His Love Pursues Us
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🗓️ 7 May 2021
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
1 Corinthians 13:13 says, “So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.” The greatest of all aspects of the Christian life is love. Love is to be at the foundation of all we do, all we are, and all we hold on to. If we focus on love and allow the Holy Spirit to strip everything else away, what will be left is a life of blessed simplicity rooted in face-to-face relationship with our heavenly Father. As we spend time this week looking at the simplicity of love, I pray that all the weighty, frivolous things of the world that rob you of an abundant life fall away in light of the glorious goodness of God’s unconditional and wholly available love for you.
Our Scripture for today comes from 1 John 4:19, and today's worship is Bigger Than I Thought by Sean Curran.
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“Now what?” “How do I find and keep a daily connection with my Creator on my own?”
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| 0:00.0 | First Corinthians 1313 says, so now faith, hope, and love abide, these three, but the greatest of these is love. |
| 0:14.1 | The greatest of all aspects of the Christian life is love. Love is to be at the foundation of all that we do, all we are, and all we hold on to. |
| 0:23.6 | If we focus on love and allow the Holy Spirit to strip everything else away, |
| 0:29.6 | what will be left as a life of blessed simplicity rooted in face-to-face relationship with our Heavenly Father. |
| 0:36.6 | As we spend time this week looking at the simplicity of love, |
| 0:41.1 | I pray that all the weighty, frivolous things of the world |
| 0:44.4 | that rob you of an abundant life fall away |
| 0:47.4 | in light of the glorious goodness of God's unconditional and wholly available love for you. |
| 0:53.8 | Welcome to the First of teen podcast. |
| 0:56.2 | Our verse for today comes from 1 John 4, verse 19. |
| 1:12.6 | Scripture says we love because He first loved us. |
| 1:18.6 | The fact that we are pursued by the Creator of the Universe is an unfathomable truth, perfectly |
| 1:26.6 | illustrating the amazing love our Heavenly Father |
| 1:29.6 | has for us. Ephesians 2.8 says, for by grace you have been saved through faith, and this is not |
| 1:37.6 | your own doing. It is the gift of God. Those of us who have believed in and accepted the free gift of salvation have been lifted |
| 1:47.6 | out of the world's foundation of works-based living and ushered into a new standard of grace. By grace alone, |
| 1:55.7 | we have wonderful, restored relationship with the God who passionately pursues us in every season of life. |
| 2:03.6 | And by grace alone, our lives are now based on the unconditional love of our good Father. |
| 2:10.6 | 1 John 4.8 says, |
| 2:12.6 | Anyone who does not love does not know God because God is love. All that God does is love because it's his |
| 2:21.9 | very nature. Every word of scripture is authored because He loves us. Every good thing we have in life |
| 2:29.5 | is only available to us because He loves us. The fact that you and I have air in our lungs |
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