Don't Measure Up? Here's the Good News | Advent | John 1:14-18

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🗓️ 12 December 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

What are you striving for? Is God's love conditional? What do you have to do to earn God's love? How does grace work? In today's episode, Keith uses John 1:14-18 to discuss the importance and depth of God's grace toward those who don't deserve it. Like this content? Make sure to leave us a rating and share it with others, so others can find it too. Use #asktmbt to connect with us, ask questions, and suggest topics. We'd love to hear from you! To learn more, visit our website and follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter @TenMinuteBibleTalks. Don't forget to subscribe to the TMBT Newsletter here. Your support makes TMBT possible. Ten Minute Bible Talks is a crowd-funded project. Join the TMBTeam to reach more people with the Bible. Give now.

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0:00.0	Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life.
0:09.0	In the time it takes to get to work, I'm Keith Simon.
0:13.0	Christine and I have four kids and several years ago kid number three
0:17.0	said that for Christmas he either wanted a rat or a monkey.
0:21.0	Well, what do you do with that? Monkeys are obviously not an option. So we decided we would get him a
0:27.3	rat. When he opened it on Christmas morning, he seemed excited and named the rat Grover.
0:33.5	I have no idea why but Grover the rat.
0:36.7	So the kids play with it for the first few days,
0:38.8	but it comes pretty obvious to us
0:40.8	that we're going to be the ones taking care of this thing. The kids don't really like the rat, not any of them, including the one that got it as a Christmas gift.
0:50.0	So one day we take the rat back to the store and just exchange it.
0:55.0	Really we didn't exchange it.
0:56.3	We gave the rat back to them and we got nothing in return, no money back.
1:00.5	So I don't know what that is considered maybe a donation to a pet store.
1:05.0	Well the next day the rat wasn't around but none of the kids really noticed in
1:09.7	fact our youngest son who was maybe about 10 at the time he walked past where we had been
1:15.2	keeping the rat and said good night Grover on his way to bed well Grover wasn't there to
1:20.2	hear it he hadn't been there in a couple days. Somehow he just took it for
1:24.1	granted that the rat was there taking care of himself? I don't know but he said good
1:29.4	night to an animal that was back at the pet store. I think we take God's grace for granted,
1:35.2	just like my son took Grover for granted. We don't pay much attention to it, we just assume it's there.
1:42.0	But grace is way too important to take for granted.
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