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Love Never Fails · the new Jerusalem

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SPEAKER_01: I want to tell you that you know the last week we heard about the lepo and how Jesus was in a city and the leper goes to him, runs into the city, falls down on his face on the ground, and tells Jesus, crying, If you are willing, you can heal me.
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SPEAKER_01: And Jesus is willing.
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SPEAKER_01: And he's completely healed.
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SPEAKER_01: The leper.
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SPEAKER_01: The Bible says.
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SPEAKER_01: And it was so that the leper put all his hope in Jesus.
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SPEAKER_01: And he was healed.
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SPEAKER_01: And the week before that, we have heard about the story of David and Goliath.
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SPEAKER_01: How Goliath was from the opposition army and how David is only there by chance.
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SPEAKER_01: Not by chance, but David is only there to give his brothers some food.
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SPEAKER_01: And he sees Goliath challenging the armies of the living God.
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SPEAKER_01: And the story goes on that David crushes a ten-foot plus giant with faith just in the name of the Lord.
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SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
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SPEAKER_01: Just wanted to give you a recap of the last two weeks and what we about the word that was released over the last two weeks.
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SPEAKER_01: And today I want to get into the word straight away.
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SPEAKER_01: And it's an awesome time that I want to share with you when Jesus is on this planet and he's doing his work.
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SPEAKER_01: He's spreading the good news about the kingdom of God.
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SPEAKER_01: Some versions say the kingdom of heaven.
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SPEAKER_01: And he's moving from city to city with crowds following him, and he's preaching, he's working signs, miracles, and wonders.
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SPEAKER_01: And the Bible says, I actually have a very short word today, but I'd like you to pay attention and stick with me.
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SPEAKER_01: The Bible says he's in the city called Jericho.
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SPEAKER_01: In fact, the Bible says that he's passing through the city of Jericho.
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SPEAKER_01: That means he's just going in from one gate and leaving through the other.
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SPEAKER_01: And the story this morning comes from the book of Luke.
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SPEAKER_01: It's from the 19th chapter.
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SPEAKER_01: And it's a beautiful story.
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SPEAKER_01: Some of you know it, and um, maybe some of you are hearing it for the first time.
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SPEAKER_01: But here goes, Jesus is walking through Jericho.
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SPEAKER_01: This is from the book of Luke, the 19th chapter, and it so happens the Bible says that while he was passing through that city, there is a man there by the name of Zacchaeus.
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SPEAKER_01: And the Bible explains that Zacchaeus is a chief tax collector, and the Bible says he was rich.
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SPEAKER_01: Zacchaeus was a chief tax collector, and the Bible says he was rich.
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SPEAKER_01: And the Bible so goes on to explain, as I said, from the book of Luke, the 19th chapter, that Zacchaeus knows that Jesus is passing through the city and he wants to see him.
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SPEAKER_01: And the Bible says he's unable to see him because he's a man who's small in stature.
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SPEAKER_01: Now, I don't exactly know what was the average height of the people there at that time, but if it meant that he was small in stature, it probably meant that he was smaller than everyone else around, or shorter than everyone else around, which means he couldn't see above their heads.
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SPEAKER_01: So here's what he does.
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SPEAKER_01: The Bible says he runs ahead and he climbs up a sycamore tree in order to see Jesus.
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SPEAKER_01: For he was about to pass through that way.
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SPEAKER_01: So he realized that I am short, I'm a small man, and I won't be able to see him through these crowds.
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SPEAKER_01: Because I told you, everywhere Jesus went, there were crowds following him, there were crowds standing in line to see him.
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SPEAKER_01: There were people putting their sick in front of him, and he was healing them all.
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SPEAKER_01: And now he's passing through Jericho, and this man, Zacchaeus, the chief tax collector who's a rich man.
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SPEAKER_01: Rich, poor doesn't matter because he couldn't see Jesus.
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SPEAKER_01: So he decides, I'm gonna go ahead, and when Jesus is passing down this road, I'm gonna climb this tree.
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SPEAKER_01: And I'm gonna look at Jesus.
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SPEAKER_01: I don't know what was Zacchaeus's thought process.
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SPEAKER_01: He just wanted to see Jesus.
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SPEAKER_01: He didn't have anything else in his mind.
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SPEAKER_01: He just wanted to see Jesus.
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SPEAKER_01: And as I said, I'm starting with something beautiful.
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SPEAKER_01: I think it's beautiful if somebody just wants to see Jesus.
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SPEAKER_01: I think it's a beautiful thing.
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SPEAKER_01: And I think that's exactly what Zacchaeus must have had in his heart.
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SPEAKER_01: A beautiful feeling that I just want to see Jesus today.
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SPEAKER_01: So I'm going to climb up on this tree.
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SPEAKER_01: And if the Bible is mentioning that he climbed up a sycamore tree, I don't think anyone else even did it.
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SPEAKER_01: And here it goes from the book of Luke, as I said, the 19th chapter, the fifth verse.
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SPEAKER_01: When Jesus came to the place, he looked up and said, Zacchaeus, hurry and come down.
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SPEAKER_01: For today I must stay at your house.
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SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
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SPEAKER_01: So Zacchaeus is a short man.
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SPEAKER_01: He wants to see Jesus.
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SPEAKER_01: He cannot see him.
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SPEAKER_01: He decides, I'm going to go and climb up this sycamore tree.
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SPEAKER_01: You can go to Google and type sycamore tree.
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SPEAKER_01: It's a very short tree.
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SPEAKER_01: It's a strong tree, which means it'll take the weight of someone.
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SPEAKER_01: And there was a sycamore tree there, and he decides to climb it.
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SPEAKER_01: And when Jesus reaches that point, he stops, he looks up, and he says, Zacchaeus, hurry, come down.
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SPEAKER_01: For today I must come to your house and stay.
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SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
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SPEAKER_01: And listen to what happens next.
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SPEAKER_01: Zacchaeus, the Bible says, he hurries and he comes down and he receives Jesus gladly.
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SPEAKER_01: Who wouldn't?
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SPEAKER_01: And when the people saw it, they all began to grumble, saying he has gone to be a guest of a man who's a sinner.
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SPEAKER_01: So Zacchaeus jumps down from the tree, he receives Jesus gladly, and the people now are grumbling, saying that, look, Jesus is going to be the guest of a man who's a sinner.
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SPEAKER_01: And let me tell you how the story unfolds.
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SPEAKER_01: It so goes on that, and as I said, it's a beautiful story.
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SPEAKER_01: That he goes, he takes Jesus to his home, and he says, Lord, today I'm willing to give half of my possessions to the poor.
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SPEAKER_01: And if I have fooled anyone or I have wronged anyone, I will give them four times over.
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SPEAKER_01: Because Zacchaeus knew that salvation had come to his home.
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SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
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SPEAKER_01: And if you want to read it, as I said, it's in uh Luke the 19th chapter, you can read it from the fifth verse onwards.
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SPEAKER_01: And he was a rich man, and for a rich man to say, I'll give away half my wealth, go look at your bank balance.
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SPEAKER_01: And think if you commit in front of Jesus that I'll give away half.
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SPEAKER_01: Just because salvation has come to my home today.
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SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
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SPEAKER_01: And today I want to tell you something, and this is where I'm coming to the crux of the word.
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SPEAKER_01: There's a lot of chatter about why Jesus decides to go to this man's home, Zacchaeus, who they call a sinner.
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SPEAKER_01: The entire crowd is talking about it.
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SPEAKER_01: He's a sinner, he's a bad man, he's a tax collector.
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SPEAKER_01: But Jesus yet went to his home to stay.
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SPEAKER_01: And I want to tell you this beautiful morning.
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SPEAKER_01: Jesus didn't care about the chatter, he didn't address any of the people who were talking about it.
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SPEAKER_01: He just continued on his way because he told Zacchaeus, I'm coming to your home.
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SPEAKER_01: Come down.
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SPEAKER_01: And I want to tell you today, maybe the world is calling you names, giving you tags and titles.
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SPEAKER_01: And when I mean names, I mean anything that can come under that umbrella.
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SPEAKER_01: People probably telling you that you're not good enough.
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SPEAKER_01: Maybe personally and professionally, I'm not sure.
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SPEAKER_01: Maybe some of you have been called a lot of names in your life on this planet.
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SPEAKER_01: And I know it can be hard to keep up with people's expectations and judgments.
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SPEAKER_01: He was a tax collector.
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SPEAKER_01: And he was rich, and because of that, he was deemed as a sinner.
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SPEAKER_01: And there could be so many things this morning, so much noise.
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SPEAKER_01: People wanting you to be someone that you're not, people saying that you're not good enough because you don't meet, as I said, their expectations, people not happy with you being you, people trying to change you, people pointing out your flaws, in fact, in some cases, even putting their baggage on to you, just as they did for Zacchaeus.
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SPEAKER_01: And Jesus walks down that road and he stops and he tells Zacchaeus, I'm coming to your home.
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SPEAKER_01: And let me tell you something beautiful this beautiful morning.
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SPEAKER_01: I told you it's a beautiful day, and it'll really change a lot of things for you.
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SPEAKER_01: From the book of Matthew.
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SPEAKER_01: And I'll just quote it to you this morning.
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SPEAKER_01: It's it comes from Matthew the 9th, chapter, the 12th verse, where Jesus says in his own words, and you should pay attention to this today.
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SPEAKER_01: It is not those who are healthy who need a physician, but those who are sick.
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SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
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SPEAKER_01: And I, you know, sinners is a very deep word.
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SPEAKER_01: I like to look at the word sinners as somebody who's just a little different.
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SPEAKER_01: That's it.
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SPEAKER_01: I'm not here to condemn anyone.
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SPEAKER_01: But let me tell you today, Jesus came for the unwell.
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SPEAKER_01: He came for the ones who need help.
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SPEAKER_01: He came for the ones that people call names.
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SPEAKER_01: And that's why when he walked down that road and he knew Zacchaeus, he's a dirty guy.
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SPEAKER_01: He's a sinner.
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SPEAKER_01: Oh, he came just for him.
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SPEAKER_01: He stopped on that road.
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SPEAKER_01: He told Zacchaeus to come down because he was proving a point to everyone.
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SPEAKER_01: And this beautiful morning, I want to tell you: if you are someone who has spent your life under the shadow of being called names, uh, sometimes even by yourself, maybe your siblings, parents, people at work, friends, just being judged, as I said.
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SPEAKER_01: I want to tell you this beautiful morning.
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SPEAKER_01: Jesus came for you and for me.
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SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
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SPEAKER_01: He came for you and for me.
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SPEAKER_01: He came for Zacchaeus.
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SPEAKER_01: He came for the tax collectors, he came for the sinners, he came for the people whose maybe jobs and roles you don't want to describe, but he came for them.
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SPEAKER_01: And that's exactly his words here.
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SPEAKER_01: I didn't come for the healthy.
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SPEAKER_01: In other words, he's saying, Do the healthy need a physician?
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SPEAKER_01: No, the healthy don't need a physician.
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SPEAKER_01: I came for those who are sick.
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SPEAKER_01: So if you're feeling that way because other people have are calling you sick, I didn't say that you're sick or unwell.
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SPEAKER_01: But just because people have called your names, just as they did for Zacchaeus, I want to tell you this morning that he came for you on this planet.
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SPEAKER_01: And you'll say, Why?
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SPEAKER_01: Jesus came for me?
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SPEAKER_01: Why?
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SPEAKER_01: How is that possible that he came for me?
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SPEAKER_01: I'll tell you through the word of God this beautiful morning.
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SPEAKER_01: And I'll also tell you today why he came for you.
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SPEAKER_01: And it's very simple, but it's very difficult to understand.
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SPEAKER_01: Sometimes the beauty is in simplicity and it's difficult to understand.
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SPEAKER_01: He came because he loves you.
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SPEAKER_01: That's it.
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SPEAKER_01: It's just as simple as that.
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SPEAKER_01: He came to this planet for you and for me, irrespective of what people have called you, and irrespective of what the world will tag you as.
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SPEAKER_01: He came for you and me because he loves you.
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SPEAKER_01: That's it.
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SPEAKER_01: There's no extra definition to it, there's no clause to it.
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SPEAKER_01: He came on this planet as an act of love.
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SPEAKER_01: And as I said, I have a short word, but there's something I want you to take away this morning.
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SPEAKER_01: And it's an example I want to share.
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SPEAKER_01: When Jesus was here, as I said, he was moving from city to city, he was healing people.
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SPEAKER_01: Excuse me, he was excuse me, he was uh uh preaching the kingdom of God, the kingdom of heaven.
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SPEAKER_01: And there's this one time when he's in a city, and somebody asks him, Teacher, what is the greatest commandment in the law?
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SPEAKER_01: And actually, this guy was trying to trick Jesus.
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SPEAKER_01: Teacher, what is the greatest commandment in the law?
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SPEAKER_01: And I'm sharing it with you from the book of Matthew in Jesus' words to this person as an answer to that question from Matthew, the 22nd chapter, the 37th verse onwards, Matthew 22, 37 onwards.
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SPEAKER_01: Jesus said to him, You shall love the Lord with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.
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SPEAKER_01: And this is the first and great commandment, and he doesn't stop there.
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SPEAKER_01: And the second, he says, is just like it you shall love your neighbor as yourself, and this is what I want to leave you with.
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SPEAKER_01: On these two commandments, hang all the law and all the prophets, hallelujah.
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SPEAKER_01: Another version says, Upon these two commandments hang the whole law and the prophets.
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SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
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SPEAKER_01: These are the words of Jesus when somebody's asking, teacher, what is the greatest commandment?
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SPEAKER_01: In fact, they were trying to mock him and try to see if they can trick him.
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SPEAKER_01: And this answer, I want to tell you, is such an ultimate, beautiful answer, and it's actually a secret, that he talks about you need to love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.
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SPEAKER_01: And then he goes on to say, This is the first, and the great commandment.
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SPEAKER_01: And he said, and there's a second, which is just like it you need to love the neighbor, your neighbor, as yourself.
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SPEAKER_01: When I mean neighbor, I don't mean that person who lives next to you, I mean everyone around you.
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SPEAKER_01: That's it.
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SPEAKER_01: And on these two commandments hang all the law and all the prophets.
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SPEAKER_01: I want to tell you this beautiful morning.
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SPEAKER_01: This entire book is a book of law.
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SPEAKER_01: And all the prophets who came and went before and after Jesus, because he doesn't say before me, he says, All the prophets on these two commandments hang all the law and all the prophets.
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SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
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SPEAKER_01: It's a secret this morning.
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SPEAKER_01: I'm giving you the first one, he said, love God.
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SPEAKER_01: The second one he said, love your neighbor as yourself.
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SPEAKER_01: I want to tell you this beautiful morning.
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SPEAKER_01: The common word in both Jesus' statements is love.
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SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
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SPEAKER_01: It's love, and on these two laws, Jesus says that he's referring to these two examples that he shared, lie everything, ang, everything, all the blessings in the Bible are yea and amen.
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SPEAKER_01: In love, hallelujah.
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SPEAKER_01: If you understood it, that beautiful morning, this beautiful morning.
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SPEAKER_01: And the law is love, and you know it's very difficult, it's very difficult.
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SPEAKER_01: Love is not easy, and I don't want to take away from this beautiful word this morning or deviate from it, but I'll tell you this much.
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SPEAKER_01: Excuse me, 1 Corinthians, the 13th chapter, actually has the definition of love, and you should take some time and read it the way it's defined in the Bible.
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SPEAKER_01: If you ever ask yourself, what is love?
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SPEAKER_01: Because you know, love is an emotion and a human emotion, and you can associate love with a few things, and maybe that's your understanding of love.
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SPEAKER_01: But the Bible defines love for you and me, and very clearly, let me tell you.
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SPEAKER_01: And when you read that passage of scripture, you will understand what Jesus is talking about when he's talking about the word love, and when you read it, you will really understand.
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SPEAKER_01: Wow, there are some things that I need to change.
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SPEAKER_01: Wow, there are some things that I need to change the way I look at through the word love.
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SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
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SPEAKER_01: Some of you are feeling the presence of Jesus this beautiful morning because God is love, the Bible says.
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SPEAKER_01: Jesus is love.
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SPEAKER_01: And I want to tell you, I'm going back to the start.
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SPEAKER_01: When I started this morning, I started with a recap of this leper and David and Goliath.
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SPEAKER_01: I started with a recap of the last two weeks about faith and hope.
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SPEAKER_01: And I told you that these are pillars that you build your life on this planet.
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SPEAKER_01: And today I want to tell you that I'm giving you a third pillar.
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SPEAKER_01: And it's a secret, but I'm giving it to you.
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SPEAKER_01: And don't take my word for it.
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SPEAKER_01: This morning, just don't take my word for it.
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SPEAKER_01: Take the word of God and mark this passage of scripture down that I'm sharing with you this morning from 1 Corinthians the 13th chapter, the 13th verse.
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SPEAKER_01: 1 Corinthians the 13th chapter, the 13th verse, which says, now abide.
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SPEAKER_01: Now abide, faith, hope, love.
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SPEAKER_00: These three.
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SPEAKER_01: But the greatest of these is love.
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SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah.
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SPEAKER_01: I want to leave you today with the strongest pillow in the kingdom of God, and that is love.
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SPEAKER_01: In the Bible, the Bible says, and you have to listen to this.
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SPEAKER_01: When you I've told you the Bible is a book of secrets.
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SPEAKER_01: It's a book of secrets.
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SPEAKER_01: One secret is explained in another in another chapter somewhere else, but it's a book of secrets, and it's like a beautiful, it's like a beautiful puzzle that comes together when you understand it.
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SPEAKER_01: And the Bible says, and listen to me this morning, in this very same chapter, it says, love never fails.
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SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
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SPEAKER_01: Love never fails.
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SPEAKER_01: It's in the book of Corinthians.
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SPEAKER_01: First Corinthians, it's in the 13th chapter itself.
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SPEAKER_01: It says love never fails.
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SPEAKER_01: It's uh 13.8 in case you want to know.
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SPEAKER_01: It's right there in front of you.
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SPEAKER_01: If you were using an app or if you're using a physical Bible, and the beauty of this pillar that I'm giving you this morning is it does not define anything.
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SPEAKER_01: Which means I'm flipping the coin and giving you the other side, which means no matter what situation you are in, or no matter what situation you look at, if you infuse love there, it will work always because love never fails.
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SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
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SPEAKER_01: It never fails.
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SPEAKER_01: And then he was hung on across it, but let me tell you he came on the planet knowing fully well that he is going to be hung on across, that he needs to die on across for you and me.
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SPEAKER_01: I'll tell you something.
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SPEAKER_01: He did it as an ultimate act of love because he knows it's a beautiful morning.
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SPEAKER_01: Understand this, he knows that love never feels.
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SPEAKER_01: He knew that love will never feel let me come down and make the ultimate sacrifice, the ultimate act of love, let me lay down my life for everyone, anyone will put their faith in me.
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SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
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SPEAKER_01: Who put their faith in the fact that today he's seated and at the right hand of God.
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SPEAKER_01: And no matter what you look at today, no matter what you look at today, whatever be your situation, whatever be happening around you, as I said, whatever it is, I'm not even putting an umbrella to it.
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SPEAKER_01: I'm just leaving it as an ocean.
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SPEAKER_01: And I'm telling you this morning, no matter what situation you are in, no matter what you're looking at, no matter what you're stepping into, step into it first with love.
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SPEAKER_01: Because love never fails, the Bible says, it never fails.
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SPEAKER_01: It never fails.
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SPEAKER_01: It never fails.
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SPEAKER_01: And if you want to understand, some of you are feeling that question mark.
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SPEAKER_01: Love.
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SPEAKER_01: Not too sure if I know what that word exactly means.
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SPEAKER_01: I told you, read it.
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SPEAKER_01: The description of love is given in the book of Corinthians, the 13th chapter, the fourth verse onwards.
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SPEAKER_01: It's there.
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SPEAKER_01: Read it.
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SPEAKER_01: You will be amazed at how beautifully that the word love has been chiseled and scripted out for you and me, for our life on this planet.
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SPEAKER_01: And for some of you, as I said, I'm coming back to this.
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SPEAKER_01: You might have been called names like Zacchaeus, sinner, bad guy, bad person, bad lady, bad morals, not a nice person.
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SPEAKER_01: Horrible set of traits.
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SPEAKER_01: Where did you come from?
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SPEAKER_01: Nobody in our family is like you.
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SPEAKER_01: But Jesus made you.
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SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
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SPEAKER_01: And for you, specifically for you, if you are in that feeling, I want to tell you, going back to this ultimate word, it never fails.
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SPEAKER_01: He loves you.
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SPEAKER_01: It will never fail.
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SPEAKER_01: He came for Zacchaeus.
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SPEAKER_01: He didn't care what the people were talking about, Zacchaeus.
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SPEAKER_01: He doesn't care about what the people think of you, what the world thinks of you, what the colleagues think of you, what your family members think of you, what your brothers and sisters think of you, what your parents might think of you, what your spouses might think of you.
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SPEAKER_01: He does not care because he loves you.
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SPEAKER_01: God loves you.
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SPEAKER_01: Sent his son down on this planet to die on a cross for you and me.
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SPEAKER_01: Nobody will do that for you and me besides one, and that's Jesus.
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SPEAKER_01: And this beautiful morning, as some of you can feel his presence, I know you can feel his presence.
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SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah, because his banner over you is love.
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SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
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SPEAKER_01: Love will never fail, it never fails, and his love for you never fails.
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SPEAKER_01: It was all it will always pull you out of any situation that you are in.
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SPEAKER_01: It will always work any situation that you are in.
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SPEAKER_01: Now abide faith, hope, and love in the words of Jesus.
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SPEAKER_01: I want to tell you this beautiful morning.
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SPEAKER_01: The greatest of them is love because Jesus said, and all the law and all the prophets hang on this commandment, and the only two commandments that he gave us as one common word, and it is love.
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SPEAKER_01: And today I want to tell you sit down and recalibrate your scale of love.
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SPEAKER_01: Just recalibrate it.
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SPEAKER_01: When was the last time you decided that you're going to operate in love?
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SPEAKER_01: When was the last time you decided you're going to go and tell someone that you love them?
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SPEAKER_01: Is it that difficult?
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SPEAKER_01: It's a word.
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SPEAKER_01: Do you know even releasing that word will make a difference in the situation?
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SPEAKER_01: Do you even know that?
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SPEAKER_01: Because Jesus' word says, love never fails.
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SPEAKER_01: It never fails.
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SPEAKER_01: It never fails.
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SPEAKER_01: Do you even understand that?
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SPEAKER_01: This beautiful morning.
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SPEAKER_01: Call up that person and tell them you love them.
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SPEAKER_01: That's it.
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SPEAKER_01: How much, how much, how much will it take?
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SPEAKER_01: Because Jesus never waited for an opportunity to tell you and me this morning that he loves us.
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SPEAKER_01: He didn't wait.
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SPEAKER_01: He climbed up on a cross willingly for you and me.
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SPEAKER_01: That's more than enough.
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SPEAKER_01: You know, there's this saying on this planet, actions speak louder than words.
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SPEAKER_01: Yes.
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SPEAKER_01: He did.
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SPEAKER_01: He climbed up on a cross for you and me.
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SPEAKER_01: He took lashes on his back for you and me.
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SPEAKER_01: He was spat upon for you and me.
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SPEAKER_01: He took a crown of thorns on his head.
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SPEAKER_01: All for the people that he came for.
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SPEAKER_01: Just so that you and you and I today can understand that love, what Jesus did for us on that cross, which is an act of love, it will never, ever fail.
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SPEAKER_01: And today, understand this beautiful, beautiful pillar that has been released into our lives through the word of God.
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SPEAKER_01: There is faith and there is hope.
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SPEAKER_01: And the greatest of them is love.
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SPEAKER_01: And believe me, this book of Corinthians, because I didn't want to dilute this word today, this book of Corinthians has so many things written about love.
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SPEAKER_01: It says that you will have the gift of prophecies and they'll be of no use if you don't have love.
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SPEAKER_01: You should read 13, 1 Corinthians 13, read it, it'll define love for you, and it'll tell you that without love, no matter what you are, no matter how good you are, how bad you are, there's only one thing that will always work, and it's love.
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SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
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SPEAKER_01: This beautiful day, decide to recalibrate the way you look at love, decide to recalibrate the way you think people love you.
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SPEAKER_01: Remember, Jesus loves you.
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SPEAKER_01: He absolutely loves you.
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SPEAKER_01: And remember this pillar that's the most critical pillar that should be on the forefront of everything that you do going forward this day.
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SPEAKER_01: But because between faith and hope and love, the greatest of them is love.
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SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
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SPEAKER_01: I'd like to pray.
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SPEAKER_01: Dear Lord, I thank you for this beautiful day.
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SPEAKER_01: Thank you for your double-edged sword that does not go back until it has achieved what it has been set out for.
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SPEAKER_01: I thank you, Jesus, for releasing your love upon this platform, upon all of us, upon everyone who's hearing this morning, everyone who will hear after as well, Lord.
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SPEAKER_01: I thank you, Jesus, for being obedient to death and death on a cross for us.
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SPEAKER_01: I thank you, Father, for showering your love upon us each day.
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SPEAKER_01: Your mercies are new every morning upon us that we know not of.
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SPEAKER_01: Thank you, Jesus, that love never fails.
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SPEAKER_01: Thank you, Jesus, for revealing to us through your beautiful word this morning that we need to love.
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SPEAKER_01: We need to love and put you first.
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SPEAKER_01: We need to love our neighbors as we do to you.
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SPEAKER_01: And thank you, Lord, for letting us know this beautiful morning that you love us unconditionally.
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SPEAKER_01: Unconditionally, Lord.
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SPEAKER_01: And especially for those people who've been called names.
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SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
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SPEAKER_01: Some of you can feel the presence of Jesus right next to you on your right hand.
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SPEAKER_01: He loves you.
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SPEAKER_01: Nothing can separate you from his love.
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SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
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SPEAKER_01: Enjoy his presence.
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SPEAKER_01: There's a scripture that says no height, no width, no depth can separate you from the love of God.
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SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
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SPEAKER_01: That means there's nothing that can come in the way of God's love for you.
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SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
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SPEAKER_01: Understand it this beautiful morning.
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SPEAKER_01: Thank you, Lord, for showering your love upon people.
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SPEAKER_01: I can see Jesus hugging some of you.
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SPEAKER_01: Enjoy this beautiful moment.
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SPEAKER_01: His banner over you is love.
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SPEAKER_01: Thank you, Jesus, for this beautiful time.
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SPEAKER_01: Where especially you have come for those people who've been called names.
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SPEAKER_01: It doesn't matter your height, caste, creed, color, nationality, your hair color, whether you have hair or not.
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SPEAKER_01: He came for you, is what I want to tell you this morning through his word.
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SPEAKER_01: He came for you, and you are beautifully, wonderfully made.
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SPEAKER_01: Skillfully and fearfully made.
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SPEAKER_01: Oh, hallelujah.
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SPEAKER_01: Thank you for your beautiful presence.
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SPEAKER_01: Thank you for the beautiful love that you've showered upon us.
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SPEAKER_01: This beautiful morning, people can experience it, Lord.
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SPEAKER_01: Thank you for letting us know that everything will pass, but your love will never pass.
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SPEAKER_01: Thank you, Lord, for this beautiful time.
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SPEAKER_01: In Jesus' name I pray.
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SPEAKER_01: Amen.