God is love. That means, and I'm going to just make up a word here, love is part of the isness of God.

It's what he is. It's not just what he does. If it was what he does, then he could just like stop it if he wanted to.

He's God. He can do, he's God. But what he'd have to do to love less is be less God.

Because it's his very essence.

It's part of his person.

He is love.

In the glorious and holy name of Jesus, everybody say hallelujah and amen.

You may be seated.

You have got your Bibles open to what psalm, please?

Psalm 116, and I'm going to read to you the first 16 verses, please.

It says, I love the Lord because he has heard my voice and my please for mercy.

How many of you know that there has been a time when absolutely, without a doubt, the Lord heard you, the Lord heard you, that he responded in such a way that no one else could have done

when it's so unique to my situation, when he's the only one who could have done when it's so unique to my situation,

when he's the only one who could have done it.

I've got to tell you a story.

I think just pause on my reading.

Let me tell you a story real quickly.

It's such an old story, and I've told it a number of times in the past, that I tend

to not tell it anymore, because I always think, well, I've told that.

But, you know, our stories, our testimonies are worth retelling.

And many, many, many years ago, and I want somebody to hear this because this could happen

to you today and many years from now, you could still be telling this story.

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