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All right. Day four, the most famous verse probably in all of

America for sure. And it's John 316. So you already know this one. For God, so love the world

that he gave his only son that whoever believes in him should not perish but have everlasting

life. Now again,

this verse comes right after Jesus gives the snake illustration from Numbers 21 so that Nicodemus

can begin to get his head around what Jesus Christ came to do. He did not simply come to do miracles.

He did not simply come to teach stories. He did not simply come to give us a moral

example. He came to give his life as a ransom, as a sacrifice. And so he says, for God so

loved the world, that the reason that Jesus came is not a start of new religion. The reason that

God came in the form of Jesus Christ is because of God's love.

That God's mission and the person and work of his only-begotten son, Jesus Christ,

is about love. For God, so love, that word so is an amplifier. It's a magnifier.

The God doesn't sort of love us or kind of love us, but he lavishes his love on us.

I love the way John says it. He says, oh, what manner of love the Father has lavished upon us

that we would be called children of God for God so loved the world that he gave that when you

love somebody loves our joy and the Lord towards one another at great expense

to ourselves.

So we are never more like Jesus than when we are giving of ourselves.

For God, so loved the world that he gave his, the English translates it his only

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