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And we take our text from 
Ephesians the second chapter. 

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And verses four through seven. 
Reads there in, Paul's letter to

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the Ephesians. 
But God who is rich in Mercy 

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because of his great love with 
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were dead in trespasses made us 
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Grace, you have been saved and 
raised us up together and made 

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us sit together in the Heavenly 
places in Christ Jesus that in 

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the ages to come. 
He might show the exceeding 

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riches. 
Of his grace in his kindness 

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toward us in Christ, Jesus. 
All right in here to do to the 

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Ephesians says basically to show
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were yet sinners and we were 
dead in our trespasses and sins.

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God, proved and showed his love 
towards us in the giving his 

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son, as a sacrifice for our 
sins. 

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We're going to notice several 
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This morning about this briefly,
but we want to notice three main

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points this morning. 
God's love is unmerited. 

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God's love is unconditional and 
God's love is unending. 

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We need God's love. 
We do because, as in Romans, 3 

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and verse 23, for all have 
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glory of God. 
So we need his love without his 

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love for us. 
We don't have a chance of being 

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saved. 
We don't have a hope of 

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Eternity. 
So, let's notice first God's 

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love to us is unmerited in 
Romans, the 5th chapter in 

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verses 5 through 8. 
Now hope does not disappoint 

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because the love of God has been
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Holy Spirit who was given to us 
for when we were still without 

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Strength In Due Time Christ died
for the ungodly for scarcely for

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a righteous man. 
Will one die yet, Perhaps for a 

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good, man. 
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God demonstrates his own love 
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While we were. 
Still sinners Christ died for 

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us. 
And the King James version, that

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that term demonstrates, his is 
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comes from the Greek word Sunnah
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And it means to show to prove 
exhibit or demonstrate You know,

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to prove something means that 
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something or a statement that is
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of the facts that prove what 
you've said and God has proved 

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to us. 
God, demonstrated us, he proved 

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to us. 
He gave us evidence that he 

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loves us. 
He showed his love towards us, 

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he demonstrated that in the 
death of his only son Jesus 

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Christ. 
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Sten in. 
This is love, not that, we loved

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God, but that he loved us and 
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propitiation for our sins. 
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place God proved his love for us
by not giving by not, giving us 

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what we deserve. 
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and showing his grace and his 
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Number two point is God. 
Love God's love is unconditional

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even as God's love is unmerited.
And is, it is also unconditional

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Romans 8 and verses 38 through 
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neither life or excuse me, 
neither death nor life, nor 

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angels, nor principalities nor 
powers nor things present, nor 

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things to come nor height nor 
depth nor any other created 

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thing, shall be able to separate
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is in Christ Jesus, our lord, 
You know, there is nothing that 

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you can do to make God love you 
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And there's nothing you can do 
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His love is unconditional and 
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So we can't go around and say, 
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loves you. 
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everyone just the same. 
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same as he loves the righteous 
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He loves the righteous person. 
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His love is unconditional and 
it's impartial, we might hear 

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his person. 
Say well, doesn't God hate you 

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when you sin? 
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because they sinned, he hates 
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To the person, it brings 
spiritual death to the person we

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can fall out of favor with God. 
Just like we as with our own 

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children, we don't hate our 
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And we made discipline them but 
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disobeyed us. we made to be 
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There's a story about a 
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neighbors, young children, when 
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the from the next room and she 
heard one of the kids say, Mike,

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God doesn't love you. 
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that. 
Mike replied as he does love me.

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He's just disappointed in me. 
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do things wrong and we sin 
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unconditional We understand that
the wages of sin is death Romans

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6 and 23 Ephesians 2 and verses 
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And you hath, he quickened who 
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for in time past ye walked 
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world according to the prince of
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that now worketh in the children
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But you see, we fall out of 
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We walk in trespasses and sins 
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God and it It affects our 
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But God still loves us. 
God still loves us as much as he

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always did. 
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us. 
His number love, has never 

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diminished towards us. 
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That God has proven his love for
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only son, John 3 and verse 16 
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So loved the world that he gave 
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Son, that whosoever believes in 
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Should not perish but have 
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He proved it. 
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But God, accepts and loves each 
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Just as we are. 
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Now, it happened as he was 
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many tax collectors, and sinners
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and his disciples for there were
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And when the scribes and the 
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the tax collectors and sinners, 
they said to his disciples, how 

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is it that he eats and drinks 
with tax collectors and sinners?

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When Jesus heard it, he said to 
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no need of a physician but those
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call the righteous but Sinners 
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You see God loves The Sinner. 
God loves The Sinner and he 

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loves the righteous person as 
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He doesn't love The Sinner any 
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person. 
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person anymore than he does The 
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He loves all. 
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him, Matthew 11 verses 28 
through, 30, come to me, all you

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who labor and are heavy laden. 
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Take my yoke upon you and learn 
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I am gentle and lowly in heart 
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souls. 
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burden is light. 
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troubled, you know, those that 
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more. 
It seems like He says, I haven't

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come to to save those who are 
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Ready, saved. 
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lost. 
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heal those who are, well, have 
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in sin. 
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your problems, with your sin, 
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you rest from that. 
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burden is light. 
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grace through obedience to the 
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In other words, hearing the word
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of your sins, confessing the 
name of Christ and being 

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baptized into Christ. 
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God credits you with 
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You stand before him as 
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forgiven of your sins and you're
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complete in Christ. 
Just the way he designed it just

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the way he wants it because he's
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show them that God loves us the 
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But he loves us too much to 
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Leave us in forsake us just 
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We are the ones that leave. 
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We are the ones that make that 
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Vision to leave God in his love.
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He says, I will never leave thee
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verse 5. 
God's unconditional love is not 

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a license though for us to live.
As we please rule, notice Romans

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6 in verses 12 through 18. 
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in your mortal body that you 
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lusts and do not present your 
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unrighteousness is sin, but 
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being alive from the dead and 
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righteousness to God for sin, 
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you. 
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but under grace. 
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20 through 23. 
For if, after they have The 

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pollutions of the world, through
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Savior. 
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Entangled in them and overcome. 
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than the beginning for. 
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them, not to have known the way 
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known it to turn from the holy 
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But it has happened to them. 
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dog returns to his own vomit and
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Having washed to her wallowing 
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God is certainly disappointed in
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doesn't want us to sin but that 
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His love towards us in any way. 
God's love is never ending. 

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Also our Point number three. 
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kind of that of being temporary 
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There are conditions sometimes 
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it today. 
We see that in couples that have

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prenuptial agreements while I 
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As long as we have this 
agreement, We also see it in in.

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Selfish conditions today. 
The failing of love for one 

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another and the failing of love 
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children and abortion. 
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Do that. 
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That's the lack of love. 
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another human being of lack of 
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I wrote a story about a preacher
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meeting. 
When a woman came up to him with

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a little girl by her side and 
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and scars on her face showing 
that she had probably been some 

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time in the hospital and she 
said, I was in the hospital 

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because of a very serious fire, 
they were Burns over 2/3 of my 

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body. 
My husband walked into the 

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hospital room. 
Took one. 

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Look at me and said, you're not 
the woman. 

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I married. 
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someone younger and More 
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Human love says as long as you 
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you don't interfere with my 
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can be proud of you. 
As long as you're beautiful, I 

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can love you. 
If you change my love for you 

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changes, but God's love is 
eternal. 

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God's love doesn't change. 
God's love doesn't diminish. 

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It is as strong as it ever has 
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all those that are in the world.
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The Lord is not slack concerning
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slackness but is long-suffering 
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should perish but that all 
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He has shown such patience with 
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And his love towards them that 
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He has been long suffering 
towards mankind, wanting them to

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turn to repentance and be saved,
nothing that you and I can ever 

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do. 
That will ever happen to us in 

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our lives that will ever cause 
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We've already noticed that in 
Romans the eighth chapter 38 and

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39. 
He said for, I am persuaded that

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neither death, nor life nor 
angels nor principalities, Nor 

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powers nor things present, nor 
things to come nor height nor 

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depth nor any creature, shall be
able to separate us from the 

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love of God, which is in Christ.
Jesus, our lord, Nothing can 

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separate God's love from you. 
No matter what you do notice, 

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Jeremiah 31, and verse 3. 
The Lord has appeared of old to 

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me saying yes I have loved you 
with an Everlasting Love 

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Therefore with loving kindness I
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The love that God has for us is 
ever lasting. 

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Doesn't stop never will. 
Life's problems are temporary 

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but God's love for his people is
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He's always there to take take 
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through the problems in our life
and to pull us up out of that 

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Miry clay, to save our souls 
from sin. 

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God's love is that great for 
Samuel 12 and 422 for the Lord 

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will not forsake his people, or 
his great name, sake, because it

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has pleased, the Lord. 
To make you his people. 

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It pleases God to love his 
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And he loves you this morning. 
There's No Greater Love. 

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And God loves us and shows us 
improves that to us and what he 

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did for us and the sacrifice of 
his son for our sins. 

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Church of Christ at 22:15 plans.
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