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

God bless you on this day. From my heart to yours, may God give you strength. You know, we're spending some time in what I consider to be the greatest verse in the entire Bible.

If you don't know anything about the Bible, start here. If you know everything about the Bible will come. I consider to be the greatest verse in the entire Bible.

If you don't know anything about the Bible, start here.

If you know everything about the Bible, come back here.

John 316, for God so loved the world that he gave his one and only son, so that whoever

believes in him shall not perish, but have everlasting life.

We need Jesus.

I mean, folks, we just need him.

We need his strength.

We need his protection and his provision.

We need him because, according to this scripture,

he is the one and only son of God.

He's the only picture of God ever taken. And he entered our world and he lived a life and he died of God. He's the only picture of God ever taken, and he entered our world, and he lived a life,

and he died of death, and he rose from the dead. And Jesus invites us to believe in him in order

to receive eternal life, not receive in them, as if all the other faith leaders in the world,

but in him. I'd like to talk to you about

why that matters, why all roads do not lead to heaven. An Air Force pilot told me once of the day

he forgot to secure himself into the seat of his high-powered jet. He's a very competent pilot, 25 years as a pilot,

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