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Amen. Hey, can I hear a hearty
amen to that? Praise the Lord. What a blessing.
Just singing about God's attributes. And I was thinking too, Pastor
Fox, is it a requirement to be married into the Fox family to
be able to sing? Is that something, one of the
things you find? One of the things you put on
Phil's list. Thank you so much, Beth and Nikki and the Fox family
for the special music. What a blessing it is. We've
been worshiping God, haven't we? Amen. We've been worshiping him.
We've been uplifting his name. We've been giving him glory.
And we're just going to continue doing that as we hear his word
preached. What a blessing it is to meet together. And what
a joy it is to be with you. Let's turn our Bibles to Psalm
136. Psalm 136. You've been standing up and sitting
down for about 40 minutes now. I was instructed not to go past
1230. Why don't we just stand up and we will read this passage
of scripture together. Not the whole chapter, but just
the first nine verses. And I want us to read responsibly.
I'll read the first part of the verse, and then I want you all
to echo back to me that chorus that's repeated over and over
again, for His mercy endureth forever. Can we do that together?
I'll read the first part of the verse, and then every single
verse has that one phrase repeated, word for word, for His mercy
endureth forever. Let's begin in verse one. I'll
read, O give thanks unto the Lord, together, for He is good,
for His mercy endureth forever. O, give thanks unto the God of
gods, for His mercy endureth forever. O, give thanks to the
Lord of lords, for His mercy endureth forever. To Him who
alone doeth great wonders, for His mercy endureth forever. To
Him that by wisdom made the heavens, for His mercy endureth forever. To Him that stretched out the
earth upon the waters, For His mercy endureth forever. To Him
that made great lights, for His mercy endureth forever. The sun
to rule by day, for His mercy endureth forever. the moon and
stars to rule by night, for His mercy endureth forever. Heavenly
Father, I pray that You would be with us this morning. I pray
that You would take these few loaves and fishes and multiply
them and cause them to feed a multitude. Thank You that You will bless
Your Word. I pray this in Jesus' name. Amen. Thank you. You can
have a seat. I woke up yesterday morning and
I thought I had a dream that I had gotten a text from Pastor
Allen saying that he would be too sick to preach on Sunday
so that Pastor Aarons and I would have to decide who would preach
Sunday morning and Sunday evening. And I was thinking, man, that's
a weird dream, until I looked at my phone and discovered it
really wasn't a dream. I did have a text like that from
Pastor that I'd gotten during the night. And it was just in
my groggy state. I'd reached over, read the text,
fell back asleep, and just assumed it had been part of my dream.
But so Pastor asked us if we could take the services for today. And I'm thankful that he's able
to take the time to rest. We certainly do miss him. And
I know that he'll be in our prayers, that he would get better. Well,
after that, I really sought the Lord and prayed a lot about what
I should preach and decided that just instead of tipping my hat
to the fact that tomorrow is Valentine's Day, we would use
this as an introduction to what God would have for us this morning.
And now, men, if I just now reminded you that it's Valentine's Day,
please don't spend the rest of the preaching time strategizing
as to how you're going to convince your wife you're just planning
a surprise for her, okay? And please don't whip out your iPhones
or iPads or whatever you have and start booking some online
reservations for restaurants during the message. Technology
enables us to do a lot of things. Hope that you young guys don't
be like that guy I heard about who he went to the jewelers and
he said, I want to buy a necklace for my girlfriend and I want
to get it engraved. The jeweler said, yeah, you want
to engrave her name on that nice silver heart there? And he thought
for a while. He said, no, I want you to engrave
to my one and only beloved. And the jeweler said, wow, that
is really sweet. And the guy said, well, actually,
I just want that engraved just in case I break up with her and
need to use it again. Certainly hope that those of you who are
married won't be like the guy whose friend asked him, so what
did you get your wife for Valentine's Day? And he said, well, I got
her this nice new belt and a nice new bag. The man said, wow, I
bet she's going to like that. He said, yeah, and I'll like
it the fact that our vacuum cleaner is working again. That would
certainly put you in the doghouse this Valentine's. The title of my message this
morning is God and Valentine's Day. And it has a more theological
subtitle, but I'll give us that a little later on. And my message
will basically form a circle. We'll first talk about human
love, our relationships with each other, our relationships,
relationships between husbands and wives, between father and
son, mother, daughter, the love that we experience as humans,
and then we're going to transition into talking about God's love.
And as we begin to talk about God's love and search the scripture
to discover really the true nature about God's love, I want us to
capture a vision of God's love, because as we come down and complete
the circle, we're going to talk about our love again. And I want
us to be able to see our love through the lens of God's love
as we complete that circle. I want us to be able to capture
a vision of what God's love is, and we can take that back with
us and apply it into our relationships. First of all, our love. Valentine's
comes at an interesting time of our nation. It's a time when
marriage is being redefined and cheapened. By that, I mean there
is confusion about what love really is. We live in a time
when marriage is almost like a piece of moldable wax to be
twisted and pressed into whatever shape people want it. I was reading the news this morning
and pulled out this article from the Washington Post not noted
for their conservatism. I might add an article by a lady
who is married to a lady and the title of her article is why
the word marriage matters. Throughout about the fifth paragraph
in her article. She says this marriage matters
because marriage is how societies Society decides whose relationships
matter and whose don't She says this no matter what gay people
will fall in love and make homes together as we always have Marriage
equality is about whether straight people are going to recognize
those relationships. It's how they decide whose family
We live in a very confused time don't we a very confused time
a At the time, in an unprecedented way, people have begun to try
to define marriage, but not just in the overt way of trying to
define marriage as possibly between two members of the same gender,
but also a time when marriages are as brittle as thin icicles,
are as temporary as a breath in a cold day. It's when love
is being defined as a surge of a feeling, as adrenaline or whatever
chemicals are going on. And with all the attention and
the discussion over defining marriage, we might lose the fact
that marriage, even between members of the same gender, is being
cheapened because it's so temporary. And we could lose the fact that
this is also where we're at as a nation. I realize also I'm
talking to individuals, people all across the spectrum. I'm
talking to young people whose love life is in front of them,
right? Boy, as a youth pastor, you tend
to hear about this a lot. And it's great. Who am I going
to marry? What is he going to look like?
Will he be tall? Will he be short? Speaking of
which, I thought Mrs. Fox brought this over for me
when I saw this. This is for Malachi. What is he going to
look out like? When do I know? How do I know
if I'm in love? How do I know if this is the
one? These are the questions that are facing us, but we are
in a time when young people especially are being bombarded with a redefinition
of what love is. And the culture has a lot to
say about love. I'm talking to people who bear
a thousand scars from broken promises, from unmet
expectations. from unfulfilled dreams, from
hurtful words, from relationships that have turned sour. Only God
knows how deep those scars run. I may be talking to people whose
marriage is like an empty fireplace. It's where the warmth and light
once was, but is not now. See, that's where many of us
are in our relationships, where our love is. Where's your love? And into all this mess of different
stages of where we are, whether we have love to anticipate, or
whether we're in a relationship, or whether that relationship
is not what we want it to be, or whether we look back on past
relationships and grieve with them or rejoice over them, or
find pain over them, wherever we are, God comes right into
the thick of it and gives commands about love. It's like God presumes
to regulate and to place restrictions on and commandments about what
seems to be just a natural outflow of human emotions. God enters
into the picture. And God tells us, first of all,
that we must love. He says in Deuteronomy 6, 5,
and thou shalt love the Lord thy God. He actually gives a
command about love. He commands us to love others.
Matthew 22, 39, Jesus is giving what is the second greatest commandment
after having been approached by a lawyer, asked him, Lord,
what is the what is the greatest commandment? He said the greatest
commandment is this, love the Lord thy God with all the heart, soul,
mind, and love thy neighbor as thyself. Husbands are commanded
to love wives. God tells us even what not to
love. 1 John 2.15, love not the world,
neither the things that are in the world. For married people,
not to be in love with others. So the question that we want
to ask is, why is this such a big deal to God? Why does God presume
to regulate and to place commandments and restrictions upon our love? I mean, this seems like it's
our thing. Especially for unbelievers who think we can define marriage
how we want to. We can say what marriage is and
is not. We can say what love is. And God comes down with eternal,
objective, unchanging truth into our world, into our lives. The
question is, why is this such a big deal to God? It's not just a big deal because
it affects us emotionally or because it affects us socially
or because it affects our nation or because it affects our relationship. This is not a big deal just because
of the practical outworkings of how we think about love. This
is a big deal because it's intrinsically tied to God's character. The
reason why our love is a big deal, the reason why God presumes,
presumes, I say, to come down and say, this is what you must
love. This is how you must love it. This is what you may not
love. And this is how you may not love it. And this is the
degree to which you must love. These are the people you must
love. The reason why God does that is because it goes back
to God's character. It is something that is true
about God. Specifically, the most cherished
and beloved aspect of God's character to us, and that is the love of
God. We're talking about our love
and the dilemma that we're in, the issues that we're in now.
We're transitioning to talk about God's love. And I want all of
us to come away with a clear scriptural understanding of what
God's love is. not an assumption of what God's
love is based on popular songs or based on our own feelings,
but we want to understand what the Bible says about God's love. And I find no other way to really
summarize what God's love is than the word committed. I realize
it falls far short of really summarizing everything, but God's
love generally, to summarize, is committed love. God's love
is committed love. Let's just say that together.
God's love is committed love. It's a love of commitment. It's
a love of a covenant. In fact, the word for that's
translated loving kindness or mercy or goodness throughout
the Old Testament is a very, very important word in understanding
God's love for us. And I want us to, I know this
might get a little thick, but I want us to understand the meaning
of this word. This word, it's an important
word in the Old Testament. It occurs 247 times. It's translated variously, goodness, good deeds,
favor, pity, loving kindness, merciful kindness. It's very
often translated mercy. It's that word that we repeated
nine times, as you read in Psalm 136. It's that word for His mercy
endures forever. That's the word that's translated
loving kindness. That's the word that carries
the idea of God's committed covenantal love. That's the love that God has
for us. I'd like us to turn to Genesis
chapter 15. As we understand this idea of
God's committed love and we're going to just look at three Aspects
of God's love that I want us to carry away with us three specific
Aspects designations about God's love that we're going to fix
in our minds that come from scripture But before we look at those three
aspects of God's love I want us to understand the overarching
concept of a covenant and commitment that God has here Genesis chapter
15 God has called Abraham out of the ur of the Chaldees and
Abraham had done nothing good to commend himself to God. Abraham
had nothing special about his character. God merely pointed
him out and said, you, I want you to go into a land that I
promised you, and I will give you a blessing, and I will make
of your descendants a great nation. Problem, Abraham didn't have
any kids. And he was really, really old. That's a problem,
right? Old people don't have kids. And
Abraham knew that. And Abraham is saying, how can
this happen because I'm old and my wife is old? And God said,
you need to believe me. And the Bible says that Abraham
simply took God at his word. Abraham believed God and God
counted it to him as righteousness. Now, God wanted to demonstrate
how much he loved Abraham and how committed he was to his relationship
with Abraham. He appeared to Abraham in Genesis
chapter 15 verse 1 after these things the word of the Lord came
unto Abraham in a vision saying fear not Abraham I am my shield
and I exceeding great reward and then Abraham Gives the objection
that he is childless and then suggests his servant Eliezer
as actually propagating Abraham's as a descendant of Abraham and And then in verse 8, if you run
your eyes down your Bibles and look at verse 8, Abraham says
this, Lord God, whereby how shall I know that I shall inherit the
land? And God says, I'm going to show you. And so God tells
Abraham to do something that we would consider to be very
unusual. He said, take a three-year-old cow and a three-year-old goat. a three-year-old ram and two
birds a turtle dove and a young pigeon and he told Abraham to
take these animals and with a knife cut them in half and then God
caused a deep sleep to come upon Abraham and And then God proclaimed
himself to Abraham. And then, verse 17, it came to
pass when the sun went down and it was dark, behold, a smoking
furnace and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces.
God, yes, what's going on here? God here, representing himself
by this burning lamp, a burning furnace, is passing between these
pieces of animals cut in half. So if you could just picture
with me here, Abraham has these three animals. They're cut in
half, separated by a distance, and then two birds also cut in
half. And what they would do when they wanted to make a covenant
with someone, they would do this to animals, and then the people
making the covenant would walk between these severed animals.
In essence, they would be saying, if I break this covenant, let
happen to me what happened to these animals. That's what's
going on here. When people made a covenant back
then, that's what they're doing. They walk between those pieces
and they're saying, I'm so committed to this relationship that I'm
going to say, this might as well happen to me if I go back on
my word, if I go back on this relationship, if I'm unfaithful
to this commitment. That's why the actual the Hebrew
expression is cut a covenant. They didn't say make a covenant.
They say cut a covenant. That's the word here. They would
cut a covenant. And that's what Abraham and God were doing. But
God is the one that passed through those pieces. And God was saying,
I swear by myself, I am so committed to my relationship with you.
That is the sort of love that God has. That is his committed
love. Now, let me just give you three
aspects, as I promised I would, about God's love, these three
aspects of God's love. The first thing that we need
to understand about God's committed love is, number one, that it
is totally undeserved. God's love is totally undeserved. Another way we could put this
is that God's love is unqualified. And the only reason why that
may make you feel a little bit uneasy is because our concept
of love is galaxies removed from God's love. Unqualified love
I'm gonna love you no matter what no matter what you do to
me no matter what you've done to me past present or future
Take for example the story of Jacob Jacob the trickster Jacob
the deceiver Jacob the wheeler and dealer And yet before either
Jacob or his brother Esau had done anything good or bad God
said Jacob have I loved and Esau have I hated Meaning that God says not that
he had an antipathy toward Esau, but that he was choosing specifically
Jacob. Jacob hadn't done anything. It
was undeserved. In fact, all throughout Jacob's
life, he was proved. He proved that he did not deserve
God's love. He was a deceiver. In fact, he
tried to make deals with God. And yet God was committed to
Jacob. That is undeserved love. That
is unqualified love. That's why God was so concerned
to express to his people, the people of Israel, that he was
not choosing them, he did not love them because of anything
they had done. Let's flip back to Deuteronomy, chapter seven.
Let's go to Deuteronomy, chapter seven. And verse seven. Listen carefully
to these words and think about the fact that God's love is undeserved,
unqualified. Deuteronomy 7, verse 7. The Lord
did not set his love upon you, speaking to his people, nor choose
you because you are more in number than any people. God said, I
did not choose you because you were the greatest nation ever,
the most numerous in population. Verse eight, but because the
Lord loved you. And because he would keep the oath which he
had sworn, because he was committed to his relationship with his
people. And it is because of that that
the Lord has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed
you out of the house of bondmen from the hand of Pharaoh, the
king of Egypt. God is saying, don't think it was because of
you. Don't think it was because of anything good in you. It's
because of my character that I chose you. See, God's love
is undeserved. Unqualified. First of all, God's love is totally
undeserved. Here's a second aspect of God's committed love. God's
love is eternally, and the only, the best word I could think for
this was relentless. God's love is eternally relentless. What do you think when you think
of the word relentless? A pursuit does not stop. I'm just going to run through
some passages for you. I won't have you turn there, but let me just
read these verses to you. And as I read them, think in
your mind about God's relentless love. Listen to this. Psalm 5710,
the psalmist speaking of the Lord, saying, For thy mercy.
That's the word there. Loving kindness is great under
the heavens and my truth under the clouds. Psalm 1038 says this. The Lord is merciful and gracious,
slow to anger and plenteous. And here's a word. Mercy, love. Loyalty psalm 103 11 for as the
heaven is high above the earth so great is his Mercy his committed
love toward them that fear him psalm 103 17 But the mercy the
love the committed loyalty of the Lord is from everlasting
to everlasting And psalm 136 that passes we read I mean that
phrase is repeated so many times. It's almost like you get tired
of it if you're not thinking about it and It's just a course
that just hammers away every single verse for his mercy endures
forever for his love persists throughout all ages For his love
is relentless. We might say it never gives up
it never stops What can we compare to this You've
been to the ocean you've seen Waves crashing on the beach over
and over and over again. They're relentless. They never
stop. When I think of the sun burning up in the sky, it's always
shedding out its rays constantly. But even the sea and even the
sun are going to cease, but God's love never does. God's love to
me is relentless. It's never changing. It's constant. Totally undeserved, number one.
Number two, eternally relentless. And here's the third one. God's
love is intensely personal. God's love is intensely personal. Of all God's names that he designates
himself with, Jehovah, King, Savior, There is one name that
raises questions in our minds. And that is the name that we
find in Exodus 24 and Deuteronomy 4. God says, my name is Jealous. Whoa. Is that OK? Is God allowed to be jealous? God says my love for you is so
exclusive and personal. I have a jealous love for you This is the exclusivity of God's
love let's turn to Isaiah 62 5 Isaiah 62 5 Isaiah is describing God's restoring
of his people After they have been in captivity
after they've been punished because of sins that they committed against
God in an Isaiah 62 verse 5 Isaiah says this for as a young man
Marriott a virgin so shall thy sons marry thee. Here's what
we want to focus on as the bridegroom of rejoiceth over the bride,
so shall thy God rejoice over thee. As the bridegroom rejoices over
the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee. God is describing
his intense, personal, exclusive, jealous love for his people by
describing it in terms of the love that a bridegroom has for
his bride on the day of their wedding. His eyes are fixed on
her. His love and affection is for
her. Isaiah is saying this is how God loves us. God's love
for us is totally undeserved. It's eternally relentless. It's
intensely personal. Where's our love? We've seen
God's love. What does God's love do for us?
First of all, God's love convicts us. As we see God's relentless
love in contrast to our own hardness and our own meanness and our
own inconsistency on our failures, it convicts us. Romans chapter
two, four says, don't you know that the goodness of God leads
you to repentance? God's love draws us. Here's a
verse that I absolutely love. It says this, Jeremiah 31, 3
says, the Lord hath appeared of old unto me saying, yea, I
have loved thee with an everlasting love. And here it is, therefore,
with loving kindness have I drawn thee. God says, because my love
is everlasting and because it is so intense, because it will
never change, I draw thee with my love. God is saying, I pull
you in as you as as we see God's love that's so intense and it's
so all consuming as it's so eternal as it never lets us go. Our hearts
are drawn to that love. God's love lose us. God's love
draws us. It's almost as if God is tying
around his cords and pulling us in by his love. I have loved
you with an everlasting love, therefore, with loving kindness.
That's our word there. I have drawn thee. God's love
convicts us, it draws us. God's love never fails us. Romans
chapter 8 verses 38-39, Paul in triumphant proclamation says
this about the love of God, for I am persuaded, something he's
convinced of, something he cannot be shaken up from, that neither
death nor life nor angels nor principalities nor powers nor
things present nor things to come nor height nor depth nor
any other creature shall be able to separate us from the love
of God which is in Jesus Christ our Lord. God's love never fails
us. And God's love motivates us.
Psalm 6233, because thy loving kindness is better than life,
my lips shall praise thee. First John 419, that well-known
verse, we love him because why? He first loved us. Second Corinthians
514, Pastor Alan preached on this passage a couple of weeks
ago, for the love of Christ constrains us. God's love is within us,
a motivating factor that drives us from sin and it pulls us to
Him. This is what God's love does
for us. So we've looked at our love and
the mess that we tend to be in. We've circled up and we've gotten
a view of what God's love is. Now, let's look at our love again. See, we can communicate something
very strongly and powerfully about God's character by how
we think about love and how we act out our love. See, it's not
just about obeying some rules and regulations, it's not what
it's all about. It's about saying something very powerful about
God's character. See, young people, The world has you in its crosshairs. The world is targeting our young
people. And the world is saying something
about love that God does not say about love. The world is saying that love
is a feeling only. And today, as you get a glimpse
of God's exclusive love. The fact that God has set his
eyes upon his people and says, you are mine and no one else
means that you can celebrate that aspect of God's love by
renewing your exclusive commitment to that one who will be your
spouse. So you are communicating something powerfully about the
nature of God's exclusive love by saving your eyes. and your
mind and your emotions and your body for that person. It says something about God's
love. It says something about what God says marriage is. It's
not just a matter of following some do's and don'ts that your
parents are putting upon you. It is a matter about uplifting
God's character. So you could begin today as you look forward to that day
when you will look someone in the eyes and you will say, for
richer, for poor, for better, for worse, in sickness and in
health, till death do us part. And those are words, young people,
that you want to be able to say with a conscience having saved
yourself truly till death do you part for that one that can
easily be tarnished by an unbiblical view of love. You can determine now to bind
your heart in love with that person that God will lead you
to. Can I speak to the husbands? Can I say this? Cultivate romance with your wives
Can I hear some amens from the ladies? Have we grown too gruff
and manly to be romantic? And what was the last time you reached
over to your wife and just held her hand squeezed it just because
Put your arm around her shoulder Drawn a heart in the fog in the
mirror in the bathroom after you took a shower for her to
see Just because guys You know, I had this really dumb assumption
when I first started dating my wife. She wasn't my wife then,
we were just dating. And that really stupid assumption
was that once I told her I loved her for the first time, that
was settled. It was done. I loved her. If anything changes, I'll
let you know. I love you. Oh, I pity the man who still
thinks that. Listen, Man, we can remind our
wives over and over and over again in so many different ways
that we are still in love with them. Amen. See, God's love for us is committed. It's relentless. And he always
puts things around us to remind us of his love. Unexpected events. Unexpected blessings. It's just
another way God is saying, I love you. I love you. I love you.
Look at this. I provided for you this in this
way. I sent a friend to make an encouraging mark to you. I
love you. And man, we could do the same thing. Wives, showing your love for
your husband by giving him the respect that God wants you to
give him. You might say, well, he's lost
all respect I might have for him. That doesn't change God's
expectations for you. And you might be surprised at
what it would do for your husband if you begin to show him a respectful,
deferential attitude. Valentine's Day is tomorrow. It is tomorrow. And maybe for you, Valentine's
Day is not a happy day. Some people put it singles awareness
day, right? And we laugh about that, but you know what? For
some, it can be a painful reminder. And for those of you who bear
the scars of the past, I want to say that God wraps his arms
of love around you too. And instead of being a shipwreck
of failure, you can be a lighthouse of God's grace by saying, here
is how God's grace can transform what was a disastrous situation.
And this is what God's grace has done for me. And now I am
proclaiming God's love by how I act toward other people. What I want this morning is for
man to leave his building committed to fanning the flame of romance
again. I want young people to be renewed in their resolve to
purity. I want people who have taken
some hits in their lives to repent and yet to look to God and the
grace that God can give you as restoring you. Because of God's
relentless, exclusive and never changing love. Most of all, I want this. I want
some soul in this building whose heart has been stirred by the
love of God, to gaze afresh at the cross, because it was at
the cross where God displayed his love in infinite manner. How does God show his love? Romans
5, 8, but God commanded his love toward us in that while we were
yet sinners, Christ died for us. The greatest, grandest display
of God's love took place on that fateful day when Christ climbed
Calvary's mountain and when evil men impaled him to two pieces
of wood in the form of a cross. And when suspended between heaven
and earth, Jesus cried, My God, my God, why have you forsaken
me? And the answer that may not have been apparent at that time
is clear to us now, because God was turning his back on his son
because he was bearing the sins of the world. And there shines God's love. Maybe there's someone in this
building, everyone thinks you're a Christian. Do you know you're
not? You're the one God is drawing you by His love.
I want us to close by turning to 1 John chapter 4. 1st John chapter 4. A prayer has been that God would
have something for us this morning that His Holy Spirit can work
on. That's His Word. 1st John chapter
4. Verses nine and 10 in this was
manifested the love of God toward us. John is saying this. This
is how God decided to show us how much he loved us, because
that God sent his only begotten son into the world that we might
live through him. Here is love. Here is love. Not that we loved God. That's
not where love was found. Love was not found in the hearts
of desperate humans who are blinded by sin and wickedness. Here in
His love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and gave
Himself to be a propitiation, a satisfaction for our sin. That's how love is demonstrated.
That's how God's love is shown. Beloved, if God so loved us,
We ought also to love one another. God has shown us something about
himself this morning. Something he wants all of us
to deeply understand. And that is that his love for
me is unchanging. It's relentless. It's personal. When I say a word of prayer,
let's bow our heads and close our eyes. We'll have an invitation and
I'm asking that you prepare your heart if the Lord wants you to
come and just nail at these steps and spend a moment thanking God
for his love for you and maybe something that God just put his
finger on your life about. And you just want to spend a
moment here at the front praying to Him in humility and submission. Play another verse of the song. It may be that you are hurting
in your heart, and that God has prided you with His love, and
that you need to look at God in His love to you. Or the situation is making you grieve
or become bitter. Oh, how He loves you and me. All right, we're going to sing
that song number 629, the song that the instruments were playing.
Just before we sing that song, there's, as you go out in the
lobby, the desk on your right, there's just little cards that
summarize those points that we just looked at from Scripture.
You feel free to take one of those cards. Maybe you can slip
it in your Bible. It could be an encouragement to you as the
summary of what was said about God's love and some Scripture
with that. Grab one of those on your way out. Let's sing number
629, Oh, How He Loves You and Me.
God & Valentine's Day: How God's Love Motivates Ours
| Sermon ID | 215111025490 |
| Duration | 42:39 |
| Date | |
| Category | Sunday - AM |
| Bible Text | 1 John 4:11 |
| Language | English |