18\00:30:15.51
We have come to
the person and said,
00:30:15.54\00:30:17.18
you know, forgive me
for what I have done.
00:30:17.21\00:30:19.58
And there's the aspect
of we need to let allow God
00:30:19.61\00:30:24.72
to heal us, to heal us,
00:30:24.75\00:30:26.89
even when we feel that
the person didn't react
00:30:26.92\00:30:30.03
the way I expected
that person to react.
00:30:30.06\00:30:32.93
Even, you know, there's pain.
00:30:32.96\00:30:34.33
Oh, go ahead, I'm sorry.
00:30:34.36\00:30:35.86
There is this sentence
in the book Desire of Ages,
00:30:35.90\00:30:39.83
that says,
00:30:39.87\00:30:42.00
"Only by love is love begotten."
00:30:42.04\00:30:45.04
Awakened.
00:30:45.07\00:30:46.41
Awakened. That's right.
00:30:46.44\00:30:47.78
"Only by love is love awakened."
00:30:47.81\00:30:49.14
Correct, you
remember that. Very good.
00:30:49.18\00:30:50.75
So only by love
is love awakened.
00:30:50.78\00:30:52.81
So if you really want to
communicate love to someone,
00:30:52.85\00:30:57.39
you need to show love.
00:30:57.42\00:30:59.09
And that God does that with us.
00:30:59.12\00:31:00.46
Yeah.
00:31:00.49\00:31:01.82
He shows us His love to
awaken love in us for Him.
00:31:01.86\00:31:06.03
And He shows this love,
00:31:06.06\00:31:07.63
like I said before,
over and over and over again.
00:31:07.66\00:31:10.33
And if you don't see
that over and over again,
00:31:10.37\00:31:12.40
just stop a moment
and think about your day,
00:31:12.43\00:31:15.04
how many
blessings you have received,
00:31:15.07\00:31:16.60
because some people
sometimes they don't seem
00:31:16.64\00:31:18.81
to see the blessings.
00:31:18.84\00:31:20.24
But even the very fact that you,
00:31:20.28\00:31:21.81
you're even able to
see, to hear, to breathe,
00:31:21.84\00:31:26.41
your heart is beating,
00:31:26.45\00:31:27.82
those are blessings of the Lord.
00:31:27.85\00:31:29.52
Yes.
00:31:29.55\00:31:30.89
You know, I think that sometimes
00:31:30.92\00:31:32.25
there's a
disconnect between man and God
00:31:32.29\00:31:37.16
due to the misrepresentation
of His character.
00:31:37.19\00:31:40.90
And so when you
have a distorted image
00:31:40.93\00:31:42.96
of who God is,
00:31:43.00\00:31:45.43
and you don't see how
much He really loves us,
00:31:45.47\00:31:49.00
and then you know, people
going the opposite direction.
00:31:49.04\00:31:52.77
But that's one of the things
00:31:52.81\00:31:54.14
with Salvation
in Symbols and Signs
00:31:54.18\00:31:55.78
that I love is
that its revelation
00:31:55.81\00:31:59.18
has been
painted as a love story.
00:31:59.21\00:32:02.25
And that has,
00:32:02.28\00:32:04.15
you know, we've heard
from viewers and stuff,
00:32:04.19\00:32:05.92
and that has really
changed people's perception,
00:32:05.95\00:32:09.22
you know, and
praise God for that.
00:32:09.26\00:32:11.19
You know, even,
we're talking about
00:32:11.23\00:32:14.13
principles here, and
these principles apply.
00:32:14.16\00:32:18.07
Even there are people out
there who it can be very hard.
00:32:18.10\00:32:22.70
We've talked about
forgiveness in many ways.
00:32:22.74\00:32:24.64
But there are people out there
00:32:24.67\00:32:26.01
that have been hurt
in illegal ways are very,
00:32:26.04\00:32:30.78
they deserve justice.
00:32:30.81\00:32:34.25
And to forgive someone
who maybe is not a Christian,
00:32:34.28\00:32:37.15
that maybe is a criminal
00:32:37.19\00:32:39.02
and has hurt you
in a criminal way,
00:32:39.05\00:32:41.39
to be able to
forgive someone like that.
00:32:41.42\00:32:44.86
These principles
still are effective,
00:32:44.89\00:32:49.03
and they still work.
00:32:49.06\00:32:50.60
God will bring healing to you,
00:32:50.63\00:32:52.50
even if you forgive someone
00:32:52.53\00:32:53.87
who does not
deserve your forgiveness.
00:32:53.90\00:32:57.34
The forgiveness is healing you,
00:32:57.37\00:33:00.24
and bringing
your love relationship
00:33:00.28\00:33:02.24
back in light line with God,
00:33:02.28\00:33:04.81
and let God take
care of the bad person.
00:33:04.85\00:33:09.18
You may not be
able to fix that person
00:33:09.22\00:33:10.95
or you may not be able to.
00:33:10.99\00:33:13.25
They may not be a Christian,
but let God bring you justice.
00:33:13.29\00:33:16.42
Let God have justice,
whether you see it or not.
00:33:16.46\00:33:19.29
Those principles that
you've all been talking about,
00:33:19.33\00:33:22.13
still apply in those bad cases.
00:33:22.16\00:33:26.03
Yeah, let's talk about that
just a little bit more, can we?
00:33:26.07\00:33:28.27
So justice is a
characteristic of God's love.
00:33:28.30\00:33:32.81
Love and justice
aren't opposites, right?
00:33:32.84\00:33:35.01
No. Justice is
part of God's love.
00:33:35.04\00:33:37.18
So there's two
aspects that God has done,
00:33:37.21\00:33:39.58
I think in
calling us to forgive.
00:33:39.61\00:33:41.92
One of the things He's done is
00:33:41.95\00:33:43.28
He's called us to
forgive people personally,
00:33:43.32\00:33:44.69
but He's put the
powers of this earth
00:33:44.72\00:33:47.46
in charge of justice for now.
00:33:47.49\00:33:49.26
So Romans 13 says, you
know, fear the government,
00:33:49.29\00:33:52.19
fear the sword, fear
those are set over you
00:33:52.23\00:33:55.16
because they are,
00:33:55.20\00:33:56.97
they are sort of
justice for the evildoer.
00:33:57.00\00:33:59.73
And it's not perfect, of course,
00:33:59.77\00:34:01.50
but to give someone
00:34:01.54\00:34:02.87
who has committed
a crime against you
00:34:02.90\00:34:04.64
doesn't mean that they
shouldn't be prosecuted.
00:34:04.67\00:34:06.14
Oh, no.
00:34:06.17\00:34:07.51
Doesn't mean there
shouldn't be a consequence.
00:34:07.54\00:34:09.08
That's the first thing we want
to communicate to our viewers.
00:34:09.11\00:34:11.18
And then the second thing is,
00:34:11.21\00:34:13.01
God has actually put
a hold on His justice.
00:34:13.05\00:34:17.92
And He's asking
us to be like Him,
00:34:17.95\00:34:19.82
He's asking us to follow Him.
00:34:19.85\00:34:21.22
So if God is holding
back His justice for now,
00:34:21.26\00:34:25.03
and then we, but we're saying,
00:34:25.06\00:34:26.39
"Well, I'm not gonna
hold back my justice."
00:34:26.43\00:34:27.76
You see what I'm
saying, well, I'll be like Him.
00:34:27.80\00:34:29.53
So God is saying, now
I'm holding back My justice,
00:34:29.56\00:34:31.67
that's going to be
a Day of Reckoning,
00:34:31.70\00:34:33.03
there's going to
be a Day of Judgment,
00:34:33.07\00:34:34.40
there's going to be
a Day of Recompense.
00:34:34.44\00:34:35.77
Right. I'll take care of that.
00:34:35.80\00:34:37.27
You, for now, yeah, the
civil powers of the earth
00:34:37.31\00:34:40.41
have and they may or may
not do what they need to do.
00:34:40.44\00:34:43.58
But you personally
forgive, get cleansed from that.
00:34:43.61\00:34:47.35
And then trust me,
00:34:47.38\00:34:48.72
because at the end,
00:34:48.75\00:34:50.09
I'm going to
make everything right.
00:34:50.12\00:34:51.45
Thank you. That was excellent.
00:34:51.49\00:34:52.89
Yes. Yeah, that was...
00:34:52.92\00:34:54.26
You expressed what I'm thinking.
00:34:54.29\00:34:56.02
Yes. You got me going.
00:34:56.06\00:34:58.46
Thank you.
00:34:58.49\00:35:00.73
You know, we
all need some mercy,
00:35:00.76\00:35:02.46
we all need mercy.
00:35:02.50\00:35:04.53
Deuteronomy, 7:9 says,
00:35:04.57\00:35:06.94
"Therefore know
that the Lord your God,
00:35:06.97\00:35:10.14
He is God, the faithful God
00:35:10.17\00:35:12.61
who keeps covenant and
mercy for a thousand generations
00:35:12.64\00:35:16.61
with those who love
Him and keep His command."
00:35:16.64\00:35:21.65
He's fair, He's
just, He's loving,
00:35:21.68\00:35:25.75
He's forgiving.
00:35:25.79\00:35:27.86
God is amazing, simply put, yes.
00:35:27.89\00:35:32.59
And I think that
this was actually a verse
00:35:32.63\00:35:34.66
I was going to look
at what it was in Exodus,
00:35:34.70\00:35:36.56
because this is a reiteration
of the principles of God's law.
00:35:36.60\00:35:42.17
In the very next verse, he says,
00:35:42.20\00:35:43.54
"And repayeth them
that hate him to their face,
00:35:43.57\00:35:47.34
to destroy them:
00:35:47.38\00:35:49.24
he will not be slack
to him that hateth him,
00:35:49.28\00:35:51.55
he will repay him to his face."
00:35:51.58\00:35:53.85
In other words,
there's the justice,
00:35:53.88\00:35:56.15
but God's the one that does it.
00:35:56.18\00:35:57.69
Just a quick story
about this, a biblical story.
00:35:57.72\00:36:00.36
You know, there was a man
00:36:00.39\00:36:01.72
that was treated very
unjustly in the Bible,
00:36:01.76\00:36:03.09
many people were,
00:36:03.12\00:36:04.46
but I'm thinking
of David specifically,
00:36:04.49\00:36:05.83
and Saul, the way Saul
treated and tried to kill him.
00:36:05.86\00:36:08.20
And David took off and
he was running from Saul.
00:36:08.23\00:36:10.33
It was not a week,
it was not a month,
00:36:10.37\00:36:12.03
it was years.
00:36:12.07\00:36:14.30
And in one of the situations,
00:36:14.34\00:36:16.17
David had an
opportunity to kill Saul
00:36:16.20\00:36:18.87
and his army guys,
00:36:18.91\00:36:21.04
his buddies are
like, do it, do it.
00:36:21.08\00:36:22.84
Just say the word.
00:36:22.88\00:36:24.28
Yeah, I'll put
the sword through him.
00:36:24.31\00:36:25.91
And I won't have to
do it twice, just one.
00:36:25.95\00:36:28.02
And David said, "No,
I'm not going to do that."
00:36:28.05\00:36:30.19
Because between the time
that Saul was mistreating him,
00:36:30.22\00:36:32.79
and the time that
he had the opportunity
00:36:32.82\00:36:34.42
to revenge himself of, of Saul,
00:36:34.46\00:36:36.52
David had processed his anger.
00:36:36.56\00:36:38.33
He processed all the
bitterness and all the feelings
00:36:38.36\00:36:41.66
that the emotions that he had.
00:36:41.70\00:36:43.23
And that's why when
you read the Psalms,
00:36:43.26\00:36:44.87
and if you want to read
these, the specific Psalm
00:36:44.90\00:36:47.27
you want to read, for
those who are listening
00:36:47.30\00:36:49.00
is Psalm 59.
00:36:49.04\00:36:50.44
That is a Psalm that
specifically talks about
00:36:50.47\00:36:52.97
when David was
running from Saul.
00:36:53.01\00:36:55.04
And in that Psalm, you know,
you read some of the Psalms,
00:36:55.08\00:36:57.35
and you see David, he's
just like, he's losing it.
00:36:57.38\00:37:00.08
He's saying
stuff and you're like,
00:37:00.12\00:37:01.55
Whoa, this was a man
after God's own heart.
00:37:01.58\00:37:03.55
He's just like, angry,
you know, destroy them,
00:37:03.59\00:37:06.76
wipe them out, just get them.
00:37:06.79\00:37:08.29
And you're thinking, whoa,
00:37:08.32\00:37:09.79
but that was how
David processed his anger.
00:37:09.82\00:37:12.76
And when he was done
processing his anger,
00:37:12.79\00:37:15.20
his actions were
actions of mercy, of kindness,
00:37:15.23\00:37:18.60
of forgiveness and acceptance.
00:37:18.63\00:37:20.94
Every single time he processed
00:37:20.97\00:37:23.14
he was able to come
out on the other end,
00:37:23.17\00:37:24.87
surprisingly not only his men,
00:37:24.91\00:37:26.47
what do you mean
though, but himself,
00:37:26.51\00:37:28.31
and of course,
they have the universe.
00:37:28.34\00:37:30.08
So we can't just say, okay,
God's gonna take care of it.
00:37:30.11\00:37:32.31
I've got these fools. I'm
just gonna stuff them down.
00:37:32.35\00:37:34.82
No, we have to process to God.
00:37:34.85\00:37:36.69
That's why Ephesians 4:26, says,
00:37:36.72\00:37:40.69
"Be angry and sin not."
00:37:40.72\00:37:42.32
God can handle it.
00:37:42.36\00:37:43.69
Don't let the sun
go down in your wrath.
00:37:43.73\00:37:45.39
God can take all of our emotion.
00:37:45.43\00:37:47.53
He is a big God, and
He's not going to be...
00:37:47.56\00:37:50.67
He is not going to get
mad at you for being angry.
00:37:50.70\00:37:53.94
He's not going to get mad at you
00:37:53.97\00:37:55.67
even when you're saying,
00:37:55.70\00:37:57.04
God, how come
You're not fixing this?
00:37:57.07\00:37:58.97
And sometimes
that's how we feel,
00:37:59.01\00:38:00.84
just like, Lord, You
need to fix this right now.
00:38:00.88\00:38:03.35
This isn't
right, this isn't fair.
00:38:03.38\00:38:05.18
And we can get very angry.
00:38:05.21\00:38:06.92
And maybe we're not
the ones that are hurt.
00:38:06.95\00:38:08.78
Some things don't make sense.
00:38:08.82\00:38:10.45
We've had things
happen around here
00:38:10.49\00:38:12.12
that didn't, the
loss of life or something,
00:38:12.15\00:38:14.86
it doesn't make sense.
00:38:14.89\00:38:16.32
And you can get
very angry at God
00:38:16.36\00:38:19.16
for something that
you don't understand,
00:38:19.19\00:38:20.86
it doesn't make any sense.
00:38:20.90\00:38:22.23
God can handle that.
00:38:22.26\00:38:23.83
Let Him take that emotion
00:38:23.87\00:38:25.97
and let Him take
you to a healing place.
00:38:26.00\00:38:29.07
And with that, I'm glad
that you brought that up,
00:38:29.10\00:38:31.14
with that though, we
need to put the credit
00:38:31.17\00:38:33.24
where it's due to the enemy
for destroying those lives.
00:38:33.27\00:38:36.64
He's out to kill
and all of that stuff.
00:38:36.68\00:38:38.71
A lot of times we
try and blame God,
00:38:38.75\00:38:40.75
you know, even with
insurance companies, right?
00:38:40.78\00:38:43.35
These are acts of God,
00:38:43.39\00:38:45.05
you know, when
things are destroyed,
00:38:45.09\00:38:47.06
and all this other stuff.
00:38:47.09\00:38:49.49
The enemy wants to destroy us.
00:38:49.52\00:38:51.93
God wants to save us,
like He wants us to be saved.
00:38:51.96\00:38:56.46
Death and sin
and all of that stuff
00:38:56.50\00:38:58.73
were never in His
initial plan for us,
00:38:58.77\00:39:02.00
you know, but He loves us enough
00:39:02.04\00:39:04.04
to allow us to make the choice.
00:39:04.07\00:39:07.04
And we chose wrong,
00:39:07.08\00:39:08.41
you know, human
beings chose wrong
00:39:08.44\00:39:10.31
but yet, in His
everlasting love for us,
00:39:10.35\00:39:14.62
He made a way for us
00:39:14.65\00:39:17.19
to have everlasting
life through Jesus Christ.
00:39:17.22\00:39:19.89
So, yeah, yeah.
00:39:19.92\00:39:22.36
That's just powerful.
00:39:22.39\00:39:25.19
And He gives us guidelines.
00:39:25.23\00:39:27.76
You've talked about
the Ten Commandments
00:39:27.80\00:39:29.16
a little bit.
00:39:29.20\00:39:30.53
To me, I know a lot of people
look at the Ten Commandments.
00:39:30.57\00:39:33.27
To me, that is God's love.
00:39:33.30\00:39:35.64
It's His lovingkindness
00:39:35.67\00:39:37.27
because it gives
me complete freedom.
00:39:37.31\00:39:39.77
To me, if I live
within those guidelines,
00:39:39.81\00:39:44.41
I have all the
freedom in the world
00:39:44.45\00:39:46.48
and He will rise me up,
I can accomplish anything,
00:39:46.51\00:39:49.35
I can do anything.
00:39:49.38\00:39:50.72
I will be free of
all kinds of stuff.
00:39:50.75\00:39:54.62
Satan is the one who
wants to hold us down
00:39:54.66\00:39:57.89
and he binds us by us
choosing to live outside
00:39:57.93\00:40:02.26
those wonderful boundaries
00:40:02.30\00:40:04.73
that keeps all
the bad stuff out.
00:40:04.77\00:40:06.47
Yeah.
00:40:06.50\00:40:07.84
Satan throws stuff in.
00:40:07.87\00:40:09.87
Even if you live by
God's beautiful law,
00:40:09.90\00:40:13.74
Satan, we cannot leave Satan
00:40:13.78\00:40:15.84
out of his anger and destruction
00:40:15.88\00:40:19.75
and our own bad choices.
00:40:19.78\00:40:21.92
Yeah, yeah.
00:40:21.95\00:40:23.28
Pastor Rafferty,
you have Romans 8:37-39.
00:40:23.32\00:40:28.92
Romans 8:37-39. All right.
00:40:28.96\00:40:32.93
So this is part of a
section of God's love,
00:40:32.96\00:40:37.97
38 and 39, or 37 to 39 says,
00:40:38.00\00:40:42.54
"Nay, in all these things
00:40:42.57\00:40:44.11
we are more than conquerors
through him that loved us.
00:40:44.14\00:40:47.78
For I am persuaded,
that neither death, nor life,
00:40:47.81\00:40:50.95
nor angels, nor
principalities, nor powers,
00:40:50.98\00:40:53.28
nor things
present, nor things to come,
00:40:53.31\00:40:55.45
nor height, nor depth,
nor any other creature,
00:40:55.48\00:40:59.32
shall be able to separate
us from the love of God,
00:40:59.35\00:41:02.22
which is in
Christ Jesus our Lord."
00:41:02.26\00:41:05.13
I really think these
verses have to be understood,
00:41:05.16\00:41:08.56
first and foremost in
the way that God looks at us.
00:41:08.60\00:41:11.80
But they're
also to be understood
00:41:11.83\00:41:13.17
in the way that we look at God.
00:41:13.20\00:41:14.54
So God looks at, you
know, He's looking at us,
00:41:14.57\00:41:16.60
and we need to recognize that
nothing's going to separate us
00:41:16.64\00:41:19.57
from His love,
from His perspective,
00:41:19.61\00:41:21.31
nothing's going to separate us.
00:41:21.34\00:41:23.18
And then we need
to look back and say,
00:41:23.21\00:41:24.58
you know, I'm not gonna
let anything separate you
00:41:24.61\00:41:26.65
from my love.
00:41:26.68\00:41:28.02
I'm not gonna let
anything separate,
00:41:28.05\00:41:29.38
because you have committed to me
00:41:29.42\00:41:31.89
that nothing's
going to separate you.
00:41:31.92\00:41:33.39
And so I'm
committing back to you
00:41:33.42\00:41:34.82
that nothing's
going to separate me.
00:41:34.86\00:41:36.39
It's kind of like this wedding,
00:41:36.42\00:41:37.76
you know,
commitment vow we make to God,
00:41:37.79\00:41:40.43
this revelation, you
know, this bride and bridegroom
00:41:40.46\00:41:43.57
relationship that
we're stepping into.
00:41:43.60\00:41:46.50
Yeah, that's beautiful.
00:41:46.53\00:41:47.90
So even when we think
00:41:47.94\00:41:49.27
we've separated
ourselves from God,
00:41:49.30\00:41:50.71
because we stepped away,
00:41:50.74\00:41:53.24
His love comes right back on us.
00:41:53.27\00:41:56.41
So we're only fooling ourselves
00:41:56.44\00:41:59.71
when we think we
separate ourselves
00:41:59.75\00:42:01.32
from God's love.
00:42:01.35\00:42:02.72
Because we don't,
it's following us,
00:42:02.75\00:42:04.79
whether we want it or not.
00:42:04.82\00:42:06.72
That's right. That's right.
00:42:06.76\00:42:08.09
This is, you know, a
reiteration of something
00:42:08.12\00:42:12.19
we have already said before.
00:42:12.23\00:42:14.40
And that is the fact that
00:42:14.43\00:42:16.13
it doesn't matter how much evil,
00:42:16.16\00:42:17.93
wickedness you have done,
00:42:17.97\00:42:20.10
it does not change
God's love toward us.
00:42:20.14\00:42:22.70
And this is why
it says here that
00:42:22.74\00:42:25.51
nothing shall be
able to separate us
00:42:25.54\00:42:27.88
from the love of God.
00:42:27.91\00:42:29.24
His love will
continue to be eternal for us.
00:42:29.28\00:42:32.85
And that is, you
know, that is mercy beyond
00:42:32.88\00:42:36.52
our understanding again,
00:42:36.55\00:42:37.99
because notice this scripture,
00:42:38.02\00:42:41.32
and it gives you the dimensions.
00:42:41.36\00:42:46.13
They have no bounds,
00:42:46.16\00:42:47.60
it talks about
height, depth, and what else?
00:42:47.63\00:42:50.30
Principalities, powers.
00:42:50.33\00:42:51.90
No, it's an all
encompassing love,
00:42:51.93\00:42:55.30
and it's just incredible.
00:42:55.34\00:42:58.21
I remember a
story that somebody,
00:42:58.24\00:43:00.14
I think it was somebody on 3ABN
00:43:00.18\00:43:01.54
many, many years ago, that said,
00:43:01.58\00:43:03.61
"Lord, I don't want a mansion,
00:43:03.65\00:43:05.48
just give me a little shack
somewhere made out of wood."
00:43:05.51\00:43:08.32
You know, because they
think I've just been too evil.
00:43:08.35\00:43:10.99
I just want a little
shack. I just want to be there.
00:43:11.02\00:43:13.32
But God's love is, is for us.
00:43:13.36\00:43:17.26
There's a
scripture that is it John 17,
00:43:17.29\00:43:20.16
where it says that God loves
us as much as He loves His Son.
00:43:20.20\00:43:24.83
What?
00:43:24.87\00:43:26.23
Is that something
so much to take in,
00:43:26.27\00:43:28.90
so much to take in, incredible.
00:43:28.94\00:43:30.94
Because God focuses
on the person He created,
00:43:30.97\00:43:35.18
not your actions.
00:43:35.21\00:43:37.65
And He always views
us as where did you,
00:43:37.68\00:43:41.95
somebody said up in
potential, your potential,
00:43:41.98\00:43:45.02
your possibilities in Christ.
00:43:45.05\00:43:48.36
So Jesus sees
us through the eyes
00:43:48.39\00:43:51.49
of His creation of
who He made us to be.
00:43:51.53\00:43:55.00
And I think if
we understand that,
00:43:55.03\00:43:57.57
we can allow
ourselves to love back
00:43:57.60\00:44:01.54
and maybe understand a
little bit of that love
00:44:01.57\00:44:04.21
that He's looking at me
00:44:04.24\00:44:06.47
through His
rose colored glasses,
00:44:06.51\00:44:09.38
as we would say on earth,
00:44:09.41\00:44:11.18
but He sees us in reality
00:44:11.21\00:44:12.88
of who we really could be.
00:44:12.91\00:44:14.62
And that's what
He's drawing and loving
00:44:14.65\00:44:17.65
and trying to bring out in us
00:44:17.69\00:44:20.16
is what He created us to be.
00:44:20.19\00:44:22.66
And He's seen that,
He's seen that produced
00:44:22.69\00:44:25.63
over and over again.
00:44:25.66\00:44:27.23
All through the Bible we
see people who were rascals,
00:44:27.26\00:44:30.53
Manasseh, you know, all
of these different ones,
00:44:30.57\00:44:33.07
Nebuchadnezzar, I
mean, he's ready to kill
00:44:33.10\00:44:34.64
his whole cabinet.
00:44:34.67\00:44:36.00
Manasseh was
the most wicked king
00:44:36.04\00:44:37.37
that you know reigned in Israel.
00:44:37.41\00:44:39.37
And you go
through the New Testament,
00:44:39.41\00:44:41.41
you see the same
thing taking place
00:44:41.44\00:44:42.94
over and over again,
00:44:42.98\00:44:44.31
where God is just
transforming the disciples.
00:44:44.35\00:44:46.05
Those guys didn't
have their act together.
00:44:46.08\00:44:47.45
Look at Peter, at
most times was cursing.
00:44:47.48\00:44:50.39
So Paul, he's
persecuting the church
00:44:50.42\00:44:54.66
and hailing them off
to jail and to death,
00:44:54.69\00:44:56.83
and yet they're transformed.
00:44:56.86\00:44:58.19
And so, of course, God
see, He knows it works.
00:44:58.23\00:45:00.93
He sees it.
00:45:00.96\00:45:02.30
And so He looks at you,
He looks at me and He says,
00:45:02.33\00:45:03.77
you know what?
00:45:03.80\00:45:05.13
Just where we came
from, where we were,
00:45:05.17\00:45:07.34
we talked about being in jail
00:45:07.37\00:45:08.70
and how that taught us
a little lesson, you know?
00:45:08.74\00:45:10.41
And so there's viewers out there
00:45:10.44\00:45:11.77
and they're
thinking, well, you know,
00:45:11.81\00:45:13.17
you guys, you're all Christians,
00:45:13.21\00:45:14.61
and you're all believers,
00:45:14.64\00:45:15.98
and you're
wearing these nice clothes
00:45:16.01\00:45:17.35
and all up there.
00:45:17.38\00:45:18.71
No, you don't understand.
00:45:18.75\00:45:20.08
We are the
continuation of the faith
00:45:20.12\00:45:22.18
that God has
manifested toward humanity,
00:45:22.22\00:45:24.79
all through the ages.
00:45:24.82\00:45:26.25
And the potential
He sees in humanity
00:45:26.29\00:45:28.56
is the same potential
He saw in Nebuchadnezzar,
00:45:28.59\00:45:30.56
the same potential
He saw in Manasseh,
00:45:30.59\00:45:32.29
the same potentially
He saw in every single one
00:45:32.33\00:45:35.33
of those biblical characters
00:45:35.36\00:45:37.33
that did all those things
that we're capable of doing.
00:45:37.37\00:45:40.94
And yet on the other end
00:45:40.97\00:45:42.30
when the love of God
came into their hearts,
00:45:42.34\00:45:44.11
transformation took place.
00:45:44.14\00:45:45.77
So He's got
evidence for His faith
00:45:45.81\00:45:47.34
that He manifest toward us.
00:45:47.38\00:45:48.88
He knows it works.
00:45:48.91\00:45:50.31
Yes. That's right.
00:45:50.35\00:45:51.68
And it's beautiful.
00:45:51.71\00:45:53.15
I want to hear this
verse, Pastor Dinzey,
00:45:53.18\00:45:55.22
you have this verse
right here is Isaiah 54:10.
00:45:55.25\00:45:59.02
Isaiah 54:10,
00:45:59.05\00:46:01.62
"For the mountains shall
depart and the hills be removed,
00:46:01.66\00:46:06.49
but My kindness
shall not depart from you,
00:46:06.53\00:46:09.76
nor shall My
covenant of peace be removed,
00:46:09.80\00:46:13.57
says the Lord,
who has mercy on you."
00:46:13.60\00:46:17.01
Wow! This is so much.
00:46:17.04\00:46:20.08
This is good news.
00:46:20.11\00:46:21.44
You know, people watch the news.
00:46:21.48\00:46:25.78
I don't know why
people watch the news.
00:46:25.81\00:46:27.32
You know, we heard
bad news yesterday,
00:46:27.35\00:46:28.68
the day before.
00:46:28.72\00:46:30.05
Let's watch it again to
see if there's something.
00:46:30.09\00:46:31.49
No, it's bad news,
God has the good news.
00:46:31.52\00:46:34.12
Yes.
00:46:34.16\00:46:35.49
And this is another one
of those verses that says,
00:46:35.52\00:46:37.23
it's full packed, good news.
00:46:37.26\00:46:41.26
The mountains can depart,
the hills can be removed,
00:46:41.30\00:46:43.70
but My kindness
shall not depart from you.
00:46:43.73\00:46:45.73
Yeah.
00:46:45.77\00:46:47.10
And then he finds
it, says the Lord,
00:46:47.14\00:46:49.84
who has mercy upon you.
00:46:49.87\00:46:51.21
Thank You, Lord. I love that.
00:46:51.24\00:46:52.81
And then He signs it.
00:46:52.84\00:46:54.18
Yes. He signs it.
00:46:54.21\00:46:55.54
Yeah. Yeah, that's beautiful.
00:46:55.58\00:46:56.91
That's good.
00:46:56.95\00:46:58.28
The Psalm 63:3.
00:46:58.31\00:47:00.15
Oh, yeah.
00:47:00.18\00:47:02.05
I love this, Psalm 63:3.
00:47:02.08\00:47:04.62
"Because Your lovingkindness
is better than life,
00:47:04.65\00:47:08.99
my lips shall praise you."
00:47:09.02\00:47:11.66
I didn't always feel that way.
00:47:11.69\00:47:13.26
I didn't live that way.
00:47:13.29\00:47:14.63
But because there was all this,
00:47:14.66\00:47:18.33
if I looked at
myself through my own eyes,
00:47:18.37\00:47:20.34
I'd go dig a
hole and bury myself.
00:47:20.37\00:47:22.40
It's ugly.
00:47:22.44\00:47:23.84
But if I look at
myself through God's eyes,
00:47:23.87\00:47:26.88
if I allow God
to live within me,
00:47:26.91\00:47:29.78
and to flow through
me and show me His love,
00:47:29.81\00:47:33.75
then all I can do is praise Him
00:47:33.78\00:47:35.28
because He
turned my life around.
00:47:35.32\00:47:37.29
I am not.
00:47:37.32\00:47:39.19
He took all the...
00:47:39.22\00:47:41.12
I'm not perfect
yet, working on it.
00:47:41.16\00:47:43.53
But He took the ugly,
He took the blackness,
00:47:43.56\00:47:45.69
He took the hopelessness,
00:47:45.73\00:47:47.06
He took, He took
all the real evil.
00:47:47.10\00:47:50.70
And it departed from me
because I keep my eyes on Him.
00:47:50.73\00:47:55.27
And He flows through
me and gives me hope,
00:47:55.30\00:47:58.07
because He tells
me like you just said,
00:47:58.11\00:48:01.54
I view you the way
I created you to be,
00:48:01.58\00:48:04.51
and I'm going to help
you grow to be that way.
00:48:04.55\00:48:08.15
That gives you hope that like,
He's never gonna give up on me.
00:48:08.18\00:48:12.55
Yes.
00:48:12.59\00:48:13.92
So then I won't
give up on me either.
00:48:13.96\00:48:15.56
And He took away the
pride, that's why we say.
00:48:15.59\00:48:17.73
I'm not perfect
yet, that's why we say,
00:48:17.76\00:48:19.66
you know, He's
gonna finish the work.
00:48:19.69\00:48:21.43
Because we recognize that,
you know, within us is that,
00:48:21.46\00:48:25.60
you know, principle
that Paul talks about
00:48:25.63\00:48:27.20
in Romans Chapter 7,
00:48:27.24\00:48:28.67
you know, that,
00:48:28.70\00:48:30.04
you know, wants to go as
that that famous hymn says,
00:48:30.07\00:48:34.24
you know, prone to wander,
00:48:34.28\00:48:35.84
Lord, I feel it prone
to leave the God I love.
00:48:35.88\00:48:38.45
So what does that do for us?
00:48:38.48\00:48:39.95
Well, it causes us
00:48:39.98\00:48:41.32
to be completely
reliant on Him all the time,
00:48:41.35\00:48:43.72
and not just say, well,
00:48:43.75\00:48:45.09
you know, Philippians
3, now I've attained,
00:48:45.12\00:48:48.29
no, I pressed toward the mark
for the hot prize of heaven,
00:48:48.32\00:48:51.53
not as though I'd
attained or already perfect,
00:48:51.56\00:48:53.16
I know that.
00:48:53.19\00:48:54.53
And if I don't know it,
praise God, He'll remind me,
00:48:54.56\00:48:57.07
you know, He'll let
me sink into that water
00:48:57.10\00:48:58.83
when I take my eyes off Jesus,
00:48:58.87\00:49:00.47
and not follow the
Lamb wherever He goes.
00:49:00.50\00:49:02.50
So that's part of the process.
00:49:02.54\00:49:04.57
And we can say that
with, with joy, with happiness,
00:49:04.61\00:49:08.11
you know, we don't have to
say with trepidation and fear.
00:49:08.14\00:49:10.18
You know, I'm not perfect yet.
00:49:10.21\00:49:11.85
Because that very declaration
keeps us dependent on Him,
00:49:11.88\00:49:16.69
trusting Him and looking to Him.
00:49:16.72\00:49:18.19
Every time He helps,
00:49:18.22\00:49:20.59
every time that
He works through you
00:49:20.62\00:49:22.26
to overcome something,
00:49:22.29\00:49:23.89
then He reveals something else
00:49:23.93\00:49:25.39
that you weren't aware of.
00:49:25.43\00:49:27.50
So if you think you're
perfect, you're not looking,
00:49:27.53\00:49:32.57
you're not
listening to God reveal.
00:49:32.60\00:49:34.74
He reveals one thing at a time
00:49:34.77\00:49:36.54
because He doesn't
want to overwhelm us.
00:49:36.57\00:49:38.31
Looks like it's
the gospel sandwich.
00:49:38.34\00:49:39.84
I don't want to get
too distracted here.
00:49:39.87\00:49:41.21
I know we're
running out of time,
00:49:41.24\00:49:42.58
but it's the gospel
sandwich, 1 John 1:8-10.
00:49:42.61\00:49:48.05
It says in verse 8, you know,
00:49:48.08\00:49:49.42
"If we say we have not
sinned, we deceive ourselves."
00:49:49.45\00:49:52.32
Then it said,
00:49:52.35\00:49:53.69
"But if we confess our
sins, He's faithful and just."
00:49:53.72\00:49:55.22
If we say we have not
sinned, we make Him a liar.
00:49:55.26\00:49:57.89
And the truth is not in
us. And the truth is not in.
00:49:57.93\00:49:59.59
But if we confess our sin,
00:49:59.63\00:50:00.96
that's the meat of the sandwich.
00:50:01.00\00:50:02.33
We got two pieces
of bread there, right?
00:50:02.36\00:50:03.83
And you don't have a sandwich
without the bread, right?
00:50:03.87\00:50:05.40
It's true.
00:50:05.43\00:50:07.24
You got it open
face, nothing between.
00:50:07.27\00:50:09.50
And so Job said,
00:50:09.54\00:50:10.87
"If I say I'm perfect,
00:50:10.91\00:50:12.24
my own lips would condemn me."
00:50:12.27\00:50:13.78
Yeah.
00:50:13.81\00:50:15.14
You see, that's the
ultimate goal for all of us,
00:50:15.18\00:50:18.18
really, is to
recognize our imperfection.
00:50:18.21\00:50:20.38
Why?
00:50:20.42\00:50:21.75
So that we can rely on Christ
00:50:21.78\00:50:23.15
and that, that's
where we tend to get away,
00:50:23.18\00:50:25.95
we come to a place we
feel like we've attained.
00:50:25.99\00:50:27.62
When Paul was
talking about attainments,
00:50:27.66\00:50:28.99
he wasn't talking
about his failures,
00:50:29.02\00:50:30.36
he was talking
about his positives,
00:50:30.39\00:50:32.39
he was talking about the
things that he'd done that were,
00:50:32.43\00:50:34.46
you know, I'm with
the tribe of Benjamin,
00:50:34.50\00:50:36.26
circumcised on the
eighth day before the law,
00:50:36.30\00:50:38.17
but I put all that behind me,
00:50:38.20\00:50:40.14
because our positive attainments
00:50:40.17\00:50:41.74
can be a hindrance.
00:50:41.77\00:50:43.10
Paul describes
them as damaging to us
00:50:43.14\00:50:45.41
in that context,
00:50:45.44\00:50:46.78
not just rubbish but damaging.
00:50:46.81\00:50:48.24
We can be damaged by pride.
00:50:48.28\00:50:49.61
Laodicea is
filled with that pride,
00:50:49.64\00:50:52.15
that self sufficiency.
00:50:52.18\00:50:53.58
So Christ is on
the outside knocking,
00:50:53.62\00:50:55.52
because when
we're not dependent,
00:50:55.55\00:50:57.45
when we feel like we
attain that we're perfect,
00:50:57.49\00:51:00.32
we're not having
that stuff with Him,
00:51:00.36\00:51:01.69
we're not connecting with
Him the way that we need to.
00:51:01.72\00:51:03.96
So when we see our need for Him,
00:51:03.99\00:51:05.86
when we let that love and that,
00:51:05.89\00:51:08.86
let that
lovingkindness and mercy pull us
00:51:08.90\00:51:11.93
and we lean on Him totally,
00:51:11.97\00:51:13.90
and recognize our
need of that love.
00:51:13.94\00:51:16.84
Then we grow and He
builds us and we can,
00:51:16.87\00:51:20.48
I can, I can live
with my shortcomings
00:51:20.51\00:51:24.45
because I know
He's working on them.
00:51:24.48\00:51:26.75
I know that I'm growing in Him.
00:51:26.78\00:51:29.68
So I don't hide from God
00:51:29.72\00:51:31.39
when He shows me
where I need to grow,
00:51:31.42\00:51:34.62
because I know His love.
00:51:34.66\00:51:36.42
Yes. And that's,
that's the thing too.
00:51:36.46\00:51:38.56
You know, when
you look at someone
00:51:38.59\00:51:40.90
who needs help, right?
00:51:40.93\00:51:42.76
You have to
recognize that you need help
00:51:42.80\00:51:44.83
before you go and seek help.
00:51:44.87\00:51:46.70
So you know, people
that don't recognize
00:51:46.74\00:51:48.60
that they have a problem,
00:51:48.64\00:51:49.97
they typically
don't go seeking help,
00:51:50.01\00:51:51.77
because they don't
think they have a problem.
00:51:51.81\00:51:55.14
So we have to recognize that,
hey, we are frail human beings,
00:51:55.18\00:52:00.92
we've made mistakes, we
need to die to self daily,
00:52:00.95\00:52:04.45
that's a daily surrender.
00:52:04.49\00:52:06.39
Second by second.
00:52:06.42\00:52:07.76
Second, yes, second by second
00:52:07.79\00:52:09.32
because something could
happen in the next second.
00:52:09.36\00:52:11.69
And you have to
remember, God help me,
00:52:11.73\00:52:15.30
help me, you know, and
I don't want to go through
00:52:15.33\00:52:17.47
a humbling experience,
like King Nebuchadnezzar.
00:52:17.50\00:52:20.64
I don't want to have
that type of experience.
00:52:20.67\00:52:23.24
Seven year time out.
Eating grass in the fields.
00:52:23.27\00:52:25.17
Eating grass, no,
00:52:25.21\00:52:26.57
there's not enough salt
and pepper in the world.
00:52:26.61\00:52:29.58
You like your food too well.
00:52:29.61\00:52:32.01
I like eating.
00:52:32.05\00:52:33.38
You know, I got to eat
something good, no grass.
00:52:33.42\00:52:35.48
It doesn't work for me.
00:52:35.52\00:52:37.05
But you know, one
of the things that
00:52:37.09\00:52:39.09
one of the many things
that I love about the Lord,
00:52:39.12\00:52:41.92
and is that, you know,
00:52:41.96\00:52:43.89
no matter what
we're going through,
00:52:43.93\00:52:45.79
no matter what we're faced with,
00:52:45.83\00:52:47.46
no matter what
challenges we come up against.
00:52:47.50\00:52:50.30
He's there with us,
and He's there for us.
00:52:50.33\00:52:53.23
Isaiah 41:10, says,
00:52:53.27\00:52:55.50
"Fear not, for I am with you,
00:52:55.54\00:52:58.24
be not dismayed
for I am your God,
00:52:58.27\00:53:01.61
I will strengthen you.
00:53:01.64\00:53:02.98
Yes, I will help you,
00:53:03.01\00:53:04.95
I will uphold you with
My righteous right hand."
00:53:04.98\00:53:08.08
So not only is He there with us,
00:53:08.12\00:53:11.59
He's saying, don't
worry, I'm your God.
00:53:11.62\00:53:16.02
He will strengthen us.
00:53:16.06\00:53:18.13
He will give us the strength
to overcome whatever it is.
00:53:18.16\00:53:21.20
And if we're ever
faced with temptation,
00:53:21.23\00:53:23.13
He provides a way of escape
00:53:23.16\00:53:25.13
and that is,
that is so beautiful.
00:53:25.17\00:53:27.10
Now we have to walk,
00:53:27.14\00:53:29.17
we have to take
that way of escape.
00:53:29.20\00:53:32.11
But He provides that
for us which is beautiful.
00:53:32.14\00:53:35.01
Amen. Yeah.
00:53:35.04\00:53:36.38
Amen. Yeah.
00:53:36.41\00:53:37.75
Love it.
00:53:37.78\00:53:39.11
So, Pastor Rafferty,
you have a lovely passage.
00:53:39.15\00:53:42.92
In Ephesians, Ephesians 3:14-19,
00:53:42.95\00:53:46.02
"For this reason I bow my knees
00:53:46.05\00:53:47.76
to the Father of
our Lord Jesus Christ,
00:53:47.79\00:53:50.26
from whom the
whole family in heaven
00:53:50.29\00:53:51.83
and earth is named,
00:53:51.86\00:53:53.19
that He would grant you,
00:53:53.23\00:53:54.56
according to the
riches of His glory,
00:53:54.60\00:53:56.03
to be strengthened with
might through His Spirit
00:53:56.06\00:53:59.13
in the inner man,
00:53:59.17\00:54:00.80
that Christ may dwell in
your hearts through faith,
00:54:00.84\00:54:04.34
that you be rooted
and grounded in love,
00:54:04.37\00:54:07.78
may be able to
comprehend with all the saints
00:54:07.81\00:54:10.55
what is the width and the length
00:54:10.58\00:54:13.08
and the depth and the height
00:54:13.11\00:54:15.18
to know the love of
Christ which passes knowledge,
00:54:15.22\00:54:18.25
that you may be filled
with the fullness of God."
00:54:18.29\00:54:21.26
And this is an incredible verse.
00:54:21.29\00:54:22.92
And when I think
about these dimensions,
00:54:22.96\00:54:25.49
like for example,
when I think about
00:54:25.53\00:54:26.86
the width of God's
love, I think about
00:54:26.90\00:54:30.03
how it
encompasses the whole world.
00:54:30.07\00:54:32.90
His love is wide enough
00:54:32.93\00:54:34.64
to encompass every
single human being,
00:54:34.67\00:54:36.30
John 3:16.
00:54:36.34\00:54:38.41
When I think about
the length of God's love,
00:54:38.44\00:54:41.01
I think about how long
God has held out for us
00:54:41.04\00:54:45.75
for thousands of years,
00:54:45.78\00:54:47.85
God has held out His
mercy to the human race.
00:54:47.88\00:54:51.15
You know, when I think
about the depth of God's love,
00:54:51.19\00:54:53.49
I think about Jesus Christ
00:54:53.52\00:54:55.46
God Himself
coming down to this earth
00:54:55.49\00:54:57.56
all the way down to humanity
00:54:57.59\00:54:59.49
and not just to
humanity as a king or prince or,
00:54:59.53\00:55:02.90
but to humanity as a carpenter,
00:55:02.93\00:55:06.17
to humanity as a
babe in a manger,
00:55:06.20\00:55:08.97
where there was no place for Him
00:55:09.00\00:55:10.34
in the motel, in the hotel,
00:55:10.37\00:55:11.97
and then the
sacrifice of the cross,
00:55:12.01\00:55:14.68
dying the depth of the cross.
00:55:14.71\00:55:16.04
And when I think about
the height of God's love,
00:55:16.08\00:55:18.01
I think about the
promise in Revelation Chapter 3,
00:55:18.05\00:55:21.45
you know, it says there,
00:55:21.48\00:55:22.82
"To him that overcomes,
00:55:22.85\00:55:24.45
they will sit
with Me on My throne,
00:55:24.49\00:55:27.09
even as I sit with
the Father on His throne."
00:55:27.12\00:55:30.56
So we think about
this, it's incomprehensible.
00:55:30.59\00:55:33.19
That's why John says, Behold,
now, it's hard to describe it.
00:55:33.23\00:55:37.33
We're supposed to measure this.
00:55:37.37\00:55:38.70
And we've got these
increments, you know, we've got,
00:55:38.73\00:55:41.87
you know, the things
we just talked about,
00:55:41.90\00:55:43.41
the height, the
length, the breadth, the depth,
00:55:43.44\00:55:45.87
but it's still, it's
like a drop in the ocean
00:55:45.91\00:55:50.65
of God's love
00:55:50.68\00:55:52.01
when we think
about, even these verses,
00:55:52.05\00:55:53.72
they're not even there.
00:55:53.75\00:55:55.28
So there's falling short,
00:55:55.32\00:55:58.55
but yet our
imagination is there,
00:55:58.59\00:56:00.56
let your imagination
just let it loose now
00:56:00.59\00:56:03.39
when you're
talking about God's love
00:56:03.43\00:56:04.79
for the human race.
00:56:04.83\00:56:06.16
Don't limit it to believers,
don't limit it to Christians,
00:56:06.19\00:56:09.66
don't limit it to Adventists
or Baptists or Catholics,
00:56:09.70\00:56:12.83
don't limit God's
love in that fashion.
00:56:12.87\00:56:15.90
The world has been
doused with this love,
00:56:15.94\00:56:20.08
this unfathomable love.
00:56:20.11\00:56:21.44
Let's behold
that. That's beautiful.
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And I love how
it says being rooted
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and grounded in love,
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because when you
think about a plant,
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it gets its
nutrients from the soil,
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from the roots
and all of that stuff,
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so we need to be
rooted and grounded in love
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and in the Word of God.
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Dee, you look like you
wanted to say something.
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No, I'm just... I
just love, it's so awesome.
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Yes. God's Word.
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Amen. And His love and kindness.
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Pastor Dinzey, will
you read Revelation 3:19,
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ever so quickly?
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Ever so quickly?
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We're running out of time.
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It says here,
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"As many as I love,
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I rebuke and chasten,
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therefore be
zealous and repent."
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And this scripture here
is a message for us as well.
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God loves us.
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He's not gonna,
He doesn't want us
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to, to sink in the
mire and corrupting
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and destroying the wickedness
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so He lovingly rebukes us
and chasten us for our benefit.
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Amen.
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And so that doesn't mean that,
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you know, you won't be corrected
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on bad behavior.
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No, that is a sign of love.
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Thank you all so much,
and thank you for tuning in.
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We hope you
recognize the immense love
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that God has for you.
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God bless you.
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