288: Nick Parino – Exhortation: God is Love

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Hello, this is Brother Chris
back with another talk to

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coming week.

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For our talk this week we are
listening to an exhortation that

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was given at the San Diego
Ecclesia in February of 2021 by

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Brother Nick Perino.
This talk was given over zoom

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cause about a year prior Brother
Nick and his wife had moved to

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Florida but they still had fond
memories that he mentions at the

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beginning of his exhort for the
San Diego Ecclesia where they

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were members for many many
years.

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And the title of his exhortation
is God is Love and Brother Nick

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is going Through 3 instances in
the scriptures that he uses to

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make the point of the love that
God has for us and the blessing

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that we have to be able to show
our love back to God.

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This exhortation was from, as I
mentioned before, from the San

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Diego.
Ecclesia that we.

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Recently, probably in the last
year or so, were able to get

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access to after a revamp of
their Ecclesia website where

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some of the older exhorts that
they had recorded were able to

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be captured.
This one in particular was

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recommended to us.
And was.

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Especially powerful to listen
to, because about 10 months

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after this exhortation was
given, Brother Nick fell asleep

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and is now awaiting the return
of Christ and the resurrection.

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So it made it especially
powerful because this may have

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been the last exhortation that
he gave before his health

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declined and he passed away.
And this exhortation, I feel

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like, is a perfect encapsulation
of who I knew Brother Nick to

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be.
He was always passionate about

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the blessing that we have and
the love that we are shown

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through God and through the
sacrifice of his Son.

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And you could feel that love
from him anytime that you

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interacted with him and the
genuineness of that affection

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that he had for his brothers and
sisters.

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So I hope that this exhortation
is encouraging to you and

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reminds you of the love that we
have in the hope that we share,

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and that it will strengthen you
as we wait for the return of our

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absent Lord and Master and the
establishment of God’s Kingdom.

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So with that, I will turn it
over to Brother Nick Perino for

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his exhortation entitled God is
Love.

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Good morning, everyone.
It’s been a long time, about a

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little over a year since I’ve
been there.

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But it’s good to see your faces.
And I.

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We do miss you, Rhea, and I do
miss you.

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And we do love you.
And my exhortation this morning

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is the title 4.
Be God is Love.

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How do we know that God is love?
Read a question.

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God has made it clear unto us
and that when we were sinners

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Christ gave his life for us.
Do we understand the love of God

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and the love we have for each
that we have to have for each

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other?
We’re going to look at 3 short

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accounts.
I have three accounts and their

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understanding of love and this
account and also the love of God

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for us and the power given to
Jesus by him and his love.

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And the first account is in Mark
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You don’t have to turn to it
because I’m going to go through

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these accounts pretty quick.
But it’s it’s the one of the

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scribe that comes in questions
Christ.

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And he says having heard them
reasoning, he heard them talking

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and Jesus talking to them and
he’s perceived that he had

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answered them well asked him,
which is the first commandment

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of all.
And normally you would think,

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why is he doing this?
Why is he asking Jesus?

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Is he trying to find out where
Jesus stands?

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And I think that’s part of his
reasoning.

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But he also wants to know the
answer to it and says that.

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And it said, Jesus answered him.
The first of all the

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commandments is hear, O Israel,
the Lord our God is 1.

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And thou shalt love the Lord thy
God with all thy heart, with all

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thy soul, with all thy mind,
with thy strength.

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This is the first commandment.
And the 2nd is like namely,

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this.
Thou shalt love thy neighbor as

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thyself.
There is none other commandments

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greater than me.
So it wasn’t something that I

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think that he was.
He didn’t know, but he didn’t

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know that Jesus knew it.
I think that’s why he asked

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this, because then he goes on to
say the scribe says to him, well

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Mass.
Adele has said the truth.

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For there is one God and there
is none other but he.

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And to love him.
This is the other thing.

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He’s explaining to Jesus back
what Jesus just quoted to him,

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and to love him with all the
heart and with all

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understanding, and with all with
all the soul and with all the

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strength.
And to love his neighbor as

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himself is more than all the
burnt offerings and sacrifice.

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And when Jesus saw that he
answered discreetly, or in other

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translations, he answered with
understanding or intelligently.

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He said to him, Thou art not far
from the Kingdom of God, thou

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art not far from the Kingdom of
God.

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And all he did was explain back
to Christ what was more

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important at a time when
sacrifice and the mosaic glow

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was in his height.
I mean, they were sacrificing

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for every little thing.
And yet here he doesn’t say any

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of that.
He just goes by the two

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commandments, which is still
held to this day.

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The Mosaic law passed away, but
this was something new.

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And Christ, there’s another
thing that I marveled when I you

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read this.
Sometimes we’d reach him too

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fast.
And one of the things is that,

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you know, it always says he
spoke in parables to them, but

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not here.
The accounts we’re going to

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cover.
He doesn’t speak in parables.

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These these men are speaking
intelligently to him and have

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the belief that was just true.
And so he’s saying it’s straight

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back to them.
You’re not far from the Kingdom

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of God if you can live this way.
That is the point.

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The next account would be the
lawyer, and that’s found in

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Luke.
A certain lawyer stood up and

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tempted him, saying, Master,
what shall I do to the inherited

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eternal life?
Isn’t this?

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If you were to see Jesus,
wouldn’t it be one of the

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questions that you might want to
ask, if especially if you

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weren’t sure at that, especially
at this time?

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How do I inherit eternal life?
What do I have to do?

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And he said unto him, What?
He’s questioning him now What is

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written in the law?
Because he’s supposed to be a

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lawyer.
How readest thou?

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And he answered and said, Thou
shalt love the Lord thy God with

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all thy heart, with all thy
soul, with all thy strength, and

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with all thy mind, and thy
neighbor as thyself.

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And he said unto him, Christ
says unto him, Thou has answered

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right this do, and thou shalt
live.

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Was he talking about live?
And then or his question was how

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do I get eternal life?
If you can live this divide

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these two laws, you can get
eternal life.

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And one more that I wanted to
cover was found in Mark also.

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And this is about the rich man.
We all know all these things but

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I wanted to put him in order so
that you can see that about the

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questioning.
The rich man is the one that

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comes running up to him, the
young rich man, and falls at his

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knees.
And he asks him, how can I

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inherit eternal life?
That’s his question to Christ.

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And Jesus said unto him, Why
call?

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He said he called him good
master.

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I think this is just something
he puts in answers very quickly,

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and that’s not what he the
question was.

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And he said back to him, no one
is good but God, that even

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himself had been considered
good.

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But that wasn’t the point.
But he was asking the question

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was so he said to him, Thou
knowest the commandments, and he

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goes through the commandments.
Do not kill, do not commit

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adultery.
Do not steal.

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Do not bear false witness.
Do not defraud.

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Honor thy father and mother.
You notice he didn’t ask that of

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the of the lawyer or the scribe
when or when they would question

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him.
He didn’t ask them do they did

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they know the commandments?
He knew they knew.

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But this young person he didn’t
know.

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And he says, And to honor thy
mother and father and mother.

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And he said unto master all
these things I have observed

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from my youth.
And Jesus, looking on him, loved

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him, and said, I stopped there.
Jesus looked at it at him and

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loved him for what he came up
and said, and what he was doing

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And he was remember, his
question was, how do I inherit

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eternal life?
Again, he’s not beating around

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the Bush.
He’s going to tell him straight

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out and he says one thing Thou
lackest go and sell with thou

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hast and give to the poor, and
thou shalt have treasure in

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heaven and come follow me.
He had the the ability right now

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to go with Christ, to give up
what he had his belongings or

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whatever his wealth was.
I mean, it wasn’t something that

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was not asked.
Look at Moses.

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Moses lived in high luxury with
Pharaoh’s court and just walked

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out on it.
That wasn’t important to him.

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And yet if this man would have
think of what he was saying to

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him, if he would have said to
him, no, take all your money and

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you can buy this, he couldn’t
buy it.

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He couldn’t buy the eternal
life.

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And yet Christ wasn’t telling
him to buy it.

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He was saying give up on this.
He had to explain it.

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Actually when you read down, he
had to explain it to his

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apostles, because it says OK his
his countenance fails saying And

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he went away sorrowful, for he
was one of great possessions.

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And Jesus looked around about
and said, saith unto his

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disciples, How hardly shall they
that have riches enter into the

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Kingdom of God?
And the expression from the

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apostles was that they were
amazed at his words.

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They were like what?
But Jesus answered again, and

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said unto them, children, how
hard is it for them that trust

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in the riches to enter into the
Kingdom of God?

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He made a clarification that
this man was trusting in his

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riches.
That was the problem.

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And here he had it was being
answered for him.

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He he was given, He had the
opportunity.

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He was being loved by Jesus.
He could follow Jesus with the

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apostles and have eternal life.
His questions were, you know, it

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was answered, but it wasn’t
something he was ready to do.

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He wanted to do it, I guess in
his own way.

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And now when you look at these
three different individuals, it

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makes me wonder, did they do
something later in life?

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Did they begin to realize or
seen what Christ went through,

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or did they follow him in some
way off?

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We were never given that answer.
We just told these stories up

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front, and that’s what the
apostles learned from and that’s

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what we had to learn from.
But here it was said at three

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different times.
Here is some way you can get

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eternal life.
And they didn’t accept it.

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Now there’s another occasion
that wanted us to look at real

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quick, and this is about when
they asked Jesus, they went up

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to Jesus and they said teach us
to pray.

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And we all know the Lord’s
Prayer.

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And yet I think when we when we
look at the Lord’s Prayer, a lot

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of times we go into what he said
in the prayer itself and try to

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figure out maybe this is how we
should pray about things.

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But I think we kind of miss in
the beginning, and maybe we

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don’t, but I I didn’t pay as
much attention to it.

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Was that the first thing he did,
he addressed, he had said to

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address him as our father, Our
father, which remember the Jews

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were afraid even to say Yahweh
his name.

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And here you’re going to call
the most powerful being almighty

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godfather.
First of all, he was giving him

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a privilege and he was also
giving him a love.

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Isn’t there somewhere that it
attracts you and you address

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someone this way that shows some
kind of love?

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We’re going to look at that in a
way.

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But remember when Christ had
said to him, when he had said to

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the others that he says my
father, right away he accused

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him of being.
You’re making yourself equal

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with God and that you could find
in this you can turn to in John

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5/18.
They then because of this the

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Jews sought more to kill him
because he’s not only had broken

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the Sabbath, but also that God
was his father, making him equal

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with God.
But Jesus gives his answer to

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them right then and there and
his answer follows in the rest

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of the verses here.
Then Jesus answered and said

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unto them, Truly, truly, I say
to you, The Son can do nothing

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of himself but what he sees the
Father do.

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For whatever things he does
these also the Son does

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likewise.
For the Father loves his Son,

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and shows him all things that he
himself does, and he will show

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him greater works than these, so
that you may marvel, for as a

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father, raise the dead, and make
it alive.

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Even so, the Son of Man makes
alive whomever he wills.

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For the Father judges no man,
but has committed all judging to

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the Son, so that all should
honor the Son, even as they

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honor the Father.
He who does not honor the Son

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does not honor the Father who
sent him.

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Truly, truly, I say to you, he
who bears my word and believes

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on him who sent Me, has
everlasting life, and shall not

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come under condemnation, but has
passed from death to life.

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Truly, truly, I say to you, the
hour is coming.

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Now is when the dead shall hear
the voice of the Son of God, and

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they shall and and they who hear
shall live.

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For as a father has life in
himself, so he has also given

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the Son to have life within
himself, and has given authority

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to execute judgment also,
because he is the Son of Man.

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Do not marvel at this for the
hours coming in which all who

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are in the grave shall hear his
voice, and it shall come forth

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those who have done good to the
resurrection of life, and those

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who have practiced evil to the
resurrection of condemnation.

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So now explain to us how he and
his Father are related and how

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God loves his love for Jesus and
has shown him as he had read in

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these verses.
But getting back to the Lord’s

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Prayer again, Jesus has given us
a a privilege to call our

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Father, to call God our Father.
When we look at, when we look at

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this here, sometimes we we
Passover, I think kind of quick.

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Isn’t God showing us a love that
we can call him Father, that we

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can actually say this to him?
You know, sometimes when we say

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our prayers, we address him with
all these titles and and it

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could be, I mean, we’re trying
to be respectful and everything,

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but maybe it’s something petty
that I look at that when you

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address God and you were told to
call him father, it’s just like

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that when I look at like my
natural father, I called him Dad

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or I called him, you know, he’s
my father.

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I didn’t call him by Mr. Perino.
Didn’t it lack something?

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Isn’t there a lack of love or or
something there?

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So here you’re being told by God
to call him father and you start

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saying most holiest, glorious
being.

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I mean, you’re addressing him to
give him honor, but isn’t there

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more honor that you have this
love between you and God, that

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you’re actually allowed to call
him father and accept you as a

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son?
So that was my point in trying

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to bring about that.
God has a love for us, and I’m

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going to address him.
And maybe it’s maybe it’s just

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me being wrong about this whole
thing, maybe I’m just not.

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But I I think of it more on that
level.

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Showing our love to God is He’s
allowing me to call him Father.

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That I think is is the most love
that I could actually give to

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him in a way, and he can give to
me.

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There’s not this big division
between us.

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Even though He’s high up in the
heavens, I have this closeness

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to him.
It’s it’s something that I think

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that each of each of us would
have to look at, that God loves

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us, He is love to us.
And this is one way of us

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showing love back to you know
when you read about this, you

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can turn to to This is well
before I go to John 1334, a new

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command that I give you, that
you love one another even as I

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have loved you, that you also
love one another.

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But then I wanted this to go to
the first John 47.

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These are a few verses I wanted
to read as a closing for us to

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the grasp the love that God has
for us and his Son and that we

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should have for each other.
Behold and start in verse 7.

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Behold, let us love one another.
For love is of God, and everyone

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who loves has been born of God
and knows God.

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The one who does not love has
not known God.

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For God is love.
You know it’s one of the gifts

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that one of his You know when he
gave his Son and he gave him all

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this power, we think about all
the power.

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He could do all these different
things, but he also gave Christ

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love so that God Christ can give
love also, and He expected us to

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give it back.
In this the love of God was

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revealed in us, because God sent
his only begotten Son into the

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world that we might live through
Him.

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And this is love.
Not that we loved God, but that

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he loved us and sent his Son to
be a propitiation concerning our

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sins.
Beloved, if God so loved us, we

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ought also to love one another.
No one has seen God at any time.

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If we love one another, God
dwells in US, and His love is

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perfect perfected in US.
And by this we know that we

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dwell in Him and He and us
because we have given, He has

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given us of His Spirit.
If God is love, He’s given us

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this spirit that we can use to
love one another.

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And this is one of our ways of
showing love.

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And we have seen and testified
that the Father sent the Son to

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be the Savior of the world.
Whoever shall confess that Jesus

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is the Son of God?
God dwells in him, and he in

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God.
And we have known and believed

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the love that God has in US.
God is love, and he who abides

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in love, abides in God, and God
in Him.

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In this is our love made
perfect, that we may have

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boldness in the Day of
Judgement.

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That as he is so also we are in
this world.

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We have boldness.
Who said that?

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Paul.
Eric.

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Paul says I will go there with
boldness.

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And we always said, well, I
can’t go with boldness like Paul

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did.
But he’s saying you can if you

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have this love.
Because in the next verse there

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is No Fear in love that’s
supposed to be fearful that the

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judgement.
But perfect love casts out fear,

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because fear has torment.
He who fears has not perfected

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perfected his love to something
lacking.

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Then in you in us we love him
because he first loved us.

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If anyone says I love God and
hates his brother, he is a liar.

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For if he does not love his
brother whom he has seen, how

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can he love God who he has not
seen?

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And we have this commandment
from him that he who loves God

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should love his brother also.
And this is how we are to enact

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our love to one another.
Not only was it a commandment,

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but it was something that we
have to develop and one another

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to.
There’s always a love flowing.

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And I think it bothered Christ
when, you know, when Judas and

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he said he’s the son of
perdition and he was lost from

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the beginning, there was nothing
he can do.

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But Christ showed his love to
his brethren and they always

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wanted them to practice that.
You know, when they argued

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amongst themselves and said, oh,
who’s the greatest?

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No, I don’t want you being that
way.

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You want to be for each other
and wish the better for the

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other.
And this is how I feel that God

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is love.
Thank you.

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