040: Ken Styles – The Love of the Father

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Hello, and thank you for tuning
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My name is Sam Taylor.

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Chris.

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On this week’s class.
We will be taking a look at the

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first class in a series given by
Brother Ken Styles at North

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Battleford Saskatchewan Ecclesia
in 2010.

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That series is entitled Godly
love and can be found on the

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Chris Delphine Bible talks.com.
In this first class we take a

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look at the love of the Father
which is the most logical place

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for us to start when we are
considering Godly love and we

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know this because the passage
would tells us we love because

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God loved us first brother Ken
does a fantastic job in this

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series of weaving his way
through scripture and showing

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how Godly love is not something
you’re born with it’s not

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something you get right away.
It’s something that takes a

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lifetime of hard work and
dedication and sacrifice. in

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order to cultivate it’s done
through a lot of Tears a lot of

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sweat and blood shed.
One of the most poignant points

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that brother can made was how
the love we should show to our

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brothers and sisters should not
be given based on their

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worthiness or their Merit but
rather their need and this

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resonated with me a lot because
I struggle with depression and

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anxiety and I’ve often found
myself as being very Unworthy of

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a lot of these things.
It comes with the territory of

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having that false narrative that
comes from mental illness in

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your head.
When I realized this I realized

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that the brothers and sisters
who show me Care do so not

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because I feel deserving of it.
But because they recognized I’m

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in need of it in great need of
it and it’s helped me to also

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show that love towards others
that not because they deserve it

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not because if they’re acting
like they want it but because

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they in fact need it, so it’s
one of those things that you

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internalize it and as it shown
to you you can show it more

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towards others and that point
but brother can get Really

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resonated with me and it
continues to do so even to this

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day.
All throughout this series,

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you’ll start with the love of
the father and then that love

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the Sun and then you’ll see the
power of God love the impact it

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can make and how we should
behave and there’s a wonderful

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way to wrap up this series as we
look at towards how we behave

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towards our brothers and sisters
because we can have all this

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academic knowledge of love, but
without the action to follow

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through with it.
It means nothing.

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I hope you get to enjoy this
first clasp in The Godly love

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series and God willing I’ll be
talking to you next week in Joy,

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and God bless.
The subject that we’re

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considering for the weekend
Godly love as we have styled it

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is what we feel the gospel is
intended to develop within us.

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It’s it can become as we have
found that our life a power that

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is greater than sin and and we
don’t mean that in any way other

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than its stated but we all know
how powerful sin can be in our

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life.
Either through internal

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Temptation or in challenging
relationships or whatever the

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case may be and you’ll see in
scripture from the mouths and

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from the lips of our Lord Jesus
Christ his declaration that the

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power of his love for his God
for his father in his life was

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stronger than the power of sin
will see that it’s not the same

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as human loan and we will need
to differentiate between the two

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as we progress.
The studies will look at

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examples of Bible people
faithful Bible characters who

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embraced Godly love as a
principle by which they lived

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Esther did not have Godly love
at the beginning of chapter 4 in

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the Book of Esther.
She had adopted and embraced

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Godly Love by the end of chapter
4 and it made a marked

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difference in her life and in
her character.

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We’ll look at how Godly love
applies to husbands and wives to

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parents to Brethren and sisters
in the Ecclesia, and it’s great

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power for good in our
relationships together.

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God’s love can teach us to be
different people because we

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learn to love like Jesus lunk.
It’s not something that happens.

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Mystically, it’s not something
that happens.

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Mysteriously when we learn to
love one another as Jesus loved

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us and loves us still it will
teach us to be different people.

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We have one quote in the handout
from Brother Roberts.

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We like to begin with this
because we found it to be very

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effective and very helpful in
summarizing the study and as we

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read through it, this is Section
1 on the handout and don’t

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worry.
We won’t get through all the

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sections of the hand out over
the weekend.

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But again, we’ve left you with
what we have found to be helpful

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in our study.
So for the parts that were not

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able to cover you can at least
take those with you.

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As we read through the quote
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importance of love and secondly
the danger we face and leaving

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it out of our life.
There can be nothing more

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certain.
He says than that the sentiment

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of Love is at the very bottom of
the whole scheme of the truth in

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which we Rejoice there can be
nothing more certain than that.

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The very object of the truth is
to manifest God’s love to us and

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to develop God’s love in US
there can be nothing more

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certain than that the truth and
its ultimate and eternal

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development as we might say will
present the very highest form of

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this impulsive love and there
can be nothing more certain.

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Either than that those who are
not carried Along by this

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prevailing impulse which
originates the truth and which

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we may also say is the essence
of the truth will be left

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behind.
God is love and it is only in

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proportion as we remember this
that we shall become capable of

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reflecting this quality.
We must remember the whole of

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the truth and not a part only we
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This is our danger.
We are not likely to leave out

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anything else we see from the
Bible that God is angry with the

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wicked that corrupt and sinful
human nature is nothing in his

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sight.
Jesus will be manifested to

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destroy the sinners.
Mankind and that there is no

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salvation except in God’s
appointed way.

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We see the necessity of placing
ourselves in opposition to the

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corruption around us and are
forced into a continual attitude

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of defense and attack.
Therefore.

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We are not liable to forget our
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But we are liable to forget that
God is love and that the whole

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truth is but the exemplification
and expression of it.

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What we find in scripture and
we’ll see as we go through the

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classes is that the Pinnacle of
what the truth is intended to

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lead us to is God’s love all of
our doctrines are Bible readings

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and bible study are singing our
prayers.

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Our joint fraternal weekends are
trials and suffering are

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ecclesial activities.
Even our baptism is all intended

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and designed to lead us to God’s
love.

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It’s why Jesus died on the
cross?

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That’s why the Bible has been
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All of it is intended to bring
us to the point where we are

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developing God’s love in our
life and we see that he is at

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work to develop his love within
us and the outcome of his love

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at work in our life.
And as we develop his love and

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our life, is it provides for us
a new heart.

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It will transform our character.
Again referring to the handout

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at number two.
The first thing to note about

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Godly love is that it doesn’t
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Naturally.
It’s not something were born

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with it’s something that must be
learned at must be developed

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within us and it isn’t learned
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It asks a hundred thirty year
old father to slay his son whom

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he loves as a test of his faith
and ask another father to live

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with grief for 20 years over the
apparent death of his beloved

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Son.
It has a profit a husband to

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refrain from mourning over the
death of his wife whom God

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acknowledged was the desire of
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It strikes family tragedy and
bodily Affliction into a

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blameless and upright man.
A man scripture says was one who

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feared God and eschewed evil.
There was none like him in all

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the men of the East.
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God’s love causes a mother from
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gravesite of her husband and her
two sons in Moab it responds.

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To the refusal the faithful
refusal of a 90 year old man to

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bow down to the head of the Jews
enemies by permitting a death

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sentence to be passed upon the
entire community of believers.

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And it then asks a queen of a
vast Empire to lay down her life

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for her people.
And the New Testament it permits

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the Jewish persecutors to cause
havoc in the life of an apostle

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in city after city after city as
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save those who are in darkness.
And then God’s love leaves him

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in prison for two whole years
when he could have been out

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preaching and witnessing.
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beloved Son in whom he was well
pleased to lay down his life and

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to submit himself to a public
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Vernon sisters in young people.
This is the love of God.

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It’s all done out of love out of
a desire on his part to save

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those whom he loved.
To teach them to walk by faith

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in the midst of their suffering
and to love him and responds to

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the trials that he brought into
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It was designed to keep them
from being overcome by sin or if

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they were already overcome by
sin to rescue them from that

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situation, but don’t just see
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We’ve listed there recognize the
wisdom of our God.

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Look at all the good that came
out of these afflictions the

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Eternal promises.
That came out of the situation

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with Abraham.
The Redemption of a family in

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the case of Naomi the Redemption
of an entire generation in the

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case of Mordecai and Esther.
And the Redemption of an entire

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race in the case of our Lord
Jesus Christ.

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If we were to ask each of these
faithful men and women about the

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love of God about the wisdom of
his love each of them would tell

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us that God is right and God is
wise and how he loves us.

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And they would Echo the
sentiment that we not turn to

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sin in the midst of our trials
that he brings into our life.

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They would encourage us to trust
his love to embrace his love to

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learn to reflect his love and
make it the love that we reflect

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in our life because it is the
way to life the way to life

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eternal.
It’s important to recognize and

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identify upfront what love is
especially when Here the concept

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of Love You So abundantly in the
world today for the purposes of

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our study.
We are going to use God’s

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definition of love.
We’re going to use the Bible’s

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definition of love and how it
defines love and we will

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differentiate it from time to
time between it and human lungs

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and it can be a bit confusing at
times because we see God’s love

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on the one hand and we see human
love on the other hand and

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sometimes they can be confusing
and almost appear to be the

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same.
Same they are not.

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They come from a different
source, and they direct a

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person’s actions in a different
direction and we’ll see we’ll

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see ample evidence of that.
The definition in and the way

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that we would summarize it is
not one-dimensional.

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It involves all of the twelve
aspects that we have listed

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under number 3 and and likely
more we’re just trying to

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demonstrate the fact that Godly
love cannot simply be summarized

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by a single term or a single
sentence when you take all of

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the verses in scripture, which
speak of God’s love and godly

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love and you put them together.
This is just A simple summary of

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12 aspects of it.
And again, there’s lightly

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likely more first and foremost
the one we know well is it’s a

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self-sacrificing love.
It’s a putting the needs of

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others before our own kind of
love and others first, not me

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first love because he laid down
his life John writes and first

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John 3:16, we ought to lay down
our lives for the brethren.

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If you love me Christ says you
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It’s done from faith.
It Springs from faith and

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Galatians 5 & 6 Paul writes
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you see a faith is not at the
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when we think we are showing
love then it is not godly love

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that.
We are showing to another person

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If it is not springing or
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doing them a lot of good.
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Trusting that God will take care
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will bring us through the
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We may be in and The Wonder of
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connected with faith is that we
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how vulnerable a situation this
might put us in an and how

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difficult and how much more
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become often times for those who
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With the love of God their
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difficult and more stressful and
the trials were heaped further

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upon them.
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were showing and reflecting
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Because of Joseph love for his
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In chapter 37 his life will
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difficult in subsequent chapters
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her life will become
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same with Nehemiah the same with
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we could recall.
Number for it’s done in Hope of

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a future reward Hebrews 6 says
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and our love for the Saints in
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we have.
It’s done not because a person

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deserves our love and this is
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love is so different than human
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Godly love does not is not
extended because a person

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deserves our love But because a
person needs our love and what

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it brings to their situation, we
don’t deserve God’s love we were

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Sinners as Roman 5 tells us in
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Christ died for us.
So God’s love is not something

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we learned it’s not something
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God’s love is something we need.
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lost.
So when a person is in need, we

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don’t ask the question do they
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Does it matter what they’ve done
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And if they need that that’s
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give to.
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overcome by sin, whether it’s
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or wrong Doctrine or whatever
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What they need us to bring into
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help rescue them from that
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That’s not human lung.
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the need of a brother or sister.
Whatever.

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It might be Deuteronomy 15 and
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speak of giving based upon their
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giving to others based upon our
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over when our needs are taken
care of we will see that is not

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godly love.
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That requires our total
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and we recall this as being the
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spoke of in summarizing a
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It requires all our heart all
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all our mind.
So Godly love is not something

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that we should do or show
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situation in our in our life,
there is never a conversation I

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should have with my wife.
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that conversation.
I’m not saying I do that every

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time and I certainly don’t want
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impression that I stand before
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this subject because I haven’t
But these are their spiritual

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ideals the standards that God is
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see he doesn’t just give us
these standards and say what do

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you think pick out one or two?
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expectation that we developed
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It is the expectation of the
Lord Jesus Christ that we

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developed his love in US.
So I should never have a

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conversation with my 15 year old
son at home regardless of what

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he has done.
Regardless of how shaming his

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actions have been to me and to
my reputation whatever my

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reputation might be I should
never interact with him. in any

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way without bringing God’s love
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what it means in my mind to love
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soul our strength and our might
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do for our neighbor as we would
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Now this principle of loving
your neighbor as yourself can be

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a bit confusing some people
think it means will I need to

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learn to love myself before I
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That is not what the Lord Jesus
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we need to love our neighbor as
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He says take a look at the
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in and put yourself in that
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And then ask yourself if I was
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need and he uses the principle
as we know of the Good

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Samaritan?
he was attacked by thieves and

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the Good Samaritan came along
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poured out oil and wine and then
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his Beast and the Good Samaritan
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wounded wrote on the Beast and
then he stayed with him that

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night in the end and he got up
the next day and he took care of

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the bill and he asked the in
caper to keep looking after this

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individual see whatever needs
the Good Samaritan had that When

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he was walking along the road
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Immediately became of secondary
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a neighbor lying in a ditch and
he asked himself if I was in

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that situation, what would I
need for someone to come along

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and do for me we can begin to
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work in our life when we begin
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If we are loving with God’s love
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importance in our life.
Matthew 7 verse 12 which we

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won’t take the time to look up
says therefore all things

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whatsoever.
You would that men should do to

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you do ye even so to them for
this is the law and the prophets

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see Godly love is what the law
in the profits were intended to

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bring a person to Matthew 22
verse 40 says on these two

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Commandments after Jesus had
summarize the first great

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He says on these two Hang all
the law and the prophets Romans

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13 verse 10 as we know says love
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That’s why we say it is the
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intended to bring us two and
that is true both in the Old

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Testament and in the New
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Godly love is done as a servant
not a master as we see in

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Galatians 5 verse 13 through
love be Servants of one.

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Another Galatians flies says it
restrains us presents prevents

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us from engaging in wrong
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And then it also constrains us
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second Corinthians 5:14 to right
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It provides a proper balance
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Doctrine and conduct while being
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of conscience.
So when we come to second John

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They were under the impression
that love teaches that we should

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accept all Brethren and
fellowship all Brethren

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regardless of their beliefs and
John writes and he says you

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misunderstand God’s love you are
wrong to welcome and fellowship

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all Brethren regardless of their
beliefs.

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That is not godly love to wink
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when Paul was talking about meat
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No Idols don’t exist.
But if my eating meat offered to

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Idols will cause my brother to
sin to the point of losing his

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salvation.
Paul says it is Godly love not

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to eat of that meat.
So in matters of conscience that

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could cause my brother or sister
to lose their way, even though

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an idol doesn’t exist.
Godly love will not eat of that

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meat.
And lastly James to says it does

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good to all it is careful not to
show partiality in scripture

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than Godly love is portrayed in
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It’s all encompassing all facets
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All that we do is to be done in
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We know in Colossians 3 both
Paul and Peter speak of its

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preeminence Above All Things
Paul writes put on love, which

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is the bond of perfectness First
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things is at hand the silver
Peter writes watch unto prayer

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above all have fervent loans one
for another which covers a

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multitude of sins.
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most of what we’ll hear this
weekend we’ve heard before we’re

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just trying to put it together
in a way that can impress Upon

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Our Minds what God is trying to
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It had full it holds a
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foundation in First Corinthians
First Corinthians 13 with with

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Faith and Hope but Paul writes
the greatest of these is love

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brother Thomas Road.
It was greatest because it

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includes Hope and hopes all
things and it includes Faith

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because it believes all things.
So to summarize Godly love as

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simply being a self-sacrificing
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Hopefully you can see is a bit
too simplistic.

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It’s a bit too limiting.
We really need all of the

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pieces.
And again that’s not all of the

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pieces on that list of 1 to 12,
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For example, a Gap a love, you
know, the self-sacrificing love

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is a big part of Godly law that
we don’t want to do.

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Finish that at all but it’s not
the only part the filial love

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the love of Brethren the love of
a husband for his wife the love

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of children that they’re all
different words for love and

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they’re all parts of Godly loan,
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It says that God had filial love
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And in John 3 verse 35.
It says God had a Gap a love for

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the Lord Jesus Christ as well in
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And I kept a log for Lazarus.
And John 16 Christ said that God

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had filial love for the 12 many
turns around and in chapter 14

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and verse 23 are a couple
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God had a Gap a love for them.
And in that section of John in

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chapter 14 and 16 at that
crucial night when this is the

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last night with the Lord Jesus
Christ, he’s not telling him in

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chapter 16 when God he says God
had filial love for the for the

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11 actually, but this was
somehow a diminished form of

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love.
He doesn’t Highest form of love

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for you.
He’s got a diminished flame of

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love for you.
What we learn in scripture is

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that all of these pieces of
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We really need to put all the
pieces together First Peter 1

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verse 22 says we need to have a
sincere or an unfeigned phileo

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love for our Brethren, but also
to Agra pay them one another

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earnestly from the heart.
Now we mentioned it’s important

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to differentiate between Godly
love and human lung or natural

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love how the world defines love
in Philippians 1 verse 9.

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It says Godly log can only arise
from a proper understanding of

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the truth by a mind enlightened
in God’s Will and purpose we

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won’t go there but you can use
it as a reference Godly love

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Springs from the word.
It’s the principles of the word

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put in action.
It doesn’t come naturally.

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The fall of these young kids we
have here this weekend.

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If our as parents we don’t sit
down to teach them about God’s

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love.
They are not going to learn it

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all by themselves.
It’s something that has to be

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taught.
It has to be learned its

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fundamental purpose Godly love
is to turn a person from an

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equity.
Either iniquity we have already

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committed or iniquity we would
commit if left to ourselves.

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Godly love hates sin.
It hates sin because it knows it

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will that that situation will
not lead a person to

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righteousness.
And this is where Godly love and

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human love separate human law
based on humanism is a love of

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Man Without God so that the
human love the natural log is

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what were born with its what’s
innate and the Flesh of all of

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us.
It’s the Of the flush put into

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action.
It’s not intended.

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It’s not based its outcome is
not a desire to turn a person

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from sin human love is intended
to make people feel good to make

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people feel loved to make people
feel important.

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And it’s a reciprocating love.
So I love you with human love

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and my anticipation or
expectation is you will turn

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around and love me so I can feel
good.

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It’s a manipulative type of
love.

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I will love you because I’m with
human love because I’m hoping

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that somehow you’re going to do
something for me.

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That is not godly love.
At times Godly log can look like

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human lungs.
And in those times it can be a

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bit confusing because it has the
appearance of righteousness it

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even encourages people to do
good things, but it encourages

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them to do things that are
outside what God defines as the

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boundaries of righteousness.
So with human love you have all

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kinds of sin.
Being tolerated even promoted in

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the name of human love.
Christianity is losing sight of

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Godly love as it increasingly
Blends ever more human love with

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Godly love.
And it ends up with the mixture

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part truth and part are it ends
up teaching that God is an all

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loving God and that he will
forgive all and he will accept

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all and he will save all because
of his all loving this that’s

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human love.
That’s not godly love that.

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They’re even redefining love to
accept alternative lifestyles.

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So that homosexuality is finding
an ever increasing presence in

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society.
And in the churches, it’s

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redefining the role of women in
the church has to give them an

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increasingly important positions
of leadership.

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The scripture says is not for
there’s to have because of God’s

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wisdom.
If you follow current events,

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you’ll know that the
episcopalians in the methodists

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in North America are moving in
this direction the the Church of

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Canada 20 years ago cost across
the The homosexual bridge in

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allowing that way of life and to
their Community, but from the

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world’s perspective.
It is seen as a better love.

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It’s a more encompassing love.
It’s a more compassionate love

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they will even try to defend it
as being a more a superior love

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than what the scriptures speak
of so that both society and

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Christianity are gradually
moving away from the first

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commandment.
That’s what’s happening.

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They are stressing the need for
love to do good to your neighbor

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without the first commandment
which defines what righteousness

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is.
And when you take the first

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commandment out of the picture
the need to love God as he

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defines righteousness and to
obey him with all our heart and

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soul and strength and mind when
you take that piece out and all

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00:32:48,400 –> 00:32:54,900
you have left is we need to do
good to all men what you end up

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00:32:54,900 –> 00:33:00,000
with is All kinds of sin now
being accommodated and people

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actually believe that is a
superior form of love. the

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second commandment without the
first it’s a love that is void

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of the righteousness of God may
give people a sense of goodness,

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but it will not lead anyone to
righteousness.

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And there is the inherent
failure of it.

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Take a look at 2nd Timothy 3
were familiar with this passage,

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but that as this is actually a
Latter-Day prophecy about love.

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We’re familiar with the warning.
that Paul says to Timothy in 2nd

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Timothy 3 The reason we say it’s
a prophecy about love is notice

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the love and just scan down the
first five verses of this Latter

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Day prophecy about love and what
love will look like in the last

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days notice the love that will
be present in the last days and

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00:34:10,800 –> 00:34:14,500
notice the love that will not be
present in the last days.

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00:34:16,300 –> 00:34:20,800
There is a loan but it isn’t
Godly love that men will be

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00:34:20,800 –> 00:34:24,500
practicing these 5 verses
describe.

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What society looks like when
Godly log has been taken out of

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the picture.
In verse two men shall be lovers

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00:34:33,300 –> 00:34:38,600
of their own selves.
You see why we say that Godly

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love does not teach us that we
first need to love ourselves

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00:34:43,900 –> 00:34:47,800
before we can learn to love
other people you hear that

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today.
And Paul warned Timothy that was

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coming in the last days.
That would be perilous people

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00:34:54,600 –> 00:34:59,200
would redefine love to say I
first need to love myself and

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00:34:59,200 –> 00:35:03,200
take care of myself before I can
begin to take care of others.

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00:35:05,700 –> 00:35:09,600
Godly love it says will
disappear from society and be

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replaced by a love of Man by
human love.

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00:35:15,000 –> 00:35:18,000
The loves identified in the
latter day prophecy in verse 2.

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You have the loving of self and
in verse 4.

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You have the loving of pleasure.
But there is no love of God in

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the last days is what Paul warns
Timothy and brother and sisters

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as we know.
This is not a warning to those

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00:35:35,000 –> 00:35:39,200
outside the community.
Paul is warning what will happen

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00:35:39,200 –> 00:35:43,100
to the community of the last
days if we lose our ability to

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00:35:43,100 –> 00:35:47,100
love as God intends us intends
that we love.

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00:35:48,600 –> 00:35:54,300
What does it man or a city or a
society look like who loves

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himself and doesn’t love God.
And that’s the description

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00:35:59,200 –> 00:36:04,700
provided in verses 2 through 5.
He will become coverages and

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00:36:04,700 –> 00:36:07,000
bolsters and proud and
blasphemers.

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00:36:08,000 –> 00:36:12,500
Children who learn to love
themselves will be disobedient

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00:36:12,500 –> 00:36:14,500
to parents unthankful and
Unholy.

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00:36:16,000 –> 00:36:18,400
It’s far easier.
For those of us who have seen

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00:36:18,400 –> 00:36:22,900
society change in the past 20
years to recognize the Stark

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00:36:22,900 –> 00:36:27,500
warning and the reality of
second Timothy chapter 3, but

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00:36:27,500 –> 00:36:30,400
especially to the young people
for those who haven’t seen

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00:36:30,400 –> 00:36:32,900
society change over the last 20
years.

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00:36:33,900 –> 00:36:37,100
It’s important that we teach our
young people in our Sunday

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00:36:37,100 –> 00:36:41,600
schools and in our cyc and in
our Bible schools and our Bible

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00:36:41,600 –> 00:36:44,800
camps that we continue to
identify for them.

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00:36:44,900 –> 00:36:50,600
Just how vastly different Godly
love is from human lungs and

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00:36:50,600 –> 00:36:54,300
young people regardless of the
situation if anyone ever comes

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00:36:54,300 –> 00:36:57,900
along to you in its simplest
terms.

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00:36:58,900 –> 00:37:03,100
Remember Godly love will always
lead a person to righteousness.

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So if anyone ever comes along to
you and ask you to do something

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00:37:07,200 –> 00:37:12,200
or not to do something or to
keep quiet about something if

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00:37:12,200 –> 00:37:16,100
what they’re asking you to do
will not lead a person to

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00:37:16,100 –> 00:37:20,600
righteousness.
It is not godly love that.

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00:37:20,600 –> 00:37:30,800
They’re asking you to show.
another contrast of Godly love

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00:37:32,200 –> 00:37:35,700
Is that it is Limitless.
It is without bones.

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00:37:35,900 –> 00:37:40,200
There is nothing I should be
unwilling to do for your sake

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00:37:41,100 –> 00:37:43,700
within the parameters of
righteousness.

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00:37:44,400 –> 00:37:48,300
Remember, we say Godly love does
not ignore sin in a sinner.

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00:37:48,300 –> 00:37:50,300
It doesn’t pretend it isn’t
there.

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00:37:50,300 –> 00:37:55,300
It doesn’t turn a blind eye.
So if I come to you and bring

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00:37:55,300 –> 00:37:59,000
wrong Doctrine or if I come to
you and bring wrong living.

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00:37:59,900 –> 00:38:04,100
It is not love on your part to
ignore that in my life.

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00:38:06,500 –> 00:38:10,800
And you may have to ultimately
separate from me if I refuse to

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00:38:10,800 –> 00:38:13,100
change my teaching or my
conduct.

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00:38:13,700 –> 00:38:19,200
That is Godly love.
But if I then come to see the

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00:38:19,200 –> 00:38:22,200
error of my ways regardless what
I have done.

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00:38:24,200 –> 00:38:26,400
And I admit my teaching was
wrong.

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00:38:27,900 –> 00:38:33,400
My conduct was Unholy.
And I come back with that frame

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00:38:33,400 –> 00:38:37,800
of mind than the very same Godly
love that separated from me.

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00:38:38,200 –> 00:38:44,500
The very same Godly love will
embraced me with open arms and

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00:38:44,500 –> 00:38:48,700
do all that came to help win me
back to righteousness.

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00:38:49,200 –> 00:38:54,600
It’s the same Godly love that is
manifested in both situations

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00:38:55,100 –> 00:38:59,400
because Godly love will always
seek to return a person to

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00:38:59,400 –> 00:39:08,000
righteousness. a couple of other
items on the handout if you look

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00:39:08,000 –> 00:39:11,200
at Point number 5 there is a
special relationship between

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00:39:11,200 –> 00:39:16,000
Godly love and obedience.
They are presented as being

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00:39:16,000 –> 00:39:20,200
synonymous in Scripture.
And again, it’s a consistent

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00:39:20,200 –> 00:39:24,100
message in the Old Testament and
the New Testament to love God is

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00:39:24,100 –> 00:39:27,600
to obey God.
This is the Divine standard for

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00:39:27,600 –> 00:39:30,200
love.
It’s how God measures our love

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00:39:30,200 –> 00:39:33,600
for him.
So that love and obedience are

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00:39:33,600 –> 00:39:36,800
inseparable from God’s
standpoint and we won’t go

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00:39:36,800 –> 00:39:41,900
through the various examples
other than to point out.

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Be careful when you read the
word works. especially in the

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00:39:46,800 –> 00:39:51,300
New Testament because it’s not
always a negative word in

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00:39:51,300 –> 00:39:54,700
scripture and we can lose sight
of the fact that scripture

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00:39:54,700 –> 00:39:59,900
speaks of righteous works and we
need to identify when Paul

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00:39:59,900 –> 00:40:03,300
speaks of Works whether he’s
battling against the false

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00:40:03,400 –> 00:40:07,600
teachers of his day who thought
salvation was by works of the

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00:40:07,600 –> 00:40:12,400
Flesh in contrast to the works
of obedience that Paul says we

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00:40:12,400 –> 00:40:16,200
need to all strive to fulfill in
our life.

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00:40:16,800 –> 00:40:19,900
So the works of the law
associated with the Pharisees

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00:40:19,900 –> 00:40:24,000
and then later on with the false
Brethren within the community

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00:40:24,300 –> 00:40:28,700
the The Works of the flesh that
were based on keeping rituals

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00:40:28,700 –> 00:40:31,900
and mutilating a flesh for these
as he describes it in Galatians

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00:40:32,200 –> 00:40:35,000
keeping the letter of the law
Paul exposes.

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00:40:35,000 –> 00:40:38,700
Those are works of the flesh man
glory in these and it was like

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00:40:38,700 –> 00:40:41,200
it was a Doctrine to be rejected
in the first century.

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00:40:41,200 –> 00:40:43,300
It has no value in checking the
flesh.

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00:40:44,100 –> 00:40:50,000
But works arising from faith.
Righteous works works that are

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00:40:50,000 –> 00:40:53,600
the fruit of righteousness that
which God is intending to

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00:40:53,600 –> 00:40:58,400
develop within us.
Those kinds of works are called

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00:40:58,400 –> 00:41:03,400
love because it’s a reflection
of our obedience to him and and

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00:41:03,400 –> 00:41:06,800
those kinds of righteous works
are what God is seeking to

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00:41:06,800 –> 00:41:10,000
develop in us.
There’s also an Inseparable

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00:41:10,000 –> 00:41:11,900
connection a special
relationship.

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00:41:11,900 –> 00:41:15,500
We call it in point number six
between faith and love.

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00:41:17,900 –> 00:41:19,800
They share this special
relationship.

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00:41:19,800 –> 00:41:23,400
We know from James to that we
can say we have faith.

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00:41:23,400 –> 00:41:26,600
But if we do not have love if we
do not have works.

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If we do not have obedience then
we don’t have genuine Faith.

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00:41:31,100 –> 00:41:34,500
It’s a dead Faith.
We’ve already seen in Galatians

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00:41:34,500 –> 00:41:39,800
5 that Faith precedes love for
another way to look at it is

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00:41:39,800 –> 00:41:44,600
love begins with faith and when
faith comes first and it

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00:41:44,600 –> 00:41:49,900
proceeds are love then it true.
Is our love is Godly love and

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00:41:49,900 –> 00:41:55,800
not human love we first trust
God and then we act by faith and

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00:41:55,800 –> 00:42:00,600
love consistent with his word
and that he is pleased with to

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00:42:00,600 –> 00:42:03,400
give an example of how faith and
works.

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Sorry faith and love work
together turn over to Luke 7.

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00:42:07,400 –> 00:42:13,600
Remember the parable that Christ
recounts when he’s in Simon the

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00:42:13,600 –> 00:42:21,200
Pharisees house.
He arrives and the woman is

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00:42:21,200 –> 00:42:28,000
weeping and wedding his feet
with her tears. and in verse 36

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00:42:28,000 –> 00:42:35,000
to 38 of chapter 7 we read one
of the Pharisees desired him

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00:42:35,000 –> 00:42:38,700
that he would eat with him being
Jesus and he went into the

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00:42:38,700 –> 00:42:41,600
Pharisees house and sat down to
meet and behold a woman in the

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city, which was a sinner when
she knew that Jesus sat at meat

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00:42:45,200 –> 00:42:48,300
in the Pharisees house.
She brought an alabaster box of

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00:42:48,300 –> 00:42:53,600
ointment. and stood At His Feet
behind him weeping and began to

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00:42:53,600 –> 00:42:56,500
wash his feet with tears and did
wipe them with the hairs of her

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00:42:56,500 –> 00:43:00,400
head and kissed his feet and
anointed them with the ointment

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00:43:01,200 –> 00:43:05,500
and Simon sits there and
silently criticizes Jesus as we

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00:43:05,500 –> 00:43:09,000
know for failing to see that she
was a sinner now when the

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00:43:09,000 –> 00:43:14,400
Pharisee and verse 39, which had
didn’t Jesus saw it the Pharisee

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00:43:14,400 –> 00:43:18,400
spake within himself saying this
man Jesus if he were a prophet

616
00:43:18,400 –> 00:43:21,900
would have known who What manner
of woman this is that touches

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00:43:21,900 –> 00:43:27,300
him for she is a sinner.
And then Christ speaks the

618
00:43:27,300 –> 00:43:32,400
parable to Simon and it is a
parable about love and

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00:43:32,400 –> 00:43:36,700
forgiveness to people.
He says owes a debt owed a debt.

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Sorry neither could pay both are
forgiven.

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Now.
What do you think Simon the one

622
00:43:43,600 –> 00:43:48,900
forgiven 250 pens Would they
love more or less than the one

623
00:43:48,900 –> 00:43:54,500
forgiven the 500 pens and Simon
says well, I suppose the one

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00:43:54,500 –> 00:43:59,600
forgiven the most.
Would be the most thankful and

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00:43:59,600 –> 00:44:03,900
love the most so we pick up at
verse 40 and Jesus answering

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00:44:03,900 –> 00:44:06,800
said unto Simon.
I have something somewhat to say

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00:44:06,800 –> 00:44:10,000
unto thee and he say it Master
say on there was a certain

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00:44:10,000 –> 00:44:13,200
creditor which had two debtors.
The one owed five hundred pence

629
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in the other 50 and when they
had nothing to pay he frankly

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00:44:16,300 –> 00:44:18,600
forgave them both tell me
they’re for which of them will

631
00:44:18,600 –> 00:44:23,000
love him most Simon answered and
said I suppose that he to whom

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00:44:23,000 –> 00:44:26,800
he forgave most and Jesus said
unto him thou Hast right?

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00:44:27,200 –> 00:44:31,300
Charged so Jesus now we’ll
explain this Parable and the

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00:44:31,300 –> 00:44:35,800
application of the terrible and
it’s all about the woman and

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00:44:35,800 –> 00:44:40,400
about Simon.
So he says in verse 44 This

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00:44:40,500 –> 00:44:47,700
Woman’s sins were great and she
was forgiven and because she was

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00:44:47,700 –> 00:44:53,200
forgiven for her great sins.
She loved much he turned to the

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00:44:53,200 –> 00:44:56,600
woman in verse 44 and said unto
Simon seest thou this woman.

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00:44:57,000 –> 00:44:59,700
I entered into thine house.
They gave us me no water for my

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00:44:59,700 –> 00:45:03,200
feet, but she has washed my feet
with tears and wiped them with

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00:45:03,200 –> 00:45:06,700
the hairs of her head thou gave
us me no kiss, but this woman

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00:45:06,700 –> 00:45:11,000
since the time I came in at not
ceased to kiss my feet my head

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00:45:11,000 –> 00:45:14,000
with all with oil doubt.
It’s not annoying but this woman

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00:45:14,000 –> 00:45:17,300
has anointed my feet with
ointment wherefore I say unto

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00:45:17,300 –> 00:45:23,000
thee her sins, which are many
are forgiven for she loved much.

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00:45:23,500 –> 00:45:27,500
She had come in faith to see the
connection. the special

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00:45:27,500 –> 00:45:33,100
relationship between faith and
love she had come in faith.

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00:45:33,200 –> 00:45:38,800
How do we know that in verse 50?
He said Jesus said to the woman

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00:45:38,900 –> 00:45:45,400
by faith hath saved thee Go In
Peace So this woman comes into

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the house by faith a woman in
her situation does not present

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herself to two men eating at a
table and expose herself. for

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the sins that she’s committed
and put herself in that shameful

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situation some would say Unless
he is coming by faith to be

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forgiven of our sins.
And Jesus said she came by

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faith.
And she loved much.

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And because of that love she
will be forgiven.

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The other point to recognize
there are two loves in this

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section of scripture.
The problem is the one in verse

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42 is II love the one in verse
47 is the first love this woman

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came through the door by faith.
And why did she come because she

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loved much?
And she was forgiven by the Lord

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Jesus Christ.
And she goes out the door in

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verse 42 tell me there for which
of them will love him most.

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Once she was forgiven.
Willie she will she loved the

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more or the less.
And even Simon could see the one

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forgiven the most will go out
the door and love the most

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because of the Forgiveness.
They had been given.

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So you see when God forgives us
our sins and we come before him

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by faith and confess them.
Jesus says we will be forgiven

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for what purpose simply to
cleanse our slate so we can go

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out the door and say I had my
sins forgiven.

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No, Jesus said he who is
forgiving the most will go out

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and love the most.
So the reason God forgives us

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our sins when we acknowledge
them by faith.

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As having cleanse us from our
stands regardless of what they

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are.
So that it will bring us to an

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even greater level of love for
him.

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So he forgives us with an
expectation.

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Like what that woman who went
out the door that she would love

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the most and love even more.
That’s what God is looking for

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in our life.
That because of his love for us.

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We will take advantage of the
Forgiveness we have and the

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subtle warning to us in this
Parable.

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And in this lesson is that if we
don’t confess our sins if we

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don’t acknowledge our
shortcomings if we place the

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blame on everyone else and there
aren’t many sins that we’re

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going to look to be forgiven.
If there aren’t many sends we’re

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going to look for ourselves to
be forgiven.

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We won’t have all that much love
for our heavenly father when the

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reality of the situation is we
are all great Sinners and we are

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all in need of his love and his
forgiveness so that we will go

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out and learn to love him even
more.

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