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All right, welcome back, day three. Today we're going to talk about loving the Lord of

your God with all of your soul. This is about our relationship with God. This is like the

spiritual aspect of our life that we would think about. And the way I know this is because

Luke 252, the Bible says that Jesus grew in favor with God.

So are you growing in your relationship with God?

John chapter 15 says this.

This is Jesus preaching.

He says, I am the true vine and my father is the vine dresser.

Every branch in me that does not bear fruit, he takes away.

And every branch that does bear fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you.

Now, these next verses, if you're familiar Bible study, you've heard this 10,000 times,

and you take it for granted.

But I want you to consider for just a second, the sovereign king of the universe, the one that

will sit in judgment over us all, the one that spoke into very existence, the sovereign king of the universe, the one that will sit in judgment over us all,

the one that spoke into very existence, the cosmos in which we live.

He gives us this invitation.

He says, abide in me and I in you.

Abide is a relational term.

Jesus is saying, hey, come here, come close to me, and I will come close to you.

As a branch cannot bear fruit by itself unless it abides in the vine, neither can you,

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