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Hi everybody. Max Lakato here from my home to yours.

Thanks so much for joining me for today's encouraging word.

We're spending some time in the greatest verse in the Bible, John 3 and verse 16.

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only son that whoever believes in him

shall not perish but have eternal life. Boy, don't we need the promise of this passage?

There are so many people facing so many fears. Well, we really need Jesus. We need him because,

according to John 316, God will give us exactly what we need,

a new heart. He will give us a new heart. As far as medical exams are concerned, the one I received

was simple. But as far as I'm concerned, no exam is simple if it couples the word irregular with heartbeat.

I knew I was prone to have an accelerated pulse when I see my wife, Deanland,

my ticker ramps up, and when she brings me a bowl of ice cream,

you'd think I had a Geiger counter in my chest.

Such palpitations are to be expected.

It was the random rhythms, however,

that concerned my cardiologist. Now, you're not going to find a kinder physician anywhere.

And he did his best to assure me that as far as heart conditions go, mine isn't serious,

saying, when it comes to cardiac concerns, you got the best kind.

Now, forgive my anemic enthusiasm, but isn't that kind of like telling a about-to-leap

paratrooper, your parachute has a defect, but it's not the worst type?

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