1 00:00:03,400 --> 00:00:06,100 Welcome to the Liberty Baptist sermon archives. 2 00:00:06,300 --> 00:00:09,100 The message you're about to hear was preached at Liberty, Baptist 3 00:00:09,100 --> 00:00:13,100 Church in Eastern Massachusetts. You can find out more about us 4 00:00:13,100 --> 00:00:17,500 or contact us at my Liberty, Baptist dot org or just look us 5 00:00:17,500 --> 00:00:19,800 up on Facebook. And now, we hope that this 6 00:00:19,800 --> 00:00:22,200 message from God's word will be a blessing to you. 7 00:00:24,400 --> 00:00:29,700 John Chapter 13 this morning. If you would please John Chapter 8 00:00:29,700 --> 00:00:31,100 13 is where we're going to be at. 9 00:00:31,100 --> 00:00:36,400 Of course we are moving forward in our series forward this year 10 00:00:36,400 --> 00:00:39,900 and April is the month of moving forward in love. 11 00:00:39,900 --> 00:00:42,900 And certainly, that's not a mistake as we consider the love 12 00:00:42,900 --> 00:00:46,600 that Jesus shed abroad. On the cross, there is precious 13 00:00:46,600 --> 00:00:51,300 blood in the fact that even here today, as we consider the day 14 00:00:51,300 --> 00:00:54,200 where we commemorate his triumphal entry into Jerusalem. 15 00:00:54,400 --> 00:00:57,500 Jerusalem and all that followed after that as he approached the 16 00:00:57,500 --> 00:01:00,200 cross. And I think today we can move 17 00:01:00,200 --> 00:01:03,700 forward in Love by looking at Christ's sacrifice and his 18 00:01:03,700 --> 00:01:06,500 never-ending love, and fact that's the title of my message. 19 00:01:06,500 --> 00:01:11,000 This morning, a never-ending love all through April. 20 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:14,000 We're going to be looking at this concept of what the Bible 21 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:18,500 means, when it talks about love and love is one of those funny 22 00:01:18,500 --> 00:01:21,500 words, isn't it? Because it's a word that people 23 00:01:21,500 --> 00:01:25,800 use all the time? But yet, it means different 24 00:01:25,800 --> 00:01:28,800 things to different people. And it's one that the 25 00:01:28,800 --> 00:01:31,700 definition, although I don't believe it's confusing to. 26 00:01:31,700 --> 00:01:34,400 God is one that's confusing to man. 27 00:01:34,400 --> 00:01:37,400 For instance, loves comes with different uses. 28 00:01:37,800 --> 00:01:42,100 It's a noun, it's a verb, it can be used in different ways. 29 00:01:42,400 --> 00:01:47,800 Love comes with different intensities, I love my wife and 30 00:01:47,800 --> 00:01:53,000 I love pizza. And we pray that the intensity 31 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:56,300 of those are different, right? Because I really love people but 32 00:01:56,300 --> 00:02:00,000 anyway, I really know I that my love for pizza. 33 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:02,400 Cannot parallel. The love that my for my wife. 34 00:02:02,400 --> 00:02:05,100 But yet we use the same word to describe both. 35 00:02:05,100 --> 00:02:07,500 I mean, that's kind of a strange thing when you think about it, 36 00:02:07,500 --> 00:02:09,500 isn't it? Love has different. 37 00:02:09,500 --> 00:02:11,800 Definitions, believe it. Or not, if you were to look in 38 00:02:11,800 --> 00:02:15,400 the Webster's 1828 dictionary and add, all the definitions 39 00:02:15,400 --> 00:02:19,100 together, there are no less than 11 different definitions for the 40 00:02:19,100 --> 00:02:21,200 word, love that we use. Today. 41 00:02:21,200 --> 00:02:25,200 And then you add to all that confusion, you have this modern 42 00:02:25,200 --> 00:02:27,200 and sinful society that we live in. 43 00:02:27,200 --> 00:02:30,900 That keeps telling us a phrase. Like this love is Love. 44 00:02:30,900 --> 00:02:36,200 Love Is Love which by defining the word by the word itself 45 00:02:36,200 --> 00:02:41,500 means that the word has no meaning or value, and hence can 46 00:02:41,500 --> 00:02:47,500 be defined by anyone in any way at any time, no matter what that 47 00:02:47,500 --> 00:02:50,600 phrase. And we have to see that there. 48 00:02:50,900 --> 00:02:55,900 To be a meaning to love. There has to be a definition of 49 00:02:55,900 --> 00:02:59,100 Love. There has to be an example of 50 00:02:59,100 --> 00:03:04,500 love that has to be held up for us by none other than Jesus 51 00:03:04,500 --> 00:03:06,700 Christ. And so, here are Texas morning. 52 00:03:06,700 --> 00:03:09,400 I want to take some time to meditate on the death and 53 00:03:09,400 --> 00:03:11,400 burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. 54 00:03:11,400 --> 00:03:15,400 But particularly I want us to focus in on True, Love In 55 00:03:15,400 --> 00:03:18,200 Action. As Jesus is approaching the last 56 00:03:18,200 --> 00:03:20,700 hours before he goes to the cross. 57 00:03:20,800 --> 00:03:22,100 Why would you stand please for the reading? 58 00:03:22,100 --> 00:03:24,900 God's word, God's word. This morning, John 13. 59 00:03:25,500 --> 00:03:27,300 Verse number one and we're literally going to read one 60 00:03:27,300 --> 00:03:28,800 verse this morning. So you're not going to stand for 61 00:03:28,800 --> 00:03:32,200 Long John Chapter 13, beginning of verse number one. 62 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:37,000 And it says this now before the Feast of the Passover, when 63 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:40,500 Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out 64 00:03:40,500 --> 00:03:44,300 of the world unto the father, having loved his own, which were 65 00:03:44,300 --> 00:03:47,100 in the world. He loved them until the end. 66 00:03:48,700 --> 00:03:52,800 That's a short verse but there's a lot in that verse and I really 67 00:03:52,800 --> 00:03:56,200 want us to focus in this short period of time that we have on 68 00:03:56,200 --> 00:04:00,200 that second half of the verse having loved his own which were 69 00:04:00,200 --> 00:04:05,100 in the world. He loved them unto the end if 70 00:04:05,100 --> 00:04:08,700 we're to move forward in love in this month of April and really 71 00:04:08,700 --> 00:04:11,900 if we move forward in love, as God has called us to get our 72 00:04:11,900 --> 00:04:14,200 Christian Life. Far beyond just one month out of 73 00:04:14,200 --> 00:04:17,200 the year. Would it behoove us to look at 74 00:04:17,200 --> 00:04:21,899 the love of Jesus Christ? Not just this morning, but on 75 00:04:21,899 --> 00:04:25,600 Tuesday and on Friday and on Sunday and far beyond as we 76 00:04:25,600 --> 00:04:29,900 consider that there is no greater model of love that has 77 00:04:29,900 --> 00:04:33,900 ever walked the face of the Earth then none other than Jesus 78 00:04:33,900 --> 00:04:35,200 Christ. Heavenly Father. 79 00:04:35,200 --> 00:04:38,300 Be with us this morning as we get into your word, help us to 80 00:04:38,400 --> 00:04:41,900 understand just a glimpse of this never-ending love. 81 00:04:42,100 --> 00:04:44,300 And we ask it in Jesus name. Amen. 82 00:04:44,300 --> 00:04:45,100 Thank you. May be seated. 83 00:04:45,200 --> 00:04:50,700 It in such a short verse. So much is being said as John 84 00:04:50,700 --> 00:04:56,000 Chapter 13 unfolds or rather John, chapter 12 unfolds Palm 85 00:04:56,000 --> 00:05:00,200 Sunday has passed. Jesus is now sharing the last 86 00:05:00,200 --> 00:05:04,000 supper with his disciples in the hours, as he goes to the cross. 87 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:07,300 In the beginning of that verse, the first half of verse number, 88 00:05:07,300 --> 00:05:11,000 one of John Chapter 13 sets the scene for us of exactly what's 89 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:13,900 going on. It gives us the time frame of 90 00:05:13,900 --> 00:05:16,900 when this verse takes place. Before the Feast of the 91 00:05:16,900 --> 00:05:20,000 Passover, understanding that he's about to share of what we 92 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:23,000 would call the last supper with his disciples including who 93 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:25,800 would see if we continue to read with none other than Judas 94 00:05:25,800 --> 00:05:29,400 himself who's at the table before the supper, the Last 95 00:05:29,400 --> 00:05:33,900 Supper takes place and we see this timeframe that is here, it 96 00:05:33,900 --> 00:05:40,200 also gives us Jesus mindset. When it says Jesus knew that he 97 00:05:40,200 --> 00:05:47,100 knew that this hour was come. Now we And that Jesus knew all 98 00:05:47,100 --> 00:05:50,800 things before the foundation of the world ever took place. 99 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:53,200 But yet at the same time, could we put it this way? 100 00:05:53,200 --> 00:05:56,000 It's at the front of Jesus mind right now. 101 00:05:56,000 --> 00:05:58,900 I don't Proclaim to understand all of how that works. 102 00:05:58,900 --> 00:06:04,100 But yet here on Jesus mind and heart is the fact that he knows 103 00:06:04,100 --> 00:06:08,000 within hours, he's going to go to the garden and he's going to 104 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:12,100 pray and great. Drops of blood will fall down 105 00:06:12,100 --> 00:06:15,300 from him as sweat from his brow and he's going to be taken. 106 00:06:15,500 --> 00:06:20,000 And he is going to be beaten and mocked and placed on a cross. 107 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:22,600 And he knows these things are about to happen. 108 00:06:22,900 --> 00:06:26,900 It says that he knew that his hour was come that the hour for 109 00:06:26,900 --> 00:06:29,600 which he came to this earth, 33 years. 110 00:06:29,600 --> 00:06:34,700 Previous to that point had now come and it also gives us this 111 00:06:34,700 --> 00:06:38,000 first half of the verse Jesus future that it wasn't just that 112 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:40,800 he was in, go to the Cross but that he should depart out of 113 00:06:40,808 --> 00:06:45,100 this world unto the father telling us that he knew while he 114 00:06:45,100 --> 00:06:49,100 was Going to go to the cross that he would resurrect three 115 00:06:49,100 --> 00:06:52,400 days later and that he would sit at the right hand of God the 116 00:06:52,400 --> 00:06:56,100 Father which is by the way, where he's seated today, waiting 117 00:06:56,100 --> 00:06:58,400 for the moment. When the father tells him go and 118 00:06:58,400 --> 00:07:02,300 get my children and bring them hither back to me and that day 119 00:07:02,300 --> 00:07:05,300 is coming, but Jesus knew exactly where he's going on 120 00:07:05,400 --> 00:07:07,300 again. He was not conned into the 121 00:07:07,300 --> 00:07:09,400 cross. He was not cornered into the 122 00:07:09,400 --> 00:07:12,000 cross. Jesus came into the situation 123 00:07:12,300 --> 00:07:15,300 fully aware knowing what was about to happen. 124 00:07:15,400 --> 00:07:18,000 And I think it's important for us to take a moment to dwell on 125 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:22,400 that because it makes the second half much more powerful knowing 126 00:07:22,500 --> 00:07:26,700 that Jesus would have had all of this on his mind but yet still 127 00:07:26,700 --> 00:07:28,200 had this great love in his heart. 128 00:07:28,200 --> 00:07:31,400 Listen. If you're a man especially we 129 00:07:31,400 --> 00:07:33,500 can only concentrate on one thing at a time. 130 00:07:34,600 --> 00:07:36,400 No, listen to my wife wants to talk to me. 131 00:07:36,400 --> 00:07:39,100 It has to be after the half ending of the Red Sox game 132 00:07:39,100 --> 00:07:41,700 because during something important might happen, all 133 00:07:41,700 --> 00:07:43,400 right? I don't know, and I'm saying 134 00:07:43,400 --> 00:07:45,800 this in front of you because I'm much braver in front of you, 135 00:07:45,800 --> 00:07:48,100 with all of you around me than I am. 136 00:07:48,100 --> 00:07:50,300 If it's just us alone. No, I know. 137 00:07:50,500 --> 00:07:53,300 Seriously though, even just this morning and, you know, our 138 00:07:53,300 --> 00:07:56,200 daughters, hear Bethenny's here and I'm thinking about the 139 00:07:56,200 --> 00:07:58,600 sermon, but my thoughts are going all over the place just 140 00:07:58,600 --> 00:08:02,900 because Typically many of us not just men women, we like to focus 141 00:08:02,900 --> 00:08:04,700 on one thing at a time. We can't just happens that women 142 00:08:04,700 --> 00:08:06,500 do it. Better focusing on multiple 143 00:08:06,500 --> 00:08:10,000 things at a time. But Jesus here is in a situation 144 00:08:10,200 --> 00:08:12,700 where he knows he's about to go to the Cross. 145 00:08:13,100 --> 00:08:15,900 He's about to go through something that no one has ever 146 00:08:15,900 --> 00:08:18,800 gone through that. No one will ever go through and 147 00:08:18,800 --> 00:08:21,300 that we can't even comprehend even though we have the volume 148 00:08:21,300 --> 00:08:23,300 of 66 books. In front of us, we can't 149 00:08:23,300 --> 00:08:26,000 comprehend all that he went through during those at even 150 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:27,400 just the hours that he was there. 151 00:08:27,400 --> 00:08:29,300 Praying in the garden. We can't understand. 152 00:08:29,900 --> 00:08:33,200 Great anguish that he was going through when he said, let this 153 00:08:33,200 --> 00:08:36,700 cup pass from me, but not my will, but thy will be done. 154 00:08:36,700 --> 00:08:40,100 I can't even imagine that, but against this backdrop was so 155 00:08:40,100 --> 00:08:43,799 much pain and Agony ahead. We're given the small piece of 156 00:08:43,799 --> 00:08:49,700 information in the second half of John 13, and it's small and 157 00:08:49,700 --> 00:08:53,800 Powerful, like dynamite having loved each of his own, which 158 00:08:53,800 --> 00:08:58,100 were in the world. He loved them unto the end. 159 00:08:59,500 --> 00:09:02,900 Having loved his own which were in the world. 160 00:09:03,500 --> 00:09:08,700 He loved them unto the end. Jesus loved was evident all 161 00:09:08,700 --> 00:09:12,300 throughout his ministry but maybe never more than in his 162 00:09:12,300 --> 00:09:15,000 final days. Think of all those who he 163 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:18,600 lavished his love upon in those final days before he went to the 164 00:09:18,608 --> 00:09:20,900 Cross. He loved the crowds on Palm 165 00:09:20,900 --> 00:09:24,300 Sunday, despite the fact that many of them would have shouted 166 00:09:24,300 --> 00:09:28,600 Hosanna, which literally means save us now, one day, but some 167 00:09:28,600 --> 00:09:32,200 of the same ones would have been crying out, crucify him just a 168 00:09:32,208 --> 00:09:34,900 few days later. No, Jesus, still love them. 169 00:09:35,000 --> 00:09:38,400 Knowing when he wrote In, as we just heard brother, Vince read 170 00:09:38,400 --> 00:09:41,300 this morning that as he wrote in and they were extolling his 171 00:09:41,300 --> 00:09:43,100 virtues. He knew that many of them would 172 00:09:43,100 --> 00:09:45,300 turn their backs on him and he loved them. 173 00:09:45,300 --> 00:09:49,300 Anyway, unto the end, he loved the Pharisees that he would 174 00:09:49,300 --> 00:09:53,500 verbally spar with on those days following there, in the temple 175 00:09:53,700 --> 00:09:57,500 who publicly would denounce him and privately plotted against 176 00:09:57,500 --> 00:10:00,900 him. He loved them to the end, he 177 00:10:00,900 --> 00:10:03,100 loved the money changers. You remember that he cleansed 178 00:10:03,100 --> 00:10:06,700 the temple one final time before he went to the cross and he Love 179 00:10:06,700 --> 00:10:09,500 those money changers, even though they had made his 180 00:10:09,500 --> 00:10:12,400 father's house, a house of merchandise and even though he 181 00:10:12,400 --> 00:10:15,500 had took that cord and even though he ushered them out of 182 00:10:15,500 --> 00:10:19,000 the temple, he still had great love for those moneychangers. 183 00:10:19,000 --> 00:10:24,000 Even though they were doing him wrong, he loved the members of 184 00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:28,300 the Sanhedrin, even though they plan to entrap him into a 185 00:10:28,300 --> 00:10:32,400 kangaroo court and accused him with false Witnesses, each of 186 00:10:32,400 --> 00:10:39,100 those, he loved unto the end, But it wasn't just those things 187 00:10:39,100 --> 00:10:43,600 that had been passed and prior to John 13:1, I would submit to 188 00:10:43,600 --> 00:10:46,900 you. That what is said, in John 13:1 189 00:10:47,500 --> 00:10:50,700 is also ringing true to everything that happened after 190 00:10:50,700 --> 00:10:54,800 that moment as well. He loved the soldiers who had 191 00:10:54,800 --> 00:11:01,800 mercilessly beat him. Mock him and curse him. he loves 192 00:11:01,800 --> 00:11:06,600 pilot despite the fact that he condemned an innocent man that 193 00:11:06,600 --> 00:11:10,500 he looked at him and he said, what is truth when he was 194 00:11:10,500 --> 00:11:14,300 looking at true When he said, I wash my hands of this man's 195 00:11:14,300 --> 00:11:15,800 blood. When there's not enough 196 00:11:15,900 --> 00:11:20,300 antibiotic antiseptic water in this world that could wash his 197 00:11:20,300 --> 00:11:23,800 hands from the blood of Christ. But he loved them to the end. 198 00:11:25,300 --> 00:11:30,200 He loved Herod Antipas, remember that he got sent to Herod in the 199 00:11:30,208 --> 00:11:33,500 middle of examination of pilot. And sometimes I think we forget 200 00:11:33,500 --> 00:11:35,400 that it's that same Herod. Remember, there were many 201 00:11:35,400 --> 00:11:38,600 different herod's herod's was a name of a ruler that would have 202 00:11:38,600 --> 00:11:42,100 been Regional at that time there in Israel but it was that same 203 00:11:42,100 --> 00:11:47,700 Herod who I believe, beheaded his cousin, John the Baptist and 204 00:11:47,700 --> 00:11:51,400 he would have stood before that same Herod who is making mockery 205 00:11:51,400 --> 00:11:54,500 of him and that day was true. The Bible says that the enemy of 206 00:11:54,500 --> 00:11:57,200 my enemy was My friend that Herod and pilate didn't really 207 00:11:57,200 --> 00:12:00,200 get along, but they had a common enemy who ended up being Jesus. 208 00:12:00,200 --> 00:12:02,500 And so they became friends during all that. 209 00:12:02,600 --> 00:12:08,100 And despite all that Jesus loved Herod unto the end, He loved the 210 00:12:08,100 --> 00:12:11,800 crowds though. They be rated him and blasphemed 211 00:12:11,800 --> 00:12:15,700 him and challenged him and said, if you be who you say you are 212 00:12:15,900 --> 00:12:19,300 get yourself off of this cross. And we know not only could he 213 00:12:19,300 --> 00:12:23,100 have done so but he could have wiped the map with the whole lot 214 00:12:23,100 --> 00:12:26,400 of them. But yet he didn't as the old 215 00:12:26,400 --> 00:12:29,300 song, says, he died alone for you and me. 216 00:12:30,300 --> 00:12:34,700 He loved the crowds to the end. Can I remind you that he looked 217 00:12:34,700 --> 00:12:40,000 at Judas a few hours from now and in Matthew 26:52 called him 218 00:12:40,000 --> 00:12:43,700 friend. I've read some commentaries that 219 00:12:43,700 --> 00:12:48,600 say that heme said that out of sarcasm or he said that in some 220 00:12:48,600 --> 00:12:52,900 other fashion, but no, Jesus would have said that in sorrow, 221 00:12:53,600 --> 00:12:57,800 but in truth, Knowing that he had invested in Judas for three 222 00:12:57,800 --> 00:12:59,700 years knowing still what he was going to do. 223 00:13:00,500 --> 00:13:03,300 No no he knew what Judas was going to do. 224 00:13:03,600 --> 00:13:08,000 The Son of Perdition yet he loved him until the end. 225 00:13:09,400 --> 00:13:14,800 I mean, this is astounding. What a model for us to have in. 226 00:13:14,800 --> 00:13:19,600 Love the bottle of Jesus Christ, we think we've been hurt. 227 00:13:21,500 --> 00:13:25,100 Compared to Jesus, we think we've gone through difficulties. 228 00:13:26,300 --> 00:13:29,500 Compared to Jesus. We think people have done us 229 00:13:29,500 --> 00:13:33,400 wrong. Compared to Christ and I'm not 230 00:13:33,400 --> 00:13:36,200 minimizing those things that have happened to you in your 231 00:13:36,200 --> 00:13:37,900 life. I'm not saying that they aren't 232 00:13:37,900 --> 00:13:39,900 real because Jesus had more happened to him. 233 00:13:39,900 --> 00:13:41,300 That's not what I'm saying this morning. 234 00:13:41,300 --> 00:13:45,000 What I'm saying is, if Jesus could love those to the end, 235 00:13:45,100 --> 00:13:49,500 even those who had done him so wrong, when he had never done 236 00:13:49,500 --> 00:13:53,600 anything wrong in his life, in his 33 years and and has never 237 00:13:53,600 --> 00:13:57,600 done anything wrong in his existence which was before time 238 00:13:57,900 --> 00:14:00,600 and in time and will be after time. 239 00:14:01,300 --> 00:14:04,900 Eternal nature of God has never done wrong if he can love to the 240 00:14:04,900 --> 00:14:08,200 end, who are we We so there's two things I want to point out 241 00:14:08,200 --> 00:14:09,600 to you very briefly here this morning. 242 00:14:10,100 --> 00:14:14,900 And the first is this, we must remember the Christ loves unto. 243 00:14:14,900 --> 00:14:19,900 The end Christ loves unto the end and I don't know about you, 244 00:14:19,900 --> 00:14:23,700 but if this was me And I was going through those things that 245 00:14:23,700 --> 00:14:27,900 Jesus was going through. And I had any one of these 246 00:14:27,900 --> 00:14:31,500 events or occurrences that I just read to you happened to me. 247 00:14:32,600 --> 00:14:35,000 At some point, I would have looked at Jesus and I would have 248 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:37,900 said something like this or I would have looked at those 249 00:14:37,900 --> 00:14:40,000 people and responded differently than Jesus. 250 00:14:40,000 --> 00:14:42,000 I would have said this forget, all of you. 251 00:14:43,700 --> 00:14:46,900 If you don't see what I'm trying to do for you forget it. 252 00:14:47,500 --> 00:14:51,200 No, if it was me, I would have used the pilot defense. 253 00:14:51,400 --> 00:14:54,600 I would have washed my hands and said, I wash my hands of all of 254 00:14:54,600 --> 00:14:58,000 you because I have done nothing wrong and look what you've done 255 00:14:58,000 --> 00:15:00,900 to me, but yet that's not our Jesus. 256 00:15:02,500 --> 00:15:05,100 We need to remember this morning, did, although he very 257 00:15:05,100 --> 00:15:10,500 well could have done that and would have been within His right 258 00:15:10,600 --> 00:15:13,400 to be able to do that because of our unrighteousness. 259 00:15:13,500 --> 00:15:18,500 But yet that's not what he did. He loved and loves until the 260 00:15:18,500 --> 00:15:20,200 end. You say, well, well, you're 261 00:15:20,200 --> 00:15:21,600 saying that about some of these people. 262 00:15:21,600 --> 00:15:23,900 But how do you know that about about everybody? 263 00:15:23,900 --> 00:15:26,900 Well, because of Romans, 5 6 through 8, where it says for 264 00:15:26,900 --> 00:15:30,800 when we were yet without Strength In Due Time Christ died 265 00:15:30,800 --> 00:15:33,400 for the ungodly. Do you know who the ungodly is? 266 00:15:34,200 --> 00:15:37,500 That's us. We were the ungodly before. 267 00:15:37,600 --> 00:15:40,200 We got saved Christ died for the ungodly. 268 00:15:40,200 --> 00:15:43,000 Meaning this he came into this eyes wide open. 269 00:15:43,500 --> 00:15:46,700 He knew what you would do. He knew what I would do? 270 00:15:46,700 --> 00:15:50,800 He knew what they would do before history, even started 271 00:15:50,800 --> 00:15:53,600 being written. And yet this was always the plan 272 00:15:54,200 --> 00:15:57,300 for scarcely for a righteous man will one died yet peradventure 273 00:15:57,400 --> 00:16:00,700 for a good man, some would even dare to die, but God commendeth 274 00:16:00,700 --> 00:16:03,800 God, reveals God shows his love toward us. 275 00:16:03,900 --> 00:16:07,400 Us in that while we were yet. Sinners Christ died for us. 276 00:16:07,900 --> 00:16:09,600 That's love. That's a love. 277 00:16:09,600 --> 00:16:11,800 Unlike any other love, you can find anywhere. 278 00:16:11,900 --> 00:16:14,600 This is the kind of love that loves to the end. 279 00:16:15,000 --> 00:16:18,400 So it reminds me this morning to just ask this question, do you 280 00:16:18,400 --> 00:16:21,100 know Jesus Christ in Salvation today? 281 00:16:21,500 --> 00:16:25,200 Because the next verse in Romans 5, says this Romans 5:9 much 282 00:16:25,200 --> 00:16:27,400 more. Then being now justified by his 283 00:16:27,400 --> 00:16:30,500 blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. 284 00:16:30,900 --> 00:16:33,600 How do we know that we're saved, even though we were that? 285 00:16:34,100 --> 00:16:37,500 Lost Sinner, they had done, wickedly and unrighteously and 286 00:16:37,500 --> 00:16:40,100 that Jesus loved us enough and loved us to the end to save us. 287 00:16:40,100 --> 00:16:41,900 Well how do we do it? It's through the blood. 288 00:16:42,300 --> 00:16:43,800 Can I help you with something today? 289 00:16:44,000 --> 00:16:45,600 It's not through what happens here. 290 00:16:47,200 --> 00:16:49,600 This is not what will save you here this morning? 291 00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:53,400 The Bible never says that someone is to get baptized to 292 00:16:53,500 --> 00:16:57,500 bring the vessel of Grace upon them and salvation. 293 00:16:57,500 --> 00:17:00,200 That's not what the Bible says. The Bible makes it clear that 294 00:17:00,200 --> 00:17:04,700 the baptismal Waters were always for those who responded to the 295 00:17:04,700 --> 00:17:07,200 gospel message. That's why the Ethiopian eunuch 296 00:17:07,200 --> 00:17:09,500 said, what doth hinder me to be baptized. 297 00:17:09,500 --> 00:17:12,900 And our King James Bible says which modern versions take out. 298 00:17:12,900 --> 00:17:16,599 It says this it says, if thou believest with all thine heart, 299 00:17:16,599 --> 00:17:20,599 thou Thou mayest and they got out and they went into the water 300 00:17:21,500 --> 00:17:24,099 and they went into the water because Romans 6 tells us that 301 00:17:24,099 --> 00:17:28,300 what happens here in this water is not a, it's not a vessel of 302 00:17:28,300 --> 00:17:31,300 Grace, but as a picture of the grace that have been bestowed 303 00:17:31,300 --> 00:17:34,000 upon us by what the love of Jesus Christ. 304 00:17:34,500 --> 00:17:37,300 We who straightway in the water and then he went down in the 305 00:17:37,300 --> 00:17:40,400 water buried in the likeness of his death and raised in the 306 00:17:40,400 --> 00:17:43,700 likeness of his resurrection. Once again, why it's a picture 307 00:17:43,800 --> 00:17:47,000 of what Jesus did the death burial Resurrection this A 308 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:51,000 picture of the love of Christ. What we do here today with 309 00:17:51,200 --> 00:17:53,100 Peyton with with our brother Jamie? 310 00:17:53,200 --> 00:17:56,500 What we do here is to picture, not just the death burial 311 00:17:56,500 --> 00:18:00,100 Resurrection but it's to remind us of the great love of Jesus 312 00:18:00,100 --> 00:18:02,200 Christ. If you were to fill this pool 313 00:18:02,500 --> 00:18:05,300 that this horse trough let's just be honest, what it is. 314 00:18:07,000 --> 00:18:10,200 Who know some people get their supplies from, you know, like 315 00:18:10,200 --> 00:18:12,300 the Heritage house and we go to Tractor Supply, you know, that's 316 00:18:12,300 --> 00:18:14,100 just what. That's just who we are, you 317 00:18:14,100 --> 00:18:18,100 know, but here's what I know if you were to fill this with the 318 00:18:18,100 --> 00:18:21,900 the love of God, that it would overflow so much that the old 319 00:18:21,900 --> 00:18:26,800 hymn says that if that if the the sky was parchment and every 320 00:18:26,800 --> 00:18:30,800 man, a scribe by trade and the, the oceans were ink that you 321 00:18:30,800 --> 00:18:33,700 could never write of the love of God. 322 00:18:34,200 --> 00:18:36,600 But yet this pictures, what it is here. 323 00:18:36,800 --> 00:18:40,100 For us today and he loved us until the end. 324 00:18:40,100 --> 00:18:42,700 And if you don't know, Jesus Christ as your savior today, 325 00:18:42,900 --> 00:18:47,000 don't do this to get saved, no repent and call upon Christ to 326 00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:50,200 save you, and then get baptized to confirm what God's already 327 00:18:50,200 --> 00:18:54,300 done in your heart. And all of that's well and good. 328 00:18:55,400 --> 00:18:58,700 And everything that I've said here so far is true, which is 329 00:18:58,700 --> 00:19:01,300 probably a relief seeing as I preach for the last 20 minutes 330 00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:05,000 you probably relieved that I believe that what I said is 331 00:19:05,000 --> 00:19:09,500 true, but I will say that it's a little bit of a departure from 332 00:19:09,500 --> 00:19:13,400 the text. Because the text is very 333 00:19:13,400 --> 00:19:17,400 specific. It's not that God doesn't love 334 00:19:17,400 --> 00:19:22,800 all until the end because he does But it doesn't say in John 335 00:19:22,800 --> 00:19:24,900 13 Verse 1 that he loved old to the end. 336 00:19:26,100 --> 00:19:30,100 Again, that's a true saying that doesn't take that away. 337 00:19:31,600 --> 00:19:34,400 But part of preaching biblically is making sure that we don't 338 00:19:34,400 --> 00:19:37,600 just preach what we thinks in the text who actually preach the 339 00:19:37,600 --> 00:19:40,900 text. So, look what it says in John 13 340 00:19:40,900 --> 00:19:45,100 verse number 1. It says now before the Feast of 341 00:19:45,100 --> 00:19:47,900 the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come, that he 342 00:19:47,900 --> 00:19:51,300 should depart out of this world on to the father, having loved. 343 00:19:51,400 --> 00:19:55,900 What's the next two words? His own Which were in the world. 344 00:19:56,200 --> 00:19:57,200 He loved. What's that next? 345 00:19:57,200 --> 00:20:03,100 Word them unto the end. Did he love all to the end? 346 00:20:03,600 --> 00:20:06,600 He did put in those final moments? 347 00:20:07,900 --> 00:20:12,500 What is the message that the holy spirit is trying to convey 348 00:20:12,500 --> 00:20:17,400 to us through this text that? It wasn't just that he loved all 349 00:20:17,400 --> 00:20:19,500 of mankind to the end which he did. 350 00:20:20,700 --> 00:20:23,300 And we'll get to look into that next week and there's I mean, 351 00:20:23,300 --> 00:20:25,900 there's so many verses, I mean, it was like trying to put this 352 00:20:25,900 --> 00:20:28,500 together was trying to go up to a buffet and trying to figure 353 00:20:28,700 --> 00:20:30,500 what verse is do. I use because there's so many, 354 00:20:30,500 --> 00:20:34,100 the speak of the love of God in our life and how we relate to 355 00:20:34,100 --> 00:20:35,400 that. I don't even know where to 356 00:20:35,400 --> 00:20:39,300 begin. But it says he loved his own. 357 00:20:40,600 --> 00:20:44,900 and he loved them, his own until the end, which means this 358 00:20:46,100 --> 00:20:49,500 There's an application for those who are believers here today. 359 00:20:50,500 --> 00:20:54,400 That should be a help. And why is this so important? 360 00:20:54,800 --> 00:20:59,000 Well, here's why it's important in a few verses. 361 00:20:59,700 --> 00:21:02,200 Those ones that he loved at the table to the end that he 362 00:21:02,200 --> 00:21:09,100 specifically speaking of are about to flee. 11 out of 11 or 363 00:21:09,100 --> 00:21:13,300 gone, the closest is John who followed farther away and who 364 00:21:13,300 --> 00:21:15,500 was there at the cross. He was there close enough that 365 00:21:15,500 --> 00:21:18,500 Jesus could convey final instructions to John in 366 00:21:18,500 --> 00:21:22,300 reference to his mother Mary. So we want to maybe, say a 367 00:21:22,300 --> 00:21:27,800 ten-and-a-half at best, but John followed far away 10 of or nine 368 00:21:27,800 --> 00:21:28,900 of them. We don't know what happened to 369 00:21:28,908 --> 00:21:31,300 them. We don't see them until Sunday. 370 00:21:32,500 --> 00:21:35,300 And then there was Peter who we know what happened. 371 00:21:36,900 --> 00:21:40,900 And Peter was worse in the sense that it wasn't just what he did. 372 00:21:42,200 --> 00:21:45,900 That he cursed the fact that he did not know. 373 00:21:45,900 --> 00:21:49,200 Jesus Christ, he cursed and vowed that he did not know. 374 00:21:49,200 --> 00:21:53,500 Jesus Christ in me better way to put that but it was just a few 375 00:21:53,500 --> 00:21:56,400 hours before where he said I will never do that. 376 00:21:57,600 --> 00:22:03,200 I'll never do it. And in the light of that. 377 00:22:04,700 --> 00:22:09,000 We are reminded in John 13:1 in the light of the failure of his 378 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:13,100 disciples. You know, in the light of the 379 00:22:13,100 --> 00:22:19,600 failure of his disciples, we are reminded from John 13:1 that he 380 00:22:19,608 --> 00:22:23,400 still loved us to the end. So, who us? 381 00:22:24,800 --> 00:22:29,800 Well, you're there too and I am if we belong to him. 382 00:22:31,800 --> 00:22:34,800 Cic encouragement for the believer today. 383 00:22:35,600 --> 00:22:40,000 When I look at this thought that moving forward in love reminds 384 00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:43,900 us that even when we fail Jesus he loves us. 385 00:22:44,700 --> 00:22:46,900 Doesn't he loves us when we don't obey him? 386 00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:51,500 John 15:10 says, if you love, if you keep my Commandments, you 387 00:22:51,500 --> 00:22:54,400 shall abide in my love. Even as I have, kept my father's 388 00:22:54,400 --> 00:22:56,000 Commandments and abide in his love. 389 00:22:56,100 --> 00:22:59,500 Jesus says, I abide my father's Commandments and so I abide in 390 00:22:59,500 --> 00:23:01,200 his love. He says, if you want to show 391 00:23:01,200 --> 00:23:05,000 your love for me abide in my Commandments, Jesus, as I do, my 392 00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:08,000 father, we don't do that very well. 393 00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:12,500 Who are you talking to exactly who I'm looking to? 394 00:23:13,300 --> 00:23:16,100 I know who you are and I know who I am. 395 00:23:16,500 --> 00:23:19,900 And I would I say to you, I say with boldness, but also with the 396 00:23:19,908 --> 00:23:24,200 humility of knowing that I'm in the same boat that you are 397 00:23:24,400 --> 00:23:28,200 having to deal with the same rotten flesh every day. 398 00:23:29,500 --> 00:23:32,800 And yet instead of confirming my love to him through obedience to 399 00:23:32,800 --> 00:23:34,600 him. What I end up doing is straying 400 00:23:34,600 --> 00:23:37,300 from him over and over and over again. 401 00:23:37,300 --> 00:23:39,900 That's why in John 14 of chapter before he said he even more 402 00:23:39,900 --> 00:23:41,600 succinctly. If you love me, keep my 403 00:23:41,600 --> 00:23:45,400 Commandments. But yet, despite the fact that I 404 00:23:45,400 --> 00:23:49,200 do not confirm, my love to him, as I should so often, he loves 405 00:23:49,200 --> 00:23:52,100 me to the end, they don't know. Encourage somebody that all hit 406 00:23:52,100 --> 00:23:52,800 me. Make a Baptists. 407 00:23:52,800 --> 00:23:56,400 Amen. I mean it didn't, but it ought 408 00:23:56,400 --> 00:24:01,800 to sure. When we're not faithful to him. 409 00:24:03,700 --> 00:24:08,900 The things he wants us to do. Ministry that we should do. 410 00:24:09,900 --> 00:24:11,100 You want to talk about Ministry in church? 411 00:24:11,100 --> 00:24:14,300 I'm just talk about ministering to other people at the job site 412 00:24:14,700 --> 00:24:18,000 in your family. The people that you run across, 413 00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:22,700 you need to give attractive. We're not faithful to the Holy 414 00:24:22,700 --> 00:24:25,000 Spirit, Will prompt you say, you know, you should give that track 415 00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:27,200 to someone and we've got a hundred reasons, why not? 416 00:24:29,900 --> 00:24:35,100 But he still loves us, and loves us to the end. when we worry 417 00:24:35,100 --> 00:24:41,400 more about our own Comfort than his glory and his plan, I think 418 00:24:41,400 --> 00:24:46,100 that so often defines us, You know why the disciples ran, they 419 00:24:46,100 --> 00:24:47,800 were more concerned about their safety. 420 00:24:48,300 --> 00:24:51,600 Then the savior, That's why they ran. 421 00:24:52,100 --> 00:24:53,300 They were fearful for their lives. 422 00:24:53,300 --> 00:24:57,000 If you're not sure go fast forward to Sunday, they've 423 00:24:57,000 --> 00:25:00,200 barred the door, making sure that no one would get in. 424 00:25:00,900 --> 00:25:04,100 And despite the fact that they coveted their own safety more 425 00:25:04,100 --> 00:25:08,600 than they did, the security of their savior just as we often do 426 00:25:08,600 --> 00:25:11,200 with our own Comfort. Compared to his glory, his plan, 427 00:25:11,300 --> 00:25:14,400 he still love them and loves us till the end. 428 00:25:15,600 --> 00:25:20,400 So, have you failed? Or fallen or fallen short of 429 00:25:20,400 --> 00:25:22,200 what God has planned for your life. 430 00:25:23,300 --> 00:25:26,900 Understand that, if that's the case, he'll still love you to 431 00:25:26,900 --> 00:25:31,000 the end. Now I will say this, he loves 432 00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:35,400 you far too much to have you stay that way, which is why he 433 00:25:35,400 --> 00:25:38,600 brings loving correction into our lives. 434 00:25:40,200 --> 00:25:41,900 What Hebrews chapter 12 makes it clear. 435 00:25:41,900 --> 00:25:46,000 If you are one of his own, he will correct you as a father to 436 00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:49,500 the children. It's great to watch. 437 00:25:49,500 --> 00:25:53,000 Peyton get baptized today. It's been a blessing to baptize 438 00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:57,100 now all three of my girls and I was just talking with I think 439 00:25:57,100 --> 00:26:00,200 was Kaylee yesterday, the irony of baptizing, a daughter, my 440 00:26:00,200 --> 00:26:02,900 sister. In the name of the father and 441 00:26:02,908 --> 00:26:07,100 the son of the Holy Ghost, it's a beautiful thing to baptize my 442 00:26:07,100 --> 00:26:08,100 daughter. My sister. 443 00:26:08,900 --> 00:26:10,300 That's a great thing. I love that. 444 00:26:11,300 --> 00:26:13,400 You know, some of you might be surprised about this and I feel 445 00:26:13,400 --> 00:26:15,300 uncomfortable talking about it while our teachers here. 446 00:26:15,700 --> 00:26:17,700 But some of you might be surprised that Peyton, sometimes 447 00:26:17,700 --> 00:26:24,600 acts up In my notes it just says here and Jamie Christopher gives 448 00:26:24,600 --> 00:26:26,900 a testimony know I just get know that does it. 449 00:26:26,900 --> 00:26:30,500 That's not Everyday. I'll ask her when she gets in 450 00:26:30,500 --> 00:26:31,400 the car. Did you get a check? 451 00:26:31,400 --> 00:26:33,100 She goes. No, but I do know who did not 452 00:26:33,100 --> 00:26:37,700 want to hear about who did? Do not do not throw them out as 453 00:26:37,700 --> 00:26:40,000 the sacrifice to try to save yourself for the next time you 454 00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:41,500 get a check, I don't want to hear it. 455 00:26:41,600 --> 00:26:43,700 Yeah. That he the tire tracks firmly 456 00:26:43,900 --> 00:26:47,700 on the back of their backs, but there are times we have to 457 00:26:47,700 --> 00:26:50,900 correct her I could give you examples. 458 00:26:51,700 --> 00:26:53,700 You say, well Pastor, don't you love her. 459 00:26:54,200 --> 00:26:56,500 Of course I do, why? Correct? 460 00:26:58,000 --> 00:27:01,400 Why corrector? Well, pastor of God loves me so 461 00:27:01,400 --> 00:27:03,800 much, then then it, he's just never gonna bring correction my 462 00:27:03,800 --> 00:27:05,400 life. You know, he's gonna love you so 463 00:27:05,400 --> 00:27:06,700 much. He is going to lovingly. 464 00:27:06,700 --> 00:27:08,400 Correct. You at times to try to bring 465 00:27:08,400 --> 00:27:10,200 bring you back at. How much do you love Israel? 466 00:27:10,200 --> 00:27:12,100 Israel, the apples. I what do you do? 467 00:27:12,100 --> 00:27:16,700 He kept giving them warnings and profits over and over and over 468 00:27:16,700 --> 00:27:18,800 but yet they wouldn't listen. And what would happen, he'd 469 00:27:18,800 --> 00:27:23,500 bring correction to be able to show them his loving nature and 470 00:27:23,500 --> 00:27:26,600 to draw them back in the fold. So understand this Christ loves 471 00:27:26,600 --> 00:27:28,700 into the end, but that doesn't mean he's going to leave you 472 00:27:28,700 --> 00:27:30,100 alone. If you're a child of God, When 473 00:27:30,100 --> 00:27:31,900 you're in sin, in fact, quite the opposite. 474 00:27:31,900 --> 00:27:33,900 He's gonna do it. Because like a father saying, 475 00:27:33,900 --> 00:27:35,900 well, you know, Peyton go ahead and touch the hot stove. 476 00:27:35,900 --> 00:27:37,200 Who cares? You'll learn your lesson? 477 00:27:37,300 --> 00:27:40,000 No, I'm going to stop her from doing that and I'm going to 478 00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:42,100 teach you the lesson because I don't want her to get hurt. 479 00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:44,600 God is going to bring some things into our lives. 480 00:27:44,600 --> 00:27:48,900 To try to help us is because he loves us till the end and you 481 00:27:48,900 --> 00:27:50,600 better. Be sure that if you have failed 482 00:27:50,600 --> 00:27:53,400 him, he loves you. He cares for you. 483 00:27:53,400 --> 00:27:55,700 He doesn't he desires nothing more than for you. 484 00:27:55,700 --> 00:27:59,000 To come forward to this all to this morning with repentance and 485 00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:01,600 to get your life, right? With him, but if you don't, he's 486 00:28:01,600 --> 00:28:04,100 also going to show you that love by bringing some correction into 487 00:28:04,100 --> 00:28:06,800 your life. Because he loves you to the end. 488 00:28:07,600 --> 00:28:10,200 If you're a child of his, the number one, I see this Christ 489 00:28:10,200 --> 00:28:13,200 loves into the end. But number two, TV, one more 490 00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:15,700 application. Remember this? 491 00:28:16,400 --> 00:28:18,100 We should love Christ. And to the end. 492 00:28:19,600 --> 00:28:22,300 Christ loves us into the end. That's never been questioned. 493 00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:28,400 That could never honestly be questioned throughout human 494 00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:32,100 history with a Christ has loved Humanity. 495 00:28:33,800 --> 00:28:36,100 What is questioned in my life every day is this? 496 00:28:37,500 --> 00:28:41,500 Do I love him to the him? Do I love him to him? 497 00:28:43,500 --> 00:28:48,000 And as we move forward in love this week, and this month. 498 00:28:49,200 --> 00:28:52,800 We ask ourselves this question, why I love him to the end? 499 00:28:54,100 --> 00:28:55,900 Is my love burning hotter for him. 500 00:28:56,900 --> 00:29:01,400 Or waxing colder. Because it should burn hotter 501 00:29:01,800 --> 00:29:04,200 and more brightly with each passing day. 502 00:29:04,200 --> 00:29:06,900 Matthew 24:12 talks to the last days when it says and because 503 00:29:06,900 --> 00:29:09,900 iniquity shall abound the love of many shall wax cold. 504 00:29:09,900 --> 00:29:12,800 You know when iniquity of bounds in our hearts sin you wanted to 505 00:29:12,808 --> 00:29:14,600 bounds our hearts. You know it does our love for 506 00:29:14,600 --> 00:29:19,000 Christ gets cold. So what happens Knowing the 507 00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:21,500 Bible. Our Salvation is often compared 508 00:29:21,800 --> 00:29:24,500 to marriage many times. There are many comparisons of it 509 00:29:24,500 --> 00:29:28,300 in the Bible. You know, many marriages start 510 00:29:28,500 --> 00:29:32,500 and infatuation. And in and of itself that's not 511 00:29:32,900 --> 00:29:36,300 wrong because of the nature of what love and physical 512 00:29:36,300 --> 00:29:37,800 attraction. All those things are but you 513 00:29:37,800 --> 00:29:42,600 know it's found out over the years that true deep meaningful 514 00:29:42,600 --> 00:29:46,100 love. Goes far beyond just those few 515 00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:53,700 early days. and as you drive, The pile deeper into the 516 00:29:53,700 --> 00:29:57,400 Bedrock. You find this that when that 517 00:29:57,800 --> 00:30:00,700 initial infatuation is not exactly the same as it was and 518 00:30:00,700 --> 00:30:03,500 I'm not saying that you should ever lose that completely, you 519 00:30:03,500 --> 00:30:05,000 really should have that in a marriage. 520 00:30:06,400 --> 00:30:08,000 But boy there should be something deeper. 521 00:30:10,100 --> 00:30:13,100 How can two people in their aged years? 522 00:30:14,700 --> 00:30:16,800 That physically have very little to offer each other. 523 00:30:18,200 --> 00:30:22,600 But yet, look at each other with a deeper love than they had when 524 00:30:22,600 --> 00:30:28,100 they were at the marriage altar. Well, that's a true deep love. 525 00:30:29,400 --> 00:30:32,200 And, you know, I found is often true for believers, there's an 526 00:30:32,200 --> 00:30:34,900 infatuation that takes place, sometimes in the first few days, 527 00:30:34,900 --> 00:30:36,400 weeks, months and years when they get saved. 528 00:30:37,900 --> 00:30:40,400 You say Pastor that's not true. Jesus gave a parable about the 529 00:30:40,400 --> 00:30:45,000 soils and he said there's going to be a type of person that 530 00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:48,500 reacts in that manner they sprout up only to church all the 531 00:30:48,500 --> 00:30:49,900 time. I'm going to be in future Pastor 532 00:30:49,900 --> 00:30:51,800 all open the doors for you. I'm going to be what could I do? 533 00:30:51,800 --> 00:30:53,100 Where could I go? What can I do? 534 00:30:53,100 --> 00:30:54,300 What can I give? They're doing everything in 535 00:30:54,300 --> 00:30:56,800 month and month a year later. You never see him again. 536 00:30:58,700 --> 00:31:02,200 Or there's some that hang around church for years. 537 00:31:05,600 --> 00:31:08,900 But their heart is just the same as the one who left after a 538 00:31:08,908 --> 00:31:12,200 year. And Jesus is Love Will Last to 539 00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:16,700 the end, but our love for Jesus. Wayne's overtime. 540 00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:22,200 When we baptized, we often use the ring as an example because 541 00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:23,700 that's what baptism is. It's a symbol. 542 00:31:24,800 --> 00:31:26,600 This ring. I'm not no longer married 543 00:31:26,600 --> 00:31:31,400 because I took it off. It's a symbol of what took place 544 00:31:32,100 --> 00:31:35,500 was 20 years ago by the way. Yeah, dude. 545 00:31:35,500 --> 00:31:39,500 Whoa, what was that? No, I'm not sure how I feel 546 00:31:39,500 --> 00:31:42,000 about them. It's a was it we were at a 547 00:31:42,008 --> 00:31:43,400 preacher's meeting a few weeks ago and I did. 548 00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:45,200 They said, you know, tell how long you're in the ministry, I 549 00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:48,300 stood up and said I'm Rivero and 17 or 18 years in full-time 550 00:31:48,300 --> 00:31:49,800 Ministry to goes. I didn't realize you were that 551 00:31:49,800 --> 00:31:55,100 old said the same to you buddy. All right, so let's strike that 552 00:31:55,100 --> 00:31:57,400 from the record. All right, but let me get to it. 553 00:31:57,408 --> 00:31:59,500 Let me get to the point. Aunt, I'm veering from the 554 00:31:59,508 --> 00:32:01,200 point. I'm grounded. 555 00:32:01,200 --> 00:32:02,600 Third and coming home. And I'm about to trip on the 556 00:32:02,600 --> 00:32:05,400 Baseline. Here, here's what I know. 557 00:32:06,700 --> 00:32:11,400 Is that this symbol? At a wedding is often called the 558 00:32:11,400 --> 00:32:14,000 symbol of marriage. I don't know how many pastors 559 00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:17,000 I've heard that it said this in the wedding's they've done and 560 00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:19,400 say, well is a symbol of marriage because it's a 561 00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:23,000 never-ending love. Here's the problem. 562 00:32:24,600 --> 00:32:29,100 It's not always. The statistics L is 50 percent 563 00:32:29,100 --> 00:32:32,400 of marriages end in divorce and it's not much different even 564 00:32:32,400 --> 00:32:34,700 within the realm of Christianity. 565 00:32:37,200 --> 00:32:40,900 And so what I'm saying, is it because we're frail human 566 00:32:40,900 --> 00:32:42,600 beings, it's not always the case. 567 00:32:43,900 --> 00:32:47,600 This symbol. You know that this should be the 568 00:32:47,600 --> 00:32:52,400 symbol of our love with Christ. You want to you want a real 569 00:32:52,400 --> 00:32:57,800 symbol of everlasting love? He will love us to the end. 570 00:32:59,400 --> 00:33:01,800 By the way, I'm not trying to take away from the text or add 571 00:33:01,800 --> 00:33:04,700 to the text. But what it says he loved them 572 00:33:04,700 --> 00:33:08,100 to the end it, I believe that it means that he was going to 573 00:33:08,100 --> 00:33:10,900 fulfill his love to them through his Earthly Ministry. 574 00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:16,200 That's what it's speaking of a net context, but we not also 575 00:33:16,200 --> 00:33:20,800 agree that he not only loves us to our end, but beyond our end 576 00:33:20,800 --> 00:33:26,100 here in this life and into the next So, why wouldn't I want to 577 00:33:26,108 --> 00:33:31,000 have a love that grows stronger? over the years of my savior, 578 00:33:31,600 --> 00:33:36,900 some of some of you, it's getting a little cold, And just 579 00:33:36,900 --> 00:33:39,700 like in a marriage where things get cold. 580 00:33:40,800 --> 00:33:44,000 And difficult. And awkward. 581 00:33:45,700 --> 00:33:47,300 How much more so with our savior? 582 00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:51,900 When between two people. There can be fault on both 583 00:33:51,900 --> 00:33:54,900 sides. Let's be honest, even if it's 584 00:33:54,900 --> 00:33:57,400 great fault on one side and really not much on the other, 585 00:33:57,400 --> 00:34:01,200 I'm just saying that there can be But here's what I know when 586 00:34:01,200 --> 00:34:02,800 it comes to my relationship with Christ. 587 00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:07,400 It's never his fault. It's never been his fault. 588 00:34:09,100 --> 00:34:13,300 People disappoint, you. People will hurt you. 589 00:34:14,800 --> 00:34:19,300 But Jesus loves to the end. Let's use that love towards 590 00:34:19,300 --> 00:34:23,800 others, to the end but let's make sure we're loving him to 591 00:34:23,800 --> 00:34:25,900 the end. And that every day my 592 00:34:25,900 --> 00:34:31,699 relationship and love for him is stronger, not weaker than the 593 00:34:31,699 --> 00:34:34,900 day before. Thank you for listening to the 594 00:34:34,900 --> 00:34:37,600 sermon from the pulpit of Liberty Baptist Church. 595 00:34:37,800 --> 00:34:41,100 If this message was a blessing to you or if there's any way we 596 00:34:41,100 --> 00:34:44,900 can serve you, please let us know by contacting us at info, 597 00:34:44,900 --> 00:34:49,199 at my Liberty Baptist dot org, or you can visit us this Sunday 598 00:34:49,300 --> 00:34:52,000 at eight hundred Washington Street in Eastern. 599 00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:55,699 Massachusetts, may the Lord bless you as you grow in his 600 00:34:55,699 --> 00:34:34,900 word. Thank you for listening to the 601 00:34:34,900 --> 00:34:37,600 sermon from the pulpit of Liberty Baptist Church. 602 00:34:37,800 --> 00:34:41,100 If this message was a blessing to you or if there's any way we 603 00:34:41,100 --> 00:34:44,900 can serve you, please let us know by contacting us at info, 604 00:34:44,900 --> 00:34:49,199 at my Liberty Baptist dot org, or you can visit us this Sunday 605 00:34:49,300 --> 00:34:52,000 at eight hundred Washington Street in Eastern. 606 00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:55,699 Massachusetts, may the Lord bless you as you grow in his 607 00:34:55,699 --> 00:34:56,199 word.